HEPHAESTUS Research Repository: Recent submissions

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  • Vision-Controlled Micro Flying Robots: From System Design to Autonomous Navigation and Mapping in GPS-Denied Environments 

    Scaramuzza, Davide; Achtelik, Michael; Doitsidis, Lefteris; Fraundorfer, Friedrich; Kosmatopoulos, Elias; Martinelli, Agostino; Achtelik, Markus Wilhelm; Chli, Margarita; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Kneip, Laurent; Gurdan, Daniel; Heng, Lionel; Lee, Gim Hee; Lynen, Simon; Meier, Lorenz; Pollefeys, Marc; Renzaglia, Alessandro; Siegwart, Roland; Stumpf, Jan Carsten; Tanskanen, Petri; Troiani, Chiara; Weiss, Stephan (IEEE, 2014)
    Autonomous micro helicopters are about to play a major role in tasks like search and rescue, environment monitoring, security surveillance, inspection, etc. If they are further realized in small scale, they can also be ...

  • How Smart Are Smartphones?: Bridging the marketing and information technology gap. 

    Amanatiadis, Angelos; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (IEEE, 2014)
    The term "smart" has become widespread in consumer electronics in recent years, reflecting the consumers' need for devices that assist them in their daily activities. The term has a long history of usage in marketing science ...

  • Hybrid Cellular Ants for Clustering Problems 

    Bitsakidis, Nikolaos P.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Sirakoulis, Georgios Ch. (Old City Publishing, 2014)
    In the last decade the amount of the stored data related to almost all areas of life has rapidly increased. However, the overall process of discovering knowledge from data demands more powerful clustering techniques to ...

  • Real-time indexing for large image databases: color and edge directivity descriptor on GPU 

    Bampis, Loukas; Iakovidou, Chryssanthi; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis S.; Amanatiadis, Angelos (Springer, 2014)
    In this paper, we focus on implementing the extraction of a well-known low-level image descriptor using the multicore power provided by general-purpose graphic processing units (GPGPUs). The color and edge directivity ...

  • Image Moment Invariants as Local Features for Content Based Image Retrieval using the Bag-of-Visual-Words Model 

    Karakasis, Evangelos G.; Amanatiadis, Angelos; Gasteratos, Antonios; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Elsevier, 2015)
    This paper presents an image retrieval framework that uses affine image moment invariants as descriptors of local image areas. Detailed feature vectors are generated by feeding the produced moments into a Bag-of-Visual-Words ...

  • What, Where and How? Introducing pose manifolds for industrial object manipulation 

    Kouskouridas, R.; Amanatiadis, A.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Gasteratos, A. (Elsevier, 2015)
    In this paper we propose a novel method for object grasping that aims to unify robot vision techniques for 24 efficiently accomplishing the demanding task of autonomous object manipulation. Through ontological 25 concepts, ...

  • Localizing global descriptors for content-based image retrieval 

    Iakovidou, Chryssanthi; Anagnostopoulos, Nektarios; Kapoutsis, Athanasios; Boutalis, Yiannis; Lux, Mathias; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Springer, 2015)
    In this paper, we explore, extend and simplify the localization of the description ability of the well-established MPEG-7 (Scalable Colour Descriptor (SCD), Colour Layout Descriptor (CLD) and Edge Histogram Descriptor ...

  • Real-time adaptive multi-robot exploration with application to underwater map construction 

    Kapoutsis, Athanasios Ch.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Doitsidis, Lefteris; Borges de Sousa, João; Pinto, Jose; Braga, Jose; Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (Springer, 2016)
    This paper deals with the problem of autonomous exploration of unknown areas using teams of Autonomous X Vehicles (AXVs)—with X standing for Aerial, Underwater or Sea-surface—where the AXVs have to autonomously navigate ...

  • A Novel Image Retrieval Based on Visual Words Integration of SIFT and SURF 

    Ali, Nouman; Bajwa, Khalid Bashir; Sablatnig, Robert; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Iqbal, Zeshan; Rashid, Muhammad; Habib, Hafiz Adnan (2016)
    With the recent evolution of technology, the number of image archives has increased exponentially. In Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR), high-level visual information is represented in the form of low-level features. ...

  • DARP: Divide Areas Algorithm for Optimal Multi-Robot Coverage Path Planning 

    Kapoutsis, Athanasios Ch.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Kosmatopoulos, Elias B. (Springer, 2017)
    This paper deals with the path planning problem of a team of mobile robots, in order to cover an area of interest, with prior-defined obstacles. For the single robot case, also known as single robot coverage path planning ...

  • A LoCATe‐based visual place recognition system for mobile robotics and GPGPUs 

    Bampis, Loukas; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Iakovidou, Chryssanthi; Gasteratos, Antonios; Boutalis, Yiannis; Amanatiadis, Angelos (John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2017-05)
    In this paper, a novel visual Place Recognition approach is evaluated based on a visual vocabulary of the Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor (CEDD) to address the loop closure detection task. Even though CEDD was initially ...

  • Remote monitoring of the Bactrocera oleae (Gmelin) (Diptera: Tephritidae) population using an automated McPhail trap 

    Doitsidis, Lefteris; Fouskitakis, George N.; Varikou, Kyriaki N.; Rigakis, Iraklis I.; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Papafilippaki, Androniki K.; Birouraki, Athanasia E. (Elsevier, 2017-05)
    Remote pest population monitoring is of major importance within the context of precision agriculture. Information acquired from the field has been proved essential for proper decision making and pest management against ...

  • Content based radiology image retrieval using a fuzzy rule based scalable composite descriptor 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (Springer Nature, 2009)
    The rapid advances made in the field of radiology, the increased frequency in which oncological diseases appear, as well as the demand for prevailing medical checks, led to the creation of a large database of radiology ...

  • LIRe: Lucene Image Retrieval - An Extensible Java CBIR Library 

    Lux, Mathias; Chatzichristofis, Savvas A. (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), United States, 2008)
    LIRe (Lucene Image Retrieval) is a light weight open source Java library for content based image retrieval. It provides common and state of the art global image features and offers means for indexing and retrieval. Due ...

  • CEDD: Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor: A Compact Descriptor for Image Indexing and Retrieval 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (Springer-Verlag, 2008)
    This paper deals with a new low level feature that is extracted from the images and can be used for indexing and retrieval. This feature is called “Color and Edge Directivity Descriptor” and incorporates color and texture ...

  • FCTH: Fuzzy color and texture histogram. A low level feature for accurate image retrieval 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , United States), 2008)
    This paper deals with the extraction of a new low level feature that combines, in one histogram, color and texture information. This feature is named FCTH - Fuzzy Color and Texture Histogram - and results from the combination ...

  • Hybrid scheme for fast and accurate image retrieval based on color descriptors 

    Chatzichristofis, Savvas A.; Boutalis, Yiannis (ACTA Press, Canada, 2007)
    This paper proposes a new image retrieval system, thatuses only color features and it's based on a hybrid scheme which combines crisp and fuzzy techniques, in order to retrieve color based similar images. The system ...

  • Σάλπιγξ - αρ. 31 

    Unknown author (Library of Neapolis University Pafos, 1884-09-28)

  • Σάλπιγξ - αρ. 30 

    Unknown author (Library of Neapolis University Pafos, 1884-09-21)

  • Σάλπιγξ - αρ. 29 

    Unknown author (Library of Neapolis University Pafos, 1884-09-14)