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 Prof. Dimitrios A. Karras National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Greece |
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| Title: A Comprehensive Overview of Advances in Deep Learning Methods, Applications and Trends IN Geosciences and Remote Sensing | |
| Abstract: This keynote speech aims at providing a concise overview of recent advances in general deep learning frameworks and strategies, algorithms, architectures and their applications to a variety of signal and information processing tasks focused in Geosciences and Remote sensing. The main application areas of deep learning span speech recognition, computer vision and more that have already been transformed by the successful use of this technology as well as application areas that have the potential to be improved significantly by involving such models and that have been gaining advantages from recent research, including data mining, information retrieval and multimodal information processing involving multitask deep learning. Although Geosciences and Remote Sensing could benefit a lot by involving such models there is no comprehensive overview report of their applications in this field, and the so far gained results. This is the first goal of this speech, namely to outline these relevant advances. Moreover, the open problems in deep learning as well as the challenges met in Geosciences and Remote sensing research will be discussed in detail and new approaches in the solution of such problems will be mentioned, including initialization of deep neural networks architectures, efficient training of unsupervised and supervised deep learning architectures. Finally, future trends and prospects in the theory and applications of deep learning models in Geosciences and Remote sensing will be reported. | |
| Biography: Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph. Degree in Electrical Engineering, from the NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. From 1990 and up to 2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece. Since 2004, after his election, he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as associate professor in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, till 12/2018, as well as with the Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics as a visiting professor in Communication Systems (the latter since 2002 and up to 2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Digital and Intelligent Systems, Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General as well as adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the EPOKA university (2018-2020), Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana and Arden Univ. UK (2021- ). He has published more than 70 research refereed journal papers in various areas of intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent and distributed systems, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing and systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security. He has served as program committee member as well as program chair and general chair in several international workshops and conferences in the fields of signal, image, communication and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as associate editor in various scientific journals, including CAAI, IET. He has been cited in more than 2390 research papers (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IxQurTMAAAAJ&hl=en), his H/G-indices are 20/48 (Google Scholar) and his Erdos number is 5. His RG score is 31.42 ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Karras2/) | |
