Dr. Yiannis (Ioannis) Kompatsiaris, Senior Researcher
Yiannis Kompatsiaris received the Diploma degree in electrical engineering and the Ph.D. degree in 3-D model based image sequence coding from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH), Thessaloniki, Greece in 1996 and 2001, respectively. He is a Senior Researcher with the Informatics and Telematics Institute, Thessaloniki.Prior to his current position, he was a Leading Researcher on 2-D and 3-D Imaging at AUTH.
His research interests include multimedia content processing, multimodal techniques, multimedia and the Semantic Web, multimedia analysis and annotation ontologies, knowledge-based, context aware inference for semantic multimedia analysis, semantic metadata representation, semantic adaptation, personalization and retrieval, MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards.
News:
The Challenge of Searching Non-Textual Information in Patents
An article published in the Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) Newsletter, which describes the challenges and the benefits of patent image retrieval, and introduces the objectives of the Image Retrieval Session in the upcoming IRF Symposium 2010. Read the IRF Newsletter here..
A system for the semantic multi-modal analysis of news audio-visual content
A new journal publication, jointly authored by members of CERTH, DFKI and the University of Twente, was recently accepted for publication:
V. Mezaris, S. Gidaros, G. Th. Papadopoulos, W. Kasper, J. Steffen, R. Ordelman, M. Huijbregts, F. de Jong, I. Kompatsiaris, M. G. Strintzis, "A system for the semantic multi-modal analysis of news audio-visual content", EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, accepted for publication, 2010.
Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) goes Open Source!
CERTH-ITI recently released its VIA annotation tool as open source under the GPL license.
You can check it out on SourceForge.
Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) is a windows application to manually annotate video and images. It provides a user friendly interface for the accurate and undemanding live and "frame by frame" annotation of video and and region-based annotation of still images integrating results from a segmentation algorithm.
The development of this tool has been supported by the Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE)(FP6-027538) and aceMedia(FP6-001765) projects.
The source code is available at the project's SVN repository page on SouceForge:
https://sourceforge.net/scm/?type=svn&group_id=303977
Extracting Knowledge from Social Sites, ITI seminars presentation
Extracting Knowledge from Social Sites presentation given for ITI seminars.
Organisation of EVENTS 2010 Workshop
WeKnowIt and Pronto will co-organize the 1st International Workshop on
recognising and tracking events on the Web and in real life (EVENTS 2010) , which will be hosted by the 6th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence (SETN 2010)
conference in Athens, Greece, May 4, 2010. The organizing commitee
comprises Y. Kompatsiaris, P. Mylonas, P. Karampiperis, and T. Winkler.
SAMT 2009 proceedings available
The 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, SAMT 2009 Graz, Austria, December 2-4, 2009 proceedings are now available on-line from Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
MESH
The MESH project demonstrates that semantic search for all media types is possible and automation is improving rapidly. It’s not quite there yet, but the search continues. You can already check out the MESH prototype, an article and video presenting MESH capabilities.
MEDUSA: Multi Sensor Data Fusion Grid for Urban Situational Awareness : New project
The MEDUSA project, funded by the European Defense Agency (EDA), has started. The project is aiming to study a combination of different types of sensors for supporting operations within urban environments. ITI's contribution to the project will be in the area of data fusion algorithms, video processing and semantic analysis.
Special Issue of MTAP on Image and Video Retrieval: Theory and Applications
Call for Papers, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer, Special issue on “Image and Video Retrieval: Theory and Applications”. Submission of papers: 15 December 2009.
VIA
Video Image Annotation Tool (VIA) website launched.
VIA is a image/video annotation tool by CERTH-ITI, The development of this tool has been supported by the Bootstrapping Ontology Evolution with Multimedia Information Extraction (BOEMIE)(FP6-027538) and aceMedia(FP6-001765) projects.
New VERGE Engine Website
A website dedicated to VERGE Interactive Video Retrieval Engine implemented by ITI. Available versions of the search engine and related information are presented, while employed technologies are described. Visit the VERGE website here..
4th Summer School for Multimedia Semantics
Extracting Collective Intelligence from Social Content Analysis lecture given during the 4th Summer School for Multimedia Semantics - "Managing and Modeling of Multimedia and User Generated Content in Web 3.0".
Βραβείο καλύτερης εργασίας / Best paper award
Η εργασία με τίτλο "Εφαρμογή Αυτοματοποιημένης Τρισδιάστατης Ανασύνθεσης Στεφανιαίων Αρτηριών στην Ανίχνευση Ευάλωτων Αθηρωματικών Πλακών" έλαβε το βραβείο καλύτερης εργασίας στο 30ο Πανελλήνιο Καρδιολογικό Συνέδριο, 29-31 Οκτωβρίου 2009, Αθήνα.
The paper entitled "Application of Automated 3D reconstruction of Coronary Arteries in the Detection of Vulnerable Atheromatic Plaques" received the Best Paper award in the 30th Panhellenic Cardiological Congress, 29-31 October 2009, Athens, Greece.
CERTH-ITI in VideOlympics 2009
CERTH-ITI participated succesfully in VideOlympics 2009 showcase, demonstrating a hybrid interactive video retrieval engine developed by CERTH-ITI. The exciting video search engine live contest of VideOlympics 2009 took place in Santorini during the ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2009) and was co-organized by ITI and the University of Amsterdam.
Try the interactive video search engine here.
