Organizers
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Dr. Georgios Louloudis (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~louloud/) was born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. He received his Bachelor in Informatics and Telecommunications (2000), his Master’s degree in Signal Processing for Telecommunications and Multimedia (2002) and his Ph.D. degree in Character Recognition of Historical Documents (2009) from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Currently, he is working at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece at the field of handwritten historical document image processing as a research associate and participated at the EU funded project IMPACT (http://www.impact-project.eu/). His main research interests are in Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Document Image Analysis, Processing of Historical Documents and OCR. |
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Dr. Basilis Gatos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~bgat/) was born in 1967, in Athens, Greece. He received his Electrical Engineering Diploma in 1992 and his Ph.D. degree in 1998, both from the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, 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 110 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 and Workshops(e.g. ICDAR 2009, ICFHR 2010, ICDAR 2011, CBDAR 2011, AND 2011, International Workshop on Historical Document Imaging and Processing 2011). He will be the Conference co-chair at ICFHR 2014. |
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Dr. Nikolaos Stamatopoulos (http://www.iit.demokritos.gr/~nstam/) was born in 1984, in Athens, Greece. He received his Computer Science Diploma in 2006 and his Ph.D. degree in 2011, both from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. His Ph.D Thesis is on Optical Process and Analysis of Historical Documents. He is currently working 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, Processing of Historical Documents, OCR and Pattern Recognition. |
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Alexandros Papandreou was born in 1985 in Athens, Greece. He received his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2009 from Democritus University of Thrace, and currently he is working on his Ph.D. in "New Techniques of Document Image Processing" in the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" in Athens and the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He participated at the EU funded project IMPACT (http://www.impactproject.eu/). His main research interests are in Document Image Preprocessing and Normalization, Pattern Recognition and Historical Image Processing. |