Conference papers: Recent submissions

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  • Content Based Image Retrieval Using Visual-Words Distribution Entropy 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Iakovidou, Chrysanthi; Boutalis, Yiannis (Springer, 2011)
    Bag-of-visual-words (BOVW) is a representation of images which is built using a large set of local features. To date, the experimental results presented in the literature have shown that this approach achieves high retrieval ...

  • Video Summarization Using a Self-Growing and Self-Organized Neural Gas Network 

    Papadopoulos, Dim. P.; Papamarkos, Nikos (Springer, 2011)
    In this paper, a novel method to generate video summaries is proposed, which is allocated mainly for being applied to on-line videos. The novelty of this approach lies in the fact that the video summarization problem is ...

  • The TREC files: the (ground) truth is out there 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Zagoris, Konstantinos; Arampatzis, Avi (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2011)
    Traditional tools for information retrieval (IR) evaluation, such as TREC’s trec_eval, have outdated command-line interfaces with many unused features, or ‘switches’, accumulated over the years. They are usually seen ...

  • Bag-of-visual-words vs global image descriptors on two-stage multimodal retrieval 

    Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Arampatzis, Avi (ACM SIGIR 2011, 2011)
    The Bag-Of-Visual-Words (BOVW) paradigm is fast becoming a popular image representation for Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), mainly because of its better retrieval effectiveness over global feature representations ...

  • Comparative Performance Evaluation of Image Descriptors Over IEEE 802.11b NoisyWireless Networks 

    Chatzistavros, Evaggelos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Stamatellos, Georgios; Zagoris, Konstantinos (IEEE (Computer Society), 2011)
    Abstract—In this paper we evaluate the image retrieval procedure over an IEEE 802.11b Ad Hoc network, operating in 2.4GHz, using IEEE Distributed Coordination Function CSMA/CA as the multiple access scheme. IEEE 802.11 ...

  • Fusion vs. Two-Stage for Multimodal Retrieval 

    Arampatzis, Avi; Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Springer, 2011)
    We compare two methods for retrieval from multimodal collections. The first is a score-based fusion of results, retrieved visually and textually. The second is a two-stage method that visually re-ranks the top-K results ...

  • Dynamic Two-Stage Image Retrieval from Large Multimodal Databases 

    Arampatzis, Avi; Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Springer-Verlag, 2011)
    Content-based image retrieval (CBIR) with global features is notoriously noisy, especially for image queries with low percentages of relevant images in a collection. Moreover, CBIR typically ranks the whole collection, ...

  • www.MMRetrieval.net: a multimodal search engine 

    Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Arampatzis, Avi (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2010)
    We introduce an experimental search engine for multilin- gual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Modalities are searched in parallel, and ...

  • Accelerating Image Retrieval Using Binary Haar Wavelet Transform on the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis; Arampatzis, Avi (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States, 2010)
    In this paper, a new accelerating technique for content-based image retrieval is proposed, suitable for the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor (CEDD). To date, the experimental results presented in the literature ...

  • Automatic Image Annotation and Retrieval Using the Joint Composite Descriptor 

    Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Papamarkos, Nikos; Boutalis, Yiannis (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States, 2010)
    Capable tools are needed in order to successfully search and retrieve a suitable image from large image collections. Many content-based image retrieval systems employ low-level image features such as color, texture and ...

  • Content based MRSI image indexing and retrieval involving a fuzzy descriptor 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis; Karras, D. A.; Mertzios, B. G. (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), United States, 2010)
    Magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging (MRSI) integrates both spectroscopic and imaging methods to produce spatially localized spectra from within the sample or patient. Although MRSI is a relatively new imaging technology ...

  • Late fusion of compact composite descriptors for retrieval from heterogeneous image databases 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Arampatzis, Avi (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2010)
    Compact composite descriptors (CCDs) are global image features, capturing more than one types of information at the same time in a very compact representation. Their quality has so far been evaluated in retrieval from ...

  • Performance Study of the Most Commonly Used Image Retrieval Evaluation Methods 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (ACTA PRESS, 2010)
    One of the most significant problems in the field of image retrieval results from the lack of a common test bed for the evaluation of the systems. So far, many of the methods used in the field of information retrieval ...

  • SPCD - SPATIAL COLOR DISTRIBUTION DESCRIPTOR - A Fuzzy Rule based Compact Composite Descriptor Appropriate for Hand Drawn Color Sketches Retrieval 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis; Lux, Mathias (SCITEPRESS, 2010)
    In this paper, a new low level feature suitable for Hand Drawn Color Sketches retrieval is presented. The proposed feature structure combines color and spatial color distribution information. The combination of these two ...

  • img(Anaktisi): A Web Content Based Image Retrieval System 

    Zagoris, Konstantinos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (IEEE, 2009)
    img(Anaktisi) is a C#/.NET content base image retrieval application suitable for the web. It provides efficient retrieval services for various image databases using as a query a sample image, an image sketched by the ...

  • Multimedia Search with Noisy Modalities: Fusion and Multistage Retrieval 

    Arampatzis, Avi; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Zagoris, Konstantinos (ImageClef, Wikipedia Retrieval Task, 2010)
    We report our experiences from participating to the controlled experiment of the ImageCLEF 2010 Wikipedia Retrieval task. We built an experimental search engine which combines multilingual and multi-image search, employing ...

  • Img(Rummager): An Interactive Content Based Image Retrieval System 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis; Lux, Mathias (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , United States), 2009)
    This paper presents an image retrieval suite called img(Rummager) which brings into effect a number of new as well as state of the art descriptors. The application can execute an image search based on a query image, either ...

  • Selection of the Proper Compact Composite Descriptor for Improving Content based Image Retrieval 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis; Lux, Mathias (ACTA Press, Canada, 2009)
    Compact Composite Descriptors (CCD) are global image features capturing both, color and texture characteristics, at the same time in a very compact representation. In this paper we propose a combination of two recently ...

  • Content based radiology image retrieval using a fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (Springer Nature, 2009)
    The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for prevailing medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...

  • LIRe: Lucene Image Retrieval - An Extensible Java CBIR Library 

    Lux, Mathias; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2008)
    LIRe (Lucene Image Retrieval) is a light weight open source Java library for content based image retrieval. It provides common and state of the art global image features and offers means for indexing and retrieval. Due ...