2024 CIPA Summer School

Andreas Georgopoulos is basically a Surveyor Engineer, who fell in love with Photogrammetry about 40 years ago. Hence he obtained his MSc and PhD (UCL) on this subject and afterwards he chose to teach it to younger students of Surveying as a Professor at NTUA, Lab of Photogrammetry. Cultural Heritage and Monuments are his second love and all these years he is trying to make the one work for the other with some success. He teaches Photogrammetry and Monument Recording to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Surveying and Architecture. His research activities include all kinds of contemporary optical methods for geometrically documenting monuments of all sizes. Among others, he has worked for the geometric documentation of Knossos (in Crete), of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (in Jerusalem), of the Dafni Monastery (in Athens), of monasteries on Mount Athos, Byzantine Churches in Cyprus and many more monuments all over Greece.

Professor Santana Quintero has contributed to conserving precious world heritage sites worldwide thanks to his innovative digital documentation methods. He is cross-appointed in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Azrieli School of Architecture & Urbanism, both in the Faculty of Engineering and Design at Carleton University. Also, Carleton Immersive Media Studio Lab (CIMS) faculty member. Besides his academic work in Canada, he served as immediate past Secretary-General of the International Council of Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS), treasurer of ICOMOS Canada, and he is one the Honorary President of the ICOMOS Scientific Committee on Heritage Documentation (CIPA). He has collaborated on several international projects in heritage documentation for The Getty Conservation Institute and UNESCO, among others. In recent years, he was awarded a Doctorate Honoris Causa from the University of Liege (Belgium) and the Association of Preservation Technology College of Fellows membership.

Mona Hess has graduate degrees in architecture from Munich University of Technology, heritage conservation from University of Bamberg, both Germany, and a PhD in 3D imaging metrology for cultural heritage from University College London (UK) in 2015. She has a 19-year-experience in interdisciplinary research projects for 3D imaging metrology and digital documentation for cultural heritage buildings and museum artefacts. Since 2017 she is full professor and course director for the new M.Sc. in Digital Technologies in Heritage Conservation at the University of Bamberg, Germany, and was vice-womens’ officer of the university 2019 to 2022. She is also co-chair at the Centre for Innovative Applications of Computer Science and vice-chair at the Centre for Heritage Conservation Studies and Technologies (KDWT) at the University of Bamberg. She has published papers and book chapters in the cultural heritage and geomatics community (CIPA and ISPRS) She has been an expert member at CIPA since 2019. She will be on the executive committee of CIPA from 2024 as Commission Chair for Education and Dissemination together with Prof. Dr. Andreas Georgopoulos.

José Luis Lerma is a Full Professor at the Department of Cartographic Engineering, Geodesy and Photogrammetry, Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV), Spain. He is an Engineer and Doctor in Geodesy and Cartography. Prof. Lerma is a specialist in imaging and 3D scanning. He has extensively published scientific papers and learning manuscripts in subjects related to 2D/3D imaging, range-based devices and multispectral sensors in cultural heritage, engineering, metrology and medicine. Nowadays, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Virtual Archaeology Review, a member of the Executive Committee (Commission Chair – Technologies for Cultural Heritage Geometric Documentation) of CIPA Heritage Documentation, Head of the Photogrammetry & Laser Scanning Research Group (GIFLE, http://gifle.webs.upv.es), and Coordinator of the PhD Programme in Geomatics Engineering (UPM-UPV). Additional information and numbers can be found on the UPV webpage: http://www.upv.es/ficha-personal/jllerma.

Margarita Skamantzari holds a M. Eng. Diploma in Rural, Surveying and Geomatics Engineering (2017) as well as a M. Sc. in Protection of Monuments: Conservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites (2019). Currently, she is a research collaborator at the Lab of Photogrammetry of the School of Rural, Surveying and Geomatics Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens while for the past five years, she has been working as a freelance consultant in the Documentation of Monuments. Her professional experience primarily focuses on the geometric documentation of monuments. For the last four years, she worked on various research projects with the responsibility of 3D Modelling and Reconstruction, Geometric Documentation, Laser Scanning and VR/AR applications. Since 2019 she is a CIPA Member and she participated as an instructor at the 6th CIPA Summer school in Gyeongju, South Korea (2019), at the ICOMOS + CIPA Photogrammetry Field School in Manila, Philippines (2019) and at the 8th CIPA Spring School in Montecatini Terme, Italy (2023).

Dr. Panagiotis Agrafiotis is a postdoctoral researcher at the Remote Sensing and Image Analysis group of Technical University of Berlin, awarded with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship, funded by HORIZON EU. He is working in the intersection of 3D computer vision, remote sensing and machine learning, focusing on space-/air-borne image-based bathymetric mapping and image analysis. He holds an Engineering Doctorate, a M. Eng. Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineering and a M.Sc. in Geoinformatics from the National Technical University of Athens. During his studies, he earned various awards and travel grants and a full PhD Scholarship. In 2020, his team 3[Deep]Vision, won the 1st Prize of the integrated Geomatics solution awarded by the EU Agency for the Space Programme. The last 9 years he worked on more than 17 research projects. He is author of 37 scientific publications and serves as as a reviewer in 24 journals of high impact factor.

Thodoris Betsas is a PhD Candidate at the Laboratory of Photogrammetry SRSGE NTUA since 2022. His research interest is on Photogrammetry, 3D Computer Vision and Remote Sensing and more specifically 3D Semantic Segmentation using data from various sensors (Images, Laser Scanner, LiDAR etc). He has two publications and participation in one EU projects. Lastly, he participates as assistant staff in two undergraduate courses (Photogrammetry I and Digital Photogrammetry), in two on going diploma theses and one master project exercise.

Koutros Efstratios was born in Kalamata, Greece in 1995. He holds a Diploma in Rural and Surveying Engineer and a Master Degree in Protection of Monuments in the field of Conservation of Building Materials in School of Architecture, both in National and Technical University of Athens. Right now he is studying for his second Master Degree by research in Intelligent Computer Systems and in particular around Heritage Building Information Modeling. During his scholarship he has taken part in several projects regarding geometric documentation of monuments and archaeological sites through new technologies such us photogrammetry and laser scanning. He has participated in the excavation project “Finding Ancient Tenea” in Chiliomodi, Greece, while at the same time he was part of the EU project HYPERION. Currently he is involved in the restoration project of Mytilene’s Castle in Lesvos island, in behalf of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos. He has experience and knowledge in software related to Photogrammetry, 3D Reconstruction, Drawing and Image Processing.

Eleni Syrokou holds a Diploma Degree at Rural and Survey Engineering Department of National Technical University of Athens. She has also received a Master Degree in the Field of Protection of Monuments with emphasis on the Conservation and Restoration of Historic Buildings and Sites. Since 2022 she participates in the restoration of the Ottoman Sanctuary School (Medreses) in the castle of Mytilene on behalf of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Lesvos.
She has already embarked in several projects related to geometric documentation of monuments, using digital methods of data collection and processing. During 2018 – 2021 she participated in the excavation project of Ancient Tenea, in Chiliomodi, Greece. In 2020 she was a researcher in the EU project Hyperion. She is aware of software related to photogrammetry, 3d modeling and texture mapping.