Awards and distinctions

• According to a research carried out at Stanford University, Antonis Argyros is in the "World’s Top 2% Researchers List". For more details, check this site.
• According to Research.com and the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Editions of its "Ranking of Top Scientists in the field of Computer Science", Antonis Argyros is in the list of the top 50 Computer Scientists in Greece. The full ranking for Greece is available here.
• Best Technical Paper Award, for the paper:
  D. Drosakis and A. Argyros, "3D Hand Shape and Pose Estimation based on 2D Hand Keypoints", In International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2023), ACM, Corfu, Greece, July 2023.
• Ph.D. student Kostas Bacharidis, was the recipient of the 2021-2022 “Maria-Michail Manassaki” Honorary Fellowship.
• Ph.D. student Ammar Qammaz, was the recipient of the 2017-2018 “Maria-Michail Manassaki” Honorary Fellowship.
• Ph.D. student Kostas Papoutsakis, was the recipient of an award from the “friends of FORTH” for the quality of his Ph.D. thesis.
• Ph.D. student Kostas Papoutsakis, was the recipient of the 2017-2018 “Maria-Michail Manassaki” Honorary Fellowship.
• Outstanding Reviewer Antonis Argyros, Robotics Science and Systems (RSS 2017).
• Outstanding Reviewer Antonis Argyros, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2016).
• Outstanding Reviewer Antonis Argyros, IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2015).
• Ph.D. student Iason Oikonomidis, was the recipient of the 2011-2012 “Maria-Michail Manassaki” Honorary Fellowship.
• Ph.D. student Nikolaos Kyriazis, was the recipient of the “Young Researcher 2012-2013 award” from the University of Crete for “his important contribution in research and the advancement of his scientific field”.
• 1st place award at the CHALEARN Gesture Recognition Demonstration Competition for the work "Giving a Hand to Kinect", N. Kyriazis, I. Oikonomidis, A.A. Argyros. In conjunction with ICPR 2012, November 10-11 2012, Tsukuba, Japan. Sponsored by Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA.
• Best Paper Award for the paper “Vision-based Interpretation of Hand Gestures for Remote Control of a Computer Mouse”, in Proc. of the HCI’06 workshop (in conjunction with ECCV’06), LNCS 3979, Springer Verlag, pp.40-51, Graz, Austria, May 13th, 2006.
• Interns Grant Award, DAGS Institute for Advanced Graduate Studies, DAGS/PC ’92, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, USA, June 1992.