VVR group members win First Prize at BRAIN.IO hackathon, IEEE BIBE 2019, Athens, Greece. VVR group undergraduate student Michalakis George and graduate students Papandreou Andreas and Chatzikalymnios Aggelos, won the IEEE first price of the g-tec sponsored BRAIN.IO hackathon in the context of the IEEE BIBE conference that was held in Athens, Greece on October … Read More
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Finalist in the category “Tech of Society” for the Innovation Radar Prize 2019
The Visualization and Virtual Reality Group has been selected by the European Commission as a finalist in the category “Tech of Society” for the Innovation Radar Prize 2019. The Innovation Radar is among others a “scouting” activity of the EC and aims to identify innovative research of single organizations in the context of European projects. … Read More
IEEE Worldhaptics 2019, Tokyo : Best Student Innovation Challenge Award
VVR group undergraduate students Nikolaos Tsagkas and Ioannis Koutoulogenis, supervised by Associate Professor Konstantinos Moustakas, won the “Best Student Innovation Challenge Award” of the Hyundai sponsored SIC-Mobility Challenge in the context of the IEEE Worlhaptics conference that was held in Tokyo, Japan on July 9-12, 2019. Initially, the group had been accepted as one of … Read More
IEEE VR Osaka 2019
VVR group undergraduate students Ioanna Balasi, Agapi Chrysanthakopoulou, Konstantinos Kalatzis, Dimitrios Laskos, Michail Pavlou, Sokratis Zouras and research assistant Dimitrios Bitzas, supervised by Associate Professor Konstantinos Moustakas, have been accepted and presented their project “VitaZ: Gamified Mixed Reality Multisensorial Interactions” in the final of the 3DUI contest of IEEE VR 2019 that was held in … Read More
Dimitar Stanev has been named an inaugural OpenSim Fellow
Dimitar Stanev has been named an inaugural OpenSim Fellow of the NIH National Center for Simulation in Rehabilitation Research (NCSRR). The NCSRR fellows program recognizes individuals with a deep expertise in biomechanical modeling and computer simulation and a strong commitment to the OpenSim modeling and simulation community. The NCSRR is a National Institutes of Health … Read More
Technical achievement award, Stanford OpenSim workshop
The Visualization and Virtual Reality Group and Dimitar Stanev received the Grand Technical Award, among the twenty teams that participated in the OpenSim Advanced User Workshop that was held at Stanford University during 28-31 March 2018. The submitted proposal, with title “Multi-scale analysis of the knee complex” aims to develop multi-scale, patient-specific models of the … Read More
BEST PAPER AWARD IEEE ICME 2017 , Completion of Animated Meshes
The paper entitled “Efficient Graph-based Matrix Completion on Incomplete Animated Models” has been accepted for publication to IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and EXPO 2017 (acceptance rate for oral presentation 15% and 15% for Posters) and has been selected by the 10K Best Paper Award Committee of IEEE International Conference of Multimedia and EXPO to … Read More
IEEE ISSPIT 2015 BEST PAPER AWARD ABU DHABI, UAE , DEC. 2015
VVR LAB researchers Aris Lalos, Iason Nikolas and Konstantinos Moustakas have received the best paper award for the paper titled “Sparse Coding of Dense 3d Meshes in Mobile Cloud Applications” presented in Proc. IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT 2015), Abu Dhabi, UAE, Dec. 2015
Technical achievement award , Stanford university advanced OpenSim users workshop
The VVR group receives the technical achievement award during the advanced OpenSim users workshop at Stanford university for modeling, integrating and simulating neural signals in musculoskeletal biomechanical simulations.