Visual Computing Lab

VCL Co-organizes the PETRA 2019 AGENT Workshop   The AGENT Workshop is concerned with multi-modal signal sensing and analysis for assistive environments for improving quality-of-life. It aims to attract an interdisciplinary group of researchers who are involved in research related to early detection, assessment and monitoring of human health, habits and behaviour. The workshop will focus on novel technologies that are applied on real or virtual environments and aims to enhance the quality of daily living, especially for people with…

Over the past couple of years, Virtual and Augmented Reality have been at the forefront of the Mixed Reality development scene, whereas Augmented Virtuality has significantly lacked behind. Widespread adoption however requires efficient low-cost platforms and minimalistic interference design. In this work we present Space Wars, an end-to-end proof of concept for an elegant and rapid-deployment Augmented VR platform. Through the engaging experience of Space Wars, we aim to demonstrate how digital games, as forerunners of innovative technology, are perfectly…

HR-Recycler Kick-off Meeting   The HR-Recycler H2020 Project held its kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki on 18 and 19 December 2018. The event brought together all the thirteen partners organizations of its multidisciplinary Consortium, representing academia, industry and End-Users’ groups. During the meeting, HR-Recycler partners shared their expertise and ideas on the project, focusing on the requirements for recycling of WEEE equipment and the potential to fulfill such tasks through human-robot collaboration. Finally, they coordinated their work on the activities to…

PROTEIN Kick-off Meeting   The PROTEIN EU-funded research project held its kick-off meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 12th and 13th. The event brought together all twenty (20) partner organizations of the project’s multidisciplinary Consortium, representing industry, SMEs, academia/research, and End-User groups. The Project Officer participated in this meeting, representing the European Commission, and addressed the Consortium at her Keynote speech. During the meeting, PROTEIN partners acquainted with each other, shared their views on the project and coordinated their work…

On November 20th CERTH conducted some successful pilots in Greece. The pilots were partly recorded for a show of the national broadcaster ERT3 and the show is now available on stream video! In the premise of this show, the technical manager Dr. Nicholas Vretos presented MaTHiSiS while the children were piloting, and also gave an in-depth interview regarding the project. In addition, the speech therapist that supervised the children spoke on the benefits and added value that the MaTHiSiS platform…

Dr. Nicholas Vretos represented the MaTHiSiS project on the EC Digital Education meeting, that took place on December 10th and 11th in Luxembourg.