Dimosthenis Karatzas is a “Ramon y Cajal” Research Fellow at the Computer Vision Centre, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona , within the Document Analysis Group (DAG). He received his degree in Physics from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1998 and his PhD in Computer Science titled “Text Segmentation in Web Images Using Colour Perception and Topological Features”, from the University of Liverpool, UK in 2003.

From 2002 to 2004 he worked as a Research Associate within the Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis group (PRImA) at the University of Liverpool. From 2005 to 2007 he worked as a Research Fellow in the School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton within the Electronics Systems Design (ESD) and Image, Speech and Intelligent Systems (ISIS) research groups.

His main research interests are computer vision and colour science and in particular colour and historical document image analysis, perceptual methodologies for DIA, and colour calibration. He has produced over 40 peer reviewed publications in journals, book chapters and international conferences.

Dr Karatzas is the director of the spin-off company TruColour, which specialises on perceptually based colour calibration solutions. The company was setup in 2007 and has since received venture capital funding and separate funding for prototype development. He has also provided consultancy and technical support to AIMES, UK and Perpetuum Ltd, UK.

Dr Karatzas has been the primary investigator in 4 research and knowledge transfer projects (two of them currently active). He serves as a Publicity Chair of ACPR 2013 and Publications Chair of ICDAR 2009 and is serving on the program committees of ICDAR, DAS, PRIS and CVCRD. Dr Karatzas has been a founding member and a member of the executive committee of the UK Chapter of the SPIE, while he is currently a member of the leadership committee of TC-11 (Reading Systems), a member of the IAPR-Industrial Liaison Committee and a member of IEEE, the SPIE and the IAPR.