George P. Pavlidis
Research Director, Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP), Athena Research Center
Head of the ILSP Xanthi Branch
I work on image processing, computer vision, machine learning and multimedia, with a particular interest in cultural heritage and education. My research connects interpretable learning and visual analysis with 3D digitisation, semantic digital twins and decision support for preventive preservation.
I joined Athena Research Center in 2002 and have served as a Research Director (Researcher A’) since 2015. I hold a Diploma in Electrical Engineering (1995) and a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering (2005) from Democritus University of Thrace. My doctoral work on mixed-document image segmentation and compression received the Ericsson Award of Excellence in Telecommunications.
Research and collaboration
My work spans the coordination of European and national research projects and collaboration on digital documentation, interactive heritage experiences and AI-assisted analysis. The Projects page records individual projects, periods and my role in each collaboration.
My publications address attention mechanisms, the geometry of learned representations, training memory, positive–unlabelled learning and heritage digital twins. Work on Pomak language resources and speech recognition is carried out with linguists and speech-technology colleagues. See selected publications and the accompanying technical articles on this site.
Teaching and scientific service
I teach image processing and multimedia resources in postgraduate Digital Humanities programmes. I founded the International Journal of Computational Methods in Heritage Science and have served as its Editor-in-Chief. My professional affiliations include IEEE (Senior Member), the Technical Chamber of Greece, the Hellenic Researchers Association and CAA International. Earlier responsibilities include leading the Multimedia Research Group and research at the Clepsydra Cultural Heritage Digitization Centre.
Profiles and CV
- official ILSP profile
- ORCID: 0000-0002-9909-1584
- Google Scholar
- ResearcherID: L-5050-2013
- CV (PDF, 5 March 2026)
Contact
ILSP / Athena Research Center, University Campus at Kimmeria, P.O. Box 159, GR-67100 Xanthi, Greece.
Email: gpavlid [at] athenarc.gr
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