Sensors Webinar | Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Sensors Webinar | Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach
Part of the Sensors Webinar Series series
Real-time Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet-of-Things, IoTs
Welcome from the Chairs
Dear Colleagues,
Thank you for joining our webinar. It is our pleasure to host a discussion around a Special Issue on Sensors focused on Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems from a multidisciplinary perspective.
With discussions about AI and IoT gaining momentum, it is imperative for critical educators, researchers, students, and broader professionals/experts to re-evaluate and rearticulate multiple aspects of the technological capabilities, concerns, and challenges of using AI and IoT sensing. Proper usage, security, and ethical matters of employing such timely tools and services are also brought into the discussion, given that the technological evolution is much faster than the advances in the formation of a solid regulatory framework. Among other things, social and age exclusions in the use of the new capabilities must be minimized so as to reach multiple potential users and audiences with different backgrounds and competencies. Thus, literacy activities and interdisciplinary dissemination, as the current webinar aims, are vital for accomplishing the set targets.
Particularly, it is essential to bring forward technology limits and expectations, emphasizing on challenges in real-time wireless cyber-physical systems, on the use of multimodal content analysis services for the non-technologist that might be encountered in Media professionals and Journalism communities, on automating the cyber-physical things domain via low/no code pipelines that average users can comprehend and employ. Highly impacted researchers are implicated as instructors in this event, aiming at highlighting multiple different but also complementary perspectives. With opportunities for radical social and educational transformation becoming foreclosed, the aim of this Webinar (and the associated Special Issue) is to broaden the scope and space of critical pedagogical discourse and the development of related ideas. Therefore, through this webinar, we will discuss the urgency of this call in more depth and initiate a conversation with potential authors.
Date: 1 December 2023
Time: 11:00 am CET | 5:00 am EST | 6:00 pm CST Asia
Webinar ID: 815 1042 7842
Webinar Secretariat: journal.webinar@mdpi.com
Event Chairs
Laboratory of Electronic Media, School of Journalism and Mass Communications, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Charalampos A. Dimoulas was born in Munich, Germany, on August 14, 1974. He received his diploma and Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh) in 1997 and 2006, respectively. In 2008, he received a post-doctoral research scholarship on audiovisual processing and content management techniques for intelligent analysis of prolonged multi-channel recordings at the Laboratory of Electronic Media (School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTh). He was elected Lecturer (November 2009), Assistance Professor (June 2014), Associate Professor (October 2018) and Professor (October 2022) of Electronic Media at the School of Journalism and Mass Communications, AUTh, where he is currently serving.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Eng. Tsardoulias G. Emmanouil obtained his doctorate and engineering diploma from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Greece, in 2013 and 2007 respectively. His research interests are focused in Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things, autonomous Robots, no/low-code tools and platforms, and applied ML. He has worked as a research associate and/or engineer in GRNET, the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of CERTH and the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), in several EU- and National-funded projects. He currently is the technical manager of the Intelligent Systems and Software Engineering group (ISSEL) and the PANDORA research team, as well as the scientific responsible of the Vroom research team. His work has been published in over 75 journal articles, book chapters, and conference publications.
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. Andreas Symeonidis is Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Chief Research Officer at Cyclopt.com. He received his diploma and PhD at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1999 and 2004 respectively and concluded his postdoctoral research on the evaluation of agent efficiency (2005). Software engineering processes, Model-driven engineering, Software quality and Software analytics, Middleware Robotics and Knowledge extraction from big data repositories. He has worked as a Visiting Lecturer at the Department of Informatics, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain (2007-2008) and as a Consultant for the European Commission. Dr. Symeonidis’ work has been published in over 200 papers, book chapters, and conference publications. He is co-author of the books “Agent Intelligence through Data Mining” (Springer publishing), “Mining Software Engineering Data for Software Reuse” (Springer publishing) and “Practical Machine Learning in R” (Leanpub publishing). He is also co-editor of 6 Springer volumes and holds numerous distinctions with the Pandora robotics group (https://r4a.issel.ee.auth.gr/pandora-robotics/) and the Mertacor Software agent group (https://issel.ee.auth.gr/en/ software-algorithms/). He is currently coordinating more than 10 contract R&D projects, while serving occasionally as a R&D project evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission and the Greek state.
Invited Speakers
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr. George K. Karagiannidis was born in Pithagorion, Samos Island, Greece. He received the University Diploma (5 years) and PhD degree, both in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Patras, in 1987 and 1999, respectively. From 2000 to 2004, he was a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Space Applications and Remote Sensing, National Observatory of Athens, Greece. In June 2004, he joined the faculty of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece where he is currently Professor in the Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept. and Head of Wireless Communications & Information Processing (WCIP) Group. He is also Honorary Professor at South West Jiaotong University, Chengdu, China. His research interests fall in the broad area of Digital Communications Systems and Signal processing, with emphasis on Wireless Communications, Optical Wireless Communications, Wireless Power Transfer and Applications and Communications & Signal Processing for Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Symeon Papadopoulos is a Principal Researcher with the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH), Thessaloniki, Greece. He holds an electrical and computer engineering diploma from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a Professional Doctorate in Engineering from the Technical University of Eindhoven, a Master’s in Business Administration from the Blekinge Institute of Technology and a PhD in Computer Science from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His research interests lie at the intersection of multimedia understanding, social network analysis, information retrieval, big data management and artificial intelligence. Dr. Papadopoulos has co-authored more than 40 papers in refereed journals, 10 book chapters and 130 papers in international conferences, 3 patents, and has edited two books. He has participated in and coordinates a number of relevant EC FP7, H2020 and Horizon Europe projects in the areas of media convergence, social media and artificial intelligence. He is leading the Media Analysis, Verification and Retrieval Group (MeVer, https://mever.iti.gr), and is a co-founder of the Infalia Private Company, a spin-out of CERTH-ITI.
Program
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Speaker/Presentation |
Time in CET |
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Part 1: Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems: A Multidisciplinary Approach - Webinar |
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Prof. Dr. Dimoulas A. Charalampos (Chair) Welcome note |
11:00-11:10 |
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Dr. George K. Karagiannidis Challenges in Real-Time Wireless Cyber-Physical Systems |
11:10-11:55 |
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Q&A |
11:55-12:05 |
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Dr. Symeon Papadopoulos Multimodal Content Analysis in the Service of Journalism |
12:05-12:50 |
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Q&A |
12:50-13:00 |
| BREAK | 13:00-13:30 |
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Part 2: No/Low Code Automations for IoT Environments - Workshop Organizers: Prof. Dr. Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis |
13:30-15:30 |
Webinar Recording (Registered Only)
Relevant Special Issue
"Multimodal Sensing Technologies for IoT and AI-Enabled Systems"
Edited by Dr. Emmanouil Tsardoulias, Prof. Dr. Charalampos Dimoulas and Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis
Sponsors and Partners
Organizers
Disclaimer
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