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Publication list

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International Journals

M. Kotti, E. Benetos, C. Kotropoulos, and I. Pitas, “A neural network approach to audio-assisted movie dialogue detection,” Neurocomputing, Special Issue: Advances in Neural Networks, vol. 71, no. 1-3, pp. 157-166, December 2007. (doi:10.1016/jneucom.2007.08.006)
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M. Kotti, V. Moschou, and C. Kotropoulos, “Speaker segmentation and clustering,” Signal Processing, vol. 88, no. 5, pp. 1091-1124, May 2008. (doi:10.1016/j.sigpro.2007.11.017)

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M. Kotti, E. Benetos, and C. Kotropoulos, “Computationally efficient and robust BIC-based speaker segmentation,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 16, no. 5, pp. 920-933, July 2008. (doi:10.1109/TASL.2008.925152)

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M. Kotti, D. Ververidis, G. Evangelopoulos, I. Panagakis, C. Kotropoulos, P. Maragos, and I. Pitas, “Audio-assisted movie dialogue detection,” IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Special Issue on Event Analysis in Videos, vol. 18, no. 11, pp. 1618-1627, November 2008. ( doi:10.1109/TCSVT.2008.2005613)

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G. Almpanidis, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Robust detection of phone boundaries using model selection criteria with few observations,” IEEE Trans. Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 287- 298, February 2009. doi:10.1109/TASL.2008.2009162)

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M. Kotti and F. Paterno, “Speaker-independent emotion recognition exploiting a psychologically-inspired binary cascade classification schema”, International Journal of Speech Technology, DOI: 10.1007/s10772-012-9127-7    
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International Conferences

E. Benetos, M. Kotti, C. Kotropoulos, J. J. Burred, G. Eisenberg, M. Haller, and T. Sikora, “Comparison of subspace analysis-based and statistical model-based algorithms for musical instrument classification”, in Proc. 2nd Workshop Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems, Berlin, Germany, October 2005.

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M. Kotti, E. Benetos, C. Kotropoulos, and L. G. Martins, “Speaker change detection using BIC: A comparison on two datasets”, in Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2006.

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E. Benetos, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Application of non-negative matrix factorization to musical instrument classification”, in Proc. 2nd Int. Symp. Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Marrakech, Morocco, March 2006.

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M. Kotti, E. Benetos, and C. Kotropoulos, “Automatic speaker change detection with the Bayesian information criterion using MPEG-7 features and a fusion scheme”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Island of Kos, Greece, May 2006.

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E. Benetos, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Musical instrument classification using non-negative matrix factorization algorithms”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. Circuits and Systems, Island of Kos, Greece, May 2006.

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E. Benetos, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Musical instrument classification using non-negative matrix factorization and subset feature selection”, in Proc. 31st IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Toulouse, France, May 2006.

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M. Kotti, E. Benetos, C. Kotropoulos, L. G. Martins, and J. Cardoso, “Automatic speaker segmentation using multiple features and distance measures: A comparison on three approaches”, in Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo, Ontario, Canada, July 2006.

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E. Benetos, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Applying supervised classifiers on non-negative matrix factorization to musical instrument classification”, in Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo, Ontario, Canada, July 2006.

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M. Kotti, C. Kotropoulos, B. Ziolko, I. Pitas, and V. Moschou, “A framework for dialogue detection in movies”, in Proc. Int. Workshop Multimedia Content Representation, Classification, and Security, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2006.

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E. Benetos, M. Kotti, and C. Kotropoulos, “Large scale musical instrument identification”, in Proc. 4th Sound and Music Computing Conf., Lefkada, Greece, July 2007.

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M. Kotti, E. Benetos, and C. Kotropoulos, “Neural network-based movie dialogue detection”, in Proc. 10th Int. Conf. Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, Thessaloniki, Greece, August 2007.

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V. Moschou, M. Kotti, E. Benetos, and C. Kotropoulos, “Systematic comparison of BIC-based speaker segmentation systems”, in Proc. 9th Int. Workshop Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, October 2007.

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D. Spachos, A. Zlatintsi, V. Moschou, P. Antonopoulos, E. Benetos, M. Kotti, K. Tzimouli, C. Kotropoulos, N. Nikolaidis, P. Maragos, and I. Pitas, “MUSCLE movie database: A multimodal corpus with rich annotation for dialogue and saliency detection”, in Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Language Resources and Evaluation, Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.

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M. Kotti and C. Kotropoulos, “Gender classification in two emotional speech databases”, in Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Pattern Recognition, Tampa, USA, December 2008.

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M. Kotti, F. Paternò, and C. Kotropoulos, “Speaker-independent negative emotion recognition”, in Proc. 2nd Int. Workshop Cognitive Information Processing, Elba Island, Italy, June 2010.

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K. Diamantaras and M. Kotti, “Binary classification by minimizing the mean squared slack”, in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, Kyoto, Japan, March 2012.

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Invited speaker

Invited speaker in Watson Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Research Workshop 2008, chosen as 1 of the 12 top senior PhD students in multimedia research (worldwide selection), “Efficient and robust audio archive management: A study on speaker segmentation and movie dialogue detection”; IBM Watson research center, October 2008.

Invited speaker by Prof. Gonzalo R. Arce in the Univeristy of Delaware, department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “Audio archive management”, December 2008.

Invited speaker by Dr. Fabio Paternò in the CNR-ISTI, “Introduction to machine learning and its applications to world wide web”, Pisa, Italy, March 2010.