Workshops Program

Note: Workshop proceedings are separate from EUSIPCO’s conference proceedings, and are not included in IEEE Xplore. In addition, the Papers by Title and Author List sections of the conference proceedings do not include the workshop papers.

W1. IWCIM: International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding


9:00am – 9:10am: IWCIM2017 Welcome Speech

9:10am – 10:00am : Invited Talk – First-Person Activity Recognition with Multimodal Features
Alptekin Temizel, METU

10:00am – 10:20am : Transferable Deep Features for Keyword Spotting
George Retsinas, NCSR Demokritos; Giorgos Sfikas, NCSR Demokritos; Basilis Gatos, NCSR Demokritos

10:20am – 10:40am : On the joint use of NMF and classification for overlapping acoustic event detection
Panagiotis Gianoulis, NTUA; Gerasimos Potamianos, University of Thessaly; Petros Maragos, NTUA

10:40am – 11:00am : Synthetic Aperture Radar Processing for Vessel Kinematics Estimation
Marco Reggiannini, CNR; Luigi Bedini, CNR

11:00am – 11:30am: Coffee break

11:30am – 11:50am: Vehicle Logo Recognition With Reduced-Dimension SIFT Vectors Using Autoencoders
Reyhan Kevser Keser, ITU; Esra Ergun, ITU; Behcet Ugur Toreyin, ITU

11:50am – 12:10pm: Sparse Representation Based Inpainting for the Restoration of Document Images Affected By Bleed-Through
Muhammad Hanif, CNR; Anna Tonazzini, ISTI; Pasquale Savino, ISTI-CNR; Emanuele Salerno, ISTI

12:10pm – 12:30pm: Classification of Hematoxylin and Eosin Images Using Local Binary Patterns and 1-D SIFT Algorithm
Oguzhan Oguz, Bilkent Univesity; A.Enis Cetin, Bilkent University

12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch break

2:00pm – 2:20pm : Towards Multimodal Surveillance For Smart Building Security
Giuseppe Amato, CNR-ISTI; Paolo Barsocchi, CNR-ISTI; Fabrizio Falchi, CNR-ISTI; Erina Ferro, CNR-ISTI; Claudio Gennaro, CNR-ISTI; Giuseppe Leone, ISTI-CNR; Davide Moroni, ISTI; Ovidio Salvetti, ISTI; Claudio Vairo, CNR-ISTI

2:20pm – 2:40pm : Statistical Measures: Promising Features for Time Series Based DDOS Attack Detection
Ramin Fadaei Fouladi, Bogazici University; Cemil Eren Kayatas, Bogazici University; Emin Anarým, Bogazici University

2:40pm – 3:00pm : Size and Heading of SAR-Detected Ships Through the Inertia Tensor
Luigi Bedini, CNR; Marco Righi, CNR; Emanuele Salerno, ISTI

3:00pm – 3:20pm : Environmental monitoring integrated with a proactive marine information system
Gabriele Pieri, ISTI-CNR; Davide Moroni, ISTI; Ovidio Salvetti, ISTI; Marco Tampucci, CNR

3:20pm – 3:40pm : Computational Topology to Monitor Human Occupancy
Paolo Barsocchi, CNR-ISTI; Pietro Cassarà, CNR; Daniela Giorgi, ISTI; Davide Moroni, ISTI; Maria Antonietta Pascali, CNR

3:40pm – 4:00pm : MUSCLE WG Meeting
W2. Multi-Learn 2017: Multimodal processing, modeling and learning approaches for human-computer/robot interaction.


9:00am – 9:25am: HMM-based Pathological Gait Analyzer for a User-Adaptive Intelligent Robotic Walker
Georgia Chalvatzaki, NTUA; Xanthi Papageorgiou, NTUA; Costas Tzafestas, NTUA; Petros Maragos, NTUA

9:25am – 9:50am: Robust Speech Direction Detection for Low Cost Robotics Applications
Samyukta Ramnath, BITS Pilani; Gerald Schuller, Technische Universitat Ilmenau

9:50am – 10:15am: Online adaptation to human engagement perturbations in simulated human-robot interaction using hybrid reinforcement learning
Theodore Tsitsimis, NTUA; George Velentzas, NTUA; Medhi Khamassi, NTUA, Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics – Sorbonne Universites; Costas Tzafestas, NTUA

10:15am – 10:40am: Sensory-Aware Multimodal Fusion for Word Semantic Similarity Estimation
Georgios Paraskevopoulos, NTUA; Ioannis Karamanolakis, NTUA; Elias Iosif, NTUA; Aggelos Pikrakis, University of Piraeus; Alexandros Potamianos, NTUA

10:40am – 11:00am: Integrated Speech-based Perception System for User Adaptive Robot Motion Planning in Assistive Bath Scenarios
Athanasios Dometios, ICCS; Antigoni Tsiami, ICCS; Panagiotis Giannoulis, ICCS; Antonis Arvanitakis, ICCS; Xanthi Papageorgiou, NTUA; Kostas Tzafestas, NTUA; Petros Maragos, NTUA

11:00am – 11:30am: Coffee break

11:30am 12:30pm: Plenary talk: Automatic Face Analysis
Prof. Maja Pantic,
Professor of Affective and Behavioral Computing; Imperial College London

12:30pm – 2:00pm: Lunch break

2:00pm – 2:25pm: Emotion Recognition via Multi Channel EEG Signal Fusion and Pattern Recognition
Deger Ayata, Istanbul Technical University; Yusuf Yaslan, Istanbul Technical University; Mustafa Kamasak, Istanbul Technical University

2:25pm – 2:50pm: Audio-based Distributional Semantic Models for Music Auto-tagging and Similarity Measurement
Ioannis Karamanolakis, National Technical University of Athens; Elias Iosif, National Technical University of Athens; Athanasia Zlatintsi, National Technical University of Athens; Aggelos Pikrakis, University of Piraeus; Alexandros Potamianos, National Technical University of Athens

2:50pm – 3:15pm: Automatic Evaluation of Hindustani Learner’s SARGAM Practice
Gurunath Reddy, IIT Kharagpur; K. Sreenivasa Rao, IIT Kharagpur
W3. Deep Learning and Geometry


9:00am – 9:10am: Welcome Speech

9:10am – 10:10am: Invited talk – “Deep learning for deformable objects
Stefanos Zafeiriou, Imperial College London

10:10am – 10:35am: Recurrent Neural Networks for Modeling Motion Capture Data
Mir Khan; Heikki Huttunen, Tampere University of Technology; Olli Suominen, Tampere University of Technology; Atanas Gotchev, Tampere University of Technology.

10.35am – 11.00am: V-Flow: Deep Unsupervised Volumetric Next Frame Prediction,
Alon Shtern, Technion; Ron Kimmel, Technion.

11:00am – 11:30am: Coffee break

11.30am – 12.30pm: Invited talk – “Geometric deep learning for shape analysis”,
Davide Boscaini, Università della Svizzera Italiana.
W4. Creative Design and Advanced Manufacturing: An emerging application area for Signals and Systems