The work of the Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technologies Hellas (CERTH/ITI), entitled “Robot’s Workspace Enhancement with Dynamic Human Presence for Socially-aware Navigation”, authored by I. Kostavelis, A. Kargakos, D. Giakoumis and D. Tzovaras, won the…

The paper “Concept Language Models and Event-based Concept Number Selection for Zero-example Event Detection”, by D. Galanopoulos, F. Markatopoulou, V. Mezaris, and I. Patras, received the Best Poster Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2017),…

Ten FP7 projects ICeWater, iWIDGET, EFFINET, WatERP, UrbanWater, DAIAD, ISS-EWATUS, SmartH2O, WATERNOMICS, WISDOM, belong to the cluster Information and Communication Technologies for Water Resources Management (ICT for Water). During the cluster meeting in Brussels on 4 February 2014 common…

The Network of Excellence in Internet Science (http://www.internet-science.eu ) co-ordinated by CERTH-ITI organises an interdisciplinary workshop structured along the lines of an “unconference”, jointly with the project plenary meeting in Bologna 11-13 June. The event is open to any…

On the 1st of February 2014, the project “Integrated Support System for Efficient Water Usage and Resources Management” (acronym ISS-EWATUS) was launched. The project is scheduled for 36 months and is carried out under the EU’s Seventh Framework Programme…

In November 2013, the FP7 SPACE projects BIO_SOS (BIOdiversity multi-SOurce monitoring System: from Space to species) and MS.MONINA (Multi-scale Service for Monitoring Natura 2000 Habitats of European Community Interest) jointly organised a final dissemination workshop. The workshop took place…

Dr Ioannis Manakos, formerly serving as Secretary General and Co-Chairman of the Special Interest Group in Land Use & Land Cover, was elected as the new Chairman of the European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories (EARSeL). The EARSeL Council…

Dr. Ioannis Manakos participated as invited keynote speaker at the 4th Remote Sensing and GIS Symposium (UZAL­CBS 2012). UZAL-CBS 2012 was organised in Bulent Ecevit University (BEU) in Zonguldak, Turkey, with the cooperation of BEU Geomatics Engineering Department, ITU…

Dr. Ioannis Manakos participated as invited keynote speaker at the 8th Scientific Conference with International Participation “Space, Ecology, Safety” (SES). The conference took place at the Russian Culture and Information Centre in Sofia, Bulgaria and was organised by the…

In April 2013, Dr. Ioannis Manakos participated as invited keynoted speaker at the 1st Interantional Conference on Remote Sensing and Geo-information of Environment (RSCy 2013), Paphos, Cyprus. Dr. Manakos’ speech topic was “From Space to species: The BIO_SOS European…