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most citedFusing Body Posture with Facial Expressions for Joint Recognition of Affect in Child-Robot Interaction

82 citations · 86 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.LG2026

Uncertainty-Driven Anomaly Detection for Psychotic Relapse Using Smartwatches: Forecasting and Multi-Task Learning Fusion

Nikolaos Tsalkitzis, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Maragos +1

Digital phenotyping enables continuous passive monitoring of behavior and physiology, offering a promising paradigm for early detection of psychotic relapse. In this work, we devel…

cs.CV2026

NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction: Methods and Results

Andrey Moskalenko, Alexey Bryncev, Ivan Kosmynin +40

This paper presents an overview of the NTIRE 2026 Challenge on Video Saliency Prediction. The goal of the challenge participants was to develop automatic saliency map prediction me…

cs.CV2026

Mind the Shape Gap: A Benchmark and Baseline for Deformation-Aware 6D Pose Estimation of Agricultural Produce

Nikolas Chatzis, Angeliki Tsinouka, Katerina Papadimitriou +7

Accurate 6D pose estimation for robotic harvesting is fundamentally hindered by the biological deformability and high intra-class shape variability of agricultural produce. Instanc…

cs.CV2025

Age-Inclusive 3D Human Mesh Recovery for Action-Preserving Data Anonymization

Georgios Chatzichristodoulou, Niki Efthymiou, Panagiotis Filntisis +2

While three-dimensional (3D) shape and pose estimation is a highly researched area that has yielded significant advances, the resulting methods, despite performing well for the adu…

cs.RO2025

Baby Sophia: A Developmental Approach to Self-Exploration through Self-Touch and Hand Regard

Stelios Zarifis, Ioannis Chalkiadakis, Artemis Chardouveli +7

Inspired by infant development, we propose a Reinforcement Learning (RL) framework for autonomous self-exploration in a robotic agent, Baby Sophia, using the BabyBench simulation e…

cs.CV2024

Mushroom Segmentation and 3D Pose Estimation from Point Clouds using Fully Convolutional Geometric Features and Implicit Pose Encoding

George Retsinas, Niki Efthymiou, Petros Maragos

Modern agricultural applications rely more and more on deep learning solutions. However, training well-performing deep networks requires a large amount of annotated data that may n…

cs.CY2020★ 4 cited

Identifying differences in physical activity and autonomic function patterns between psychotic patients and controls over a long period of continuous monitoring using wearable sensors

Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Niki Efthymiou +5

Digital phenotyping is a nascent multidisciplinary field that has the potential to revolutionize psychiatry and its clinical practice. In this paper, we present a rigorous statisti…

cs.CV2020

Emotion Understanding in Videos Through Body, Context, and Visual-Semantic Embedding Loss

Panagiotis Paraskevas Filntisis, Niki Efthymiou, Gerasimos Potamianos +1

We present our winning submission to the First International Workshop on Bodily Expressed Emotion Understanding (BEEU) challenge. Based on recent literature on the effect of contex…

cs.RO2020

ChildBot: Multi-Robot Perception and Interaction with Children

Niki Efthymiou, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Koutras +4

In this paper we present an integrated robotic system capable of participating in and performing a wide range of educational and entertainment tasks, in collaboration with one or m…

cs.CV2019★ 82 cited

Fusing Body Posture with Facial Expressions for Joint Recognition of Affect in Child-Robot Interaction

Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Niki Efthymiou, Petros Koutras +2

In this paper we address the problem of multi-cue affect recognition in challenging scenarios such as child-robot interaction. Towards this goal we propose a method for automatic r…