Kompatsiaris Yiannis (Ioannis)

Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is the Director of the Information Technologies Institute, Research Director at CERTH-ITI and the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory.

His research interests include ΑΙ/Machine Learning for multimedia analysis, Semantics (multimedia ontologies and reasoning), Social Media and Big Data Analytics, Multimodal and Sensors Data Analysis, Human Computer Interfaces, e- Health, Arts and Cultural, Media/Journalism, Environmental and Security applications. He is the co-author of 178 papers in refereed journals, 63 book chapters, 8 patents and 560 papers in international conferences. Since 2001, Dr. Kompatsiaris has participated in 88 National and European research programs, in 31 of which he has been the Project Coordinator. He has also been the PI in 15 contracts from the industry.

He has been the co-chair of various international conferences and workshops including the 13th IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing (IVMSP 2018) Workshop and has served as a regular reviewer, associate and guest editor for a number of journals and conferences currently being an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is a member of the National Ethics and Technoethics Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of the CHIST-ERA funding programme and an elected member of the IEEE Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing - Technical Committee (IVMSP - TC).

He is a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.

Since January 2014, he is a co-founder of the Infalia private company, a high-tech SME focusing on data intensive web services and applications.

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Key publications

Ntoutsi E, Fafalios P, Gadiraju U, Iosifidis V, Nejdl W, Vidal ME, Ruggieri S, Turini F, Papadopoulos S, Krasanakis E, Kompatsiaris I. et al. “Bias in data‐driven artificial intelligence systems—An introductory survey”. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 10(3), e1356. May 2020. https://doi.org/10.1002/widm.1356

C. Koutlis, S. Papadopoulos, M. Schinas, I. Kompatsiaris. LAVARNET: Neural network modeling of causal variable relationships for multivariate time series forecasting, Applied Soft Computing 96, 106685, 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.asoc.2020.106685

Lazarou I, Nikolopoulos S, Dimitriadis SI, Yiannis Kompatsiaris I, Spilioti M, Tsolaki M. Is brain connectome research the future frontier for subjective cognitive decline? A systematic review, Clin Neurophysiol. 2019 Oct;130(10):1762-1780. doi: 10.1016/j.clinph.2019.07.004. Epub 2019 Jul 19. PMID: 31401485.

L. Aiello, G. Petkos, C. Martin, D. Corney, S. Papadopoulos, R. Skraba, A. Goker, I. Kompatsiaris, A. Jaimes, "Sensing trending topics in Twitter", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 15, issue 6, 2013, doi:10.1109/TMM.2013.2265080

Anastasia Ioannidou, Elisavet Chatzilari, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Deep Learning Advances in Computer Vision with 3D Data: A Survey, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), Volume 50, Issue 2, 2017

Fotis Kalaganis, Elisavet Chatzilari, Spiros Nikolopoulos, Ioannis Kompatsiaris, and Nikos Laskaris, "An error-aware gaze-based keyboard by means of a hybrid BCI system", Nature Scientific Reports 8, Article number: 13176 (2018)

E. Spyromitros-Xioufis, S. Papadopoulos, Y. Kompatsiaris, G. Tsoumakas, I. Vlahavas, "A Comprehensive Study over VLAD and Product Quantization in Large-scale Image Retrieval", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia 16(6), pp. 1713-1728, October 2014.

I. Kompatsiaris and M.G. Strintzis, "Spatiotemporal Segmentation and Tracking of Objects for Visualization of Videoconference Image Sequences", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and System for Video Technology, vol. 10, no. 8, December 2000.