Nicolas Tsapatsoulis
Professor, Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs
Department of Communication and Marketing
nicolas.tsapatsoulis@cut.ac.cy
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Nicolas Tsapatsoulis holds a Ph.D degree, in Image Analysis and Synthesis, from the School of Electrical and Computer Eng. of the National Technical University of Athens (2000). He joined the Department of Communication and internet Studies in January 2008 where he is now a full Professor. His research interests include multimedia information retrieval, web data mining, recommender systems, collective intelligence and affective computing. He has published more than 160 papers in international journals, book chapters and proceedings of international conferences. His research has been recognised by the international research community through more than 4000 independent citations.
He served as [...]
ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS
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Qualification |
Year |
Awarding Institution |
Department |
Thesis title (Optional Entry) |
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Ph.D. |
2000 |
National Technical University of Athens |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Advanced Techniques for Face Recognition and Facial Expression Analysis |
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MSc |
1994 |
National Technical University of Athens |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
Microcomputing system, programmable from a PC, for controlling electric and electronic devices |
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BSc |
1994 |
National Technical University of Athens |
Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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EMPLOYMENT
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Period of employment |
Employer |
Location |
Position |
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From |
To |
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2008 |
- |
Cyprus University of Technology |
Limassol, Cyprus |
Assistant Professor (2008-2012), Associate Professor (2012-2018), Professor (2018 -) |
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2005 |
2007 |
University of Peloponnese |
Tripolis, Greece |
Adjunct Assistant Professor |
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2003 |
2005 |
University of Cyprus |
Nicosia, Cyprus |
Visiting Lecturer (2003-2004), Visiting Ass. Professor (2004-2005) |
PUBLICATIONS
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Ref. Number |
Year |
Title |
Other authors |
Journal and Publisher / |
Vol. |
Pages |
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1 |
2021 |
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns: 19th International Conference, CAIP 2021, Virtual Event, September 28–30, 2021, Proceedings, Part I |
Andreas Panayides, Theo Theocharides, Andreas Lanitis, Constantinos Pattichis, Mario Vento |
Springer Nature |
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28-30 |
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2 |
2020 |
Image annotation: the effects of content, lexicon and annotation method |
Zenonas Theodosiou |
International Journal of Multimedia Information Retrieval |
9 |
191–203 |
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3 |
2019 |
Filtering Instagram Hashtags Through Crowdtagging and the HITS Algorithm |
Stamatios Giannoulakis |
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems |
6 |
592-603 |
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4 |
2019 |
Opinion Mining from Social Media Short Texts: Does Collective Intelligence Beat Deep Learning? |
Constantinos Djouvas |
Frontiers in Robotics and AI |
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5 |
2017 |
Social relevance feedback based on multimedia content power |
Klimis Ntalianis, Anastasios D Doulamis, Nikolaos E Mastorakis |
IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems
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5 |
109-117 |
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6 |
2001 |
Emotion recognition in human-computer interaction |
Roddy Cowie, Ellen Douglas-Cowie, George Votsis, Stefanos Kollias, Winfried Fellenz, John G Taylor |
IEEE Signal processing magazine |
18 |
32-80 |
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7 |
2016 |
Overview of research on facial ageing using the FG-NET ageing database |
Gabriel Panis, Andreas Lanitis, Timothy F Cootes |
Iet Biometrics |
5 |
37-46 |
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8 |
2002 |
Parameterized facial expression synthesis based on MPEG-4 |
Amaryllis Raouzaiou, Kostas Karpouzis, Stefanos Kollias |
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing |
10 |
1-18 |
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9 |
2016 |
Evaluating the descriptive power of Instagram hashtags |
Stamatios Giannoulakis |
Journal of Innovation in Digital Ecosystems |
3 |
114-129 |
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10 |
2000 |
Efficient face detection for multimedia applications |
Yannis Avrithis, Stefanos Kollias |
Proceedings 2000 International Conference on Image Processing (Cat. No. 00CH37101) |
2 |
247-250 |
RESEARCH
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Ref. Number |
Date |
Title |
Funded by |
Project Role* |
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1 |
2018 |
COST, Action CA17124: Digital forensics: evidence analysis via intelligent systems and practices |
COST |
Research Team Member |
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2 |
2016 |
COHESIFY – Understanding the Impact of EU Cohesion Policy on European Identification |
H2020-REFLECTIVE-SOCIETY-2015 |
Research Team Member |
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3 |
2016 |
TERPSICHORE - Transforming Intangible Folkloric Performing Arts into Tangible Choreographic Digital Objects |
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 |
Local Coordinator -Research Team Member |
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4 |
2016 |
ENCASE - EnhaNcing seCurity and privacy in the Social wEb: a user centered approach for the protection of minors |
H2020-MSCA-RISE-2015 |
Research Team Member |
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5 |
2016 |
NOTRE: Network for Social Computing Research |
H2020-TWINN-2015 |
Research Team Member |
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6 |
2015 |
Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modeling |
H2020-REFLECTIVE-7-2014 |
Research Team Member |
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7 |
2011 |
POSEIDON, Development of an Intelligent System for Coast Monitoring via Camera Arrays and Sensor Networks |
Cross Region Cooperation: Greece-Cyprus 2007-2011
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Project Coordinator |
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8 |
2010 |
TISAMuC, Techniques for Intelligent Search and Access of Multimedia Content |
CRPF: PENEK/0609 |
Project Coordinator |
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9 |
2009 |
COMMANDARIA, The History of Commandaria: Digital journeys back to time. |
CRPF: ANTHRO /0308(ΒΙΕ) |
Project Coordinator |
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10 |
2008 |
PORPARDET, Portable Particulate Detection Device |
FP7-SME-2007-1 |
Local Coordinator -Research Team Member |
AWARDS
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Ref. Number |
Date |
Title |
Awarded by: |
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1 |
14/07/2018 |
IEEE Outstanding Leadership Award (for being the General Chair of CyberScTech 2018) |
IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) |
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2 |
December 2016 |
Best paper award for the paper “Wall-Content Selection in Social Media: A Revelance Feedback Scheme based on Explicit Crowdsourcing” |
The General Chair of CPSCom'2016 |
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3 |
March 2012 |
Best paper award for the paper “Image indexing based on web page segmentation and clustering” |
The General Chair of ACE’2012 |
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4 |
2001-2018 |
High impact paper (“Emotion Recognition in Human-Computer Interaction” - over than 2000 citations) |
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Teaching
- CIS 164: Statistics for the Social Sciences
- CIS 306: Search in the Internet and Social Media
- CIS 473: Collective Intelligence
- CIS 485: Social Network Analysis
