Publications

Journal Publications

• A. Zlatintsi, P. Koutras, G. Evangelopoulos, N. Malandrakis, N. Efthymiou, K. Pastra, A. Potamianos and P. Maragos, COGNIMUSE: a multimodal video database annotated with saliency, events, semantics and emotion with application to summarization, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Aug. 2017, 2017:54. DOI 10.1186/s13640-017-0194-1.


• P. Maragos, Dynamical systems on weighted lattices: general theory, Math. Control Signals Syst., Vol. 29:1, Dec. 2017.


• E. Tsilionis and A. Vatakis, Multisensory binding: is the contribution of synchrony and semantic congruency obligatory?, Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences, 2016.


• P. Koutras and P. Maragos, A Perceptually based Spatio-Temporal Computational Framework for Visual Saliency Estimation, Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol 38, pp. 15-31, 2015.


• T. Chaspari, C. Soldatos and P. Maragos, The development of the Athens Emotional States Inventory (AESI): collection, validation and automatic processing of emotionally loaded sen- tences, The World Journal of Biological Psychiatry, 2015; 16: 312322.


• S. Lefkimmiatis, A. Roussos, P. Maragos and M. Unser, Structure Tensor Total Variation, SIAM J. Imaging Sciences, vol. 2, no.2, pp. 1090-1122, 2015.


• V. Pitsikalis, A. Katsamanis, S. Theodorakis and P. Maragos, Multimodal Gesture Recognition via Multiple Hypotheses Rescoring, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2014, 2014:16.            


• M. Sellis, P. Maragos, and A. Vatakis, Synchrony Perception and Inverse Effectiveness: Are they Complementary or Contrasting in Audiovisual Speech Integration?, Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, vol. 126, pp. 166-167, 2014.


• E. Antonakos, V. Pitsikalis and P. Maragos, Classification of Extreme Facial Events in Sign Language Videos , EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2014, 2014:14, doi:10.1186/1687-5281-2014-14.


• G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Skoumas and Y. Avrithis, Multimodal Saliency and Fusion for Movie Summarization based on Aural, Visual, and Textual Attention, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 15, no. 7, pp. 1553-1568, Nov. 2013.


• A. Vatakis, P. Maragos, I. Rodomagoulakis and C. Spence, Assessing the effect of physical differences in the articulation of consonants and vowels on audiovisual temporal perception , Frontiers in Integrative Neuroscience, Special Issue on "Multisensory Perception and Action: Psychophysics, neural mechanisms, and applications", vol.6 (art.71), pp.1-18, Oct.2012, doi:10.3389/fnint.2012.00071.

Book Chapters

• P. Maragos, V. Pitsikalis, A. Katsamanis, G. Pavlakos and S. Theodorakis, On Shape Recognition and Language, in Perspectives in Shape Analysis, edited by M. Breuss, A. Bruckstein, P. Maragos and S. Wuhrer, Springer, to appear.


• P. Maragos, Representations for Morphological Image Operators and Analogies with Linear Operators, in Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, vol. 177, edited by P.W. Hawkes, Acad. Press: Elsevier Inc., 2013, pp.45-187.

Conference Publications

• G. Panagiotaropoulou, P. Koutras, A. Katsamanis, P. Maragos, A. Zlatintsi, A. Protopapas, E. Karavasilis and N. Smyrnis, FMRI-Based Perceptual Validation of a Computational Model for Visual and Auditory Saliency in Videos, Proc. of 23rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2016), Phoenix, Arizona USA.


• C. Bambis, P. Maragos, and A. Bovik, Projective Non-Negative Matrix Factorization for Unsupervised Graph Clustering, Proc. IEEE Int’l. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2016), Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Sep. 2016.


• A. Tsiami, A. Katsamanis, P. Maragos and A. Vatakis, Towards a Behaviorally-Validated Computational Audiovisual Saliency Model, Proc. of 41th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2016), Sanghai, China, 2016.


• C. Bambis and P. Maragos, Unifying the Random Walker Algorithm and the SIR Model for Graph Clustering and Image Segmentation, Proc. IEEE Int’l. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2015), Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2015.


• P. Koutras and P. Maragos, Estimation of Eye Gaze Direction Angles Based on Active Appearance Models, Proc. of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2015), Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2015.


• P. Koutras, A. Zlatintsi, E.Iosif, A. Katsamanis, P. Maragos and A. Potamianos, Predicting Audio-Visual Salient Events Based on Visual, Audio and Text Modalities for Movie Summarization, Proc. of 22nd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2015) Quebec, Canada, Sep. 2015.


• A. Zlatintsi, E.Iosif, P. Maragos and A. Potamianos, Audio Salient Event Detection and Summarization using Audio and Text Modalities, Proc. 23nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2015), Nice, France, 2015.


• A. Zlatintsi, P. Koutras, N. Efthymiou, P. Maragos, A. Potamianos and K. Pastra, Quality Evaluation of Computational Models for Movie Summatization, Proc. 7th Int’l. Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX-2015), Costa Navarino, Messinia, Greece, May 2015.


• P. Maragos and P. Koutras, Max-Product Dynamical Systems and Applications to Audio- Visual Salient Event Detection in videos, Proc. of 40th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2015), Brisbane, Australia.


• M. Vinos, E. Tsilionis and A. Protopapas, A Connectionist Semantic Network Modeling the Influence of Category Member Distance on Induction Strength, International Conference on Cognitive Modeling (ICCM 2015), the Netherlands, April 2015.


• A. Potamianos, Cognitive Multimodal Processing: from Signal to Behavior, Proc. 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Istanbul, Turkey, Nov. 2014.


• K. Maninis, P. Koutras and P. Maragos, Advances on Action Recognition in Videos Using and Interest Point Detector Based on Multiband Spatio-Temporal Energies, Proc. IEEE Int'l. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP-2014), France, Oct. 2014.


• A. Zlatintsi and P. Maragos, Comparison of Different Representations Based on Nonlinear Features for Music Genre Classification, Proc. 22th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.


• T. Chaspari, D. Dimitriadis and P. Maragos, Emotion Classification of Speech Using Modulation Features, Proc. 22th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 2014.


• M. Sellis, J. Beskow, G. Salvi and A. Vatakis, Multisensory gain: A linear inverse or inverted U pattern, Proc. 15th International Multisensory Research Forum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June 2014.


• P. Koutras, A. Katsamanis, and P. Maragos, Predicting Eyes' Fixations in Movie Videos: Visual Saliency Experiments on a New Eye-Tracking Database, D. Harris (Ed.): EPCE 2014, LNAI 8532, pp. 183-194, Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014. Presented in Human Computer Interaction Conf. (Eng. Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics) (HCI-2014), Herakliion, Crete, Greece, Jun 2014.


• S. Lefkimmiatis, A. Roussos, M. Unser and P. Maragos, Convex Generalizations of Total Variation Based on the Structure Tensor with Applications to Inverse Problems, Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM-2013), pp.48-60, 2013.


• A. Altani, A. Protopapas, Word Reading & designation of visual stimuli: development of serial processing (in greek),14th Conf. of Psychological Research, 16-5-2012, Alexandroupolis, Hellenic Psychological Society (ELPSE), 2013.


• F. A. Fotiadis, A. Protopapas, Verbal & Nonverbal Tags for Stimuli in Probabilistic Learning Classes (in greek), 14th Conf. of Psychological Research, 16-5-2012, Alexandroupolis, Hellenic Psychological Society (ELPSE), 2013.


• C. Georgakis, P. Maragos, G. Evangelopoulos and D. Dimitriadis, Dominant Spatio-Temporal Modulations And Energy Tracking In Videos: Application To Interest Point Detection For Action Recognition, Proc. Int'l Conf. Image Processing (ICIP-2012), Orlando, FL, USA, Oct. 2012.


• A. Zlatintsi, P. Maragos, A. Potamianos and G. Evangelopoulos, A Saliency-Based Approach to Audio Event Detection and Summarization, Proc. 20th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2012), Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.

Master Thesis

• P. Filntisis, Audio-Visual Speech Synthesis Using Hidden Markov Models, M.Eng. Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, 2015.


• G. Panagiotaropoulou, fMRI Data Processing and Their Application in the Problem of Audio-Visual Saliency, M.Eng. Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, 2015.


• G. Anastasiou, Automatic Detection of Salient Audio Events, M.Eng. Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, 2015.


• O. Karathanou, Multimodal Segmentation of Movie Videos in Scenes, M.Eng. Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, 2015.


• M. Sellis, Inverse Effectiveness or stochastic resonance? Multisensory integration in brief audiovisual syllables, M.Eng. Diploma Thesis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 2015.