DRS – Multimodal Data Fusion and Analytics Group

A Semantic Framework for Decision Making in Forest Fire Emergencies

Masa, P.; Kintzios, S.; Vasileiou, Z.; Meditskos, G.; Vrochidis, S.; Kompatsiaris, I. A Semantic Framework for Decision Making in Forest Fire Emergencies. Appl. Sci. 2023, 13, 9065. https://doi.org/10.3390/app13169065

An Explainable Intervention Prediction for Trauma Patients

Z.Vasileiou, G.Meditskos, S.Vrochidis, N.Bassiliades, "An Explainable Intervention Prediction for Trauma Patients", Semantic Web Applications and Tools for Health Care and Life Sciences (SWAT4HCLS), 13-16 February 2023, Basel Switzerland (Poster).

Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery

P. Masa, G.Tzanetis, S. Kintzios, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, I. Vourvachis, L. Nerantzis, I. Kompatsiaris, " Ontology-based technologies for disaster preparedness, response and recovery", in the Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Civil Protection & New Technologies (SafeThessaloniki 2022), 29 September - 1 October 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece.

An Explainable Multimodal Fusion Approach for Mass Casualty Incidents

Z. Vasileiou, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis, N. Bassiliades, "An Explainable Multimodal Fusion Approach for Mass Casualty Incidents". In Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Knowledge Graphs At 33rd International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications, DEXA 2022, August 22-24, 2022, Vienna, Austria.

Ontology-based Modelling and Reasoning for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies

P. Masa, G. Meditskos, S. Kintzios, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Ontology-based Modelling and Reasoning for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies", 12th EETN Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2022), September 7-9 2022, Corfu, Greece.

Water quality issues: Can we detect a creeping crisis with social media data?

S. Andreadis, N. Pantelidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Water quality issues: Can we detect a creeping crisis with social media data?", In the proceedings of the 27th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (IEEE ISCC 2022), 30 June - 3 July 2022, Rhodes, Greece.

Cybersecurity in Next Generation Energy Grids: Challenges and Opportunities for Blockchain and AI Technologies

N., Mengidis, T., Tsikrika, S., Vrochidis, I., Kompatsiaris (2021) "Cybersecurity in Next Generation Energy Grids: Challenges and Opportunities for Blockchain and AI Technologies". In Tagarev T., Atanassov K.T., Kharchenko V., Kacprzyk J. (eds) Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience of Modern Societies. Studies in Big Data, vol 84. Springer, Cham. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65722-2_18.

Real-time Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams

T. Papadimos, N. Pantelidis, S. Andreadis, A. Bozas, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Real-time Alert Framework for Fire Incidents Using Multimodal Event Detection on Social Media Streams". In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 22-25 May 2022, Tarbes, France.

Flood Hazard and Risk Mapping by Applying an Explainable Machine Learning Framework Using Satellite Imagery and GIS Data

G. Antzoulatos, I. Kouloglou, M. Bakratsas, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Karakostas, F. Lombardo, R. Fiorin, D. Norbiato, M. Ferri, A. Symeonidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Flood Hazard and Risk Mapping by Applying an Explainable Machine Learning Framework Using Satellite Imagery and GIS Data". Special Issue: Environmental Water Monitoring for Sustainable Development in Urban and Rural Areas of Sustainability, Volume 14, Issue 6, 2022. DOI:10.3390/su14063251.

Earthquakes: from Twitter detection to EO data processing

S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Manconi, D. Cordeiro, V. Conde, M. Sagona, F. Brito, N. Pantelidis, T. Mavropoulos, N. Grosso, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "Earthquakes: from Twitter detection to EO data processing", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, Volume 19, 14 February 2022, DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2022.3149541

Exploring the potential of innovative methods for integrated water and flood risk management in the Oriental Alpes river district: the aqua3S approach

M. Ferri, F. Lombardo, D. Norbiato, A. Moumtzidou, A. Karakostas, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris "Exploring the potential of innovative methods for integrated water and flood risk management in the Oriental Alpes river district: the aqua3S approach".In WMS-EXPO2020: Water Resources Management and Sustainability: Solutions for Arid Regions, Dubai Exhibition Center (DEC), Dubai, UAE, March 22-24, 2022.

WaterMM:Water Quality in Social Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2021

S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, A. Bozas, A. Moumtzidou, R. Fiorin, F. Lombardo, A. Karakostas, D. Norbiato, S. Vrochidis, M. Ferri, and I. Kompatsiaris, "WaterMM: Water Quality in Social Multimedia Task at MediaEval 2021". In Proceedings of the MediaEval 2021 Workshop (MediaEval'21), 12-15 December 2021.

Multimodal data fusion of social media and satellite images for emergency response and decision-making

I. Gialampoukidis, S. Andreadis, S. Vrochidis, and I. Kompatsiaris, "Multimodal data fusion of social media and satellite images for emergency response and decision-making", 2021 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2021), 11 July 2021, Online, pp. 228-231, IEEE.

xR4DRAMA: Enhancing situation awareness using immersive (XR) technologies

S. Symeonidis, S. Diplaris, N. Heise, T. Pistola, A. Tsanousa, G. Tzanetis, E. Batziou, C. Stentoumis, I. Kalisperakis, S. Freitag, Y. Shekhawat, R. Paradiso, M. Pacelli, J. Codinak, S. Millek, M. Marimonk, M. Ferri, D. Norbiato, M. Monego, A. Karakostas and S. Vrochidis, "xR4DRAMA: Enhancing situation awareness using immersive (XR) technologies". In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality (ICIR), Piscataway, NJ, USA, 2021, pp. 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIR51845.2021.00010

On the Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies

P. Masa , G. Meditskos, A. Karakostas , S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "On the Use of Semantic Web Technologies for Forest Fire Emergencies in Resilient Societies", In Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Security and Management (SAM'21), Las Vegas, USA, July 26-29, 2021.

OntoAqua: Ontology-based Modelling of Context in Water Safety and Security

Α.-Μ., Koufakis, S., Tzanakis, A., Moumtzidou, G., Meditskos, A., Karakostas, S., Vrochidis, I., Kompatsiaris, "OntoAqua: Ontology-based Modelling of Context in Water Safety and Security", In proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development-KEOD 2021, Valletta, Malta, 25-27 October 2021.

Harmonizing Data Collection in an Ontology for a Risk Management Platform

DC. 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 Enviroinfo 10 July 2018, Shaker-Verlag

IoT and Semantic Web Technologies

A. Chatzimichail, E. A. Stathopoulos, D. Ntioudis, A. Tsanousa, M. Rousi, A. Mavropoulos, G. Meditskos, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris. “IoT and Semantic Web Technologies”. Semantic IOT: Theory and Applications - Interoperability, Provenance and Beyond, Book series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer, 2020, p. 3-33.

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 and I. Kompatsiaris. “The Backbone of Decision Support Systems: The Sensor to Decision Chain”. IJISCRAM 10.4: 65-87. Web. 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", Int. Conf. on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2018), 23 May 2018.

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", 2nd Mapping Water Bodies from Space Conference (MWBS 2018), 27-28 March 2018, ESA-ESRIN Frascati, Italy.

VisDrone-VDT2018: The vision meets drone video detection and tracking challenge results

P. Zhu, L. Wen, D. Du, X. Bian, H. Ling, Q. Hu, H. Wu, Q. Nie, H. Cheng, C. Liu, X. Liu, W. Ma, L. Wang, A. Schumann, D. Wang, D. Ortego, E. Luna, E. Michail, E. Bochinski, F. Ni, F. Bunyak, G. Zhang, G. Seetharaman, G. Li, H. Yu, I. Kompatsiaris, J. Zhao, J. Gao, J. M. Martinez, J. C. San Miguel, K. Palaniappan, K. Avgerinakis, L. Sommer, M. Lauer, M. Liu, N. M. Al-Shakarji, O. Acatay, P. Giannakeris, Q. Zhao, Q. Ma, Q. Huang, S. Vrochidis, T. Sikora, T. Senst, W. Song, W. Tian, W. Zhang, Y. Zhao, Y. Bai, Y. Wu, Y. Wang, Y. Li, Z. Pi and Z. Ma,“VisDrone-VDT2018: The vision meets drone video detection and tracking challenge results”, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer…

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

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

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", 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), 25 May 2018.

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

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

Speed Estimation and Abnormality Detection from Surveillance Cameras

P. Giannakeris, V. Kaltsa, K. Avgerinakis, A. Briassouli, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Speed Estimation and Abnormality Detection from Surveillance Cameras'', CVPRW NVIDIA AI City Challenge, 15 June 2018.

A deep neural network for oil spill semantic segmentation in SAR images

G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris., "A deep neural network for oil spill semantic segmentation in SAR images", To be presented in IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2018), Athens, Greece, 10 October 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 and I. Kompatsiaris, "Social Media Observations for Flood Event Monitoring in Italy over a One-Year Period", 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), 27-30 November 2018, Venezia, Italy.

A Flood Monitoring Tool for Urban Areas Using Satellite, Weather and Social Data

S. Andreadis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris, "A Flood Monitoring Tool for Urban Areas Using Satellite, Weather and Social Data", US-Serbia & West Balkan Data Science Workshop 2018 - Big Data and Critical Infrastructures, Belgrade, Serbia, 26-28 August 2018, (poster presentation).

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", 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), 27-30 November 2018, Venezia, Italy.

Visdrone-det2018: The vision meets drone object detection in image challenge results

P. Zhu, L. Wen, D. Du, X. Bian, H. Ling, Q. Hu, Q. Nie, H. Cheng, C. Liu, X. Liu, W. Ma, H. Wu, L. Wang, A. Schumann, C. Brown, C. Qian, C. Li, D. Li, E. Michail, F. Zhang, F. Ni, F. Zhu, G. Wang, H. Zhang, H. Deng, H. Liu, H. Wang, H. Qiu, H. Qi, H. Shi, H. Li, H. Xu, H. Lin, I. Kompatsiaris, J. Cheng, J. Wang, J. Yang, J. Zhou, J. Zhao, KJ. Joseph, K. Duan, K. Suresh, K. Bo, K. Wang, K. Avgerinakis, L. Sommer, L. Zhang, L. Yang, L. Cheng, L. Ma, L. Lu, L. Ding, M. Huang, N. K. Vedurupaka, N. Mamgain, N. Bansal, O. Acatay, P. Giannakeris, Q. Wang, Q. Zhao, Q. Huang, Q. Liu, Q. Cheng, Q. Sun, R.…

VisDrone-SOT2018: The Vision Meets Drone Single-Object Tracking Challenge Results

L. Wen, P. Zhu, D. Du, X. Bian, H. Ling, Q. Hu, C. Liu, H. Cheng, X. Liu, W. Ma, Q. Nie, H. Wu, L. Wang, A. G. Perera, B. Zhang, B. Heo, C. Liu, Do. Li, E. Michail, H. Chen, H. Liu, H. Li, I. Kompatsiaris, J. Cheng, J. Fan, J. Zhang, J. Y. Choi, J. Li, J. Yang, J. Choi, J. Zhao, J. Han, K. Zhang, K. Duan, K. Song, K. Avgerinakis, K. Lee, L. Ding, M. Lauer, P. G., P. Zhang, Q. Wang, Q. Xu, Q. Huang, Q. Liu, R. Laganire, R. Zhang, S. Yun, S. Zhu, S. Wu, S. Vrochidis, W. Tian, W. Zhang, W. Chen, W. Hu, W. Wang, W. Zhang, W. Ding, Xi. He, X. Li, X. Zhang, X. Luo, X. Hu, Y. Meng,…

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 Enviroinfo, Shaker-Verlag, 10 July 2018.

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

E. Kontopoulos, P. Mitzias, S. Dasiopoulou, J. Mo?graber, 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", 2nd International Conference Citizen Observatories for natural hazards and Water Management (COWM 2018), 27-30 November 2018, Venezia, Italy.

Road passability estimation using deep neural networks and satellite image patches

A. Moumtzidou, M. Bakratsas, S. Andreadis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis and I. Kompatsiaris,"Road passability estimation using deep neural networks and satellite image patches", in Proc. of the 2019 conference on Big Data from Space (BiDS’19), Munich, Germany, 2019, pp. 1–4.

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)'', NVIDIA AI city challenge, IEEE Smart World, 4 August 2017, USA.

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”, IEEE/ISPRS 4th Joint Workshop on Multi-Sensor Fusion for Dynamic Scene Understanding, (ICCV-MSF 2017), 15 October 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 International Conference on Internet Science, (INSCI 2017),pp. 421-427. Springer, Cham, 22 -24 November 2017.

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 and I. Kompatsiaris, "A multimodal approach in estimating road passability through a flooded area using social media and satellite images", multimedia satellite task MediaEval 2018. In Proceedings of the Working Notes Proceeding MediaEval Workshop, Sophia Antipolis, France, 29-31 October, 2018.

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 to integrate a multi-layer Machine Learning Data Fusion approach into Crisis Classification and Risk Assessment of extreme natural events”. In "Technology Development for Security Practitioners", edited by B. Akhgar, D. Kavallieros, E. Sdongos, Book series: Security Informatics and Law Enforcement, Springer, 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 in 4th International Conference on Dynamic of Disasters - DOD 2019, Kalamata, 2019.

A Deep Neural Network Slope Reduction Model on Sentinel-1 Images for Water Mask Extraction

M. Mpakratsas, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Deep Neural Network Slope Reduction Model on Sentinel-1 Images for Water Mask Extraction", 40th Asian Conference on Remote Sensing (ACRS 2019), Daejeon, Korea, 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, 27-29 October 2019, Sophia Antipolis, France.

Flood detection with Sentinel-2 satellite images in crisis management systems

A. Moumtzidou, M. Bakratsas, S. Andreadis, A. Karakostas, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Flood detection with Sentinel-2 satellite images in crisis management systems", in 17th International Conference on Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (ISCRAM 2020), Blacksburg, Virginia, USA, 24-27 May 2020.

A modified Single-Shot multibox Detector for beyond Real-Time Object Detection

G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, A. Tefas, S. Vrochidis, Y. Kompatsiaris, "A modified Single-Shot multibox Detector for beyond Real-Time Object Detection", 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2020), 10 & 15 January 2021, Milan, Italy.

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.

Border surveillance using computer vision enabled robotic swarms for semantically enriched situational awareness

G. Orfanidis, S. Apostolidis, G. Prountzos, M. Riga, A. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, E. Kosmatopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Border surveillance using computer vision enabled robotic swarms for semantically enriched situational awareness", in Mediterranean Security Event 2019 (MSE2019) 29th and the 31st of October 2019 Heraklion, Greece.