Haris Baltzakis

Research Interests

His research interests are in the broader area of Algorithms and Applications:

• Computational vision and robotics
• Autonomous robot navigation
• 3D space reconstruction from visual information
• Tracking the pose of human body in image sequences
• Hand and face gesture recognition

Participation in Research Projects

• TOURBOT (Interactive Museum Tele-presence Through Robotic Avatars). EU funded FP5 IST project.
• WEBFAIR (Web Access to Commercial Fairs Through Mobile Agents). EU funded FP6 ICT project.
• ΠΡΑΞΕ (Κατασκευή Βιομηχανικού Πρωτοτύπου Ρομποτικού Συστήματος Παροχής Πληροφοριών και Τηλε-ξενάγησης). National funded (GSRT) project.
• MUSCLE (Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning). EU funded FP6 NoE project.
• ΞΕΝΙΟΣ (Επικοινωνία χρήστη-ρομπότ βασισμένη σε αντίληψη οπτικής πληροφορίας, επεξεργασία φωνής και παραγωγή φυσικής γλώσσας για χρήση σε ρομποτικά συστήματα ξενάγησης). National funded (GSRT) project.
• INDIGO (Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robot). EU funded FP6 ICT project.
• GNOSYS (An Abstraction Architecture for Cognitive Agents). EU funded FP6 ICT project.
• EMB Panorama. (Eastern Mediterranean Bio-diversity Panorama). EU funded Interreg IIIB Archimed project.
• FIRST-MM (Flexible Skill Acquisition and Intuitive Robot Tasking for Mobile Manipulation in the Real World). EU funded FP7 ICT project.
• JAMES (Joint Action for Multimodal Embodied Social Systems). EU funded FP7 ICT project.

Short CV

Dr. Haris Baltzakis is an assistant researcher at the Computational Vision and Robotics Lab of the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH). He received a Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 1997 and the MSc and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Crete in 1999 and 2004, respectively. Between 2004 and 2008 he was a postdoctoral researcher with FORTH-ICS where he was involved in RTD projects. Since 2008 he is an assistant researcher. His research interests are in computer vision and robotics with emphasis in autonomous robot navigation, 3D vision, vision- and laser-based tracking and hand and face gesture recognition for human-robot interaction. In these fields Dr. Baltzakis has published more than 30 papers in international journals and conference proceedings.

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