Collaboration on serious games development

The Multimedia Research Group of Athena Research Centre announces an open call to students and post-grad students of the Engineering Departments of Democritus University of Thrace for a possible collaboration in serious games development. This call is also open for students or post-grads that live in the region and have a programming background and are … Read more

Internships 2014

Two positions have been announced for the 1st quarter of 2014 for students of the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Democritus University of Thrace at the ‘Atlas’ system (http://atlas.grnet.gr) regarding students to practice on multimedia engineering and specifically: Participation in the research and development activities of the Multimedia Research Group of Athena Research … Read more

Web programming and social media integration – Development of a management system for online exhibitions/contests on visual arts

WEB PROGRAMMING AND SOCIAL MEDIA INTEGRATION – DEVELOPMENT OF A MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR OΝLINE EXHIBITIONS/CONTESTS ON VISUAL ARTS The objective of this work was to engage with the technology of content management systems on the Internet with simultaneous interfacing with the social media. In this context and as a case study, it was chosen to … Read more

Motion detection for surveillance using a webcam and OpenCV

MOTION DETECTION FOR SURVEILLANCE USING A WEBCAM AND OPENCV The daily life of modern humans has changed dramatically due to the rapid development of technology. Humans, in their daily activities are acting under the limitation of time and space. As technology improves, these restrictions are diminished or even eliminated. This has a significant impact on … Read more

Analysis of color images for CBIR applications

ANALYSIS OF COLOR IMAGES FOR CBIR APPLICATIONS This work focuses on the content-based retrieval of two-dimensional static color images. The aim was to develop a methodology and a descriptor for color images based on the recognition of global characteristics of the images that will not be affected by rotation and scaling. The descriptor could be … Read more

Real time image processing applications for recognition/identification of persons in smart mobile devices

REAL TIME IMAGE PROCESSING APPLICATIONS FOR RECOGNITION/IDENTIFICATION OF PERSONS IN SMART MOBILE DEVICES In this thesis techniques for developing applications for smart mobile devices running on Android OS were analyzed and described. Furthermore the biometric technology of recognition/identification of persons using optical sensors through realtime image processing has been studied. These techniques have been practically … Read more