Thanasis Vafeiadis

Dr. Thanasis Vafeiadis

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Academic Career Length

19Years (2008-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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1 June 2015 in Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
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Thanasis Vafeiadis
Konstantinos DiamantarasKonstantinos Diamantaras
Konstantinos Diamantaras
GSG. Sarigiannidis
G. Sarigiannidis
KCK.CH. Chatzisavvas
K.CH. Chatzisavvas

10 February 2022 in ICT Express
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KTKalliopi Tsolaki
Kalliopi Tsolaki
TVThanasis Vafeiadis
Thanasis Vafeiadis
Nizamis AlexandrosNizamis Alexandros
Nizamis Alexandros
DIDimosthenis Ioannidis
Dimosthenis Ioannidis
DTDimitrios Tzovaras
Dimitrios Tzovaras

7 December 2024 in ICT Express
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KNKonstantinos Nikiforidis
Konstantinos Nikiforidis
AKAlkiviadis Kyrtsoglou
Alkiviadis Kyrtsoglou
TVThanasis Vafeiadis
Thanasis Vafeiadis
TKThanasis Kotsiopoulos
Thanasis Kotsiopoulos
Nizamis AlexandrosNizamis Alexandros
Nizamis Alexandros
PSPanagiotis Sarigiannidis
Panagiotis Sarigiannidis

1 January 2022 in Computers in Industry
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VRVaia Rousopoulou
Vaia Rousopoulou
TVThanasis Vafeiadis
Thanasis Vafeiadis
Nizamis AlexandrosNizamis Alexandros
Nizamis Alexandros
IIIoannis Iakovidis
Ioannis Iakovidis
LSLeonidas Samaras
Leonidas Samaras
DTDimitrios Tzovaras
Dimitrios Tzovaras

17 July 2024 in Neurocomputing
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TAThanasis Antamis
Thanasis Antamis
ADAnastasis Drosou
Anastasis Drosou
TVThanasis Vafeiadis
Thanasis Vafeiadis
Nizamis AlexandrosNizamis Alexandros
Nizamis Alexandros
DIDimosthenis Ioannidis
Dimosthenis Ioannidis
DTDimitrios Tzovaras
Dimitrios Tzovaras

5 August 2019 in IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics
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NDNikolaos Dimitriou
Nikolaos Dimitriou
LLLampros Leontaris
Lampros Leontaris
TVThanasis Vafeiadis
Thanasis Vafeiadis
DIDimosthenis Ioannidis
Dimosthenis Ioannidis
TWTracy Wotherspoon
Tracy Wotherspoon
DTDimitrios Tzovaras
Dimitrios Tzovaras
A common source of defects in manufacturing miniature Printed Circuits Boards (PCB) is the attachment of silicon die or other wire bondable components on a Liq- uid Crystal Polymer (LCP) substrate. Typically, a conductive glue is dispensed prior to attachment with defects caused either by insufficient or excessive glue. The current prac- tice in electronics industry is to examine the deposited glue by a human operator a process that is both time consuming and inefficient especially in preproduction runs where the error rate is high. In this paper we propose a system that automates fault diagnosis by accurately estimating the vol- ume of glue deposits before and even after die attachment. To this end a modular scanning system is deployed that produces high resolution point clouds whereas the actual estimation of glue volume is performed by (R)egression- Net (RNet), a 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3DCNN). RNet outperforms other deep architectures and is able to estimate the volume either directly from the point cloud of a glue deposit or more interestingly after die attachment when only a small part of glue is visible around each die. The entire methodology is evaluated under operational conditions where the proposed system achieves accurate results without delaying the manufacturing process.