Dr. Vasileios Mezaris is a Senior Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute / Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, since June 2007, and since May 2018 he is a Research Director (Senior Researcher Grade A).

His research interests include multimedia understanding and artificial intelligence; in particular, image and video analysis and annotation, machine learning and deep learning for multimedia understanding and big data analytics, multimedia indexing and retrieval, and applications of multimedia understanding and artificial intelligence in specific domains (including TV broadcasting and news, education and culture, medical / ecological / business data analysis). As part of his work in these research areas he has co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals, 20 book chapters, 160 papers in international conferences, and 3 patents. He has edited two books and several proceedings volumes, he serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2012-2015 and 2018-present) and the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2016-present), and also as a reviewer for many international journals and conferences.

He has participated in many research projects, and as the Coordinator in the EC H2020 research projects InVID (2016-2018) and MOVING (2016-2019).

He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece.

For more information: http://www.iti.gr/~bmezaris