Bakamidis, Stylianos
PROFILE

Stylianos Bakamidis

Personal Information

Position: Research Director
Phone or fax: +30 210 6875401

Areas of interest

  • Speech and language processing
  • Pattern recognition
  • Spectral estimation

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Stelios Bakamidis received his M.S. degree in Electrical Eng. from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1982 (diploma thesis title: “Minimum variance deconvolution of seismic signals”), the MSc degree in Electronics (thesis title: “The Effects of Band-Limiting and Hard-Limiting in Various Modulation Schemes”) from the Kings and Chelsea Colleges of the University of London in 1985 and the Ph.D. degree (dissertation title: “Speech Synthesis by Rules for Greek”) from the National Technical University of Athens in 1988. From 1986 until 1988 he worked as a teaching assistant at the National Technical University of Athens. From 1989 until 1992 he worked in the private sector. He is researcher A’ and Head of the Voice and Sound Technology Department of the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP).

His research interests are in speech and language processing, pattern recognition and spectral estimation and he has about 60 publications in scientific journals, conferences, books and patents in these fields. Also, he has participated in more than 30 national and EU research projects.

Publications

  • Dologlou, I. & Bakamidis, S. (2017). Phonetic Search in Audio and Video Recordings. Digital Humanities, 12. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I., Evmorfia N Argyriou & Antonis Symvonis. (2014). Making assistive reading tools user friendly: a new platform for Greek dyslexic students empowered by automatic speech recognition. Multimedia tools and applications, 68(3), 681-699. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I. & Bakamidis, S. (2014). Multiresolution image compression using non linear transformations. In Proceedings of IPCV 2014, pages 407-411. Las Vegas, USA. [...] 
  • Fotinea, S., Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S. & Athanaselis, T. (2012). Decimative Spectral Estimation with Unconstrained Model Order. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine, 2012. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2011). Performance Evaluation of a novel technique for word order errors correction applied to non native English speakers' corpus. Lecture Notes in Computer Science series edited by Springer (CICLing 2011). [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2011). A Corpus Based Technique For Repairing Ill-Formed Sentences With Word Order Errors Using Co-Occurences Of N-Grams. International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2010). Enhancing Speech Recognition performance in the presence of MRI scanner noise. International Journal of Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), 3(3), 179-187. [...] 
  • Guimaraes, R., Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2010). A vocal user Interface Plug-in for jMRUI. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Imaging systems and techniques (IST 2010), pages 384-388. thessaloniki, Greece. [...] 
  • Vlahou, E., Billis, A., Konstantinidis, E., Mouzakidis, C., Kolassa, I., Schlee, W. et al. (2010). Cognitive and physical training for senior citizens. In Πρακτικά του συνεδρίου "Serious Games, Education and Economic Development (SGEED 2010). Ιωάννινα. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2009). Reducing the cocktail party effect prior to Automatic Speech recognition. In Proceedings of the 13-th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pages 360-363. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2009). Impact of MRI scanner noise on Speech Recognition confidence score. In Proceedings of the 4rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2008). Sentence-level Evaluation Using Co-occurences of N-grams. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin/Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Giannopoulos, G., Dologlou, I. & Fotinea, S. (2008). Robust Speech Recognition in the presence of noise using medical data. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Imaging systems and techniques (IST), pages 349-353. Chania, Greece. [...] 
  • Kalimeris, C. & Bakamidis, S. (2008). MORPHEMIA: A Semi-supervised Algorithm for the Segmentation of Modern Greek Words into Morphemes. In Proceedings of the 2nd ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Experimental Linguistics 2008 (ExLing2008), pages 70-73. Athens, Greece. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Mamouras, K., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). User Evaluation of a novel technique for word-order error correction. In Proceedings of the 3rd Language & Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics. Poznan, Poland. [...] 
  • Kalimeris, C. & Bakamidis, S. (2007). Minimal Pairs and Functional Loads of Sound Contrasts Obtained from a List of Modern Greek Words. In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), pages 998-1001. Antwerp, Belgium. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). Evaluating ASR confidence score performance in different noisy conditions. In Proceedings of the 12-th International Conference Speech and Computer (SPECOM), pages 207-211. Moscow. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2007). A novel technique for words reordering based on n-grams. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Signal Processing and its Applications in conjunction with the International Conference on Information Sciences, Signal Processing and its Applications. Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). [...] 
  • Nottas, M., Alexandris, C., Tsopanoglou, A. & Bakamidis, S. (2007). A Hybrid Approach to Dialog Input in the CitzenShield Dialog System for Consumer Complaints. In Proceedings of HCI 2007. Beijing China. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Recognising verbal content of emotionally coloured speech. In Proceedings of the 14th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO). Florence, Italy. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Words Reordering based on Statistical Language Model. In Proceedings of the Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, pages 270-273. Vienna, Austria. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Recognising Verbal Content of Emotionally Coloured Speech. In Proceedings of the Transactions on Engineering, Computing and Technology, pages 274-277. Vienna, Austria. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). Impact of the cocktail party effect on the confidence accuracy of emotional speech recogniser. In Proceedings of the 18th BeNeLux Conference on Artificial Intelligence , (BNAIC). Namour, Belgium. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). An automatic method for revising ill-formed sentences based on N-grams. In Proceedings of the 3rd International conference on Speech Prosody, pages 370-373. Dresden, Germany. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A Statistical Method for Correcting Word Order Errors in Greek Texts. In Proceedings of the 2nd international conference of IASTED on Computational Intelligence (CI), pages 502-506. San Francisco. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A New Approach for Words Reordering Based On Statistical Language Model. In. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Mamouras, K. (2006). N-grams: A Tool for Repairing Word Order Errors in ill-formed Texts. International Journal of Signal Processing, 3(2), 123-128. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2006). A comparative study of ASR performance in different emotional states. In Proceedings of the XXVIII-th International Congress of Audiology, pages 98-102. Innsbruck, Austria. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I (2006). A Fast Algorithm for Words Reordering Based on Language Model. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. & Dologlou, I. (2005). Improving speech recognition performance in noisy environments. In Proceedings of the 7th Hellenic-European Conference on Computer Mathematics and its Applications (HERCMA'2005). Athens, Greece. [...] 
  • Kalimeris, C., Mikros, G. & Bakamidis, S. (2005). Assimilation and Deletion Phenomena Involving Word-Final /n/ and Word-Intial /p, t, k/ in Modern Greek: a Codification of the Observed Variation Intended for Use in TTS Synthesis. In Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Speech Communication and Technology (Interspeech2005 – Eurospeech), pages 2941-2944. Lisbon, Portugal. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I., Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E. & Cox, C. (2005). ASR for emotional speech: clarifying the issues and enhancing performance. Neural Networks Elsevier Publications, 18(4), 437- 444. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S., Fotinea, S. & Carayannis, G. (2004). A new multi-resolution image compression system based on subband and binary coding. In Proc. of the 1st International Conference "From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering" (IC-SCCE), Invited Session on Human Computer Interaction, pages 842-847. Athens, Greece. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I. & Bakamidis, S. (2004). Device for statistical machine translation using monolingual text corpora . [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Fotinea, S. & Dologlou, I. (2004). Impact of Speech Enhancement on ASR time stamping. In Proceedings of the Fourth European Symposium on Intelligent Technologies, Hybrid Systems and their implementation on Smart Adaptive Systems, EUNITE-2004, pages 452-457. Aachen, Germany. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S., Fotinea, S., Dologlou, I., Fragapanagos, N. & Taylor, J. (2003). Impact of Speech Enhancement on ASR Confidence Score. In. [...] 
  • Fragapanagos, N., Taylor, J., Cowie, R., Douglas-Cowie, E., Athanaselis, T., Bakamidis, S. et al. (2003). Detecting Moving Emotion. In Proceedings of EUNITE 2003, pages 542 – 547. Oulu, Finland. [...] 
  • Athanaselis, T., Fotinea, S., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Giannopoulos, G (2003). Signal Enhancement for Continuous Speech Recognition. In O. Kaynak et al. (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
  • Fotinea, S., Bakamidis, S., Athanaselis, T., Dologlou, I., Vacalopoulou, A., Cowie, R. et al (2003). Emotion in Speech: towards an integration of linguistic, paralinguistic and psychological analysis. In O. Kaynak et al. (editor), Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). Berlin Heidelberg : Springer-Verlag. [...] 
  • Charalabopoulou, F., Stainhaouer, G., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (2002). Educational applications of speech technology tools for second language teaching [in Greek]. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference "ICT in Education", pages 198-206. Rhodes Island. [...] 
  • Dendrinos, M. & Bakamidis, S. (2002). A resource description device used for more efficient library services. Information Technology and Libraries Journal, 21, 186-188. [...] 
  • Tambouratzis, G., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I., Carayannis, G. & Dendrinos, M. (2002). The IMUTUS Interactive Music Tuition System. In Acoustical Society of America Journal, pages 2348. [...] 
  • Stainhaouer, G., Bakamidis, S., Charalabopoulou, F. & Carayannis, G. (2001). Speech Tools in the Educational Process. In Proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Noise Control, EURONOISE, pages 754-757. Patras, Greece. [...] 
  • Dendrinos, M., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Carayannis, G. (2001). Single Channel SVD Based Noise Reduction Techniques. In 4th European Conference on Noise Control EURONOISE 2001. Patra, Greece. [...] 
  • Kyriakou, C., Bakamidis, S., Dologlou, I. & Carayannis, G. (2001). Robust Continuous Speech Recognition in the Presence of Coloured Noise. In 4th European Conference on Noise Control, EURONOISE 2001. Patra, Greece. [...] 
  • Malliopoulos, C. & Bakamidis, S. (2001). Retrieving the Harmonics of Quasi Stationary Discrete-Time Sinusoidal Sums in Noisy Backgrounds. In Invited Paper, 4th European Conference on Noise Control EURONOISE 2001. Patra, Greece. [...] 
  • Malliopoulos, C., Raptis, S., Bakamidis, S. & Georgaki, A. (2001). Music Editors for Visually Impaired Persons: User Interface Specifications and System Design. In Int’l Conference on Web Delivering of Music 2001. Florence, Italy. [...] 
  • Stainhaouer, G., Bakamidis, S., Carayannis, G., Antoniou-Kritikou, I., Charalabopoulou, F. & Economou, N (2001). Modern technologies and tools in language education [in Greek]. Proceedings of the Conference “Language education in Information Technology Society” [in Greek]. Αθήνα. [...] 
  • Stainhaouer, G., Bakamidis, S., Carayannis, G., Antoniou-Kritikou, I., Charalabopoulou, F. & Economou, N. (2001). New Technologies and language tools in language education [in Greek]. In Antoniou-Kritikou I. (editor), Proceedings of the Conference “Language education in Information Technology Society” [in Greek], pages 55-63. Athens. [...] 
  • Georgaki, A., Raptis, S., Bakamidis, S. & Malliopoulos, C. (2000). Ανάπτυξη Συστήματος Διακίνησης και Επεξεργασίας της Μουσικής Πληροφορίας μέσω του Διαδικτύου για Τυφλούς Μουσικούς στο Πλαίσιο του Κοινοτικού Προγράμματος WEDELMUSIC. In Δεύτερο Συμπόσιο Μουσικής Πληροφορικής. Ιόνιο Πανεπιστήμιο, Κέρκυρα. [...] 
  • Fotinea, S., Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S., Stainhaouer, G. & Carayannis, G. (2000). Perceptual evaluation of a new subband low bit rate speech compression system based on waveform Vector Quantization and SVD postfiltering. In Proc. of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation - LREC 2000, pages 1337-1341. Athens, Greece. [...] 
  • Fotinea, S., Giakoupis, G., Liveris, A., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (2000). Optical Notation Recognition for Printed Music Algorithms. In Proc. of the «Content-Based Multimedia Information Access» conference, pages 1006-1014. Paris, France. [...] 
  • Fotinea, S., Giakoupis, G., Liveris, A., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (2000). An Optical Notation Recognition System for Printed Music Based on template matching and high level reasoning. In RIAO 2000 Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Information Access. Paris, France. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (2000). A New Algorithm to Design Optimal Hidden Markov Models. In X European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO 2000. Tampere, Finland. [...] 
  • Georgaki, A., Raptis, S. & Bakamidis, S. (2000). A Music Interface for Visually Impaired People in the WEDELMUSIC Environment. Design and Architecture. In International Symposium on Music Information Retrieval, MUSIC IR 2000. Plymouth, Massachusetts. [...] 
  • Georgaki, A., Raptis, S. & Bakamidis, S. (2000). A Music Interface for Visually Impaired People in the WedelMusic Environment: Design and Architecture. In Proc. MUSIC IR2000: Intl. Symposium on Music Information Retrieval. Plymouth, Massachusetts. [...] 
  • Stainhaouer, G., Bakamidis, S. & Paschalis, S. (2000). Device for storing digitized voice information and retrieving it via phone with speech recognition. [...] 
  • Malliopoulos, C., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1999). Order determination and optimum harmonic reconstruction of quasi-periodic signals in noise. Signal Processing, 79(2), 161 - 173. [...] 
  • Malliopoulos, C. & Bakamidis, S. (1999). Effective estimation of the harmonic component of speech and speech-like signals. In Electronics, Circuits and Systems, 1999. Proceedings of ICECS '99. The 6th IEEE International Conference on, pages 1561-1564. Pafos , Cyprus. [...] 
  • Raptis, S., Malliopoulos, C., Bakamidis, S. & Stainhaouer, G. (1998). A Speech Agent for Remote E-Mail Access. In Proc. The 4th IEEE workshop on Interactive Voice Technology for Telecommunications Applications and ESCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Applications of Speech Technology in Telecommunications. Torino, Italy. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. (1996). A New Frequency Domain Method for Amplitude and Frequency Demodulation. In International Conference On Signal Processing Applications & Technology (ICSPAT). Boston, MA USA. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I., Carayannis, G. & Bakamidis, S. (1996). Signal Decomposition in Terms of Non-Orthogonal Sinusoidal Bases. Signal Processing, 51. [...] 
  • Dologlou, I., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1996). Signal Decomposition in Terms of Non-Orthogonal Bases. European Signal Processing Journal, 51, 79-91. [...] 
  • Rangoussi, M., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G (1995). On the use of SVD and High-Order Statistics for the Endpoint Detection of Speech. In C. Sorin et al. (editor), Levels in Speech Communication: Relations and Interactions. Elsevier Science B.V.. [...] 
  • Dendrinos, M. & Bakamidis, S. (1994). Voice Activity Detection in Coloured-Noise Environment through Singular Value Decomposition. In ICSPAT ‘94 & DSP WORLD EXPO conference. Dallas. [...] 
  • Dendrinos, M. & Bakamidis, S. (1994). End-Point Detection in Coloured-Background-Noise using Singular Values Ratio. In Language Engineering on the Information Highway Conference. Santorini, Greece. [...] 
  • Doukas, G., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1994). A New Word-Based Pre-Processing Method For Compressing Text Files1994, Santorini, Greece.. In Language Engineering on the Information Highway Conference. Santorini, Greece. [...] 
  • Rangoussi, M., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1993). Robust Endpoint Detection of Speech in the Presence of Noise. In Eurospeech 93 Conference. Berlin. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1993). Noise Quality Improvement through SVD Equalization. In Eurospeech 93 Conference. Berlin. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. (1993). An Exact Fast Nearest Neighbor Identification Technique. In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, pages 658-661. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. & Boutalis, Y. (1992). A New Fast Algorithm to Identify the Nearest Neighbour. In Signal Processing VI: Theories and applications, 1992 Elsevier Science Publishers B. V.. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S., Glaros, N. & Carayannis, G. (1991). A Reduced Complexity Multipulse Excitation Compression System. Speech Communication, 10(1), 171-178. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1991). Improving the Quality of Noise Through SVD Equalization. In Proceedings of the IMACS-IFAC Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing in Engineering Systems- P.D. COM ‘91. Corfu, Greece. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S., Dendrinos, M. & Carayannis, G. (1991). SVD Analysis by Synthesis of Harmonic Signals. IEEE Transactions on ASSP(2), 472-477. [...] 
  • Dendrinos, M., Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1991). Speech Enhancement from Noise: A Regenerative Approach. Speech Communication, 10, 45-47. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S., Glaros, N. & Carayannis, G. (1991). A Reduced Complexity Multipulse Compression System. Speech Communication, 10, 171-178. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S., Carayannis, G. & Skiadas, N. (1987). A New Pitch Detector Based on Preselected Information from the LPC Error Signal. In European Conference on Speech Technology. Edinburg, UK. [...] 
  • Bakamidis, S. & Carayannis, G. (1987). ‘Phonemia’ A Phoneme Transcription System for Speech Synthesis in Modern Greek. Speech Communication, 6, 159-169. [...] 
  • Halkias, C., Kollias, D. & Bakamidis, S. (1983). Modeling and Estimation Methods in Seismic Signal Processing. In Melecon. Athens, Greece .. [...] 

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