beAWARE – Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics Group

Innovative Visual Analysis Solutions to Support Disaster Management

E. Michail, P. Giannakeris, I. Koulalis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Innovative Visual Analysis Solutions to Support Disaster Management.", in Responding to Extreme Weather Events, D. Sempere-Torres, A. Karakostas, C. Rossi, P. Quevauviller, Eds., 2024. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119741374.ch10

Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures

K. Ioannidis, G. Orfanidis, M. Krestenitis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures.", in Terahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Springer Netherlands, 2021, pp. 3–17.

ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2019

K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2019.", in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2019 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2019.

Harmonizing Data Collection in an Ontology for a Risk Management Platform

D. C. Hilbring, J. Mossgraber, P. Hertweck, T. Hellmund, H. van der Schaaf, A. Karakostas, E. Kontopoulos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Andreadis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Harmonizing Data Collection in an Ontology for a Risk Management Platform", in Proceedings of the Enviroinfo 2018, Shaker-Verlag, 2018.

The Backbone of Decision Support Systems: The Sensor to Decision Chain

P. Hertweck, J. Mossgraber, E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, T. Hellmund, A. Karakostas, D. Hilbring, H. van der Schaaf, S. Vrochidis, J. W. Blume, I. Kompatsiaris, "The Backbone of Decision Support Systems: The Sensor to Decision Chain", International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM), vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 65-87, 29 August, 2019.

The Sensor to Decision Chain in Crisis Management

J. Mossgraber, D. Hilbring, H. van der Schaaf, P. Hertweck, E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, I. Kompatsiaris, S. Vrochidis, A. Karakostas, "The Sensor to Decision Chain in Crisis Management", in Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM'18).

Testing a Flood Mask Correction Method Of Optical Satellite Imagery Over Irrigated Agricultural Areas

E. Michail, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Avgerinakis, M. G. Scarpino, S. Vrochidis, G. Vingione, I. Kompatsiaris, K. Labbassi, M. Menenti, F. E. Elghandour, "Testing a Flood Mask Correction Method Of Optical Satellite Imagery Over Irrigated Agricultural Areas", in Proceedings of the 2nd Mapping Water Bodies from Space Conference (MWBS2018), ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy, 27-28 March 2018.

Flood relevance estimation from visual and textual content in social media streams

A. Moumtzidou, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Flood relevance estimation from visual and textual content in social media streams", in Proceedings of the WWW 2018 Workshop on Exploitation of Social Media for Emergency Relief and Preparedness (SMERP), Lyon, France, 23 April 2018.

Fusion of Compound Queries with Multiple Modalities for Known Item Video Search

I. Gialampoukidis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris, "Fusion of Compound Queries with Multiple Modalities for Known Item Video Search", in Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018), Zagori, Greece, 10-12 June 2018.

Ontology-based Representation of Crisis Management Procedures for Climate Events

E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, J. Mossgraber, P. Hertweck, H. van der Schaaf, X. Hilbring, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, M. Ferri, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-based Representation of Crisis Management Procedures for Climate Events", in Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Crisis Management Technologies for Climate Events (ICMT 2018), collocated with the 15th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018).

People and vehicles in danger – A fire and flood detection system in social media

P. Giannakeris, K. Avgerinakis, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "People and vehicles in danger - A fire and flood detection system in social media", in Proceedings of the 13th Workshop on IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018), Zagori, Greece, 10-12 June 2018.

Speed Estimation and Abnormality Detection from Surveillance Cameras

P. Giannakeris, V. Kaltsa, K. Avgerinakis, A. Briassouli, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris,"Speed Estimation and Abnormality Detection from Surveillance Cameras", in Proceedings of the CVPRW NVIDIA AI City Challenge, 2018.

Social Media Observations for Flood Event Monitoring in Italy over a One-Year Period

S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, R. Fiorin, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, A. Karakostas, M. Ferri, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Social Media Observations for Flood Event Monitoring in Italy over a One-Year Period", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), Venezia, Italy, 27-30 November 2018.

A Crisis Classification System for flood risk assessment: the beAWARE project

G. S. Antzoulatos, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, M. Ferri, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Crisis Classification System for flood risk assessment: the beAWARE project", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), Venezia, Italy, 27-30 November 2018.

ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2018

K. Avgerinakis, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, G. Orfanidis, S. Andreadis, F. Markatopoulou, E. Batziou, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2018", in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2018 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2018.

beWARE: Enhancing Decision Support and Management Services in Extreme Weather Climate Events

A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris, B. Kantsepolsky, J. Mossgraber, S. Dasiopoulou, B. Mandler, A. Karppinen, M. Ferri, I. Vourvachis, C. Castro, K. Lintrup, "beWARE: Enhancing Decision Support and Management Services in Extreme Weather Climate Events", in Proceedings of the Enviroinfo 2018, Shaker-Verlag. https://beaware-project.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/factsheet_v2.pdf

Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Decision Support in Climate-Related Crisis Management

E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, S. Dasiopoulou, J. Mossgraber, S. Mille, P. Hertweck, T. Hellmund, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, L. Wanner, I. Kompatsiaris, "Applying Semantic Web Technologies for Decision Support in Climate-Related Crisis Management", in Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), Venezia, Italy, 27-30 November 2018.

Intelligent traffic city management from surveillance systems (CERTH-ITI)

K. Avgerinakis, P. Giannakeris, A. Briassouli, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Intelligent traffic city management from surveillance systems (CERTH-ITI)", in Proceedings of the NVIDIA AI city challenge, IEEE Smart World, USA, August 2017.

Visual and textual analysis of social media and satellite images for flood detection

K. Avgerinakis, A. Moumtzidou, S. Andreadis, E. Michail, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Visual and textual analysis of social media and satellite images for flood detection", in Proceedings of the Multimedia Satellite task of MediaEval, 2017.

LBP-flow and hybrid encoding for real-time water and fire classification

K. Avgerinakis, P. Giannakeris, A. Briassouli, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "LBP-flow and hybrid encoding for real-time water and fire classification", in Proceedings of the ICCV-MSF 2017, IEEE/ISPRS 4th Joint Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Dynamic Scene Understanding, 2017. DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2017.56

ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2017

F. Markatopoulou, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, K. Avgerinakis, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Tachos, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2017", in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2017 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2017.

A Topic Detection and Visualisation System on Social Media Posts

S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Topic Detection and Visualisation System on Social Media Posts", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Science, Springer, Cham, 2017, pp. 421-427.

A multimodal approach in estimating road passability through a flooded area using social media and satellite images

A. Moumtzidou, P. Giannakeris, S. Andreadis, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A multimodal approach in estimating road passability through a flooded area using social media and satellite images", in Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceeding MediaEval Workshop, multimedia satellite task MediaEval 2018, Sophia Antipolis, France, 29-31 October, 2018.

A Weighted Late Fusion Framework for Recognizing Human Activity from Wearable Sensors

A. Tsanousa, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Weighted Late Fusion Framework for Recognizing Human Activity from Wearable Sensors", in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications, 15-17 July 2019.

Towards to integrate a multi-layer Machine Learning Data Fusion approach into Crisis Classification and Risk Assessment of extreme natural events

G. Antzoulatos, I. Koulalis, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Towards integrating a multi-layer Machine Learning Data Fusion approach into Crisis Classification and Risk Assessment of extreme natural events", in Technology Development for Security Practitioners, B. Akhgar, D. Kavallieros, and E. Sdongos, Eds., Springer, Security Informatics and Law Enforcement Series, 2021.

The Crisis Classification component to strengthen the early warning, risk assessment and decision support in extreme climate events

G. Antzoulatos, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "The Crisis Classification component to strengthen the early warning, risk assessment and decision support in extreme climate events", in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Dynamic of Disasters - DOD 2019, Kalamata, 2019.

Multimedia Analysis Techniques for Flood Detection Using Images, Articles and Satellite Imagery

S. Andreadis, M. Bakratsas, P. Giannakeris, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Multimedia Analysis Techniques for Flood Detection Using Images, Articles and Satellite Imagery", in Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceeding MediaEval Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 27-29 October 2019.

A Multi-Layer Fusion Approach For Real-Time Fire Severity Assessment Based on Multimedia Incidents

G. Antzoulatos, P. Giannakeris, I. Koulalis, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Multi-Layer Fusion Approach For Real-Time Fire Severity Assessment Based on Multimedia Incidents.", in Proceedings of the 17th ISCRAM Conference – Blacksburg, VA, USA May 2020, Amanda Lee Hughes, Fiona McNeil and Christopher Zobel, Eds., 2020.