The Ninth IASTED International Conference on
Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition and Applications
SPPRA 2012

June 18 – 20, 2012
Crete, Greece

KEYNOTE SPEAKER

Semantic 3DTV Content Analysis and MPEG-7 Compliant Description

Prof. Ioannis Pitas
University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Abstract

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Human centered video analysis tasks will be reviewed, notably face detection, person tracking, facial pose estimation, eye/mouth detection, visual speech detection, dialog detection, human activity recognition, facial biometrics, facial expression recognition. XML description schemes (MPEG7 profiles, notably AVDP) of the analysis results will be presented.
3DTV content analysis tasks will be reviewed as well, notably multiview face/person detection and tracking, multiview video analysis, 3D face reconstruction. XML description schemes (MPEG7 profiles) of the analysis results will be presented.

Biography of the Keynote Speaker

Keynote Speaker Portrait

Ioannis Pitas, fellow IEEE, received the Diploma and PhD degree in Electrical Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 1994, he has been a Professor at the Department of Informatics of the same University. He served as a Visiting Research Associate or Visiting Assistant Professor at several Universities.
His current interests are in the areas of intelligent digital media, image/video processing (2D/3D) and human-centered interfaces. He has published over 670 papers, contributed in 39 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 8 books. He has also been an invited speaker and/or member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of eight international journals and General or Technical Chair of four international conferences (including ICIP2001). He participated in 63 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 39 such projects. He has 13400+ citations to his work and H-index 56+.