Ceasefire Tools & Use Case Demonstration – Part A – Online Training
Stay tuned for news about the hashtag Ceasefire project’s “Ceasefire Tools & Use Case Demonstration – Part A – Online Training” sesion, on April 18th, 2023. It will delve deep into the functionalities and applications of CEASEFIRE’s advanced tools for aiding Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) in their fight against illicit firearms trafficking. See more about […]
Open Days HUA 2024
On the 27th and 28th of March, the research team of HUA presented scientific results of the Ceasefire project, during the “Open Days HUA 2024” event organized by the Harokopio University of Athens for secondary school students. The presentation included live demos of the developed computer vision technologies, regarding X-ray-based illicit object detection and illegal […]
3 successful EC-funded security proposals
Happy to share that in the recent call for EC-funded security proposals, I have been involved in the following 3 successful attempts: Particularly excited for TRIFFID, where I will serve as the project coordinator. In the coming period, multiple research vacancies (for BSc/MSc/PhD holders) will be announced, so individuals interested in artificial intelligence, computer vision, […]
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 […]
