Yannis Kazantzidis, PhD
Surbiton, England, United Kingdom
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A COMPUTER VISION SCIENTIST and FOUNDER with strong technical expertise in designing and…
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A signature moment for UK tech. I wrote an oped today for The Times on how this moment for Wayve can trigger a movement for UK tech. In the same…
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As promised... Here's how VEED.IO got 100,000 paid users. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗲 𝗴𝗼𝘁 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗽𝗮𝗶𝗱 𝘂𝘀𝗲𝗿 Timur and I did everything we…
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Member of the Organising Committee of SEC 2017 Conference, Kingston University
Kingston University
- 2 years 10 months
Education
The purpose of this conference is to provide a common platform to researchers from various schools across the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing leading to exchange of ideas and possible future collaborations with the aim to encourage interdisciplinary research. The SEC conference is an opportunity to learn and network with students, researchers, technicians and academic staff, as well as, highlight the research and achievements of SEC Faculty’s research centres.
Main…The purpose of this conference is to provide a common platform to researchers from various schools across the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Computing leading to exchange of ideas and possible future collaborations with the aim to encourage interdisciplinary research. The SEC conference is an opportunity to learn and network with students, researchers, technicians and academic staff, as well as, highlight the research and achievements of SEC Faculty’s research centres.
Main responsibilities included:
Booklet/poster design and printing.
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Organiser of DIRC Reading Group
Kingston University - Company
- Present 8 years 8 months
Education
The Digital Informations Research Centre (DIRC) PG reading group is a weekly event that gives the opportunity to DIRC research students present their work, share their ideas and discuss their experiences as researchers. The DIRC reading group aims to support research students develop their presentation skills and prepare for major events by offering them critical reviews and feedback in a friendly environment.
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Representative of Post Graduate Computer Science & Maths Students
Kingston University - Company
- 2 years 1 month
Education
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Founder & President of Emc2 Society at Kingston University
Kingston University - Company
- 3 years 1 month
Education
The Emc2 Society aims to promote scientific knowledge transparency and sharing among research students within Kingston University. Our weekly events give the opportunity to research students present their work, share their ideas and discuss about their experiences as researchers. In addition, the society will help research students develop their presentation skills and prepare them for major events by offering them critical reviews and feedback in a friendly…
The Emc2 Society aims to promote scientific knowledge transparency and sharing among research students within Kingston University. Our weekly events give the opportunity to research students present their work, share their ideas and discuss about their experiences as researchers. In addition, the society will help research students develop their presentation skills and prepare them for major events by offering them critical reviews and feedback in a friendly environment.
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Member of the organising committee
Astrocamping at Thasos
- Present 13 years 11 months
Science and Technology
http://astrocamping.astrosfam.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0bZk4Z7dtU
Publications
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Profile Hidden Markov Models for Foreground Object Modelling
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2018
Accurate background/foreground segmentation is a preliminary process essential to most visual surveillance applications. With the increasing use of freely moving cameras, strategies have been proposed to refine initial segmentation. In this paper, it is proposed to exploit the Vide-omics paradigm, and Profile Hidden Markov Models in particular, to create a new type of object descriptors relying on spatiotemporal information. Performance of the proposed methodology has been evaluated using a…
Accurate background/foreground segmentation is a preliminary process essential to most visual surveillance applications. With the increasing use of freely moving cameras, strategies have been proposed to refine initial segmentation. In this paper, it is proposed to exploit the Vide-omics paradigm, and Profile Hidden Markov Models in particular, to create a new type of object descriptors relying on spatiotemporal information. Performance of the proposed methodology has been evaluated using a standard dataset of videos captured by moving cameras. Results show that usage of the proposed object descriptors allows better foreground extraction than standard approaches.
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Vide-omics: A Genomics-inspired Paradigm for Video Analysis
Computer Vision & Image Understanding
With the development of applications associated to ego-vision systems, smart-phones, and autonomous cars, automated analysis of videos generated by freely moving cameras has become a major challenge for the computer vision community. Current techniques are still not suitable to deal with real-life situations due to, in particular, wide scene variability and the large range of camera motions. Whereas most approaches attempt to control those parameters, this paper introduces a novel video…
With the development of applications associated to ego-vision systems, smart-phones, and autonomous cars, automated analysis of videos generated by freely moving cameras has become a major challenge for the computer vision community. Current techniques are still not suitable to deal with real-life situations due to, in particular, wide scene variability and the large range of camera motions. Whereas most approaches attempt to control those parameters, this paper introduces a novel video analysis paradigm, ‘vide-omics’, inspired by the principles of genomics where variability is the expected norm. Validation of this new concept is performed by designing an implementation addressing foreground extraction from videos captured by freely moving cameras. Evaluation on a set of standard videos demonstrates both robust performance that is largely independent from camera motion and scene, and state-of-the-art results in the most challenging video. Those experiments underline not only the validity of the ‘vide-omics’ paradigm, but also its potential.
Honors & Awards
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PhD Studentship Award - Kingston University
Kingston University
Languages
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Greek
Native or bilingual proficiency
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English
Full professional proficiency
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Russian
Elementary proficiency
Organizations
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IEEE Signal Processing Society
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IEEE Young Professionals
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British Machine Vision Association (BMVA)
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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
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