Lazaros Karydas

Greater New York City Area
Email: lkarydas_at_gmail.com

I am a highly motivated Software Engineer with strong mathematical background and experience in image and video processing, machine learning, computer vision and computer graphics applications.
I work as a Computer Vision Research Assistant in the Computer Vision Lab at Stevens Institute of Technology.

Projects

VIC

The goal of the project is to identify, label and summarize the groups of people as well as social groups' dynamics, activities and locations documented in a video and image collection.

Shotgun Learning

A novel semi-supervised learning method using temporally consistent data to label streams instead of individual images to build a training set

Technical Skills

Programming Languages: C, C++, Java, MATLAB, Python, Shell, SQL, VHDL, and others
Visualization/3D Graphics: OpenGL, GLSL, Ogre3D, Blender
Frameworks/APIs: OpenCV, Tesseract-ocr
Development Environments: Eclipse, Visual Studio, Xcode
Operating Systems: Linux, Windows, MacOS
HTML, JavaScript, Java Apples, Java Servlets, Apache, Tomcat
Other Technologies: Subversion, Git, LaTeX, Emacs, GNU Build System
Computer Vision - Face Detection/Recognition, Tracking, Clustering, Feature Representations, Classification
Technical Writing

Publications

George Kamberov, Matt Burlick, Lazaros Karydas and Olga Koteoglou
SCAR: Dynamic Adaptation for Person Detection and Persistence Analysis in Unconstrained Videos
8th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2012

George Kamberov, Gerda Kamberova, Matt Burlick, Lazaros Karydas and Bart Luczynski
Collaborative Track Analysis, Data Cleansing, and Labeling
7th International Symposium on Advances in Visual Computing, ISVC 2011

Manolis Falelakis, Lazaros Karydas, Anastasios Delopoulos.
Knowledge-based Concept Score Fusion for Multimedia Retrieval
5th International Conference on Active Media Technology, AMT 2009

Education

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
(estimated) 2011

PhD in Computer Science
Current GPA: 4.0/4.0

Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, USA
2011

MSc in Computer Science
GPA: 4.0/4.0

Carlos III University of Madrid (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid), Spain
Fall, 2005

Fall semester as an exchange student with the Socrates-Erasmus exchange program

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
2009

BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Thesis: Multimedia Retrieval using Fuzzy Description Logic

Certifications

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certification at the American College of Thessaloniki (9/2006-6/2007)

Awards

Gerondelis Foundation Graduate Scholarship