A new EU – PRIMA project just started: “SWITCHtoHEALTHY” Switching Mediterranean consumers to Mediterranean sustainable healthy dietary patterns. SWITCHtoHEALTHY project started on 1st April 2022 as part of the PRIMA Program funded by the European Union under the Grant Agreement number 2133 – Call 2021 Section Agrofood IA, coordinated by ENCO srl – an Italian company specialized in innovation management and EU-funded projects. SWITCHtoHEALTHY involves 18 prestigious organizations – public and private – from 8 countries of both shores of…
Dr. Vretos and Dr. Zarpalas are Guest Editors of the Sensors Special Issue “Neural Networks and Semantic Analysis in Sensor, Image and Video Processing”
Dr. Nicholas Vretos and Dr. Dimitrios Zarpalas are guest editors of the Sensors special issue titled “Neural Networks and Semantic Analysis in Sensor, Image and Video Processing” Recent advancements in machine learning have driven researchers and the industry to progressively integrate neural networks into an abundance of applications in domains such as media, healthcare, security, banking or retail. The power of deep neural networks is situated in their predicting efficiency and adaptability to diverse circumstances, depending on their specific…
Mr. Georgios Albanis and Mr. Vasileios Gkitsas presented their works to the OmviCV Workshop of CVPR 2021:
> G. Albanis, N. Zioulis, P. Drakoulis, V. Gkitsas, V. Sterzentsenko, F. Alvarez, D. Zarpalas, P. Daras, “Pano3D: A Holistic Benchmark and a Solid Baseline for 360 Depth Estimation”, in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), June, 2021.
> V. Gkitsas, V. Sterzentsenko, N. Zioulis, G. Albanis, D. Zarpalas, “PanoDR: Spherical Panorama Diminished Reality for Indoor Scenes”, in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), June, 2021.
Συνέντευξη στο Πρώτο Πρόγραμμα της ΕΡΤ και συγκεκριμένα στις δημοσιογράφους κ. Αρετή Μπίτα και κ. Ιωάννα Νιαώτη παραχώρησε ο Δρ. Πέτρος Δάρας, αναλύοντας τις προκλήσεις αλλά και τους στόχους των έργων Επικοινωνώ και Grace του εργαστηρίου. Σχετικά με το έργο Επικοινωνώ, ο Δρ. Δάρας δήλωσε πως στόχος του έργου είναι η ανάπτυξη μιας εφαρμογής για έξυπνα κινητά και ταμπλέτες που θα συμβάλλει στην εύκολη, αποτελεσματική και αμφίδρομη επικοινωνία μεταξύ κωφών και ακουόντων σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Στα πλαίσια του έργου έχει δημιουργηθεί…
Real time communication between deaf and hearing individuals – Epikoinono article in Reader.gr
Το έργο Επικοινωνώ στοχεύει στην υλοποίηση ενός συστήματος, με τη μορφή μιας εφαρμογής για έξυπνα κινητά ή ταμπλέτες, που θα έχει ως στόχο την εύκολη, αποτελεσματική και αμφίδρομη επικοινωνία κωφών και ακουόντων συνομιλητών σε πραγματικό χρόνο. Ο πρωταρχικός στόχος του έργου αποτελείται από την αναγνώριση της ομιλίας του κωφού συνομιλητή, η οποία θα γίνεται στην Ελληνική Νοηματική Γλώσσα. Στα πλαίσια του έργου θα σχεδιαστούν καινοτόμες μέθοδοι βαθιάς μάθησης (Deep learning) που θα στηρίζονται στην ανάπτυξη μεγάλης κλίμακας συνελικτικών και αναδρομικών…
Dr. Dimitrios Zarpalas and Dr. Anastasios Dimou Have Joined the Editorial Board of MDPI Drones Drones is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal. The journal focuses on design and applications of drones, including unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPAS). Drones is the only international open-access journal about the science, policy and technology of drones and its applications. Nowadays, the proliferation of drones is a reality for local policy makers, regulatory bodies,…
VCL Stands Out in the ICMCIS 2021 Drone Detection Challenge The International Conference on Military Communication and Information Systems (ICMCIS) organized by NATO Communications and Information Agency announced a data challenge asking participants to track, classify and identify Class I UAS as they fly within a defined area, from data provided by the available sensors. The drones had to be tracked, to show their location and velocity, classified to indicate their object type (e.g. drone, bird) and identified to…
RESCUER Kick-off Meeting
The H2020 project RESCUER is planned to Kick-Off on July 2021. RESCUER “first RESponder-Centered support toolkit for operating in adverse and infrastrUcture-less EnviRonments” is addressing the call “DRS-02-2020-OPEN: Technologies for first responders”. RESCUER aims to design and develop a First-Responder-centered technology toolkit that will empower the next-generation of First Responders (FR) by enhancing their operational capacity and safety, specifically in adverse conditions, both environmental and infrastructure-wise. Dr. Dimitris Zarpalas will be acting as the Technical Manager of the project.
Dr. Zarpalas and Dr. Dimou are Guest Editors of the Sensors Special Issue "Deep Learning Based UAV Detection, Classification, and Tracking"