HERON Center of Excellence in Robotics

Project Information

HERON

Grant agreement ID: 101136568

DOI

10.3030/101136568

EC signature date 4 November 2024

Start date 1 January 2025

End date 31 December 2030

Funded under

• Widening participation and spreading excellence

Total cost

€ 15 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 15 000 000,00

Coordinated by

ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS
Greece

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Publications

Conference proceedings (32)

A Transformer-Based Framework for Greek Sign Language Production using Extended Skeletal Motion Representations

Author(s): Chrysa Pratikaki, Panagiotis Paraskevas Filntisis, Athanasios Katsamanis, Anastasios Roussos, Petros Maragos
Published in: Proceedings of the 18th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, 2025
Publisher: ACM
DOI: 10.1145/3733155.3733204

Exploiting Passive Dynamics for Steady-state Walking on Level and Inclined Terrain

Author(s): Anargyros-Nektarios Skafidas, Aikaterini Smyrli, Evangelos Papadopoulos
Published in: Mechanism and Machine Theory Symposium
Publisher: Mechanism and Machine Theory

2D Surgical Tool Pose Estimation via Top-Down Deep Learning and Adaptive Temporal Filtering

Author(s): Alexandros Dimitriadis, Costas Tzafestas and George Moustris
Published in: Proceedings of the Hamlyn Symposium 2026, 2026
Publisher: UK-RAS Network
DOI: 10.31256/HSMR26.57

Uncertainty-Driven Anomaly Detection for Psychotic Relapse Using Smartwatches: Forecasting and Multi-Task Learning Fusion

Author(s): Nikolaos Tsalkitzis, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Maragos, Niki Efthymiou
Published in: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2026
Publisher: European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

Representation-Diverse Self-Supervision for Cross-Domain Bioacoustic Learning in Low-Resource Settings

Author(s): Dimitris N. Makropoulos, Christos Garoufis, Antigoni Tsiami, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Petros Maragos
Published in: ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11461507

Underactuated Virtual Gravity Control: Harnessing Passive Dynamics for Optimally Efficient Bipedal Locomotion

Author(s): Aikaterini Smyrli, Evangelos Papadopoulos
Published in: IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM 2026), 2026
Publisher: IEEE/ASME

Seeing in 2D, Thinking in 3D: 3D Hand Mesh-Guided Feature Learning for Continuous Fingerspelling

Author(s): Katerina Papadimitriou, Panagiotis Filntisis, George Retsinas, Gerasimos Potamianos, Petros Maragos
Published in: International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW)
Publisher: IEEE/CVF

Registration-Free Learnable Multi-View Capture of Faces in Dense Semantic Correspondence

Author(s): Panagiotis P. Filntisis, George Retsinas, Radek Daněček, Vanessa Sklyarova, Petros Maragos, Timo Bolkart
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher: CVF

Safe Shared-Control Teleoperation of UGVs using Bayesian Intention Estimation

Author(s): George Moustris, Ioannis Alamanos
Published in: AIM2026 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics
Publisher: IEEE

Low-Cost Markerless Gait Analysis Using a Minimal Human Model

Author(s): Konstantina Tsintzira, Aikaterini Smyrli, Athanasios Mastrogeorgiou, Evangelos Papadopoulos
Published in: 2025 IEEE 25th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/BIBE66822.2025.00099

Optimal Transport for Handwritten Text Recognition in a Low-Resource Regime

Author(s): Petros Georgoulas Wraight, Giorgos Sfikas, Ioannis Kordonis, Petros Maragos, George Retsinas
Published in: 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2026), Bruges, Belgium, Aug.-Sep. 2026
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2509.16977

Mind the Shape Gap: A Benchmark and Baseline for Deformation-Aware 6D Pose Estimation of Agricultural Produce

Author(s): Nikolas Chatzis, Angeliki Tsinouka, Katerina Papadimitriou, Niki Efthymiou, Marios Glytsos, George Retsinas, Paris Oikonomou, Gerasimos Potamianos, Petros Maragos, Panagiotis Paraskevas Filntisis
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026
Publisher: IEEE/RSJ
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2603.27429

Push, See, Predict: Emergent Perception Through Intrinsically Motivated Play

Author(s): Orestis Konstantaropoulos, Mehdi Khamassi, Petros Maragos, George Retsinas
Published in: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICDL63968.2025.11204356

Improving Classification of Marine Mammal Vocalizations Using Vision Transformers and Phase-Related Features

Author(s): Dimitris N. Makropoulos, Panagiotis P. Filntisis, Aristides Prospathopoulos, Dimitris Kassis, Antigoni Tsiami, Petros Maragos
Published in: 2025 25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DSP65409.2025.11075076

Diffusion-Based Forecasting for Uncertainty-Aware Model Predictive Control

Author(s): Stelios Zarifis, Ioannis Kordonis, Petros Maragos
Published in: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226479

Age-Inclusive 3D Human Mesh Recovery for Action-Preserving Data Anonymization

Author(s): Georgios Chatzichristodoulou, Niki Efthymiou, Panagiotis Filntisis, Georgios Pavlakos, Petros Maragos
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW) Workshop on Computer Vision for Children (CV4CHL), 2025
Publisher: IEEE/CVF

A Multi-Stream Framework Utilizing 3D Human Reconstruction for Cued Speech Recognition

Author(s): Katerina Papadimitriou, Gerasimos Potamianos
Published in: Interspeech 2025, 2025
Publisher: ISCA
DOI: 10.21437/INTERSPEECH.2025-2195

Deep Learning 3D Surgical Tool Pose Estimation using Geometry-Aware Correction

Author(s): Alexandros Dimitriadis, George P. Moustris, Costas Tzafestas
Published in: 15th Conference on New Technologies for Computer and Robot-Assisted Surgery, Leeds, UK, 2026
Publisher: CRAS/University of Leeds 

Diffusion-Based Scenario Tree Generation for Multivariate Time Series Prediction and Multistage Stochastic Optimization

Author(s): Stelios Zarifis, Ioannis Kordonis, Petros Maragos
Published in: 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2026), Bruges, Belgium, Aug.-Sep. 2026
Publisher: EURASIP

Design, Control, and Experimental Verification of Exosuit for Assisting Knee Extension

Author(s): Nikolaos Leventakis, Panagiotis Vartholomeos
Published in: IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, (AIM2026), 2026
Publisher: IEEE

Morphological Intelligence in passive Dynamics: A Design Investigation on Biomechanically-inspired Bipedal Robots

Author(s): Aikaterini Smyrli, Evangelos Papadopoulos
Published in: Mechanism and Machine Theory Symposium
Publisher: Mechanism and Machine Theory

Adaptive Kernel Design for Bayesian Optimization is a Piece of CAKE with LLMs

Author(s): Richard Cornelius Suwandi, Feng Yin, Juntao Wang, Renjie Li, Tsung-Hui Chang, Sergios Theodoridis
Published in: NeurIPS 2025, 2025
Publisher: NEURIPS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2509.17998

Feature-Level Multimodal Fusion for Relapse Detection in Patients with Psychosis

Author(s): Artemis Androni, Christos Garoufis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Maragos
Published in: 2025 25th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/DSP65409.2025.11075191

Sparse Hybrid Linear-Morphological Networks

Author(s): Konstantinos Fotopoulos, Christos Garoufis, Petros Maragos
Published in: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226484

Force-Aware Computational Framework for Contact-Mediated Workspace Augmentation in Robotic Catheters

Author(s): Lydia Gialama, Panagiotis Kalozoumis, Ioannis Balatsoukas, Panagiotis Vartholomeos
Published in: IEEE Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, (AIM2026), 2026
Publisher: IEEE

Conformer-Based Multi-Modal Learning for Cued Speech Recognition from Videos

Author(s): Katerina Papadimitriou, Gerasimos Potamianos
Published in: 2025 33rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), 2025
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.23919/EUSIPCO63237.2025.11226352

Teager-Kaiser Energy Methods for EEG Feature Extraction in Biomedical Applications

Author(s): Ioanna Chourdaki, Kleanthis Avramidis, Christos Garoufis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Maragos
Published in: 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2026), Bruges, Belgium, Aug.-Sep. 2026
Publisher: EURASIP
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2511.17164

Only-Style: Stylistic Consistency in Image Generation without Content Leakage

Author(s): Tilemachos Aravanis, Panagiotis Filntisis, Petros Maragos, George Retsinas
Published in: Personalization in Generative AI (P13N) Workshop
Publisher: CVF

Instance-Level Composed Image Retrieval

Author(s): Bill Psomas, George Retsinas, Nikos Efthymiadis, Panagiotis Filntisis, Yannis Avrithis, Petros Maragos, Ondrej Chum, Giorgos Tolias
Published in: NeurIPS 2025, 2025
Publisher: NeurIPS 2025

PredJSal: Video Saliency via Predictive Self-Supervised Representations

Author(s): Konstantinos Chaldaiopoulos, Niki Efthymiou, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Panagiotis Filntisis, Katerina Pastra, Petros Maragos
Published in: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPRW) 11th New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement Workshop and Challenges
Publisher: IEEE/CVF

GLAM-SLAM: Real-time Gaussian Large-scale Mapping via Flow Densification and Spatial Decomposition

Author(s): Panagiotis Mermigkas, Argyris Manetas, Petros Maragos
Published in: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2026, 2026
Publisher: IEEE/RSJ

Shared-Weights Extender and Gradient Voting for Neural Network Expansion

Author(s): Nikolas Chatzis, Ioannis Kordonis, Emmanouil Theodosis, Petros Maragos
Published in: ICASSP 2026 - 2026 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2026
Publisher: IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP55912.2026.11462494

Peer reviewed articles (2)

CVSM: Contrastive Vocal Similarity Modeling

Author(s): Christos Garoufis, Athanasia Zlatintsi, Petros Maragos
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, Issue 34, 2026, ISSN 2998-4173
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TASLPRO.2026.3677618

When Bayesian Tensor Completion Meets Multioutput Gaussian Processes: Functional Universality and Rank Learning

Author(s): Siyuan Li, Shikai Fang, Lei Cheng, Feng Yin, Yik-Chung Wu, Peter Gerstoft, Sergios Theodoridis
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Issue 73, 2026, ISSN 1053-587X
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
DOI: 10.1109/TSP.2025.3639229