Good day,
I'm Dimitris Vaporis

I'm a student at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, interested in Computer Vision and Theoretical Machine Learning. I enjoy sports, games, music and films (in that order!). Feel free to ask me about my favorites!

Right now

I am currently completing my Thesis titled "Talking Heads: Phoneme Prediction from Video", in the field of Visual Speech Recognition (VSR), under the supervision of Prof. Anastasios Delopoulos. You can find out more about the project here. I am also trying to figure out what comes next in my journey, after I graduate from AUTh.

Next

I would like to pursue a career in the field of Computer Vision, in order to build safe, reliable and inclusive systems that help people communicate and interact with the world around them. I believe it is our duty, as engineers and scientists, to provide for our communities, especially for those who are disadvantaged or marginalized. Thus, I am particularly interested in projects that focus on accessibility and inclusivity, such as assistive technologies for people with disabilities. I would love to work in a research-oriented environment, where I can converse and collaborate with other like-minded individuals. After all, collaboration is the key to innovation and progress.

Projects

Thesis: "Talking Heads: Phoneme Prediction from Video"

Developed a VSR (and an additional AVSR) model capable of predicting phonemes using visual (or audiovisual) cues at the frame level. Conducted an ablation study, tested the performance of the visual model in a constrained setting, tested the audiovisual model in a constrained but noisy setting, studied the impact of increasing noise in both audio and video.

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Advanced Audio Coding

A simplified version of the Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) encoding and decoding standard, developed as part of the course "Multimedia Systems" of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AUTh.

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EvolutionaryGamesToolbox

MATLAB Toolbox for Analysis and Simulation of Evolutionary Dynamics in Iterated Normal-Form Symmetric Games, developed as part of the course "Game Theory" of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AUTh.

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Smaller projects

A compilation of smaller projects developed during my studies at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering in AUTh, including an MNIST Project for Deep Learning and 3 smaller projects for the courses "Digital Image Processing" and "Computer Graphics".

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