Publications

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS

R. Rzeszutek, D. Androutsos, M. Kyan, “Self-Organizing Maps for Topic Trend Discovery“, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 17, No. 6, pp. 607-610. June 2010.

R. Rzeszutek, T. El-Maraghi, D. Androutsos, S. Zhou, "Interactive Rotoscoping Through CUDA", IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 27(2), March 2010.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Content-Based Retrieval of Logos and Trademarks in Unconstrained Color Image Databases using Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 114(1), Jan. 2010.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Robust Affine Invariant Region-based Shape Descriptors: the ICA Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor and the Whitening Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor", IEEE Signal Processing Letters, 16(10), October 2009.

T.K. Tsui, X-P. Zhang, D. Androutsos, `Color Image Watermarking using Multidimensional Fourier Transforms’, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, March 2008.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A Distributed Fault-Tolerant MPEG-7 Retrieval Scheme based on Small World Theory,’ IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 8, no. 2, April 2006.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Small World Distributed Access to Multimedia Data,’ IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 23(2), pp. 142-153, March 2006.

D. Androutsos, L. Guan, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Semantic Retrieval of Multimedia,’ IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 23(2), pp.14-16, March 2006.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Adaptive fuzzy systems for Multichannel signal processing,' IEEE Proceedings, vol. 87, no. 9, September 1999.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A novel vector-based approach to color image retrieval using a vector angular-based distance measure,' Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 75, nos. 1/2, pp. 46-58, July/August 1999.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Color image processing using adaptive vector directional filters', IEEE Trans on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing, vol. 45, no. 10, October 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos,`Directional Detail Histogram for Image Retrieval', Electronics Letters, November, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Color image filters: the vector directional approach', Optical Engineering, vol. 36, no. 9, September 1997

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Content-based colour image filters', Electronic Letters, vol. 33, no. 3, pp. 202-203, 1997.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Application of active contours for photochromic tracer flow extraction', IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, vol. 16, no. 3, June 1997

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Nonlinear filtering of non-Gaussian noise', Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, vol. 19, pp. 207-231, 1997

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, S. Vinayagamoorthy, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Color Image Processing using Adaptive Multichannel Filters', IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol.6, no.7, pp. 933-949, Sept. 1996

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multichannel Filters for Image Processing', Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 143-158, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Fuzzy adaptive filters for multichannel image processing', Signal Processing, vol. 55, no. 1, pp. 93-106, 1996.

S. Vinayagamoorthy, K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A multichannel filter for TV signal processing', IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 42, no. 2, pp. 199-206, May 1996

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Adaptive multichannel filters for colour image processing', Signal Processing: Image Communications, vol. 11, no.3, January 1998.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, S. Vinayagamoorthy, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `An adaptive nearest neighbor multichannel filter', IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol.6, no.6, December 1996

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `An adaptive multichannel filter for colour image processing', Canadian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering, vol. 24, no. 4, December 1996

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, D.G. Lainiotis, `A new time series classification approach', Signal Processing, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 191-199, 1996

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, V. Sri, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A Nearest neighbour multichannel filter,' Electronic Letters, pp. 1910-1911, October 1995

BOOK CONTRIBUTIONS

K.N. Plataniotis, S. Vinayagamoorthy, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multichannel Filters in Television Image Processing', Time-Varying Image Processing and Moving Object Recognition III, Edited by V. Cappellini, Elsevier Science, 1997.

PAPERS PUBLISHED IN REFEREED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

R. Phan, R. Rzeszutek, D. Androutsos, “Semi-Automatic 2D to 3D Image Conversion Using Scale-Space  Random Walks and a Graph Cubts Based Depth Prior”, accepted to appear in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, September 2011.

R. Rzeszutek, R. Phan, D. Androutsos, “Semi-automatic Synthetic Depth Map Generation For Video Using Random Walks “, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Barcelona, July 2011.

K. Illanko, A. Anpalagan, D. Androutsos, “Convex Structure of the Sum Rate on the Boundary of the Feasible Set for Coexisting Radios”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, June 2011.

K. Illanko, A. Anpalagan, D. Androutsos, “Stackelberg Game on the Boundary of Coexistence”, IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), Kyoto, June 2011.

R. Phan, R. Rzeszutek, D. Androutsos, “Semi-Automatic 2D to 3D Image Conversion Using A Hybrid Random Walks and Graph Cuts Based Approach”, IEEE International Conference on Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, May 2011.

A.S. Babalis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, D. Androutsos, “Investigation on the Effect of Three-Dimensional Smoothing on Stereoscopic Images, International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, Corfu, July 2011.

A.S. Babalis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, D. Androutsos, “Smoothing of Stereoscopic Images For Artistic Imaging Applications”, Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts, May 2011.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, “Interactive Video Growcut: A Semi-Automated Video Object Segmentation Framework Using Cellular Automata”, IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), Niagara Falls, May 2011.

N. Fdhal, M. Kyan, D. Androutsos, A. Sharma, "Color Space Transformation from RGB to CIELAB using Neural Networks", IEEE 2009 Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Bangkok, Thailand, December 15-18, 2009.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Robust Affine Invariant Shape Image Retrieval using the ICA Zernike Moment Shape Descriptor", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Cairo, Nov. 7-11, 2009.

K. Illanko, A. Anpalagan, D. Androutsos, "A fair and optimal distributed power allocation algorithm for radios operating in unlicensed bands", IEEE International Conference on Communications, June 2010 .

K. Illanko, K. Raahemifar, A. Anpalagan, D. Androutsos, "Sub-channel and power allocation for multiuser OFDM with rate constraints using genetic algorithm", IEEE PacRim Conference on Communications, Computers and Signal Processing, July 2009.

K. Illanko, A. Anpalagan, D. Androutsos, "Adaptive demodulation using Raptor codes: analytical results and extension to fading channels", 11th Canadian Workshop on Infor. Theory, May 2009.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "PCA-Whitening CSS Shape Descriptor for Affine Invariant Image Retrieval", IEEE Canadian Conf. on Electrical and Comp. Engineering (CCECE), St. John's, Canada, May 2009.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Colour Logo and Trademark Retrieval and Tracking in Unconstrained Image Sequences using Colour Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), St. John's, Canada, 2009.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Content-Based Unconstrained Logo and Trademark Retrieval in Color Image Databases using Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Santorini, Greece, 2009.

R. Rzeszutek, T. El-Maraghi, D. Androutsos, "Scale-Space Random Walks", IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), St. John's, Canada, 2009.

R. Rzeszutek, T. El-Maraghi, D. Androutsos, "Interactive Rotoscoping Through Scale-Space Random Walks", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), New York, 2009.

R. Rzeszutek, T. El-Maraghi, D. Androutsos, "Image Segmentation Using Scale-Space Random Walks", International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), Santorini, Greece, 2009.

R. Phan, J. Chia, D. Androutsos, "Unconstrained Logo and Trademark Retrieval in General Color Image Databases using Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", accepted to appear in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 30 - April 4, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2008.

A. Hesson, D. Androutsos, " Logo and Trademark Detection in Images using Color Wavelet Co-occurrence Histograms", accepted to appear in Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), March 30 - April 4, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 2008.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Content-Based Unconstrained Color Logo and Trademark Retrieval with Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", accepted to appear in International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) - Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II (Part of Electronic Imaging at Photonics West), January 26-31, San José, California, USA, 2008.

A. Hesson, D. Androutsos, "Logo Detection Using Wavelet Co-occurrence Histograms", accepted to appear in International Society for Optical Engineering (SPIE) - Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems II (Part of Electronic Imaging at Photonics West), January 26-31, San José, California USA, 2008.

A. Hesson, D. Androutsos, "Indexing and Retrieval of Compound Color Objects Using Co-occurrence Histograms of Color and Wavelets Features", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 12 - 15, San Diego, California, USA, 2008.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Wavelet-based Color Texture Retrieval using the Independent Component Color Space", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), October 12 - 15, San Diego, California, USA, 2008.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Color Texture Retrieval using Wavelet Decomposition on the Hue-Saturation Plane", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), June 23 - 26, Hanover, Germany, 2008.

A. Hesson, D. Androutsos, " Logo Classification Using Haar Wavelet Co-occurrence Histograms", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4 - 7, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

Y. Mei, D. Androutsos, "Color Texture Retrieval Using Wavelet Decomposition in the Independent Components Color Space", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4 - 7, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

R. Phan, J. Chia, D. Androutsos, "Colour Logo and Trademark Detection in Unconstrained Images using Colour Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4 - 7, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

R. Rzeszutek, D. Androutsos, "Realistic Real-Time Water Effects in 2D Images", Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) - Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE), May 4 - 7, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, 2008.

R. Phan, D. Androutsos, "Logo and Trademark Retrieval in General Image Databases using Color Edge Gradient Co-occurrence Histograms", Springer Science - International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), August 22-24, Montréal, Québec, Canada, 2007.

T. K. Tsui, X-P Zhang, D. Androutsos, `Quaternion Image Watermarking using the Spatio-Chromatic Fourier Coefficients Analysis,’  ACM Multimedia 2006, Santa Barbara, October 23-27, 2006.

T. K. Tsui, X-P Zhang, D. Androutsos, 'Color Image Watermarking using the Spatio-Chromatic Fourier Transform,' ICASSP 2006, Toulouse, France, May 14-19 2006.

J. Zhou, C. Ding, D. Androutsos, `Improving Web Site Search Using Web Server Logs,’ 16th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (CASCON 2006),  Toronto, October 16-19, 2006.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, and A. N. Venetsanopoulos, “Graceful Image Retrieval Performance Degradation Using Small World Distributed Indexing,”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP-2005, Genova, Italy,  September, 2005

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, and A.N Venetsanopoulos, "Multimedia Image Retrieval", Proceedings of the 5th WSES/IEEE World Multiconference on Circuits, Systems, Communication and Computers (CSCC2001), Rethymnon, Crete, July 8-15, 2001.

A.N. Venetsanopoulos, K.N. Plataniotis, P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, "Image Retrieval: Present Results and Future Trends", Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Communications and Control (COMCON8), Rethymnon, Crete, June 25-29, 2001.

P. Androutsos, D. Ferrari, A. Ly, A. Persaud, D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, “Shape and spatial color information extraction for image retrieval ,“Proc. SPIE Vol. 4299, p. 486-493, Human Vision and Electronic Imaging VI, San Jose, USA, January 2001.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A perceptually motivated technique to Query-by-Example using color cardinality,' Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems IV, Boston, USA, September 19-22, 1999.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Excluding Specified Colors From Image Queries Using a Multidimensional Query Space,' Third International Conference on Visual Information Systems '99, Holland, Amsterdam, June 1999.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A Vector Angular Distance Measure for Indexing and Retrieval of Color,' Storage & Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VII, SPIE-3656, pp. 604-613, San Jose, USA, 1999.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Efficient color image indexing and retrieval using a vector-based scheme', 1998 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, pp. 15-20, Los Angeles, USA, December 7-9, 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A vector-based approach to color image retrieval', Multimedia Storage and Archiving Systems III, SPIE-3527, pp. 497-504, Boston, MA, 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Distance Measures for Color Image Retrieval', ICIP '98, Vol. 2, pp. 770-774, Chicago, Illinois, October 4-7, 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Image region extraction for content-based retrieval,' IX European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO-98, Vol. III, pp. 1733-1736, Rhodes, Greece, September 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Extraction of detailed image regions for content-based image retrieval', ICASSP '98, Vol. VI, pp. 3713-3716, Seattle, Washington, May 12-15, 1998.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos,`Color edge detectors: a subjective analysis', Nonlinear Image Processing IX, SPIE-3304, pp. 260-267, San Jose, CA, 24-30 January 1998.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Processing color images using vector directional filters: extensions and new results,' Nonlinear Image Processing IX, SPIE-3304, pp. 268-276, San Jose, CA, January 1998.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Image retrieval using the directional detail histogram', Storage and Retrieval for Image and Video Databases VI, SPIE-3312, pp. 129-139, San Jose, CA, January 24-30, 1998.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Adaptive neural estimators', 1997 Canadian Workshop on Information Theory, Toronto, Canada, June 1997.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Subjective analysis of edge detectors in color image processing', 9th International Conference ICIAP'97, vol.1, pp. 119-126, September 1997.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Directional detail histogram for content-based image retrieval', DSP '97, vol. 1, pp. 225-228, Santorini, Greece, July 1997.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Efficient image database filtering using colour vector techniques', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'97, pp. 827-830, 1997.

P. Androutsos, D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Colour edge detectors: an overview and comparison', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'97, pp. 607-610, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multichannel filters in television image processing', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'97, pp. 688-691, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A novel distance criterion for vector processing filters', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'97, pp. 102-105, 1997.

D. Androutsos, T.V. Cooklev, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multifilter banks and multiwavelets for multispectral image compression,’ World Congress of Nonlinear Analysts, Athens, July 1996

T.V. Cooklev, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multichannel filter banks and multiwavelet bases: theory and applications' Canadian Applied Math Society CAMS'96 Wavelet Symposium, Montreal, Canada, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Vector directional filters: an overview', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'97, pp. 106-109, 1997.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A new time series classification approach', International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing ICASSP 1997, April 21-24, 1997

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Nearest neighbour multichannel filters for image processing', EUSIPCO'96 Conference, vol. I, pp. 157-161, Trieste, Italy, September 1996.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Fuzzy filters for colour image processing', Symposium on Robotics and Cybernetics CESA'96, pp. 761-764, Lille, France, July 1996.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `A new nonlinear multichannel filter', Symposium on Control, Optimization and Supervision CESA'96, vol. 2, pp. 765-767, Lille, France, July 1996.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Multichannel filtering for color image processing', IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-96, Lausanne, Switzerland, pp. 993-997, 1996.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Adaptive multichannel filters for color image processing', Visual Communications Image Processing Conference, SPIE vol. 2727, Part III, pp. 1270-1279, Orlando, USA, March 1996.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Fuzzy vector filters using novel distance criteria', Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering CCECE'95, Montreal Canada, pp. 941-945, September 1995.

K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Colour image processing using fuzzy vector directional filters', 1995 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, pp. 535-538, Neos Marmaras, Greece, June 1995.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Extraction of photochromic flow traces using active contours', 1995 IEEE Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, pp. 154-157, Neos Marmaras, Greece, June 1995.

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Colour image processing using fuzzy vector rank filters', Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 614-619, Limassol, Cyprus, June 1995.

D. Androutsos, P.E. Trahanias, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Automated photochromic tracer flow extraction', International Conference on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, vol. 1, pp. 38-42, Nicosia, Cyprus, May 1994.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS/PRESENTATIONS

D. Androutsos, K.N. Plataniotis, A.N. Venetsanopoulos, `Fuzzy filters for colour image processing', ITRC-TRIO Researcher Retreat, Kingston Ontario, May 1995

MAGAZINE ARTICLES

A.N. Venetsanopoulos, K.N. Plataniotis, D. Androutsos, `Adaptive fuzzy filters for color image processing', SPIE/IS&T Electronic Imaging Newsletter, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 8-9, July 1995.

THESES

D. Androutsos, `Efficient Indexing and Retrieval of Colour Image Data Using a Vector-Based Approach’, Ph.D Dissertation, University of Toronto, 1999.

D. Androutsos, `Photochromic Tracer Flow Extraction via Active Contours’, M.A.Sc Thesis, University of Toronto, 1994.

D. Androutsos, `Colour Edge Detection’, B.A.Sc Thesis, University of Toronto, 1992.