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Konstantinos Rapantzikos
   
Konstantinos Rapantzikos  

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Research Experience
Teaching
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Journals
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Contact Details
E-mail rap@image.ntua.gr
Tel +30 210 772 4351
Fax +30 210 772 2492

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Personal Data
Place / Date of birth March 12, 1977 / Athens

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Studies / Dissertations
2002-

Ph.D. Candidate with Image Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory [IVML], National Technical University of Athens

 

2002

"Dense Estimation of Optical Flow in the Compressed Domain Using Robust Techniques"

M.Sc. in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete

 

2000

"Detection of Age - related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Human Eye's Retina Using Image Processing and Analysis Methods"

Degree in Electronics and Computer Engineering, Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete


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Research Experience
2002-present
National Technical University of Athens
Researcher with the Image, Video and Multimedia Systems Laboratory
2006-2009
FP6-26978 / IP: X-Media, Knowledge Sharing and Reuse Across Media
2004-2007
FP6-507752 / NoE: MUSCLE, Multimedia Understanding through Semantics, Computation and Learning
2006-2009
FP6-507752 / NoE: FP6-027685 / IP: MESH, Multimedia Semantic Syndication for Enhanced News Services
2003-2005
EPAN-DSBEPRO-81 GLAYKWPIS, Multibiometric fusion techniques

 

2002-2004
 
   
1995-2002
Technical University of Crete
 
Research Assistant of "Digital Image and Signal Processing LAboratorY (DISPLAY)"
1999-2001
Technical University of Crete
 
Undergraduate and Graduate Research Assistant of the European Project HIPER.
 
Research on High Dynamic Range Imaging & Processing using a CMOS camera.
 
Know-how on the newly developed TriMedia processor and the Rhapsody image processing library during the visit at Philips-Eindhoven (Holland).
1998
Technical University of Crete
 
Undergraduate Scientific Assistant of the European Project MEDEA. Research work in the area of signal processing in the wavelet domain.
1997-1998
Naval Hospital of Hellenic Navy in Athens
 
Know-how on "PEDAR" system towards the establishment of the "Gait Analysis Laboratory"

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Teaching
2002-present National Technical University of Athens, Teaching assistant in undergraduate courses
  Digital Image Processing and Video Analysis [2002, 2002]
2000-2001 Technical University of Crete, Teaching assistant in undergraduate courses
  Digital Image Processing [2001, 2000]
  Digital Signal Processing [2001, 2000]

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Conference/Workshop Orginization
  • Organizer, special session on "Visual attention Algorithms and Architectures for Perceptual Understanding and Video Coding", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN'06), Athens, Sep 10-14, 2006

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Research Interests
  • Computational modeling of Human Visual Attention
  • Semantic video analysis
  • Motion Estimation in Compressed & Uncompressed Domain
  • Biomedical imaging
  • Hyperspectral Imaging
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Memberships
2000- present Greek Technical Chamber [TEE]

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Languages

ˇ Greek (native speaker)
ˇ English
ˇ German

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Journals • 2009

  K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias
save Spatiotemporal Saliency for Video Classification
Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 24, no. 7, pp. 557-571, Aug 2009.
 
Journals • 2007

  K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, Y. Avrithis and S. Kollias
save A Bottom-Up Spatiotemporal Visual Attention Model for Video Analysis
IET Image Processing, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 237- 248, Jun 2007
 
  N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Rapantzikos, C. Pattichis
save An Embedded Saliency Map Estimator Scheme: Application to Video Encoding
International Journal of Neural Systems, vol. 17, No. 4, pp. 1-16, Aug 2007
 
Journals • 2005

  K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis
A committee machine scheme for feature map fusion under uncertainty: the face detection case
IJISTA, special Issue on "Intelligent Image and Video Processing and Applications: The Role of Uncertainty", vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 346-358, 2006.
 
Journals • 2004

  G. Tsechpenakis, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis and S. Kollias
save A Snake Model for Object Tracking in Natural Sequences
Elsevier, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Volume 19, Issue 3, March 2004, Pages 219-238
 
  G. Tsechpenakis, K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, S. Kollias
save Rule-driven Object Tracking in Clutter and Partial Occlusion with Model-based Snakes
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, vol. 2004, no. 6, pp. 841-860, Jun 2004
 
Journals • 2003

  K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis and K. Balas
save Detection and segmentation of drusen deposits on human retina: potential in the diagnosis of age-related macular degeneration
Medical Image Analysis, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 95-108, Mar 2003
 
Books • 2008

  G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapantzikos, P. Maragos, Y. Avrithis, A. Potamianos
Audiovisual Attention Modeling and Salient Event Detection
in Multimodal Processing and Interaction: Audio, Video, Text, edited by P. Maragos, A. Potamianos and P. Gros, Springer-Verlag.
 
Books • 2005

  K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis, K. Balas
Automatic Detection and Segmentation of Drusen in Retina Images for Risk Assessment on Macular Degeneration, vol.
C.T. Leondes (ed.), World Scientific Publ., N.J., USA
 
Conferences • 2009

  G. Evangelopoulos, A. Zlatintsi, G. Skoumas, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, Y. Avrithis
save Video event detection and summarization using audio, visual and text saliency
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp.3553-3556, 2009.
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias
save Dense saliency-based spatiotemporal feature points for action recognition
Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2009
 
  S. Nikolopoulos, C. Lakka, I. Kompatsiaris, C. Varytimidis, K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis
save A cross media approach for compound document analysis
7th International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI 2009), Chania, Greece, June 2009.
 
Conferences • 2008

  G. Evangelopoulos, K. Rapantzikos, A. Potamianos, P. Maragos, A. Zlatintsi, Y. Avrithis
save Movie Summarization Based On Audio-Visual Saliency Detection
Proc. Int˘l Conference on Image Processing (ICIP-2008), San Diego, California, Oct. 2008.
 
  P. Kapsalas, K. Rapantzikos, A. Sofou, Y. Avrithis
save Regions Of Interest for Accurate Object Detection
CBMI'08, pp. 147-154, 2008
 
Conferences • 2007

  K. Rapantzikos, G. Evangelopoulos, P. Maragos and Y. Avrithis
save An Audio-Visual Saliency Model for Movie Summarization
Proc. IEEE Int'l Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP-2007), Chania, Greece, Oct. 2007
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias
save SALIENShrink: SALIENCY-BASED IMAGE DENOISING
ICIP'07, vol. 3, pp.333- 336, San Antonio, Sep 2007.
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y.Avrithis, S. Kollias
save Spatiotemporal saliency for event detection and representation in the 3D Wavelet Domain: Potential in human action recognition
Proc. ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), pp. 294 - 301 , Jul 2007
 
  N. Tsapatsoulis, C. Pattichis, K. Rapantzikos
save Biologically inspired region of interest selection for low bit-rate video coding
ICIP'07, vol. 1, pp. 305-308, San Antonio, Sep 2007.
 
Conferences • 2006

  N. Tsapatsoulis, K. Rapantzikos and Y. Avrithis
save Priority Coding for Video-telephony Applications based on Visual Attention
2nd International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conference (MobiMedia 2006), Alghero, Italy, September 18-20, 2006
 
Conferences • 2005

  K. Rapantzikos, C. Balas
save Hyperspectral imaging: Potential in non-destructive analysis of palimpsests
Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Italy, Sep 2005.
 
  K. Rapantzikos. M. Zervakis
save Robust optical flow estimation in MPEG sequences
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2005
 
  K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis
save Enhancing the robustness of skin-based face detection schemes through a visual attention architecture
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova, Italy, Sep 2005
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis
save An enhanced spatiotemporal visual attention model for sports video analysis
Intenrational Workshop on content-based Multimedia indexing (CBMI), Riga, Latvia, Jun 2005
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias
save Handling Uncertainty in Video Analysis With Spatiotemporal Visual Attention
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Fuzzy Systems (FUZZ-IEEE ’05), Reno, Nevada, May 22-25, 2005
 
  K. Rapantzikos, Y. Avrithis, S. Kollias
save On the use of spatiotemporal visual attention for video classification
Proc. of Proc. of Int. Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV '01), Sardinia, Italy, September 15-16, 2005.
 
Conferences • 2004

  K. Rapantzikos, N. Tsapatsoulis, and Y. Avrithis
save Spatiotemporal Visual Attention Architecture for Video Analysis
Proc. of IEEE International Workshop On Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2004)
 
Conferences • 2003

  K. Rapantzikos N. Tsapatsoulis
save On the Implementation of Visual Attention Architectures
Tales of the Disappearing Computer, Santorini, June 2003
 
  T. Balomenos, K. Rapantzikos and N. Tsapatsoulis
save On the use of ECG waveforms for Health Status Estimation
Tales of the Disappearing Computer
 
Conferences • 2001

  K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis
save A novel segmentation algorithm for the detection of abnormalities in human eye˘s retina
Proceedings of NNESMED, Santorini, Greece, August 2001
 
  K. Rapantzikos, M. Zervakis
save Nonlinear enhancement and segmentation Algorithm for the Detection of Age-related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Human Eye’s Retina
Proceedings of ICIP 2001, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001
 
Diploma Thesis • 2002

  K. Rapantzikos
save Dense Estimation of Optical Flow in the Compressed Domain Using Robust Techniques, Sep 2002
MSc Thesis
 
Diploma Thesis • 2000

  K. Rapantzikos
save Detection of Age - related Macular Degeneration (AMD) in Human Eye's Retina Using Image Processing and Analysis Methods, Apr 2000
Diploma Thesis
 
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