The Lab has extensive experience and expertise in semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, social media and big data analytics, knowledge structures, reasoning and personalization for multimedia applications, eHealth and environmental applications
Apr 22, 2014
The Third MUMIA training Summer school on "Information Retrieval and Interactive Information Access" is taking place at Heraklion, Crete, Greece on July 21-25, 2014. The aim of Training School is to give participants grounding in the core topics that constitute the interdisciplinary area of Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access. The school is a week-long event consisting of lecturers from MUMIA and invited speakers. Among them, Stefanos Vrochidis of ITI-CERTH will be giving a lecture on "
Mar 11, 2014
The PERICLES project was proudly presented in one of the most important digital data related events in Europe and North America. The 9th International Digital Curation Conference, held this year in San Francisco, offered to its delegates a deep insight about the data-driven transformations in research, education, business and society. Our poster managed to win the best poster award out of many very interesting and fascinating projects.
Jan 14, 2014
The paper on “A Comparative Study on the Use of Multi-Label Classification Techniques for Concept-Based Video Indexing and Annotation” by Fotini Markatopoulou, Vasileios Mezaris and Ioannis Kompatsiaris received the Best Paper Award at the 20th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling (MMM'14), which was held in Dublin, Ireland, in January 2014.
Jan 10, 2014
Members of the MKLab team have contributed to the writing of the NEM position paper on Big and Open Data Challenges and Technologies that has just been recently released on the NEM website.
From the NEM community perspective, Big and Open data is becoming a hot topic as far as most of the content will be stored in the future in data centers and there is a need to optimize the usage of such infrastructure.
Nov 29, 2013
The poster entitled "Geometrically-Correct 3D OCT: A Novel Imaging Method for the Identification of High-Risk Coronary Plaque", which was co-authored by Multimedia Group and was presented in the G.D. Behrakis Cardiovascular Symposium in Vascular Biology 2013, received the best poster award. The Symposium was held at November 14, 2013, in Boston, MA, USA. The poster can be found here .
Nov 26, 2013
Knowledge and processing algorithms for remote sensing data. December 2, 2013, Thessaloniki, Greece.Visit workshop site and register for your participation online.
Oct 23, 2013
The mobile version of Improve My City is now available for iPhone users. Totally redesigned, both the iPhone and Android versions offer an exciting experience for the citizens to improve their city in collaboration with their administration. Visit the Improve My City web page for more.
Oct 08, 2013
A new version of GPU-accelerated LIBSVM has been released. Version 1.2 supports the latest LIBSVM v3.17 & CUDA SDK 5.5. The binary and source files for both Windows and Linux are now available on Github, as well as under http://mklab.iti.gr/project/GPU-LIBSVM. Take a look at https://github.com/MKLab-ITI/CUDA/releases for a detailed change log.
Sep 03, 2013
A press article about the Cooperation of ITI/CERTH with Hellenic Police/Forensic Sciences Subdivision of Northern Greece is presented in the Έθνος newspaper (in Greek). The electronic version of the article is also accessible here.
The article describes the multimedia search technologies developed by ITI/CERTH with the guidance of Hellenic Police in order to automatically recognize pornographic material. This interactive multimedia search engine is evaluated by the Hellenic Police to facilitate the investigations on child pornography detection.
