Panos Trahanias, Professor
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Ph.D. (1988) from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece.


Interests: Brain-based Modeling, Human-Robot Interaction, Computational Vision, Autonomous Robot Navigation, Cognitive Robotics.


Panos Trahanias is a Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete and ICS-FORTH. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, in 1988. From 1985 to 1989 he served as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications, National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos", Athens, Greece, and from 1990 to 1991 he worked at the same Institute as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. From 1991 to 1993 he was with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. He has participated in many R & D programs in image processing and analysis at the University of Toronto and has been a consultant to SPAR Aerospace Ltd., Toronto, in a program regarding the analysis of Infrared images. Since 1993 he is with the University of Crete and ICS-FORTH. Currently, he is the Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Computer Science, University of Crete, and the Head of the Computational Vision & Robotics Laboratory at ICS-FORTH where he is engaged in and supervises research and R & D projects in brain-based modeling, human-robot interaction, robot navigation, remote-access robotic systems and augmented reality applications. He has published over 100 papers in technical journals and conference proceedings and has contributed in two books.




Major Involvement in Conference Organization:
  • General Chair, "Eurographics '2008", the 29th annual conference of the European Association for Computer Graphics, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, April 2008
  • General Co-Chair, "ECCV 2010", 11th European Conference on Computer Vision, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece, September 2010
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