MKLab

The Lab has extensive experience and expertise in semantic multimedia analysis, indexing and retrieval, social media and big data analytics, knowledge structures, reasoning and personalization for multimedia applications, eHealth and environmental applications

Press Article for ROBORDER project in Greece

Nov 21, 2017

A press article about ROBORDER is published in the Έθνος newspaper (in Greek). The article is accessible here (A, B). The article describes the objectives of ROBORDER project focusing on developing a swarm of autonomous and heterogeneous robots for border surveillance and its application impact in Greece and Europe.

Assistive Technology for the Elderly behind a Vast Change

Nov 16, 2017

As scientists, we are used to evaluating and presenting our results with numbers, tables and graphs. What we all tend to forget is that research in the bigger picture is about improving people's lives and has direct impact to our society. Therefore, we were more than glad when such a prominent example appeared. One participant in our research project in assistive technology for the elderly, presented such a vast change that, she, much to our surprise, appeared on the popular TV show “Greece Got Talent”, on a major Greek TV network.

Best Poster Award @ ACM ICMR 2017

Jun 14, 2017

The paper “Concept Language Models and Event-based Concept Number Selection for Zero-example Event Detection”, by D. Galanopoulos, F. Markatopoulou, V. Mezaris, and I. Patras, received the Best Poster Award at the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2017) that took place in Bucharest, Romania.

MKLab will present their work on Learning to Detect Misleading Content on Twitter and YouTube to ICMR 2017

Apr 06, 2017

MKLab have been working for some time now on the problems of fake news and of misinformation in social media. Our work has recently led to some important achievements: we developed a very effective machine learning-based algorithm for automatically deciding whether a tweet is credible, i.e. whether it accurately reflects the event to which it refers. Training this algorithm became possible by creating a large corpus of past tweets that have been annotated as “fake” or “real”.

MKLab Published its First MOOC on Udemy

Mar 22, 2017

MKLab proudly announces the release of its "Dynamics of Knowledge Organisation" MOOC on Udemy. Featuring more than 2 hours of recorded video content, the course studies the involvement and application of semantics in Digital Preservation and has been produced within the context of the PERICLES FP7 project. The MOOC is taught by Prof. Sándor Darányi (School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås) and Dr. Efstratios Kontopoulos (MKLab, CERTH/ITI), and is supported by Mr. Panagiotis Mitzias (MKLab, CERTH/ITI).

Release of concept detection scores for IACC.3

Mar 21, 2017

We provide a complete set of concept detection scores, using our state of the art concept detectors, for the videos of the IACC.3 dataset that is used in the TRECVID AVS Task from 2016 and on (600 hr of internet archive videos). Concept detection scores for 1345 concepts (1000 ImageNet concepts and 345 TRECVID SIN concepts) have been generated using two different automatic video annotation methods. The dataset and the related publications can be found at: https://www.

MKLab successfully showcased the results of HOMER Project to Law Enforcement Agents from South East Europe

Dec 31, 2016

The HOMER South East European RoadShow Event was held in Thessaloniki, Greece on December 15, 20016, co-organized by MKLab (ITI-CERTH), South-East European Research Centre and the Bulgarian Defense Institute. During the event the achievements of the HOMER consortium were presented to law enforcement and security agencies from South East Europe focusing on demonstrating the Homemade Explosive (HME) Discovery Tools and the HME Knowledge Management Platform (KMP). The event welcomed about 30 law enforcement and security agents representing several organizations across South East Europe, including Interpol, the Hellenic Police, the Hellenic Ministry of Defense, the Bulgarian Army, the Bulgarian Police, the Cyprus Police, the Romanian Armed Forces, the FYROM Ministry of Interior, the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense, the Serbian Ministry of Defense, the Albanian Police, the Bosnian Police and the UK Embassy in Greece.

Special Track - MultiModal Interfaces for Natural Human Computer Interaction: Theory and Applications

Dec 21, 2016

A special track on MultiModal Interfaces for Natural Human Computer Interaction: Theory and Applications is organized in conjuction with the 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems - IEEE CBMS 2017, which will take place in Thessaloniki, Greece from Thursday 22nd to Saturday 24th of June 2017. Important dates: Paper submission due (general and special tracks) January 30, 2017 Notification of acceptance for papers March 20, 2017 Final camera-ready paper due April 13, 2017 Early registration deadline April 23, 2017 IEEE CBMS 2017 conference days June 22-24, 2017

MKLab Participating in PERICLES PhD Course

Dec 14, 2016

MKLab enthusiastically participates in the PhD course "Dynamics of Knowledge Organization" that is funded by the PERICLES FP7 project and is organized by the School of Library and Information Science, University of Borås. The 2-month course started on 6-Dec and involves 8 students from around Europe, who will undergo intensive lectures, seminars and labs, where they will also have the opportunity to play around with PERICLES software tools. The course focuses on the nature and role of knowledge organization in a rapidly changing digital world.