• Assistive system for elders suffering of dementia 

      Boumpa E., Charalampou I., Gkogkidis A., Ntaliani A., Kokkinou E., Kakarountas A. (2018)
      This work proposes an innovative information home support system to be established at the houses of people suffering from dementia. The main innovations of the system are its transparent character that overcomes the need ...
    • ATHENA: A Greek multi-sensory database for home automation control 

      Tsiami, A.; Rodomagoulakis, I.; Giannoulis, P.; Katsamanis, A.; Potamianos, G.; Maragos, P. (2014)
      In this paper we present a Greek speech database with real multi-modal data in a smart home two-room environment. In total, 20 speakers were recorded in 240 one-minute long sessions. The recordings include utterances of ...
    • Detection of abnormal behavior in smart-home environments 

      Spathoulas G., Evangelatos S., Anagnostopoulos M., Mema G., Katsikas S. (2019)
      Without a doubt, the security of Internet of Things (IoT) systems is of crucial importance. The use of such systems has significantly increased in the recent year, where in every aspect of our daily life we interact with ...
    • Experiments on far-field multichannel speech processing in smart homes 

      Rodomagoulakis, I.; Giannoulis, P.; Skordilis, Z. I.; Maragos, P.; Potamianos, G. (2013)
      In this paper, we examine three problems that rise in the modern, challenging area of far-field speech processing. The developed methods for each problem, namely (a) multichannel speech enhancement, (b) voice activity ...
    • From internet of threats to internet of things: A cyber security architecture for smart homes 

      Augusto-Gonzalez J., Collen A., Evangelatos S., Anagnostopoulos M., Spathoulas G., Giannoutakis K.M., Votis K., Tzovaras D., Genge B., Gelenbe E., Nijdam N.A. (2019)
      The H2020 European research project GHOST-Safe-Guarding Home IoT Environments with Personalised Real-time Risk Control-aims to deploy a highly effective security framework for IoT smart home residents through a novel ...
    • Multi-room speech activity detection using a distributed microphone network in domestic environments 

      Giannoulis P., Brutti A., Matassoni M., Abad A., Katsamanis A., Matos M., Potamianos G., Maragos P. (2015)
      Domestic environments are particularly challenging for distant speech recognition: reverberation, background noise and interfering sources, as well as the propagation of acoustic events across adjacent rooms, critically ...
    • Room-localized speech activity detection in multi-microphone smart homes 

      Giannoulis P., Potamianos G., Maragos P. (2019)
      Voice-enabled interaction systems in domestic environments have attracted significant interest recently, being the focus of smart home research projects and commercial voice assistant home devices. Within the multi-module ...
    • Room-localized spoken command recognition in multi-room, multi-microphone environments 

      Rodomagoulakis I., Katsamanis A., Potamianos G., Giannoulis P., Tsiami A., Maragos P. (2017)
      The paper focuses on the design of a practical system pipeline for always-listening, far-field spoken command recognition in everyday smart indoor environments that consist of multiple rooms equipped with sparsely distributed ...
    • Smart home energy management processes support through machine learning algorithms 

      Koltsaklis N., Panapakidis I., Christoforidis G., Knápek J. (2022)
      Smart Home Energy Management Systems can manifest energy consumption reduction targets in the residential sector and can be viewed as an approach to transform the consumer into an active prosumer. The present paper presents ...
    • Soft Actuation: Smart Home and Office with Human-in-the-Loop 

      Domaszewicz J., Lalis S., Pruszkowski A., Koutsoubelias M., Tajmajer T., Grigoropoulos N., Nati M., Gluhak A. (2016)
      Considerable effort in the area of context-aware systems goes into applications that process sensor data to proactively drive actuators. However, there are concerns about such fully automated operation. Most notably, due ...
    • Tangible applications for regular objects: An end-user model for pervasive computing at home 

      Lalis, S.; Domaszewicz, J.; Pruszkowski, A.; Paczesny, T.; Ala-Louko, M.; Taumberger, M.; Georgakoudis, G.; Lekkas, K. (2010)
      This paper describes an end-user model for a domestic pervasive computing platform formed by regular home objects. The platform does not rely on pre-planned infrastructure; instead, it exploits objects that are already ...
    • A TinyML-based system for gas leakage detection 

      Gkogkidis A., Tsoukas V., Papafotikas S., Boumpa E., Kakarountas A. (2022)
      Internet of Things devices are commonly utilized in smart homes to provide smart services such as lighting, entertainment, and easy access, but they are also employed to warn occupants in the event of an emergency. Due to ...