SALUS kick-off meeting
Happy to participate yesterday and today to the kick-off meeting of our new security RnD project SALUS “Strengthening law enforcement with advanced IoT forensic tools and enriched investigation schemes, realised by a Software Defined Network Security-as-a-Service architecture”, hosted by our project coordinator Hellenic Mediterranean University in Heraklion, Crete. My research group activities will mainly focus […]
Ceasefire project final review
Happy to participate today to the final review meeting of the Ceasefire Project that aims to tackled organized crime activities related to firearms trafficking. Very positive feedback from the project officer and the reviewers for a nice collaborative effort of the consortium! Our HUA computer vision group, apart from serving as the project technical manager, […]
New paper | IEEE Transactions
You can check below one of our recently published articles in IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence , entitled “Exploring Energy Landscapes for Minimal Counterfactual Explanations: Applications in Cybersecurity and Beyond” and authored bySpyros Evangelatos, Eleni Veroni, Vasilis Efthymiou, Christos D. Nikolopoulos, Georgios Th. Papadopoulos and Panagiotis Sarigiannidis đź’» Paper link: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/11199968 In this work, we […]
Disaster Resilient Days 2025
Happy to participate over the last 3 days to the “Disaster Resilient Days” event organized this year in Athens, Greece, under the framework of the Community of European Research and Innovation for Security (CERIS) and the European Commission. Interesting discussions took place among policymakers, experts, researchers, citizens, and practitioners, regarding the response to critical disaster […]
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#4Â
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 […]
