Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr Alexandros Makris,
  Subjects of Research: 3D Computer Vision for Coastal Seafloor Mapping, 3D Shape Modelling of Human Skulls.
  

PhD Students

• Mohammad Rami Koujan,
  Subject of Research: 3D Face Modelling, Analysis and Synthesis,
  PhD Student, University of Exeter, 2017-2022.

MSc/BSc Students

• C. Pratikaki, Deep Sign Language Translation,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Dr Panagiotis Filntisis and Prof Petros Maragos, 2023-present.

• P. Valergaki, Deep 3D Face Modelling for Stress Analysis,
  MSc thesis, Computer Science Department, University of Crete, 2022-present.

• G. Milis, Audiovisual Speech Synthesis using Deep Generative Models,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Dr Panagiotis Filntisis and Prof Petros Maragos, 2022-present.

• K. Tsichritzi, 3D Face Modelling and Generative Face Synthesis,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Prof Petros Maragos, 2022-present.

Former MSc/BSc Students

• D. Komitoudis, Assessment of Generative AI models for Image Synthesis,
  MSc Project, BRAIN and MIND programme, University of Crete, 2023.

• E. Kantidenou, 3D Modelling of Human Skulls,
  MSc Project, BRAIN and MIND programme, University of Crete, 2023.

• P. Tzathas, Editable Implicit Neural Representations,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Prof Petros Maragos, 2021-2022.

• C.O. Tze, Photo-realistic Sign Language Production,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Prof Petros Maragos, 2021-2022.

• F. Paraperas, Emotions-aware Head re-enactment,
  Diploma (MEng) thesis, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), co-supervision with Prof Petros Maragos, 2020-2022.

• G.K. Solanki, Deep Semantic Manipulation of Facial Videos,
  MSc Research Project, University of Exeter, 2021.

• L. Zhang, Real-Time 4D Face Reconstruction using Deep Learning,
  MSc Research Project, University of Exeter, 2021.

• M. Dee, Head and Hand Synthesis for Sign Language,
  MSc Research Project, University of Exeter, 2021.

• T. Johin, Facial Expression Recognition,
  MSc Research Project, University of Exeter, 2021.

• E. Montes de Oca, Automatic Stress Detection from Facial Videos,
  MSc Research Project, Applied Data Science and Statistics, University of Exeter, 2021.

• S. Apostolidis, Head re-enactment with applications to Sign Language synthesis,
  BSc Final Year Project, Computer Science Department, University of Crete, 2020-2021.

• G. Vavoulis, 3D reconstruction of monocular laparoscopic videos,
  MSc Project, BRAIN and MIND programme, University of Crete, 2019-2020.

• C. Tyson, 3D Facial Scanning and 3D Printing using a Single Commodity Camera,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2018-2019.

• E. Reeder, 3D Reconstruction of Hands,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2018-2019.

• Y. Haddadin, 3D Computer Vision for Video Games,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2018-2019.

• R. Durand-Delacre, Vision-based Creation of Realistic 3D Terrain Profiles,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2018-2019.

• James Badham, Monocular 3D Face Scanning,
  MSci Research Project, University of Exeter, 2017-2018.

• Ibukun Akande, Video to 3D Facial Reenactment,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2017-2018.

• Nikolai Dochev, 4D Face Reconstruction from a Single Camera,
  BSc Final Year Project, University of Exeter, 2017-2018.
  Winner of the Computer Science Final Year Project Prize, University of Exeter.

Research Groups

• Human-Centered Computer Vision Group (HCCV), Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece,
  group within CVRL that we founded in 2020, in collaboration with Antonis Argyros and his team

• Computational Vision and Robotics Laboratory (CVRL),
  Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
  

Collaborations

Throughout my scientific career, it has been a really great pleasure and honour for me to have very successful collaborations with extremely bright scientists from several universities and research institutes worldwide. This is a list with their names, positions and affiliations (collaborations up to January 2021):

FORTH & University of Crete, Greece:

• Prof Antonis Argyros, Professor of Computer Science, University of Crete and researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Prof Kostas Marias, Head of the Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), FORTH and Associate Professor of Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Hellenic Mediterranean University of Crete
• Dr Dimitrios Alexakis, Assistant Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH
• Dr Dimitrios Tsakiris, Principal Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Dr Argyro Nafplioti, Ancient DNA Lab, Institute of Molecular Biology & Biotechnology (IMBB), FORTH
• Dr Evangelos Alevizos, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute for Mediterranean Studies, FORTH
• Dr Iason Oikonomidis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Mr Giorgos Karvounas, PhD Student, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Mr Vassilis C. Nicodemou, PhD Student, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Mr Ammar Qammaz, PhD Student, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Dr Aggeliki Tsoli, Postdoctoral Researcher, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH
• Dr Giorgos Giannakakis, Research Associate, Institute of Computer Science, FORTH

Imperial College London, UK:

• Prof Stefanos Zafeiriou, Professor in Machine Learning and Computer Vision with the Department of Computing, Imperial College. Co-founder of the start-ups Facesoft and Ariel AI.
• Prof Yannis Panagakis (now an Associate Professor at the University of Athens, Greece)
• Dr James Booth (now at Facebook Inc)
• Dr Athanasios Papaioannou (now a Senior Research Scientist at Huawei Technologies Research & Development, UK)
• Dr Epameinondas Antonakos (now an Applied Science Manager in the Robotics AI at Amazon, Berlin, Germany)
• Dr George Trigeorgis (now a Machine Learning Researcher at Citadel, London)
• Dr Grigorios Chrysos (now an Assistant Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Mr Evangelos Ververas, PhD candidate, Imperial College

National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece:

• Prof Petros Maragos, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA
• Dr Panagiotis Filntisis, Research Associate, NTUA
• Dr George Retsinas, Research Associate, NTUA

Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany:

• Dr Timo Bolkart (now a senior research scientist at Google in Zürich, Switzerland)
• Dr Victoria Fernandez Abrevaya, Post-doctoral Researcher, Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
• Mr Radek Daněček, Phd Student, Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

Deeplab company, Athens, Greece:

• Dr Vassilis Pitsikalis, Founder & Chief Science Officer of DeepLab
• Dr Stavros Theodorakis, Founder & CEO of DeepLab

Athena Research Center, Greece:

• Dr Athanasios Katsamanis, Principal Researcher, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA R.C. and Tech Lead of Behavioral Signal Technologies, Inc.
• Dr Athanasia-Lida Dimou, Research Associate, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, ATHENA R.C.

Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece:

• Dr Stavroula Zoi, Faculty Member, Multimedia - Hypermedia Laboratory, Athens School of Fine Arts
• Dr Eleftherios Kontopodis, Athens School of Fine Arts and National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

University of Exeter, UK:

• Prof Richard Everson, Professor of Machine Learning and Director of the Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, University of Exeter
• Dr Nicolas Pugeault (now a Reader in the School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK)
• Ms Luma Alharbawee, PhD student, University of Exeter

University College London & Queen Mary, University of London, UK:

• Prof Lourdes Agapito, Professor of 3D Vision, Department of Computer Science, UCL
• Dr Ravi Garg (now an Associated Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide)
• Dr Chris Russell (now a Turing Fellow and a Reader in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey)

University of Patras, Greece:

• Prof Dimitrios Kosmopoulos, Associate Professor at the University of Patras
• Prof Klimis Antzakas, Assistant Professor in Special Education with emphasis in Deaf Education, University of Patras

Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, London, UK:

• Prof David Dunaway, Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon, Professor of Craniofacial surgery at the UCL Institute of Child Health and Head of the Craniofacial Unit at GOSH

Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland:

• Prof Michael Unser, Professor and Director of EPFL's Biomedical Imaging Group
• Dr Stamatis Lefkimmiatis (now a Senior Research Scientist in the Radiomics R&D team with Q Bio)

LORIA, INRIA Nancy-Grand Est, CNRS, France:

• Prof Marie-Odile Berger, Senior Researcher, Head of the MAGRIT team
• Dr Michael Aron (now at ISEN, Rennes, France)