Scholar
Iason Oikonomidis
Google Scholar ID: RNvshXwAAAAJ
ICS, FORTH
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,472
H-index
14
i10-index
16
Publications
20
Co-authors
35
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Awarded the 'Maria Michail Manasaki' Bequest Fellowship of the University of Crete 2011 - 2012. Main contributor in the submission that won the first prize in the ChaLearn Demonstration Competition 2012, held in conjunction with ICPR 2012, in Tsukuba, Japan. Co-authored more than 30 works being first author in 10 of them. Served as a reviewer in many conferences and journals including CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, EUROGRAPHICS, IROS, ICRA, CHI, TPAMI, TIP, CVIU, IVC.
Research Experience
- Participated and contributed in several EU-funded projects: MAGICIAN (October 2023 - Present), SignGuide (January 2021 - January 2023), HealthSign (July 2018 - December 2020), Co4Robots (January 2017 - December 2019), WEARHAP (March 2013 - August 2017), Robohow.Cog (February 2012 - July 2016), GRASP (March 2008 - February 2012).
Education
- January 2015: Ph.D. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, topic: Efficient Tracking of the 3D Articulated Motion of Human Hands, defended on January 12, 2015, receiving honors (Magna cum Laude). April 2009: M.Sc. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, received with honors (Magna cum laude). October 2006: B.A. from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete. July 2004: B.A. from the Mathematics Department of the University of Crete.
Background
- Currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Computer Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL) of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), collaborating with Professor A. A. Argyros.
Miscellany
- Co-organizer in several of the HANDS series of workshops. Gave an invited talk at the University of Exeter on January 11, 2019, titled Hand Pose Estimation - Recent Advances and Current Trends. Gave an invited talk at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Tuebingen on November 27, 2014, titled Efficient Tracking of the 3D Articulated Motion of Human Hands. Interned at Microsoft Research in Cambridge during the Spring of 2012, resulting in a publication and a US patent.
