Culture

Culture is made up of many diverse components that keep changing, evolving and blend together through the pass of time. The development of technology, transportation and globalization has a large impact on culture and cultural heritage. In this context we are developing innovative technologies to preserve in a meaningful way the fading tangible cultural heritage and safeguard aspects of its intangible forms, by employing novel AI, machine learning, computer vision, semantically-aware XR methodologies and digital twins.

M4D is aiming to support cultural and creative industries (CCIs) through the development of tools and services for the promotion, management, preservation and dissemination of tangible and intangible cultural heritage. The use of suitable innovative technology opens new ways to the delivery of content, with multiple media forms, approaches and efficient access that make the user understand and relate to it. Also with the use of IoT, big data analysis and semantics the researchers can understand, interpret and reinterpret cultural heritage from the vast and diverse amount of available data. Our goal is to promote new technological approaches from a cultural perspective that comes from the collaboration and symbiosis of culture and tech.

Key research and development activities of M4D in the Culture domain include:

  • IoT / Big data / Machine learning
  • Multimedia Retrieval and Indexing
  • Visual analysis for 3D representation
  • Web-GIS / Route planning
  • Semantic technologies
  • Interoperability and Linked Data
  • VR/AR environments
  • Human Computer Interaction
E-tracer platform: Automatic thematic route suggestion

Avatar created with the CHROMATA’s project service “3D dance estimation”

PROJECTS

PUBLICATIONS

  1. M. V. Kosti, S. Diplaris, N. Georgakopoulou, P. Runnel, C. Marini, N. Rovatsos, A. Barakli, E. de Lera, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "i-Game: Redefining Cultural Heritage Through Inclusive Game Design and Advanced Technologies.", Electronics, vol. 14, no. 6, March 2025. OPEN ACCESS
  2. E. Tziviloglou, C. Stentoumis, J. I. Alvarez, E. Stathopoulos, S. Diplaris, A. Sfetsos, D. Vlachogiannis, I. Karatasios, "Resilient and adaptive renovation of 20th century buildings towards net-zero carbon built heritage - The approach of the SINCERE research project.", In Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin (MONUBASIN), Athens, Greece, June 17-19, 2024. OPEN ACCESS
  3. A. Bozas, S. Andreadis, D. Chatzakou, S. Symeonidis, O. Theodosiadou, P. Kyriakidis, A. Kokkalas, E. A. Stathopoulos, S. Diplaris, T. Tsikrika, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, “What Can We Extract with Social Media Sensing? - Insights from Research to Applications.” SN COMPUT. SCI., vol. 5, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-02712-9 OPEN ACCESS
  4. E. A. Stathopoulos, A. I. Karageorgiadis, A. Kokkalas, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Query Expansion Benchmark on Social Media Information Retrieval: Which Methodology Performs Best and Aligns with Semantics?", Computers, vol. 12, no. 6, 2023. https://doi.org/10.3390/computers12060119 OPEN ACCESS
  5. G. Loupas, T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, C. Stentoumis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Automatic transcription of Greek folk dance videos to labanotation based on autoencoders.", in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023.
  6. E. Stathopoulos, A. Vassiliades, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, N. Bassiliades, I. Kompatsiaris, "The MindSpaces Knowledge Graph: Applied Logic and Semantics on Indoor and Urban Adaptive Design.", in Proceedings of the ICAART 2023, Lisbon, Portugal, vol. 3, 22-24 February 2023, pp. 334-341. OPEN ACCESS
  7. S. Symeonidis, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, K. Avgerinakis, J. Derdaele, M. Vergauwen, M. Bassier, A. Moghnieh, L. Fraguada, V. Vogler, Y. Shekhawat, L. Wanner, M. Marimon, K. Valsamidou, P. Koulali, A. Tellios, J. Wuyts, E. Lopez, "V4Design: Intelligent analysis and integration of multimedia content for Creative Industries", IEEE Systems Journal, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 2570 - 2573, November 2022. DOI:10.1109/JSYST.2022.3217655
  8. T. Pistola, N. Georgakopoulou, A. Shvets, K. Chatzistavros, V. Xefteris, A. García, I. Koulalis, S. Diplaris, L. Wanner, I. Kompatsiaris, "Imageability-based Multi-modal Analysis of Urban Environments for Architects and Artists.", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Fine Art Pattern Extraction and Recognition (FAPER 2022), Lecce, Italy, 23-24 May, 2022. OPEN ACCESS
  9. I. Paliokas, E. E. Mitsopoulou, A. T. Patenidis, E. A. Stathopoulos, A. Kokkalas, S. Diplaris, E. Karyati, S. Tsafaras, E. Tasiopoulou, C. Riggas, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, K. Votis, I. Kompatsiaris, D. Tzovaras, "Implementation of an Interactive Crowd-Enhanced Content Management System for Tourism Development.", in Proceedings of the conference on humanities, arts and social sciences, KnE Social Sciences, vol. 5, no. 9, 2021, pp. 275–282.
  10. T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, C. Stentoumis, E. A. Stathopoulos, G. Loupas, T. Mandilaras, G. Kalantzis, I. Kalisperakis, A. Tellios, D. Zavraka, P. Koulali, V. Kriezi, V. Vraka, F. Venieri, S. Bacalis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Creating immersive experiences based on intangible cultural heritage.", in Proceedings of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR 2021), Virtual, 12-13 May, 2021.
  11. M. Rousi, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Supporting the Discovery and Reuse of Digital Content in Creative Industries using Linked Data.", in Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, (ICSC 2021), 27-29 January, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICSC50631.2021.00025
  12. I. Paliokas, A. Patenidis, E. Mitsopoulou, C. Tsita, G. Pehlivanides, E. Karyati, S. Tsafaras, E. Stathopoulos, A. Kokkalas , S. Diplaris , G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, E. Tasiopoulou , C. Riggas K. Votis, I. Kompatsiaris, D. Tzovaras, "A Gamified Augmented Reality Application for Digital Heritage and Tourism.", Appl. Sci., vol. 10, no. 21, 2020. OPEN ACCESS
  13. E. A. Stathopoulos, A. Kokkalas, E. E. Mitsopoulou, A. T. Patenidis, G. Meditskos, S. Diplaris, I. Paliokas, S. Vrochidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, I. Kompatsiaris, "Knowledge-based Management and Reasoning on Cultural and Natural Touristic Routes.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI2020), Chalkidiki, Greece, pp. 355-367.
  14. G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "V4Ann: Representation and Interlinking of Atom-based Annotations", In: Acosta M., Cudre-Mauroux P., Maleshkova M., Pellegrini T., Sack H., Sure-Vetter Y. (eds) Semantic Systems. The Power of AI and Knowledge Graphs. SEMANTiCS 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11702, pp 124-139, 2019. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33220-4_10
  15. E. A. Stathopoulos, I. Paliokas, G. Meditskos, S. Diplaris, G. Pehlivanides, S. Tsafaras, E. Valkouma, C. Riggas, S. Vrochidis, K. Votis, D. Tzovaras, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Smart Discovery of Cultural and Natural Tourist Routes", Workshop On Social Innovation And Web Intelligence Workshop On Social Innovation And Web Intelligence, International Conference on Web Intelligence, Thessaloniki, October 14–17, 2019. OPEN ACCESS
  16. P. Alvanitopoulos, S. Diplaris, B. de Gelder, A. Shvets, M. Benayoun, P, Koulali, A. Moghnieh, Y. Shekhawat, C. Stentoumis, T. Hosmer, R. Anadol, M. Borreguero, A. Martin, P. Sciama, K. Avgerinakis, P. Petrantonakis, A. Briassouli, S. Mille, A. Tellios, L. Fraguada, H. Sprengel, I. Kalisperakis, N. Cabanas, S. Nikolopoulos, S. Skouras, V. Vogler, D. Zavraka, J. Piesk, L. Grammatikopoulos, L. Wanner, T. Klein, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "MindSpaces: Art-driven adaptive outdoors and indoors design", in Ninth International Conference on Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage — DiPP2019, Burgas, Bulgaria, 26–28 September, 2019, pp 391-400. OPEN ACCESS
  17. S. Vrochidis, C. Doulaverakis, A. Gounaris, E. Nidelkou, L. Makris and I. Kompatsiaris. "A Hybrid Ontology and Visual-based Retrieval Model for Cultural Heritage Multimedia Collections". International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies, Vol.3, No. 3, pp. 167-182, 28 February 2009. OPEN ACCESS
  18. S. Vrochidis, C. Doulaverakis, A. Gounaris, E. Nidelkou, L. Makris and I. Kompatsiaris, "A Hybrid Ontology and Visual-based Retrieval Model for Cultural Heritage Multimedia Collections", in Proceedings of 2nd International Conference on Metadata and Semantics Research, Metadata and Semantics, 11-12 October, Corfu, Greece, 2007, Springer US, pp. 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-77745-0_1
  19. S. Vrochidis, C. Doulaverakis, L. Makris, A. Gounaris, E. Nidelkou, I. Kompatsiaris and M. G. Strintzis, "Hybrid Ontology and Visual-based Retrieval for Cultural Heritage Multimedia Libraries", in 14th International Conference of Image Analysis and Processing - Workshops, 10-13 September 2007, Modena, Italy. DOI: 10.1109/ICIAPW.2007.28