CURRICULUMVITAE

First name: Antonios

Last name: Gasteratos

Father’s name: Christos

Date of birth: 10 March, 1972

Place of birth: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Nationality: Hellenic (Greek)

Work address: Section of Production Systems,

Department of Production and Management Engineering,

Democritus University of Thrace

GR-671 00 XANTHI

GREECE

Work phone: +302541079359

Work Fax: +302541079343

Corresponding

address:

P.O. Box 377

GR-671 00 XANTHI

GREECE

E-mail address: agaster@pme.duth.gr

gasteratos@ieee.org

Web page: http://robotics.pme.duth.gr/

http://robotics.pme.duth.gr/antonis/

ResearcherID B-7796-2012

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CurrentPositionFullProfessor(2016):“MechatronicsandArtificialVision”&

HeadofDepartment(2015)

DepartmentofProductionandManagementEngineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

PositionsHeld1999–2000: Post–DoctoralFellow,LIRA-Lab,DIST,UniversityofGenoa,Italy.

2001–2003: Lecturer (non-permanent position), Department of Electrical and

Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace (academic

year2001-2002andfallsemesterofyear2001-2002).

2002-2003: Assistant Professor (non-permanent position), Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering; Department of Educational

SciencesinEarlyChildhood,DemocritusUniversityofThrace(spring

semester).

2003–2007: Lecturer: “Robotics”, Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2005-2007: Visiting Professor, Department of Educational Sciences in Early

Childhood,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2007–2012: AssistantProfessor:“MechatronicsandArtificialVision”,Department

of Production andManagement Engineering, Democritus University

ofThrace,since2007(tenureship2011).

2012-2016 AssociateProfessor:“MechatronicsandArtificialVision”,Department

of Production andManagement Engineering, Democritus University

ofThrace.

Studies⎯ Ph.D.,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Greece,Dec.1998.

⎯ Diploma(equaltoMasters)inElectricalandComputerEngineering,Democritus

UniversityofThrace,Greece,Nov.1994.

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LanguagesHellenic(Greek),mothertongue.

English,excellent.

Italian,verygood.

ResearchInterestsRobotics,withemphasisonartificialvision,vestibularandhearingsystemsandtheir

integration. Intelligent and autonomous robots (humanoid, walking, underwater,

flying, etc). Autonomous behaviours (navigation, grasping, etc). Multi-sensor data

fusionwithapplicationtoroboticsandautomation.Deeplearningarchitectureswith

applicationtorobotcognition.Safetyinmechatronicssystems.

Design and implementation of digital VLSI and FPGA systems. Digital image

processing, with emphasis on non-linear and fuzzy image processing. Computer

architectures and microprocessors. Their application on digital image processing,

machinevisionandpatternrecognition.

Publications

Ph.D.Thesis

A1. Antonios Gasteratos, Development and Hardware Implementation of New

Techniques for Non-linear Image Processing, Department of Electrical and

ComputerEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Xanthi,Greece,1998.

(inGreek).

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DiplomaThesis

B1. Antonios Gasteratos, Design and VLSI Implementation of a Circuit for the

Computation of Morphological Operators, Department of Electrical and

ComputerEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Xanthi,Greece,1994.

(inGreek).

Books,BookChapters,Editorials

C1. AntoniosGasteratos and IoannisAndreadis, "SoftMathematicalMorphology:

Extensions, Algorithms and Implementations", Invited Contribution,

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Vol. 110, Ch. 3, pp 63-99, P.W.

Hawkes(Editor),1999.

C2. MariaVardavoulia,AntoniosGasteratosandIoannisAndreadis,"Binary,Gray-

Scale,andVectorSoftMathematicalMorphology:Extensions,Algorithms,and

Implementations", Invited Contribution, Advances in Imaging and Electron

Physics,Vol.119,Ch.1,pp1-54,PeterW.Hawkes(Editor),2001.

C3. KonstantinosKonstantinidis,AntoniosGasteratosandIoannisAndreadis,"The

Impact of Low-Level Features in Semantic-Based Image Retrieval", Invited

contributionunderreview,Semantic-BasedVisualInformationRetrieval,Yu-

JinZhang,toappear.

C4. Antonios Gasteratos, Spyridon Mouroutsos and Ioannis Andreadis,

Measurements’Technique,PublicationoftheAssociationfortheDevelopment

andtheExploitationofthePropertyofDUTh,Xanthi2006.(inGreek).

C5. Antonios Gasteratos, Markus Vincze, and John K.Tsotsos (Eds.), Computer

Vision Systems, ICVS 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 5008,

Springer-Verlag,Berlin-Heidelberg,2008.

C6. AngelosAmanatiadis,AntoniosGasteratos,VassiliosG.KaburlasosandStelios

E.Papadakis,"ImageStabilizationinActiveRobotVision"inRobotVision,Ales

Ude(Ed.),IN-TECHPublishing,Vienna,2010,(ISBN978-953-307-077-3).

C7. Angelos Amanatiadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Stereo Vision System for

RemotelyOperatedRobots" inRemoteandTelerobotics,NicolasMollet (Ed.),

IN-TECHPublishing,Vienna,2010,(ISBN:978-953-307-081-0).

C8. DimitriosChrysostomouandAntoniosGasteratos, "Three-Dimensional Scene

Reconstruction: A Review of Approaches", in Depth Map and 3D Imaging

Applications: Algorithms and Technologies, Ch. 8, pp 142-162, Aamir Saeed

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Malik, Tae-Sun Choi andHumairaNisar (Eds), IGI Global, Hershey PA, USA,

2011,(ISBN978-1-61350-326-3).

C9. LazarosNalpantidisandAntoniosGasteratos,"StereoVisionDepthEstimation

MethodsforRoboticApplications",inDepthMapand3DImagingApplications:

AlgorithmsandTechnologies,Ch.21,pp397-417,AamirSaeedMalik,Tae-Sun

ChoiandHumairaNisar(Eds),IGIGlobal,HersheyPA,USA,2011,(ISBN978-

1-61350-326-3).

C10 Rigas Kouskouridas and Antonios Gasteratos, "From Object Recognition to

ObjectLocalization", inCross-DisciplinaryApplicationsofArtificial Intelligence

and Pattern Recognition: Advancing Technologies Ch. 1, pp 1-7, Vijay Kumar

MagoandNitinBhatia(Eds),IGIGlobal,HersheyPA,USA,2012,(ISBN978-1-

61350-429-1).

C11. LazarosNalpantidis, Ioannis Kostavelis andAntonios Gasteratos, "Intelligent

Stereo Vision for Autonomous Robot Traversability Estimation", in Robotic

Vision: Technologies for Machine Learning and Vision Applications, Jose García-

RodríguezandMiguelCazorla,IGIGlobal,toappear.

C12. GeorgeGiakos,MohdZaidAbdullah,WuqiangYang,MariaPetrou,Konstantina

Nikita,MatteoPastorino,MihalisZervakis,AngelosAmanatiadis,DimitriosA.

Karras,MicheleCeccarelli,DimitrisIakovidis,GeorgeZentai,CesareSveltoand

Antonios Gasteratos, "Imaging Systems and Techniques 2011",Measurement

Science and Technology (IOP),Vol 23, 110101, (1pp), 2012, Special Issue on

ImagingSystemsandTechniques.doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/110101.C13. Ioannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Antonios

Gasteratos, "A Mechatronic Platform for Robotic Educational Activities", in

Mechatronics Engineering: Research Development and Education, Maki K.

Habib,J.PauloDavim(eds),ISTE,London,UK,2013.

C14. Dimitrios Portokalidis, Ioakeim G. Georgoudas, Antonios Gasteratos and

GeorgiosCh.Sirakoulis,"AFull-scaleHardwareSolutionforCrowdEvacuation

via Multiple Cameras", in Human Behavior Understanding in Networked

Sensing:TheoryandApplicationsofNetworksofSensors,PaoloSpagnolo,Pier

Luigi Mazzeo, Cosimo Distante (Eds), Springer-Verlag, Berlin-Heidelberg,

2014.

C15. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Angelos

Amanatiadis, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Christos Emmanouilidis, Antonios

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Gasteratos, "Autonomous Robot Path Planning Techniques Using Cellular

Automata", inRobotsandLatticeAutomata,GeorgiosCh.Sirakoulis ,Andrew

Adamatzky (Eds),Emergence, Complexity andComputation,Vol13, 2015, pp

175-196.

C16. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Volker Krüger, Jan-Olof Eklundh, Antonios Gasteratos

(Eds.),ComputerVisionSystems,ICVS2015,LectureNotesinComputerScience

Vol.9163,Springer-Verlag,Berlin-Heidelberg,2015.

JournalPapers

D1. AntoniosGasteratos,IoannisAndreadisandPhilipposTsalides,"Improvement

of the Majority Gate Algorithm for Grey Scale Dilation/Erosion", IEE

ElectronicsLetters,Vol.32,No9,pp806-807,1996.

D2. Ioannis Andreadis, Antonios Gasteratos and Philippos Tsalides, "AnASIC for

FastGrey-ScaleDilation",MicroprocessorsandMicrosystems,Vol.20,No2,pp

89-96,1996.

D3. AntoniosGasteratos,IoannisAndreadisandPhilipposTsalides,"Extensionand

Very Large Scale Integration Implementation of the Majority Gate for Gray

ScaleMorphologicalOperations",OpticalEngineering,Vol.36,No3, pp857-

861,1997.

D4. AntoniosGasteratos,IoannisAndreadisandPhilipposTsalides,"Realizationof

RankOrderFiltersBasedontheMajorityGate",PatternRecognition,Vol.30,

No9,pp1571-1576,1997.

D5. Ioannis Andreadis, Ioannis Kokolakis, Antonios Gasteratos and Philippos

Tsalides, "A Stochastic D/A Converter Based on a Cellular Automaton

Architecture",VLSIDesign,Vol.7,No2,pp203-210,1998.

D6. Antonios Gasteratos, Ioannis Andreadis and Philippos Tsalides, "Fuzzy Soft

MathematicalMorphology,IEEProceedingsVisionImageandSignalProcessing,

Vol.145,No1,pp40-49,1998.

D7. AntoniosGasteratos,IoannisAndreadisandPhilipposTsalides,"Realisationof

SoftMorphologicalFilters",IEEProceedingsCircuits,DevicesandSystems,Vol.

145,No3,pp201-206,1998.

D8. Antonios Gasteratos, Ioannis Andreadis and Philippos Tsalides, "A Parallel

ArchitectureforImplementationofFiltersBasedonOrderStatistics",Pattern

RecognitionLetters,Vol.19,No9,pp815-820,1998.

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D9. AntoniosGasteratos and IoannisAndreadis, "ANewAlgorithm forWeighted

Order Statistics Operations", IEEE Signal Processing Letters,Vol. 6, No 4, pp

84-86,1999.

D10. AntoniosGasteratosandIoannisAndreadis,"Non-LinearImageProcessing in

Hardware",PatternRecognition,Vol. 33,No6, pp1013-1021, 2000.Special

IssueonMathematicalMorphologyandNonlinearImageProcessing.

D11. Ricardo Manzotti, Antonios Gasteratos, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini,

"Disparity Estimation on Log-Polar Images andVergenceControl",Computer

VisionandImageUnderstanding,Vol.83,No2,pp97-117,2001.

D12. Antonios Gasteratos, Carlos Beltran, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini,

"PRONTO: A System forMobile Robot Navigation via CAD-Model Guidance",

MicroprocessorsandMicrosystems,Vol.26,No1,pp17-26,2002.

D13. Ioannis Andreadis, Charalambos Fyrinides, Antonios Gasteratos and Yannis

Boutalis,"DecompositionofGrey-scaleMorphologicalStructuringElementsin

Hardware", Image Processing and Communications, Vol. 8, No 2, pp 13-22,

2002.

D14. Markus Vincze, Minu Ayromlou, Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Simon

Hoffgaard,OleMadsen,WolfgangPonweiserandMichaelZillich,"ASystemto

NavigateaRobotintoaShipStructure",MachineVisionandApplications,Vol.

14,No1,pp15-25,2003,SpecialIssueonComputerVisionSystems.

D15. Giorgio Metta, Antonios Gasteratos and Giulio Sandini, "Learning to Track

ColoredObjectswithLog-polarVision",Mechatronics,Vol.14,No9,pp989-

1006,2004.

D16. Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Antonios Gasteratos and Ioannis Andreadis,

"Image Retrieval Based on Fuzzy Color Histogram Processing", Optics

Communications,Vol.248,No4-6,pp375-386,2005.

D17. Vassilios Vonikakis, Antonios Gasteratos and Ioannis Andreadis,

"Enhancement of Perceptually Salient Contours Using a Parallel Artificial

CorticalNetwork",BiologicalCybernetics,Vol.94,No3,pp192-214,2006.

D18. IoannisGasteratos,AntoniosGasteratosandIoannisAndreadis,"AnAlgorithm

forAdaptiveMeanFilteringanditsHardwareImplementation",JournalofVLSI

SignalProcessing,Vol.44,No1-2,pp63-78,2006.

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D19. Christos Georgoulas, Leonidas Kotoulas, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Ioannis

Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Real-Time Disparity Map Computation

Module",MicroprocessorsandMicrosystems,Vol.32,No3,pp159-170,2008.

D20. Antonios Gasteratos, "Tele-autonomous Active Stereo-vision Head",

InterantionalJournalofOptomechatronics,Vol.2,No2,pp144-161,2008.

D21. VassiliosVonikakis,IoannisAndreadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"FastCentre-

surroundContrastModification",IETImageProcessing,Vol.2,No1,pp19-34,

2008.

IETImageProcessingPremium2009

D22. LazarosNalpantidis,GeorgiosCh.Sirakoulis,andAntoniosGasteratos,"Review

of Stereo Vision Algorithms: from Software to Hardware", International

JournalofOptomechatronics,toappear.

D23. NikolaosKyriakoulisandAntoniosGasteratos,"ARecursiveFuzzySystemfor

Efficient Digital Image Stabilization", Advances in Fuzzy Systems, Vol. 2008,

ArticleID920615,8pages,2008,doi:10.1155/2008/920615.

D24. Antonios Gasteratos, "Active Camera Stabilization with a Fuzzy-grey

Controller",EuropeanJournalofMechanicalandEnvironmentalEgineering,Vol

2009-2,pp18-20,2009.

D25. Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Stereo Vision for Robotic

Applications in the Presence of Non-ideal Lighting Conditions", Image and

VisionComputing,(Elsevier),Vol28,No6,pp940-951,2010.

D26. Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Biologically and

Psychophysically Inspired Adaptive Support Weights Algorithm for Stereo",

RoboticsandAutonomousSystems,(Elsevier),Vol58,No5,pp457-464,2010.

D27. NikolaosKyriakoulisandAntoniosGasteratos,"ColorBasedMonocularVisuo-

Inertial 3D Pose Estimation of a Volant Robot", IEEE Transactions on

Instrumentation & Measurement, Vol 59, No 10, pp 2706-2715, 2010, doi

10.1109/TIM.2010.2045258.

D28. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos and Spyridon G. Mouroutsos, "An

Adaptive Fuzzy System for the Control of the Vergence Angle on a Robotic

Head", Journalof IntelligentandFuzzySystems, (IOSpress),Vol21,No6,pp

385-394,2010,doi:10.3233/IFS-2010-0459.

D29. VassiliosVonikakis, IoannisAndreadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Recognition

of2-dShapesInspiredbytheHumanVisualSystem",JournalofComputational

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Methods in Science and Engineering, (IOS press), Vol 10, No 1-2, pp 23-35,

2010.

D30. Alexandros Iosifidis, Spyridon G. Mouroutsos and Antonios Gasteratos, "A

hybrid static/active video surveillance system", International Journal of

Optomechatronics,(Taylor&Fransis),Vol5,No1,pp80-95,2011.

D31. Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Stereovision-based Fuzzy

Obstacle Avoidance Method", International Journal of Humanoid Robotics,

(Wolrd Scientific), Vol 8, No 1, pp 169-183, 2011, doi:

10.1142/S0219843611002381.

D32. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Angelos Amanatiadis, Georgios Sirakoulis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "An Efficient Hierarchical Matching Algorithm for Processing

UncalibratedStereoVisionImagesanditsHardwareArchitecture",IETImage

Processing,Vol5,No5,pp481-492,2011.

D33. AngelosAmanatiadis, VassileiosG.Kaburlasos,AntoniosGasteratos and S. E.

Papadakis,"EvaluationofShapeDescriptorsforShape-BasedImageRetrieval",

IETImageProcessing,Vol5,No5,pp493-499,2011.

D34. Rigas Kouskouridas and Antonios Gasteratos, "Location Assignment of

RecognizedObjectsviaaMulti-CameraSystem",InternationalJournalofSignal

Processing, Image Processing and Pattern Recognition,Vol 4, No 3, pp 1-17,

2011.

D35. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Georgios Sirakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Non

Probabilistic Cellular Automata-enhanced Stereo Vision Simultaneous

Localisation and Mapping (SLAM)", Measurement Science and Technology

(IOP),Vol22,114027,(13pp),doi:10.1088/0957-0233/22/11/114027.

D36. Angelos Amanatiadis, Antonios Gasteratos and Dimitrios Koulouriotis, "An

Intelligent Multi-sensor System for First Responder Indoor Navigation",

Measurement Science and Technology (IOP), Vol 22, 114025, (12pp),

doi:10.1088/0957-0233/22/11/114025.

D37. RigasKouskouridas,AntoniosGasteratosandEfthimiosBadekas, "Evaluation

ofTwo-partsAlgorithmsforObjects'DepthEstimation",IETComputerVision,

Vol6,No1,pp70-78,2012,doi:10.1049/iet-cvi.2009.0094.

D38. Ioannis Kostavelis and Antonios Gasteratos, "On the Optimization of

Hierarchical Temporal Memory", Pattern Recognition Letters, (Elsevier),Vol

22,No5,pp670-676,2012,doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2011.11.017.

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D39. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "On Visuo-inertial Fusion for

Robot Pose Estimation Using Hierarchical Fuzzy Systems", International

JournalofOptomechatronics (Taylor&Fransis),Vol6,No1,pp17-36,2012,

doi:10.1080/15599612.2012.664241.

D40. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Antonios Gasteratos, Lazaros Nalpantidis and

Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, "Multi-view 3D Scene Reconstruction Using Ant

ColonyOptimizationTechniques",MeasurementScienceandTechnology(IOP),

Vol 23, 114006, (12pp), 2012, Special Issue on Imaging Systems and

Techniques.doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/114006.

D41. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Nikolaos Kyriakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "An

EfficientMethod to Reconstruct Prismatic Rigid Objects byMultiple Camera

Arrangements",Measurement Science andTechnology (IOP),Vol23, 114002,

(11pp), 2012, Special Issue on Imaging Systems and Techniques.

doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/114002.

D42. Rigas Kouskouridas, Konstantinos Charalampous and Antonios Gasteratos,

"6DoF Object Pose Measurement by a Monocular Manifold-based Pattern

RecognitionTechnique",Measurement Science andTechnology (IOP),Vol 23,

114005, (13pp), 2012, Special Issue on Imaging Systems and Techniques.

doi:10.1088/0957-0233/23/11/114005.

D43. Eleftheria Mitka, Antonios Gasteratos, Nikolaos Kyriakoulis and Spyridon G.

Mouroutsos, "Safety CertificationRequirements forDomestic Robots",Safety

Science (Elsevier) , Vol 50, No 10, pp 1888-1897, 2012, doi:

10.1016/j.ssci.2012.05.009.

D44. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Angelos Amanatiadis and

AntoniosGasteratos,"ASparseDeep-LearningAlgorithmforRecognitionand

Categorisation",ElectronicsLetters(IET),Vol48,No20,pp1265-1266,2012,

doi:10.1049/el.2012.1033

D45. Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Collision

RiskAssessment forAutonomousRobotsbyOfflineTraversabilityLearning",

Robotics and Autonomous Systems, (Elsevier),Vol 60, No 11, pp 1367-1376,

2012,doi:10.1016/j.robot.2012.03.004.

D46. VasiliosVonikakis,DimitriosChrysostomou,RigasKouskouridasandAntonios

Gasteratos, "A Biologically Inspired Scale-space for Illumination Invariant

Feature Detection", Measurement Science and Technology (IOP), Vol 24,

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074024, (13pp), 2013,Special Issue on Imaging SystemsandTechniques, doi:

10.1088/0957-0233/24/7/074024.

D47. Rigas Kouskouridas, Antonios Gasteratos and Christos Emmanouilidis,

"Efficient Representation and Feature Extraction for Neural Network-based

3D Object Pose Estimation", in press Neurocomputing, doi:

10.1016/j.neucom.2012.11.047

D48. AngelosAmanatiadis, SavvasA.Chatzichristofis,KonstantinosCharalampous,

Lefteris Doitsidis, Elias B. Kosmatopoulos, Philippos Tsalides, Antonios

GasteratosandStergiosI.Roumeliotis,"AMulti-ObjectiveExplorationStrategy

forMobileRobotsunderOperationalConstraints",IEEEAccess,Vol1,pp691–

702,2013,doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2013.2283031.

D49. Ioannis Kostavelis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Learning Spatially Semantic

Representations for Cognitive Robot Navigation", Robotics and Autonomous

Systems, (Elsevier), Vol. 61, No 12, pp 1460-1475, 2013, doi:

10.1016/j.robot.2013.07.008.

D50. Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Evangelos Boukas, Marcos Aviles

Rodrigalvarez, Ioannis Stamoulias, George Lentaris, Dionysios

Diamantopoulos, Kostas Siozos, Dimitrios Soundris andAntonios Gasteratos,

"SPARTAN: Developing a Vision System for Future Autonomous Space

ExplorationRobots",Vol.13,No1,pp107-140,2014,JournalofFieldRobotics,

(Wiley),doi:10.1002/rob.21484.

D51. DimitriosChrysostomou,GeorgiosCh.SirakoulisandAntoniosGasteratos, "A

Bio-inspired Multi-camera System for Dynamic Crowd Analysis", Pattern

Recognition Letters, (Elsevier), Vol. 44, pp 141-151, 2014, doi:

10.1016/j.patrec.2013.11.020.

D52. Rigas Kouskouridas, Konstantinos Charalampous and Antonios Gasteratos,

"SparsePoseManifolds",AutonomousRobots,(Springer),Vol37,No2,pp191-

207,2014,doi: 10.1007/s10514-014-9388-x.

D53. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Angelos Amanatiadis and

Antonios Gasteratos, "Real-time Robot Path Planning for Dynamic Obstacle

Avoidance",JournalofCellularAutomata,Vol.9,No(2/3),pp195-208,2014.

D54. KonstantinosCharalampous andAntoniosGasteratos, "ATensor-BasedDeep

LearningFramework",ImageandVisionComputing,Vol.32,No2,pp916-929,

2014,doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2014.08.003

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D55. Ioannis Kostavelis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Semantic Mapping for Mobile

RoboticsTasks:ASurvey",RoboticsandAutonomousSystems,(Elsevier),Vol.

66,No2,pp86-103,2015,doi:10.1016/j.robot.2014.12.006.

D56. EvangelosG.Karakasis,AngelosAmanatiadis,AntoniosGasteratosandSavvas

A. Chatzichristofis, “ImageMoment Invariants as Local Features for Content

Based Image Retrieval using the Bag-of-Visual-Words Model”, Pattern

Recognition Letters, (Elsevier), Vol. 55, pp 22-27, 2015, doi:

10.1016/j.patrec.2015.01.005.

D57. JohnA.Tsanakas,DimitriosChrysostomou,PantelisN.BotsarisandAntonios

Gasteratos, "Fault Diagnosis of Photovoltaic Modules through Image

Processing and Canny Edge Detection on Field Thermographic

Measurements",InternationalJournalofSustainableEnergy(Taylor&Francis),

Vol34,No6,pp.351-372,2015,doi:10.1080/14786451.2013.826223

D58. AngelosAmanatiadis, LoukasBampis andAntoniosGasteratos, "Accelerating

Single-Image Super-Resolution Polynomial Regression in Mobile Devices",

IEEETransactionsonConsumerElectronics,Vol.61,No1,pp.63-71,2015,doi:

10.1109/TCE.2015.7064112

D59. Evangelos Boukas, Ioannis Kostavelis, Antonios Gasteratos and Georgios Ch.

Sirakoulis, "Robot Guided Crowd Evacuation", IEEE Transactions on

Automation Science and Engineering,Vol. 12, No 2, pp. 739-751, 2015, doi:

10.1109/TASE.2014.2323175

D60. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis and Antonios Gasteratos,

"Thorough Robot Navigation based on SVM Local Planning", accepted for

publicationatRoboticsandAutonomousSystems,(Elsevier),Vol.70,pp.166-

188,2015,doi:10.1016/j.robot.2015.02.010

D61. StylianosPloumpis, AngelosAmanatiadis andAntoniosGasteratos, "A stereo

matchingapproachbasedonparticlefiltersandscatteredcontrollandmarks",

acceptedforpublicationatImageandVisionComputing,(Elsevier),Vol.38,pp.

13-23,2015,doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2015.04.001.

D62. Rigas Kouskouridas, Angelos Amanatiadis, Savvas A. Chatzichristofis and

AntoniosGasteratos,"What,WhereandHow?IntroducingPoseManifoldsfor

Industrial Object Manipulation", Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier),

Vol.42,No21,pp.8123–8133,2015,doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2015.06.039.

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D63. ΙoannisKostavelis,KonstantinosCharalampous,AntoniosGasteratosandJohn

K. Tsotsos, "Robot Navigation via Spatial and Temporal Coherent Semantic

Maps",EngineeringApplicationsofArtificialIntelligence,(Elsevier),Vol.48,pp.

173–187,2016,doi:10.1016/j.engappai.2015.11.004

D64. Ιoannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Stereo Based Visual Odometry for Autonomous Robot

Navigation", International Journal ofAdvancedRobotic Systems, (Intech),Vol.

13,No21,pp.1-19,2016,doi:10.5772/62099

D65. Alexandros S. Xanthopoulos, Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis, Antonios Gasteratos

and Stratos Ioannidis, "Efficient priority rules for dynamic sequencing with

sequence-dependent setups", International Journal of Industrial Engineering

Computations, (Growing Science), Vol. 7, pp. 367-384, 2016, doi:

10.5267/j.ijiec.2016.2.002

D66. KonstantinosCharalampousandAntoniosGasteratos,"On-lineDeepLearning

MethodforActionRecognition",PatternAnalysisandApplications,(Springer),

Vol.19,Νο2,pp.337-354,2016,doi:10.1007/s10044-014-0404-8

D67. EvangelosBoukasandAntoniosGasteratos,"ModelingRegionsof Intereston

Orbital and Rover Imagery for Planetary Exploration Missions", Cybernetics

and Systems:An International Journal, (Elsevier),Vol.47,Νο3, pp. 180-205,

2016,doi:10.1080/01969722.2016.1154771.

D68. Angelos Amanatiadis, Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Bernd

Birkicht, Benjamin Andel, Vincent Meiser, Christopher Henschel, Stephen

Baugh, Martin Paul, Richard May and Antonios Gasteratos, "Autonomous

Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool: A Cooperative Robotic System for Car

Extraction", Journal of Field Robotics, (Wiley),Vol. 33, Νο 8, pp. 1058-1086,

2016,doi:10.1002/rob.21593.

D69. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ιoannis Kostavelis, Antonios Gasteratos, "Robot

Navigation in Large-scale Social Maps: An Action Recognition Approach",

Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 66, pp. 261-273, 2016, (Elsevier),

doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2016.09.026.

D70. Ιoannis Kostavelis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Semantic Maps from Multiple

Visual Cues", Expert Systems With Applications, Vol. 68, pp. 45-57, 2017,

(Elsevier),doi:10.1016/j.eswa.2016.10.014.

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D71. Alexandros S. Xanthopoulos, Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis and Antonios

Gasteratos,"AdaptiveCard-basedProductionControlPolicies",Computersand

Industrial Engineering, (Elsevier), Vol. 103, pp. 131-144, 2017, doi:

10.1016/j.cie.2016.11.019

D72. Loukas Bampis, Savvas Chatzichristofis, Chryssanthi Iakovidou, Angelos

Amanatiadis, Yiannis S. Boutalis and Antonios Gasteratos, "A LoCATe-based

Visual Place Recognition System for Mobile Robotics and GPGPUs",

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, accepted for

publication,doi:10.1002/cpe.4146

D73. Angelos Amanatiadis, Loukas Bampis, Evangelos Karakasis, Antonios

Gasteratos and Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, "Real-time Surveillance Detection

System for Medium-altitude Long-endurance Unmanned Aerial Vehicles",

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, accepted for

publication,doi:10.1002/cpe.4145

ConferencePapers

E1. Ioannis Andreadis, Antonios Gasteratos and Philippos Tsalides, "Fast

computationoftheresponseofthetypicalCIEobserver",HellenicConference

onSolidStatePhysics,Xanthi,September1995.

E2. IoannisAndreadis,AntoniosGasteratos andPhilipposTsalides, "ANewASIC

for theMeasurementofAppearance" IEEE InstrumentationandMeasurement

TechnologyConference,Brussels,Belgium,4-6 June1996,Vol.1,pp545-548,

(ISBN0-7803-3312-8).

E3. Antonios Gasteratos, Ioannis Andreadis and Philippos Tsalides, "A New

Hardware Structure for Implementation of Soft Morphological Filters", 7th

International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP

‘97), Kiel, Germany, September 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science,

Springer-Verlag,Berlin-Heidelberg,Vol.1296,pp488-494.

E4. Antonios Gasteratos, Ioannis Andreadis and Philippos Tsalides, "Soft

MorphologicalStructuringElementDecomposition", InternationalSymposium

onMathematicalMorphology (ISMM ΄98),Amsterdam, TheNetherlands, June

1998. Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Image and Signal

Processing, H.J.A.M. Heijmans and J.B.T.M. Roerdink, (Editors), Kluwer

AcademicPublishers,Dordrecht,TheNetherlands,1998,pp407-413.

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E5. Antonios Gasteratos, Ioannis Andreadis and Philippos Tsalides, "Non-Linear

Edge Detectors Based on the Majority Gate", International Conference on

Telecommunications (ICT ΄98), Chalkidiki, Greece, June 1998,Vol. 4, pp 155-

159.

E6. Markus Vincze, Minu Ayromlou, Stuart Galt, Antonios Gasteratos, Claus

Gramkow,NealHewer,SimonHoffgaard,OleMadsen,RicardoMartinotti,Ole

Neckelmann, Giulio Sandini, Richard Waterman and Michael Zillich,

"RobVision -VisuallyGuiding aWalkingRobot througha Ship Structure", 1st

InternationalConferenceonComputerApplicationsandInformationTechnology

in theMaritimeIndustries(COMPIT ‘2000),Potsdam/Berlin,Germany,March-

April2000,pp477-489.InvitedTalk.

E7. Antonios Gasteratos, Ricardo Martinotti, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini,

"Precise 3D Measurements with a High Resolution Stereo Head", 1st

InternationalWorkshopon ImageandSignalProcessingandAnalysis(IWISPA

‘2000),Pula,Croatia,14-15June2000,pp171-176.

E8. Stuart Galt, David S. Cooke, Giulio Sandini, Antonios Gasteratos and Carlos

Beltran, "An Advanced Walking Vehicle with Autonomous Navigation

Capabilities", 3rd International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots

(CLAWAR'2000),Madrid,Spain,2-4October2000,pp731-739.

E9. Minu Ayromloy, Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Ole Madsen, Wolfgang

Ponweiser and Michael Vincze, "ROBVISION: Vision Based Navigation for

Mobile Robots", 25th Workshop of the Austrian Association for Pattern

Recognition(OeAGM),Berchtesgaden,Bavaria,Germany,7-8June2001,pp25-

32.

E10. Ioannis Andreadis, Charalambos Fyrinides, Antonios Gasteratos and Yannis

Boutalis,"DecompositionofGrey-scaleMorphologicalStructuringElementsin

Hardware",EuropeanWorkshoponServiceandHumanoidRobots, June2001,

Santorini,Greece.

E11. Michael Vincze, Minu Ayromloy, Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Simon

Hoffgaard,OleMadsen,WolfgangPonweiserandMichaelZillich,"ASystemto

NavigateaRobot intoaShipStructure", InternationalWorkshoponComputer

VisionSystems(ICVS2001),Vancouver,Canada,7-8July2001.LectureNotesin

Computer Science, Bernt Schiele andGerhard Sagerer (Eds.),Springer-Verlag

Berlin-Heidelberg,Vol.2095,pp268-283.

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E12. Calros Beltran, Minu Ayromlou, Wolfgang Ponweiser, Ole Madsen, Markus

Vincze and Antonios Gasteratos, "CAD Based Vision for Guiding a Mobile

Robot",AdvancedConceptsforIntelligentVisionSystems(ACIVS'2001),Baden-

Baden,Germany,30July–3August2001,pp13-17.

E13. Wolfgang Ponweiser, Minu Ayromlou, Markus Vincze, Carlos Beltran, Ole

Madsen andAntonios Gasteratos, "ROBVISION - VisionBasedNavigation for

Mobile Robots" IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and

Integration for Intelligent Systems (MFI'01), Baden-Baden, Germany 20-22

August2001,pp109-114.

E14. Markus Vincze, Minu Ayromloy, Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Simon

Hoffgaard,OleMadsen,WolfgangPonweiserandMichaelZillich,"ASystemto

Navigate a Robot into a Ship Structure", 4th International Conference on

Climbing and Walking Robots (CLAWAR'2001), Karlsruhe, Germany, 24-26

September2001,pp953-960.InvitedTalk.

E15. Ole Madsen, Minu Ayromloy, Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Wolfgang

Ponweiser andMarkusVincze, "Model andVisionBasedPoseEstimation for

MobileRobots",IASTEDInternationalConferenceonRoboticsandApplications,

Tampa,Florida,USA,19-22November2001.

E16. AntoniosGasteratosandGiulioSandini,"FactorsAffectingtheAccuracyofan

Active Vision Head", 2nd Hellenic Conferenceon Artificial Intelligence (SETN-

02), Thessaloniki, Greece, 11-12 April 2002, Lecture Notes in Artificial

Intelligence, Ioannis P. Vlahavas and Constantine D. Spyropoulos (Eds.),

Springer-VerlagBerlin-Heidelberg,Vol.2308,pp413-422.

E17. Antonios Gasteratos, Panagiotis Zafeiridis and Ioannis Andreadis, "An

Intelligent System forAerial ImageRetrieval andClassification",3rdHellenic

ConferenceonArtificial Intelligence (SETN-04), Samos,Greece, 4-8May2004,

Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, George A. Vouros and Themis

Panayiotopoulos(Eds.),Springer-VerlagBerlin-Heidelberg,Vol.3025,pp63-

71.

E18. Gerasimos Louverdis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "A New

Content Based Median Filter", 12th European Signal Processing Conference

(EUSIPCO2004),6-10September2004,Vienna,Austria,1337-1340.

E19. Vassilios Vonikakis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "A New

Approach to Machine Contour Perception", International Conference of

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Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering 2004 (ICCMSE 2004),

Vouliagmeni-Kavouri,Attica,Greece,19-23November2004,LectureSerieson

Computer and Computational Sciences, Theodore Simos andGeorgeMaroulis

(Eds.),VSP,Leiden,TheNetherlands,pp566-568.

E20. Leonidas Kotoulas, Christos Georgoulas, Antonios Gasteratos, Georgios Ch.

Sirakoulis and Ioannis Andreadis, "A Novel Three Stage Technique for

AccurateDisparityMaps",EOSConferenceon Industrial ImagingandMachine

Vision,13–15June2005,Munich,Germany.

E21. Leonidas Kotoulas, Antonios Gasteratos, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Christos

Georgoulasand IoannisAndreadis, "EnhancementofFastAcquiredDisparity

Maps using a 1-D Cellular Automation Filter", 5th IASTED International

Conference on Visualization, Imaging, and Image Processing (VIIP 2005), 7-9

September2005,Benidorm,Spain,pp355-359.

E22. Vassilios Vonikakis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Simple-

Shape Classification Based on the Human Visual System", 5th IASTED

InternationalConferenceonVisualization,Imaging,andImageProcessing(VIIP

2005),7-9September2005,Benidorm,Spain,pp162-167.

Ε23. Antonios Gasteratos, Paschalis Gonidis and Ioannis Andreadis, "A Hardware

Structure for Time-to-impact Computation Using Log-Polar Images", 5th

International Conference on Technology and Automation (ICTA'05), 15-16

October2005,Thessaloniki,Greece,pp348-353.

E24. GusztávArz, András Tóth, Daniel Bratanov,Nikolay Zlatov, Roberto Guzmán

Diana, Stefko Burdzhiev, Antonios Gasteratos, David Pereira, Carlos Beltran,

Uberto Delprato, "EU FP6 Project RESCUER Develops Intelligent Robot and

Information Technologies for EOD/IEDD/Rescue Mission", 1st Midlle-East

European Conference onMilitary Technology, 19-20October 2005, Budapest,

Hungary.

E25. VassiliosVonikakis,IoannisAndreadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Extractionof

Salient Contours in Color Images", 4th Hellenic Conferenceon Artificial

Intelligence (SETN-04), Heraklion, Greece, 18-20May 2006, Lecture Notes in

ArtificialIntelligence,GrigorisAntoniou,GeorgePotamias,CostasSpyropoulos,

DimitrisPlexousakis(Eds.),Springer-VerlagBerlin-Heidelberg,Vol.3955,pp

400-410.

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E26. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos and Angelos Amanatiadis,

"Comparison of Data Fusion Techniques for Robot Navigation", 4th HellenicConferenceon Artificial Intelligence (SETN-04), Heraklion, Greece, 18-20May

2006, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Grigoris Antoniou, George

Potamias, Costas Spyropoulos, Dimitris Plexousakis (Eds.), Springer-Verlag

Berlin-Heidelberg,Vol.3955,pp547-550.

E27. GeorgiosPanitsidis,KonstantinosKonstantinidis,VasileiosVonikakis, Ioannis

AndreadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"FastImageRetrievalBasedonAttributes

of the Human Visual System", 7th Nordic Signal Processing Symposium

(NORSIG2006),Reykjavik,Iceland,June7-9,2006,pp206-209.

E28. Kostas Mpampos and Antonios Gasteratos, "Autonomous Navigation of a

FlyingVehicleonaPredefinedRoute",TowardsAutonomousRoboticSystems

(TAROS2006),4-6September,2006,UniversityofSurrey,Guildford,U.K.,pp

134-138,(ISBN0-9553879-0-6).

E29. Vassilios Vonikakis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Fast

DynamicRangeCompression forGrayscale Images", InternationalWorkshop

on Advanced Image Technology 2007 (IWAIT 2007), Bangkok, Thailand, 8-9

January2007.

E30. Vassilios Vonikakis, Ioannis Andreadis, Nikolaos Papamarkos and Antonios

Gasteratos, "AdaptiveDocumentBinarization:Ahumanvisionapproach",2nd

InternationalConferenceonComputerVisionTheoryandApplications(VISAPP)

8-11March,2007,Barcelona,Spain.

E31. Angelos Amanatiadis, Ioannis Andreadis, Antonios Gasteratos and Nikolaos

Kyriakoulis, "A Rotational and Translational Image Stabilization System for

RemotelyOperatedRobots",IEEEInternationalWorkshoponImagingSystems

andTechniques,(IST2007),Krakow,Poland,May2007.

E32. Angelos Amanatiadis, Ioannis Andreadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "A Log-

polarInterpolationAppliedtoImageScaling",IEEEInternationalWorkshopon

ImagingSystemsandTechniques,(IST2007),Krakow,Poland,May2007.

E33. Dimitrios Chrysostomou and Antonios Gasteratos, "Comparison and

Evaluation of Similarity Measures for Vergence Angle Estimation", 16th

International Workshop on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube (RAAD2007), Ljubljana,

Slovenia,7-9June2007.

E34. LazarosNalpantidis,GeorgiosCh.SirakoulisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Review

ofStereoMatchingAlgoritmhsfor3Dvision",16thInternationalSymposiumon

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Measurement and Control in Robotics (ISMCR 2007), Warsaw, Poland, 21-23

June2007,pp116-124.

E35. CarlosBeltranGonzalez,AntoniosGasteratos,AngelosAmanatiadis,Dimitrios

Chrysostomou,RobertoGuzman,AndrasToth,LorandSzollosi,AndrasJuhasz

andPeterGalambos, "Methods and techniques for intelligent navigation and

manipulation for bomb disposal and rescue operations", IEEE International

WorkshoponSafety,Security,andRescueRobotics(SSRR2007),Rome,Italy,27-

29September2007.

E36. GusztavArz, Andras Toth, Daniel Bratanov,Nikolay Zlatov, Roberto Guzman

Diana,StephanBurdzhiev,AntoniosGasteratos,DavidPereira,CarlosBeltran,

UbertoDelprato, "EUFP6ProjectRESCUER: thedevelopmentof adexterous

robot and intelligent information technologies for EOD/IEDD/rescue

missions"PRACTRO2007,Varna,Bulgaria,2007,(ISBN978-954-91851-4-0).

E37. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos and Angelos Amanatiadis, "Image

Sequence Stabilization Using Fuzzy Kalman Filtering and Log-polar

Transformation",accepted forpresentationat3rd InternationalConferenceon

Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 22 - 25 January 2008,

Funchal,Madeira,Portugal.

E38. Geert De Cubber, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "IntelligentRobotsNeed IntelligentVisionVisual3DPerception",

IARP/EURONWorkshoponRoboticsforRiskyInterventionsandEnvironmental

Surveillance(RISE),7-8January2008,Benicàssim,Spain.

E39. Angelos Amanatiadis, Antonios Gasteratos, Christos Georgoulas, Leonidas

Kotoulasand IoannisAndreadis, "DevelopmentofaStereoVisionSystem for

Remotely Operated Robots: A Control and Video Streaming Architecture",

InternationalConferenceonVirtualEnvironments,Human-ComputerInterfaces

andMeasurementSystems,(VECIMS2008),14-16July2008,Instambul,Turkey,

pp14-19.

E40. Alexandros S. Xanthopoulos, Dimitrios E. Koulouriotis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "A Reinforcement Learning Approach for Production Control in

Manufacturing Systems", International Workshop on Evolutionary and

ReinforcementLearningforAutonomousRobotSystems(ERLARS),22July2008,

Patras,Greece,inconjuctionwithECCAI2008.

E41. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos and Spyridon G. Mouroutsos, "Fuzzy

Vergence Control for an Active Binocular Vision System", 7th IEEE International

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Conference on Cybernetic Intelligent Systems 2008, 9-10 September 2008,

MiddlesexUniversity,London,UnitedKingdom,pp150-163.

E42. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "A

Dense Stereo CorrespondenceAlgorithm forHardware Implementationwith

EnhancedDisparitySelection",5thHellenicConferenceonArtificialIntelligence,

2-5October2008,Syros,Greece,pp365-370.

E43. Geert De Cubber, Daniela Doroftei, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Georgios Ch.

Sirakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Stereo-based Terrain Traversability

Analysis forRobotNavigation", IARP/EURONWorkshoponRobotics forRisky

Interventions and Environmental Surveillance (RISE), 12-13 January 2008,

Brussels,Belgium.

E44. Angelos Amanatiadis, Antonios Gasteratos and Spyridon Mouroutsos, "An

Architecture for theControl of aMechatronicHeadUsed inRescueRobotics

Applications", IARP/EURONWorkshoponRobotics forRisky Interventionsand

EnvironmentalSurveillance(RISE),12-13January2008,Brussels,Belgium.

E45. Rigas Kouskouridas, Vasileios Belagiannis, Dimitrios Chrysostomou and

Antonios Gasteratos, "Comparative Study of Feature Extraction Algorithms",

1stHellenicConferenceonRobotics,23-24February2009,Athens,Greece.

E46. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Evaggelos Karakasis, Antonios Gasteratos, Dimitrios

KoulouriotisandSpyridonG.Mouroutsos,"ComputationofthePoseVectorof

aMovingRobotwithaMonoccularVisionSystem",1stHellenicConferenceon

Robotics,23-24February2009,Athens,Greece.

E47. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Angelos Amanatiadis, Georgios Sirakoulis, Nikolaos

Kyriakoulis, and Antonios Gasteratos, "Dense Disparity Estimation Using a

HierarchicalMatchingTechniquefromUncalibratedStereoVision",2009IEEE

International Workshop on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2009),

Shenzhen,China,11-12May2009.

E48. NikolaosKyriakoulis, EvangelosKarakasis, AntoniosGasteratos, andAngelos

Amanatiadis, "PoseEstimationof aVolantPlatformwithaMonocularVisuo-

Inertial System",2009 IEEE InternationalWorkshop on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2009),Shenzhen,China,11-12May2009.

E49. AngelosAmanatiadis,VassileiosG.Kaburlasos, S. E. Papadakis, andAntonios

Gasteratos, "A Comparative Study of Invariant Descriptors for Shape

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RepresentationandRetrieval",2009IEEEInternationalWorkshoponImaging

SystemsandTechniques(IST2009),Shenzhen,China,11-12May2009.

E50. Rigas Kouskouridas, Vasileios Belagiannis, Antonios Gasteratos, Nikolaos

Kyriakoulis, Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Alexandros Iosifidis, Evaggelos

Karakasis, Efthimios Badekas and Spyridon G. Mouroutsos, "Intelligent

Integrated Vision System for Indoor Robotics Applications", 5th National &

InternationalHSSSConference,Xanthi24-27June2009.

E51. Gabor Stepan, Andras Toth, Laszlo L. Kovacs, Gunnar Bolmsjo, Giorgos

Nikoleris, Dragoljub Surdilovic, Andreas Conrad, Antonios Gasteratos,

Nikolaos Kyriakoulis, Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Rigas Kouskouridas, Joseph

Canou, Tom Smith, William Harwin, Rui Loureiro, Rafa Lopez and Miguel

Moreno,"ACROBOTER:aceilingbasedcrawling,hoistingandswingingservice

robot platform", Beyond Gray Droids: Domestic Robot Design for the 21st

CenturyWorkshopatHCI2009,Cambridge,UK,1September2009.

E52. VasileiosBelagiannis andAntoniosGasteratos, "AReal-timeVisualDetection

and Tracking System", Student’s Eureka 2009 – 3rd Panhellenic Scientific

StudentInformaticsConference,Corfu,10-12September2009.

E53. Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Real-Time

Algorithm for Obstacle Avoidance Using a Stereoscopic Camera", Student’s

Eureka2009–3rdPanhellenicScientificStudentInformaticsConference,Corfu,

10-12September2009.

E54.YvanBaudoin,DanielaDoroftei,GeertDeCubber,SidAhmedBerrabah,Carlos

Pinzon, F. Warlet, Jeremi Gancet, Elvina Motard, M. Ilzkovitz, Lazaros

Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "View-Finder: Robotics Assistance to

Fire-Fighting Services and CrisisManagement", IEEE InternationalWorkshop

on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics 2009, Denver, Colorado, USA, 3-6

November,2009

E55. Rigas Kouskouridas, Ethimios Badekas, and Antonios Gasteratos,

"SimultaneousVisualObjectRecognitionandPositionEstimationUsingSIFT",

SecondInternationalConferenceonIntelligentRoboticsandApplications(ICIRA

2009), Singapore, 16 - 18 December, 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial

Intelligence,MingXie,YoulunXiong,CaihuaXiong,HonghaiLiu,ZhenchengHu

(Eds.),Springer-VerlagBerlin-Heidelberg,Vol5928,pp866-875.

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E56. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Ioannis Kostavelis, and Antonios Gasteratos,

"Stereovision-based Algorithm for Obstacle Avoidance", Second International

ConferenceonIntelligentRoboticsandApplications(ICIRA2009),Singapore,16

-18December,2009,LectureNotes inArtificial Intelligence,MingXie,Youlun

Xiong, Caihua Xiong, Honghai Liu, Zhencheng Hu (Eds.), Springer-Verlag

Berlin-Heidelberg,Vol5928,pp195-204.

E57. LazarosNalpantidis,DimitriosChrysostomou,AntoniosGasteratos,"Obtaining

Reliable DepthMaps for Robotic Applications from a Quad-camera System",

SecondInternationalConferenceonIntelligentRoboticsandApplications(ICIRA

2009), Singapore, 16 - 18 December, 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial

Intelligence,MingXie,YoulunXiong,CaihuaXiong,HonghaiLiu,ZhenchengHu

(Eds.),Springer-VerlagBerlin-Heidelberg,Vol5928,pp906-916.

E58. RigasKouskouridas,NikolaosKyriakoulis,DimitriosChrysostomou,Vasileios

Belagiannis, Spyridon G. Mouroutsos, and Antonios Gasteratos, "The Vision

System of the ACROBOTER Project", Second International Conference on

Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2009), Singapore, 16 - 18

December, 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Ming Xie, Youlun

Xiong, Caihua Xiong, Honghai Liu, Zhencheng Hu (Eds.), Springer-Verlag

Berlin-Heidelberg,Vol5928,pp957-966.

E59. Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos,

"ComparativePresentationofReal-TimeObstacleAvoidanceAlgorithmsUsing

Solely Stereo Vision", IARP/EURON InternationalWorkshop on Robotics for

riskyinterventionsandEnvironmentalSurveillance-Maintenance(RISE’2010),

January2010,20-21,Sheffield,UK.

E60. AlexandrosIosifidis,SpyridonG.MouroutsosandAntoniosGasteratos,"Real-

time Video Surveillance by a Hybrid Static/Active Camera Mechatronic

System", 2010 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent

Mechatronics(AIM2010),6-9July2010,Montreal,Canada.

E61. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Nikolaos Kyriakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos,

"Multi-camera 3D Scene Reconstruction from Vanishing Points", 2010 IEEE

International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), 1-2

July2010,Thessaloniki,Greece.

E62. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Georgios Sirakoulis, Andrea Carbone and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Computationally Effective Stereovision SLAM", 2010 IEEE

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International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), 1-2

July2010,Thessaloniki,Greece.

E63. Angelos Amanatiadis, Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Dimitrios Koulouriotis and

Antonios Gasteratos, "A Fuzzy Multi-Sensor Architecture for Indoor

Navigation", 2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2010),1-2July2010,Thessaloniki,Greece.

E64. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Light-Invariant 3D Object’s

Pose Estimation Using Color Distance Transform", 2010 IEEE International

Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), 1-2 July 2010,

Thessaloniki,Greece.

E65. Rigas Kouskouridas and Antonios Gasteratos, "Visual Assistance to an

AdvancedMechatronicPlatformforPickandPlaceTasks",ThirdInternational

Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010), Shanghai,

China,10-12November2010,LectureNotesinComputerScience,HonghaiLiu,

Han Ding, Zhenhua Xiong and Xiangyang Zhu (Eds), Springer-Verlag Berlin-

Heidelberg,Vol.6425,pp705-716.

E66. Rigas Kouskouridas, Michalis Bakaloumis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Nod

Recognition by Inertial Sensors and Machine Learning Techniques", 2nd

HellenicConferenceonRobotics,9-10December2010,Patras,Greece.

E67. Evangelos Boukas, Alexandros Boukas, Antonios Gasteratos and Spyridon

Mouroutsos,"ALabExersiseUsingaMovingRoboticPlatformandMSRS",2nd

HellenicConferenceonRobotics,9-10December2010,Patras,Greece.

E68. RigasKouskouridas,AngelosAmanatiadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Guidinga

Robotic Gripper by Visual Feedback for Object Manipulation Tasks", IEEE

InternationalConferenceonMechatronics,(ICM2011),Istanbul,Turkey,13-15

April,2011.

E69. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos,

"LightingCompensatingMultiviewStereo",2011IEEEInternationalConference

on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2011), 17-18 May 2011, Penang,

Malaysia.

E70. Lazaros Nalpantidis, John Kalomiros and Antonios Gasteratos, "Robust 3D

Vision for Robots Using Dynamic Programming", 2011 IEEE International

Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2011), 17-18May 2011,

Penang,Malaysia.

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E71. Konstantinos Siozios, Dionysios Diamantopoulos, Ioannis Kostavelis,

Evangelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Dimitrios Soudris, Antonios

Gasteratos,MarcosAvilésandI.Anagnostopoulos,"SPARTANProject:Efficient

ImplementationofComputerVisionAlgorithmsontoReconfigurablePlatform

Targeting to Space Applications", 6th International Workshop on

Reconfigurable Communication-centric Systems-on-Chip, ReCoSoC'2011,

Montpellier,France,20-22June2011.

E72. IoannisKostavelis,LazarosNalpantidisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Supervised

Traversability Learning for Robot Navigation", 12th Conference Towards

Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS 2011), 31 August - 2 September 2011.

Sheffield,UnitedKingdom.

E73. MarcosAvilés,KostasSiozios,DionysiosDiamantopoulos,LazarosNalpantidis,

Ioannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Dimitrios Soudris and Antonios

Gasteratos, "A Co-Design Methodology for Implementing Computer Vision

Algorithms for Rover Navigation onto Reconfigurable Hardware",Workshop

onComputerVisiononLow-PowerReconfigurableArchitecturesinconjunction

with the 21st International Conference on Field Programmable Logic and

ApplicationsinChania,Crete,Greece,4September2011.

E74. Ioannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis, Antonios

Gasteratos and Marcos Avilés Rodrigalvarez, "SPARTAN System: Towards a

Low-Cost and High-Performance Vision Architecture for Space Exploratory

Rovers", Computer Vision in Vechicle Technology, From Earth to Mars

(CVVT2011), in conjunction with 13th International Conference on Computer

Vision,6-13November2011,Barcelona,Spain.

E75. RigasKouskouridasandAntoniosGasteratos, "EstablishingLowDimensional

Manifoldsfor3DObjectPoseEstimation",2012IEEEInternationalConference

on ImagingSystemsandTechniques (IST2012),16-17 July2012,Manchester,

U.K.

E76. Dimitrios Chrysostomou and Antonios Gasteratos, "Optimum Multi-Camera

Arrangement Using a Bee Colony Algorithm", 2012 IEEE International

Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2012), 16-17 July 2012,

Manchester,U.K.

E77. Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Object

RecognitionUsingSaliencyMapsandHTMLearning",2012IEEEInternational

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Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2012), 16-17 July 2012,

Manchester,U.K.

E78. RigasKouskouridas,TheodoraRetzepi,EleniCharalampogloumandAntonios

Gasteratos, "Ontology-based 3D Pose Estimation for Autonomous Object

Manipulation", 2012 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2012),16-17July2012,Manchester,U.K.

E79. VasiliosVonikakis,DimitriosChrysostomou,RigasKouskouridasandAntonios

Gasteratos,"ImprovingtheRobustnessinFeatureDetectionbyLocalContrast

Enhancement", 2012 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2012),16-17July2012,Manchester,U.K.

E80. Rigas Kouskouridas, Angelos Amanatiadis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Pose

ManifoldsforEfficientVisualServoing",2012IEEEInternationalConferenceon

ImagingSystemsandTechniques(IST2012),16-17July2012,Manchester,U.K.

E81. Evangelos Boukas, Ioannis Kostavelis, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Graph Based Localisation Refinement by Orbital Images",

InternationalSymposiumonArtificial Intelligence,RoboticsandAutomation in

Space,i-SAIRAS,4-6September2012,Turin,Italy.

E82. MalamatiBitzidou,DimitriosChrysostomouandAntoniosGasteratos, "Multi-

camera 3D Object Reconstruction for Industrial Automation", APMS 2012

InternationalConferenceAdvancesinProductionManagementSystems,24-26

September2012,Rhodes,Greece.

E83. Ioannis Kostavelis, Evangelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Path Tracing on Polar Depth Maps for Robot Navigation",

InternationalConferenceonCellularAutomataforResearchandIndustry,24-27

September2012,Santorini,Greece.

E84. Angelos Amanatiadis, Konstantinos Charalampous and Antonios Gasteratos,

"Efficient Robot Path Planning in the Presence of Dynamically Expanding

Obstacles", International Conference on Cellular Automata for Research and

Industry,24-27September2012,Santorini,Greece.

Ε85. Ioannis Kostavelis, Antonios Gasteratos, Evangelos Boukas and Lazaros

Nalpantidis,"LearningtheTerrainandPlanningaCollision-freeTrajectoryfor

Indoor Post-disaster Environments", IEEE InternationalWorkshop on Safety,

SecurityandRescueRobotics,5-8November2012,CollegeStation,Texas,USA.

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E86. DimitriosChrysostomou,GeorgiosCh.SirakoulisandAntoniosGasteratos, "A

Bio-inspired Multi-camera Topology for Crowd Analysis", 1st International

Workshop on Pattern Recognition and Crowd Analysis (PRCA '12) held in

conjunctionwith21st IARP InternationalConferenceonPatternRecognition

(ICPR'12),Tsukuba,Japan,11-16November2012.

E87. GeorgeLentaris,DionisisDiamantopoulos,KostasSiozios,IoannisStamoulias,

GoannisKostavelis,EvaggelosBoukas,LazarosNalpantidis,DimitriosSoudris

and Antonios Gasteratos, "SPARTAN: Efficient Implementation of Computer

Vision Algorithms for Autonomous Rover Navigation", Workshop on

Reconfigurable Computing (WRC), 8th HiPEAC Berlin, Germany, 21- 23

January2013.

E88. Ioannis Kostavelis,Angelos Amanatiadis,Antonios Gasteratos, "How Do You

HelpaRobottoFindaPlace?ASupervisedLearningParadigmtoSemantically

Infer about Places", 8th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial

Intelligent Systems (HAIS 2013), Salamanca, Spain, 11-13 September 2013,

LectureNotesinComputerScienceVolume8073,2013,pp324-333

Ε89. Konstantinos Charalampous and Antonios Gasteratos, "Bio-inspired Deep

LearningModelforObjectRecognition",2013IEEEInternationalConferenceon

Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2013), 22-23 October 2013, Beijing,

China.

E90. Ioannis Kostavelis, Evaggelos Boukas, Lazaros Nalpantidis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Visual Odometry for Autonomous Robot Navigation Through

Efficient Outlier Rejection", 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging

SystemsandTechniques(IST2013),22-23October2013,Beijing,China.

E91. Vasilios Vonikakis, Rigas Kouskouridas and Antonios Gasteratos, "A

Comparison Framework for the Evaluation of Illumination Compensation

Algorithms", 2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2013),22-23October2013,Beijing,China.

E92. OrestisLiolis,VickyKalogeiton,DimPapadopoulos,VasiliosMardiris,Georgios

Sirakoulis and Antonios Gasteratos, "Morphological Edge Detector

Implemented in Quantum Cellular Automata", 2013 IEEE International

Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2013), 22-23 October

2013,Beijing,China.

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E93. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, Malamati Bitzidou and Antonios Gasteratos, "A

Robotic Assembly Procedure Using 3D Object Reconstruction", 2nd AAU

WorkshoponRobotics,30October2013,Aalborg,Denmark.

E94. Ioannis Kostavelis, Konstantinos Charalampous and Antonios Gasteratos,

"OnlineSpatiotemporal-Coherent Semantic Maps for Advanced Robot

Navigation", 5th Workshop on Planning, Perception and Navigation for

IntelligentVehicles,inconjunctionwiththeIEEE/RSJInternationalConference

onIntelligentRobotsandSystems(IROS),3-8November2013,Tokyo,Japan.

E95. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Angelos Amanatiadis,

DimitriosChrysostomouandAntoniosGasteratos,"3DMapsRegistrationand

Path Planning forAutonomousRobotNavigation",Workshop onRobots and

Sensors integration in future rescue INformation system (ROSIN'13), in

conjunctionwiththeIEEE/RSJInternationalConferenceonIntelligentRobots

andSystems(IROS),3-8November2013,Tokyo,Japan.

E96. Angelos Amanatiadis, Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis and

Antonios Gasteratos, "The AVERT project: Autonomous Vehicle Emergency

Recovery Tool", IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue

Robotics 2013, Linkoping, Sweden, 21-26 October, 2013, doi:

10.1109/SSRR.2013.6719342

E97. AngelosAmanatiadis, LoukasBampis andAntoniosGasteratos, "Accelerating

Image Super-Resolution Regression by a Hybrid Implementation in Mobile

Devices", 2014 IEEE International Conference on Consumer Electronics

(ICCE),10-13January2014,LasVegas,USA,pp335-336.

E98. EvangelosBoukas,AntoniosGasteratosandGianfrancoVisentin,"Extractionof

Common Regions of Interest from Orbital and Rover (Ground) acquired

Imagery", International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and

AutomationinSpace,i-SAIRAS,17-19June2014,Montreal,Canada.

E99. Evangelos Boukas, Luca Crociani, Sara Manzoni, Giuseppe Vizzari, Antonios

GasteratosandGeorgiosCh.Sirakoulis,"AnIntelligentToolfortheAutomated

Evaluation of Pedestrian Simulation", SETN 2014, 8th Hellenic Conference on

Artificial Intelligence, Ioannina, May 15-17, 2014, Lecture Notes in Computer

Science,Vol8445,pp136-149. E100. Lazaros Nalpantidis, Danica Kragic, Ioannis Kostavelis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Theta-Disparity: an efficient representation of the 3D scene

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structure", The 13th International Conference on Inteligent Autonomous

Systems,15-19July2014,Padova,Italy.

E101. KonstantinosCharalampous,ChristosEmmanoulidisandAntoniosGasteratos,"SocialMappingonRGB-DScenes",IEEEInternationalConferenceonImaging

SystemsandTechniques,14-17October2014,Santorini,Greece.

E102.Evangelos Karakasis, Loukas Bampis, Angelos Amanatiadis, Antonios

Gasteratos and Philippos Tsalides, "Digital Elevation Model Fusion Using

Spectral Methods", IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques,14-17October2014,Santorini,Greece.

Ε103.KonstantinosCharalampous, IoannisKostavelis,Frantzesca-EiriniCantzakou,

Eleftherios-Stefanis Volanis, Christos Emmanoulidis, Philippos Tsalides and

Antonios Gasteratos, "Place Categorization Through Object Classification",

IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques, 14-17

October2014,Santorini,Greece.

E104.Angelos Amanatiadis, Evangelos G. Karakasis, Loukas Bampis, Themistoklis

Gitsidis, Panagiotis Panagiotou, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Antonios Gasteratos,

Philippos Tsalides, Apostolos Goulas and Kyros Yakinthos, "The HCUAV

project: Electronics and software development for medium altitude remote

sensing",IEEEInternationalSymposiumonSafety,SecurityandRescueRobotics

2014,27-30October2014,Toyako-cho,Hokkaido,Japan.

Ε105. Themistoklis Giitsidis, Evangelos G. Karakasis, Antonios Gasteratos, and

Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, "Human and Fire Detection fromHigh Altitude UAV

Images",23rdEuromicroInternationalConferenceonParallel,Distributed,and

Network-BasedProcessing(PDP2015),4–6March2015,Turku,Finland.

E106. Evangelos Boukas, Antonios Gasteratos and Gianfranco Visentin, "Towards

OrbitalbasedGlobalRoverLocalization",2015 IEEE InternationalConference

onRoboticsandAutomation,26-30May2015,Seattle,Washington,USA.

E107.AngelosAmanatiadis,ChristopherHenschel,BerndBirkicht,BenjaminAndel,

Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, Richard May and Antonios

Gasteratos, "AVERT: An Autonomous Multi-Robot System for Vehicle

Extraction and Transportation", 2015 IEEE International Conference on

RoboticsandAutomation,26-30May2015,Seattle,Washington,USA.

E108.GeorgeLentaris,IoannisStamoulias,DionysiosDiamantopoulos,Konstantinos

Maragos, Kostas Siozios, Dimitrios Soudris, Marcos Aviles Rodrigalvarez,

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ManolisLourakis,XenophonZabulis, IoannisKostavelis, LazarosNalpantidis,

EvangelosBoukas andAntoniosGasteratos, "SPARTAN/SEXTANT/COMPASS:

Advancing Space Rover Vision via Reconfigurable Platforms", 11th

International SymposiumοnAppliedReconfigurable Computing, 13-17April

2015,Bochum,Germany,pp475-486,doi:10.1007/978-3-319-16214-0_44

E109. Evangelos Boukas, Antonios Gasteratos and Gianfranco Visentin, "Matching

SparseNetworks of Semantic ROIs amongRover andOrbital Imagery", 13th

SymposiumonAdvancedSpaceTechnologiesinRoboticsandAutomation,11-

13May,ESA/ESTEC,Noordwijk,theNetherlands.

E110. Loukas Bampis, Evangelos Karakasis, Angelos Amanatiadis and Antonios

Gasteratos, "Can Speedup Assist Accuracy? An on-board GPU-Accelerated

Image GeoreferenceMethod for UAVs", ICVS 2015, International Conference

onComputerVisionSystems,6-9July,2015,Copenhagen,Denmark.

E111.EvangelosBoukas,RobertA.Hewitt, JoshuaA.Marshall,AntoniosGasteratos

and Gianfranco Visentin, "HDPR: A Mobile Testbed for Current and Future

Rover Technologies", The International SymposiumonArtificial Intelligence,

RoboticsandAutomationinSpace(i-SAIRAS2016),19-22June2016,Beijing,

China.

E112.Ioannis Dokas, Antonios Gasteratos and Kyros Yakinthos, "UAV Safety

Requirements: is a Systems Theoretic Approach Useful?", 4th Aviation

ConferenceoftheGreekAviationSociety,10-11May2016,Athens,Greece.

E113. Konstantinos Charalampous, Ioannis Kostavelis, and Antonios Gasteratos, " Context-DependentSocialMapping",IEEEInternationalConferenceonImaging

SystemsandTechniques,4-6October2016,Chania,Greece.

E114.LoukasBampis,AngelosAmanatiadisandAntoniosGasteratos,"Encodingthe

Description of Image Sequences: A Two-Layered Pipeline for Loop Closure

Detection",2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and

Systems,9-14October2016,Deajeon,Korea.

Otherpublications

F1. Antonios Gasteratos and Giulio Sandini, "On the accuracy of the Eurohead",

LIRA-TR2/00,July2000.

F2. AntoniosGasteratosandCarlosBeltran, "Finding the3Dorientationofa line

usingHoughtransformandastereopair",LIRA-TR3/00,November2000.

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F3. Antonios Gasteratos, "Specialized hardware structures for morphological

image processing" in CVonline: On-Line Compendium of Computer Vision, R.

Fisher(ed).http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/Cvonline,September2000.

F4. Antonios Gasteratos, Maria Vardavoulia and Ioannis Andreadis,

"Morphological operators: standard and soft" in CVonline: On-Line

Compendium of Computer Vision, R. Fisher (Ed).

http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/Cvonline,September2000.

F5. AntoniosGasteratos,"AnInnovativeRobot forRiskManagement",Bulletinof

PanellenicAssosiationofMechanicalandElectricalEngineers,No396,March

2007,pp42-47.

ProjectParticipationDirectorandPrimaryInvestigator

1. "Improvement of the Emergency Risk Management through Secure Mobile

Mechatronic Support to Bomb Disposal (RESCUER), FP6-IST-511492", (2004 -

2008),~263k€+68k€matchingfunds.

2. "DevelopmentofNewTechniquesforRecognitionandCategorization",Bilateral

CooperationofGreeceandSlovenia,GreekGeneralSecretariatofResearchand

Technology(2005-2007),~12k€.

3. "Development and Implementation ofNewAlgorithms for PatternRecognition

based on Biological Inspired Models and Intelligent Systems", Greek General

SecretariatofResearchandTechnology(2005-2008),~57k€.

4. "Autonomous Collaborative Robots to Swing and Work in Everyday

EnviRonment (ACROBOTER), FP6-IST-2006-045530", (2007-2010), ~388k€ +

74k€matchingfunds.

5. "Vision and Chemiresistor Equipped Web-connected Finding Robots (View-

Finder),FP6-IST-2006-045541",(2007-2010),~269k€+52k€matchingfunds.

6. "Study of Stereo Robot Vision Systems", Internal DUTh project, (2006-2011)

~20k€.

7. "Innovative and Novel First Responders Applications (INFRA), FP7-ICT-SEC-

2007-1-225272"(2009-2011),~276k€+14k€matchingfunds.

8. "ImprovementoftheinternationalrecognitionoftheDepartmentofProduction

and Management Engineering in Mechatronics and Artificial Vision and

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Attraction of New Research Funding", Internal DUTh project, (2011-2013)

~67k€.

9. "SPAring Robotics Technologies for Autonomous Navigation", ESA 10.164.05,

(2011-2012),~65k€.

10. "Autonomous Vehicle Emergency Recovery Tool, (AVERT), FP7-SEC-2011-1-

285092"(2012-2015),~470k€+8k€matchingfunds.

11. "ArmourandProtectionSTC-PARISSIM(ProtectionAssessmentEnvironment

for Integrated Soldier System - Simulator)" (2012-2013), British Ministry of

Defense,~25k€

12. "Hellenic Civil Unmaned Air Vehicle", GSRT, Synergasia 2011, (2013-2015),

216k€.

13. "Methods to Refine The Self-Localization of Planetary Rovers Using Orbital

Imaging,NPI289-2013"ESA-NPI,(2013-2016),90k€.

14. "ImprovementoftheinfrastructureandpromotionactivitiesfortheDepartment

of Production and Management Engineering", Internal DUTh project, (2016-

2019)~80k€.

15. "Cloud-based Simulation of Page Curling from Straight Images and Correction

using Neural Networks (CURLO) ", Fortissimo 2 H2020 Project (third party),

(2016-2018),~29k€.

16. "Novelty Or Anomaly Hunter (NOAH)", ESA (subcontractor), (2016-2018),

~35k€.

17. "DemocritusRacingTeam",(2017-2020),~5k€.

ExperiencedResearcher

1. "Robust vision for sensing in industrial operations and needs (ROBVISION),

ESPRITProject28867",DirectorProf.GiulioSandini,(1999-2000).

2. "Babybot: SensorimotorDevelopment inArtificial Systems",MURST (Ministero

dell' Universita΄ e della Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica), Director Prof. Giulio

Sandini,(1998-2000).

3. "Vision-Based Robot Navigation Research Network (VIRGO), TMR Project

ERBFMRXCT960049",DirectorProf.GiulioSandini,(1999-2000).

4. "Navigation of Autonomous Robots via Active Environmental Perception

(NARVAL), Esprit LTR - Project 30185", Director Prof. Giulio Sandini, (1999 -

2000).

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5. "Semi-autonomous Monitoring and Robotics Technology, SMART II TMR",

DirectorProf.GiulioSandini,(2000-2001)

6. "Omni-directionalVisualSystem(OMNIVIEWS),IST-1999-29017",DirectorProf.

GiulioSandini,(2000-2001).

7. "Actions for Support of the School Information Systems (Help-Desk

Implementation)atthePrefecturesofDrama,Kavala,Xanthi,RodopiandEvros",

DirectorAssociateProf.IoannisAndreadis(2003-2004).

8. "Improvement of the Infrastructure of the Department of Production and

Management Engineering", TSMEDE 2003, (internal DUTh project)", Director

Prof.AthanasiosKarambinis,(2004).

9. "INTERREG IIIC/Zone Sud – Subprogram 4, Communications and New

Technologies", INTERREG innitiative, Director Associate Prof. Prodromos

Chatzoglou,(2006-2007).

10. "Techniques of Image Processing with Applications to Stereo Vision and

Surveliance Systems", EPEAEK (Greek national project), Director Prof. D.

Manolakis(2007).

11. "ComputationalAlgorithmsforUniformandnon-UniformFluxinGravityTubes

andOpenStanks.ImplementationonSolvingDrainingandStrainingNetworks",

Greeknationalproject,DirectorProf.MichaelBekakos.

12. "AirQualityMonitoringandForecasting inChina (AMFIC),FP6-2005-SPACE-1-

030940",DirectorAssist.Prof.KostsntinosKourtidis.

13. "Development of an intelligent, dynamic information system for detection and

forecasting of misses and inefficiencies in industrial environments", Greek

nationalproject,DirectorProf.GeorgiosTagaras.

Researcher

1. "Design of a subsystem for image processing, using morphological operators,

TSMEDE95, (internalDUThproject)",DirectorProf.PhilipposTsalides, (1995-

1996).

2. "Industrial microelectronic products, EPET II – 476 (Greek national project)",

DirectorProf.AndoniosThanailakis,(1996-1998).

3. "DevelopmentofnewlaboratoryexercisesforthelessonsElectronicsI,IIandIII,

TSMEDE 96, (internal DUTh project 360)", Director Prof. Philippos Tsalides,

(1996-1997).

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4. "Designandimplementationofastochasticdigitaltoanalogueconverter(DAC),

PRENED 96, (internal DUTh project 426)", Director Assistant Prof. Ioannis

Andreadis,(1996-1998).

5. "Development of a new framework for image processing - Fuzzy soft

mathematicalmorphology, TSMEDE97, (internalDUThproject 480)",Director

AssistantProf.IoannisAndreadis,(1997).

6. "Expanding/Integration of the internal Network of Democritus University of

Thrace – Detente (Greek national project)", Director Prof. Philippos Tsalides,

(1997).

7. "Training project on informatics EPEAEK (Greek national project)", Director

LecturerDemetriosDiamantides,(1998).

8. "Network technologies – Satellite Communications DIAVLOS (Greek national

project)",DirectorProf.EmmanouelSarris(1998).

Teaching

Interests

• Robotics

• ArtificialVision

• ImageProcessing

• PatternRecognition

• Electronics

• InstrumentationandMeasurements

Experience

2001-2003: "AutomatedElectronicMeasurements",DepartmentofElectricaland

ComputerEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2002-2003: "Electrical Circuits I", Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2002-2003: "Digital Systems Interfacing Techniques", Department of Electrical

andComputerEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2002-2003: "Informatics", Lab exercises,Department of Educational Sciences in

EarlyChildhood.

2003-2015: "Automated Control Systems", Department of Production and

ManagementEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

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2003-2004: "Measurement Techniques", Department of Production and

ManagementEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2003-2014: "Robotics",DepartmentofProductionandManagementEngineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2003-2004: "Ergonomics", Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2004-2012: "MeasurementTechnology and Sensors",Department of Production

andManagementEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2005-2014: "Electronics", Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2013-2015: "Mechatronics", Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2013-2015: "Simulation", Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace.

2005-2007: "Principals of Information Sciences and Cognitive Sciences I",

Department of Educational Sciences in Early Childhood, Democritus

UniversityofThrace.

PriortotheDoctoralDegree

1994-1997: Laboratory exercises “Electronics I” to the students of the 4th

semester at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Greece.

1995-1998: Tutorial exercises “Microprocessors and Applications” to the

students of the 7th semester at the Department of Electrical and

ComputerEngineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Greece.

1996-1998: Laboratory exercises “Electronics II” to the students of the 5th

semester at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Greece.

PhDSupervision

Supervisor-Completedtheses

1. Nikolaos Kyriakoulis: Robot Vision Systems for Target Tracing and Tracking,

Xanthi2010.

2. Lazaros Nalpantidis: Study and Implementation of Stereo Vision Systems for

RoboticsApplications,Xanthi2010.

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3. Dimitrios Chrysostomou: Multi-Camera Systems for Navigation and

SurveillanceofRoboticSystems,Xanthi2013.

4. Rigas Kouskouridas: New Pattern Recognition Techniques in Machine Vision

Systems,Xanthi2013.

5. Ioannis Kostavelis: Spatiotemporal Coherent Semantic Maps with Mobile

Robots,Xanthi2014.

6. Konstantinos Charalampous: Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction with Social

Maps,Xanthi2016.

7. EvangelosBoukas:Methods toRefine theSelf-LocalizationofPlanetaryRovers

UsingOrbitalImaging,Xanthi2016.

Supervisor-Ongoingtheses

1. LoukasBampis

2. KonstantinosTsintotas

3. AgisilaosAndreou

4. EleftheriosLygouras

Co-Supervisor-Completedtheses

1. Ioannis Tsanakas: Advanced Fault Diagnosis Technologies in Mechanical

Structures Using Supervisory Methods: The case of infrared thermography,

Xanthi2013.

2. Efstratios Tsougenis: Development of intelligent methods for watermarking

usingmomentfunctions,Xanthi2013.

3. EvangelosKarakasis:Developmentofefficientalgorithmsforthecomputationof

moment functions and their applications in Image Processing and Pattern

Recognition,Xanthi2013.

4. Georgios Tairidis:Optimal design of smart structures with intelligent control,

Chania2016.

Co-Supervisor-Ongoingtheses

1. MariaKetipi,DepartmentofProductionandManagementEngineering,DUTH

2. Chingiz Kenshimov, Joint Educational Program with the Institute of

Information and Computational Technologies and the Al-Farabi National

University,Kazakhstan.

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SupervisionofDiploma(MSc)theses

1. Konstantinos Mpampos: "Navigation of a Flying Dynamic Platform", Xanthi

2005.

2. NikolaosKyriakoulis: "DataFusionTechniques forRobotNavigation",Xanthi

2005.

3. Georgios Tairidis: "The Security Technician: Gauges, thresholds and

measurements",Xanthi2005.

4. InakiSaezGutierrez: "MachineVision inFlexibleManufacturingSystemsand

Applications",Xanthi2005.

5. VasiliosValkanidis,"RecognitionofNon-speechSounds",Xanthi2006.

6. AndreasGkouridis,"HumanFacesTracking",Xanthi2006.

7. SaraIbaezMarin,"ANewMethodforScenesRecognition",Xanthi2006.

8. VasiliosTsartsarakis,"ImageSegmentationforRoboticsSystemsNavigation",

Xanthi2006.

9. AekateriniParasidou,"UrbanSoundsClassification",Xanthi2006.

10. Dimitrios Chrysostomou, "Vergence Angle Estimaion for an Active Vision

Head",Xanthi2006.

11. Rigas Kouskouridas, "Disparity Maps Extraction Using Salient Contours",

Xanthi2006.

12. IoannisAlexiou,"ImageSynchronizationinaBinocularVisionSystem",Xanthi

2006.

13. Stergiani Karaiskou, "Image Retrieval Based on Color Information", Xanthi

2006.

14. MariaGiatsidou,"ProgrammingandSimulationoftheFlexibleManufacturing

System200",Xanthi2006.

15. AthanasiosMichailidis, "AComparative Studyof ImageRetrieval Techniques

usingColorInformationAroundtheEdges",Xanthi2007.

16. PhotiniMitsitska,"RobotisedPainting",Xanthi2008.

17. Theodoros Pantis, "3D Object Representation with Voxel Coloring", Xanthi

2008.

18. VassiliosBelagiannis,"ObjectLocalazationnadTracking",Xanthi2009.

19. Ioannis Kostavelis, "A Stereo Camera Based Obstacle Avoidance Algorithm",

Xanthi2009.

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20. MichaelMpakaloumis, "NodRecognitionUsing Inertial Sensors andMachine

LearningTechniques",Xanthi2010.

21. EvangelosBoukas,"ImplementationofSLAMAlgorithmsonaRoboticRover",

Xanthi2010.

22. AlexandrosBoukas, "Teleoperation of the Boe-bot PlatformUsingMSRS and

WiiMote",Xanthi2011.

23. TheodoraRetzepi&EleniCharalamboglou, "MachineLerningTechniques for

AutonomousGrasping",Xanthi2011.

24. BitzidouMalamati, "Multicamera Aiding System for Object Asembly", Xanthi

2012.

25. Nikolaos Rofalis, "Using an RGB-D Sensor to Follow Human Targets by a

RoboticPlatform",Xanthi2012.

26. Ioannis Kazatzidis, "Using Learning Techniques to Classify Medical Signals",

Xanthi,2013.

27. Stelios Ploumbis, "Control of a Flying Robotics Platform Using Inertial and

VisualInformation",Xanthi2013.

28. LoukasPeppas,"ASurveyoftheRobotMissionsSenttoMars",Xanthi2013.

29. Georgios Parnasas, "Scene Traversability with Machine Learning for

AutonomousRobotNavigation",Xanthi2013.

30. Agis Kothalis, "Design and Implementation of a Mechatronics System for

TargetTracingandTracking",Xanthi2014.

31. ChristosNeofytidis,"SimulationofHumanModel",Xanthi2014.

32. Eleftherios Stefanis Volanis, "Symmetry Detection in Point Clouds", Xanthi

2015.

33. NikolaosBeleskas, "BackgroundSubtractionTechniquesUsingPixelAnalysis

Methods",Xanthi2015.

34. PanagiotisKeramaris,"AGVs:Asurveyofdesignandcontrolmethods",Xanthi

2016.

35. CharalamposEleftheriadis,"ObjectRecognitionwithCovarianceDescriptoron

3DData",Xanthi2016.

36. Panteleimon Myriokefalitakis, "Autonomous Robotic Tasks under No-Light

Conditions",Xanthi2016.

37. Panagiotis Alexandros Sevdalis, "Study of of Instalation of an Assembly Line

foraGreekUAV",Xanthi2016.

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38. Ioannis Tsiklitaris Kambakis, "Phonetics Model Training for Speech

RecognitionSystemsUsingCMUSPHINX",Xanthi2016.

39. MariaKyrou,"ImplementationofaPlaceRecognitionSystemUsingScaleand

RotationInvariantFeatures",Xanthi2017.

40. Chrysostomi Vogiatzi, "Location of Activity Owed to Attention to Optical

Movement",Xanthi2017.

MemberofExaminatingCommittees

17/6/2004: Styliani Chatzianagnostou, MSc, Department of Electrical and

ComputerEngineering,DUTh.

25/2/2005: Christos Batzios, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

19/5/2010: Ioannis Hadjisavvas, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

19/5/2010: Alexandros Iosifidis, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

27/9/2010: Alexandros Xanthopoulos, PhD, Department of Production and

ManagementEngineering,DUTh.

30/5/2011: Eleftheria Mitka, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

31/5/2012: External Examiner for Mr. Jan Wedekind; thesis entitled: Efficient

ImplementationsofMachineVisionAlgorithmsusingaDynamicallyTyped

Programming Language, submitted to Sheffield Hallam University in

partialfulfillmentoftherequirementsforthePhDdegree.

10/2012 Reviewer for the thesis of Mr. Leonardo De-Maeztu; thesis entitled:

Towards accurate and real-time local stereo correspondence algorithms:

computational efficiency andmassively parallel architectures, submitted

tothePublicUniversityofNavarre,Pamplona,Spaininpartialfulfillment

oftherequirementsforthePhDdegree.

3/12/2012: Evangelos Boukas, MSc, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

11/11/2015:VassiliosPlakandaras,PhD,DepartmentofEconomics,DUTh.

24/4/2017: Ioannis Varvoulakis, PhD, Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DUTh.

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6/6/2017: FrancescoRovida,PhD,DepartmentofMechanicalandManufacturing

Engineering,UniversityofAalborg.

7/2017: Nuno Miguel Banheiro Moutinho, PhD, Department of Electrical and

ComputerEngineering,UniversidadedeLisboa.

Talks-Seminars• Antonios Gasteratos: "An Introduction to Non-Linear Image Processing", LIRA-

Lab,DIST,UniversitadiGenova,Genoa,Italy,2March1999.

• AntoniosGasteratos:"Accurate3DMeasurementswithaHighResolutionStereo

Head:TheROBVISIONproject",VIRGOTMRMeeting,Genoa,Italy,2March2000.

• Carlos Beltran, Antonios Gasteratos, Giorgio Metta and Giulio Sandini: "A

Binocular Vision System for Stabilization and Self-Localization", VIRGO TMR

Meeting,Bonn,Germany,2March2001(PresentedbyC.Beltran).

• AntoniosGasteratos:"ResearchActivitiesonWalking,UnderwaterandHumanoid

Robots,UsingRobotVisionandArtificialVestibularTechniques",Departmentof

Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens,

Athens1November2001.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "Robot Navigation Based on Sensors and Decision

Techniques", Department of Production and Management Engineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace,Xanthi,18February2003.

• AntoniosGasteratos:"AlgorithmTeaching","OrganisingtheCourseofComputer

Networks", "Organising an Informatics Laboratory at Gymnasium", "Organising

anInformaticsLaboratoryatLyceum",RegionalTrainingCentreofKavala,Kavala

andXanthi,29November–2December2004.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "Algorithm Teaching", "Organising an Informatics

Laboratory at Gymnasium", "Organising an Informatics Laboratory at Lyceum",

RegionalTrainingCentreofKavala,Kavala9December2005.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "The Role of Low-level Features in Retrieving Images",

FacultyofComputerandInformationScience,UniversityofLjubljana,Ljubljana,

Slovenia19December2005.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "Stereo Vision Algorithms: Principals and robotics

applications",CulturalandEducationalTechnologyInstitute,Xanthi,May2008.

• AntoniosGasteratos: "MachineVision:Application inRoboticsSystems",Section

ofSoftware,DepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineering,DUTh.

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• Antonios Gasteratos: "Machine vision systems for robotics applications", ITI,

CERTH,Thessaloniki,12October,2011.

• Memberofthepanelentitled"RoboticsandAI,amIafraidofthem?",Festivalof

Science and Technology, 15 December 2012, National Institute of Research,

Athens.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "Artificial vision with mobile robots", 4th Industrial

InformaticsFestival,ATEI,Kavala,19October,2013.

• AntoniosGasteratos:"SemanticMapsforHighLevelRobotNavigation",Dagstuhl

Seminar 15461, Vision for Autonomous Vehicles and Probes, Schloss Dagstuhl,

International Conference and Research for Computer Science, 10 Νοεμβρίου

2015.

• Antonios Gasteratos: "Semantic Maps for Robot Navigation", Department of

Mechatronics, Chungnam National University , Daejeon, Korea, 14 Οκτωβρίου

2015.

ScientificReviewerServiceJournals

ReviewerinallthemajorJournalsinhisfield:

InternationalJournalofRoboticsResearch(SAGE),IEEETransactionsonRobotics,

IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, Autonomous Robots (Springer),

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Automation

ScienceandEngineering,IEEERoboticsandAutomationLetters,Robotics(MDPI),

IEEE Transaction on Industrial Informatics, IEEE Transaction on Industrial

Electronics,IETComputerVision,Mechatronics(Elsevier),IETElectronicsLetters,

Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (Springer), IEEE Signal Processing

Letters, Image and Vision Computing (Elsevier), IET Image Processing,

InternationalJournalofAdvancedRoboticSystems(Intech),IEEETransactionson

Systems,ManandCybernetics(PartA:SystemsandHuman),IEEETransactionson

Systems, Man and Cybernetics (Part C: Applications and Reviews), IEEE

Transactions on Image Processing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding

(Elsevier),JournalofVisualCommunicationandImageRepresentation(Elsevier),

ISRNMachineVision,PatternRecognition (Elsevier),PatternRecognitionLetters

(Elsevier), IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation&Measurement,Measurement

Science and Technology (IOP), Expert Systems with Applications (Elsevier),

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Artificial Intelligence Review (Elsevier), Soft Computing (Springer), IEEE

TransactionsonFuzzySystems,IETControlTheory&Applications,JournalofVLSI

Signal Processing (Springer), Journal of Electronic Imaging (SPIE), Journal of

MathematicalImagingandVision(Springer),IEEProceedings-Vision,Imageand

SignalProcessing,IEEETransactionsonCircuitsandSystems,PartII:Analogand

DigitalSignalProcessing,IEEETransactiononSignalProcessing,IEEETransaction

on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Neurocomputing (Elsevier), IEEE

Transactions onNeural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Computing and

Applications (Springer), International Journal of Machine Learning and

Cybernetics (Springer), ΙΕΕΕ Computing in Science and Engineering, EURASIP

JournalonAppliedSignalProcessing,OpticsCommunications(Elsevier),Optics&

Laser Technology (Elsevier), WSEAS Transactions on Circuits and Systems,

InternationalJournalofOpenProblemsinComputerScienceandMathematics,IET

Microwaves,Antennas&Propagation, GraphicalModels (Elsevier), International

Journal of Approximate Reasoning (Elsevier), Sensors (MDPI - Open Access

Publishing),RecentPatentsonElectricalEngineering,CentralEuropeanJournalof

ComputerScience,SafetyScience(Elsevier),SensorReview(Emerald),Advancesin

Artificial Intelligence (Hindawi), WSEAS Transactions on Computers, The

Computer Journal (Oxford University Press), Journal of AI and Data Mining,

Journal of Theoretical and Applied Computer Science, PLOS ONE, Mathematical

Problems in Engineering, Information Sciences (Elsevier), Journal of Cellular

Automata (Old City Publishing), The Journal of Engineering (ΙΕΤ), International

JournalofMobileNetworkDesignandInnovation(Inderscience),JurnalofSensors

(Hindawi),ComputersandIndustrialEngineering(Elsevier)

Books

• Semantic-BasedVisualInformationRetrieval¸Yu-JinZhangEditor.

• Vision-basedestimationandcontrol,(Elsevier),GeraldoSilveira

• MachineVision:Theory,algorithms,practicalities,4thEdition,(Elsevier),E.R.

Davies

• Depth Map and 3D Imaging Applications: Algorithms and Technologies, Aamir

MalikEditor.

• Cross-Disciplinary Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition:

AdvancingTechnologies,NitinBhatia,VijayKumarMago(Eds).

• FeatureExtractionandImageProcessing,3rdEdition,MarkS.Nixon(Elsevier)

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• DeepLearninginComputerVision,(Elsevier),AnilAnthonyBharath

• Probalistic Graphical Models and Their Applications in Computer Vision,

(Elsevier),QiangJi.

• CommunicatingPictures:ACourseinImageandVideoCompression,(Elsevier),

D.R.Bull

• Machine Vision: Theory, algorithms, practicalities, 5th Edition, (Elsevier), E.R.

Davies.

• Academic Press Library in Signal Processing Vol 6: Image and Video Processing

(andAnalysis)andComputerVision, (Elsevier),AnujShivastrava,SudeepSarkar

andFredericDufaux(Eds).

Conferences

Reviewerinallmajorconferencesinhisfield:

• ICRA: IEEE International ConferenceonRobotics andAutomation, 2013, 2014,

2015,2016.

• IROS: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems,

1999,2013,2014,2015,2016.

• ECCV:EuropeanConferenceonComputerVision,2000,2006,2010.

• CASE:IEEEConferenceonAutomationScienceandEngineering,2009,2010.

• CIS:IEEEConferenceonCyberneticIntelligentSystems,2008,2009.

• AIM: IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent

Mechatronics,2010,2012.

• ICVS: InternationalConferenceonComputerVisionSystems,2008,2009,2011,

2013,2015.

• ICPR:InternationalConferenceonPatternRecognition,2008,2010,2012,2014,

2016.

• IST: IEEE International Conferenceon Imaging Systems andTechniques, 2010,

2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016.

• Humanoids:IEEE-RASInternationalConferenceonHumanoidRobots,2012.

• SSRR: IEEE International Symposiumon Safety, Security, andRescueRobotics,

2013,2014,2015.

• TAROS:TowardsAutonomousRoboticsSystems,2011,2012,2014,2016

• ISIEA:IEEESymposiumonIndustrialElectronicsandApplications,2012.

• ISCAS:IEEEInternationalSymposiumonCircuitsandSystems,2012.

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• I2MTC: IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology

Conference,2016.

• ICIRA:InternationalConferenceonIntelligentRoboticsandApplications,2010.

• VISAPP:InternationalConferenceonComputerVisionTheoryandApplications,

2010,2011,2012,2013,2014,2015,2016.

• ICISP: International Conference on Image and Signal Processing, 2010, 2012,

2014,2016.

• VIIP: IASTED International Conference Visualization, Imaging and Image

Processing,2002,2006.

• ACI:IASTEDInternationalConferenceArtificialandComputational Intelligence,

2002.

• AMS:AppliedModellingandSimulation,2002.

• MIC: IASTED International Conference Modelling, Identification and Control,

2003.

• MS:IASTEDInternationalConferenceModellingandSimulation,2003,2007.• IMSA:IASTEDInternationalConferenceonInternetandMultimediaSystemsand

Applications,2003.

• AIA:IASTEDInternationalConferenceonArtificialIntelligenceandApplications,

2003,2006,2007.

• SIP:IASTEDInternationalConferenceonSignalandImageProcessing,2004.

• ICTA:InternationalConferenceonTechnologyandAutomation,2005.

• SPPRA: IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern

RecognitionandApplications,2006.

• ASC: IASTED International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft

Computing,2006.

• ISC:IASTEDInternationalConferenceonIntelligentSystemsandControl,2007,

2008,2009,2011,2016.

• MUSP:WSEASInt.Conf.onMultimediaSystemsandSignalProcessing,2007.

• ROCOM:WSEAS Int.Conf.onRobotics,Control andManufacturingTechnology,

2007.

• IMCAS: WSEAS Int. Conf. on Instrumentation, Measurement, Circuits and

Systems,2007.

• ACOS:WSEASInt.Conf.onAppliedComputerScience,2007.

• AMTA:WSEASInt.Conf.onAcoustics&Music:TheoryandApplications,2007.

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• ICIG:InternationalConferenceonImageandGraphics,2007,2009,2011.

• RA:InternationalConferenceonRoboticsandApplications,2007.

• ACST:AdvancesinComputerScienceandTechnology,2008.

• ACACOS:WSEASInternationalConferenceonAppliedComputer&

AppliedComputationalScience,2008.

• ACC:AmericanComputingConference,2008.

• FS:WSEASInternationalConferenceonFuzzySystems,2008.

• ΠανελλήνιοΣυνέδριοΡομποτικής:2009.

• IVPCV: InternationalConferenceon ImageandVideoProcessingandComputer

Vision,2010.

• MED:MediterraneanConferenceonControlandAutomation,2011,2012.

• CIP:InternationalWorkshoponCognitiveInformationProcessing,2012.

• FutureTech:InternationalConferenceonFutureInformationTechnology,2012,

2013,2016.

• CompIMAGE: Conference on Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in

Images:Fundamentals,MethodsandApplications,2012.

• CA:IASTEDInternationalConferenceonControlandApplications,2012.

• ACRI:InternationalConferenceonCellularAutomataforResearchandIndustry,

2012.

• APMS: Interenational Conference on Advances in Production Management

Systems,2012.

• CISS:SymposiumonCommunicationsandInformationSystemSecurity2012.

• ACSA: FTRA International Symposium on Advances in Cryptography, Security

andApplicationsforFutureComputing,2012.

• ICEED:InternationalCongressonEngineeringEducation,2012.

• ICCVE: International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, 2012, 2014,

2015.

• PDP:EuromicroInternationalConferenceonParallel,Distributed,andNetwork-

BasedProcessing,2015.

• IntelliSys:SAIIntelligentSystemsConference,2015,2016.

• CUTE: KIPS International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies

andApplications,2015.

• EvoCOMNET: The European Conference on Applications of Evolutionary

Computation,2016.

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• SETN:HellenicConferenceonArtificialIntelligence,2016.

• VisionNet:InternationalSymposiumonComputerVisionandtheInternet,2016.

• ICOED:InternationalConferenceonEducation,2016.

• IEACon:IEEEIndustrialElectronicsandApplicationsConference,2016.

• ICARSC:IEEEInt.Conf.onAutonomousRobotSystemsandCompetitions,2015,

2016.

• EDUST:EducationinScience,TechnologyandSocialScienceWorldConference,

2016.

• ACMMM:ACMMultimediaConference,2016

ProfessionalServiceActivitiesMemberofInternationalNetworksandPlatforms

· "EURoboticsNetwork(EURON),FP6-IST-507728".

· "EuropeanResearchNetworkforCognitiveComputerVisionSystems(ECVision),

FP6-IST-35454".

· "European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems

(euCognition),FP6-IST-26408".

· "Innovative Production Machines and Systems (I*PROMS)", IST Network of

Excellence.

· MemberofEUROP(EuropeanRoboticsPlatform).

· MemberofEUCogII&EUCogIII,FundedbyEuropeanCommission–ICT(2009-).

· MemberofETPIS(EuropeanPlatformonIndustrialSafety).

MemberinEditorialBoardsandProgramCommittees

· GeneralChair:6thInternationalConferenceonComputerVisionSystems,(ICVS

2008)12-15May2008,Santorini,Greece.

· Member of the Editorial Board: International Journal of Optomechatronics,

(Taylor&Fransis),since2007.

· Member of Editorial Board: Journal of Computers, (Academy Publishers),

since2007.

· Member of the Editorial Board: Journal of Engineering Science & Technology

Review(2007-2012).

· MemberoftheEditorialBoard:ISRN(MachineVision)(Hindawi),since2011.

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· Associate Editor: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (InTech),

since2014andmemberoftheEditorialBoardsince2011.

· Member of the Editorial Board: Advances in Robotics & Automation (OMICS),

since2013.

· Associate Editor: Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

(Springer),since2012.

· AssociateEditor:InternationalJournalofManufacturingSystemsandIndustrial

Engineering,since2013.

· MemberoftheSteeringCommitteeoftheInternationalConferenceonComputer

VisionSystems(ICVS),since2008.

· Subject Editor (‘Image and Vision Processing and Display Technology): IET

ElectronicsLetters,since2016,(AssociateEditorsince2015).

· Member of the Steering Committee of the International Conference on

ComputerVisionSystems(ICVS),since2008.

· ProgramChair10thInternationalConferenceonComputerVisionSystems,6-9

July,2015,Copenhagen,Denmark.

· Member of the International Board and Technical Committee: 2016 IEEE

InternationalConferenceon ImagingSystemsandTechniques (IST2016),4-16

October2016,Chania,Greece.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 23rd International

Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2016), 4-8 December 2016, Cancun,

Mexico.

· Member of the Programme Committee of the 17th edition of UK's conference

'Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems'. TAROS 2016, 28-30 June, 2016,

Sheffield,UK.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 12th International Conference on

ComputerVisionTheoryandApplications(VISAPP2017),27February-1March

2017,Porto,Porugal.

· Member of the Program Committee (PC) for the IEEE 2016 International

ConferenceonAutonomousRobotSystemsandCompetitions(ICARSC2016),4-

6May2016,Bragança,Portugal.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommittee(TPC)2016EducationinScience,

Technology and Social Science World Conference (EDUSTS'2016)., 20-22

September2016,Krabu,Thailand.

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· MemberoftheScientificCommitteeoftheInternationalConferenceSciencesof

Electronics,TechnologiesofInformationandTelecommunications(SETIT2016),

Hammamet,Tunisia,18-20December2016.

· Memberof theProgramCommittee (PC) for the11th InternationalConference

on Future Information Technology (FutureTech), 20-22 April 2016, Beijing,

China.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for SAI Intelligent Systems

Conference2016,13-15July2016,London,UK.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 11th International Conference on

ComputerVisionTheoryandApplications(VISAPP2016),27-29February2016,

Rome,Italy.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommitteeforthe9thHellenicConferenceon

ArtificialIntelligence,(SETN2016),18-20May2016,Thessaloniki,Greece.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommitteeEvoCOMNET2016(TheEuropean

Conference on Applications of Evolutionary Computation, 30 March - 3 April

2016,Porto,Porugal).

· Member of the International Board and Technical Committee and Co-Chair:

2015 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST

2015),16-18September2015,Macau,China.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee 2015 IEEE 7th International

Conference on Engineering Education (ICEED2015), 17-18 November 2015,

Kanazawa,Japan.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee the 10th KIPS International

Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (CUTE

2015),16–18December2015,Bangkok,Thailand,.

· Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE International Symposium on

Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics 2015, (SSRR 2015), 18-20 October 2015,

WestLafayette,Indiana,USA.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the Fourth International

Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics

(ICACCI-2015),10-13August2015,Kerala,India.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for SAI Intelligent Systems

Conference2015,10-11November2015,London,UK.

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· Memberof theProgramCommittee for the15thIEEEInternationalConference

on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC 2015), 8-10 April

2015,VilaReal,Portugal

· Member of the Program Committee for the 1st International Conference on

Computing in Mechanical Engineering (ICCME’15), 10-13 August 2015, Kochi,

India.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 10th International Conference on

Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2015), 11-14 March 2015,

Berlin,Germany.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommittee2015InternationalConferenceon

ComputerVision& ImageAnalysis (ICCVIA 2015), 18-20 January 2015 Sousse,

Tunisia.

· Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE International Symposium on

Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics 2014, (SSRR 2014), 27-30 October 2014,

Toyako-cho,Hokkaido,Japan.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee 2014 IEEE 6th International

ConferenceonEngineeringEducation(ICEED2014),

· Member of the International Board and Technical Committee and Co-Chair:

2014 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST

2014),14-17October2014,Sntorini,Greece.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:6thInternationalConferenceonImageand

SignalProcessing(ICISP),30June–2July2014,Cherbourg,France.

· Member of the Conference Scientific Committee 5th ECCOMAS Thematic

ConferenceonComputationalVisionandMedical ImageProcessing (VipIMAGE

2015).

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2014 International

Conference on Connected Vehicles& Expo, 3-7November 2014,Wien, Austria

(ICCVE2014).

· Member of the Programme Committee of the 15th edition of UK's conference

Towards Autonomous Robotics Systems, TAROS 2014, 1-3 September 2014,

Birmingham,UK.

· Member of the Technical ProgramCommittee for the Science and Information

Conference2014,August27-29,2014,London,UK

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· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2014 IEEE Innovative

SmartGridTechnologiesConference-Asia(ISGTASIA)(ISGT14)

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:6thInternationalConferenceonImageand

SignalProcessing(ICISP),30June–2July2014,Cherburg,France.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommitteeforthe8thHellenicConferenceon

ArtificialIntelligence,SETN2014.

· MemberoftheScientificCommitteeofthe6thInternationalConferenceSciences

of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT

2014),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,24-28March2014.

· Memberof theTechnicalProgramCommittee for theFTRA2013 International

Symposium on Ubiquitous Computing and Embedded Systems (UCES-13) in

Danang,Vietnam,December18-21,2013.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2013 IEEE 5th

InternationalConferenceonEngineeringEducation(ICEED2013),4-5December

2013,KualaLumpur,Malaysia.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommitteeforthe2013IEEEConferenceon

CleanEnergyandTechnology(CEAT2013),18to20November2013,Langkawi,

Malaysia

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 2013 International

Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo, 2-6 December 2013, Las Vegas,

Nevada,USA(ICCVE2013).

· Memberof theProgramCommittee for the2013AalborgUniversity’sRobotics

workshop.

· Member of the Program Committee for the 9th International Conference on

Computer Vision Theory andApplications (VISAPP), 5-8 January 2014, Lisbon,

Portugal.

· Member of the International Board and Technical Committee and Co-Chair:

2013 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST

2013),22-23October2013,Beijing,China.

· Member of the Program Committee for the IEEE International Symposium on

Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2013), 21-26 October 2013,

Linköping,Sweden.

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· MemberoftheScientificCommitteeofthe7thInternationalConferenceSciences

of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications (SETIT

2013),Chongqing,China,11-13October2013.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Symposium on

Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA), 22 -25 September 25 2013,

Kuching,Malaysia.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee(PC)forthe8thInternationalConferenceon

Future Information Technology (FutureTech), 4-6 September 2013, Gwangju,

Korea.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:9thInternationalConferenceonComputer

VisionSystems,July16-18,2013,St.Petersburg,Russia.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:8thInternationalConferenceonComputer

Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 21-24 February 2013, Barcelona,

Spain.

· Member of the Program Committee: 2012 International Conference on

ConnectedVehicles&Expo,12-16December2012,Beijing,China

· Member of the Program Committee for the Cognitive Assistive Systems

Workshop,inconjunctiontoIROS2012.

· Memberof theTechnicalProgramCommittee for the2012FTRA International

SymposiumonAdvancesinCryptography, Security andApplicationsforFuture

Computing(ACSA-12),Jeju,Korea,22-25November2012

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the 21st International

Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2012), 11-15 November 2012,

Tsukuba,Japan.

· Member of the Technical Program Committee for the IEEE Globecom 2012 -

Communication and Information System Security Symposium, 3-7 December

2012,Anaheim,California,USA.

· Member of the International Scientific Committee for the APMS 2012,

InterenationalConferenceonAdvancesinProductionManagementSystems,24-

26September2012,Rhodes,Greece.

· Member of the Scientific Committee for the CompIMAGE 2012 Conference-

Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals,

MethodsandApplications,5-7September2012,Rome,Italy.

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· Member of the Programme Committee of the 13th edition of UK's conference

TowardsAutonomousRoboticsSystems,TAROS2012,20-25August2012,Bristol,

UK.

· Member of the International Board and Technical Committee and Co-Chair:

2012 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST

2012),16-17July2012,Manchester,UK.

· Member of the Scientific Committee of the CompIMAGE 2012 Conference-

Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals,

MethodsandApplications,5-7September2012,Rome,Italy

· Member of the Scientific Committee of the 6th International Conference

Sciences of Electronics, Technologies of Information and Telecommunications

(SETIT2011),Sousse,Tunisia,12-15May2011.

· MemberoftheInternationalProgramCommittee:4rdInternationalConference

on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2011), Aachen, Germany, 6-9

December2011.

· Member of the International Program Committee: 13th IASTED International

Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, (ISC 2011), 11-13 July 2011,

Cambridge,UK.

· Member of the Scientific Program Committee of the 2011 International

Conference on Information and Communication Technologies in Forensics

(ICTinForensics2011),23-24June2011,Salvador,Bahia,Brazil.

· Memberof the InternationalProgramCommittee:3rd International Conference

on Intelligent Robotics and Applications (ICIRA 2010), Singhai, China, 10-12

November2010.

· MemberoftheScientificCommittee:2ndGreekConferenceonRobotics2010.

· MemberofProgramCommittee:ECCV2010Workshopon“VisionforCognitive

Tasks”,Herklion,Crete,Greece,10September2010.

· Member of Technical Committee: 2nd International Conference onMultimedia

Information NEtworking and Security, (MINES2010) Nanjing, China, 4-6

November,2010.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommittee:20thInternationalConferenceon

PatternRecognition,23-26August2010,Istanbul,Turkey.

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· Member of the Program Committee: 2010 International Conference on Image

and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10), 12-14 July 2010,

Orlando,Florida,USA.

· Member of the International Board of Directors and Co-Chair: 2010 IEEE

International Conference on Imaging Systems and Techniques (IST 2010), 1-2

July2010,Thessaloniki,Greece.

· Memberof theProgramCommittee:4th InternationalConferenceonImageand

SignalProcessing(ICISP),30June–2July2010,Trois-Rivières,Québec,Canada.

· Memberof theProgramCommittee: 5th International ConferenceonComputer

VisionTheoryandApplications(VISAPP),17-21May2010,Angres,France.

· Member of the International Program Committee: IASTED International

ConferenceonIntelligentSystemsandControl,(ISC2009),4-6November2009,

Cambridge,MA,USA.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:7thInternationalConferenceonComputer

VisionSystems(ICVS2009),12-15October2009,Liège,Belgium.

· MemberoftheTechnicalProgramCommittee:FifthInternationalConferenceon

ImageandGraphics(ICIG2009),22-24September2009,Xi’an,China.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:7thInternationalConferenceonComputer

VisionSystems(ICVS2009),12-15October2009,Liège,Belgium.

· MemberoftheScientificCommittee:1stGreekConferenceonRobotics2009.

· Memberof theProgramCommittee: 4th International ConferenceonComputer

VisionTheoryandApplications(VISAPP),5-6February2009,Lisboa,Portugal.

· Member of the ICPR2008 (International Conference on Pattern Recognition)

ProgramCommitteefortrack7onBiometrics.

· Member of the International Program Committee: IASTED International

Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, (ISC 2008), 16-18 November

2008,Orlando,USA.

· MemberoftheProgramCommittee:IEEE,SMC,UK&RI,7thConferenceon

· Cybernetic Intelligent Systems 2008, 9-10 September 2008, Middlesex

University,London,UnitedKingdom.

· Memberof theProgramCommittee:3rd InternationalConferenceonComputer

Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 22 - 25 January 2008, Funchal,

Madeira,Portugal.

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· Member of the Program Committee: IARP/EURONWorkshop on Robotics for

Risky Interventions and Environmental Surveillance (RISE 2008), 7-8 January

2008,Benicàssim(Spain).

· Memberof theTechnicalProgramCommittee:Fourth InternationalConference

onImageandGraphics,(ICIG2007),22-24August2007,Chengdu,China.

· Member of the International Program Committee: IASTED International

Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control, (ISC 2007), 19-21 November

2007,Cambridge,USA.

· MemberoftheReviewingCommittee:2ndWorkshoponApplicationsofComputer

Vision,12May2006,Graz,Austria,inconjuctionwithECCV2006.

Othercommittees

· RevieweroftheIASTEDTechnicalCommitteeonImageProcessing.

· MemberoftheIAPRTechnicalCommitteeforDiscreteGeometry(TC18).

· MemberoftheEditorialBoardoftheGreekEditionofScientificAmerican.

· ProposalreviewerforINTAS(since2004).

· Member of the Standing Commeetee of Watching Eurpean Programs of TEE

SectionofThrace(2004-2005).

· Member of the IASTED Technical Committee on Robotics for the term 2004-

2007.

· Member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Safety Security and Rescue

Robotics,since2007.

· Member of the IEEE I&M Society Technical Committee on Imaging

Measurements(TC-19),since2009.

· EURON(EuropeanRoboticsNetwork)BoardMember(2010-2012).

· Memberof the IEEERASTechnicalCommitteeonComputer andRobotVision,

since2013.

· MemberoftheIEEERASTechnicalCommitteeonSpaceRobotics,since2013

· MemberofIEEE-RASStandardsDevelopmentWorkingGroupORA-Ontologies

forRoboticsandAutomation.

Otherappointments

· GreekDelegateHighLevelRepresentative(HLR)atEUREKAinitiative(2009-

2010).

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· GreekDelegateattheGeneralAssemblyoftheAmbientAssistedLiving(AAL)

JointProgramme(2011-2012).

· ReviewerfortheItalianNationalAgencyfortheEvaluationofUniversities.

· Session Chair: 5th IASTED International Conference on Visualization, Imaging,

and Image Processing (VIIP 2005), Session 10: 3D Image Processing, 7-9

September2005,Benidorm,Spain.

· Session Chair: 16th International Symposium onMeasurement and Control in

Robotics(ISMCR2007),Warsaw,Poland,21-23June2007.

· Session Chair: 1st Hellenic Conference on Robotics, 23-24 February, Athens,

Greece.

· Session Chair: 2010 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2010),1-2July2010,Thessaloniki,Greece.SessionChair:2011

IEEEInternationalConferenceonImagingSystemsandTechniques(IST2011),

17-18May2011,Penang,Malaysia.

· Session Chair: 12th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems, 31

August-2September2011.Sheffield,UnitedKingdom.

· Session Chair: 2012 IEEE International Conference on Imaging Systems and

Techniques(IST2012),16-17July2012,Manchester,U.K.

· SessionChair: International SymposiumonArtificial Intelligence,Robotics and

AutomationinSpace(i-SAIRAS),4-6September2012,Turin,Italy

· EvaluationCommitteeoftheTechnicalChamberofGreece(Kavala’ssection)for

thenewmembers(LicenceofProfessionshiptonewEngineers).

· INTAS (International Association for the Promotion of Cooperation with

Scientists from the New Independent States of the Former Soviet Union)

evaluator.

· ProposalreviewerfortheEURONresearchnetwork.

· ProposalreviewerfortheGeorgianNationalScienceFoundation.

· Project reviewer for the Greek General Secretariat for the Research and

Technology.

· ProposalreviewerfortheEuropeanCommittee(FET-proactive).

· Proposal reviewer for the Joint Call Secretariat at German Aerospace Centre

(2009).

· ProposalreviewerfortheKORANETPilotJointCall(2010).

· ProposalreviewerfortheEuropeanMetrologyResearchProgramme(2010).

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· ProposalreviewerfortheResearchPromotionFoundationatCyprus(2011).

· Peer-reviewerfortheItalianNationalAgencyfortheEvaluationofUniversities

andResearchInstitutes(ANVUR)(2013).

· Proposal reviewer for the Croatian Ministry of Science, Education and Sports

(2014).

· Proposal reviewer for the New Zealand Ministry of Business, Innovation &

Employment(2014).

· CittedinInternationalDirectoryofExpertsandExpertise,PremierEdition.,Who’s

Who in theWorld,Who’sWhoofEmergingLeaders,Who'sWhoinScienceand

Engineering.

InternationalcooperationsAs responsible of theDepartment of Production andManagement Engineering for

theErasmusProject,hedevelopedthefollowingcooperations:

• DepartmentofProduction,UniversityofAalborg,Denmark.

• Department of Manufacturing Engineering, Budapest University of Technology

andEconomics,Hungary.

• TheUniversityoftheBasqueCountry,Spain.

• DepartmentofIndustrialEngineering,BilkentUniversity,Ankara,Turkey.

• EcoleNationaled'IngénieursdeTarbes,France

• DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,LundUniversity,Sweden.

CooperationthroughEuropeanandBilateralProjects:

researchinstitutes

• Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Budapest University of Technology and

Economics,Hungary.

• DepartmentofManufacturingEngineering,UniversityofRousse,Bulgaria.

• Manufacturing Engineering Centre, School of Engineering, University of Cardiff,

U.K.

• Department of Communication, Computer and System Sciences, School of

Engineering,UniversityofGenoa,Italy.

• FacultyofComputerandInformationScience,UniversityofLjubljana,Slovenia.

• DepartmentofMechanicalEngineering,LundUniversity,Sweden.

• Fraunhofer-Institute für Produktionsanlagen und Konstruktionstechnik, Berlin,

Germany.

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• SchoolofSystemsEngineering,UniversityofReading,U.K.

• MaterialsandEngineeringResearchInstitute,SheffieldHallamUniversity,U.K.

• PatrimonyRoyalMilitaryAcademy,Belgium.

• DepartmentofComputerandSystemSciences,UniversityofRome"LaSapienza",

Italy.

• IndustrialResearchInstituteforAutomationandMeasurements,Poland.

• UniversityofLimerick,EIRE.

• AthensInstituteofTechnology,Greece.

• NationalTechnicalUniversityofAthens,Greece.

• ZurcherHochschulefurAngewandteWissenschaften,Switzerland.

• AristotleUniversiyofThessaloniki,Greece.

companies

• RobotnikAutomation,SLL,Spain.

• IntelligenceforEnvironmentandSecuritySolutionsspa,Italy.

• RobosoftSA,France.

• SpaceApplicationsServices,Belgium.

• GalileoAvionica,Italy.

• AthenaCS3,Israel.

• ARTTIC,Belgium.

• ISDEFEIngeneriadeSistemasS.A,Spain.

• RinicomLtd,U.K.

• HoplingTechnologies,TheNetherlands.

• Opgal,Israel.

• GMVAerospaceandDefenceS.A.u.,Spain.

• TRASYS,Belgium.

• CNES,France.

• IDUSConsultancyLtd,U.K.

• BB-IngenieureIngenieurbüro,Germany.

• MarshallSystemDesignGroupLtd,U.K.

• ForceWareGmbH,Germany.

• OnexS.A.,Greece

• MLSS.A.,Greece

• IntracomDefenseElectronics,Greece.

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ProfessionalExperience1991:HellenicPublicElectricityCompanySA,TraineeElectricalEngineer.

1994–1998:ANADELTA-SOFTWARELtd,TestingandPublicationDepartment.

1994-:Self-employedProfessionalElectricalEngineer.

2001–2002:Military Service with the Corps of Research and Informatics, Greek

Military.

2002: Contract with the Mechanorganosi Thrakis Ltd, (computerisation

applications).

2002–2003: High school teacher: "Informatics", "Multimedia", "Multimedia

applications"and"CommunicationsTechnology".

2004–2006: TrainerattheRegionalCentreofTraining,Kavala.

HonoursandAwards1989,DemocritusUniversityofThrace:ScholarshipfromI.K.Y.(StateFoundationof

Scholarships,Greece).

1999,UniversitàdeglistudidiGenova:TMR(TrainingandMobilityofResearchers)

grant.

ProfessionalSocietyMembership· MemberoftheTechnicalChamberofGreece(TEE)(since1995).

· Member of the Pan-Hellenic Society of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers

(since1995).

· Memberof the IEEE (since1999,SeniorMember since2011);memberof the

IEEE Computer Society (1999);member of the IEEERobotics and Automation

Society (since 2010); member of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement

Society(since2011).

· Member of the Greek Society of Artificial Intelligence (EETN) (ECCAI

member)(since2000).

· Member of the Greek Society for Digital Media (member of the IAPR) (since

2002).

· Member of the European Association for Signal, Speech and Image Processing

(EURASIP),(2005).

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Otheractivities· President of the Union of the Postgraduate Students at the Department of

Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, 1996-

1997and1997-1998.

· Member of the Senate of the Democritus University of Thrace 1996-1997 and

1997-1998.

· Member of the Assembly of the Department of Electrical and Computer

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,1995-1998.

· MemberoftheBoardoftheDepartmentofElectricalandComputerEngineering,

DemocritusUniversityofThrace,1995-1998.

· MemberoftheAssemblyoftheSectionofElectronicsandInformationSystems

Technology, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus

UniversityofThrace,1993-1994.

· Member of the Assembly of the Department of Production and Management

Engineering,DemocritusUniversityofThrace,2003-2014.