Invited Talk | Rutgers

Happy to visit today the Robotics lab at Rutgers University Department of Computer Science in New Brunswick, NJ. I also had the pleasure of giving an invited talk regarding “General Purpose Robotics: Leveraging the Power of Foundation Models”. Impressive facilities, cool demos and lots of interesting discussions! Thanks a lot Kostas Bekris for hosting me […]

#TrainTheTrainers programme

Happy to serve as the academic responsible for this training activity on behalf of Harokopio university 20 law enforcement professionals from 15 EU countries just completed the Operational Intelligence Analysis Training, a course aimed to strengthen the EU’s collective capacity to fight against organised crime and terrorism. This TrainTheTrainers programme was implemented in close cooperation […]

Happy Holidays

As the end of the year approaches, the team of HUA computer vision group would like to send our warmest wishes to our colleagues, partners, friends, and the entire research community. It has been a year of exciting progress and discovery in the field of computer vision. We are grateful for the collaborations and support […]

Call for papers | EEITE 2026

7th International Conference in Electronic Engineering & Information Technology (technically co-sponsored by IEEE Greece Section)June 3-5, 2025Chania – Crete, Greece Special session: “Recent advancements in robotic perception, learning, interaction, communication and control technologies”🌍 Link: https://eeite.hmu.gr/🗓 Submission deadline: January 25, 2026 (provisional) Supported by EU RnD projects: TRIFFID Project, TORNADO EU project, SOPRANO, NANCY, TALON and […]

Collaboration with CEPOL and EUROPOL

Really excited to announce our recent collaboration with European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Training (CEPOL) and Europol for delivering the first micro-credentials training on operational intelligence analysis. In particular, the Centre for Continuing Education and Lifelong Learning of the Harokopio University of Athens implemented with CEPOL and EUROPOL a Train-the-Trainers programme, which awarded micro-credentials […]

Demo presentation

Platform: Large-scale photorealistic outdoor 3D scene reconstruction using Unity augmented reality and Gaussian splatting technologies. You can check in the video below a demo of our solution developed for photorealistic outdoor 3D scene reconstruction: The platform has been developed in the context of the European RnD project TRIFFID Project, targeting the delivery of multi-platform autonomous […]

Invited Talk | FMR 2025 workshop

Happy to participate today to the FMR 2025 workshop on “Foundation Models in Robotics”, organized by the GRVC robotics lab at the Universidad de Sevilla. My talk concentrated on the topic of “Learning methodologies for robotic foundation models”, summarizing the research of my group within the context of the RnD projects TRIFFID Project and TORNADO […]

Invited talk | Dr Maria Vakalopoulou

Happy to share that yesterday Dr Maria Vakalopoulou (Ass. Prof. at CentraleSupélec – Paris-Saclay University Research Center and Lead Researcher at Archimedes: AI, Data Science, and Algorithms Research Hub) visited our department for an invited talk regarding “Computational methods for more accurate and precise digital pathology processing”. Interesting Q&A, stimulating ideas and further bilateral group […]