George Azzopardi

🚨 Call for Papers! 🚨 New special issue - From bench to the wild: Recent Advances in Computer Vision (WILD-VISION) in Pattern Recognition (IF: 7.5, Q1) 📅 Deadline: Mar 31, 2025 See: tinyurl.com/mwszh8sd #computervision #patternrecognition #MachineLearning #DeepLearning

Topics: 🔹 ML, DL, Reinforcement Learning 🔹 Remote Sensing & Computer Vision 🔹 Human/Wildlife Trafficking, Cyber Crimes 🔹 Blockchain & Cryptography 📅 Key Dates: 📝 Submission: Nov 15, 2024 📩 Notification: Jan 6, 2025 📑 Camera Ready: Jan 22, 2025

🎉 Call for Papers 🎉 A workshop on Combating Illicit Trade using AI, Data Science & Blockchain! 23-25 Feb, 2025, Porto🌍 More info: tinyurl.com/yc869sk6 #AI #DataScience #Blockchain #IllicitTrade #ML #CyberCrimes #callforpapers @univgroningen @CA_GLITSS @infosys_rug

Big thanks to my postdoc Guru Swaroop Bennabhaktula @bgswaroop for his invaluable contribution and to our collaborators Bas Timmermans and Kyra Bekman (RDW)

🚀 Honored to be an Impact Ambassador of @enlight_eu. This award is for our research with RDW on the detection of #facemorphingattacks; crucial for enhancing security for IDs (passports & driving licenses). @infosys_rug @ScienceLinX @BernoulliInsti2 @univgroningen @JTSchool_UG

@eTalaveraM @UTwente @univgroningen @JTSchool_UG Thanks for enriching our program with your great talk!

Today I gave a talk about my work at @UTwente in this beautiful aula of the Academiegebouw, @univgroningen. It was for the inaugural symposium of the new "Applied AI" theme @JTSchool_UG led by @azzopardi_g. Thanks for the invitation and success with this nice initiative!:) 🚀

Not yet a member of the Applied AI community? - Join us here: rug.nl/jantina-tammes…

The speakers were: 1. Estefania Talavera Martinez @eTalaveraM (Uni. of Twente), 2. Floris van Beers (Web-IQ), 3. Sarod Yatawatta (ASTRON), and 4. Tamas Szili-Torok (UMCG)

🚀 Just wrapped the 1st 'Applied AI' Symposium @JTSchool_UG in Groningen! Big thanks to our 4 speakers & attendees for enriching talks on AI's diverse applications. Great conversations & networking with coffee☕️& lunch🍽. Next stop? End of April. Stay tuned!

Props to the other promotor Dimka Karastoyanova @dimka_kar and all our collaborators, Joshua Ellul @JoshuaEllul, Estefania Talavera Martinez @eTalaveraM, Elisabetta Chicca and Nicoletta Risi, for their great contribution.

Congrats to my PhD student Xueyi Wang for his successful #PhDdefense @univgroningen! His work in #computervision, focused on #egocentricvision for #falldetection: tinyurl.com/muzthup5 🍾Here's to more success, Xueyi! @infosys_rug

Exciting insights from our workshop on tech against illicit trade as part of working group 4 of the COST Action GLITSS @CA_GLITSS. Hosted at the ERATOSTHENES Centre, Limassol Cyprus. Thanks to all participants! Join our mission: glitss.eu 🚀

@JTSchool_UG @univgroningen @BernoulliInsti2 @infosys_rug Thank you Jantina Tammes School @JTSchool_UG, for this lovely surprise! Much appreciated!

@azzopardi_g @univgroningen @BernoulliInsti2 @infosys_rug 🎉 Warm congratulations, George!

🎉Excited to announce my tenure & promotion to Associate Prof. in #PatternRecognition, @univgroningen A huge thanks to my network—family, mentors, colleagues & students—for your support! Cheers to more discoveries & growth! @BernoulliInsti2 @infosys_rug @JTSchool_UG

Pictures by Chase Wang chasewang.com👌

Excited to share a glimpse from our inaugural event launching Theme "Applied AI" at @JTSchool_UG, @univgroningen! Diverse attendees explored AI possibilities, enjoyed talks by experts, and connected over refreshments. Cheers for more collaboration and innovation! @infosys_rug

Thrilled to share our recent GLITSS Webinar. 🎥 @FraGiumelli @marafclemente @Daniela_1975 @azzopardi_g @SteCaneppele #GLITSS #COSTAction #globalisation #illicittrade #sustainability #security #research #networking #Europeennes2024 🔗youtu.be/L53pgcj20SU?fe…

We are excited to announce our next webinar "Enhancing Anti-Money Laundering Measures in Banking Through Advanced Biometric Technologies". 📆 Save the Date: 30.01.2024, 15:00 CET PM CET 🎟️Register via: zoom.us/meeting/regist… #GLITSS #COSTAction #illicittrade #research #EU

Join us for this webinar next Tuesday!

🌐 An international collaboration between the @univgroningen & Uni. of Leon Thanks to the other supervisors, Prof. Enrique Alegre & Prof. Dimka Karastoyanova (@dimka_kar), for their great contribution. @BernoulliInsti2 @infosys_rug @univgroningen @JTSchool_UG

🎉 Kudos to my PhD student Guru Bennabhaktula @bgswaroop who successfully defended his thesis, "Leveraging Image Noise: Source Camera Identification & Convolutional Neural Networks." tinyurl.com/22km82a4. Glad for Guru's 2-year postdoc journey with me.