Name	Georgios Passalis
Date of birth Place of birth	02/10/1980 Athens, Greece
Occupation	Doctoral candidate
Contact address Phone number e-mail	Department of Informatics, University of Athens TYPA Buildings, Panepistimiopolis, Ilisia 15784, Athens, Greece (+30) 210 7275107 passalis AT yahoo.com passalis AT di.uoa.gr
Education	2004-now:     PhD candidate                     Department of Informatics, University of Athens    2003-2004:    MSc. in Computer Science                     Department of Computer Science, University of Houston 1998-2002:    BSc in Informatics                     Department of Informatics, University of Athens
Research Interests	-Computer Graphics -Computer Vision -Geometric Modelling
Projects	2005-now   3D object retrieval 2005-now   Object reconstruction using multiple cameras 2003-now   3D Face Recognition 2004          Voxelization based on graphics hardware 2003          Teleoperation of NASA’s Robonaut (humanoid robot) 2003          Volume estimation using 3D data for breast reconstructive surgery
Publications	Journals G. Passalis , T. Theoharis and I.A. Kakadiaris, PTK: A Novel Depth Buffer-Based Shape Descriptor for Three-Dimensional Object Retrieval, The Visual Computer, to appear. G. Passalis, I.A. Kakadiaris and T. Theoharis, Intra-class retrieval of non-rigid 3D objects: Application to Face Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), to appear. I.A. Kakadiaris, G. Passalis, G. Toderici, N. Murtuza, Y. Lu, N. Karampatziakis, and T. Theoharis, 3D face recognition in the presence of facial expressions: An annotated deformable model approach, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), to appear. International Conferences I. Kakadiaris , G. Passalis, G. Toderici, N. Murtuza and T. Theoharis, 3D Face Recognition, British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Edinburgh, September 2006. I.A. Kakadiaris, G. Passalis, G. Toderici, N. Karampatziakis, N. Murtuza, Y. Lu and T. Theoharis, Expression-invariant multispectral face recognition; you can smile now!, SPIE Defense and Security Symposium, Orlando, Florida, 17-21 April 2006 P. Stavrou , P. Mavridis, G. Papaioannou, G. Passalis, and T. Theoharis, 3D Object Repair Using 2D Algorithms, Fifth International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling (CGGM 2006), within ICCS 2006, Reading (UK), May 2006. Proceedings: Springer-Verlag LNCS 3992, pp.271-278. G. Passalis, I. A. Kakadiaris, T. Theoharis, G. Toderici and N. Murtuza, Evaluation of 3D Face Recognition in the presence of facial expressions: an Annotated Deformable Model approach, IEEE Workshop on Face Recognition Grand Challenge Experiments, San Diego, USA, June 2005 I.A. Kakadiaris, G. Passalis, T. Theoharis, G. Toderici, I. Kostandinidis and N. Murtuza, Multimodal Face Recognition: Combination of Geometry with Physiological Information, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, USA, June 2005 G. Passalis, I.A. Kakadiaris and T. Theoharis, Efficient Hardware Voxelization, Proceedings of Computer Graphics International, pp. 374-377, Crete, Greece, June 2004 G. Passalis, T. Theoharis, M. Miller and I. A. Kakadiaris, Non-Invasive Automatic Breast Volume Estimation for Post-Mastectomy Breast Reconstructive Surgery, Proceedings of 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering In Medicine And Biology Society, Cancun, Mexico, September 2003. Thesis/Books I. Kakadiaris, G. Passalis, G. Toderici, N. Murtuza and T. Theoharis, Quo Vadis, 3D Face and Ear Recognition, in: Multi Sensory Multi-Modal Face Biometrics for Personal Identification, Edited by: I. Hammoud, B. Adibi and M. Adibi, Springer (under publication) G. Passalis, Three-dimensional Face Recognition, Master's Thesis, University of Houston, May 2004
Experience	2003-2004    Research in Visual Computing Lab, Texas             Learning and Computation Center 2001-2002, 2004-now    Teaching assistance in Computer Graphics I&II Department of Informatics, University of Athens
Languages	English:  Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English               Proficiency of Michigan