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Editorial activities

*      Area Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal (Elsevier)

*      Editorial board member, IET Image Processing Journal

*      R. Dillmann, T. Asfour, A.A. Argyros, ERCIM News special theme on Intelligent and Cognitive Systems, ERCIM News No 84, Jan. 2011

 

 

Positions and appointments

*      Acting Member of the Senate, University of Crete (Sep. 2011 – Dec. 2013)

*      Invited by EU as an Expert to the joint EU/US-NSF Gendered Innovations project and the Jul. 2012 Harvard Workshop. The project and the event were supported by the European Commission, the NSF, Harvard and Stanford Universities. Contributions in the topic of Assistive AI/Robotics for the Elderly. Harvard University, Boston, 19-20 Jul. 2012 (http://genderedinnovations.eu)

*      Member of the Strategy Task Group of the European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) (Nov. 2011 – Jan. 2013)

*      Member of the Executive Committee of the European Research Consortium on Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM) representing FORTH-ICS (Apr. 2005 – Nov. 2011)

*      Member of the evaluation committee of the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award (Nov. 2005 – today)

*      Member of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics (EuCogII and EuCogIII)

*      Project reviewer, projects funded by the European Commission within the FP6 - IST Programme

*      Invited by EU as an Expert to the evaluation of proposals submitted to the 4th call of the FP6 strategic Objective “Cognitive Systems”, Apr. 2005

*      Proposal evaluator, Italian Ministry for Education, Univ. and Research (MIUR).

*      Proposal evaluator, "FIT-IT Visual Computing", Austrian IT research funding initiative

*      Proposal evaluator, Romanian National Research Council

*      (CNCS – http://www.cncs-uefiscdi.ro/home/ )

*      Proposal evaluator, Cyprus Research Promotion Foundation

*      (RPF - http://www.research.org.cy/EN/index.html/ )

*      Invited as an evaluator of the Digital Imaging Research Centre, Kingston University, Jan. 2010

*      Panelist for researchers’ recruitment, Deutsche Telekom Labs, Berlin, Aug. 2009

*      Member of the Election Committee of several faculty positions in various Greek Universities

*      Member of the Election Committee, Researcher Positions, Greek research Centers

*      Member of the Interdepartmental Studies Committee, Brain and Mind Multidisciplinary Graduate Programme (June 2007 – today)

*      Member of the Graduate Studies Committee, Computer Science Department, University of Crete (Oct. 2010 – today)

*      Member of the Undergraduate Studies Committee, Computer Science Department, University of Crete (Oct. 2007 – Sep. 2009)

*      Coordinator of the Graduate Students Selection Committee, Computer Science Department, University of Crete (2009)

*      Member of the Graduate Students Selection Committee, Computer Science Department, University of Crete (2007, 2012)

 

 

Organization of scientific events

*      General Chair (together with Prof. P. Trahanias and Prof. G. Tziritas) of the European Conference on Computer Vision 2010 (ECCV 2010), Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 2010

*      Workshops Chair of the ICVS 2008 conference, Santorini, Greece, May 2008

*      Organizing Committee member, the Eight Workshop on Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras, OMNIVIS 2008, in conjunction with ECCV 2008

*      Organizing Committee member, Vision in Action: Efficient strategies for cognitive agents in complex environments, in conjunction with ECCV 2008

*      Organizing Committee member, Brain and Mind Workshop, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Jun. 2011

*      Organizing Committee member, “FORTH retreat 2005” , Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 2005

*      Organizing Committee member, “FORTH retreat 2000”, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, October 2000

 

 

Technical reviewer of papers in scientific journals

*      IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)

*      IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP)

*      IEEE Transactions on Robotics

*      IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (T-CSVT)

*      IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE)

*      IEEE Transactions on System Man and Cybernetics (T-SMC)

*      IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics (TIE)

*      IEEE Computer Magazine

*      Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR)

*      ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)

*      Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) - Elsevier

*      Image and Vision Computing (IVC) - Elsevier

*      Pattern Recognition - Elsevier

*      Pattern Recognition Letters - Elsevier

*      Machine Vision and Applications Journal (MVA) - Springer

*      The Visual Computer – Springer

*      Pattern Analysis and Applications Journal – Springer

*      International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition (IJDAR) - Springer

*      Autonomous Robots - Springer

*      Cognitive Computations – Springer

*      Universal Access in the Information Society (UAIS) - Springer

*      International Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT) - Springer

*      International Journal of Digital Libraries – Springer

*      Optical Engineering - SPIE

*      Journal of Electronic Imaging - SPIE

*      International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) – SAGE

*      Adaptive Behavior Journal – SAGE

*      Computer Vision - IET

*      IEE Proceedings - Vision, Image and Signal Processing Journal

*      International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI) – World Scientific Publishing

*      Advances in Multimedia – HINDAWI

*      Journal of Virtual Reality and Broadcasting (JVRB)

 

 

Member of Committees of Scientific Conferences

*      IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
(CVPR 2001, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)

*      IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011)

*      European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2006, 2012)

*      Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2009)

*      British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2004)

*      IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2008, 2010)

*      IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011)

*      Face and Gesture (FG 2008, 2011, 2013)

*      International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013)

*      IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee Workshop on 3D Image/Video Technologies  and Applications (IVMSP 2013)

*      IET Image Processing Conference (2012)

*      International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2013)

*      Human-centric Visual Computing in Interactive Environments (HcVCIE 2012, in conjunction with ECCV 2012) IAPR International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP 2010, 2012)

*      International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2011)

*      IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2008, 2009, 2012)

*      IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013)

*      Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS 2006, 2010)

*      IEEE International Symposium on Safety Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR 2012)

*      Cognitive Assistive Systems: Closing the Action-Perception Loop (CAS 2012, in conjunction with IROS 2012)

*      IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Image Processing (ICASSP 2009, 2010)

*      IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2007)

*      IEEE/ICME International Conference on Complex Medical Engineering (ICME 2005, 2007, 2009)

*      IEEE Workshop on Advanced 3D Imaging for Safety and Security (A3DISS 2005)

*      IEEE International Symposium on Signal and Information Processing (ISSPIT 2003)

*      IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED 2005)

*      ACM Multimedia (2007, 2008)

*      ACM International Workshop on Vision Networks for Behaviour Analysis (VNBA 2008)

*      International Workshop on Search in 3D and Video (S3DV 2009, in conjunction with ICCV 2009)

*      International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011)

*      International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010)

*      International Cognitive Vision Workshop (ICVW 2008)

*      International Conference on Cognitive Systems (CogSys 2008)

*      ACM Int’l Conference on Digital Interactive Media in Entertainment and Arts
(DIMEA 2008)

*      Int’l Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applications (INISTA 2005, 2007, 2009).

*      Regional chair for Europe, Int’l Conference on Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006, 2007).

*      IASTED International Conference on Robotics and Applications (RA 2007)

*      IASTED Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)

*      IASTED International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Control
(ISC 2005, 2006)

*      International Conference on Advance Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 2005)

*      ÐáíåëëÞíéï ÓõíÝäñéï ÑïìðïôéêÞò (2009)

*      International Symposium on “Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention
(ICDP 2005, 2006, 2009, 2011)

*      11th IMEKO TC10 International Workshop on Technical Diagnostics (2008)

*      Computational Intelligence (CI 2005, 2006, 2007)

*      Computer Graphics International (CGI 2004)

*      Computer Animation and Social Agents (CASA 2004)

*      International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003)

*      SETN (2002, 2004)

*      Scale Space (1999)

 

 

Chairing conference sessions

*      Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA’2012)

*      Machine Vision Applications (MVA 2009)

*      Omnidirectional Vision, Camera Networks and Non-classical Cameras  (OMNIVIS 2008), óôá ðëáßóéá ôïõ ECCV 2008

*      Vision in Action 2008, óôá ðëáßóéá ôïõ ECCV 2008

*      Visual Information Engineering (VIE 2006)

*      Computer Graphics International (CGI 2004)

*      International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2002)

*      Computer Vision Beyond the Visible Spectrum (CVBVS 2001), in conjunction with CVPR 2001

 

 

Invited talks and scientific presentations

*      “Research activities on computer vision and robotics at FORTH-ICS”, invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, TEI of Crete, December 6, 2012.

*      “Assistive AI/Robotics for the Elderly”, invited talk, joint EU/US-NSF Workshop, Harvard University, Boston, 19-20 Jul. 2012

*      Markerless 2D/3D tracking of human hands”, keynote speech, The 5th International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA’2012), Hersonisos, Crete, Greece, Jun. 6, 2012

*      “Tracking of the articulated motion of hands”, invited talk, The 30th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, Center of Machine Perception, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic, Apr. 12, 2012

*      “Efficient model-based tracking of the articulated motion of hands”, invited talk, Oxford Robotics Research Group, Univ. of Oxford, UK, Mar. 26, 2012

*      “Efficient model-based tracking of the articulated motion of hands”, invited talk, Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Siena, Italy, Jan. 24, 2012

*      “Computational Vision and Robotics at ICS/FORTH”, invited talk, Department of Engineering and Informatics, University of Siena, Italy, Jan. 23, 2012

*       “Visual perception of hands in action”,  Brain and Mind Graduate Programme seminar series, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Dec. 8, 2010

*      “Computer Vision: Goals, Problems, Applications”, invited talk, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Athens, Greece, Apr. 16, 2010.

*      Invited lecturer at the 1st Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Summer School (HAISS’09) (http://www.icsd.aegean.gr/haiss09), International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Aug. 24-28, 2009

*      “Real time Tracking of Multiple skin colored objects”, invited talk, Sabanci University, Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Istanbul, Turkey, Dec. 14, 2006

*      “Real time Tracking of Multiple skin colored objects”, invited talk, ACIN, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, Oct. 11, 2005.

*      “Computational Vision: A Guided Tour to the State of the Art”, invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ATEI of Crete, Jan. 10, 2005.

*      “Centering and Homing Behaviors for Mobile Robots equipped with Panoramic Cameras”, invited talk, Seminar on “Imaging beyond the pin-hole camera”, 12th seminar on theoretical foundations of computer vision, Dagstuhl seminar series, Dagstuhl, Germany, Jun. 13-18, 2004

*      “Exploiting Visual Information for the Development of Robot Behaviors”, 1st symposium of the “Brain and Mind” graduate program, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Mar. 27-28, 2004

*      “Computational Vision: Methods and Applications”, invited talk, Department of Mechanical Engineering, ATEI of Crete, Dec. 9, 2003

*      “From sensors and Actuators to Autonomous Robotic Systems”, invited talk, Computer Science and Bioengineering Department, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA, Nov. 26, 2002

*      “Feature Transfer and Matching in Disparate Stereo Views through the Use of Plane Homographies”, invited talk, Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University Prague, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Colloquium on Wide-Baseline Stereo, Apr. 4, 2002

*      “Panoramic Vision: Sensors, Analysis and Applications”, invited talk, Demokritos Research Center, Jun. 22, 2001

*      “Computer Vision and Robotics Activities at CVRL”, invited talk, Demokritos Research Center, Athens, Jun. 22, 2001

*      "Development of Visual Perception Capabilities for Autonomous Robots", Foundation for Research and Technology, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Jun. 6-7 1999

*      “Methods for Independent 3D Motion Detection”, invited talk, Research Dept. of ERICSSON, Stockholm, Sweden, Nov 13th, 1996

*      “Independent 3D Motion Detection by a Binocular Observer”, CVRL seminar series, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Jun. 1996

*      “Attention Mechanisms in Active Vision Systems”, CVRL seminar series, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Mar. 1994

*      “Thoughts on a Computational Model for a Reactive System that Couples Perception, Reasoning and Action”, CVRL seminar series, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, Oct. 1993

 

Last update:

05 February 2013, Antonis Argyros, argyros@ics.forth.gr