His current interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, autonomous systems, intelligent digital media, image/video processing, human-centred interfaces, affective computing, 3D imaging and biomedical imaging. He has published over 920 papers, contributed in 47 books in his areas of interest and edited or (co-)authored another 15 books. He has also been member of the program committee of many scientific conferences and workshops. In the past he served as Associate Editor or co-Editor of 9 international journals and General or Technical Chair of 4 international conferences. He participated in 75 R&D projects, primarily funded by the European Union and is/was principal investigator/researcher in 47 such projects. He has 35200+ citations to his work and h-index 88+ (Google Scholar). Prof. Pitas leads the International AI Doctoral Academy (IAIDA) of the European H2020 R&D project AI4Media https://ai4media.eu/. He coordinates the HE project “TEMA” (g.a.n. 101093003).