Publications | IVA
Image and Video Analysis
Publications
2016

Journals

C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. α-shapes for local feature detection. In Pattern Recognition, vol 50, no. 1, pp. 56-73, February 2016.
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2014

Conferences

C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Improving local features by dithering-based image sampling. In Proceedings of Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 2014), Singapore, November 2014.
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2013

Journals

G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, K. Rapantzikos, G. Skoumas, Y. Avrithis. Multimodal Saliency and Fusion for Movie Summarization based on Aural, Visual, and Textual Attention. In IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol 15, no. 7, pp. 1553-1568 , November 2013.
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Conferences

C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, S. Kollias. Wα SH-ing visual repositories: searching Europeana using local features. In Proceedings of International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2013), July 2013.
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2012

Conferences

C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis. WαSH: Weighted α-Shapes for Local Feature Detection. In Proceedings of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012), Florence, Italy, October 2012.
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2011

Journals

K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Spatiotemporal features for action recognition and salient event detection. In Cognitive Computation, special issue on Saliency, attention, visual search and picture scanning, vol 3, no. 1, pp. 167-184, 2011.
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Conferences

Y. Avrithis, K. Rapantzikos. The Medial Feature Detector: Stable Regions from Image Boundaries. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2011), Barcelona, Spain, November 2011.
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Book Chapters

K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kolias. Vision, Attention Control, and Goals Creation System. In Perception-Action Cycle, V. Cutsuridis, Amir Hussain, John G. Taylor (Eds.), Springer, pp. 363-386, 2011.
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2010

Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Detecting Regions from Single Scale Edges. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Sign, Gesture and Activity (SGA'10), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2010), September 2010.
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2009

Journals

K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Spatiotemporal Saliency for Video Classification. In Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol 24, no. 7, pp. 557-571, August 2009.
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Conferences

S. Nikolopoulos, C. Lakka, I. Kompatsiaris, C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis. A cross media approach for compound document analysis. In Proceedings of 7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2009), Chania, Greece, June 2009.
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K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Dense saliency-based spatiotemporal feature points for action recognition. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2009), Miami, USA, June 2009.
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G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, G. Skoumas, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, Y. Avrithis. Video event detection and summarization using audio, visual and text saliency. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2009), Taipei, Taiwan, April 2009.
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2008

Conferences

G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, A. Zlatintsi, Y. Avrithis. Movie Summarization Based On Audio-Visual Saliency Detection. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2008), San Diego, California, USA, October 2008.
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P. Kapsalas, K. Rapantzikos, A. Sofou, Y. Avrithis. Regions Of Interest for Accurate Object Detection. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2008), London, UK, June 2008.
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Book Chapters

G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapantzikos, P. Maragos, Y. Avrithis, A. Potamianos. Audiovisual Attention Modeling and Salient Event Detection. In Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text, P. Maragos, A. Potamianos, P. Gros (Eds.), Springer-Verlag, pp. 179-199, 2008.
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2007

Journals

K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. A Bottom-Up Spatiotemporal Visual Attention Model for Video Analysis. In IET Image Processing, vol 1, no. 2, pp. 237-248, June 2007.
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N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Rapantzikos, C. Pattichis. An Embedded Saliency Map Estimator Scheme: Application to Video Encoding. In International Journal of Neural Systems, vol 17, no. 4, pp. 1-16, August 2007.
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Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, P. Maragos, Y. Avrithis. An Audio-Visual Saliency Model for Movie Summarization. In Proceedings of IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2007), October 2007.
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N. Tsapatsoulis, C. Pattichis, K. Rapantzikos. Biologically inspired region of interest selection for low bit-rate video coding. In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), September 2007.
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K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. SALIENShrink: Saliency-Based Image Denoising. In Proceedings of 14th International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2007), San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007.
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K. Rapantzikos, Y.Avrithis, S. Kollias. Spatiotemporal saliency for event detection and representation in the 3D Wavelet Domain: Potential in human action recognition. In Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR 2007), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2007.
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2006

Journals

K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis. A committee machine scheme for feature map fusion under uncertainty: the face detection case. In IJISTA, special Issue on "Intelligent Image and Video Processing and Applications: The Role of Uncertainty", vol 1, no. 3, pp. 346-358, 2006.
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Conferences

N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis. Priority Coding for Video-telephony Applications based on Visual Attention. In Proceedings of International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2006), September 2006.
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N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Rapantzikos. Wavelet Based Estimation of Saliency Maps in Visual Attention Algorithms. In Proceedings of International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece, September 2006.
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2005

Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis. An enhanced spatiotemporal visual attention model for sports video analysis. In Proceedings of International Workshop on content-based Multimedia indexing (CBMI 2005), June 2005.
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K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis. Enhancing the robustness of skin-based face detection schemes through a visual attention architecture. In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), September 2005.
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K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. Handling Uncertainty in Video Analysis With Spatiotemporal Visual Attention. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ 2005), May 2005.
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K. Rapantzikos, C. Balas. Hyperspectral imaging: Potential in non-destructive analysis of palimpsests. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2005), Genova, Italy, September 2005.
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K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias. On the use of spatiotemporal visual attention for video classification. In Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV 2005), Sardinia, Italy, September 2005.
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K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis. Robust optical flow estimation in MPEG sequences. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2005), March 2005.
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Book Chapters

K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis, K. Balas. Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Drusen in Retina Images for Risk Assessment on Macular Degeneration. In , C.T. Leondes (Eds.), World Scientific Publ, 2005.
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2004

Journals

G. Tsechpenakis, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias. A Snake Model for Object Tracking in Natural Sequences. In Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol 19, no. 3, pp. 219-238, March 2004.
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G. Tsechpenakis, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias. Rule-driven Object Tracking in Clutter and Partial Occlusion with Model-based Snakes. In EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol 6, pp. 841-860, June 2004.
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Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis. Spatiotemporal Visual Attention Architecture for Video Analysis. In Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop On Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP'04), September 2004.
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2003

Journals

K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis, K. Balas. Detection and segmentation of drusen deposits on human retina: potential in the diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration. In Medical Image Analysis, vol 7, no. 1, pp. 95-108, March 2003.
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Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis. On the Implementation of Visual Attention Architectures. In Proceedings of Tales of the Disappearing Computer, June 2003.
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T. Balomenos, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis. On the use of ECG waveforms for Health Status Estimation. In Proceedings of Tales of the Disappearing Computer, June 2003.
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G. Tsechpenakis, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias. Object Tracking in Clutter and Partial Occlusion through Rule-driven Utilization of Snakes. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME 2003), Baltimore, USA, July 2003.
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2002

Master Thesis

K. Rapantzikos. Dense Estimation of Optical Flow in the Compressed Domain Using Robust Techniques. Master Thesis, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Technical University Of Crete, September 2002.
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Diploma Thesis

K. Rapantzikos. Detection of Age - related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Human Eye's Retina Using Image Processing and Analysis Methods. Diploma Thesis, Department of Electronics & Computer Engineering, Technical University Of Crete, April 2002.
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2001

Conferences

K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis. A novel segmentation algorithm for the detection of abnormalities in human eye’s retina. In Proceedings of International Conference for Neural Networks and Expert Systems in Medicine and HealthCare (NNESMED 2001), August 2001.
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K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis. Nonlinear enhancement and segmentation Algorithm for the Detection of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Human Eye’s Retina. In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processin (ICIP 2001), October 2001.
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