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HOMER

Homemade explosives (HMEs) and recipes characterisation- Capability

The goal of HOMER is to expand the knowledge of European bodies about Homemade Explosives (HME) and to improve the capacity of security and law enforcement agencies to cope with current and anticipated threats in order to reduce the probability that HMEs will be used by terrorists. The concept of the HOMER project is based on four pillars: a) data collection and analysis based on HME literature study, information mining from internet resources, industry best practices, as well as chemical and compound filtering analysis; b) knowledge management to support the sustainability of HME knowledge content; c) case study experiments and validation; d) standardization of HME vocabulary and definition among the security and law enforcement agencies and also the precursor’s manufacturers, for the purpose of preventing, detecting and mitigating the threat resulting from the manufacture of HMEs by terrorist and criminal elements. ITI-CERTH will lead the discovery and analysis of HME recipes in the Web and will be involved in the knowledge management of HME resources.

PUBLICATIONS

  1. C. Iliou, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris. "Hybrid Focused Crawling on the Surface and the Dark Web". EURASIP Journal on Information Security, vol. 2017, no. 11, 4 July 2017. OPEN ACCESS
  2. F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, T. Mironidis, V. Kaltsa, A. Ioannidou, S. Symeonidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, A. Briassouli, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2016", in Proc. TRECVID 2016 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2016. OPEN ACCESS
  3. I. Gialampoukidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Community Detection in Complex Networks Based on DBSCAN* and a Martingale Process", in 11th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP), 2016, pp. 1-6. IEEE.
  4. C. Iliou, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Hybrid Focused Crawling for Homemade Ex-plosives Discovery on Surface and Dark Web", 11th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security (ARES 2016), Salzburg, Austria, Aug 2016. DOI: 10.1109/ARES.2016.66
  5. I. Gialampoukidis, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Key player identification in terrorism-related social media networks using centrality measures", in Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference (EISIC), 2016 European, pp. 112-115. IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/EISIC.2016.029
  6. G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, C. Iliou, T. Mironidis, S. Vrochidis, J. Middleton, U. Williamson, I. Kompatsiaris,"In-teractive Discovery and Retrieval of Web Resources Containing Home Made Explosive Recipes", in 4th International Conference on Human Aspects of Information Security, Privacy and Trust, Toronto, Canada, 17 - 22 July 2016.
  7. A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, T. Mironidis, D. Liparas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Multimedia Interactive Search Engine based on Graph-based and Non-linear Multimodal Fusion", in 14th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2016, IEEE, 2016. DOI: 10.1109/CBMI.2016.7500276
  8. A. Moumtzidou, T. Mironidis, E. Apostolidis, F. Markatopoulou, A. Ioannidou, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras,"VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Search Engine for Video Browsing and Retrieval", in Proc. Video Browser Showdown (VBS'16) at the 22nd Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM'16), Miami, USA, 4 January 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27674-8_39
  9. F. Markatopoulou, A. Ioannidou, C. Tzelepis, T. Mironidis, D. Galanopoulos, S. Arestis-Chartampilas, N. Pittaras, K. Avgerinakis, N. Gkalelis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2015", in Proc. TRECVID 2015 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, Nov. 2015.
  10. T. Tsikrika, A. Latas, A. Moumtzidou, E. Chatzilari, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Discovery of Environmental Web Resources Based on the Combination of Multimedia Evidence", in 2nd International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2015), Shanghai, China, June 23, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1145/2764873.2764876
  11. A. Moumtzidou, K. Avgerinakis, E. Apostolidis, F. Markatopoulou, K. Apostolidis, T. Mironidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, Y. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras,"VERGE: A Multimodal Interactive Video Search Engine", in Proc. 21st Int. Conf. on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM15), Sydney, Australia, Jan. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14442-9_23
  12. N. Gkalelis, F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, K. Avgerinakis, N. Pittaras, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras,"ITI-CERTH participation to TRECVID 2014", in Proc. TRECVID 2014 Work-shop, Orlando, FL, USA, November 2014.
  13. T. Tsikrika, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "Focused Crawling of Environmental Web Resources: A Pilot Study on the Combination of Multimedia Evidence", in Proceedings of 1st International Workshop on Environmental Multimedia Retrieval (EMR 2014), Glasgow, UK, April 1, 2014. DOI: 10.1007/s11042-015-2624-3