1. Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Group (AIIA) Centre of Research and Technology Hellas INFORMATICS & TELEMATICS INSTITUTE

2. Profile (1)  The Informatics and Telematics Institute is a non-profit organization under the auspices of the General Secretarial of Research and Technology of Greece. Since March 10th, 2000 it is a founding member of the Centre of Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH) also supervised by the Greek Secretariat of Research and Technology.  The Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis Group within CERTH/ITI has been active in 2-D/3-D image processing, human-centered interfaces, and multimedia authentication for more than two decades. It is also affiliated with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

3. Profile (2)  Three faculty members, two postdoctoral fellows, and more than fifteen pre- doctoral researchers  Participation in 18 European projects (IST, RTN/HCP, ACTS, LTR/BRA, ESPRIT, RACE, TEMPUS, AIM) and 8 national projects  Books: 6; One in 3-D Image Processing Algorithms  Chapters contributed to edited books: 14  Journal Papers: 118  Conference Papers: 303

4. Role  Research activities in synthesis tasks  Development of talking heads with emphasis in  Synthesis of MPEG-4 compliant facial animation  Text-to-speech synthesis;  Related projects:

5. CERTH/ITI Person Month Consumption