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20152025
most citedLinear Maximum Margin Classifier for Learning from Uncertain Data

47 citations · 112 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

P-TAME: Explain Any Image Classifier with Trained Perturbations

Mariano V. Ntrougkas, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Patras

The adoption of Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) in critical fields where predictions need to be accompanied by justifications is hindered by their inherent black-box nature. In this pa…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

VidCtx: Context-aware Video Question Answering with Image Models

Andreas Goulas, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Patras

To address computational and memory limitations of Large Multimodal Models in the Video Question-Answering task, several recent methods extract textual representations per frame (e…

cs.CV2024★ 9 cited

T-TAME: Trainable Attention Mechanism for Explaining Convolutional Networks and Vision Transformers

Mariano V. Ntrougkas, Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

The development and adoption of Vision Transformers and other deep-learning architectures for image classification tasks has been rapid. However, the "black box" nature of neural n…

cs.CV2023

Filter-Pruning of Lightweight Face Detectors Using a Geometric Median Criterion

Konstantinos Gkrispanis, Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

Face detectors are becoming a crucial component of many applications, including surveillance, that often have to run on edge devices with limited processing power and memory. There…

cs.CV2023

Masked Feature Modelling: Feature Masking for the Unsupervised Pre-training of a Graph Attention Network Block for Bottom-up Video Event Recognition

Dimitrios Daskalakis, Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper, we introduce Masked Feature Modelling (MFM), a novel approach for the unsupervised pre-training of a Graph Attention Network (GAT) block. MFM utilizes a pretrained V…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Gated-ViGAT: Efficient Bottom-Up Event Recognition and Explanation Using a New Frame Selection Policy and Gating Mechanism

Nikolaos Gkalelis, Dimitrios Daskalakis, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper, Gated-ViGAT, an efficient approach for video event recognition, utilizing bottom-up (object) information, a new frame sampling policy and a gating mechanism is propo…

cs.CV2023★ 10 cited

TAME: Attention Mechanism Based Feature Fusion for Generating Explanation Maps of Convolutional Neural Networks

Mariano Ntrougkas, Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

The apparent ``black box'' nature of neural networks is a barrier to adoption in applications where explainability is essential. This paper presents TAME (Trainable Attention Mecha…

cs.CV2022

Are All Combinations Equal? Combining Textual and Visual Features with Multiple Space Learning for Text-Based Video Retrieval

Damianos Galanopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper we tackle the cross-modal video retrieval problem and, more specifically, we focus on text-to-video retrieval. We investigate how to optimally combine multiple divers…

cs.CV2022

Learning Visual Explanations for DCNN-Based Image Classifiers Using an Attention Mechanism

Ioanna Gkartzonika, Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper two new learning-based eXplainable AI (XAI) methods for deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) image classifiers, called L-CAM-Fm and L-CAM-Img, are proposed. Both…

cs.CV2022★ 15 cited

ViGAT: Bottom-up event recognition and explanation in video using factorized graph attention network

Nikolaos Gkalelis, Dimitrios Daskalakis, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper a pure-attention bottom-up approach, called ViGAT, that utilizes an object detector together with a Vision Transformer (ViT) backbone network to derive object and fra…

cs.CV2021

Video Summarization Using Deep Neural Networks: A Survey

Evlampios Apostolidis, Eleni Adamantidou, Alexandros I. Metsai +2

Video summarization technologies aim to create a concise and complete synopsis by selecting the most informative parts of the video content. Several approaches have been developed…

cs.IR2020★ 1 cited

Migration-Related Semantic Concepts for the Retrieval of Relevant Video Content

Elejalde Erick, Galanopoulos Damianos, Niederee Claudia +1

Migration, and especially irregular migration, is a critical issue for border agencies and society in general. Migration-related situations and decisions are influenced by various…

cs.MM2016

Automatic Synchronization of Multi-User Photo Galleries

E. Sansone, K. Apostolidis, N. Conci +3

In this paper we address the issue of photo galleries synchronization, where pictures related to the same event are collected by different users. Existing solutions to address the…

cs.LG2015★ 26 cited

Learning to detect video events from zero or very few video examples

Christos Tzelepis, Damianos Galanopoulos, Vasileios Mezaris +1

In this work we deal with the problem of high-level event detection in video. Specifically, we study the challenging problems of i) learning to detect video events from solely a te…

cs.LG2015★ 1 cited

Accelerated kernel discriminant analysis

Nikolaos Gkalelis, Vasileios Mezaris

In this paper, using a novel matrix factorization and simultaneous reduction to diagonal form approach (or in short simultaneous reduction approach), Accelerated Kernel Discriminan…

cs.LG2015★ 47 cited

Linear Maximum Margin Classifier for Learning from Uncertain Data

Christos Tzelepis, Vasileios Mezaris, Ioannis Patras

In this paper, we propose a maximum margin classifier that deals with uncertainty in data input. More specifically, we reformulate the SVM framework such that each training example…