Vassilia N. Pashaloudi
Education
PhD in the School of Applied Informatics of the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki, Greece, with subject "Optical Recognition and Printed Reproduction of the Greek Sign Language", March 2005.
BS in
Computer Engineering and Informatics, Dept. of Computer Engineering
and Informatics, University of Patras, Greece, July 1991.
Proffessional Experience
1/1992-10/1992 : Cooperation with the Laboratory of Medical Informatics of the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
2/1993-9/1993 : Cooperation with the company M-Data in the position of technical support.
9/1993-2004:Teacher of informatics in a public high-school in Thessaloniki.
9/1997-2/2001 : Teacher of Informatics in the public Proffessional Constitution Institute in Thermi.
9/2002-6/2003 : Teacher of Informatics in Technological Education Institute of Thessaloniki.
6/2003-6/2004 : Teacher of Informatics in Thessaloniki's Ôechnical Professional School of Special Education (Deaf and Hearing Impaired) .
Works that have already been presented
Research Proposal for Optical Recognition and Printed Reproduction of Greek Sign Language (Abstract, Research Propïsal - only in greek).
Brief translation of the program SNNS v4.2 user manual from english to greek. SNNS is used for the developement of Neural Networks.
Report of hand-morphs coding of the greek sign language (only in greek).
Publications
"On Greek Sign Language Alphabet Character Recognition: Using Back-Propagation Neural Networks" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the Proccedings of the 5th Hellenic European Research on Computer Mathematics & its Applications (HERCMA) Conference, which was held in Athens' University of Economics & Business on September 20-22, 2001.
"Hidden Markov Models for Sign Language Recognition: a Review" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the Proccedings of the 2nd Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN02), which was held in Thessaloniki, on April 11-12, 2002. The Conference was organized by the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Association and the Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki.
"Hidden Markov Models for Greek Sign Language Recognition" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the Proccedings of the 2nd WSEAS International Conference on Signal, Speech and Image Processing, which was held in Skiathos, Greece, on September 25-28, 2002. The Conference was organized by the World Scientific and Engineering Academy and Society.
"Hidden Markov Models for Greek Sign Language Recognition" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Advances in Communications and Software Technologies, p. 265-270, WSEAS Press, 2002.
"On Feature Extraction and Sign Recognition for Greek Sign Language" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the proceedings of ASC 2003 (7th IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing), 14-16 July 2003, Banff, Alberta, Canada.
"Feature Extraction and Sign Recognition for Greek Sign Language" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the proceedings of MED 2003 (11th IEEE Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation), 17-20 June 2003 , Rhodos, Greece.
"Towards an Assistive Tool for Greek Sign Language Communication" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the proceedings of ICALT 2003 (3rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies), 9-11 July 2003, Athens, Greece.
"Comparison of Grammars used for Greek Sign Language Recognition" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Published in the proceedings of TAINN 2003 (12th Turkish Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Neural Networks), 1-2 July, Chanakkale, Turkey.
"Comparison of Grammars used for Greek Sign Language Recognition" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Also published in IJCI, Vol 1, (International Journal of Computational Intelligence).
"Isolated and Continuous Greek Sign Language Recognition with Hidden Markov Models" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. Neural Parallel and Scientific Computations.
"A performance study of a recognition system for Greek Sign Language alphabet letters" V. Pashaloudi and K. Margaritis. To be published in the proceedings of SPECOM'2004 , 9-th International Conference "Speech and Computer", which will be organized in St. Petersburg, 20-22 September 2004.
PHD Thesis "Optical Recognition and Printed Reproduction of the Greek Sign Language" (PDF Only in Greek)
Research Interests
Neural Nets
Hidden Markov Models
Sign Language (ASL, Greek and others)
Languages Spoken
Van-Gogh - Sunflowers
Gauguin - Are you gealous?
Picasso - The dream
Kandinsky
Gauguin - Strange stories