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, […]
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 […]
Invited talk | Archimedes Talks Series
Happy and honored to participate to the Archimedes Talks Series, discussing about “Foundation Models in robotics”. Date and connection details (for remote participation) provided below. The talk will concentrate on holistically investigating the usage of Foundation Models (FMs) in the field of robotics, emphasizing on the following key topics:✅ Introduction to the fundamental principles and […]
Projects to Policy Seminar
Happy to participate today to the Projects to Policy Seminar (PPS) organized by DG HOME in Brussels for EC projects funded under cluster 3 (security). In principle participating in the disaster response discussions representing project TRIFFID Project (among other as well). Interesting discussions and networking activities.
New paper | The invisible arms race
You can check below one of our recently published articles in IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society, entitled “The invisible arms race: digital trends in illicit goods trafficking and AI-enabled responses”. 💻 Paper link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10813620 This work comprises a nice example of inter-disciplinary research and a key scientific outcome of the Ceasefire Project Thanks a […]
Invited talk | Santa Clara University
Happy to share that on the 5th of May I will be giving an invited talk at Santa Clara University (Silicon Valley, California, US) regarding “Foundation Models in robotics”. The talk will concentrate on holistically investigating the usage of Foundation Models (FMs) in the field of robotics, emphasizing on the following key topics: Particular thanks […]
