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Personal Information

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).

 

 

Research

The research interests of Antonis fall in the areas of computational 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 GRASP - Emergence of Cognitive Grasping through Emulation, Introspection, and Surprise

·         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

 

 

Job opportunities

·         Dec 2011: Post-doctoral positions on Computer Vision are available.

 

 

News

·         Dec 2011: My Ph.D. student, Iason Oikonomidis, received the 2011-2012 “Maria-Michail Manassaki” Honorary Fellowship.

·         Nov 2011: Our work on full DOF tracking of a hand interacting with an object by modeling occlusions and physical constraints was presented at ICCV 2011, Barcelona, Spain. See the video of the oral presentation here.

·         Sep 2011: Our work on efficient model-based 3D tracking of hand articulations using Kinect was presented at BMVC 2011, University of Dundee, UK.

·         Sep 2011: Our work on binding vision to physics based simulation: The case study of a bouncing ball was presented at BMVC 2011, University of Dundee, UK.

·         Interactive exhibition: "Macedonia: from fragments to pixels"

·         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.

·         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.

 

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

 

Last update:

2 February 2012, Antonis Argyros, argyros@ics.forth.gr