Overview

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Infrastructure

Scientific Contributions

Research Prototypes

Autonomic & Grid Computing Group (AGC)

Scientific Contributions

Award Winning Systems
AIT’s Prototype tracking system is amongst two best in the world, according to the results of the international evaluation of Video Analysis and Content Extraction - VACE II which is run by the National Institute of Standards in the US, announced on Thursday, June 29th in the NIST facilities in Washington DC. Several sites from Europe and the US participated in the evaluations where a large number of real-life videos were processed and objective measures of performance in multiple categories (accuracy, false alarms, correct track association, etc.) were utilized to evaluate the methodologies proposed by the various sites.
The prototype system was ranked second in precision in detecting and tracking vehicles and humans in video scenes. The AGC video tracking system was the result of the research efforts of Prof. Aristodemos Pnevmatikakis and prof. Lazaros Polymenakos with the assistance of former MSIN students and current AIT researchers A. Stergiou and V. Mylonakis.

Best Paper Awards
The paper:  A. Pnevmatikakis and L. Polymenakos, ‘Robust Estimation of Background for Fixed Cameras’, 15th International Conference on Computing (CIC2006), Mexico City, Mexico, Nov. 2006 got a best paper award in this conference.

Patents
Lazaros Polymenakos, "Method and Apparatus for Suppressing Background Music or Noise from the Speech Input of a Speech Recognizer." ΙΒΜ Νο. ΥΟ895-0508,0510, US Patent Number: 5,848,163. Dec.8, 1998. This patent became international in 1999.
Lazaros Polymenakos, "Transcription of Speech Data with Segments from Acoustically Dissimilar Environments." ΙΒΜ Νο. ΥΟ996017.
Lazaros Polymenakos, "Multi-modal Browser Architecture Recommendation for Mobile e- Business",IBM-Nokia joint proposal to the ETSI DSR Application and Protocol Networking Group, December 2000.

Publications
Extensive publication record. Highly cited authors.

Books and Scientific Editing
Bourdopoulos, A. Pnevmatikakis, V. Anastassopoulos and T. Deliyannis, 'Delta- Sigma Modulators, Modeling, Design and Applications', Imperial College Press and World Scientific Publication Company, Sept. 2003.

Co-Editing of a Book published by IOS Press, "Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering”, Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies", Volume 160 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Editors: I. Maglogiannis, K. Karpouzis, M. Wallace and J. Soldatos, October 2007, approx. 408 pp., hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58603-780-2.

Co-Editing of a Book published by River Publishers, “4G Wireless & Mobile Communications Technologies”, River Publishers, ISBN: 978-87-92329-02-8 & E-Book ISBN: 978-87-92329-03-5, Editors: S. Kyriazakos, J. Soldatos, G. Karetsos.

“Artificial Intelligence and Innovations 2007: From Theory to Applications”, C. Boukis, A. Pnevmatikakis and L. Polymenakos (eds.), Springer, Berlin Heidelberg, ISBN 978-0-387-74160-4, Sept. 2007.

"Emerging Artificial Intelligence Applications in Computer Engineering”, Real Word AI Systems with Applications in eHealth, HCI, Information Retrieval and Pervasive Technologies", Volume 160 Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Editors: I. Maglogiannis, K. Karpouzis, M. Wallace and J. Soldatos, October 2007, approx. 408 pp., hardcover ISBN: 978-1-58603-780-2.

“4G Wireless & Mobile Communications Technologies”, River Publishers, ISBN: 978-87-92329-02-8 & E-Book ISBN: 978-87-92329-03-5, Editors: S. Kyriazakos, J. Soldatos, G. Karetsos.

Guest Editing for a special issue of the Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, K. Karpouzis, J. Soldatos and D. Tzovaras, ‘Introduction to the special issue on emerging multimodal interfaces’, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, Journal Editorial, DOI 10.1007/s00779-007-0174-z.

Guest Editing for a special issue of International Journal of Wireless Information Networks, John Soldatos   and Sofoklis Kyriazakos, “Introduction to the International Journal of Wireless Information Networks (IJWIN) special issue on Physical Layer Engineering for Emerging Wireless Applications”, International Journal of Wireless Information Networks

Scientific Contributions in events and event management
Experience in the scientific organization and management of high profile ICT events. Served as conference TPC members and chairs in prominent international events both in Europe and the U.S.

Invited Talks, Lectures, Seminars, Presentations
Expert Evaluators and Reviewers
Expert evaluators for GSRT (Greek Secretarial for Research and Technology) and EU proposals and running projects.