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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 tsagaris@upatras.gr

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

technique‖, (2010) Guangxue Jingmi G ongcheng/Optics and Precision Engineering, 18 (7), pp. 1637-

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