Mrs. Maria-Eirini Pegia

Research Assistant

  • BA in Mathematics AUTH (2016)
  • MSc in Theoretical Informatics and Systems & Control Theory (2017)

Maria Pegia received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Mathematics and Mathematics of Computation from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2016 and 2017, respectively. She previously worked as a Software Engineer at BETA CAE Systems (2017-2019) before joining CERTH-ITI as a research associate in 2019. Since 2023, she’s been working on her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Reykjavík University in Iceland with a focus on deep learning methods for multimodal media retrieval.

Recent Publications

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  • M. Pegia, D. Stefanopoulos, B. Þ. Jónsson, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Learning Perceptual Hash Similarity for Image Copy Detection.", in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), Toulouse, France, 21-23 October 2026, doi: 10.5281/zenodo.21102917
  • M. Pegia, D. Stefanopoulos, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Understanding the Performance Plateau in Text-to-Video Retrieval: A Comprehensive Empirical and Linguistic Analysis.", Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2026. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.00826
  • 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
  • N. Pantelidis, D. Georgalis, M. Pegia, D. Galanopoulos, K. Apostolidis, K. Stavrothanasopoulos, A. Moumtzidou, K. Gkountakos, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, V. Mezaris, Ι. Kompatsiaris, "VERGE in VBS 2025.", in Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Multimedia Modeling, Napa, Japan, January 8-10, 2025, pp. 355 - 362. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-2074-6_43
  • M. Pegia, B. Þ. Jónsson, A. Moumtzidou, I. Gialampoukidis, S. Vrochidis, I. Kompatsiaris, "Comparative Analysis of Learning-Based Approaches for Change Detection in Satellite Images.", IEEE Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, vol. 18, pp. 3766-3781, 2024, doi: 10.1109/JSTARS.2024.3522350
Contact
Mrs. Maria-Eirini Pegia
Building D (Balkan Center) - Office 0.08

Information Technologies Institute
Centre of Research & Technology - Hellas
9th km Thessaloniki - Thermi, 57001, Thessaloniki, Greece
Email: mpegia@iti.gr
Url: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-eirini-pegia-806895ab/