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Vassilis Athitsos is affiliated with The University of Texas at Arlington in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Computer Science, with a particular emphasis on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Additional areas of interest include Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

Their work covers multiple main topics spanning Human Pose and Action Recognition, Hand Gesture Recognition Systems, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Image Enhancement Techniques, Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning, and Video Analysis and Summarization.

They have contributed to various publication venues, with frequent appearances in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Lecture Notes in Computer Science
  • Expert Systems with Applications
  • 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
  • Technologies

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Vassilis Athitsos include:

  • "TriHorn-Net: A model for accurate depth-based 3D hand pose estimation" (2023, Expert Systems with Applications)
  • "Dehaze-GLCGAN: Unpaired Single Image De-hazing via Adversarial Training" (2020, arXiv (Cornell University))
  • "Hierarchical Modeling for Task Recognition and Action Segmentation in Weakly-Labeled Instructional Videos" (2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV))
  • "A survey on recent advances in Sign Language Production" (2023, Expert Systems with Applications)
  • "A Survey on GAN-Based Data Augmentation for Hand Pose Estimation Problem" (2022, Technologies)

In addition to articles, Vassilis Athitsos has contributed to book publications under Springer Science+Business Media, including works titled "Advances in Visual Computing" (2021).

Frequent co-authors in their research include Razieh Rastgoo, Saif Sayed, Farnaz Farahanipad, Mohammad Rezaei, and Reza Ghoddoosian.

Best Publications

  • Fast, reliable head tracking under varying illumination: an approach based on registration of texture-mapped 3D models

    M. La Cascia;S. Sclaroff;V. Athitsos

  • Estimating 3D hand pose from a cluttered image

    V. Athitsos;S. Sclaroff

  • A Unified Framework for Gesture Recognition and Spatiotemporal Gesture Segmentation

    J. Alon;V. Athitsos;Quan Yuan;S. Sclaroff

  • WebSeer: An Image Search Engine for the World Wide Web

    Charles Frankel;Michael J Swain;Vassilis Athitsos

  • Skin color-based video segmentation under time-varying illumination

    L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff;V. Athitsos

  • 3D hand pose reconstruction using specialized mappings

    R. Rosales;V. Athitsos;L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff

  • Multi-modal gesture recognition challenge 2013: dataset and results

    Sergio Escalera;Jordi Gonzàlez;Xavier Baró;Miguel Reyes

  • Estimation and prediction of evolving color distributions for skin segmentation under varying illumination

    L. Sigal;S. Sclaroff;V. Athitsos

  • BoostMap: A method for efficient approximate similarity rankings

    V. Athitsos;J. Alon;S. Sclaroff;G. Kollios

  • The Move-Split-Merge Metric for Time Series

    Alexandra Stefan;Vassilis Athitsos;Gautam Das

  • lambda-Net: Reconstruct Hyperspectral Images From a Snapshot Measurement

    Xin Miao;Xin Yuan;Yunchen Pu;Vassilis Athitsos

  • Distinguishing photographs and graphics on the World Wide Web

    V. Athitsos;M.J. Swain;C. Frankel

  • An appearance-based framework for 3D hand shape classification and camera viewpoint estimation

    V. Athitsos;S. Sclaroff

  • The American Sign Language Lexicon Video Dataset

    V. Athitsos;C. Neidle;S. Sclaroff;J. Nash

  • A survey on vision-based fall detection

    Zhong Zhang;Christopher Conly;Vassilis Athitsos

  • Comparing gesture recognition accuracy using color and depth information

    Paul Doliotis;Alexandra Stefan;Christopher McMurrough;David Eckhard

  • A Realistic Dataset and Baseline Temporal Model for Early Drowsiness Detection

    Reza Ghoddoosian;Marnim Galib;Vassilis Athitsos

  • Nearest Neighbor Retrieval Using Distance-Based Hashing

    V. Athitsos;M. Potamias;P. Papapetrou;G. Kollios

  • SignStream: a tool for linguistic and computer vision research on visual-gestural language data.

    Carol Neidle;Stan Sclaroff;Vassilis Athitsos

  • The ChaLearn gesture dataset (CGD 2011)

    Isabelle Guyon;Vassilis Athitsos;Pat Jangyodsuk;Hugo Jair Escalante

Frequent Co-Authors

Stan Sclaroff
Stan Sclaroff Boston University
George Kollios
George Kollios Boston University
Fillia Makedon
Fillia Makedon The University of Texas at Arlington
Isabelle Guyon
Isabelle Guyon University of Paris-Saclay
Dimitrios Gunopulos
Dimitrios Gunopulos National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Hugo Jair Escalante
Hugo Jair Escalante National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics
Margrit Betke
Margrit Betke Boston University
Leonid Sigal
Leonid Sigal University of British Columbia
Bogdan Georgescu
Bogdan Georgescu Princeton University
Dorin Comaniciu
Dorin Comaniciu Siemens (United States)

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