Image and Video Analysis
IVA
IVA Curriculum Vitae
Curriculum Vitae [PDF, updated December 2019]
Summary
Dr. Yannis Avrithis is a research scientist in LinkMedia team of Inria Rennes--Bretagne Atlantique, carrying out research on computer vision and machine learning. He has been involved in 15 European and 9 National research projects, he has co-supervised 10 Ph.D. theses and 12 Diploma theses, and he has published 3 theses, 3 edited volumes, 26 articles in journals, 108 in conferences and workshops, 8 book chapters and 16 technical reports in the above fields. He has contributed to the organization of 21 conferences and workshops, and is a reviewer in 16 scientific journals and 15 conferences. He is an IEEE member, and a member of ACM, EURASIP, the IET and the Technical Chamber of Greece.
| Research Interests | |
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| Visual feature detection, representation of visual appearance and geometry, image matching and registration, image indexing and retrieval, clustering, nearest neighbor search, object detection and recognition, scene classification, image/video segmentation and tracking, and video summarization. | |
| Education | |
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| 1996-2001 | Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens |
| 1993-1994 | Master of Science (M.Sc.) in Communications and Signal Processing (with Distinction), Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of London |
| 1988-1993 | Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens |
| Employment History | |
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| 2016- | Research Scientist. LinkMedia team, Inria Rennes--Bretagne Atlantique, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France |
| 2015 | Researcher. Laboratory of Algebraic and Geometric Algorithms, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Panepistimioupolis, 157 84 Ilissia, Greece |
| 2001-2014 | Senior Researcher. Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str, 157 73 Athens, Greece |
| 2002-2004 | Project Manager, Research & Development. Syntax IT, Inc., 218 Mesogion Ave., 155 61 Holargos, Athens, Greece |
| 1997-1999 | Software Engineer. Infolab Multimedia Ltd., 320 Mesogion Ave., 155 62 Holargos, Athens, Greece |
| 1995-1997 | System Administrator. Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens, 9 Iroon Polytechniou Str, 157 73 Athens, Greece |
| Training experience | |
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| 2017 | Seminar. Deep Learning for Computer Vision, interdisciplinary postgraguate program Information Technologies in Medicine and Biology (ITMB), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens}, Greece. |
| 2017- | Visiting Professor. Deep Learning for Vision, interdepartmental master Research in Computer Science (SIF), University of Rennes 1, University of Southern Brittany (UBS), ENS Rennes, National Institute of Applied Sciences, Rennes (INSA), CentraleSupélec. |
| 2007-2014 | Lecturer (407/80). Image and Video Analysis, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA |
| 2007 | Organizing Committee member. Summer School on Multimedia Semantics: Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications [SSMS 2007], Glasgow, UK, July 15-21, 2007 |
| 2006 | Organizing Committee member. Summer School on Multimedia Semantics: Analysis, Annotation, Retrieval and Applications [SSMS 2006], Chalkidiki, Greece, September 4-8, 2006 |
| 2006-2014 | Assistant lecturer. Signals and Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA |
| 2005-2006 | Lecturer (407/80). Signals and Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA |
| 2003-2005 | Seminar organizer. Research and Technology Training Network on Multimedia Knowledge Discovery and Management [MULTI-MINE] |
| 1996-1999 | Assistant lecturer. Analog Electronic Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA |
| 1996-1998 | Assistant lecturer. Digital Image Processing, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA |
| 1998-2000 | Lecturer. Pascal programming language, Department of Computer Science, Hellanion University of Portsmouth |
| 1998-2000 | Lecturer. C programming language, Department of Computer Science, Hellanion University of Portsmouth |
| Ph.D. Supervision | |
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| 2018- | Yann Lifchitz. Few shot learning for object recognition in aerial images. |
| 2017- | Hanwei Zhang. Deep learning in adversarial contexts. |
| 2016- | Oriane Siméoni. Invariance and supervision in visual learning. |
| 2013- | Nikos Papanelopoulos. Visual sketch retrieval. |
| 2009-2014 | Yannis Kalantidis. Web-scale image search, clustering and localization. |
| 2008-2016 | Christos Varytimidis. Object recognition and detection in images and video. |
| 2008-2013 | Giorgos Tolias. Large scale object-based image retrieval. |
| 2005-2009 | Vaggelis Spyrou. Semantic search of audiovisual content using knowledge. |
| 2004-2009 | Thanos Athanasiadis. Knowledge technologies and access to audiovisual information. |
| 2003-2008 | Konstantinos Rapantzikos. Visual saliency models for the analysis of static and moving images. |
| 2003-2008 | Phivos Mylonas. Adaptive multimedia content access based on context and user profiles. |
| 2001-2005 | Manolis Wallace. Intelligent knowledge-based systems in uncertain environments. |
| Diploma Thesis Supervision | |
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| 2015-2016 | Hoel Kervadec. Deep Hough networks for object detection. |
| 2013-2014 | Athanasios Papadopoulos. Geometric Descriptor Aggregation for Image Retrieval and Classification. |
| 2013-2014 | Georgios Perakis. License Plate Detection and Recognition Using Local Features. |
| 2011-2012 | Christos Arvanitis. Computer Vision Methods for Augmented Reality. |
| 2011-2012 | Agni Delvinioti. Image Classification by Spatial Matching and Indexing. |
| 2011-2012 | Spyros Leonardos. Natural Image Segmentation by Medial Axis Decomposition. |
| 2011-2012 | Charalampos Moustafelos. Image Search Using Visual Synonyms. |
| 2008-2009 | Georgios Koumoulos. Image Analysis and Retrieval by Local Feature Detection. |
| 2007-2008 | Yannis Kalantidis. Image Search Using Visual Features and Geometry. |
| 2007-2008 | Christos Varytimidis. Object Detection and Interactive Image Annotation. |
| 2006-2007 | Giorgos Tolias. Object Detection and Scene Classification Using MPEG-7 Descriptors and Visual Thesaurus. |
| 2005-2006 | Vassiliki Giannekou. Image Matching by Shape Analysis. |
| 2004-2005 | Georgios Koumoulos. Image Sequence Summarization - Shot Detection and Key Frame Selection. |
| Research and development projects [national] | |
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| 2006-2008 | Researcher. Image, Sound and Language Processing: Iconognosia, Management and Advanced Access to Scientific Data and Documentation of Byzantine Works of Art |
| 2006-2008 | Principal Investigator. Image, Sound and Language Processing: DELTIO, Multimedia Content Analysis using Ontology Evolution with Application to TV News Programs |
| 2005-2008 | Principal Investigator. PENED: OntoMedia, Semantic Multimedia Content Analysis Using Knowledge Technologies |
| 2004-2007 | Principal Investigator. EPAN-03DSBEPRO-44: VisualAsset, Multimedia Document Analysis, Information Extraction and Management |
| 2003-2005 | Principal Investigator. EPAN: MULTI-MINE, Research and Technology Training Network in Multimedia Knowledge Discovery and Management |
| 1999-2001 | Researcher. EPET II - EKBAN: PANORAMA, An Intelligent System for Retrieval and Mining of Audiovisual Material |
| 1997-2000 | Researcher. SYN-96: Development of a Video-on-Demand System Using the MPEG-2 Standard |
| 1997-1999 | Researcher. EPET II Service Providing Laboratories: Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory (IVML) |
| 1995-1997 | Researcher. EKBAN-504: NIKA, Generalized Medical Image Processing and Management System |
| Conference / workshop organization activities | |
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| 2017 | Area Chair: Multimedia Search and Recommendation. 25th ACM Multimedia Conference [ACM-MM 2017], Mountain View, CA, USA, October 23-27, 2017 |
| 2017 | Area Chair: Image, Video, and Multimedia Processing. 25th European Signal Processing Conference [EUSIPCO 2017], Kos, Greece, August 28--September 2, 2017 |
| 2009 | Program Chair. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval [CIVR 2009], Santorni, Greece, July 8-10, 2009 |
| 2009 | General Chair. 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing [CBMI 2009], Chania, Greece, June 3-5, 2009 |
| 2009 | Program Chair. 15th International Multimedia Modeling Conference [MMM 2009], Sophia-Antipolis, France, January 7-9, 2009 |
| 2007 | General Chair. Second International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies [SAMT 2007], Genova, Italy, December 5-7, 2007 |
| 2007 | General Chair. 8th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services [WIAMIS 2007], Santorini, Greece, June 6-8, 2007 |
| 2006 | Organizer. IST Event 2006 - Workshop on Knowledge in Multimedia Content [KMC 2006] , Helsinki, Finland, November 22, 2006 |
| 2006 | Organizer. EKAW Workshop on Ontology Evolution and Multimedia Information Extraction [BOEMIE 2006] , Podebrady, Czech Republic, October 2-6, 2006 |
| 2006 | Organizer. Special Session on "Semantic Multimedia Analysis for Annotation and Retrieval", International Conference on Visual Information Engineering [VIE 2006], Bangalore, India, September 26-28, 2006 |
| 2006 | Organizer. Special Session on "Neural Networks for Semantic Image and Video Analysis", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks [ICANN 2006], Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006 |
| 2006 | Local Organizing Committee member. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks [ICANN 2006], Athens, Greece, September 10-14, 2006 |
| 2006 | General Chair. First International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies [SAMT 2006], Athens, Greece, December 6-8, 2006 |
| 2005 | Special Sessions Organizer. 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies [EWIMT], London, UK, November 30 - December 1, 2005 |
| 2005 | Co-Organizer. Special Session on "Intelligent Multimedia and Semantics", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks [ICANN 2006], Warsaw, Poland, September 11-15, 2005 |
| 2005 | Programme Chair. Closing Workshop of Research and Technology Training Network on Multimedia Knowledge Discovery and Management [MULTI-MINE 2005], Athens, Greece, June 28, 2005 |
| 2005 | Local Arrangements. Workshop on Multimedia and the Semantic Web, 2nd European Semantic Web Conference [ESWC 2005], Heraklion, Greece, May 29 - June 1, 2005 |
| 2004 | Session Chair. EU Project Session, International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval [CIVR 2004], Dublin, Ireland, July 21-23, 2004 |
| 2003 | Programme Co-Chair. Workshop on "Intelligent Access to Audiovisual Content" [WIAAC], Athens, Greece, April 3, 2003 |
| 2001 | Liaison with Industry, Local Organization Committee. International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding [VLBV 2001], Athens, Greece, October 11-12, 2001 |
| 1997 | Local Arrangements. Workshop on "Applications and Perspectives of Neural Network Technology in Greece and the Broader Balkan Area", Athens, Greece, February 21, 1997 |
| Invited talks | |
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| March 2018 | Deep image retrieval and manifold learning. Safran, Paris, France. |
| September 2017 | Deep learning and image retrieval. In Deep Learning in Vision, Language, and Multimedia Workshop, Inria Rennes--Bretagne Atlantique, France. |
| March 2016 | Large scale clustering and nearest neighbor search. In 38th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, Center for Machine Perception, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic. |
| Jan. 2016 | Geometry in shape decomposition, feature detection, matching, retrieval, clustering, and nearest neighbor search. Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research and Technology--Hellas (FORTH), Heraklion, Greece. |
| Nov. 2015 | Clustering and nearest neighbor search. Laboratory of Algebraic and Geometric Algorithms (ΕρΓΑ), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. |
| June 2015 | Geometry in feature detection, matching, search, and clustering. General Robotics, Automation, Sensing \& Perception (GRASP) Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania, USA. |
| March 2015 | Approximate nearest neighbor search: binary codes and vector quantization. Laboratory of Algebraic and Geometric Algorithms (ΕρΓΑ), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. |
| Oct. 2014 | Image retrieval, vector quantization and nearest neighbor search. In μ-Workshop on Computer Vision, TEXMEX Research Team, INRIA Rennes--Bretagne Atlantique, France. |
| April 2012 | Image Matching and Visual Search. Management of Data, Information and Knowledge (MADGIK) Group, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. |
| March 2011 | Image matching and visual search: local features and geometry. University of Bordeaux, France. |
| Sept. 2006 | Semantic multimedia content analysis. In Workshop on Knowledge in Multimedia Content, IST Event 2006, Helsinki, Finland. |
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