Nikolaos Nikolaidis

Nikolaos Nikolaidis is a Professor at the Department of Informatics, School of Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His academic career spans multiple roles including Associate Professor (2016-2024), Assistant Professor (2008-2016), and Lecturer (2002-2007) at the same institution.

Education:

• Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1991), Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
• PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1997), Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Thesis: «Digital Processing of Multichannel Images and Video».

Research Interests:

• Computer/robot vision, including synthetic and mixed data generation for AI training.
• Human-centric image/video analysis: facial expression recognition, activity tracking, clustering in 3D data.
• Applications of computational intelligence in computer graphics and gaming technologies.
• Multi-view/sparse data analysis for identity detection and label propagation.

Scientific Contributions:

• Co-authored 1 book, 16 book chapters, 73 journal papers, and 208 conference papers.
• Over 7570 citations (h-index 39) as per Google Scholar.
• Participated in 29 EU/nationally funded research projects.
• Organized 2 workshops (EUSIPCO 2019, IROS 2021) and 6 special conference sessions.

Professional Roles:

• Associate/Area Editor: Signal Processing: Image Communication, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing.
• Former Associate Editor: IET Image Processing.
• Conference Chair roles: Technical Program Chair (IEEE IVMSP 2013), Publicity Co-Chair (EUSIPCO 2015, IEEE ICIP 2018).