P. Maragos gave an inivited seminar at the University of Pennsylvania, GRASP Lab, Philadelphia, 05 Oct. 2012, on "Morphological and Variational Methods in Image Analysis and Vision".

P. Maragos gave an invited talk at the FIRST Workshop on Image Processing in Jerusalem, Israel, 13 Sep. 2012, on "Sign Language Recognition".

Award
CVSP Members V. Pitsikalis, S. Theodorakis and P. Maragos with AthenaRC-ILSP Collaborator C. Vogler are co-recipients of the Best Paper Award at the IEEE CVPR-2011 Workshop on Gesture Recognition (Colorado Springs, USA, June 2011), for the paper "Advances in Phonetics-based Sub-Unit Modeling for Transcription Alignment and Sign Language Recognition", co-authored by V. Pitsikalis, S. Theodorakis, C. Vogler and P. Maragos.

P. Maragos gave a Keynote Talk on "Multimodal Information Processing and Fusion" at the International Gesture Workshop (GW-2011), Athens, May 2011.
CVSP Members I. Rodomagoulakis and S. Theodorakis presented two papers at GW-2011.

P. Maragos co-organized the Dagstuhl seminar on "Innovations for Shape Analysis: Models and Algorithms", http://www.dagstuhl.de/en/program/calendar/semhp/?semnr=11142 , 03-08 April 2011.

Graduation
A. Roussos PhD Thesis Defence.
Title: Nonlinear Diffusion in Computer Vision and Statistical Shape Models With Applications to Analysis of Articulator Images of Spoken and Sign Language.
Date: 6-Oct-2010

P. Maragos was Program CoChair of the European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV-2010) in Hersonissos, Crete, Sep.5-11, 2010, and co-organized its Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity, 11 Sep. 2010.

Award
P. Maragos was elected Fellow of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) for his research contributions and gave an inaugural lecture on "Multimodal Signal Processing and Multidimensional Integration" at EUSIPCO-2010, in Aalborg, Denmark, on 28-08-2010.

NTUA-CVSP co-organized a Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages: Corpora and Sign Language Technologies , in Malta, May 22-23, 2010, as part of the LREC-2010 Int'l Conf.

Announcement: "Diploma Thesis in CV" with "Opportunity for a Diploma Thesis in Computer Vision at Ecole Centrale Paris"

Graduation
S. Leukimiatis PhD thesis defense.
Title: Statistical Signal and Image Processing for Optimal Denoising and Detection with Applications to Satellite Data.
Date: 18-Dec-2009, 14.30

Award
P. Maragos received an Honorary Diploma from the 3rd Forum of Dodecanese Diaspora, Rhodes, Greece, 1-2 Aug. 2009.

1st Greek Signal Processing Jam
EURASIP and the IEEE/SPS organizes the first Greek Signal Processing Jam with many invited speakers.
Date: 17-Oct-2009, 9.30-17.30
Place: University of Athens, New Amphitheater, Propylea, Athens.

PENED03-ED865, Workshop on Digital Cultural Heritage Technologies with Applications at the Pre-Historic Settlement of Akrotiri-Thera[Workshop Program]
PENED03-ED865 Workshop on Digital Technologies applied to cultural heritage applications, focused on Akrotiri, Thera. [Workshop page]
Date: 25-Sept-2009
Place: NTUA Multimedia Amphitheater, Central Library, NTUA Zografou Campus.

Graduation
G. Papandreou PhD thesis defense.
Title: Image Analysis and Computer Vision: Theory and Applications in the Restoration of Ancient Wallpaintings.
Date: 22-July-2009, 14.00

Graduation
A. Katsamanis PhD thesis defense.
Title: Nonlinear Computational Speech Modeling with Elements of Aerodynamics of the Vocal Tract.
Date: 14-July-2009, 15.30

PENED03-ED554,Workshop on Space Telecom & Image/Signal Processing
[Workshop Program]
PENED03-ED554 Workshop on Novel Methods for Transmission, Reception and Analysis of Space-Satellite Signals and Images
Date: 26-Juny-2009
Place: NTUA Library, Multimedia Amphitheater,Zografou Campus.
CVSP Speaker: S. Lefkimmiatis, "Bayesian Multiscale Methods for Photon-Limited Image Denoising".
CVSP Speaker: A. Roussos, "Diffusion Partial Differential Equations for Image Enhancement".

Award
P. Maragos received the 2007 European Signal Processing Association's (EURASIP) Technical Achievements Award "for contributions to Nonlinear Signal Processing and Systems Theory, Image Processing, and Speech Processing" at the EUSIPCO-07 Conference, Poznan, Poland, 3-7 Sep. 2007.

Award
Tasos Roussos received two Student Best Paper Awards:

• from the First Panhellenic E.C.E. Student Conference, Athens, Greece, May 2007, and


• from the First International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, Ischia, Italy, 30 May - 2 June 2007,