Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas

http://www.iti.gr/

CERTH-ITI was founded in 1998 as a non-profit organisation under the auspices of the General Secretarial of Research and Technology of Greece (GSRT), with its head office located in Thessaloniki, Greece. Since 10.3.2000 it has been a founding member of the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the GSRT.

The most important related areas of R&D activities performed by CERTH-ITI include: image and video analysis, multimedia indexing and retrieval, informational retrieval and knowledge discovery for semantic-web applications, intelligent human computer interaction and intelligent agents, MPEG-7 and MPEG-21 standards. CERTH-ITI is participating in more than 20 EC IST projects and 43 National projects, and is the co-coordinator of four EC IST projects. In particular the Thessaloniki-based Information Processing Laboratory of CERTH-ITI is the co-ordinator of the 5th FP IST "SCHEMA: Network of Excellence in Content-Based Semantic Scene Analysis and Information Retrieval" while its Athens-based Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Lab, collaborating in this project, is the technical coordinator of the FAETHON "Unified Intelligent Access to Heterogeneous Audiovisual Content" 5th FP IST project. Over the last five years, the ITI research team has authored over 85 publications in scientific journals and over 185 presentations to international conferences (for a complete list see: http://www.iti.gr and http://image.ntua.gr.