George Galanakis

• Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas

Food preparation is one of the essential tasks in daily life and involves a large number of physical interactions between hands, utensils, ingredients, etc. The fundamental unit in the food preparation activity is the concept of a recipe. The recipe describes the cooking process—the way to make a dish in a sequential order of cooking steps. Frequen...

A web-based authoring platform for the representation of traditional crafts is proposed. This platform is rooted in a systematic method for craft representation, the adoption, knowledge, and representation standards of the cultural heritage (CH) domain, and the integration of outcomes from advanced digitization techniques. In this paper, we present...

A valuable aspect during crime scene investigation is the digital documentation of the scene. Traditional means of documentation include photography and in situ measurements from experts for further analysis. Although 3D reconstruction of pertinent scenes has already been explored as a complementary tool in investigation pipelines, such technology...

Room-sized immersive environments and interactive 3D spaces can support powerful visualizations and provide remarkable X-reality experiences to users. However, designing and developing applications for such spaces, in which user interaction takes place not only by gestures, but also through body movements is a demanding task. At the same time, cont...

Existing, fully supervised methods for person re-identification (ReID) require annotated data acquired in the target domain in which the method is expected to operate. This includes the IDs as well as images of persons in that domain. This is an obstacle in the deployment of ReID methods in novel settings. For solving this problem, semi-supervised...

This work regards the digital representation of tangible and intangible dimensions of heritage crafts, towards craft preservation. Based on state-of-the-art digital documentation, knowledge representation and narrative creation approach are presented. Craft presentation methods that use the represented content to provide accurate, intuitive, engagi...

Current technological advancements offer many ways of enhancing disabled peoples’ access to cultural heritage environments. A new generation of social computing technologies and systems is changing the way in which we access cultural heritage, facilitating the inclusion of socially isolated groups of people. Under this perspective, this paper aims...

A computer vision system that employs an RGBD camera network to track multiple humans is presented. The acquired views are used to volumetrically and photometrically reconstruct and track the humans robustly and in real time. Given the frequent and accurate monitoring of humans in space and time, their locations and walk-through trajectory can be r...