Dr. Yiannis (Ioannis) Kompatsiaris, Senior Researcher


Yiannis Kompatsiaris received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in 3-D model based image sequence coding from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He is a Senior Researcher with the Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki.Prior to his current position, he was a Leading Researcher on 2-D and 3-D Imaging at AUTH.

His research interests include multimedia content processing, multimodal techniques, multimedia and the Semantic Web, multimedia analysis and annotation ontologies, knowledge-based, context aware inference for semantic multimedia analysis, semantic metadata representation, semantic adaptation, personalization and retrieval, MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards.

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Organisation of EVENTS 2010 Workshop

WeKnowIt and Pronto will co-organize the 1st International Workshop  on recognising and tracking events on the Web and in real life (EVENTS 2010) , which will be hosted by the 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010) conference in Athens, Greece, May 4, 2010. The organizing commitee comprises Y. Kompatsiaris, P. Mylonas, P. Karampiperis, and T. Winkler.

SAMT 2009 proceedings available

The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2009 Graz, Austria, December 2-4, 2009 proceedings are now available on-line from Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.

MESH

The MESH project demonstrates that semantic search for all media types is possible and automation is improving rapidly. It’s not quite there yet, but the search continues. You can already check out the MESH prototype, an article and video presenting MESH capabilities.

MEDUSA: Multi Sensor Data Fusion Grid for Urban Situational Awareness : New project

The MEDUSA project, funded by the European Defense Agency (EDA), has started. The project is aiming to study a combination of different types of sensors for supporting operations within urban environments. ITI's contribution to the project will be in the area of data fusion algorithms, video processing and semantic analysis.

VIA

Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) website launched. VIA is a image/video annotation tool by CERTH-ITI, The development of this tool has been supported by the Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE)(FP6-027538) and aceMedia(FP6-001765) projects.

New VERGE Engine Website

A website dedicated to VERGE Interactive Video Retrieval Engine implemented by ITI. Available versions of the search engine and related information are presented, while employed technologies are described. Visit the VERGE website here..

Βραβείο καλύτερης εργασίας / Best paper award

Η εργασία με τίτλο "Εφαρμογή Αυτοματοποιημένης Τρισδιάστατης Ανασύνθεσης Στεφανιαίων Αρτηριών στην Ανίχνευση Ευάλωτων Αθηρωματικών Πλακών" έλαβε το βραβείο καλύτερης εργασίας στο 30ο Πανελλήνιο Καρδιολογικό Συνέδριο, 29-31 Οκτωβρίου 2009, Αθήνα.

The paper entitled "Application of Automated 3D reconstruction of Coronary Arteries in the Detection of Vulnerable Atheromatic Plaques" received the Best Paper award in the 30th Panhellenic Cardiological Congress, 29-31 October 2009, Athens, Greece.

CERTH-ITI in VideOlympics 2009

CERTH-ITI participated succesfully in VideOlympics 2009 showcase, demonstrating a hybrid interactive video retrieval engine developed by CERTH-ITI. The exciting video search engine live contest of VideOlympics 2009 took place in Santorini during the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2009) and was co-organized by ITI and the University of Amsterdam.

Try the interactive video search engine here.

Lecture Invitation - Semantics, Context, and Friends

Πρόσκληση σε διάλεξη - Lecture Invitation -- Semantics, Context, and Friends

To Ινστιτούτο Πληροφορικής και Τηλεματικής σας προσκαλεί την Τετάρτη 22 Ιουλίου και ώρα 12:00 στην αίθουσα Ζέφυρος του Τεχνολογικού Πάρκου (Εθνικό Κέντρο Έρευνας και Τεχνολογικής Ανάπτυξης) στη διάλεξη του Simone Santini (http://arantxa.ii.uam.es/~ssantini/), Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, με θέμα: "SEMANTICS, CONTEXT, AND FRIENDS".

Informatics and Telematics Institute invites you to the lecture given by Simone Santini (http://arantxa.ii.uam.es/~ssantini/), Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, on "SEMANTICS, CONTEXT, AND FRIENDS", on Wednesday, 22 July, at 12:00 in the roon Zephyros of Centre of Research and Technology Hellas.

SSMS09, Summer School on Multimedia Semantics

4th Summer School on Multimedia Semantics (SSMS'09), Managing and Modeling of Multimedia and User Generated Content in Web 3.0, Call for Applications
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