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Summer break wishes
Wishing everyone a wonderful and rejuvenating summer break! We hope you get the chance to relax, recharge, and make some

University of California Los Angeles visit
Feeling magnificent to visit the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)

New paper | IEEE Access
You can find below our recently accepted work at IEEE Access, entitled “Survey on Hand Gesture Recognition from Visual Input”

New paper
You can find below our recent work, entitled “Illicit object detection in X-ray imaging using deep learning techniques: A comparative

IEEE BigDataService 2025
Happy to participate as a program committee member (together with my colleague Iraklis Varlamis) to the IEEE BigDataService 2025 conference

New paper | VHGR
You can find below our recent work, entitled “Visual Hand Gesture Recognition with Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Review of Methods,

Innovation alert | Ceasefire UC#4
In the context of the European RnD project Ceasefire Project, the HUA computer vision group has developed a cutting-edge artificial

TRIFFID 3rd Plenary Meeting
The 3rd General Assembly of the TRIFFID project has officially started today in Heraklion, Greece, hosted by Hellenic Mediterranean University

Security Research Event SRE 2025
Happy to participate today and tomorrow to the Security Research Event SRE 2025 (organised by DG HOME) in Warsaw. For

New paper | IEEE Access
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Access, entitled “Resource Efficient Federated LoRaWAN Architecture for Far-Edge IoT

Invited talk | Archimedes Talks Series
Happy and honored to participate to the Archimedes Talks Series, discussing about “Foundation Models in robotics”. Date and connection details

ARCHIMEDES affiliated researcher
Happy to share that I have joined as an affiliated researcher the ARCHIMEDES Research on AI, Data Science, and Algorithms

Projects to Policy Seminar
Happy to participate today to the Projects to Policy Seminar (PPS) organized by DG HOME in Brussels for EC projects

Hackathon organization
Happy to share that yesterday a hackathon exercise was successfully organized at the Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University

Invited talk | Dr. Maria Kyrarini
Happy to share that yesterday Dr Maria Kyrarini (Ass. Prof. at Santa Clara University) visited our department for an invited

New paper | The invisible arms race
You can check below one of our recently published articles in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, entitled “The invisible

Invited talk alert | Dr. Maria Kyrarini
We are very happy to share that Dr. Maria Kyrarini (Ass. Prof. at Santa Clara University) will visit our department

Invited talk regarding “Foundation models in robotics”
Happy to visit today the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Santa Clara University in the heart of Silicon

Feeling wonderful to pay a visit to Stanford University!
Happy to share that on the 5th of May I will be giving an invited talk at Santa Clara University

Call for MSc applicants
You can find below the call for applications to the updated MSc program of the Department of Informatics and Telematics,

New paper | IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management, entitled “StatAvg: Mitigating Data

Invited talk | Santa Clara University
Happy to share that on the 5th of May I will be giving an invited talk at Santa Clara University

New paper | CAI 2025
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Conference on Artificial Intelligence (CAI) AI Standard 2025, entitled “State

KLEPTOTRACE final event
Two years investigating complex networks. Designing tools. Spreading knowledge. And most importantly, building a strong, cross-border crew. Thank you, KLEPTOTRACE

Public event | CV Group
On the 8th and 10th of April, members of our team participated in the EpilegoCharokopio2025 (ΕπιλέγωΧαροκόπειο2025) event (organized by Career

Kick-off meeting project FORTIFY
Happy to be invited to participate today and tomorrow to the kick-off meeting of the ISF project FORTIFY in Madrid,

A New Era for AI Research
We are pleased to announce the arrival of the Dell PowerEdge XE9680 with 8 NVIDIA H200 GPUs and the Dell

Invited talk | Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou
Happy to host today Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou (Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) at Department of Informatics and Telematics, Harokopio University

Invited talk alert | Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou
We are very happy to share that Dr. Vagelis Papakonstantinou (Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will visit our department for

New project alert | Salus
Happy to be informed today that our proposal named SALUS: “Strengthening law enforcement with advanced IoT forensic tools and enriched

TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting – Day 2
That’s a wrap on the TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting! On Thursday, March 6th, and Friday, March 7th, we made incredible

TRIFFID 2nd Plenary Meeting – Day 1 Recap
Today, our partners gathered in Rotterdam to discuss key developments in the TRIFFID project. We covered progress updates across multiple

Call for papers | IEEE BigDataService 2025
Please consider the publication venue below, where I serve as a program committee member and my colleague Iraklis Varlamis as

News alert
Thrilled to share that part of our work on handling data heterogeneity in federated learning-based intrusion detection systems has been

Call for papers | IEEE AI STANDARD 2025
Please check the initiative below, where I will serve as a co-chair of the “Computer vision” vertical and my colleague

New Paper
You can find below our recently accepted work in the prestigious Springer Artificial Intelligence Review (5-year journal impact factor: 11.7),

TORNADO Physical Kick off meeting
Happy to participate today and tomorrow, along with other colleagues from HUA computer vision group, to the kick-off meeting of

4th place for Harokopio University
Our university received the 4th place (among 23 candidates) in the recent ranking of Greek Universities, based on the qualitative

New Year’s Cake cutting
Yesterday, after realizing a fruitful discussion with colleagues from other research organizations and industries, targeting the identification of common research

New paper | Elsevier
You can find below our recently accepted work in Elsevier Neurocomputing, entitled “Self-supervised visual learning in the low-data regime: A

New paper | IEEE TTS
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society (IEEE TTS), entitled “The Invisible

IEEE Big Data Workshop 2024
Happy to co-chair (together with Panagiotis Sarigiannidis and Chrysostomos Symvoulidis) the “2nd workshop on Big Data Applications for Fight against

Call for papers | EEITE ’25
6th International Conference in Electronic Engineering & Information Technology (technically co-sponsored by IEEE Greece Section)June 4-6, 2025Chania – Crete, Greece

Invited talk | Dr. Efstratios Gavves
We were particularly honored yesterday to host Dr. Efstratios Gavves (Assoc. Prof. at University of Amsterdam) to our department for

INVITED TALK ALERT | Dr. Efstratios Gavves
We are very happy to share that Dr. Efstratios Gavves (Assoc. Prof. at University of Amsterdam) will visit our department

TRIFFID Physical Kick off meeting
Happy to host today and tomorrow at the premises of the Harokopio University of Athens the kick-off meeting of TRIFFID

6 papers accepted to IEEE Big Data 2024
Happy to share that I am a co-author of 6 papers accepted to IEEE Big Data 2024, in the context

GANNDALF Kick off meeting
Happy to participate today and tomorrow to the kick-off meeting of project GANNDALF (A Ground-breAking collaboratioN framework realizing the next

ARMADILLO kick-off meeting
Happy to participate on the 3rd and 4th of October to the kick-off meeting of project ARMADILLO (Accurate Reliable Portable

BSc thesis defence
I am thrilled and proud to congratulate Jorgen C. on successfully defending today his BSc thesis entitled “Scan image analysis