Ioannis Pratikakis



 


 

Email ipratika AT iit.demokritos.gr
Address Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications,
National Centre for Scientific Research "Demokritos",
P.O. Box 60228,  15310 Aghia Paraskevi, Athens, Greece
Tel +30-210-6503183
Fax +30-210-6532175

Education

  • PhD in Applied Sciences - Department of Electronics and Information Processing (ETRO), Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, December 1998.

  • European postgraduate course on Medical Physics and Biomedical engineering, Department of Medical Physics, University of Patras, Greece, Sep. 1992 – Jan. 1993.

  • Diploma of Engineering in Electrical Engineering, Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, June 1992.


Academic / Professional positions

  • Jan. 2003 - today, Research Scientist, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece ( http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/cil/ )

  • Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2004, Instructor (Lecturer), University of the Aegean, Department of Engineering on Information and Communication Systems, Samos, Greece ( http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/ )

  • Sep. 2002 - Sep. 2005, Instructor (Assistant Professor), Department of Informatics, Ôechnological Ĺducation Énstitute, Athens, Greece ( http://www.cs.teiath.gr/ )

  • June 2002 - August 2002, Visiting researcher at IMEC (http://www.imec.be/), Leuven, Belgium

  • March 2001 - May 2002, Senior researcher at inos Hellas SA, Automation, Robotics and Informatics, Athens,  Greece.

  • 1999-2000, INRIA Postdoctoral research fellow at ViSTA group (http://www.irisa.fr/vista/), INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France

  • 1996 - 1998, Research assistant, Computer Vision Laboratory, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (http://www.etro.vub.ac.be/), Brussels, Belgium.


R&D Projects

  • IMPACT ( http://www.impact-project.eu ) (IMProving ACcess to Text) (IST-FP7)

  • BOEMIE ( http://www.boemie.org ) (Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction) (IST-FP6)

  • POLYTIMO, A System for processing, managing and providing access to the content of valuable historical books and handwritten manuscripts ( http://iit.demokritos.gr/cil/Polytimo ) (National GSRT)

  • Aim@SHAPE (EC-IST-FP6) - NIRG (Network Interested Researchers Group) member

  • TECHNOLANGUE (EC- INTERREG III B MEDITERRANEE OCCIDENTALE)

  • eMedI (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/cil/e-MedI/index.htm) (EC - Leonardo Da Vinci II)

  • PENED - Cognitive search and retrieval of 3D graphical models (National GSRT)

  • D-SCRIBE (http://iit.demokritos.gr/cil/dscribe/) (National GSRT)

  • eSchoolLib (National GSRT)

  • ARC, Airborne Minefield Area Reduction (IST-FP6)

  • 3D Measurements for quality assurance in automobile industry (Industrial - National GSRT)

  • 3D Ultrasound (INRIA - UK Cambridge bilateral project)

  • Adding images to an integrated multimedia patient record (IWT Belgian National)

  • Software Applied to Multimodal Images and Education (SAMMIE) (EC-AIM)


Research Interests

  • Semantic Multimedia Analysis and Retrieval
  • 3D Computer Vision
  • Multidimensional Medical Image Analysis
  • 2D, 3D shape representation
  • 2D, 3D Image and Mesh segmentation
  • 2D, 3D Image registration
  • Motion analysis and tracking
  • Document Image analysis and recognition
  • Scale-space theory
  • Mathematical Morphology

List of publications


Last updated on August 07, 2008