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Selected Publications of I.P.AN. Research Group

Below you can find selected publications of our research group in refereed scientific journals, conferences, workshops, books and book chapters. Further publications are available at the personal web pages of each author.

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Year

2016

Journal Publications

  1. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Identifying Human Behaviors Using Synchronized Audio-Visual Cues," IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2016, DOI 10.1109/TAFFC.2015.2507168 (in press)
  2. E. G. Datsika, A. V. Katsenou, L. P. Kondi, E. Papapetrou, K. E. Parsopoulos, "Joint Quality Enhancement and Power Control for Wireless Visual Sensor Networks based on the Nash Bargaining Solution", Digital Signal Processing, Vol. 50, March 2016, pp. 203-217.

Conference Publications

  1. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Exploiting privileged information for facial expression recognition," in Proc. 9th IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics, Halmstad, Sweden, June 13-16, 2016. (Honorable Mention Paper Award)
  2. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and I.A. Kakadiaris, "Active privileged learning of human activities from weakly labeled samples," 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Phoenix, AZ, USA, September 25-28, 2016. (to appear)
  3. I.A. Kakadiaris, N. Sarafianos and C. Nikou, "Show me your body: Gender classification from still images," 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Phoenix, AZ, USA, September 25-28, 2016. (to appear)
  4. A. Sankisa, K. Pandremmenou, L. P. Kondi, A. K. Katsaggelos, "A Novel Cumulative Distortion Metric and a No-Reference Sparse Prediction Model for Packet Prioritization in Encoded Video Transmission," 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Phoenix, AZ, USA, September 25-28, 2016. (to appear)
  5. K. Tziortziotis, K. Vlachos, and K. Blekas, "Reinforcement Learning-based Motion Planning of a Triangular Floating Platform under Environmental Disturbances," IEEE 24th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Athens, Greece, June 21-24, 2016. (to appear)
  6. K. Tziortziotis, N. Tziortziotis, K. Vlachos, and K. Blekas, "Autonomous Navigation of an Over-actuated Marine Platform Using Reinforcement Learning," in Proc. 9th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Thessaloniki, Greece, May 18-20, 2016.

Year

2015

Journal Publications

  1. K. Vlachos, E. Papadopoulos, "Modeling and control of a novel over-actuated marine floating platform", Ocean Engineering, Volume 98, 1 April 2015, pp. 10-22.
  2. E. Tsiligianni, L. P. Kondi, A. K. Katsaggelos, "Preconditioning for Underdetermined Linear Systems with Sparce Solutions", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 2015, vol.22, no.9, pp.1239-1243, Sept. 2015. doi: 10.1109/LSP.2015.2392000.
  3. K. Pandremmenou, L. P. Kondi, K. E. Parsopoulos, "A Study on Visual Sensor Network Cross-Layer Resource Allocation Using Quality-Based Criteria and Metaheuristic Optimization Algorithms", Applied Soft Computing, Vol. 26, January 2015, pp. 149-165.
  4. D. Riana, M. E. Plissiti, C. Nikou, D. H. Widyantoro and T. L. R. Mengko. Inflammatory cell extraction and nuclei detection in Pap smear images. International Journal of e-Health and Medical Communications, Vol.6, No 2, pp. 27-43, 2015. doi:10.4018/IJEHMC.2015040103.
  5. D. Gerogiannis, C. Nikou and A. Likas. "Elimination of outliers from 2D point sets using the Helmholtz principle". IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 22, no. 10, pp. 1638-1642, October 2015.
  6. K. Vlachos, D. Papadimitriou and E. Papadopoulos, "Vibration-Driven Microrobot Positioning Methodologies for Nonholonomic Constraint Compensation," Engineering Transactions of CAE, Special Issue on Robotics (invited), vol. 1, no 1, pp. 66-72, March 2015.
  7. V. Karavasilis, C. Nikou and A. Likas. Visual tracking using spatially weighted likelihood of Gaussian mixtures. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 140, pp. 43-57, 2015. doi: 10.1016/j.cviu.2015.07.003.
  8. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and I. A. Kakadiaris, A review of human activity recognition methods, Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, vol 2, no. 28, pp. 1-26, November 2015.
  9. N. Tziortziotis, G. Papagiannis and K. Blekas. A Bayesian Ensemble Regression Frameworkon the Angry Birds Game. IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, DOI: 10.1109/TCIAIG.2015.2494679 (in press)
  10. V. Oikonomou and K. Blekas. Regression Mixture Modeling for fMRI Data Analysis, Frontiers of Medical Imaging, C.H. Chen editor, World Scientific Publishing, pp. 167-190, 2015.

Conference Publications

  1. K. Pandremmenou, M. Shahid, L. P. Kondi, B. Lovstrom, "A No-Reference Bitstream-based Perceptual Model for Video Quality Estimation of Videos Affected by Coding Artifacts and Packet Losses", in Proc. Human Vision and Electronic Imaging XX, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 9394, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2015.
  2. K. Pandremmenou, N. Tziortziotis, S. Paluri, W. Zhang, K. Blekas, L. P. Kondi, S. Kumar, "Quality Optimization of H.264/AVC Video Transmission over Noisy Environments Using a Sparse Regression Framework", in Proc. Visual Information Processing and Communication VI, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 9410, San Francisco, CA, Feb. 2015.
  3. A. Tsopelakos, K. Vlachos, E. Papadopoulos, “Backstepping Control with Energy Reduction for an Over-Actuated Marine Platform,” Proc. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA’15), Washington, Seattle, May 26-30, 2015. (accepted for publication)
  4. D. Gerogianis, C. Nikou and L. Kondi. "Shape encoding for edge map image compression". Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP'15), 27-30 September 2015, Quebec City, Canada.
  5. K. Papadimitriou and C. Nikou. Tomographic image reconstruction with a spatially varying Gaussian mixture prior. Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’15), 27-30 September 2015, Quebec City, Canada.
  6. A. Giotis, G. Sfikas, C. Nikou and B. Gatos. Shape-based word spotting in handwritten document images. Proc. 13th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR’15), 23-26 August 2015, Gammarth, Tunisia.
  7. D. Gerogianis, C. Nikou and L. P. Kondi. Shape encoding for edge map image compression. in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’15), 27-30 September 2015, Quebec City, Canada.
  8. K. Papadimitriou and C. Nikou. Tomographic image reconstruction with a spatially varying Gaussian mixture prior. in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’15), 27-30 September 2015, Quebec City, Canada.
  9. M. E. Plisiti, M. Vrigkas and C. Nikou, Segmentation of cell clusters in Pap smear images using intensity variation between superpixels, in Proc. 22nd International Conference on Systems, Signals and Image Processing (IWSSIP'15), pp. 184-187, London UK, September 10-12 2015.

Year

2014

Journal Publications

  1. D. Gerogiannis, C. Nikou and A. Likas, "Modeling sets of unordered points using highly eccentric ellipses", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 11, 2014.
  2. G. Tzortzis and A. Likas, "The MinMax k-Means clustering algorithm", Pattern Recognition, vol. 47, pp. 2505–2516, 2014.
  3. P. Karvelis and A. Likas, "Fully Unsupervised M-FISH Chromosome Image Characterization", IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, vol. 17, no 6, pp. 1068-1078, 2014.
  4. K. Blekas and A. Likas, "Sparse regression mixture modeling with the multi-kernel relevance vector machine", Knowledge and Information Systems, vol. 39, pp. 241-264, 2014.
  5. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and L. P. Kondi. Robust MAP image super-resolution. Journal of Electronic Imaging 23(4), 043016 (2014). doi:10.1117/1.JEI.23.4.043016.
  6. G. Chantas, T. Gkamas and C. Nikou. Variational-Bayes optical flow. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Vol. 50, No 3, pp. 199-213, 2014, DOI:10.1007/s10851-014-0494-3.
  7. M. Vrigkas, V. Karavasilis, C. Nikou and I. Kakadiaris. Matching mixtures of curves for human action recognition. Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 119, pp. 27-40, 2014.

Conference Publications

  1. N. Tziortziotis, G. Papagiannis and K. Blekas. "A Bayesian Ensemble Regression Framework on the Angry Birds Game", ECAI 2014 Symposium on AI in Angry Birds, Prague, 2014. Second Place on the Angry Birds AI Competition 2014.
  2. N. Tziortziotis, K. Tziortziotis and K. Blekas, "Play Ms. Pac-Man using an Advanced Reinforcement Learning Agent", in the 8th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2014), Ioannina, Greece, May 2014.
  3. A. Ioannidis, V. Chasanis and A. Likas, "Key-frame Extraction using Weighted Multi-View Convex Mixture Models and Spectral Clustering", Proc. Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition (ICPR'14), Stockholm, 2014 (Best Scientific Paper Award).
  4. G. Tzortzis and A. Likas, "Ratio-Based Multiple Kernel Clustering", Proc. Eur. Conf. Machine Learning (ECML’14), Nancy, France, 2014.
  5. D. Gerogianis, C. Nikou and A. Likas. "Global sampling of image edges". IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP’14), 27-30 October 2014, Paris, France, pp. 4712-4716.
  6. A. Giotis, D. Gerogiannis and C. Nikou. "Word spotting in handwritten text using contour-based models". 14th International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition (ICFHR‘14), 1-4 September 2014, Hersonisos, Crete, Greece, pp. 399-404, 2014.
  7. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and I. Kakadiaris. "Classifying behavioral attributes using conditional random fields". 8th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN'14), Ioannina, Greece, 15-17 May 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8445, pp. 95-104, 2014.
  8. M. Plissiti, E. Louka and C. Nikou. "Splitting of overlapping nuclei guided by robust combinations of concavity points". SPIE Medical Imaging 2014, San Diego, CA, USA, 15-20 February 2014.
  9. Tsopelakos, A., Vlachos, K., and Papadopoulos, E., “Design of a Linear Model Predictive Controller for an Overactuated Triangular Floating Platform,” Proc. 2014 IEEE Multi-conference on Systems and Control (MSC'14), October 8-10, 2014, Antibes, France.
  10. Vlachos, K., and Papadopoulos, E., “Design and Experimental Validation of a Hybrid Micro Tele-Manipulation System,” Proc. 8th Hellenic Conference on AI (SETN 2014), Ioannina, Greece, May 15-17, also in Artificial Intelligence: Methods and Applications, ser. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, A. Likas, K. Blekas, and D. Kalles, Eds., vol. 8445. Springer, 2014, pp. 164–177.

Year

2013

Journal Publications

  1. Vartholomeos, P., Vlachos, K., Papadopoulos, E., "Analysis and Motion Control of a Centrifugal-Force Microrobotic Platform", Automation Science and Engineering, IEEE Transactions on, vol.10, no.3, pp. 545-553, July 2013.
  2. K. Blekas and A. Likas. "Sparse regression mixture modeling with the multi-kernel relevance vector machine", Knowledge and Information Systems, ISSN=0219-1377, pp. 1-24, 2013.
  3. S. Karavarsamis, N. Ntarmos, K. Blekas and I. Pitas, "Detecting pornographic images by localizing skin ROIs", International Journal of Digital Crime and Forensics, 5 (1), pp. 39-53, 2013.
  4. V. Oikonomou and K. Blekas. "An adaptive regression mixture model for fMRI cluster analysis", IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 32 (4), pp. 649-659, 2013.
  5. G. Rigas, C. Nikou, Y. Goletsis and D. I. Fotiadis. "Hierarchical similarity transformations between Gaussian mixtures". IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Vol. 24, No 11, pp. 1824-1835, 2013.
  6. M. Vrigkas, C. Nikou and L. P. Kondi. "Accurate image registration for MAP image super-resolution". Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 28, No 5, pp. 494-508, 2013.
  7. K. Blekas and I. Lagaris. A spectral clustering approach based on Newton’s equations of motion. International Journal of Intelligent Systems, vol 28 (4), pp. 394–410, 2013.
  8. K. Pandremmenou, L. P. Kondi, K. E. Parsopoulos, “Geometric Bargaining Approach for Optimizing Resource Allocation in Wireless Visual Sensor Networks”, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 23, No. 8, August 2013, pp. 1388-1401.

Conference Publications

  1. Spartali, I., Vlachos, K., and Papadopoulos, E., “Speed Control of Vibration Micro-motors of a Micro-Robotic Platform,” Proc. IEEE 21st Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED'13), June 25-28, 2013, Chania, Crete, Greece.
  2. V. Oikonomou, K. Blekas and L. Astrakas. "Resting State fMRI analysis using a spatial regression mixture model". BIBE 2013, Chania, Greece, Nov. 2013.
  3. N. Tziortziotis, C. Dimitrakakis and K. Blekas. "Linear Bayesian Reinforcement Learning". International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI 2013.
  4. D. Gerogiannis and C. Nikou. "Tex-Lex: Automated generation of texture lexicons using images from the World Wide Web". International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP’13), 1-3 July 2013, Santorini, Greece.
  5. M. Vrigkas, V. Karavasilis, C. Nikou and I. Kakadiaris. "Action recognition by matching clustered trajectories of motion vectors". 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP’13), pp. 112-117, 21-24 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain.
  6. A. V. Katsenou, L. P. Kondi, E. Papapetrou, “Distortion-Aware Joint Scheduling and Resource Allocation for Wireless Video Transmission”, in Proc. European Signal Processing Conference, Marrakech, Morocco, September 2013.
  7. I. Papadopoulos, N. Papanikos, E. Papapetrou, L. P. Kondi, “Network-wide MD and Network Coding for Heterogeneous Video Multicast”, in Proc. International Symposium on Personal Indoor and Mobile Radio Communications, London, UK, September 2013.
  8. A. V. Katsenou, E. G. Datsika, L. P. Kondi, E. Papapetrou, K. E. Parsopoulos, “Power–Aware QoS Enhancement in Multihop DS–CDMA Visual Sensor Networks”, in Proc. International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2013.
  9. K. Pandremmenou, N. Tziortziotis, L. P. Kondi, K. Blekas, “Resource Allocation in Visual Sensor Networks Using a Reinforcement Learning Framework”, in Proc. International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2013.
  10. A. Mairgiotis, L. P. Kondi, Y. Yang, “Locally optimum detection for additive watermarking in the DCT and DWT domains through non-Gaussian distributions”, in Proc. International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Santorini, Greece, July 2013.
  11. K. Pandremmenou, L. P. Kondi, K. E. Parsopoulos, “Fairness Issues in Resource Allocation Schemes for Wireless Visual Sensor Networks”, in Proc. Visual Information Processing and Communication IV, Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T Electronic Imaging, San Francisco, CA, February 2013.
  12. O. O. Odejide, E. S. Bentley, L. P. Kondi, J. D. Matyjas, “Resource Management in Visual Sensor Networks Using Nash Bargaining Solution in Generalized Fading”, in Proc. IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, Las Vegas, NV, January 2013.

Book Chapters

  1. Mining Clinical Data, A. Kalogeratos, V. Chasanis, G. Rakocevic, A. Likas, Z. Babovic, M. Novakovic, Book: Computational Medicine in Data Mining and Modeling, Eds. G. Rakocevic et al., pp. 1-34, 2013.
  2. M. Plissiti and C. Nikou. A review of automated techniques for cervical cell image analysis and classification. In Biomedical Imaging and Computational Models in Biomechanics. Editors: D. Iacoviello and U. Andreaus. Lecture Notes in Computational Vision and Biomechanics, Vol. 4, pp. 1-18, Springer 2013. ISBN 978-9400742697.

Year

2012

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Journal Publications

  1. D. Gerogiannis, C. Nikou and A. Likas, "Registering sets of points using Bayesian regression", Neurocomputing, vol. 89, pp. 122-133, 2012.
  2. A. Kalogeratos and A. Likas, "Text Document Clustering using Global Term Context Vectors", Knowledge and Information Systems, vol. 31, pp. 455-474, 2012.
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Conference Publications

  1. Dimitris Saougkos and George Manis, “A parallelizing compiler for the microgrid: Exploiting concurrency from software continuity,” AppleCore Project Workshop, Paris, France, 2012.
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