Intelligent Digital Transformation Laboratory
The Intelligent Digital Transformation (IDT) Laboratory was established in 2020, as a successor to the e-Services, e-Learning & e-Government Lab that had been founded in 2008. It is part of the Information Technologies Institute of CERTH. The Lab focuses on research and development in the areas of video/image/multimedia understanding and artificial intelligence, and on how these technologies can be applied towards transforming various business sectors and the society at large. The Head of the IDT Laboratory is Dr. Vasileios Mezaris.
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(Mar. 2024) M. Ntrougkas, N. Gkalelis, V. Mezaris, "T-TAME: Trainable Attention Mechanism for Explaining Convolutional Networks and Vision Transformers", arXiv:2403.04523, DOI:10.48550/arXiv.2403.04523.
(Mar. 2024) Paper submission deadline extended to April 3, 2024: 1st Int. Workshop on Video for Immersive Experiences (Video4IMX-2024) at ACM IMX 2024, June 2024. Accepted workshop papers will be published in ACM ICPS and will be available in the ACM Digital Library.
(Feb. 2024) Call for Papers, Special Session on Multimedia Indexing for XR (MmIXR) at CBMI 2024, Sept. 18-20 in Reykjavik, Iceland. Paper submission deadline: March 22, 2024 extended to April 12, 2024.
(Feb. 2024) Our participation in the NewsImages Task of the MediaEval 2023 evaluation benchmark won first place! Details of our approach in our paper and slides.
(Jan. 2024) Call for Papers, 1st Int. Workshop on Video for Immersive Experiences (Video4IMX-2024) at ACM IMX 2024, June 2024. Accepted workshop papers will be published in ACM ICPS and will be available in the ACM Digital Library. Paper submission deadline: March 17, 2024.
(Sept. 2023) Organized a breakout session on "AI explainability for vision tasks", and also gave a presentation as invited expert in a breakout session on "Human-Aligned Video AI", at the Theme Development Workshop "Trusted AI - The future of creating ethical and responsible AI systems" organized by the EU's AI NoEs. Vasileios Mezaris' presentation slides here (session 1) and here (session 12).
(Sept. 2023) The Verification Plugin by InVID & WeVerify, now further developed within our vera.ai project, has reached 100,000+ users in chrome!
(Aug. 2023) Call for Papers, 30th Int. Conf. on Multimedia Modeling (MMM 2024), Jan.-Feb. 2024, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: https://mmm2024.org/submit.html. Regular and Special Session Paper submission deadline: Sept. 4, 2023.
(June 2023) The Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2023), held in Thessaloniki, Greece, have been published in the ACM Digital Library: ICMR 2023 Proceedings. The conference program is posted on https://icmr2023.org/.
(Feb. 2023) Our work on "TAME: Attention Mechanism Based Feature Fusion for Generating Explanation Maps of Convolutional Neural Networks", presented at IEEE ISM 2022, was featured as the research of the month on RSIP Vision's Computer Vision News magazine. Read the full interview.
(Jan. 2023) Our participation in the NewsImages Task of the MediaEval 2022 evaluation benchmark won first place! Find out more about our approach in the paper and slides.
(Dec. 2022) Our IEEE ISM 2022 paper titled "TAME: Attention Mechanism Based Feature Fusion for Generating Explanation Maps of Convolutional Neural Networks" received the ISM 2022 Best Paper Award. The paper's presentation slides and software are available on slideshare and github, respectively.
(Dec. 2022) Call for Papers, ACM ICMR 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece: https://icmr2023.org/call-for-papers/. Paper submission deadline: Jan. 31, 2023.
(Nov. 2022) Talk on "Explaining the decisions of image/video classifiers" at the 1st Nice Workshop on Interpretability, Nice, France, Nov. 2022. slides
(Oct. 2022) Why did my video event recognition method miscategorize this video as "Making lemonade"? Find out why in "ViGAT: Bottom-up event recognition and explanation in video using factorized graph attention network", by N. Gkalelis, D. Daskalakis and V. Mezaris, IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 108797-108816, 2022. DOI:10.1109/ACCESS.2022.3213652. Software available at https://github.com/bmezaris/ViGAT.
(July 2022) Two new Horizon Europe research projects, on developing Artificial Intelligence (AI) and eXtended Reality (XR) technologies, have been approved and will kick off in Fall 2022.
(Feb. 2022) Call for Technical Demonstrations, ACM Int. Conf. on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), Newark, NJ, USA, June 27-30, 2022. Technical demo paper submission deadline: February 24 extended to March 20, 2022.
(Feb. 2022) Call for Tutorial Proposals, ACM Multimedia (ACMMM), Lisbon, Portugal, Oct. 10-14, 2022. Tutorial proposal submission deadline: March 1, 2022.
(Nov. 2021) Our survey paper, "Video Summarization Using Deep Neural Networks: A Survey", by E. Apostolidis, E. Adamantidou, A. Metsai, V. Mezaris, I. Patras, has been published in the Proceedings of the IEEE journal (Impact Factor: 10.96), vol. 109, no. 11, pp. 1838-1863, Nov. 2021. The published paper is available at DOI:10.1109/JPROC.2021.3117472 and the accepted version is also available at https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06072.
(Sept. 2021) A new and exciting research project just started: the H2020 RIA "CRiTERIA: Comprehensive Data-driven Risk and Threat Assessment Methods for the Early and Reliable Identification, Validation and Analysis of migration-related Risks".
(Sept. 2021) The Verification Plugin by InVID & WeVerify has reached 50,000+ users in chrome!
(May 2021) Call for Papers, Special Issue on "Data-driven Personalisation of Television Content", Multimedia Systems Journal (Springer). Paper submission deadline: September 15, 2021.
(Feb. 2021) Call for Papers, DataTV 2021: 2nd Int. Workshop on Data-driven Personalisation of Television at the ACM Int. Conf. on Interactive Media Experiences (IMX 2021), June 21-23, 2021 (to be held as a virtual event). Paper submission deadline: 29 March 2021.
(Feb. 2021) The Verification Plugin by InVID & WeVerify has reached 40,000+ users in chrome!
(Jan. 2021) E. Apostolidis, E. Adamantidou, A. Metsai, V. Mezaris, I. Patras, "Video Summarization Using Deep Neural Networks: A Survey", arXiv:2101.06072, https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.06072.
(Jan. 2021) The proceedings of the MMM 2021 conference are now available as Springer LNCS vol. 12572 (MMM 2021 Proceedings Part I) and LNCS vol. 12573 (MMM 2021 Proceedings Part II).
(Dec. 2020) Presentation on Misinformation on the internet: Video and AI is available in Slideshare; delivered at the Age of misinformation: an interdisciplinary outlook on fake news workshop/webinar.
(Oct. 2020) Presentations delivered and are available in Slideshare on Migration-Related Semantic Concepts for the Retrieval of Relevant Video Content @ INTAP 2020 and on GAN-based video summarization @ AI4Media Workshop on GANs for Media Content Generation.
(Sept. 2020) Two new and exciting research projects just started: the H2020 RIA "AI4Media: A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy" and the Greek national project "QuaLiSID: Quality of Life Support System for People with Intellectual Disability".
(Aug. 2020) The Verification Plugin by InVID & WeVerify has reached 30,000+ users in chrome!
(July 2020) Tutorial on Video Summarization and Re-use Technologies and Tools delivered at the IEEE Int. Conf. on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), 6-10 July 2020. Slides are available for Part I: "Automatic video summarization".