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CURRICULUM VITAE
VASSILIS TSAGARIS PhD, MSc, MIEE
CONTENTS
Personal Details .......................................................................................................................... - 2 -
Education .................................................................................................................................... - 2 -
Research and Professional Experience ....................................................................................... - 2 -
Research Interests - Experience .................................................................................................. - 3 -
Communication Skills................................................................................................................. - 4 -
Reviewer – Evaluator - Memberships ........................................................................................ - 4 -
Publications................................................................................................................................. - 5 -
Journals ................................................................................................................................. - 5 -
Chapter Book ........................................................................................................................ - 6 -
Invited Article ....................................................................................................................... - 6 -
International Conferences..................................................................................................... - 6 -
Citations ...................................................................................................................................... - 8 -
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PERSONAL DETAILS
Name – Surname Date of birth Nationality : e-mail:
Vassilis Tsagaris
21 October 1974 Greek [email protected]
EDUCATION
September 2001 – June 2005
Ph.D. scholarship funded by the Greek Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs, in the Electronics Laboratory, University of Patras, Greece.
Subject: ―Data and image fusion methods – Application to multispectral, hyperspectral and SAR data‖
September 1998 – September 2000
M.Sc. in Electronics at the Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece.
MSc. Thesis: «Digital Watermarking of video – Theory and Implementation».
September 1993 – June 1998
B.Sc. in Physics, Department of Physics, University of Patras, Greece.
RESEARCH AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
September 2008 - Project manager for IRIDA Labs (www.iridalabs.gr). Specifically for project SYNTHESIS, under the Greek Corralia Cluster initiative, project ―Mapping Greek Earth Observation‖ funded by European Space Agency and BalkanGEONet under FP7.
July 2007 – August 2008
Research engineer in the national project ―ASADE, Development of Systems for Airborne and Satellite
Communications‖, funded by the Greek Secretariat of
Research and Technology, undertaken by the University of Patras.
January 2007 – June 2007
Project Manager for Aratos Technologies S.A. in the ESA Start – up project ―ECM-GR Earthquake Crisis
Management Service Design for Greece‖. Involved as
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project manager also in the proposal preparation and clarification - negotiation of the project.
November 2005 – October 2007
Post doc researcher in the IST– FP6 project entitled «ADHOCSYS - Wireless Ad-Hoc Broadband Monitoring
System», undertaken by University of Patras.
October 2003 – October 2005
―Development of a Wed-based network for exhibiting
new image-processing capabilities for earth observation on ESA data‖, project undertaken by University of Patras,
National Technical University of Athens and AUG Signals Ltd (Canada) for the Category 1 program of the European Space Agency (ESA). Project researcher involved in data order and image analysis.
November 2002 – June 2005
―Irakleitos: Data and image fusion methods – Application
to multispectral, hyperspectral and SAR data‖, funded by
the European Social Fund (ESF), Operational Program for Educational and Vocational Training II (EPEAEK II). Project researcher.
December 2004 – October 2005
―Application service providing using GRID technologies‖,
project undertaken by University of Patras and Business Logic LtD, for the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology, Greece.
March 2004 – September 2004
Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, UK for the project ―Reverse engineering human vision system‖ under the
supervision of Prof. Maria Petrou, funded by the Electronics and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), UK.
RESEARCH INTERESTS - EXPERIENCE
COMPUTER VISION DIGITAL SIGNAL
PROCESSING
Image processing, computer vision, super resolution Colour spaces, colour reproduction, human vision system Pattern recognition, neural networks, data clustering,
dimensionality reduction, data mining Information theory based image quality Spectral and higher order spectral analysis
DATA FUSION Image and data fusion methods, decision fusion methods
Objective evaluation of fusion methods. Measures based
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on information theory for assessing fusion methods Data fusion on sensor networks. Ad-hoc networks and
information fusion
COMMUNICATION SKILLS
ENGLISH Excellent
FRENCH Good
REVIEWER – EVALUATOR - MEMBERSHIPS
EVALUATOR: ARTEMIS Joint Initiative FP7 Greek national research projects for the GSRT (General Secretariat of research and Technology)
REVIEWS: Reviewer for the journals: IEEΕ Transaction on Geoscience and Remote Sensing IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters International Journal of Remote Sensing
MEMBER IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineering).
Member of the Greek Space Agency organization International Association of Pattern Recognition, IAPR. Greek Physicist Society.
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PUBLICATIONS
JOURNALS
[J1] V. Tsagaris, V. Anastassopoulos and G. Lampropoulos, ―Fusion of
hyperspectral data using segmented PCT for enhanced color representation‖, IEEE Transactions on Geosciences and Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 10, pp. 2365-2375, 2005. (10 citations)
[J 2] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Fusion of visible and infrared imagery
for night color vision‖, Displays Journal, vol. 26, no. 4-5, pp. 191-196, 2005. (20 citations)
[J3] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Multispectral image fusion for improved RGB representation based on perceptual attributes‖, International
Journal of Remote Sensing, vol. 26, no. 15, pp. 3241-3254, 2005. (6 citations)
[J4] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Assessing information content in color images‖, Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol 14, no, 4, 043007, 2005. (1 citation)
[J5] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―A Global Measure for Assessing Image
Fusion Methods‖, Optical Engineering vol. 45, no2, 2006 DOI: 10.1117/12.683964. (4 citations)
[J6] G. Christoulas, V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Textural Characterization from various representations of MERIS data‖, International Journal of Remote Sensing, 28:3, 675 – 692, 2007.
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[J7] V. Tsagaris, ―Objective evaluation of color image fusion methods‖, Optical Engineering vol. 48, 066201, 2009 DOI:10.1117/1.3153331.
CHAPTER BOOK
[B1] N. Fragoulis, V. Tsagaris,V and V. Anastassopoulos, Information fusion in ad hoc wireless sensor networks for aircraft health monitoring. In Engineering against fracture, 2009 (Springer, The Netherlands).
INVITED ARTICLE
[Α1] V. Tsagaris, G. Panagopoulos and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Using synthetic aperture radar data to detect and identify ships‖, SPIE Remote Sensing Newsroom 2008, DOI: 10.1117/2.1200802.1062.
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
[C1] V. Tsagaris, V. Anastassopoulos ―Bispectral Contents of Sigma-Delta Sequences‖, 6th International Workshop on Intelligent Signal Processing and Communications Systems, ISPACS 98, Vol. II, pp. 798-802, Melbourne, Australia, November 5-6, 1998
[C 2] J. Dokas, V. Tsagaris, V. Anastassopoulos ―Higher order spectral analysis of nonlinear
behavior in S-D modulators‖, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, pp. 1049-1052, 2002.
[C 3] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Multispectral image fusion method using perceptual attributes‖, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5238, 2003, pp. 357-367, 2003.
[C 4] A. Ifantis, Ch. Theoharatos, V. Tsagaris and G. A. Tselentis, ―Experimental Changes of the Hurst Exponent Behaviour of the Geoelectrical Potential and its Possible Relation to the Changes of the Spectral Power-Law Exponent of the Seismic Activity in the Western Greece‖, EUSIPCO 04, Vienna, Austria, Sept. 7-10, 2004.
[C 5] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos and N. Giannopoulos, ―Colour display strategies for
enhanced representation of MERIS data‖, ENVISAT Symposium, September 2004, Austria.
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[C 6] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Feature Extraction for MERIS data‖, ENVISAT
Symposium, September 2004, Austria.
[C 7] V. Tsagaris and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Information measure for assessing pixel-level fusion methods‖, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5573, 2004, pp. 64-71.
[C 8] V. Tsagaris, A. Panagiotopoulou and V. Anastassopoulos, ―Interpolation of multispectral data using neural networks‖, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5573, 2004, pp. 460-470.
[C 9] V. Tsagaris, G. Christoulas and V. Anastassopoulos, ―A measure for evaluation of the information content in color images‖, International Conference of Image Processing (ICIP) 2005, I- 417-20, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/ICIP.2005.1529776.
[C 10] V. Tsagaris, V. Anastassopoulos and A. Ifantis, “Classification of multitemporal SAR
images for the broader area of Athens‖, Proceedings of SPIE, vol. 5982, 2005.
[C 11] G. Panagopoulos, V. Tsagaris, V. Anastassopoulos, A novel ship identification system based on polarimetric ASAR data, Proc. SPIE 6748, pp. 67480X, 2007.doi:10.1117/12.737570
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CITATIONS
Citations by third authors (no co-authors at any paper)
Journal Paper [J1]
1. Prasad, S.; Bruce, L.M., "Decision Fusion With Confidence -Based Weight Assignment for
Hyperspectral Target Recognition," Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.46,
no.5, pp.1448-1456, May 2008
2. Yingxuan Zhu; Varshney, P.K.; Hao Chen, "Evaluation of ICA based fusion of hyperspectral
images for color display," Information Fusion, 2007 10th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-7,
9-12 July 2007
3. Yingxuan Zhu; Varshney, P.K.; Hao Chen, "Dimensionality Reduction of Hyperspectral Images for
Color Display using Segmented Independent Component Analysis," Image Processing, 2007. ICIP
2007. IEEE International Conference on , vol.4, no., pp.IV -97-IV -100, Sept. 16 2007-Oct. 19 2007
4. Chang, Y.-L.; Liang, L.-S.; Chin-Chuan Han; Jyh-Perng Fang; Wen-Yew Liang; Kun-Shan Chen,
―Multisource Data Fusion for Landslide Classification Using Generalized Positive Boolean
Functions‖, Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on, Volume 45, Issue 6, June 2007
Page(s):1697 - 1708
5. Color in scientific visualization: Perception and image-based data display, Zhang, Hongqin, Phd
Dissertation
6. Du, Q.; Raksuntorn, N.; Cai, S.; Moorhead, R. J., "Color Display for Hyperspectral Imagery,"
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.46, no.6, pp.1858-1866, June 2008
7. Siddiqui, S., Robila, S., Peng, J., Wang, D. ―Sparse representations for hyperspectral data
classification‖ (2008) International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS), 2 (1 ), art.
no. 4779058, pp. II577-II580.
8. Yan, Y.-Z., Zhao, Y., Xue, H.-F., Kou, X.-D., Liu, Y. ―Hyperspectral image classification by
collaboration of spatial and spectral information‖ (2009) Proceedings of SPIE - The International
Society for Optical Engineering, 7383, art. no. 73834B.
9. Demir, B., C elebi, A., Erturk, S. ―A low-complexity approach for the color display of hyperspectral
remote-sensing images using one-bit-transform-based band selection‖ (2009) IEEE Transactions on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 47 (1), art. no. 4689340, pp. 97-105.
10. Kotwal, K., Chaudhuri, S. ―Visualization of hyperspectral images using bilateral filtering‖, (2010),
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 48 (5), art. no. 5395694, pp. 2308-2316.
11. Nagarajan, K., Krekeler, C., Slatton, K.C., Graham, W.D., ―A scalable approach to fusing
spatiotemporal data to estimate streamflow via a bayesian network‖, (2010) IEEE Transactions on
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48 (10), art. no. 5484650, pp. 3720-3732.
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12. Cai, S., Du, Q., Moorhead, R.J., ―Feature-driven multilayer visualization for remotely sensed
hyperspectral imagery‖, (2010) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing , 48 (9), art. no.
5462947, pp. 3471-3481.
Journal Paper [J2]
13. Qiang Zhang; Baolong Guo, "Infrared and Color Visible Images Fusion Based on Second
Generation Curvelet Transform," Industrial Electronics and Applications, 2007. ICIEA 2007. 2nd IEEE
Conference on , vol., no., pp.2118-2123, 23-25 May 2007
14. Colorization Algorithm Using Wavelet Packet Transform, Kyung-Woo Ko, Oh-Seol Kwon, Chang-
Hwan Son and Yeong-Ho Ha
15. Hogervorst, M.A.; Toet, A., "Fast and true-to-life application of daytime colours to night-time
imagery," Information Fusion, 2007 10th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-8, 9-12 July 2007
16. Hogervorst, M.A. & Toet, A. 2008, "Method for applying daytime colors to nighttime imagery in
realtime", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 6974, art. no. 697403
17. Ko, K.-., Kwon, O.-., Son, C.-. & Ha, Y.-. 2008, "Color embedding and recovery based on wavelet
packet transform", Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 010501-01050110.
18. Ko, K.-., Kwon, O.-., Son, C.-., Kwon, E.-. & Ha, Y.-. 2007, "Color recovery from gray i mage based
on analysis of wavelet packet sub-bands", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical
Engineering 6493, art. no. 64930Z.
19. Qian, Y., Zhang, J., Tian, S., Chao, Q., Zhou, Z. & Chang, B. 2008, "The real-time processing system
of infrared and LLL image fusion", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical
Engineering 6623, art. no. 66231Y.
20. Toet, A. & Hogervorst, M.A. 2008, "Portable real-time color night vision", Proceedings of SPIE - The
International Society for Optical Engineering 6974, art. no. 697402 .
21. Li, G.-X., Xu, S.-Y. ―Fast color transfer method for image fusion‖ (2009) Guangxue Jingmi
Gongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering , 17 (9), pp. 2231-2310.
22. Toet, A., Hogervorst, M.A. ―TRICLOBS portable triband color lowlight observation system‖
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering , 7345, art. no. 734503, 2009 .
23. Gu, X., Sun, S., Fang, J. ―Coloring night vision imagery for depth perception” (2009) Chinese Optics
Letters, 7 (5), pp. 396-399.
24. Bulanon, D.M., Burks, T.F., Alchanatis, V. ―Image fusion of visible and thermal images for fruit
detection” (2009) Biosystems Engineering, 103 (1), pp. 12-22.
25. Shen, S., Berns, R.S., Choe, W., Lee, S., Kim, C. ―Exploiting color filter array sensor NIR spectral
sensitivity to improve color accuracy: Spectral reflectance analysis―(2008) Final Program and
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Proceedings - IS and T/SID Color Imaging Conference, pp. 183-188.
26. Jang, J.H., Ra, J.B. ―Pseudo-color image fusion based on intensity-hue-saturation color space‖
(2008) IEEE International Conference on Multisensor Fusion and Integration for Intelligent Systems , art.
no. 4648093, pp. 366-371.
27. Xiaojing, G., ShaoYuan, S., Jian'an, F. ―Real-time color night-vision for visible and thermal images‖
(2008) Proceedings - 2nd 2008 International Symposium on Intelligent Information Technology Application
Workshop, IITA 2008 Workshop, art. no. 4732013, pp. 612-615.
28. Li, G., Xu, S., An efficient color transfer method for fusion of multiband nightvision images,
(2009) Proceedings - 2009 International Conference on Information Engineering and Computer Science,
ICIECS 2009, art. no. 5365758.
29. Hogervorst, M.A., Toet, A. ―Presenting nighttime imagery in daytime colours‖ (2008) Proceedings of
the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008, art. no. 4632280 .
30. Li G. Xu S., Zhao X, ―An efficient color transfer algorithm for recoloring multiband night vision
imagery‖, 2010, Proceeding of the SPIE, The International Society for Optical Engineering 7689, art. no.
76890A.
31. Hogervorst, M.A., Toet, A., ―Fast natural color mapping for night-time imagery‖, (2010) Information
Fusion, 11 (2), pp. 69-77.
32. Li, G., Xu, S., Zhao, X. ―Fast color-transfer-based image fusion method for merging infrared and
visible images‖, (2010) Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering , 7710, art.
no. 77100S.
33. Li, G.-X., Xu, S.-Y., Zhao, Y.-L., Sun, T.-Y., ―Fast color image fusion based on color transfer
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1647.
Journal Paper [J3]
34. Du, Q.; Raksuntorn, N.; Cai, S.; Moorhead, R. J., "Color Display for Hyperspectral Imagery,"
Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.46, no.6, pp.1858-1866, June 2008
35. Jacobson, N.P.; Gupta, M.R.; Cole, J.B., "Linear Fusion of Image Sets for Display," Geoscience and
Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.45, no.10, pp.3277-3288, Oct. 2007
36. Hogervorst, M.A. & Toet, A. 2008, "Method for applying daytime colors to nighttime imagery in
realtime", Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering 6974, art. no. 697403
37. Li, C., Ju, M., Bi, D.-Y., Xu, J.-J.―An unsharp-mask image enhancement algorithm based on human
visual system‖(2009) Guangdian Gongcheng/Opto-Electronic Engineering, 36 (9), pp. 110-117.
38. Hogervorst, M.A., Toet, A. ―Evaluation of a color fused dual-band NVG‖ (2009) Proceedings of
SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 7345, art. no. 734502.
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39. Hogervorst, M.A., Toet, A. ―Presenting nighttime imagery in daytime colours‖ Proceedings of the
11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008, art. no. 4632280 .
Journal Paper [J4]
40. Zhou, Xiaodong; Zhang, Chunhua; Li, Song, "A perceptive uniform pseudo -color coding method
of SAR images," Radar, 2006. CIE '06. International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-4, Oct. 2006
41. Cai, S., Du, Q., Moorhead, R.J., “Feature-driven multilayer visualization for remotely sensed
hyperspectral imagery‖, (2010) IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, 48 (9), art. no.
5462947, pp. 3471-3481.
Journal Paper [J5]
42. Petrovic, V.; Cootes, T.; Pavlovic, R., "Dynamic image fusion performance evaluation," Information
Fusion, 2007 10th International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1 -7, 9-12 July 2007
43. Yifeng Niu, Lincheng Shen, "The Optimal Multi -objective Optimization Using PSO in Blind Color
Image Fusion," mue, pp. 970-975, 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Ubiquitous
Engineering (MUE'07), 2007
44. Blasch E., Li X., Chen G., Li W., ―Image quality assessment for performance evaluation of image
fusion ‖, Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Information Fusion, FUSION 2008 ,
art. no. 4632263.
45. Stathaki T., ―Image fusion : Algorithms and Applications‖, Academic Press, 2008.
Chapter book [B1]
46. The opportunities and challenges associated with wireless interconnects in aircraft, M. Panitz, D.C.
Hope, T. Sato et el., Journal of Aerospace Engineering, vol. 244, part G, DOI:
10.1243/09544100JAERO566
Conference [C3]
47. Research on the Comparison of Color Image Enhancement Techniques, Yang Yongyong, Lin
Xiaozhu, Journal of Beijing Institute of Petro—chemicaI Technology VoI-14 NO.3 Sep.2006.
48. Variational Approach to Image Enhancement and Pseudo-Color Mapping, Journal of Data
Acquisition& Processing, Vo1.2O No.1 March 2005
Conference [C8]
49. Myungjin Choi, "A new intensity-hue-saturation fusion approach to image fusion with a tradeoff
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parameter," Geoscience and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on , vol.44, no.6, pp. 1672-1682, June
2006
Conference [C10]
50. Zhou, Xiaodong; Zhang, Chunhua; Li, Song, "A perceptive uniform pseudo -color coding method
of SAR images," Radar, 2006. CIE '06. International Conference on , vol., no., pp.1-4, Oct. 2006