Publications

Thesis

PhD Thesis

d1. Theodoros Kostoulas, "Emotion Recognition from Speech Using Digital Signal Processing and Machine Learning Techniques", Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, Feb. 2012.

Master Thesis

t1. Theodoros Kostoulas, "Usage of IEEE 802.11 and Bluetooth Wireless Network Standards and Development of Telematic Application", Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, Greece, Mar. 2005.

Peer reviewed articles

Journals

j9. Michal Muszynski, Leimin Tian, Catherine Lai, Johanna D. Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences From Multimodal Information”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 2019

j8. George Drosatos, Fotis Nalbadis, Emily Arden-Close, Victoria Baines, Elvira Bolat, Laura Vuillier, Theodoros Kostoulas, Marcin Budka, Sonia Wasowska, Maris Bonello, Jamie Brown, Tessa Corner, John McAlaney, Keith Phalp, and Raian Ali, “Enabling Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Information Systems”, Complex Systems Informatics and Modeling Quarterly (CSIMQ), DOI: 10.7250/csimq.2018-17.03, 2018

j7. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Aesthetic Highlight Detection in Movies Based on Synchronization of Spectators' Reactions”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing Communications and Applications, in press, DOI: 10.1145/3175497, 2018.

j6. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Michal Muszynski, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Films, affective computing and aesthetic experience: Identifying emotional and aesthetic highlights from multimodal signals in a social setting”, Human-Media Interaction, Frontiers ICT, doi:10.3389/fict.2017.00011, 2017

j5. Salomé Tarrega, Ana B Fagundo, Susana Jiménez-Murcia, Roser Granero, Cristina Giner-Bartolome, Laura Forcano, Isabel Sánchez, Juan José Santamaría, Maher B Moussa, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Dimitri Konstantas, Mikkel Lucas, Jeppe Nielsen, Richard G. A. Bults, Tony Lam, Theodoros Kostoulas, et al., "Explicit and Implicit Emotional Expression in Bulimia Nervosa in the Acute State and after Recovery" PLoS ONE 9(7): e101639. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101639, 2014.

j4. Theodoros Kostoulas, Thomas Winkler, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis, Joachim Kohler, "The MoveOn Database: Motorcycle Environment Speech and Noise Database for Command and Control Applications", Language Resources and Evaluation, Vol. 47, Issue 2, DOI: 10.1007/s10579-013-9222-7, pp. 539-563, 2013.

j3. Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Otilia Kocsis, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Katsaounos, Juan J Santamaria, Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Nikos Fakotakis, "Affective Speech Interface in Serious Games for Supporting Therapy of Mental Disorders", Expert Systems with Applications, Vol. 39, Issue 12, DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.067, pp. 11072-11079, 2012.

j2. Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Juan J. Santamaria, Katarina Gunnard, Antonio Soto, Elias Kalapanidas, Richar G. Bults, Costas Davarakis , Todor Ganchev, Roser Granero, Dimitri Konstantas, Theodoros Kostoulas, et al., "Video games as a complementary tool in mental disorders: Playmancer a european multicenter study", Journal of Mental Health, accepted, DOI: 10.3109/ 09638237.2012.664302, 2012.

j1. Alexandros Lazaridis, Todor Ganchev, Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Phone Duration Modeling: Overview of Techniques and Performance Optimization via Feature Selection in the context of Emotional Speech", International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 13, no.3, Springer, pp. 175-188, 2010.

Conferences

c24. Christos Iliou, Theodoros Kostoulas, Theodors Tsikrika, Vasilis Katos, Stefanos Vrochidis, Yiannis Kompatsiaris, “Towards a framework for detecting advanced Web bots”, International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2019, ACM, 2019

c23. Constantinos Marios Angelopoulos, Vasilios Katos, Theodoros Kostoulas, Andreas Miaoudakis, Nikolaos Petroulakis, George Alexandris, Giorgos Demetriou, Giuditta Morandi, Urszula Rak, Karolina Walędzik, Marios Panayiotou and Christos Iraklis Tsatsoulis, “IDEAL-CITIES – A Trustworthy and Sustainable Framework for Circular Smart Cities”, 1st International Workshop on Smart Circular Economy (SMACE 20019), International Conference on Distributed Computing in Sensor Systems (DCOSS 2019), IEEE, 2019

c22. Ifigeneia Mavridou, Ellen Seiss, Theodoros Kostoulas, Charles Nduka, Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Towards an Effective Arousal Detection System for Virtual Reality, Human-Habitat for Health (H3) Workshop: Human-habitat multimodal interaction for promoting health and well-being in the Internet of Things era, ICMI 2018, ACM, 2018

c21. George Drosatos, Fotis Nalbadis, Emily Arden-Close, Victoria Baines, Elvira Bolat, Laura Vuillier, Theodoros Kostoulas, Sonia Wasowska, Maris Bonello, Jane Palles, John McAlaney, Keith Phalp and Raian Ali, “Empowering Responsible Online Gambling by Real-time Persuasive Information Systems”, IEEE 12th International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science, RCIS 2018, IEEE, 2018

c20. Leimin Tian, Michal Muszynski, Catherine Lai, Johanna D. Moore, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Recognizing Induced Emotions of Movie Audiences: Are Induced and Perceived Emotions the Same?”, 7th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII2017), (Best Paper Nominnee), 2017

c19. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Synchronization among groups of spectators for highlight detection in movies”, ACM Multimedia 2016, ACM, 2016.

c18. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Michal Muszynski, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Dynamic time warping of multimodal signals for detecting highlights in movies”, 1st Workshop on modeling interpersonal synchrony and influence, ICMI 2015, ACM, 2015.

c17. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Spectators' Synchronization Detection based on Manifold Representation of Physiological Signals: Application to movie highlights detection”, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2015, ACM, 2015.

c18. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Michal Muszynski, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Dynamic time warping of multimodal signals for detecting highlights in movies”, 1st Workshop on modeling interpersonal synchrony and influence, ICMI 2015, ACM, 2015.

c17. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Spectators' Synchronization Detection based on Manifold Representation of Physiological Signals: Application to movie highlights detection”, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2015, ACM, 2015.

c16. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Michal Muszynski, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Identifying aesthetic highlights in movies from clustering of physiological and behavioral signals”, 7th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, IEEE, 2015

c15. Nikos Katsaounos, Iosif Mporas, Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis, "Voice Portal for the University of Patras", Proceedings of Acoustics 2010, Athens, Greece, October 4-6, 2010.

c14. Theodoros Kostoulas, Otilia Kocsis, Todor Ganchev, F. Fernandez-Aranda, J. J. Santamaria, S. Jimenez-Murcia, M. B. Moussa, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, Nikos Fakotakis, "The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environment", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, Malta, May 19-21, pp. 3011-3015, 2010.

c13. Alexandros Lazaridis, Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, "VERGINA: A modern Greek speech database for speech synthesis", Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2010, Malta, May 19-21, pp. 117-121, 2010.

c12. Otilia Kocsis, Elias Kalapanidas, Fernando Fernandez-Aranda, Tony Lam, Todor Ganchev, Susana Jimenez-Murcia, Thierry. Raguin, Juan J. Santamaria, Theodoros Kostoulas, Nikos Katsaounos, "Serious videogames as therapeutical tool for mental disorders: enhanced human computer interaction in PlayMancer", Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2009.

c11. Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Theodoros Kostoulas, Katia Kermanidis, Nikos Fakotakis, "Automatic Speech Recognition System for Home Appliances Control", In Proceedings of the 13th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2009, Corfu, Greece, pp 114-117, 2009.

c10. Alexandros Lazaridis, Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Katsaounos, Stavros Ntalampiras, Nikos Fakotakis, "Human Evaluation of the LOGOS Multimodal Dialogue System", Proceedings of the 1st International International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, Athens, Greece, 15-19 July, 2008.

c9. Thomas Winkler, Theodoros Kostoulas, Richard Adderley, Christian Bonkowski, Todor Ganchev, Joachim Kohler, Nikos Fakotakis, "The MoveOn Motorcycle Speech Corpus", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, Marrakech (Morocco), 28-30 May, pp. 2201-2205, 2008.

c8. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, "A Real-World Emotional Speech Corpus for Modern Greek", Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008, Marrakech (Morocco), 28-30 May, pp. 2676-2680, 2008.

c7. Todor Ganchev, Otilia Kocsis, Nikos Katsaounos, Iosif Mporas, Alexandros Lazaridis, Theodoros Kostoulas, Stavros Ntalampiras, Dimitrios Lyras, Georgios Papadopoulos, Kyriakos Sgarbas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Natural Spoken Dialogue Interaction: Technology, Tools, Resources and Applications", System Demonstrations, Proccedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, July 2008, pp. 33-34, 2008.

c6. cIosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, M Michalis Siafarikas, Theodoros Kostoulas, "Comparative Evaluation of Speech Parameterizations for Speech Recognition", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2007, Patras, Greece, 29-31 October, 2007, pp. 510-513, 2007.

c5. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Detection of Negative Emotional States in Real-World Scenario", Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, ICTAI 2007, Patras, Greece, 29-31 October, 2007, pp.502–509, 2007.

c4. Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Emotion Recognition in Noise Environments", Proceedings of Acoustics 2006, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 18-19, pp. 97-104, 2006.

c3. Panagiotis Zervas, Theodoros Kostoulas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Evaluation of a Greek Prosody Speech Corpus for Emotion Recognition", Proceedings of Acoustics 2006, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, September 18-19, pp. 77-82, 2006.

c2. Theodoros Kostoulas, Nikos Fakotakis: A Speaker Dependent Emotion Recognition Framework, Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2006, 19-21 July, 2006, Patras, Greece, pp. 305-309, 2006.

c1. Georgios Triantafyllou, Theodoros Kostoulas, Lamprini Kolovou, Evy Karavatselou, Michael Koukias, Dimitrios Lymperopoulos, "Web Access to Hospital Medical Data using Wireless Networks", Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing, CSNDSP 2006, 19-21 July, 2006, Patras, Greece, pp. 237-240, 2006.

Contributions to books

b8. Majid Altuwairiqi, Theodoros Kostoulas, Georgina Powell, Raian Ali, “Problematic Attachment to Social Media: Lived Experience and Emotions”, La Toja Island, Spain, Springer AISC Series, 2019

b7. Manal Aldhayan, Sainabou Cham, Theodoros Kostoulas, Mohamed Basel Al-mourad, Raian Ali, “Online Peer Support Groupsto Combat Digital Addiction: User Acceptance and Rejection Factors”, La Toja Island, Spain, Springer AISC Series, 2019

b6. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis, "Affect recognition in real life scenarios", COST2102 International Training School on Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Caserta, Italy, March 15-19, pp. 429-435, 2010.

b5. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Alexandros Lazaridis, Nikos Fakotakis, "Enhancing Emotion Recognition from Speech through Feature Selection", Text Speech and Dialogue 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 338-344, 2010.

b4. Alexandros Lazaridis, Todor Ganchev, Iosif Mporas, Theodoros Kostoulas, Nikos Fakotakis, "Feature Selection for Improved Phone Duration Modeling of Greek Emotional Speech", SETN 2010, Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models and Applications, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, pp. 357 - 362, 2010.

b3. Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Katsaounos, Alexandros Lazaridis, Stavros Ntalampiras, Nikos Fakotakis, "LOGOS: A Multimodal Dialogue System for Controlling Smart Appliances", KES-IIMSS-2008, New Directions in Intelligent Interactive Multimedia, Piraeus, Greece, pp. 585-594, 2008.

b2. Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis, "The Effect of Emotional Speech on a Smart-Home Application", IEA/AIE, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Berlin/ Heidelberg, Volume 5027/2008, pp. 305-310, 2008.

b1. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis, "Study on speaker-independent emotion recognition from speech on real-world data", COST2102 Workshop, Partas, Greece, Oct.29-31, 2007. Revised papers published in LNAI vol.5042, (Eds. A. Esposito, N. Bourbakis, N. Avouris, I. Hatzilygeroudis), ISBN 978-3-540-70871-1, Springer, pp.235-242, 2008.

Other relevant publications

Other Conferences

o12. Ifigeneia Mavridou, Maya Perry, Ellen Seiss, Theodoros Kostoulas, Mahyar Hamedi, Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Charles Nduka, “Introducing the EmteqVR Interface for Affect detection in Virtual Reality, Laval Virtual ConVRgence”, 8th International Conference on. Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2019), Cambridge, September 2019, IEEE, 2019

o11. Ifigeneia Mavridou, Maya Perry, Ellen Seiss, Emili Balaguer-Ballester and Theodoros Kostoulas, Emerging Affect Detection Methodologies in VR and future directions, Laval Virtual ConVRgence, VRIC 2019, Laval, France, March 2019, 2019

o10. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Film Aesthetic Experience”, Annual Research Forum, February 7-8, 2019, Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2019.

o9. Ifigeneia Mavridou, Ellen Seiss, Theodoros Kostoulas, Emili Balaguer-Ballester, Charles Nduka, A System Architecture for Emotion Detection in Virtual Reality, EuroVR 2018, London, 22-23 October 2018, 2018

o8. George Drosatos, Fotis Nalbadis, Victoria Baines, Elvira Bolat, Laura Vuillier, Theodoros Kostoulas, Emily Arden-Close, John McAlaney, Keith Phalp and Raian Ali, “A conceptual architecture for empowering responsible online gambling with predictive, real-time, persuasive and interactive intervention”, The 13th International Conference on Persuasive Technology (Persuasive’18) – Poster Track. April 16 – 19, 2018. Waterloo, Canada.

o7. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Film, Aesthetics and Emotions – interdisciplinary studies”, Annual Research Forum, February 7, 2018, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2017.

o6. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Patrizia Lombardo, Thierry Pun and Guillaume Chanel, “Evaluation of Synchronization Measures for Aesthetic Highlight Detection in Movies”, NCCR Affective Sciences ‐ International Conference on Emotions, May 18-19, 2017, Swiss Center for Affective Sciences, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland, 2017.

o5. Michal Muszynski, Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, “Spectators' Synchronization Detection based on Manifold Representation of Physiological Signals: Application to movie highlights detection”, 17th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, BBL/CIBM Research day, Sept. 28, 2015, Brain-and-Behavior Laboratory, Univ. of Geneva, Switzerland (poster). Also at: Inauguration of the Swiss Doctoral School in Affective Sciences, September 15, 2015, University of Geneva, Campus Biotech, Geneva, Switzerland.

o4. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Michal Muszynski, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, "Identifying aesthetic highlights in movies from physiological and behavioral synchronization", ISRE 2015, July 7-11, 2015, Geneva, Switzerland, 2015.

o3. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, "Film, Emotions, and Affective Computing: Detecting aesthetic highlights in movies based on physiological and behavioral signals of spectators", ARF 2014, Feb. 14-15, 2014, Geneva, Switzerland.

o2. Theodoros Kostoulas, Guillaume Chanel, Sophie Jarlier, Patrizia Lombardo and Thierry Pun, "Detecting aesthetic highlight in movies based on physiological and behavioral coupling of spectators: a pilot study", Swiss Nat. Center of Competence NCCR IM2, Final Event, Oct. 17-18, 2013, Lausanne, Switzerland.

01. Theodoros Kostoulas, Todor Ganchev, Nikos Fakotakis: Study on speech parameterization for emotion recognition, presentation at the International School E.R. Caianiello XIII Course on Multimodal Signals: Cognitive and Algorithmic Issues, 21 - 26 April 2008 - Vietri sul Mare (Sa) – ITALY.

Technical reports

r13. Charalampos Tsimpouris, Theodoros Kostoulas, Olaf Jahn, Peter Grobe, Klaus Riede, , "The Amibio Database: Management tool & interface ", Amibio (LIFE08 NAT/GR/539), Newsletter, 8th issue, April 2012.

r12. Todor Ganchev, Konstantinos Birkos, Ilias Potamitis, Iosif Mporas and Theodoros Kostoulas, "Hymettus Ears: The Amibio Monitoring Stations", Amibio (LIFE08 NAT/GR/539), Newsletter, 8th issue, April 2012.

r11. Olaf Jahn, Klaus Riede, Peter Grobe, G.U.C. Lehmann, U. Marckmann, K.-L. Schuchmann, R. van den Elzen, A. Weller, Theodoros Kostoulas and Stavros Ntalampiras, "From baseline data to improved habitat management —Amibio furthers biodiversity conservation in the hymettus mountains", Amibio (LIFE08 NAT/GR/539), Newsletter, 8th issue, April 2012.

r10. Iosif Mporas, Todor Ganchev, Theodoros Kostoulas, Ilias Kotinas, Ilias Potamitis, Tsenka Stoyanova , et al., "Deliverable A.7: Development of the software framework for data collection report", Amibio LIFE08 NAT/GR/539 report, 2011

r9. Olaf Jahn, Klaus Riede, Todor Ganchev, Peter Grobe, Otilia Kocsis, Theodoros Kostoulas, et al., "Development of data repository and appropriate database management tools", Amibio LIFE08 NAT/GR/539 report, 2011

r8. Stavros Ntalampiras, Theodoros Kostoulas, Tsenka Stoyanova, Ilias Potamitis, Olaf Jahn, Basilis Nomikos, et al., "Deliverable D2: Requirements analysis and specification of technology design aspects", Amibio LIFE08 NAT/GR/539 report, 2011

r7. Todor Ganchev, Konstantinos Birkos, Tsenka Stoyanova, Theodoros Kostoulas, I. Potamitis, Olaf Jahn, Klaus Riede, "Deliverable A.5: Development of data acquisition module for the sensor nodes", Amibio LIFE08 NAT/GR/539 report, 2011

r6. Olaf Jahn, Renate van den Elzen, Theodoros Kostoulas, Ann-Sybil Kuckuk, Gerlind Lehmann, et al., "Grundlagenrbeit fur die automatisierte biodiversitatserfassung: Die rolle des ZFMK im Amibio-Projekt", Amibio (LIFE08 NAT/GR/539), Newsletter, 1st German Version, June 2011

r5. Otilia Kocsis, Nikos Katsaounos, Theodoros Kostoulas, Georgios Papadopoulos et al., "Deliverable D3.3: Final Playmancer 3D dialogue-enabled game engine prototype", FP7 Playmancer No:215839, July 2011.

r4. Olaf Jahn, Klaus. Riede, V. Eschen, K.-L. Schuchmann, R. van den Elzen, and Theodoros Kostoulas, "Bridging the gap between human expertise and artificial intelligence", Amibio (LIFE08 NAT/GR/539), Newsletter, 4th Issue, April 2011.

r3. Otilia Kocsis, Nikos Katsaounos, Theodoros Kostoulas, Georgios Papadopoulos et al., "Deliverable D3.2: Final Playmancer 3D dialogue-enabled game engine prototype", FP7 Playmancer No:215839, June 2010.

r2. Otilia Kocsis, Nikos Katsaounos, Theodoros Kostoulas, Georgios Papadopoulos et al., "Deliverable D3.1: Transition from functional to technical requirements and optimised architecture specification of an affective game platform", FP7 Playmancer No:215839, June 2008.

r1. Thomas Winkler, Todor Ganchev, Theodoros Kostoulas, Iosif Mporas, Alexandros Lazaridis, Stavros Ntalampiras, et al., "Deliverable D.5: Report on Audio databases, Noise processing environment, ASR and TTS modules", IST-2005-034753 MoveOn, December 2007.