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Publications

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H. Baltzakis, M. Pateraki, P. Trahanias, "Visual tracking of hands, faces and facial features of multiple persons", Machine Vision and Applications, pp. 1-17, 2012, doi:10.1007/s00138-012-0409-5.

E. Hourdakis, P. Trahanias, "Improving the performance of Liquid State Machines based on the separation property", Invited Submission, Journal of Neurocomputing, in press.

E. Hourdakis, P. Trahanias, "Computational modeling of observational learning inspired by the cortical underpinnings of human primates", Journal of Adaptive Behavior, May 2012, DOI: 10.1177/1059712312445902.

M. Maniadakis, P. Trahanias, J. Tani, "Self-organizing high-order cognitive functions in artifficial agents: implications for possible prefrontal cortex mechanisms", Neural Networks, in press.

M. Maniadakis, P. Trahanias, "Temporal cognition: a key ingredient of intelligent systems", Frontiers in Neurorobotics, vol 5, 2011. Perspective Article

E.Hourdakis, E. Savaki and P. Trahanias, "Computational modeling of cortical pathways involved in action execution and action observation", Neurocomputing vol. 74 (7), pp 1135-1155, 2011.

Amalia F. Foka, Panos E. Trahanias, "Probabilistic Autonomous Robot Navigation in Dynamic Environments with Human Motion Prediction", I.J Social Robotics 2(1): 79-94 (2010)

Maniadakis M, Trahanias P, "Agent-based Brain Modelling for Artificial Organisms by means of Hierarchical Collaborative CoEvolution", Artificial Life, vol 15(3), pp 293-336, 2009.

Maniadakis M, Trahanias P, "Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution: Presentation and Assessment Study", International Journal of AI Tools, vol 18(1), pp 99-120, 2009

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, J. Tani, "Explorations on Artificial Time Perception", Neural Networks, vol 22(5-6), pp 509-517, 2009

M Maniadakis, P Trahanias, "Hierachical Co-evolution of Cooperating Agents Acting in the Brain-Arena", Adaptive Behavior, Vol. 16, No. 4, 221-245 (2008)

Amalia Foka, Panos Trahanias, "Real-time hierarchical POMDPs for autonomous robot navigation", Robotics and Autonomous Systems 55, 561–571 (2007)

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, " Modelling Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms by Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution", International Journal of AI Tools, vol. 16(6), pp. 935-966, 2007

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "Modelling brain emergent behaviours through coevolution of neural agents", Neural Networks Journal, vol. 19(5), pp. 705-720, 2006

P. Trahanias, W. Burgard, A.A. Argyros, D. Haehnel, H. Baltzakis, P. Pfaff, C. Stachniss, "Tourbot and WebFair: Web Operated Mobile Robots for Telepresence in Populated Exhibitions", IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special issue on EU-funded projects in Robotics, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 77-89, June 2005.

H. Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "A Hybrid Framework for Mobile Robot Localization: Formulation Using Switching State-Space Models", Autonomous Robots, 15(2):169-191, September 2003.

H. Baltzakis, A.A. Argyros, P. Trahanias, "Fusion of Laser and Visual Data for Robot Motion Planning and Collision Avoidance", International Journal of Machine Vision and Applications, Machine Vision and Applications (2003) 15: 92-100.

W. Burgard, P. Trahanias, D. Hahnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis, A.A. Argyros, "Tele-presence in Populated Exhibitions through Web-operated Mobile Robots", journal of Autonomous Robots, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 15, 299-316, 2003

A.A. Argyros, P. Georgiadis, P.E. Trahanias and D.P. Tsakiris, " Semi-Autonomous Navigation of a Robotic Wheelchair", special issue on Medical and Rehabilitation Robotics, Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Vol. 34, No.3, pp. 315-329, July 2002.

K. Bekris, K. Hatzopoulos, G. Kazazakis, G. Kontolemakis, M. Masvoula, N. Tsivourakis, A. Argyros, and P.E. Trahanias, " PYTHEAS: An Integrated Robotic System with Autonomous Navigation Capabilities", special issue on Intelligent sensing, image processing and applications, Image processing & Communications Journal, vol.8, No.2, pp.81-92, 2002.

C.I. Colios and P.E. Trahanias, "A Framework for Visual Landmark Identification Based on Projective and Point-Permutation Invariant Vectors", Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal, Vol.35(1), pp.37-51, April 2001.

H. Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "The VPLF Method for Vanishing Point Computation", Image and Vision Computing Journal, Vol.19(6), pp.393-400, April 2001.

Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "Iterative Computation of 3D Plane Parameters", Image and Vision Computing Journal, Vol.18(14), pp.1093-1100, Nov. 2000.

P.E. Trahanias S. Velissaris and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Visual Recognition of Workspace Landmarks for Topological Navigation", Autonomous Robots, Vol.7, No.2, pp.143-158, Sep. 1999.

A.A. Argyros, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Robust Regression for the Detection of Independent 3D Motion by a Binocular Observer", Journal of Real Time Imaging, vol. 4, no. 2, pp.125--141, April 1998.

M. Bordegoni, G. Faconti, S. Feiner, M.T. Maybury, T. Rist, S. Ruggieri, P. Trahanias, and M. Wilson, "A Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems", Computer Standards and Interfaces, special issue on Towards a Standard Reference Model for IMMP Systems, Vol.18, No.6-7, pp.477-496, Dec. 1997.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Application of Active Contours for Photochromic Tracer Flow Extraction", IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Vol.16, No.3, pp.284--293, June 1997.

D.G. Karakos and P.E. Trahanias, "Generalized Multichannel Image-Filtering Structures", IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, special issue on Color Imaging, Vol.6, No.7, pp.1038--1045, July 1997.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Vector Order Statistics Operators as Color Edge Detectors", IEEE Trans. on Systems Man & Cybernetics -- Part B: Cybernetics, Vol.26, No.1, pp.135-143, Feb. 1996.

G. Faconti, M. Bordegoni, K. Kansy, P. Trahanias, T.Rist and M. Wilson, "Formal Framework and Necessary Properties of the Fusion of Input Modes in User Interfaces", Interacting with Computers, Vol 8(2), pp.134-161, Elsevier, 1996.

P.E. Trahanias, D. Karakos and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Directional Processing of Color Images: Theory and Experimental Results", IEEE Trans. on Image Proc., special issue on Nonlinear Image Processing, Vol.5, No.6, pp.868-880, June 1996.

P.E. Trahanias, "An approach to QRS complex detection using mathematical morphology", IEEE Trans. on Biomedical Engineering, Vol.40, No.2, pp.201-205, Feb. 1993.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Color edge detection using vector order statistics", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol.2, No.2, pp.259-264, April 1993.

P.E. Trahanias, K. Stathatos, F. Stamatelopoulos and E. Skordalakis, "Morphological hand-printed character recognition by a skeleton matching algorithm", Journal of Electronic Imaging 2(2), pp.114-125, April 1993.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Vector Directional Filters -- A New Class of Multichannel Image Processing Filter", IEEE Trans. Image Processing, Vol.2, No.4, pp.528-534, Oct. 1993.

P.E. Trahanias, "Binary shape recognition using the morphological skeleton transform", Pattern Recognition, Vol.25, No.11, pp.1277-1288, Nov. 1992.

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Conference Publications

M. Maniadakis and P. Trahanias, "Experiencing and Processing Time with Neural Networks", In Proc. of the International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications (COGNITIVE), July 22-27, Nice, France (accepted for presentation), 2012.

M. Pateraki, H. Baltzakis, P. Trahanias, "Using Dempster's rule of combination to robustly estimate pointed targets", In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.1218-1225, May 14-18, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA, 2012.

E. Hourdakis and P. Trahanias, "Improving the performance of liquid state machines based on the separation property", In proc. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN/AIAI11), pp. 52-62, 2011. Awarded with the best student paper award.

M. Maniadakis, M. Wittmann, P. Trahanias, "Time Experiencing by Robotic Agents", in Proc. European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), pp.429-434, 2011.

E. Hourdakis and P. Trahanias, "Observational learning based on models of overlapping pathways", In Proc. 21st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, ICANN 2011, Volume Part II, LNCS 6792, pp.48-55, Finland, 2011.

M. Pateraki, H. Baltzakis, P. Trahanias, "Visual estimation of pointed targets for robot guidance via fusion of face pose and hand orientation.", In Proc. of the 1st IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robot Perception, held within the 13th International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 6-13 November, Barcelona, Spain, 2011.

M. Pateraki, H. Baltzakis, P. Trahanias, "Visual tracking of hands, faces and facial features as a basis for human-robot communication", In Proc. of the Workshop on Visual Tracking and Omnidirectional Vision, held within the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September, San Francisco, USA, 2011.

M. Pateraki, H. Baltzakis, P. Trahanias, "An integrated approach for visual tracking of hands, faces and facial features", In Proc. of the Workshop on Measuring and Understanding Human Movements and Emotions, held within the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May, Shanghai, China, 2011.

E. Hourdakis and P. Trahanias, "Observational learning based on overlapping pathways", In Proc. 2nd International Conference on Morphological Computation (MORPHCOMP11), pp. 109-111, Venice, Italy.

M. Maniadakis, J. Tani, P. Trahanias, "Ego-centric and allo-centric abstraction in self-organized hierarchical neural networks", In Proc. combined IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EPIROB), 2011.

E. Hourdakis and P. Trahanias, "Computational modeling of online reaching", in Advances in Artificial Life, Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL11), pp. 348-355, MIT Press, France, 2011.

M. Maniadakis, P. Trahanias, J. Tani, "Self-Organized Executive Control Functions", In Proc. International Joint Conference On Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp. 3633-3640, 2010.

M. Sigalas, H. Baltzakis, and P. Trahanias, "Gesture recognition based on arm tracking for human-robot interaction", Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference, pp.5424-5429, 18-22 Oct. 2010

M. Sigalas, H. Baltzakis, and Trahanias. P., "Temporal gesture recognition for human-robot interaction", In Proc. of Mutimodal Human-Robot Interfaces Workshop held within IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, May 2010

M. Pateraki, H. Baltzakis, P. Kondaxakis, and P. Trahanias, "Tracking of facial features to support human-robot interaction", Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Koebe, Japan, May 2009

Hourdakis Emmanouil, Trahanias Panos, "A framework for automating the construction of computational models", Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC09, 2009

Maniadakis M, Tani J, Trahanias P, "Time Perception in Shaping Cognitive Neurodynamics of Artificial Agents", in Proc. International Joint Conference On Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp 1993-2000, 2009.

P. Kondaxakis, H. Baltzakis, and P. Trahanias, "Learning moving objects in a multi-target tracking scenario for mobile robots that use laser range measurements", In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intlernational Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 2009

M. Sigalas, H. Baltzakis, and P. Trahanias, "Visual tracking of independently moving body and arms", IIn Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intlernational Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), St. Louis, MO, USA, October 2009

H. Baltzakis, A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P. Trahanias, "Tracking of human hands and faces through probabilistic fusion of multiple visual cues", in proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, (ICVS 2008), pp. 33-42, Santorini, Greece, May 13-15, 2008.

P. Kondaxakis, S. Kasderidis, P. Trahanias, "A Multi-Target Tracking Technique for Mobile Robots using a Laser Range Scanner", International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2008, pp. 3370-3377 , 22-26 Sep 2008, Nice, France.

P. Kondaxakis, S. Kasderidis, P. Trahanias, "Tracking Multiple Targets from a Mobile Robot Platform using a Laser Range Scanner", In Proc. IET on Target tracking and data fusion: Algorithms and applications, Birmingham, UK, 15 -16 April 2008, pp. 177-184

S. Konstantopoulos, I. Androutsopoulos, H. Baltzakis, V. Karkaletsis, C. Matheson, A. Tegos, and P. Trahanias, "INDIGO: interaction with personality and dialogue enabled robots", In Proceedings of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Patras, Greece, July 2008.

Maniadakis Mihalis, Hourdakis Emmanouil, Trahanias Panos, "Modelling Overlapping Execution/Observation Pathways", in Proc. International Joint Conference On Neural Networks (IJCNN), pp.1255-1260, 2007

Hourdakis Emmanouil, Maniadakis Mihalis, Trahanias Panos, "A biologically inspired approach for the control of the hand", Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC07, Singapure, 2007

M. Maniadakis, P. Trahanias, "Assessing Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution", in Proc. 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI), pp. 391-398, 2007

Baltzakis, H. and Trahanias, "Using Multi-hypothesis Mapping to Close Loops in Complex Cyclic Environments", in proc. IEEE international conference on robotics and automation (ICRA06), 15-19 May 2006, Orlando, Florida, USA.

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "Modelling Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms by Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution", in Proc. of 4th Hellenic Conference on Artificial Intelligence, (SETN-2006), pp.224-234, 2006

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "Design and Integration of Partial Brain Models Using Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution", Proc. of International Conference on Cognitive Modelling (ICCM-2006), pp. 196-201, 2006

M. Maniadakis, P. Trahanias, "Hierarchical Cooperative CoEvolution Facilitates the Redesign of Agent-based Systems", In Proc. 9th Int. Conf. on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, (SAB), pp. 582-593, September 2006

J. Taylor, S. Kasderidis, P. Trahanias and M. Hartley, "A Basis for Cognitive Machines", International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), Athens, Greece, 10-14 Sep 2006, pp. 573-582.

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "Distributed Brain Modelling by means of Hierarchical Collaborative CoEvolution", Proc. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC-05, September 2005, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK., pp. 2699-2706, 2005

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "CoEvolutionary Incremental Modelling of Robotic Cognitive Mechanisms", Proc. VIIIth EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL LIFE, ECAL-05, September 2005, Canterbury, England, UK., pp. 200-209, 2005

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "A Hierarchical Coevolutionary Method to Support brain-Lesion Modelling", Proc. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks 2005, IJCNN-05, July-August 2005, Montreal, Canada, pp. 434-439, 2005

A. Foka and P. Trahanias, "Real-Time Hierarchical POMDPs for Autonomous Robot Navigation", IJCAI-05 Workshop: Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR-05), Edinburgh, Scotland, 30 July 2005.

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "Evolution Tunes Coevolution: Modelling Robot Cognition Mechanisms", Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference 2004, GECCO-04, June 2004, Seattle, Washington USA, pp. 640-641, 2004

H. Baltzakis and P. Trahanias, "Closing multiple loops while mapping features in cyclic environments", In Proc. IEEE/RSJ Intlernational Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS), pages 717-723, Las Vegas, USA, October 2003.

P.E. Trahanias, W. Burgard, D. Haehnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis and A. Argyros, "Interactive Tele-Presence in Exhibitions through Web-operated Robots", in proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR’03), invited session on Robotics and Art, pp. 1253-1258, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal, June 30 - July 3, 2003.

M. Maniadakis, P. E. Trahanias, "A Computational Model of Neocortical-Hippocampal Cooperation and Its Application to Self-Localization", Proc. 7th European Conference on Artificial Life, ECAL-03, September 2003, Dortmund, Germany, pp. 183-190, 2003

A. Foka and P.E. Trahanias, "Predictive Control of Robot Velocity to Avoid Obstacles in Dynamic Environments", IROS 2003, IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.370-375, Las Vegas, Nevada, October 2003.

Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "Hybrid Mobile Robot Localization using Switching State-Space Models", IEEE Intl. Conf. Robotics and Autom., ICRA'2002, pp.366-373, Washington D.C., USA, May 11-15, 2002.

H. Baltzakis, A.A. Argyros and P.E. Trahanias, "Fusion of Range and Visual Data for the Extraction of Scene Structure Information", in proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR’02), vol. 4, pp 7-11, Quebec, Canada, August 11-15, 2002.

H. Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "An Iterative Approach for Building Feature Maps in Cyclic Environments", IROS 2002,IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.576-581, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep.30-Oct.4, 2002.

A. Foka and P.E. Trahanias, "Predictive Autonomous Robot Navigation", IROS 2002, IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp.490-495, Lausanne, Switzerland, Sep.30-Oct.4, 2002.

W. Burgard, P.E. Trahanias, D. Haehnel, M. Moors, D. Schulz, H. Baltzakis and A. Argyros, "TOURBOT and WebFAIR: Web-operated Mobile Robots for Tele-presence in Populated Exhibitions", Workshop WS9 ``Robots in Exhibitions', IROS 2002, IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Lausanne, Switzerland, Oct.1, 2002.

G. Giannoulis, P. Trahanias, A. Argyros, D. Tsakiris, A. Cremers, D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Haehnel, V. Savvaides, M. Roussou, M. Coliou, G. Kamarinos, P. Friess, D. Konstantios, A. Katselaki, "Enhancing Museum Visitor Access Through Robotic Avatars Connected to the Web", in Proc. Museums and the Web 2001, Seattle, USA, March 14-17, 2001.

A. Argyros, P. Georgiades, P. Trahanias, D. Tsakiris, "Semi-Autonomous Navigation of a Robotic Wheelchair", KTISIVIOS Panhellenic Conference in Robotics and Automation, June 27-30, 2001, Santorini, Greece.

C. Bekris, K. Hatzopoulos, G. Kazazakis, G. Kontolemakis, M. Masvoula, N. Tsivourakis, A. Argyros, P. Trahanias, "PYTHEAS: An Integrated Robotic System with Autonomous Navigation Capabilities", in proceedings of the KTISIVIOS Panhellenic Conference in Robotics and Automation, , Santorini, Greece, July 27-30, 2001.

M. Roussou, P. Trahanias, G. Giannoulis, G. Kamarinos, A. Argyros, D. Tsakiris, P. Georgiadis, W. Burgard, D. Haehnel, A. Cremers, D. Schulz, M. Moors, E. Spirtounias, M. Marianthi, V. Savvaides, A. Reitelman, D. Konstantios, A. Katselaki, "Experiences from the Use of a Robotic Avatar in a Museum Setting", Intl. Symposium on Virtual Reality, Archaeology, and Cultural Heritage, VAST2001, pp.153-160, Athens, Greece, Nov. 28-30, 2001. Publication in the Proceedings of the Symposium, pp.153-160, Eds. D. Arnold, A. Chalmers and D. Fellner, ACM, Inc., 2002.

J. Sporring, X. Zabulis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Shape Similarity by Piecewise Linear Alignment", 4th Asian Conf. on Computer Vision, ACCV 2000, pp.306-311, Taipei, Taiwan, Jan. 8-11, 2000.

P. Trahanias, A. Argyros, D. Tsakiris, A. Cremers, D. Schulz, W. Burgard, D. Haehnel, V. Savvaides, G. Giannoulis, M. Coliou, G. Kamarinos, P. Friess, D. Konstantios, A. Katselaki, "TOURBOT: Interactive Museum Telepresence through Robotic Avatars", In 9th Intl. World Wide Web Conf. Culture Track, Session A-2: Museums on the Web - Case Study, Organizer: A.M. Ronchi, Amsterdam, May 15-19, 2000.

J. Sporring, C.I. Colios and P.E. Trahanias, "Generalized Scale Selection", Intl. Conf. Image Proc., ICIP 2000, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sep. 2000.

C.I. Colios and P.E. Trahanias, "Landmark Identification Based on Projective and Permutation Invariant Vectors", 15th Intl. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2000, pp.128-131, Barcelona, Spain, Sep. 3-8, 2000.

H. Baltzakis and P.E. Trahanias, "Iterative Computation of 3D Plane Parameters", 11th British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC2000, Bristol, UK, pp.476-485, Sep. 11-14, 2000.

K.V. Chandrinos, M. Pilu, R.B. Fisher, P.E. Trahanias, "Image Processing Techniques for the Quantification of Atherosclerotic Changes", MEDICON 98, 8th Meditteranean Conf. medical and biological engineering and computing, Limassol, Cyprus, June 14-17, 1998.

K.V. Chandrinos and P.E. Trahanias, "Beyond HTML: Web-centric information systems", 6th DELOS Workshop on Digital Preservation, Portugal, June 1998.

J. Immerkaer, P.E. Trahanias and S. Orphanoudakis, "Automatic Learning and Recognition of Landmarks using Image Retrieval Methods", 7th European Workshop on Learning Robots, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1998.

K.V. Chandrinos, V. Tsonis and P.E. Trahanias, "Automated Landmark Extraction and Retrieval", SIRS 98, Edinburgh, Scotland July 21-23, 1998.

K.V. Chandrinos, J. Immerkaer and P.E. Trahanias, "ARHON: A Multimedia Database Design for Image Documents", Special Session on Multimedia Signal Processing, EUSIPCO 98, European Signal Proc. Conf., Rhodes, Greece, Sep.8-11, 1998.

V.S. Tsonis, K.V. Chandrinos and P.E. Trahanias, "Landmark-based Navigation using Projective Invariants", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Systems, IROS'98, Victoria, B.C., Canada, pp.342-347, Oct.12-16, 1998.

P.E. Trahanias, M.I.A. Lourakis, A.A. Argyros and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Navigational Support for Robotic Wheelchair Platforms: An Approach that Combines Vision and Range Sensors", in proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, (ICRA'97), Vol. 2, pp. 1265-1270 Albuquerque, New Mexico, April 20-25, 1997.

M. Bordegoni, G. Faconti, M.T. Maybury, T. Rist, S. Ruggieri, P. Trahanias and M. Wilson, "A Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems", in IJCAI-97 (15th Intl. Joint Conf. Artif. Intell.) Workshop on Intelligent Multimodal Systems,, Nagoya, Japan, Aug. 24, 1997.

P. E. Trahanias, S. Velissaris and T. Garavelos, "Visual Landmark Extraction and Recognition for Autonomous Robot Navigation", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Systems, IROS'97, Grenoble, France, Sep. 7-11, 1997.

K.V. Chandrinos, J. Immerkaer, M. Doerr and P.E. Trahanias, "A Visual Tagging Technique for Annotating Large-volume Multimedia Databases", ERCIM 5th DELOS Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, Nov.10-12, 1997.

G.Y. Georgiannakis, P.E. Trahanias, C. Nikolaou and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Design of an Immersive Teleconferencing Application", Proc. of European Workshop on Interactive Distributed Multimedia Systems and Services '96, Lecture Notes in Computer Sci., 1045, B. Butscher, E. Moeller and H. Pusch (Eds.), pp.117-130, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Germany, March 1996.

S. Ruggieri, M. Bordegoni, G. Faconti, T. Rist, P. Trahanias and M. Wilson, "The Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems", In G. Faconti and T. Rist, eds., Proc. of ECAI'96 Workshop Towards a Standard Reference Model for Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems, Budapest, Hungary, Aug. 1996.

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Independent 3D Motion Detection Through Robust Regression in Depth Layers", Proc. 7th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC '96), pp.535-544, Edinburgh, UK, Sep. 9-12, 1996.

P.E. Trahanias, M.I.A. Lourakis, A.A. Argyros and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Vision-Based Assistive Navigation for Robotic Wheelchair Platforms", in the proceedings of the Machine Perception Applications IAPR Workshop, pp. 43-57, Graz, Austria, September 2-3, 1996..

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Qualitative Detection of 3D Motion Discontinuities", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Systems, IROS'96, pp.1630-1637, Osaka, Japan, Nov. 4-8, 1996.

P.E. Trahanias and Y. Komninos, "Robot Motion Planning: Multi-Sensory Uncertainty Fields Enhanced with Obstacle Avoidance", IEEE/RSJ Intl. Conf. on Intell. Robots and Systems, IROS'96, pp.1141-1148, Osaka, Japan, Nov. 4-8, 1996.

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Fast Visual Detection of Changes in 3D Motion", IAPR Workshop on Machine Vision Applications, MVA'96, Tokyo, Japan, pp.216-219, Nov. 12-14, 1996.

M. Bordegoni, G. Faconti, T. Rist, S. Ruggieri, P. Trahanias and M. Wilson, "Intelligent Multimedia Presentation Systems - A proposal for a Reference Model", Proc. of the 3rd Intl. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling, Toulouse, France, Multimedia Modeling - Towards the Information Superhighway, J.P. Courtiaz, M. Diaz and P. Senac, Eds., pp.3-20, Nov. 12-15, 1996.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Extraction of Photochromic Flow Traces Using Active Contours", IEEE Workshop Nonlinear Signal & Image Proc., Halkidiki, Greece, June 20-22, pp.154-157, 1995.

P.E. Trahanias, D. Karakos and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Directional Segmentation of Color Images", invited contribution, 1995 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, Neos Marmaras, Halkidiki, June 20-22, pp.515-518, 1995.

D. Karakos and P.E. Trahanias, "Combining Vector Median and Vector Directional Filters: The Directional-Distance Filters", Proc. 1995 IEEE Intl. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP-95, pp.171-174, Washington, DC, Oct. 1995.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Automated Photochromic Tracer Flow Extraction", First Intl. Conf. on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 5-7, 1994.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Multichannel Image Processing Using Vector-Angle Ranking", SPIE Conf., Nonlinear Image Proc. IV, San Jose, CA, Jan.31 - Feb.5, 1993.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Multispectral Image Processing", invited paper, Intl. Conf. Image Processing: Theory and Applications, San Remo, Italy, June 14-16, 1993.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Vector Directional Filters for Color Image Processing", invited paper, 11th European Conf. on Circuit Theory and Design, Special Session on Nonlinear Digital Signal and Image Proc., H. Dedieu (ed.), pp.1645-1650, Davos, Switzerland, Aug.30 - Sep.3, 1993.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Color Image Enhancement through 3D histogram equalization", 11th Intl. Conf. Pattern Recognition, ICPR '92, IEEE Comput. Soc., pp.545-548, Aug. 30 - Sept. 3, 1992.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Color Edge detection - A vector order statistics approach", Canadian Conf. on Electrical & Computer Eng., pp.MA5.11.1-MA5.11.4, Toronto, Ontario, Sept. 13-16, 1992.

P.E. Trahanias and A.N. Venetsanopoulos, "Color Edge detection based on multivariate ordering", SPIE Conf., Visual Communications and Image Processing '92, pp.1396-1407, Boston, MA, Nov. 15-20, 1992.

G. Frangakis and P.E. Trahanias, "Blood pressure signal diagnosis - An expert system approach", Euriscon '91, The European Robotics & Intelligent Systems Conf., June 23-28, 1991.

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Technical Reports

Amalia Foka, Panos Trahanias, "Real-Time_Hierarchical POMDPs for Autonomous Robot Navigation", Technical Report Technical report no 347, ICS-FORTH, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, January 2005

J. Sporring, C. I. Colios and P. E. Trahanias, "Generalized Scale-Selection", ICS/FORTH TR-264, Dec. 1999.

J. Sporring and P. E. Trahanias, "Linear Scale-Space of Spectral and Color Images", ICS/FORTH TR-263, Dec. 1999.

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Real-time Detection of Maneuvering Objects by a Monocular Observer", ICS/FORTH TR-160, Feb. 1996.

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Independent 3D Motion Detection Through Robust Regression in Depth Layers", ICS/FORTH TR-159, Feb. 1996.

P.E. Trahanias, M.I.A. Lourakis, A.A. Argyros and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Vision-Based Assistive Navigation for Robotic Wheelchair Platforms", ICS/FORTH TR-178, Oct. 1996.

A.A. Argyros, M.I.A. Lourakis, P.E. Trahanias and S.C. Orphanoudakis, "Qualitative Detection of 3D Motion Discontinuities", ICS/FORTH TR-177, Oct. 1996.