George Litos

Senior Software Engineer

Biography

Georgios Litos was born in Naoussa, Greece, he has more than twenty years of professional experience in software development. He currently lives in Thessaloniki.

George worked as a Research Assistant in the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of Centre for Research and Technology - Hellas (CERTH) from Jan 2000 to Aug 2017. He has participated in several research projects funded by the European Union and the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI).

He worked as a Senior Backend Developer at Schoox, an enterprise LMS and talent development platform from Sep 2017 to Nov 2020.

On December of 2020 George joined HYPERTECH SA as Software Architect providing full-stack development services as well as server administration.

George leads a team of enthusiasts at the IT RnD department of AgroApps PC, a company that provides advanced solutions for the agricultural sector from April 2022.

Interests

• Programming
• Playing with Open Source
• Automating everything
• Mixing the above 💥

Recent Posts

Package Managers - not the evil kind of PMs

So hail to the package managers, we say, for keeping our software up-to-date each day!

Mar 21, 2023 3 min read

Buku: a powerful bookmark manager

Are you tired of losing track of your bookmarks across multiple browsers? Look no further than Buku, the powerful bookmark manager that imports bookmarks from all your browsers, works on console and has a web-based server.

Mar 18, 2023 1 min read

How to bypass Git Hooks

git push --no-verify is a command used to push your local changes to a remote repository without running pre-commit hooks or pre-push hooks. Pre-commit hooks and pre-push hooks are scripts that run before a commit or a push, and they are used to perform automated tests, code quality checks, or other actions that help ensure the quality and correctness of your code.

Mar 8, 2023 2 min read

Breaking the Barrier

Barrier is an open-source KVM (Keyboard, Video, Mouse) software that allows users to share their keyboard and mouse across multiple computers. This allows users to move their cursor and type on one computer while the keyboard and mouse inputs are sent to another computer.

Jan 20, 2023 2 min read

Free your notes with Joplin

Joplin is an open source note-taking app that allows users to easily organize and store notes, to-do lists, and other information.

Dec 20, 2022 1 min read

Projects

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All Tool Visualization Deep Learning Game

Research Projects

A list of the research projects I’ve worked on in the past.

Typhon

Interactive video to text converter

Presentations

Git ...not just version control

An introduction to Git

George Litos

Jul 1, 2022

Slides

Experience

 

 

 

 

 

Team Lead (IT RnD)

AgroApps PC

Apr 2022 – Present

 

 

 

 

 

Software Architect

HYPERTECH SA

Dec 2020 – Mar 2022

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Back-end Developer

Schoox, Inc.

Sep 2017 – Nov 2020

 

 

 

 

 

Senior Developer, Research Associate

Information Technologies Institute (CERTH/ITI)

Dec 1999 – Aug 2017

Publications

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M.L.Durova, A.Dimou, George Litos, P.Daras, J.P.Davis (2017). TooManyEyes: Super-recogniser directed identification of target individuals on CCTV. In ICDP 2017: 8th IET International Conference of Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention.

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P.Daras, A.Axenopoulos, George Litos (2012). Investigating the Effects of Multiple Factors towards more Accurate 3D Object Retrieval. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 2, Page(s): 374 – 388, April 2012.

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H.Dutagaci, A.Godil, P.Daras, A.Axenopoulos, George Litos, S.Manolopoulou, K.Goto, T.Yanagimachi, Y.Kurita, S.Kawamura, T.Furuya, R.Ohbuchi, B.Gong, J.Liu, X.Tang (2012). SHREC’11 Track: Generic Shape Retrieval. 3DOR 2011.

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Stamatia Dasiopoulou, Eirini Giannakidou, George Litos, Polyxeni Malasioti, Yiannis Kompatsiaris (2011). A Survey of Semantic Image and Video Annotation Tools. Knowledge-Driven Multimedia Information Extraction and Ontology Evolution pp 196-239.

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A.Axenopoulos, George Litos, P.Daras (2011). 3D Model Retrieval using Accurate Pose Estimation and View-based Similarity. 1st ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR2011), April 17-20, Trento, Italy.

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George Litos, X.Zabulis, G.A.Triantafyllidis (2006). Synchronous Image Acquisition based on Network Synchronization. 2006 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop (CVPRW'06).

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Coding Interests

Coding skills and tools of the trade

Lang domain

Experienced in:
Python, Javascript, C, Java, PHP,
learning Go

Data

RDBMS & NoSQL
Data structures, mining and scraping

Cross-platform

Mobile & Desktop
Web Applications
Arch Linux & Pi enthusiast

Problem Solver

Creative Thinking
Team Player
Algorithm Coding

Technology

Computer Vision
Crowdsourcing, Machine Learning
playing with IoT & Kubernetes

OS

Multi-platform administration
Docker enthusiast
Retro computer lover

Popular Topics

3D object retrieval alignment Annotation Tool Application software Biomedical imaging bookmarks Cameras CCTV Computer aided manufacturing Computer errors Computer vision Descriptive Metadata descriptor extraction feature selection manifold learning open source productivity Real time systems rotation estimation tools