Angelos Spyrakis

Experience

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  Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH)

  Jul 2021 - Oct 2021

  Computer Vision & Robotics Intern

  The internship concerned the investigation and development of methods for the autonomous navigation of a motor vehicle in urban outdoor areas. The project contained tasks such as Semantics Segmentation for road-detection, transformation of 3D LiDAR points to assist the RGB camera data during classification, and testing on both CERTH (real-time) and KITTI datasets. The communication between all different components of the car was done via the Robot Operating System (ROS).The work was completed under the supervision of Dr. Ioannis Kostavelis of the Cognitive Systems & Robotics laboratory, Information Technologies Institute. Show less

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  KU Leuven

  Feb 2022 - Jul 2022

  Master's Exchange Student

  In 2022 I completed my Master's Thesis as an Erasmus+ exchange student at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. The thesis' goal was to try and preserve features in Transfer Learning (TL) in order to produce better classification results or achieve better stability across different learning rates. Fusing variations of Continual Learning (CL) techniques with TL was the main way of experimentation. Some popular CL methods we reviewed were Memory Aware Synapses (MAS), Learning without Forgetting (LwF), and Replay with and without Meta-Learning.The thesis was conducted under the supervision of KU Leuven Professor Tinne Tuytelaars of the Processing Speech and Images (PSI) laboratory and AUTh Professor Anastasios Delopoulos.The final work is named "Preserving features in transfer learning for small datasets". A full abstract can be found attached below. Show less

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  Hellenic Army

  Nov 2022 - Nov 2023

  Private

  Mandatory military service - Transportation & Supply Corps.During my military service, I was tasked with the duties of a Staff Sergeant, assigning duties to approximately 60 privates along 2 companies.

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  Flanders Make

  Oct 2024 - now

  Associate Research Engineer