Category: Publicity, Exhibitions & Awards

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MediaLab at the Athens Science Festival

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MediaLab participated in the Athens Science Festival event as part of the Athena Research Centre’s science and technology exhibition at the Technopolis-Athens. Great week for young people and the general public to peek at the weird and wonderful world of science and technology!

MediaLab’s exhibition theme was “3D scanning, viewing and printing” and was briefly described as follows:

Digitization (or scanning) of objects in three dimensions is now a widespread practice that enables the complete optical documentation of the objects of our world.
With the real-world objects being brought to a 3D virtual world, we have the possibility of inspecting them interactively from any desired viewpoint, gaining significantly more insight than by a typically viewing a photo that provides just a single static viewpoint.
In the specific case of the digital documentation of cultural heritage, 3D digitization has been successfully used in capturing the geometry and colour of objects or monuments with multiple objectives, such as recording the current state (visual documentation), providing means for enhanced study-investigation, supporting conservation-restoration activities, empowering education and culture dissemination, even supporting physical reproduction using 3D printing.
The cultural technology team at the MediaLab of “Athena RIC” has developed extensive know-how in cultural technologies and specifically 3D digitization and VR applications in cultural heritage and presents here contemporary approaches for 3D digitization of cultural objects, along with easy-to-use techniques for Web dissemination and simple 3D printing capabilities.

MediaLab’s participation included the demonstration of

  • two 3D scanning techniques (based on structure from motion and structured light)
  • 3D viewing of 3D scanned content in 3D TVs without glasses
  • 3D printing of 3D scanned or modelled content on a simple 3D PLA-based printer
  • a virtual museum framework for educational practice based on gaming technologies
  • a game-based learning integrated educational system based on gaming technologies, along with Doukas Schools, Omega Technology and Byte Computer

Here is a gallery of photos of MediaLab’s exhibition at the event:

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MediaLab at the European Researchers’ Night event

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MediaLab participated in the European Researchers’ Night event as part of the Athena Research Centre’s science and technology exhibition at the NCSR Demokritos. Fortunately the weather was great and the event was really crowded till midnight!

MediaLab’s exhibition theme was “Three-dimensional (3D) digital recording and printing: application to Cultural Heritage” and was briefly described as follows:

Digital recording of objects (or digitisation or scanning) in 3 dimensions is now a widespread practice that enables us complete visual recording of the objects of our world. The digital copies that 3D digitisation produces give us the opportunity of examining the objects from any desired angles, surpassing viewing a conventional picture that simply attaches an angle.
Particularly in the cultural heritage domain, 3D digitisation has been applied with great success to accurately record the geometry and colour of objects or monuments with multiple objectives: taking a snapshot of the current situation (visual documentation), promoting the study, restoration, education, dissemination and replication even production of real world copies with 3D printing.
MediaLab shows in this event how is currently feasible to capture in 3D objects of cultural value with photographic techniques, to present them to the Internet or on 3D displays and to reproduce them with 3D printing.

Here is a gallery of photos of MediaLab’s exhibition at the event:

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Call for collaboration under the Greek National Project ‘GameIt’

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The Multimedia Research Group has an open call for 4 external collaborators for the purposes of the Greek National Project ‘GameIt‘. The call is open till June 19, 2014, 15:00. A brief description of the vacancies is as follows:

  1. Two (2) electrical or informatics engineers for the development of
    • Ontology mapping system
    • Serious games scenario editor (world & scenario editor)
    • Multiplayer online game system
  2. Two (2) historians/archaeologists or/and art historians for
    • Collection and cataloguing of cultural and educational sources
    • Analysis and rating of cultural and educational resources
    • Mapping of ontologies of various resources to the ontology of ‘GameIt’
    • Collection, cataloguing and analysis of thesauri and vocabularies

Extensive call description can be found at the ILSP job vacancies page.

—————————————— Greek version

Η Ομάδα Έρευνας Πολυμέσων αναζητά 4 συνεργάτες για τις ανάγκες του Εθνικού έργου ΠΑΒΕΤ ‘GameIt‘. Η πρόσκληση είναι ανοικτή έως τη 19η Ιουνίου 2014, ώρα 15:00. Μια συνοπτική περιγραφή των εν λόγω θέσεων ακολουθεί:

  1. Δύο (2) μηχανικοί/πληροφορικοί για την ανάπτυξη
    • Συστήματος αντιστοίχισης οντολογιών
    • Μηχανή συγγραφής σεναρίων παιχνιδιών (world & scenario editor)
    • Σύστημα πολυσυμμετοχκού διαδικτυακού παιχνιδιού
  2. Δύο (2) ιστορικοί/αρχαιολόγοι ή/και ιστορικοί τέχνης για
    • Συλλογή και καταγραφή πολιτιστικών και εκπαιδευτικών πηγών
    • Ανάλυση και διαβάθμιση πολιτιστικών και εκπαιδευτικών πηγών
    • Αντιστοίχιση οντολογιών πηγών με την οντολογία του έργου ‘GameIt’
    • Συλλογή, καταγραφή και ανάλυση θησαυρών όρων και λεξικών

Αναλυτική περιγραφή της πρόσκλησης βρίσκεται στη σελίδα ανοικτών θέσεων συνεργασίας του ΙΕΛ.

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Invited talks at AUTH seminar

Anestis Koutsoudis and George Pavlidis participated in the Seminar “Diagnostic techniques in the science of artworks curation” organized by the Crossdisciplinary Postgraduade Programme “Protection, Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Monuments” of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, held 17th-19th Feb. 2012.

This included invited talks at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a visit at the Multimedia Department of the Athena Research Center in Xanthi.

Here is the seminar program (greek).
Here is a simplified PDF version Dr. Koutsoudis’ talk (greek) and a simplified PDF version of Dr. Pavlidis’ talk (english).

Here are a couple of photos from the 3D technologies demonstration @ the Multimedia Department.

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“Thrace 2010” Exhibition Award


With the support of the General Secretariat for Research and Technology of the Hellenic Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs, CETI/Athena participated in the 19th National Trade Fair “Thrace 2010” held in Komotini between 27 and 30 May 2010. At the Exhibition, the Institute was awarded the prize of the “Best participation and organization of exhibition pavilion” for its integrated and flawless functionally and aesthetically organization.

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Award of Excellence

The Excellence Award for projects in digital culture was awarded to the Institute for its successful participation in Calls 65 and 172 of the Operational Programme “Information Society” of the Third Framework Programmes 2000-2006, and specifically for the project “DIGITECH-III: Study of three-dimensional digitisation technologies” coordinated by Dr. George Pavlidis, Principal Researcher of the Institute.

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Symposium “ICTs in Cultural Heritage”

The Department of Multimedia participaed in the International Symposium “Information and Communication Technologies in Cultural Heritage” held in Ioannina, Greece, Oct. 16-18, 2008, with the work “Museums In The Virtual World”.

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“Digital Innovation for the Society of Knowledge”

The Department contributed to the planning and organization of the Institute’s participation to the Workshop “Digital Innovation for the Society of Knowledge” organized by the ‘ATHENA’ Research Center on March, 19th, 2008, held at the Eugenides Foundation, Athena, Greece.
The Department co-ordinated a roundtable on the “Applications of 3D technologies in culture”, under the thematic unit “Pictures from the digital future: emerging technologies of information” with the kind participation of:

  • Dr. George Pavlidis, ATHENA – Three-dimensional digital recording
  • Prof. Christodoulos Chamzas, ATHENA/DUTH – Enhancement of Cultural Heritage using three-dimensional reconstruction technologies
  • Prof. Andreas Georgopoulos, NTUA – New Technologies at the service of Geometric Documentation of Monuments
  • Prof. Vasilios Tsioukas, DUTH – The Role of Education in the Documentation of Monuments

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HELEXPO 2007

The Department made great efforts for the organization and presentation of the Institute’s participation in HELEXPO 2007 International Exhibition of Thessaloniki.

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Getting in touch with the Army


The Department, along with the other Departments of the Institute, organized a workshop for the Fourth Army Corps, during May 2007, regarding new technologies in culture and education, where the Institute excels, while proposing a possible cooperation and applications for the Army.
In a sign of honor the Fourth Army Corps awarded the Institute a commemorative plaque.

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HELEXPO 2006

The Department made great efforts for the organization and presentation of the Institute’s participation in HELEXPO 2006 International Exhibition of Thessaloniki.

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Third International Conference of Museology

A very successful participation of the Department in the Third International Conference of Museology held at Mytilene, Greece, on 5-9 June, 2006. Two papers and two posters accepted for publication.

  • G. Pavlidis, D. Tsiafakis, F. Arnaoutoglou, K. Balla, A. Pikrakis, C. Chamzas, “Musical Universe”
  • G. Pavlidis, D. Tsiafakis, A. Koutsoudis, F. Arnaoutoglou, V. Tsioukas, C. Chamzas, “Recording Cultural Heritage”
  • G. Pavlidis, D. Tsiafakis, G. Provopoulos, S. Chatzopoulos, F. Arnaoutoglou, C. Chamzas, “MOMI: A dynamic and internet-based 3D virtual museum of musical instruments”
  • G. Pavlidis, N. Tsirliganis, D. Tsiafakis, F. Arnaoutoglou, C. Chamzas, “3D digitization of monuments: the case of Mani”