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Dr. Konstantinos Ioannidis -
Publications

Journals

  1. S. Papadopoulos, E. Patsiouras, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "Unsupervised Object Localization driven by self-supervised foundation models: A comprehensive review.", Image and Vision Computing, 2025, (accepted for publication).
  2. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Perimeter security utilizing thermal object detection.", Sensors, 2025, (accepted for publication).
  3. S. Karamolegkos, N. I. Dourvas, N. Episkopos, K. Pikounis, E. Michail, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, "SIAP: Synthetic dataset for maritime vessel risk profiling and illegal activity prediction.", Data in Brief, vol. 63, December 2025. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2025.112101
  4. G. Kirtsanis, G. Dolias, S. Kintzios, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "DL-Based Organism-Level Microbial Identification via VOCs Fingerprints through Gas Chromatography – Ion Mobility Spectrometry.",Front. Bacteriol., Sec. Bacterial Genetics and AI-enhanced Microbial Engineering, vol. 4, 25 September, 2025, doi: 10.3389/fbrio.2025.1620906
  5. K. Gkountakos, M. Melitou, K. Ioannidis, K. Demestichas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "LADOS: Aerial Imagery Dataset for Oil Spill Detection, Classification, and Localization Using Semantic Segmentation.", Data, vol. 10, no. 7, 2025. https://doi.org/10.3390/data10070117
  6. M. Krestenitis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Visual to near-infrared image translation for precision agriculture operations using GANs and aerial images.", Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, 2025. https://zenodo.org/records/15877591
  7. K. Stavrothanasopoulos, K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "CylinDeRS: A Benchmark Visual Dataset for Robust Gas Cylinder Detection and Attribute Classification in Real-World Scenes.", Sensors, vol. 25, no. 4, February 2025. https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/25/4/1016
  8. K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, K. Demestichas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Comprehensive Review of Deep Learning-based Anomaly Detection Methods for Precision Agriculture.", in IEEE Access, vol. 12, pp. 197715-197733, December 2024, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3522248
  9. M. Krestenitis, E. Raptis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, E. Kosmatopoulos, S. Vrochidis, "Overcome the Fear Of Missing Out: Active sensing UAV scanning for precision agriculture.", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 172, February 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.robot.2023.104581
  10. R. Chacón, C. Ramonell, H. Posada, P. Sierra, R. Tomar, C. Martínez de la Rosa, A. Rodriguez, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, S. Wagmeister, "Digital twinning during load tests of railway bridges - case study: the high-speed railway network, Extremadura, Spain.", Structure and Infrastructure Engineering, vol. 20, no. 7-8, pp. 1105-1119, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1080/15732479.2023.2264840
  11. E. Raptis, K. Englezos, O. Kypris, M. Krestenitis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Kosmatopoulos, "CoFly: An automated, AI-based open-source platform for UAV precision agriculture applications.", SoftwareX, vol. 23, July 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.softx.2023.101414
  12. E. Raptis, M. Krestenitis, K. Egglezos, O. Kypris, K. Ioannidis, L. Doitsidis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Kosmatopoulos, "End-to-end precision agriculture UAV-based functionalities tailored to field characteristics.", Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 107, January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-022-01761-7
  13. E. Batziou, K. Ioannidis, I. Patras, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Artistic neural style transfer using CycleGAN and FABEMD by adaptive information selection.", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 165, pp. 55-62, January 2023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2022.11.026
  14. M. Krestenitis, E. Raptis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, E. Kosmatopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "CoFly-WeedDB: A UAV image dataset for weed detection and species identification.", Data in Brief, vol. 45, December 2022. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2022.108575
  15. M. Sdraka, I. Papoutsis, B. Psomas, K. Vlachos, K. Ioannidis, K. Karantzalos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, "Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Image Downscaling: Fusion and Super-Resolution.", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 202-255, 02 June 2022, doi: 10.1109/MGRS.2022.3171836
  16. T. Mavropoulos, S. Symeonidis, A. Tsanousa, P. Giannakeris, M. Rousi, E. Kamateri, G. Meditskos, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Smart integration of sensors, computer vision and knowledge representation for intelligent monitoring and verbal human-computer interaction.",Journal of Intelligent Information Systems, Springer, vol. 57, pp. 321-345, 2021.
  17. S. Andreadis, G. Antzoulatos, T. Mavropoulos, P. Giannakeris, G. Tzionis, N. Pantelidis, K. Ioannidis, A. Karakostas, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A social media analytics platform visualising the spread of COVID-19 in Italy via exploitation of automatically geotagged tweets.",Online Social Networks and Media, vol. 23, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.osnem.2021.100134
  18. M. Riga, E. Kontopoulos, K. Ioannidis, S. Kintzios, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "EUCISE-OWL: An Ontology-based Representation of the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) for the Maritime Domain.", Semantic Web-Interoperability, Usability, Applicability Journal, 2020.
  19. M. Riga, E. Kontopoulos, K. Ioannidis, S. Kintzios, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "EUCISE-OWL: An Ontology-based Representation of the Common Information Sharing Environment (CISE) for the Maritime Domain.", Semantic Web, vol. 12, no. 4, pp. 603-615, 2021.
  20. M. Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Oil Spill Identification from Satellite Images Using Deep Neural Networks.",Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 15, 26 July, 2019. https://www.mdpi.com/2072-4292/11/15/1762
  21. M. Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Oil spill identification from satellite images using deep neural networks.", Remote Sensing, vol. 11, no. 15, 26 July 2017.

Conference

  1. E. Badeka, A. Muchla, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, P. Dymarski, S. Vrochidis, "Ladder Walking Detection via Action Recognition for Enhancing Worker Safety in Construction.", in Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEnv), Venezia, Italy, June 2025, pp. 345–349, Best Paper Presented By A Woman, doi: 10.1109/MetroLivEnv64961.2025.11107036
  2. A. Vassiliades, A. I. Karageorgiadis, E. Batziou, S. Diplaris, E. A. Stathopoulos, N. I. Dourvas, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Optimizing Carbon Footprint & Energy Performance for the Sustainability of Historic Buildings using Knowledge Graphs & Digital Twins.", in Proceedings of the third international Workshop on Knowledge Graphs for Sustainability (KG4S), Portoroz, Slovenia, June 1-2, 2025.
  3. G. Kirtsanis, G. Dolias, S. Kintzios, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "CNN-based Deep Auto-Encoders for Limited Gas Chromatography - Ion Mobility Spectrometry Data.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC), Chemnitz, Germany, May 19-22, 2025, pp. 1-6, doi: 10.1109/I2MTC62753.2025.11079137
  4. E. Batziou, N. I. Dourvas, K. Ioannidis, S. Diplaris, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Digital Twin Development for Cultural Heritage Buildings: A Multimodal Approach to Simulating Energy Performance.", in Proceedings of the ISIM Workshop at ACM IMX 2025, ACM, 2025.
  5. S. Α. Papadopoulos, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, I. Patras, "Vision-Language Pretraining for Variable-shot Image Classification.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Nara, Japan, January 8-10, 2025.
  6. K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, A. Leventakis, G. Tsionkis, K. Stavrothanasopoulos, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in ActEV and AVS Tracks of TRECVID 2024.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2024 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2024.
  7. E. Patsiouras, S. Kyriakou Vasileiou, S. A. Papadopoulos, N. I. Dourvas, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Integrating AI and Computer Vision for Ballistic and Bloodstain Analysis in 3D Digital Forensics.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), St Albans, UK, October 21-23, 2024.
  8. M. Krestenitis, E. Badeka, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, "Enhanced Defect Detection in Airport Runway Infrastructure Using Image-Text Pairing.", in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Reykjavik, Iceland. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12799991
  9. P. Vrachnos, C. Ramonell, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, I. Stipanovic, S. Vrochidis, "A Framework for Vision-Based 3D Inspections for Maintenance Activities and Digital Twin Integration.", in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Reykjavik, Iceland, July 2024. https://zenodo.org/records/13628479
  10. E. Michail, A. Bozas, D. Stefanopoulos, S. Paspalakis, G. Orfanidis, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Incorporating Social Media Sensing and Computer Vision Technologies to Support Wildfire Monitoring.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2024), Athens, Greece, 07-12 July 2024, pp. 2082-2085.
  11. I. Poulios, T. Pistola, S. Symeonidis, S. Diplaris, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Enhanced real-time motion transfer to 3D avatars using RGB-based human 3D pose estimation.", in Proceedings of the ACM IMX 2024 Conference, Stockholm, Sweden, June 12-14, 2024.
  12. P. Vrachnos, M. Krestenitis, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, "A Framework for 3D Modeling of Construction Sites Using Aerial Imagery and Semantic NeRFs.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Springer Nature Switzerland, January, 2024, pp. 175-187.
  13. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Tweaking EfficientDet for frugal training.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval 2023 (ICMR 2023), Thessaloniki, Greece, 12 - 15 June 2023.
  14. G. Loupas, T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, C. Stentoumis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Automatic transcription of Greek folk dance videos to labanotation based on autoencoders.", in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2023.
  15. G. Loupas, T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Comparison of deep learning techniques for video-based automatic recognition of Greek folk dances.", in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2023), Bergen, Norway, 9 - 12 January 2023.
  16. E. Batziou, K. Ioannidis, I. Patras, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Low-light image enhancement based on U-Net and Haar.", in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2023), Bergen, Norway, 9 - 12 January 2023.
  17. D. Touska, K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Graph-Based Data Association in Multiple Object Tracking: A Survey.", in Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2023), Bergen, Norway, January 9 - 12, 2023, pp. 386–398. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27818-1_32
  18. K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, D. Touska, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in ActEV and AVS Tracks of TRECVID 2022.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2022 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 6 December 2022.
  19. E. Raptis, G. Karatzinis, M. Krestenitis, A. Ch. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, E. Kosmatopoulos, "Multimodal Data Collection System for UAV-based Precision Agriculture Applications.", in Proceedings of the 2022 Sixth IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), Naples, Italy, December 5-7, 2022, pp. 1-7, doi: 10.1109/IRC55401.2022.00007
  20. K. Stavrothanasopoulos, K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Vehicle Color Identification Framework using Pixel-level Color Estimation from Segmentation Masks of Car Parts.", in Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Image Processing Applications and Systems (IPAS), Genova, Italy, December 2022, pp. 1-7, Best Session Paper Award, doi: 10.1109/IPAS55744.2022.10052969
  21. K. Chatzistavros, T. Pistola, S. Diplaris, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Sentiment analysis on 2D images of urban and indoor spaces using deep learning architectures.", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2022), Graz, Austria,14-16 September, 2022.
  22. I. Koulalis, N. Dourvas, T. Triantafyllidis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A survey for image based methods in construction: from images to digital twins.", in Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2022), Graz, Austria, 14-16 September 2022, pp. 103-110. https://doi.org/10.1145/3549555.3549594
  23. G. Begkas, P. Giannakeris, K. Ioannidis, G. Kalpakis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Automatic Visual Recognition of Unexploded Ordnances Using Supervised Deep Learning.", in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Newark, NJ, USA, June 27-30, 2022, pp. 286-294. https://doi.org/10.1145/3512527.3531383
  24. N. Dourvas, A. Papagianni, I. Koulalis, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "An early-warning system for fire spreading by monitoring simple climate conditions and combining Cellular Automata with Digital Twins.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Living Environment (MetroLivEn), 25-27 May, 2022, pp. 252-257, doi: 10.1109/MetroLivEnv54405.2022.9826950
  25. K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, D. Touska, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in ActEV and AVS Tracks of TRECVID 2021.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2021 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA (Virtual), 2021.
  26. K. Gkountakos, D. Touska, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Spatio-temporal activity detection and recognition in untrimmed surveillance videos.",in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, August 2021. https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3460426.3463591
  27. K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Crowd Violence Detection from Video Footage.",in Proceedings of the 2021 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), IEEE, June 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9461921
  28. K. Gkountakos, D. Galanopoulos, M. Mpakratsas, D. Touska, A. Moumtzidou, K. Ioannidis, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2020.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2020 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, December 2020. https://zenodo.org/records/4506490#.YF4NxK8zaUk
  29. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, A. Tefas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A modified Single-Shot multibox Detector for beyond Real-Time Object Detection.", in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2020), Milan, Italy, 10 & 15 January 2021, (accepted for publication).
  30. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, A. Tefas, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A modified Single-Shot multibox Detector for beyond Real-Time Object Detection.", in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, (ICPR 2020), Milan, Italy, 10 & 15 January 2021. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9413300
  31. E. Batziou, P. Alvanitopoulos, K. Ioannidis, I. Patras, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Cycle-Consistent Adversarial Networks and Fast Adaptive Bi-dimensional Empirical Mode Decomposition for Style Transfer.", in Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2020), Milan, Italy, 10 & 15 January 2021.
  32. K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A Crowd Analysis Framework for Detecting Violence Scenes.",in Proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR ‘20), Dublin, Ireland, June 8–11, 2020, pp. 276 - 280. https://doi.org/10.1145/3372278.3390725
  33. K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2019.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2019 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2019. https://zenodo.org/records/4452098
  34. G. Orfanidis, S. Apostolidis, G. Prountzos, M. Riga, A. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, E. Kosmatopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Border surveillance using computer vision enabled robotic swarms for semantically enriched situational awareness.",in Proceedings of the Mediterranean Security Event 2019 (MSE2019), Heraklion, Greece, 29-31 October 2019. https://zenodo.org/records/3961453
  35. G. Orfanidis, S. Apostolidis, A. Kapoutsis, K. Ioannidis, E. Kosmatopoulos, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Autonomous swarm of heterogeneous robots for surveillance operations.",in Proceedings of the Workshop on Vision-enabled UAV and counter-UAV technologies for surveillance and security of critical infrastructures (UAV4S), Thessaloniki, Greece, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34995-0_72
  36. M. Krestenitis, G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Early Identification of Oil Spills in Satellite Images Using Deep CNNs.",in Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Springer, Cham, January 2019, pp. 424-435. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05710-7_35
  37. K. Avgerinakis, A. Moumtzidou, D. Galanopoulos, G. Orfanidis, S. Andreadis, F. Markatopoulou, E. Batziou, K. Ioannidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, I. Kompatsiaris, "ITI-CERTH participation in TRECVID 2018.",in Proceedings of the TRECVID 2018 Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, November 2018. https://zenodo.org/records/2640596
  38. G. Orfanidis, K. Ioannidis, K. Avgerinakis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "A deep neural network for oil spill semantic segmentation in SAR images.",in Proceedings of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2018), Athens, Greece, October 2018, doi: 10.1109/ICIP.2018.8451113

Books Chapters

  1. A. Papagianni, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Frugal and Robust AI for Defence Advanced Intelligence.", in Paradigms on Technology Development for Security Practitioners, 2024.
  2. K. Ioannidis, G. Orfanidis, M. Krestenitis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Sensor Data Fusion and Autonomous Unmanned Vehicles for the Protection of Critical Infrastructures.", in Terahertz (THz), Mid Infrared (MIR) and Near Infrared (NIR) Technologies for Protection of Critical Infrastructures Against Explosives and CBRN, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics, Springer Netherlands, 2021, pp. 3–17.
  3. K. Gkountakos, K. Ioannidis, T. Tsikrika, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Visual Recognition of Abnormal Activities in Video Streams.", in Technology Development for Security Practitioners, Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 151-165. https://zenodo.org/records/3819818#.X41ajMBS9PY