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Antonis A. Argyros (Αντώνης Αργυρός) is an Associate Professor at the Computer
Science Department, University of Crete and a researcher at the Institute
of Computer Science (ICS), Foundation
for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) in Heraklion, Crete, Greece. He received a B.Sc. degree in
Computer Science (1989) and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science (1992), both
from the Computer Science Department, University of Crete. On July 1996, he
completed his PhD on visual motion analysis at the same Department. He has
been a postdoctoral fellow at the Computational Vision and Active Perception
Laboratory (CVAP) at the Royal Institute of Technology
in Stockholm, Sweden. Since 1999, as a member of the Computational
Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) of FORTH-ICS, he has been involved in many RTD
projects in computer vision, image analysis and robotics.
Antonis Argyros is an area editor for the Computer Vision and Image
Understanding Journal (CVIU),
member of the Editorial Board of the IET Image Processing Journal and one of the general chairs of the 11th European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV'2010, Heraklion, Crete).
He is also a faculty member of the Brain and Mind interdisciplinary graduate program and a member of
the Strategy Task Group of the European Consortium for Informatics and
Mathematics (ERCIM).
The research
interests of Antonis fall in the areas of computer vision with emphasis on
tracking, human gesture and posture recognition, 3D reconstruction and
omnidirectional vision. He is also interested in applications of
computational vision in the fields of robotics and smart environments. There is a more detailed page
describing research
interests, activities, research results and demonstrations.
Antonis is currently Project Investigator
for the following FP7 projects, dealing with their computer vision-related
aspects:
FP7
Integrated Project WEARHAP – Wearable Haptics for
Humans and Robots
FP7
Integrated Project RoboHow.Cog
- Web-enabled and Experience-based Cognitive Robots that Learn Complex Everyday
Manipulation Tasks
FP7
Collaborative Project HOBBIT -
The Mutual Care Robot
FP7
Collaborative Project DALi –
Devices for Assisted Living
PhD positions and job
opportunities
Feb
2013: If you are interested in a PhD
or postdoctoral position in computer vision, send expression of interest
by email to argyros@ics.forth.gr
News
Mar 2013: Our work on “Physically plausible 3D scene tracking: the single actor
hypothesis” authored by Nikolaos
Kyriazis, Antonis Argyros, has been accepted for oral presentation at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and
Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2013, Portland, Oregon, USA,
Jun. 25-27, 2013.
Mar 2013: I was invited to give talk on “Tracking
human hands and heads based on RGBD input”, workshop on New Open Source Tools
for Robotics from EU Projects, EU Robotics Forum (ERF 2013), Lyon,19-21
March 2013.
Mar 2013: Προσκεκλημένη ομιλία με τίτλο «Υπολογιστική Όραση:
κάνοντας τα ρομπότ να βλέπουν» στο Παγκρήτιο Εκπαιδευτήριο και στα
πλαίσια της Ημέρας Θετικών Επιστημών, Ηράκλειο, Κρήτη, 6 Μαρτίου 2013.
Feb 2013: I will
give an invited talk at the International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual
Reality (ISUVR 2013), 10-13 July, 2013, KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea.
Dec 2012: As one of Primesense's
official OpenNI
2.0 Middleware Partners,
we now provide library and API for our award
winning 3D hand tracking software. This is now available for
download here. The 3D Hand tracker library is available with a free
license for non-commercial use. Versions for both MS Windows and Linux
operating systems are available
Nov 2012:
Our work on "Giving a Hand to Kinect",
Nikolaos Kyriazis, Iason
Oikonomidis, Antonis Argyros, got
the 1st prize at the CHALEARN
Gesture Recognition demonstration competition (Check also this
link). The competition was organized in conjunction with ICPR 2012 (Tsukuba, Japan, Nov. 2012) and
was sponsored by Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA. This work is partially funded by the EU
projects GRASP and Robohow.Cog
Nov 2012:
the FP7 IP WEARHAP – “Wearable Haptics for Humans
and Robots” will start on March 1st, 2013.
Oct
2012: Digits Hand Tracker: Freehand 3D
Computer Interaction Without Gloves: 3D
Interaction at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK, with contribution from our
lab (Iason
Oikonomidis).
Aug
2012: Our work on Kinect
3D hand tracking is now available for download!
Mar
2012: Our work on tracking the
articulation of two strongly interacting hands was accepted at CVPR 2012,
Rhode Island, USA.
Interactive
exhibition: "Macedonia: from fragments to pixels"
o
Visit the web site of the exhibition “Macedonia:
from fragments to pixels” featuring
several interactive exhibits developed in the context of the Ambient
Intelligence Programme of FORTH-ICS.
o
Επισκεφτείτε την ιστοσελίδα της έκθεσης "Μακεδονία: από τις ψηφίδες στα pixels" η οποία περιλαμβάνει πολλά διαδραστικά εκθέματα που αναπτύχθηκαν στα πλαίσια του οριζόντιου
προγράμματος “Διάχυτη Νοημοσύνη” του Ινστιτούτου Πληροφορικής του ΙΤΕ.
Press and media
Feb 2013: Καθημερινή, «Ελληνική»
Όραση σε ρομπότ
Jan 2013: ΕΚΤ – Έρευνα και Καινοτομία, Διεθνείς διακρίσεις για
ερευνητές του Ιδρύματος Τεχνολογίας & Έρευνας
Nov 2012: Pathfinder, Ένα βραβευμένο χέρι
βοηθείας
Nov 2012: Xανιώτικα Νέα, Ταξίδι...
στο μέλλον
Jan 2012: Το Βήμα, Νοημοσύνη διάχυτη στο
χώρο
Nov 2007: Καθημερινή,
Ειδικές εκδόσεις “The Economist”, Κάνοντας τους υπολογιστές να βλέπουν
Postal address
Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
N. Plastira 100, Vassilika Vouton
GR-700-13, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
Tel: +30 2810 391704
FAX: +30 2810 391609
e-mail: argyros@ics.forth.gr
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