Kosta Derpanis
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Konstantinos G. Derpanis | |
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| Born | August 15, 1975 Canada |
| Nationality | Canadian, Greek |
| Alma mater | University of Toronto, York University |
| Known for | Human motion understanding, 3D vision, Optical flow, Computer vision |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer vision, Artificial intelligence |
| Institutions | York University, Samsung AI Centre Toronto |
| Doctoral advisor | Richard Wildes |
| Website | csprofkgd.github.io |
Konstantinos George Derpanis (born August 15, 1975) is a Canadian computer scientist specializing in computer vision. He is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at York University and a research scientist at the Samsung AI Centre in Toronto. His work focuses on visual motion analysis, human motion understanding, deep learning, and 3D vision.
Education
Derpanis earned a BSc (Honours) in Computer Science from the University of Toronto in 2000. He obtained his MSc in Computer Science from York University in 2003, co-supervised by Professors John Tsotsos and Richard Wildes. He received his PhD from York University in 2010 under the supervision of Professor Richard Wildes.
He conducted postdoctoral research at the GRASP Laboratory at the University of Pennsylvania from 2010 to 2012, working with Professor Kostas Daniilidis.
Career
Academic appointments
- Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University (2012–2015)
- Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Ryerson University (2015–2017)
- Associate Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, York University (2021–present)
Industry and research roles
- Research Scientist, Samsung AI Centre Toronto (2019–present)
- Faculty Affiliate, Vector Institute
- Faculty Affiliate, Vision: Science to Applications (VISTA) program
- Member, European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS)
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
Research interests
Derpanis's research focuses on:
- Computer vision
- Motion analysis
- Human motion understanding
- Deep learning
- Generative modeling
- Image processing
- 3D vision
- Novel view synthesis
Selected publications
Derpanis has authored over 100 research papers. Notable publications include:
- Pavlakos, G., Zhou, X., Derpanis, K.G., & Daniilidis, K. (2017). "Coarse-to-fine volumetric prediction for single-image 3D human pose." In CVPR.
- Zhou, X., Zhu, M., Leonardos, S., Derpanis, K.G., & Daniilidis, K. (2016). "Sparseness meets deepness: 3D human pose estimation from monocular video." In CVPR.
- Pavlakos, G., Zhou, X., Chan, A., Derpanis, K.G., & Daniilidis, K. (2017). "6-DoF object pose from semantic keypoints." In ICRA.
- Harley, A.W., Ufkes, A., & Derpanis, K.G. (2015). "Evaluation of deep convolutional nets for document image classification and retrieval." In ICDAR.
- Yu, J.J., Harley, A.W., & Derpanis, K.G. (2016). "Back to basics: Unsupervised learning of optical flow via brightness constancy and motion smoothness." In ECCV Workshops.
Awards and honors
- Honourable Mention – CIPPRS Doctoral Dissertation Award (2010)
- Area Chair for major conferences: AAAI 2021, ICRA 2021, CVPR 2021, ICCV 2021
Media and outreach
Derpanis actively participates in academic and public engagement. He maintains a professional presence on platforms such as Twitter and Bluesky, shares insights from AI research, and contributes to public discussions in the field.
Personal life
- Full name: Konstantinos George Derpanis
- Citizenship: Canadian and Greek/European
- Languages: English (native), Greek
References
External links
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