Vassilis Athitsos     Professor     Computer Science and Engineering Department     University of Texas at Arlington     Office: ERB 623     E-mail: athitsos@uta.edu     Spelling in Greek: Βασίλης Αθήτσος     Publications     Teaching     Curriculum Vitae     Contact Info

Office Hours for Fall 2026

Teaching

Fall 2026: CSE 6324 - Advanced Topics in Software Engineering: Programming with Neural Networks and Large Language Models.

Fall 2025: CSE 4309 - Machine Learning.

Spring 2025: CSE 4311 - Neural Networks and Deep Learning.

Spring 2021: CSE 4310 - Introduction to Computer Vision.

Courses taught in the past.

Research - Publications - VLM Research Lab

• Assessing cognitive skills in children through performance in physical and computer-based tasks
  Developing computer vision and data mining methods for assessing cognitive skills in children, based on the children's performance in structured physical and computer-based tasks.
• ASL dictionary search
  Developing computer vision methods for a system that lets users search dictionaries of American Sign Language (ASL), so as to look up the meaning of unknown signs. Videos and annotations from this project are available here.
• Subsequence matching in large databases of time series and strings.
  The goal of this project is to develop methods for efficient identification of subsequence matches in large databases of time series. Demo applications are being developed for sign language video, query by humming, and handwritten text search. Code and data from our SIGMOD 2008 paper are available here.
• Nearest-neighbor retrieval and classification
  Information on how to download code and datasets for BoostMap and Distance-Based Hashing can be found by clicking here.
• Detecting shape classes of variable structure in cluttered images
• Hand pose estimation
  Code and data for this project can be downloaded as a zipped file, with size approximately 100MB, from this link.