Dr S. Tsekeridou
Tsekeridou received the Diploma of Electrical Engineering in 1996 and the PhD degree in Informatics in 2001 both from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. During her undergraduate studies, she has been a trainee at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany and has taken up part of the organization responsibilities of the 1995 Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing workshop. While pursuing her PhD, she has been involved in research activities under many European funded R&D Projects and has served as teaching assistant in Digital Signal Processing undergraduate courses. As a PhD candidate, she has been a visiting researcher at Tampere University of Technology, International Center for Digital Signal Processing, Tampere, Finland, where she lectured twice at postgraduate students and researchers on MPEG2 error concealment techniques. During May 2001 – June 2003, she has been employed at the New Technologies Department, INTRACOM S.A., Athens, where she has been involved in project and technical management tasks as well as research activities related to FP5 European funded R&D Projects dealing with next generation enhanced and interactive digital TV applications (PiSTE: Personalized Immersive Sports TV Experience, MELISA: Multi-platform e-Publishing for Leisure and Sports Advertising). During the academic year 2002-2003, she served as a temporary Assistant Professor at the Cultural Technology Department, University of the Aegean, lecturing on Informatics courses. At the same time, she undertook teaching assistantship responsibilities at Athens Information Technology Institute (in English) related to the post-graduate course “Information Systems Modeling” and the distance learning course “Digital Signal Processing”. In June 2003, she was appointed Lecturer at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece. She continued her collaboration with INTRACOM S.A. as external consultant until December 2003.
Her research interests lie in the areas of signal, image, video and multimedia processing, pattern recognition, computer vision, multimedia information systems, virtual and augmented reality, watermarking for copyright protection, content-based audio-visual analysis, description and indexing, enhanced and interactive digital TV applications employing MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and MPEG-7/TV Anytime standards, metadata modeling, user profiling and personalization algorithms, content adaptation, context awareness and semantic web technologies. She has published eight papers at international scientific journals, many international conference papers and has contributed to the TV Anytime standardization body and specifically to the Business Models and Metadata working groups as well as recently to the MPEG standardization body.
During her undergraduate studies Dr. Tsekeridou received a scholarship from the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. She is a member of IEEE and the Technical Chamber of Greece.