Summer break wishes
Wishing everyone a wonderful and rejuvenating summer break! We hope you get the chance to relax, recharge, and make some great memories. See you back refreshed! Also, during their summer time off, members of our group visited the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Enjoy the content below, while also getting inspired from the […]
University of California Los Angeles visit
Feeling magnificent to visit the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
New paper | IEEE Access
You can find below our recently accepted work at IEEE Access, entitled “Survey on Hand Gesture Recognition from Visual Input” and authored by M. Linardakis, I. Varlamis and G. Th. Papadopoulos. Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=11098825 The study was funded by the European RnD projects TRIFFID Project and TORNADO EU project Hand gesture recognition has become an important […]
New paper
You can find below our recent work, entitled “Illicit object detection in X-ray imaging using deep learning techniques: A comparative evaluation” and authored by J. Cani, C. Diou, S. Evangelatos, V. Argyriou, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, P. Sarigiannidis, I. Varlamis, G. Th. Papadopoulos. Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.17508 Automated X-ray inspection is crucial for efficient and unobtrusive security screening in […]
IEEE BigDataService 2025
Happy to participate as a program committee member (together with my colleague Iraklis Varlamis) to the IEEE BigDataService 2025 conference (co-located with IEEE CISOSE 2025) held in Tucson, Arizona. We also presented our work entitled “X-ray illicit object detection using hybrid CNN-transformer neural network architectures” (authored by J. Cani, C. Diou, S. Evangelatos, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, […]
New paper | VHGR
You can find below our recent work, entitled “Visual Hand Gesture Recognition with Deep Learning: A Comprehensive Review of Methods, Datasets, Challenges and Future Research Directions” and authored by K. Foteinos, J. Cani, M. Linardakis, P. Radoglou-Grammatikis, V. Argyriou, P. Sarigiannidis, I. Varlamis and G. Th. Papadopoulos. Link: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.04465 This study provides a comprehensive overview […]
Innovation alert | Ceasefire UC#4
In the context of the European RnD project Ceasefire Project, the HUA computer vision group has developed a cutting-edge artificial intelligence solution, targeting to automatically identify firearm security threats (firearms, parts of firearms and ammunition) during X-ray imaging fast parcel inspection by customs services. The developed solution achieved an outstanding over 97% correct detection performance […]
TRIFFID 3rd Plenary Meeting
The 3rd General Assembly of the TRIFFID project has officially started today in Heraklion, Greece, hosted by Hellenic Mediterranean University and the Pasiphae Lab. Partners from across Europe have come together for two days of collaboration focused on: With a packed agenda, this meeting represents a crucial milestone, aligning on key deliverables, consolidating progress, and […]
Security Research Event SRE 2025
Happy to participate today and tomorrow to the Security Research Event SRE 2025 (organised by DG HOME) in Warsaw. For those attending, you can stop by booth #19 to be informed about the technologies and live demos developed by the Ceasefire Project for tackling firearms trafficking. Our HUA computer vision group demonstrates our AI tools […]
New paper | IEEE Access
You can find below our recently accepted work in IEEE Access, entitled “Resource Efficient Federated LoRaWAN Architecture for Far-Edge IoT Applications” and authored by A. Triantafyllou, I. Siniosoglou, V. Argyriou, S. K. Goudos, G. Th. Papadopoulos, K. Panitsidis and P. Sarigiannidis. 💻 Link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11037774 This study introduces an innovative, resource-efficient architecture that incorporates advanced technologies […]
