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Overview of my background and research experience.
Contact Information
| Name | Bill Psomas |
| Professional Title | MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow |
| vasileios.psomas@fel.cvut.cz | |
| Location | Karlovo náměstí 13, Prague, Nové Město 12000 |
Professional Summary
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Visual Recogntion Group of Czech Technical University in Prague. My research focuses on visual and multimodal representation learning.
Experience
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2024 - present Prague, Czech Republic
Postdoctoral Researcher
Czech Technical University in Prague
Conducting research in computer vision and vision-language learning.
- 3 publications in A* conferences (up to date)
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2024 - present Athens, Greece
Visiting Lecturer
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Teaching the “Computer Vision” course in the MSc programme in Data Science and Information Technologies.
- Develop the course materials and assignments
- Deliver lectures and supervised students
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2020 - 2024 Athens, Greece
Doctoral Researcher
National Technical University of Athens
Researcher contributing to multiple research projects in computer vision, remote sensing, and multimodal learning.
- RAMONES (H2020)
- BiCUBES (HFRI)
- iTOBOS (H2020)
- eOSD (KAUST)
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2022 - 2023 Vienna, Austria
Research Intern
Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence
- Developed an attention-based pooling mechanism for convolutional networks and vision transformers
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2020 - 2020 Rennes, France
Research Intern
Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique
- Developed a novel evaluation setting and a novel loss function for deep metric learning
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2019 - 2020 Marousi, Greece
Research Assistant
Athena Research Center
- Contributed to plant species recognition using machine learning and computer vision in the AdVENt project
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2020 - 2024 Patras, Greece
Computer Vision Engineer
Mismatch
- Designed background subtraction algorithms for basketball court imagery
- Trained detectors for player, ball, and digit detection
- Developed automatic pan-and-zoom algorithms
- Worked on jersey color/number datasets and spatio-temporal action localization
Education
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2020 - 2024 Athens, Greece
PhD
National Technical University of Athens
Deep Learning for Computer Vision
- PhD dissertation “Learning Visual and Multimodal Representations”
- 4 publications in A* conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV)
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2018 - 2020 Athens, Greece
MSc
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Data Science and Information Technologies
- Master’s dissertation “Metric Learning - A Deep Dive”
- Specialization in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
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2012 - 2018 Athens, Greece
Diploma
National Technical University of Athens
Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering
- Diploma’s dissertation “Investigation of Greek Character Automatic Recognition Methods in Ancient Epigraphic Images”
- Specialization in Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing