Mr. Damianos Galanopoulos

Research Assistant

  • BSc Informatics, School of Applied Sciences, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2012)
Damianos Galanopoulos graduated from the Department of Informatics of AUTH in 2012. Since September of 2012, he is a postgraduate student at the Postgraduate Studies Programme (P.S.P.) of the Informatics Department at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (A.U.TH.). His research interests include machine learning, computational intelligence and computer vision. He works as a research assistant at the Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of the Centre of Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH) since April 2012.

Recent Publications

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  • A. Goulas, D. Galanopoulos, E. Apostolidis, V. Mezaris, "Sens-VisualNews: A Benchmark Dataset for Sensational Image Detection.", in Proceedings of the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Tampere, Finland, September 2026, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/ICIP61757.2026.11629905
  • D. Galanopoulos, V. Mezaris, "A Test-time Actor-Critic Approach to News Images Generation.", in Proceedings of the 2026 Multimedia Evaluation Workshop (MediaEval'26), Amsterdam, NL, June 2026. http://arxiv.org/abs/2606.21304
  • N. Pantelidis, E. Kosmidou, D. Galanopoulos, D. Georgalis, S. Pasios, K. Apostolidis, A. Goulas, M. Pegia, G. Tsionkis, K. Gkountakos, G. Kouvrakis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "VERGE in VBS 2026.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2026), Prague, Czech Republic, January 29-31, 2026, in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 16415. Singapore: Springer, 2026, pp. 222–229. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-6963-2_24
  • A. Goulas, D. Galanopoulos, I. Patras, V. Mezaris, "MLLM Frame Subset Ensembling for Audio-Visual Video QA and MLLM-based Reranking for Ad-hoc Video Search in TRECVID 2025.", in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2025 Workshop, December 2025.
  • D. Galanopoulos, A. Goulas, V. Mezaris, "Cross-modal Image Recommendation for News Articles by Multimodal Foundation Models-based Retrieval-Reranking.", in Proceedings of the 2025 Multimedia Evaluation Workshop (MediaEval'25), Dublin, Ireland, October 2025.
Contact
Mr. Damianos Galanopoulos
Building A - Office 0.7

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
6th km Harilaou - Thermis, 57001, Thermi - Thessaloniki
Tel.: +30 2311 257739
Fax: +30 2310 474128
Email: dgalanop@iti.gr