»  Contact Info
Dept. of Computer Engineering & Informatics
University of Patras
26500 Rio, Greece
Tel: (+30) 2610997463
e-mail: : fotopoulou(at)ceid.upatras.gr, fotopoulou.f(at)gmail.com

»  Education

• 09/2010 – today : PhD student at the Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, university of Patras.
• 06/2010: Graduation – MSc grade: 9.38/10
• 10/2008: Admitted at the MSc joint Graduate program of “Electronics & Information Processing” of the Departments of Computer and Informatics Engineering and Physics.
• 09/2008: Graduation - Diploma grade: 7.1/10
• 09/2003: Admitted at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Technology - Polytechnic School of the University of Patras – Greece.
• 07/2003: Graduated from Peiramatiko Lyceum of Patras - with GPA 18.7/20

»  Research activities

• PhD Thesis: Efficient Management of Image Databases using Intelligent Computational Algorithms.
• MSc Diploma Thesis: Contour-Based Image Database Organization with Application to Leaves (Grade of MSc Diploma Thesis: Excellent -10/10
• Diploma Thesis: Video Summarization (Grade of Diploma Thesis: Excellent -10/10)

»  Publications on international conferences:

• F. Fotopoulou and E.Z. Psarakis. "Spectral Shape Decomposition by Using a Constrained NMF algorithm", ACCV workshop -1st International Workshop on Feature and Similarity Learning for Computer Vision FSLCV14, November 2014, Singapore, to appear.
• F. Fotopoulou and G. Economou. “Graph Based Re-Ranking Method with Application to Handwritten Digits”, 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, CFHR-2014 , Crete, Greece, September 1-4, 2014.
• F. Fotopoulou and E.Z. Psarakis. “A Visibility Graph Based Shape Decomposition Technique”, VISAPP 2014, Lisbon, Portugal, January 5-8, 2014.
• F. Fotopoulou, D. Kastaniotis, I. Theodorakopoulos and G. Economou. “Shape Representation via the Generalized Geodesic Median Point ”, ICPRAM 2013, Barcelona, Spain, February 15-18, 2013.
• F. Fotopoulou, I. Theodorakopoulos and G. Economou. “Fusion in Phase Space for Shape Retrieval ”, EUSIPCO 2011, Barcelona, Spain, August 29-September 2, 2011.
• F. Fotopoulou and G. Economou. “Multivariate Angle Scale Descriptor for Shape Retrieval”, SPAMEC 2011, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, August 26-28, 2011.
• D. Besiris, F. Fotopoulou, G. Economou and S. Fotopoulos. “Video Summarization by a Graph-Theoretic FCM based algorithm”, Proceedings of the IWSSIP-Bratislava, June 24-28, 2008.
• D. Besiris, F. Fotopoulou, N. Laskaris and G. Economou. “Key Frame Extraction in Video Sequences: a Vantage Points Approach”, Proceedings of the IEEE MMSP, Chania, Greece, Oct. 1-3, 2007.

»  Journal publications:

• F. Fotopoulou, N.Laskaris, G.Economou and S.Fotopoulos. “Advanced Leaf Image Retrieval via Multidimensional Embedding Sequence Similarity (MESS) Method”, Pattern Analysis and Applications, 4 December 2011, pp.1-12