The Multimedia Technology Laboratory at the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, has a history of producing ground breaking technological advances and fundamental contributions in the fields of Image Processing, Computer Vision, Internet technologies and Applications, Data Communications and Computer Networks, and the coding of audio, speech, image and video.

The Laboratory promotes academic and industrial research and development programs in the area of multimedia technologies and communication sciences. The uniqueness of the Laboratory is based on a collaborative effort providing training, support, new lessons and services for the academic community in general. Its activities are focused in the digital character of stand-alone and networked multimedia productions.

The Laboratory supports an electronic classroom consisting of 25 networked PCs and several servers (DNS, Mail, Database and Applications Servers) operating mainly on Open Source Platforms.

The educational activities of the faculty members cover the following regions: Multimedia Technology, Computer Graphics, Programming Techniques, Digital Design, Logic Circuit Laboratory, Electronics, and Analogue Electronics System Laboratory.

Research activities are carried on in a research laboratory equipped with 20 networked workstations. The platforms are capable to accomplish signal conditioning and digitising as well as developing of application programs for sound and video signal capture and processing.

Several development tools including MatLab, LabView, ArcGIS are in every day practice. Besides, fully operational departmental electronic laboratories are also affiliated with the aforementioned Laboratory.

Three (3) faculty members, three (3) post-doctoral fellows, fifteen (15) doctoral students and several undergraduate students are supporting the research and educational activities.