Petros Belimpasakis Principal Researcher, Mixed Reality Tampere Contact
Background and Personal Info
I joined Nokia Research Center in year 2000. I've been working mainly on the area of home networks and user-generated content sharing in many different internal and external projects (e.g. IST Future Home, Celtic Encompas and Celtic Feel@Home).
Since the beginning of 2009 my research focus has been expanded towards Mobile Mixed Reality, namely lifelogging, augmented reality and mirror worlds. I am currently a Principal Researcher in the "Mixed Reality Solutions" team of the Tampere Laboratory, located in Finland.
Research Interests
Mixed reality environments & 3D Internet (mirror worlds, augmented reality & lifelogging)
Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Mathematics, from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh), Greece
Supporting/Other Information
Memberships
Member of IEEE and the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society
Member
of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on
Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2007, NGMAST 2008, NGMAST 2009)
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN 2008, FMN 2009)
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference (CCNC 2009, CCNC 2010) Short Papers track
Member
of the Technical Program Committee and Industry Research Chair of the
International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA 2009, MMEDIA 2010)
Member of the Program Committee of the of the IEEE & ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009), Science and Technology track
Member of the Industry Advisory Board of the IST Content Network of Excellence (2006-2009)
Member of the ENISA Expert Group: Priorities of Research on Current & Emerging Network Technologies (PROCENT-EG).
Supervisions
Shahzad Akhtar Awan, "Automated Content Sharing in Extended Homes through Mobile Devices", Master of Science Thesis (pdf), University of Tampere (UTA), June 2008.
Evaluation Activities
I have been acting as an expert for EU IST (ICT) project proposal evaluations.
Scholarships
Received the Nokia Foundation Scholarship, for supporting my doctoral research (2008)
Publications
Theses:
P. Belimpasakis, "Seamless User-Generated Content Sharing in the Extended Home", Doctoral Thesis, Tampere University of Technology, June 2009. (pdf)
P. Belimpasakis, "Remote Access to Home Services Utilizing Dynamic DNS
and Web Technologies", Master of Science Thesis, Tampere University of Technology,
November 2006. (pdf)
Journal Papers:
P. Belimpasakis, S. Moloney, "A Platform for Proving Family Oriented RESTful Services Hosted at Home", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (T-CE), vol.55, no.2, pp. 690-698, May 2009. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, S. Moloney, V. Stirbu, J. Costa-Requena, "Home Media Atomizer: Remote Sharing of Home Content - without Semi-trusted Proxies", IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics (T-CE), vol.54, no.3, pp. 1114-1122, August 2008. (abstract)
Conference Proceedings Papers:
S. Uusitalo, P. Eskolin, P. Belimpasakis, “A Solution for
Navigating User-Generated Content”. Proceedings of the
Eighth IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented
Reality (ISMAR 2009), Orlando, Florida, USA, October 2009.
P. Belimpasakis, K. Roimela, Y. You, “Experience Explorer: a Life-Logging Platform Based on Mobile Context Collection”. Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2009), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2009. (abstract)
A. Hornsby, P. Belimpasakis, I. Defee, "XMPP-based Wireless Sensor Network and its Integration into the Extended Home Environment". Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics (ISCE 2009), Kyoto, Japan, May 2009. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, M-P. Michael, S. Moloney, "The Home as a Content Provider for Mash-ups with External Services". Proceedings of the 6th Annual IEEE Consumer Communications & Networking Conference (CCNC 2009), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, January 2009. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, S. A. Awan and E. Berki, "Mobile Content Sharing Utilizing the Home Infrastructure". Proceedings of the Second IEEE Conference on Next Generation Mobile Applications, Services and Technologies (NGMAST 2008), Cardiff, Wales, UK, September 2008. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, J-P. Luoma and M. Börzsei, "Content Sharing Middleware for Mobile Devices". Proceedings of the First International Conference on MOBILe Wireless MiddleWARE, Operating Systems, and Applications (MOBILWARE 2008), Innsbruck, Austria, February 2008. (abstract)
S. A. Awan, P. Belimpasakis, E. Berki, R. Walsh, "Automated Content Sharing in Extended Home through Mobile Devices - A quality solution for group communication". Proceedings of the 15th Software Quality Management Conference (SQM 2007), Tampere, Finland, August 2007. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, A. Saaranen and R. Walsh, "Home DNS: Experiences with Seamless Remote Access to Home Services". Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on a World of Wireless, Mobile and Multimedia Networks (WoWMoM 2007), Helsinki, Finland, June 2007. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis, V. Stirbu, "Remote Access to Universal Plug and Play (UPnP) Devices Utilizing the Atom Publishing Protocol". Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Networking and Services (ICNS 2007), Athens, Greece, June 2007. (abstract)
P. Belimpasakis and R. Walsh, "User Created Content in the Extended Home". Proceedings of the 15th IST Mobile & Wireless Communication Summit, Myconos, Greece, June 2006. (paper)
P. Belimpasakis and R. Walsh, "A Resource-efficient Mobile Blogging System". Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Applications and Services in Wireless Networks (ASWN 2006), Berlin, Germany, May 2006.
Technical White Papers and Reports
P. Belimpasakis, A. Saaranen, "Seamless User-Oriented Content Sharing", Tampere University of Technology, Department of Communications Engineering. Research Report 2009:1. ISBN: 978-952-15-2152-2.
P. Belimpasakis, "Device & service discovery in the home networks," in Pervasive Networks and Connectivity, Seminar Series on Special Topics in Networking, B. Silverajan (Ed.), Department of Communications Engineering, Tampere University of Technology, pp. 170–177, 2008. ISBN: 978-952-15-2011-2. (pdf)
N. Achilleopoulos, F. Alvarez, P. Belimpasakis, P. Daras, C. Guerrero Lopez, I. Laso, M. Pelt, and J.C. Point (Eds.), "User Centric Media - Future and Challenges in European Research", Coordinated by Networked Media Unit of the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission, November 2007. ISBN 978-92-79-06865-2. (pdf)
Presentations
Invited Presentations
P. Belimpasakis, "From Social Networks and Web Mash-ups
towards Mixed Reality". Invited lecture at the 2nd Summer School on
Network and Information Security (NIS'09), organized by the
European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) and the Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH), on the session "Privacy and Security in Social Networks and 3D Social Worlds", Crete, Greece, 17th September 2009. (presentation)
P.
Belimpasakis, "Digital Content: Driving the Evolution of Home
Networks". Invited speaker in the 7th COST 290 meeting: "Traffic and
QoS Management in Wireless Multimedia Networks", Split, Croatia, 29th
September 2006.
P.
Belimpasakis, "The Home as a Gateway for User Created Content Sharing".
Invited speaker in the workshop on "Research Priorities for Home and
Extended Home Networking", organized by the DG Information Society and Media of the European Commission (event), Brussels, Belgium, 28th June 2006. (presentation)
Invited University Lectures
P. Belimpasakis, "Research Challenges in the Extended Home". Invited lecture at University of Tampere (UTA), Department of Computer Sciences, for the course "TKOPS407: Software Development - Issues, Trends, and Research Directions", 14th October 2009.
P. Belimpasakis, "Multimedia Content and the Digital Home". Invited lecture at Tampere University of Technology (TUT), Department of Communications Engineering, for the course "TLT-2656: Special Course on Networking", 30th September 2009.
Patents
As a result of my work at Nokia, I am the primary inventor or co-inventor of the following pending patents:
US patent Appl. No. 12/082525 (esp@cenet)
"Use of network composition descriptors for determining product compatibility"
P. Belimpasakis, S. Moloney
US patent Appl. No. 11/985512 (esp@cenet)
"Configuring a user device to remotely access a private network"
P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 11/678235 (esp@cenet)
"Method, electronic device, computer program product, system and apparatus for sharing a media object"
P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 11/469597 (esp@cenet)
"System and method for content functionallity"
P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 11/798943 (esp@cenet)
"Network access with a portable memory device"
P. Belimpasakis, M. Luomi and T. Savolainen
US patent Appl. No. 11/389637 (esp@cenet)
"System and method for using web syndication feeds as a change log for synchronization in a UPnP audio/video environment"
V. Stirbu and P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 11/279281 (esp@cenet)
"Method, Apparatus, Network Entity and Computer Program Product for Sharing Content"
P. Belimpasakis and C. Ionescu
US patent Appl. No. 11/276595 (esp@cenet)
"System for Uniform Addressing of Home Resources Regardless of Remote Client's Network Location"
P. Belimpasakis and H. Hakulinen
US patent Appl. No. 11/566132 (esp@cenet)
"System and Method for Using Web Syndication Protocols as an Out-of-band UPnP Service Discovery System"
V. Stirbu and P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 11/281278 (esp@cenet)
"Intermediary, Source and Methods for Sharing Content"
P. Belimpasakis
Inter. PCT Patent Appl. No. PCT/FI2004/000657 (esp@cenet)
"Bridging Data Network Communications"
P. Belimpasakis, I. Koskinen and P. Ujfalusi
US patent Appl. No. 10/783798 (esp@cenet)
"System and Method for Device Discovery"
M. Grundström and P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 10/675913 (esp@cenet)
"Transport Layer Communication"
P. Belimpasakis
US patent Appl. No. 10/098848 (esp@cenet)
"System and Method for the Reception of Content Items"
P. Belimpasakis, R. Walsh and T. Paila