Panagiotis PAPADAKIS
Biography
Roles
A. Prof. (HDR) in Informatics & Robotics, IMT Atlantique Bretagne/Pays de la Loire, Department of Informatics, France
Leader of team RAMBO, CNRS Lab-sticc
Associate researcher of IRL CROSSING
Short bio
I obtained the Informatics and Telecommunications Degree and the Doctorate degree in Information Technology from the National University of Athens, Greece, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Since June 2016, I have been appointed as "Maître de Conférences" (Associate professor) at IMT Atlantique Bretagne/Pays de la Loire (formerly known as École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications de Bretagne), Department of Informatics. In April 2023, I defended my Accreditation to Direct Research (HDR in French), entitled "Computer Vision and Robot Navigation in 3D Environments". Since 2020, I am co-leading the team RAMBO, CNRS Lab-STICC, UMR 6285 and I am also an associate member of the International Research Laboratory (IRL) CROSSING.
My main research interests lie in the fields of Robot Control, Robotic Vision and 3D Shape Analysis & Matching with an emphasis on applications related to robotic service assistance technologies and urban search and rescue (USAR). During my doctorate research, I contributed to two international patents in the field of content-based 3D model retrieval. In 2012, I was the UGV pilot of the team that was dispatched to the earthquake-hit area of Emilia Romana in Italy, which was the pioneering mission of a human-robot team for Urban Search & Rescue in Europe. I have (co)authored articles in top-tier journals including the International Journal of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Robotics and Automation Magazine. I have further served as a teaching assistant in the undergraduate course of Computer Graphics at the University of Athens, as tutor to the postgraduate courses of Computer Vision/Perception and Pattern Recognition at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and as teaching assistant to Programming courses at ENSTA ParisTech. I further hold the Cambridge Proficiency of English Language, the Diploma of French Language of 1st degree, the teaching qualification of Section 61 for the French Superior Education as well as the State Diploma of Music Harmony and Degree in Organ.
Projets de recherche
Ongoing:
- VORTEX (Vision-based Reconfigurable Drone Swarms for Fast Exploration), ANR Call for projects TSIA - Domain : Intelligent robot fleets, 2023-2027
- NOETIC (Neuromorphic visiOn and transfEr learning for roboTIc and human-centred appliCations), EU Horizon 2020, R&I, Marie Sklodowska-Curie, Bretagne BIENVENÜE, 2023-2025
- LEASARD (Low-Energy deep neural networks for AutonomousSearch-And-Rescue Drones), ANR CominLabs, 2022, (WP-leader)
- ECFVisuL (Continual, automatic evaluation of the human functional capacity at home with the aid of computer vision), Regional, 2022, (co-PI)
Encadrements
Ongoing theses:
- Robotic Action Planning with Affordances and Large Language mOdels, co-directed with the University of Adelaide, Australia, student : Gaëlic BECHU
- Computer vision-based change detection and correction of the 3D digital twin of telecommunication infrastructures, CIFRE, direction, student : Zakaria LOTFI
- Language & vision-based mobility assistance for visually impaired people, HIT project, student : Aela LE SOMMER
- Fast drone navigation using event cameras, ANR project VORTEX, co-directed with LS2N, student : Kojo Nyamekye Anyinam-Boateng
Completed theses:
- Towards Better Efficiency and Generalization in Imitation Learning: A Causal Perspective, co-supervised with the University of Adelaide, Australia, student: Mohamed Khalil JABRI, 2024
- Monocular SLAM densification for 3D mapping and autonomous drone navigation, CIFRE co-supervised with ENIB & Thales Palaiseau, student: Yassine HABIB, 2024
- Mitigating catastrophic forgetting via feature transfer and knowledge consolidation for deep class-incremental learning, CIFRE co-supervised with ENSTA Bretagne & Naval Group, Brest, student: Quentin FERDINAND, 2023
- Enhancing data informativeness in deep-learning based, point cloud semantic segmentation of industrial scenes, co-supervised with ENIB & SEGULA Engineering, student: Romain CAZORLA, 2023
- Reinforcement Learning-based Control for Safe 3D Navigation of Articulated Tracked Robot Manipulators, Chair M@D, student: Andrei MITRIAKOV, 2022
Post-doc/research engineers :
Ikram Kourbane, ongoing
Hajer Fradi, ongoing
Gaëlic Bechu, completed
Pedro Juan Soto Vega, completed
Alireza Asvadi, completed
Maxime Devanne, completed
Activités de recherche
Cognitive Robotics
Computer Vision
Artificial Intelligence
Scopus profile : https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36960841900
ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2193-8087
Google scholar profile: https://scholar.google.fr/citations?user=4yD9QIYAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
Cours-Enseignements
Programing of Robotics Systems
Computer Vision
C programming Language
Augmented Reality
Vision & Robotics (WASAA winter school)
Scientific publications
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