Call for papers IEEE Big Data 2023
IEEE International Conference on Big Data 2023December 15-18, 2023Sorrento, Italy Workshop title: “Big Data applications for fight against crime and terrorism”Link: https://bda4fct.iti.gr/#hero-sectionSubmission deadline: Oct 1, 2023 Supported by Ceasefire Project (Not complete list of) relevant research topics: Big Data applications, machine learning models, virtual assistants, machine vision, natural language processing, audio analysis, multimedia analysis, neural […]
3rd newsletter of the Anti-FinTer project
You can check in the following link the 3rd newsletter of the Anti-FinTer project: https://lnkd.in/dvrP4eQZ
EMPACT Firearms strategic meeting
Ceasefire activities regarding tackling firearms trafficking were successfully presented at the EMPACT Firearms strategic meeting, organized by Europol on June 15. The project was represented by its technical manager, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos from Harokopio University of Athens. Interesting discussions paved the ground for future collaborative activities.
New project called KLEPTOTRACE
New EC-funded ISF security project for our team called KLEPTOTRACE: “Strengthening EU asset recovery and sanction tracing against transnational high-level corruption” (https://lnkd.in/dzFMe6A5), where the goal is to develop advanced artificial intelligence technologies in order to detect high-level corruption patterns in massive amounts of data.
KLEPOTRACE project kick-off meeting
The KLEPOTRACE EU-funded research project kick-off meeting successfully took place in Milan on June 8th, 2023. The consortium aims to combat high-level corruption methods by strengthening the investigation, tracing, and recovery of assets linked to criminal activities. In this context, the Department of Informatics and Telematics of Harokopio University of Athens (DIT-HUA) will spearhead the […]
Polícia de Segurança Pública Lisbon
Happy to visit today the headquarters of Polícia de Segurança Pública (PSP) and, in particular, the National Firearms Focal Point (NFFP) in Lisbon, in the context of the FCT project Ceasefire Project. Interesting and real-world study case, regarding how artificial intelligence can facilitate the struggle against firearms trafficking.
Final conference of RESPOND-A
It is with excitement (and a little bit of emotion) that took place today the final conference of RESPOND-A in Nicosia, Cyprus hosted by our coordinator CERIDES – Center of Excellence in Risk and Decision Sciences This is the culmination of 3 years of hard work by all consortium members, who worked together to design, […]
Visiting the police warehouses at the Head of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdańsk
Visiting today the police warehouses at the Head of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdańsk. In collaboration also with the Polish customs authorities, we are developing AI tools for automatically detecting firearms trafficking instances in fast parcel services using X-ray technologies. The first step is to develop real-world datasets. Our research is funded by the […]
Ceasefire’s 2nd physical plenary meeting
On April 4-5, Ceasefire had its 2nd physical plenary meeting in Poland, at the premises of the Provincial Police Headquarters in Gdansk, which is a partner of the project consortium. Members of Ceasefire exchanged ideas and shared progress on this exciting project about combating firearms trafficking, discussing next actions and planning future work.
Workshop on “Europol’s new role in Horizon Europe”
On 14 March 2023, Ceasefire participated in CERIS (the Community for European Research and Innovation for Security) FCT workshop on “Europol’s new role in Horizon Europe”, in Brussels, Belgium. The project was represented by its coordinator CERTH (Mr. Georgios Stavropoulos) and its technical manager HUA (Prof. Georgios Th. Papadopoulos), taking part in a fruitful exchange […]
