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Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) is the largest university in Greece. Ιt comprises 10 faculties which consist of 40 schools and 1 single-School Faculty. It is a pioneer, world-class university, standing out among Greek and foreign Universities on all levels: education, research, culture, and connection with society. The Laboratory of Electronic Media (eMedia) at AUTH specializes in radio and TV broadcasting, audiovisual production, and digital media technologies. With a fully equipped Radio Recording Studio, it supports audio recording, processing, editing, and digital radio technologies. The lab plays a key role in media innovation, journalism, and R&D projects, advancing new techniques in sound design, interactive platforms, and audiovisual content management.
AUTH leads efforts in music-to-movement translation, ensuring a seamless connection between audio and dance through genre classification, melody extraction, and sentiment analysis. By analyzing rhythmic patterns, AUTH enables personalized dance movement generation and aligns choreography with musical structures. Leveraging generative spatial audio, they create immersive soundscapes, enhancing virtual and hybrid performances. AUTH also contributes to conceptualization, scenario definition, and pilot evaluations, ensuring all user and system requirements are met. Additionally, they contribute to conceptualization, requirements elicitation, and scenario definition, ensuring an ethical and inclusive framework, they facilitate research dissemination, and coordinate audio-related activities, ensuring innovation, inclusivity, and alignment with the project’s goals.
Meet the Team
Georgios Kalliris
PhD - Full professor
Dr. George Kalliris specializes in audiovisual technologies, digital media, and multimedia education. His expertise includes audio-video processing, online media production, and e-learning. He has extensive teaching, research, and administrative experience, directing the eMedia Lab and contributing to digital content management and preservation.
Charalampos Dimoulas
PhD - Full professor
Dr. Charalampos Dimoulas is a Professor at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, specializing in media technologies, audio-visual processing, cultural heritage management, intelligent systems, deep learning, and semantic analysis, with extensive interdisciplinary research and academic leadership
Lazaros Vrysis
PhD - Laboratory Teaching StaffDr
Lazaros Vrysis is a researcher specializing in digital signal processing, semantic analysis, and multimedia knowledge extraction, with expertise in pattern recognition, event detection, web applications, mobile development, and educational game design.
Nikolaos Vryzas
PhD - Laboratory Teaching Staff
Dr. Nikolaos Vryzas is a researcher specializing in audiovisual content processing, automation in digital media, and cross-media communication. He has contributed to European projects on multimedia analysis, media literacy, and cultural heritage, with expertise in image, audio, and video processing.
Marina Eirini Stamatiadou
MEng – Researcher
Ms. Marina Eirini Stamatiadou is a PhD researcher, focusing on the adaptation and integration of AI-driven tools and services for content enhancement, in Mobile Journalism, designing solutions to assist journalists in efficient news production and intelligent media management.
Thomai Baltzi
PhD Researcher
Ms. Thomai Baltzi is a PhD candidate at AUTH, specializing in political communication and sustainable development, with experience in research projects, communication management, and European programs on sustainability policies, mobility, tourism, and energy.
Funded by the European Union [GA 101178362]. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Research Executive Agency (REA). Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
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