Professors

Dr. Andreas Georgopoulos

Emeritus Professor
Phone: +302107722675
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Andreas Georgopoulos is basically a Surveyor Engineer, who fell in love with Photogrammetry about 40 years ago. Hence he obtained his MSc and PhD (UCL) on this subject and afterwards he chose to teach it to younger students of Surveying as a Professor at NTUA, Lab of Photogrammetry. Cultural Heritage and Monuments are his second love and all these years he is trying to make the one work for the other with some success. He teaches Photogrammetry and Monument Recording to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Surveying and Architecture. His research activities include all kinds of contemporary optical methods for geometrically documenting monuments of all sizes. Among others, he has worked for the geometric documentation of Knossos (in Crete), of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), of the Dafni Monastery (in Athens), of monasteries on Mount Athos, Byzantine Churches in Cyprus and many more monuments all over Greece.

Dr. Charalampos Ioannidis

Professor
Phone: +302107722686
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Dr. Chryssy Potsiou 

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Dr. Efi Dimopoulou

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Dr. Anastasios Doulamis

Associate Professor
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Dr. Maria Pateraki

Assistant Professor
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Maria Pateraki’s research interests are in the converging areas of Computer Vision and Photogrammetry for 2D/3D object extraction and tracking, 3D pose estimation, 3D reconstruction for developing vision systems for real-world problems. She obtained her Ph.D in Photogrammetry (IGP Group) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) and her Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Ιn the past she has been a research associate at the Geomatics Department of the University of Melbourne and the Cooperative Research Center for Spatial Information (CRC-SI) and a postdoctoral fellow at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

She has been actively involved in more than 25 international, EU- and national- funded research projects, in the areas of Computer Vision and Photogrammetry for aerial, satellite, health, archaeological, architectural and robotic applications.

Currently she is an Assistant Professor at the National Technical University of Athens, an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer ScienceFORTH and Research Executive at ORamaVR S.A.. Currently she is the Project Coordinator of two large EU H2020 projects in Smart Environments (sustAGE) and Robotics (FELICE) and the Principal Investigator EU H2020 ACCORDION project.

Laboratory Teaching Staff

Sofia Soile, M.Eng

Laboratory Teaching Staff
Phone: +302107722651
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Sofia SOILE obtained a diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering (1995) Master of Science (MSc.) in Geoinformatics (2013) from the NTUA. She is a member EDIP of the Lab. of Photogrammetry of the SRSE of NTUA. She participates in undergraduate and postgraduate courses, attending exercises and diploma theses. She has a broad professional activity in the fields of Photogrammetry, and Computer Vision and she has worked as a Researcher in more than 40 Research Programs (European, GSRT, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, Archaeological Society of Athens etc.), aiming at the Photogrammetric Data Acquisition and Processing, 3D scanning via Laser Scanners, White Light Scanners, Handheld Scanners, 3D Modeling of Sites, Industrial Applications, Spaces and Complexes Objects, 3D applications for monument restoration, CAD modeling, 3D Inspection, Structure Monitoring, Deformation Analysis, Processing and Modeling of Point-Cloud Data, BIM Modeling, Computer Vision Techniques in Monuments, Multidimensional (5D) Spatial Systems Information etc. She is co-author in more than 50 scientific papers in the fields of photogrammetry and compute vision, that have been published in peer-reviewed International Scientific Journals and Conference Proceedings. She is a member of the interdisciplinary team of NTUA, who studied and carried out the interventions for the rehabilitation of the Holy Tomb of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. Also, she is secondment from NTUA to RISA of the TERPSIHORE EU Horizon 2020 project.

Sevasti Tapinaki, M.Eng

Laboratory Teaching Staff
Phone: +302107721999
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Sevasti Tapinaki, Surveyor Engineer NTUA with master in Geoinformation, is a teaching laboratory staff of the Laboratory of Photogrammetry of School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of National Technical University of Athens. She participates to the teaching of undergraduate and postgraduate courses and to the supervision of practice, exercises and diploma thesis. Her scientific interests focus on photogrammetry, 3D modeling and texture mapping, applications of computer vision techniques, the development and management of GIS and Databases, emphasising on Geometric Documentation of Cultural Heritage throughout Greece, Cyprus and Israel. She participates as a researcher in various research programs and in over 20 scientific publications in international journals and conference proceedings.

Regina Chliverou, Photographer M.Sc

Laboratory Teaching Staff

Phone: 2107726245
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Regina Chliverou received her Degree in Photography (1997) from the School of Graphic Arts and Design of the Technological Educational Institute of Athens. She also holds a Postgraduate Degree from the School of Applied Arts of the Hellenic Open University, specializing in Graphic Arts and Multimedia. In 2001, Regina Chliverou was appointed as a Professional Photographer at the Photogrammetric Laboratory of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Since then she has been participating in the educational procedure with lectures and field work in undergraduate and post graduate levels. At the same time she took part so in several research projects as in scientific publications, both in field work and digital image processing.

Dr. Anastasios Lampropoulos

Laboratory Teaching Staff

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Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Panagiotis Agrafiotis

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Panagiotis Agrafiotis is a Postdoctoral Researcher. The last 8 years he worked in 17 research projects as a member of the Lab. of Photogrammetry of NTUA, the Photogrammetric Vis. Lab. of CUT and the ICCS of the School of ECE of the NTUA, with the responsibility of Computer Vision algorithms design, 3D reconstruction, Machine Learning, laser scanning, camera calibration and person detection and tracking for survivor localization. His current research focuses on image-based bathymetry mapping for shallow waters using machine learning. For more information on his research visit here.

Dr. Styliani Verykokou

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Dr. Styliani Verykokou is a postdoctoral researcher at the Lab. of Photogrammetry of the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of NTUA. She obtained a diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering (2013) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), with a degree of 9.29/10. She has been awarded several scholarships and awards by the National Institute of Scholarships of Greece, the NTUA, the Academy of Athens, the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Thomaidion Foundation (Greece) and the Limmat Foundation (Switzerland), as a result of her performance in her studies. In 2020, she obtained her doctoral degree in Photogrammetry from the School of Rural and Surveying Engineering of NTUA, under the supervision of Prof. Charalabos Ioannidis. The subject of her doctoral dissertation was “Georeferencing procedures for oblique aerial images” and it was supported by the Eugenides Foundation scholarship. She has participated in five research projects as a member of the Lab. of Photogrammetry of NTUA and the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of NTUA, with the responsibility of development of photogrammetric and computer vision algorithms, 3D reconstruction, multi-dimensional modelling, change detection, procedural modelling, cultural heritage documentation and augmented reality. She has co-authored more than 20 papers in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and conference proceedings on topics including structure from motion, georeferencing, bundle adjustment, metric exploitation of oblique images, 3D modelling, multi-dimensional modelling, cultural heritage documentation and augmented reality. Her main research interests in the fields of photogrammetry and computer vision include structure from motion, 3D modelling and augmented reality.

Dr. Athina Chroni

Postdoctoral Research Associate

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Dr. Athina Chroni is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Laboratory of Photogrammetry-School of Rural, Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering-National Technical University of Athens. 

She has studied Archaeology and History of Arts at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and has implemented Postgraduate Studies of Advanced Computing and Informatics Systems/Field Digital Culture, at the University of Piraeus-Department of IT and Technical Services, Theme of Postgraduate Thesis “Syros Virtual Museum: The tangible and the intangible element-Integrated cultural heritage management and new museological approaches-Standard data models and controlled vocabularies for cultural goods documentation”, under the supervision of Prof. Joseph Stefanou.

She has obtained her Doctoral Degree from the School of Rural, Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering-National Technical University of Athens under the supervision of Prof. Dimitrios Rokos. The subject of her Doctoral Dissertation has been “Application of Photointerpretation and Remote Sensing in Archaeology” and it was supported by the State Scholarships Foundation.

She has continued her scientific activity with the implementation of her Postdoctoral Research Project “IASIS”, Theme “3-D Digital rendering and web database development for part of the city of Ioannina during the Byzantine and Post-Byzantine/Ottoman period” at the School of Rural, Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering-National Technical University of Athens, under the supervision of Prof. Andreas Georgopoulos.

She has presented her scientific research in various Conferences and related publications.

Furthermore, she has studied Fine Art Photography and has presented in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad her photographic works, having several related publications. She has been awarded the Kounio/Pentax award/12th Photosynkyria Thessaloniki International Photography Festival for her stereoscopic portraits titled “Stereopsis” and distinction in the “Readers and Books” Competition organized by the Greek, French and Swedish National Centers of Book, under the ARIANE European Community Project. Pieces of her work belong to the permanent collections of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography. She has published the photographic albums “Portraits” (1997) and “Stereopsis” (2009), as well as the photographic set “People”/View-Master and reels (2009).

She has given tutorials as an invited Lecturer in the framework of the Interuniversity MSc Program of the National Kapodistrian University of Athens-the University of Patras-the University of the Aegean, MSc “Monument Management: Archaeology, Cities & Architecture”, the MSc Program of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Course “Marine Εnvironment”, as well as in the framework of the Interuniversity Educational Seminars on the “Sustainable Development, Culture and Tradition” organized by Syros Institute.

She has been unanimously appointed Member of the “Society for Epirotic Studies” in 2017 and, later on, unanimously appointed Partner of the “Society for Epirotic Studies” in 2022.  In the year 2019 she has been appointed member of “Eos” Union of Greek Archaeologists, as well as of the “Hellenic Archival Society”. In the year 2020 she has been appointed Member of the “Archaeological Institute of America”, as well as of the “European Association of Archaeologists”.

She is actually working for the General Directorate of Antiquities & Cultural Heritage-Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports-Hellenic Republic and as a Postdoctoral Research Associate for the National Technical University of Athens-School of Rural, Surveying & Geoinformatics Engineering.

athina.chroni@gmail.com

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Athina-Chroni

Ph.D. Students

Eugenia-Nektaria Aroni

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Thodoris Betsas

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Thodoris Betsas is a PhD Candidate at the Laboratory of Photogrammetry SRSGE NTUA since 2022. His research interest is on Photogrammetry, 3D Computer Vision and Remote Sensing and more specifically 3D Semantic Segmentation using data from various sensors (Images, Laser Scanner, LiDAR etc). He has two publications and participation in one EU projects. Lastly, he participates as assistant staff in two undergraduate courses (Photogrammetry I and Digital Photogrammetry), in two on going diploma theses and one master project exercise.

Nikolaos Bakalos

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Argyro Maria Boutsi

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Argyro Maria Boutsi received a diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece, in 2019. She is currently pursuing a PhD degree in Augmented Reality from National Technical University of Athens. The subject of her doctoral dissertation is “Photogrammetric techniques and algorithms optimization for the development of interactive Augmented Reality systems”. Her research interests are in the fields of photogrammetry, Augmented Reality and 3D computer graphics. She is experienced with JavaScript and she has completed substantial projects in Java (Android software development) and C++ (Vulkan API and OpenCV). She has participated in the research project “3D documentation of the Temple of Pythios Appolon in the Ancient Acropolis of Rhodes and the alternative proposals for its restoration” as a member of the scientific working group of surveying engineers of NTUA. She is currently working on the research project “METEORA: Information system for multi-level documentation of religious sites and historic complexes”. She has one peer-reviewed journal article and six peer-reviewed conference papers on topics including 3D web visualization and computer graphics, web development and mobile Augmented Reality. She has also reviewed six scientific papers in international journals with impact factor such as MDPI and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).

Maria Gkeli

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Georgia Kontogianni

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Georgia Kontogianni was born in 1983. Since 2016 she is a Ph.D. candidate in the Laboratory of Photogrammetry. She holds a Bachelor Degree in Surveying Engineer from the Department of Topography from Technological Educational Institute of Athens (2006) and a Diploma Degree in Rural & Surveying Engineer (2013) from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Also, she obtained a Master’s Degree in Geoinformatics (2015) from the same university. Her Ph.D. topic is about the Investigation of Automated Optical Methods in 3D Modelling which is focusing on small artefacts. From 2017 until 2019 she was funded by Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation for her Ph.D. studies. From November 2018 until March 2019 she was a visiting researcher at the Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning Lab of the Geodesy & Geoinformatics Department at HafenCity University of Hamburg (HCU) with Erasmus+ programme.

Her research interests are in the field of Photogrammetry, Digital Cultural Heritage, Serious Games, Computer Vision, Computational Photography, and 3D reconstruction in which she has many publications. Her knowledge of software is related to Photogrammetry and 3D modelling (Agisoft Metashape, CloudCompare, MeshLab, Visual SfM, Apero Micmac, COLMAP, 3D Studio Max), Image Processing (Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Photomatix Pro, Luminance HDR, Zerene Stacker), Game Engine (Unity 3D) and programming (MATLAB, Python, OpenCV, HTML).

Anastasios Michantas

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Panagiotis Misiris

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Daniele Morabito

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Alexandra Papadaki

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Alexandra Papadaki is a researcher in the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and a PhD Candidate in NTUA. She has more than 6 years experience in research and development in both academia and private sector, focusing mainly on Computer Vision and Machine Learning. She has participated as a researcher in 5 research projects as a member of NTUA, Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). She served as a 3D Computer Vision Software Developer in the R&D department of Leica Geosystems Berlin. She has a continuous publication record since 2014, including top-tier conferences (i.e. CVPRW 2020) and has a successful record of Horizon 2020 proposal co-authoring. Her current research focuses on image-based object localization using machine learning.

Elisavet-Konstantina Stathopoulou

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Ellie is a researcher in the 3D Optical Metrology Unit (3DOM) of Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) and a PhD Candidate in NTUA, Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Lab. She holds a MEng. in Surveying from NTUA and a MSc. in Geodesy and Geoinformation Science from TU Berlin. During 2014-2016 she was a Marie Curie fellow under the EU FP7 project “ITN-DCH: Initial Training Network for Digital Cultural Heritage” in the Photogrammetry and Computer Vision Lab (NTUA). She also participated in the project “Rehabilitation of the Holy Aedicule of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem” as a photogrammetry and laser scanning specialist. In 2017-2018 she was a senior fellow of the Visual Geometry and Modelling Lab (VGM) of Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), working on industrial SLAM applications. In October 2018 she joined 3DOM as researcher in photogrammetry and computer vision. Up to now she has served as a teaching assistant in NTUA as well as a tutor in workshops and summer schools, while she co-organized several ISPRS-CIPA events. She was in the editors’ group of the ISPRS Annals and Archives and serves as reviewer in various journals and conferences. Her current research interests are multiview stereo reconstruction and semantic segmentation. Detailed publication list and curriculum vitae can be found in users.ntua.gr/elliestath.

Research Assistants

Margarita Skamantzari, M.Eng.

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Efstratios Koutros

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Koutros Efstratios was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1995. He holds a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineer and a Master Degree in Protection of Monuments in the field of Conservation of Building Materials in School of Architecture, both in National and Technical University of Athens. Right now he is studying for his second Master Degree by research in Intelligent Computer Systems and in particular around Heritage Building Information Modelling Systems. During his scholarship he has taken part in several projects regarding geometric documentation of monuments and archeological areas through new technologies such us photogrammetry, laser scanning. He has participated in the excavation and is a part of “Finding Ancient Tenea” project in Chiliomodi, Grecce, since 2019, providing archaeologists with orthophotographs, 3D models and 2D drawings. At the same time he was part of the EU project HYPERION ‘’leverage existing tools, services and novel technologies to deliver an integrated resilience assessment platform, addressing multi-hazard risk understanding, better preparedness, faster, adapted and efficient response, and sustainable reconstruction of historic areas’’. His area of research is related to geometrical documentation of the monuments. Currently he is involved in the restoration project of Mytilene’s Castle in Lesvos island, in behalf of the Greek Minister of Culture. His work concerns the documentation, through photogrammetry and geodesy, of a specific part of the Castle’s wall alongside with the documentary support of the ongoing archaeological research on each side of the wall He has experience and knowledge in software related to Photogrammetry and 3D Reconstruction (Agisoft Metashape, Geomagic Studio, 3Ds Max, Revit), Drawing (AutoCAD Map, AutoCAD Raster Design), GIS (ArcMap, Q-GIS) and Image Processing (Adobe Photoshop).

Eleni Syrokou

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Eleni Syrokou was born in 1995. Since 2022 she participates in the restoration of the Ottoman Sanctuary School (Medreses) in the castle of Mytilene on behalf of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos. She holds a Diploma Degree at Rural and Survey Engineering Department of National Technical University of Athens. She has also received a Master Degree in the Field of Protection of Monuments from the Architecture School of National Technical University of Athens, with emphasis on the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites. She has already embarked in several projects related to geometric documentation of monuments, using digital methods of data collection and processing. During 2018 – 2021 she participated in the excavation project of Ancient Tenea, in Chiliomodi, Greece. In 2020 she was a researcher in the EU project Hyperion. She is aware of software related to photogrammetry, 3d modeling and texture mapping.

Anastasia Anastasiou

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Anastasia Anastasiou was born in Agrinio, Greece in 1995. She holds a Diploma of Rural and Survey Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens. The subject of her thesis was the Paleochristian church of St. Spyridon in the Medieval Town of Rhodes and more specifically the geometric documentation of the church for the creation of a three-dimensional photorealistic digital model, a video of the 3D model, as well as an interactive tour, using the 3DHOP platform. She is currently in the first year of attendance at a two-year master’s degree programme entitled “Protection of Monuments” at the School of Architecture of the National Technical University of Athens.

She is currently involved in the EU project “Hyperion: Development of a Decision Support System for Improved Resilience & Sustainable Reconstruction of Historic Areas to cope with Climate Change & Extreme Events based on Novel Sensors and Modeling Tools” as a researcher with the object of the geometric documentation of monuments.

She has experience in the field of geometric documentation of monuments, using both geodetic and photogrammetric techniques. More specifically, she has volunteered as an on-site survey engineer at Tenea Project, the excavation project of ancient Tenea taking place in Chiliomodi, Corinth for three consecutive years (September and October 2018-2020). Her duties involved the geometric documentation of the findings of the excavation, as well as the different layers of each section, through the production of 3D models and orthophotographs.

Her technical skills involve laser scanner processing and management software (FARO SCENE), photogrammetry and 3D reconstruction software (including Agisoft Metashape, 3D Systems Geomagic Wrap, Autodesk 3DS Max and PHOTOMOD), CAD software (Autodesk Autocad Map, Autodesk Autocad Raster Design), image and video processing (Adobe Photoshop, Adobe After Effects, GIMP), GIS software (ArcGIS, QGIS) and MATLAB and Java programming language. Moreover she is proficient in TheoLt software which has been used in many of the aforementioned instances of geometric documentation projects, in order to facilitate geodetic measurements. She is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

Argyri Vienna

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Education:
Studied in the school of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering, with major in the scientific field of photogrammetry in the Department of Topography (2014 – 2020).
Student in the Post Graduate Programme “Protection of Monuments” in the School of Architecture – NTUA (2022 – present).

Work experience:
Freelance Surveyor since 2020.
Topographical support of the excavation project of a Mycenaean palace in Agios Vasilios hill, near Xirokambi Laconia, Greece.
Participation in the research program ¨Investigation of automated passive and of active methods for the 3D modeling of objects¨ for the performing research aimed at optimizing the image orientation process from UAVs and the production of large-scale archaeological orthophoto maps.
Participation in the project ¨Geometric Documentation of the monumental cemetery complex at necropolis of Ancient Rhodes¨.
Participation in the project ¨Geometric Documentation of the Archaeological Site of Asklepieion on Kos island¨.

Spoken Languages:
Greek, English, Italian

Dr. Ioannis Rallis

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Dr. Eftychios Protopapadakis

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