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image/video coding & watermarking, sEMG & Deep Learning for Hand Gesture Recognition
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Biography

Athanassios (Thanos) Skodras is the Professor of Digital Systems and Director of the Digital Signal and Image Processing Lab of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of Patras (UoP), Greece. He holds a Physics degree from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece (1980), a Computer Engineering & Informatics degree and a PhD degree in Electronics from the University of Patras, Greece (1986). He has been Professor, Head of Computer Science and founder/director of the Digital Systems & Media Computing Lab, School of Science and Technology, Hellenic Open University (HOU), Greece; served as Dean (2010-2013) and Deputy Dean (2004-2006) of the School of Science and Technology, HOU. From 1986 to 2002 he has been holding teaching and research positions at the Departments of Physics and Computer Engineering & Informatics, UoP, while he has spent the academic years 1988-89 and 1996-97 at the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK. His research interests include Gesture Recognition Based on sEMG Signals and Deep Learning, Discrimination of Photos from Computer Graphics Images, ENF-based Authentication of Digital Media, Satellite Image Registration, Vehicle Recognition, Image and Video Coding, Brown Adipose Tissue Quantification from Thermal Images, HDR Image Compression, NIR Finger Vein Authentication, digital watermarking, fast transform algorithms (theory and implementation). He has published over 160 publications in refereed journals and conference proceedings, authored or co-authored 6 books, 4 book chapters, and holds 2 international patents filed by Ericsson, Sweden. He is the co-recipient of the first place Chester Sall Award for the best paper in the 2000 IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, regarding the JPEG 2000 still image compression standard.
Professor Skodras has served as Associate/Area Editor for the Springer Journal of Real-Time Image Processing, the Elsevier Signal Processing Image communication and the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, and serves as a General Chair / Technical Committee Member / Reviewer for numerous journals and conferences. He is a Chartered Engineer, Senior Member of the IEEE, and member of the EURASIP and the Technical Chamber of Greece.

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University of Patras: Patras, GR

1981-05-08 to present | Professor (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Athanassios N. Skodras

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Patras: Patras, Achaia, GR

(Department of Computer Engineering and Informatics)
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Athanassios N. Skodras

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Review activity for Journal of real-time image processing. (1)