Organizers:
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Dr. Ioannis Pratikakis (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~ipratika/), received the Diploma degree in Electrical
Engineering from the Demokritus University of Thrace, Xanthi,
Greece in 1992, and the
Ph.D. degree in 3D Image processing and analysis from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium,
in January 1999. From March 1999 to
March 2000, he was at IRISA/ViSTA group, Rennes,
France as an
INRIA postdoctoral fellow. He is currently working as a Research Scientist at
the Institute of Informatics
and Telecommunications of the National
Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”,
Athens, Greece. His research interests
include multimedia content analysis and recognition with a particular focus on
document images, medical images and 3D media. He has published more than 90
papers in journals, book chapters and conference proceedings in the above
areas. He has participated in more than 15 national and international R&D
projects. Finally, he has served as a co-chair of the Eurographics Workshop on
3D object retrieval in 2008 and 2009 as well as a co-editor for the Special
issue on 3D object retrieval at the International Journal of Computer Vision.
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Dr. Basilis
G. Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/)
was born in 1967, in Athens, Greece. His Ph.D. thesis is
on Optical Character Recognition Techniques. In 1993 he was awarded a
scholarship from the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications,
NCSR "Demokritos", where he worked till 1996. From 1997 to 1998 he
worked as a Software Engineer at Computer Logic S.A. From 1998 to 2001
he worked at Lambrakis Press Archives as a Director of the Research
Division in the field of digital preservation of old newspapers. From
2001 to 2003 he worked at BSI S.A. as Managing Director of R&D
Division in the field of document management and recognition. He is
currently working as
a Researcher at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of
the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens,
Greece. His main research interests are in Image Processing and
Document Image Analysis, OCR and Pattern Recognition. He has more than
100 publications in journals and international conference proceedings
and has participated in several research programs funded by the
European community. He is a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece,
of the Editorial Board of the International Journal on Document
Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) and program committee member of
several international Conferences (e.g. ICFHR 2008, AND 2009, ICDAR
2009, ICFHR 2010, ICDAR 2011).
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Kostantinos Ntirogiannis is a Ph.D. student at
the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of
the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens,
Greece. He is working at the field of historical
document image processing and participates
at the EU funded project IMPACT (http://www.impact-project.eu/). |
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