Nikolaos Tsagkas

Informatics Forum,

10 Crichton Street,

Edinburgh, EH8 9AB

I am a 2nd year PhD candidate, at the School of Informatics - University of Edinburgh, sponsored by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics. I am privileged to be advised by Prof. Chris Xiaoxuan Lu (UCL) and Prof. Oisin Mac Aodha (UoE). My research interests revolve around spatial perception and representations aimed at addressing challenges in robotics.

In November 2021, I completed with distinction the Artificial Intelligence master’s programme at the University of Edinburgh, where I worked under the supervision of Prof. Chris Williams on the topic of inference and learning for generative capsule models. Before that, I worked for a year as a Data Scientist at Ernst & Young. In August 2019, I was awarded the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, in Greece (graduated 4th in my class out of 202 students – GPA: 8.11 out of 10). I completed my ECE Diploma thesis under the supervision of Prof. Athanassios Skodras, researching real-time hand-gesture recognition via sEMG signals.

Publications

Click to Grasp: Zero-Shot Precise Manipulation via Visual Diffusion Descriptors

Nikolaos Tsagkas , Jack Rome , Subramanian Ramamoorthy , and 2 more authors

In ArXiv Preprint , 2024

arXiv Bib HTML

@inproceedings{tsagkas2024click,
  title = {Click to Grasp: Zero-Shot Precise Manipulation via Visual Diffusion Descriptors},
  author = {Tsagkas, Nikolaos and Rome, Jack and Ramamoorthy, Subramanian and Mac Aodha, Oisin and Lu, Chris Xiaoxuan},
  year = {2024},
  eprint = {2403.14526},
  booktitle = {ArXiv Preprint},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.RO},
}

VL-Fields: Towards Language-Grounded Neural Implicit Spatial Representations

Nikolaos Tsagkas , Oisin Mac Aodha , and Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

In ICRA Workshops , 2023

arXiv Bib HTML

@inproceedings{tsagkas2023vlfields,
  title = {VL-Fields: Towards Language-Grounded Neural Implicit Spatial Representations},
  author = {Tsagkas, Nikolaos and Mac Aodha, Oisin and Xiaoxuan Lu, Chris},
  year = {2023},
  google_scholar_id = {2osOgNQ5qMEC},
  booktitle = {ICRA Workshops},
}

Inference and Learning for Generative Capsule Models

Alfredo Nazabal , Nikolaos Tsagkas , and Christopher K. I. Williams

Neural Computation, 2023

arXiv Bib Code

@article{https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2209.03115,
  doi = {10.48550/ARXIV.2209.03115},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.03115},
  author = {Nazabal, Alfredo and Tsagkas, Nikolaos and Williams, Christopher K. I.},
  title = {Inference and Learning for Generative Capsule Models},
  journal = {Neural Computation},
  publisher = {MIT},
  year = {2023},
  copyright = {Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International},
  preprint = {false},
  google_scholar_id = {9yKSN-GCB0IC},
}

On the Use of Deeper CNNs in Hand Gesture Recognition Based on sEMG Signals

Nikolaos Tsagkas , Panagiotis Tsinganos , and Athanassios Skodras

In 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA) , 2019

Bib PDF Code

@inproceedings{8900709,
  author = {Tsagkas, Nikolaos and Tsinganos, Panagiotis and Skodras, Athanassios},
  booktitle = {10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA)},
  title = {On the Use of Deeper CNNs in Hand Gesture Recognition Based on sEMG Signals},
  year = {2019},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {1-4},
  doi = {10.1109/IISA.2019.8900709},
  google_scholar_id = {u5HHmVD_uO8C},
}