MKLab

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

WaterMM Task at MediaEval 2021

Aug 27, 2021

MKLab in cooperation with the Eastern Alps River Basin District invites you to the “WaterMM: Water Quality in Social Multimedia” task at MediaEval 2021, a multimedia evaluation benchmark that is dedicated to evaluating new algorithms for multimedia access and retrieval. The WaterMM task deals with the analysis of social media posts from Twitter concerning issues of water quality, safety and security. Because the occurrence of words/phrases about the quality of drinking water (e.

Article in Greek Media about our PrescIT project

Jun 18, 2021

An article about the PrescIT project, coordinated by our lab, published in Greek media, explains its aspiring goals and process. PrescIT aims to transform and expedite the workflow of medical experts by providing a smart, personalized and interoperable e-Prescription Platform. In detail, will enhance the current e-Prescription practices with: Intelligence, by leveraging Big Data on drugs, disease and therapeutic protocols to advise and alert doctors in case of Drug Adverse Reactions (ADRs) and undesired Drug-to-Drug Interactions (DDIs) Personalization, by combining information from the patient's Electronic Health Records (EHR) to provide recommendations Interoperability, by integrating with Hospital Management Systems (HMS), private practice software and most importantly, the national prescription system in Greece, e-prescription.

Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris ranked 16th in the list of top computer scientists in Greece by Guide2Research

Jun 03, 2021

Guide2Research has just released the 7th Edition of the 2021 Ranking of Top Scientists in the field of Computer Science and Electronics. The ranking is based on the H-Index metric provided by Google Scholar and DBLP and includes only leading scientists with an H-index of at least 40. The head of our lab, Dr. Yiannis Kompatsiaris is ranked 16th in computer scientists in Greece: https://guide2research.com/scientists/GR This is a recognition of all MKLab members!

MKLab will be the host of ACM ICMR 2023, which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece

May 17, 2021

MKLab will be the host of ACM ICMR 2023, which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece. Following its tradition, the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval in 2023 will present significant and innovative research in multimedia retrieval and related fields. The scope of the conference includes core topics in multimedia retrieval and recommendation, as well as the broader set of topics that must be addressed to ensure that multimedia retrieval technologies are of practical use in real-world use cases.

Dr Yiannis Kompatsiaris, head of our lab, has been recognized as an ACM Senior Member

May 13, 2021

Very glad to announce that Dr Yiannis Kompatsiaris, head of our lab, has been recognized as an ACM Senior Member. The Senior Members Grade of ACM recognizes ACM members with at least 10 years of professional experience who have demonstrated performance through technical leadership, and technical or professional contributions. As one of ACM’s prestigious Advanced Member Grades, ACM Senior Member status recognizes the top 25% of ACM Professional Members for their demonstrated excellence in the computing field.

Interview about our participation in the XR4DRAMA project

May 12, 2021

XR4DRAMA, a project coordinated by our lab, interviewed the Project Technical Coordinator Sotiris Diplaris presenting our project team, our expertise and involvement in XR4DRAMA, as well as the expected challenges and outcomes of the project. XR4DRAMA utilises several XR technologies towards improving significant parts of our lives that depend on situation awareness and decision making. Read full inteview here: https://xr4drama.eu/2021/05/12/meet-the-xr4drama-consortium-ii-sotiris-diplaris-and-the-centre-for-research-and-technology-hellas-certh/

The ultimate platform to handle extreme weather events! The European Commission has officially labelled Η2020 beAWARE (coordinated by MKLab) as a “success story”!

Apr 02, 2021

As stated in the EC article, the beAWARE platform is much more than a crisis management platform to help authorities, first responders and citizens. It should rather be seen as a combination of relevant state-of-the-art technologies spread across different components and applications. It encompasses a protection and rescue service, it can be used for risk assessment (including scenario building), and it supports the core functions of call centres (public safety answering point or PSAP).

Best Paper Award at ICCSA 2020

Mar 01, 2021

The MKLab paper titled "i-CHANGE: A Platform for Managing Dockless Bike Sharing Systems", authored by L. Apostolidis, S, Papadopoulos, M. Liatsikou, I. Fyrogenis, E. Papadopoulos, G. Keikoglou, K. Alexiou, N. Chondros, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Politis, and supported by the CHANGE Project (https://change.iti.gr) was presented at the 20th International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2020), Cagliari, Italy, in July 2020, and received the ICCSA 2020 Best Paper Award.

Bridging the gap between Copernicus data providers and end users through Artificial Intelligence solutions

Feb 02, 2021

MKLab of ITI-CERTH is delighted to participate in the newly launched, EU-funded H2020 project CALLISTO - “Copernicus Artificial Intelligence (AI) Services and data fusion with other distributed data sources and processing at the edge to support DIAS and HPC infrastructures”. MKLab has a significant role in CALLISTO, being the scientific and technical coordinator, as well as leading one Work Package and several tasks, including social media data collection, change detection on satellite and UAV images, data fusion, and information retrieval.