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2026

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Computer Science

D-Index
92
Citations
37475
World Ranking
542
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Greece Leader Award

Overview

Ioannis Pitas is affiliated with Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in Greece and has an extensive research portfolio spanning several fields within engineering and computer science. Their scholarly work includes over 121 publications in computer science and 57 in engineering.

Their research primarily focuses on subfields such as Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Aerospace Engineering, Civil and Structural Engineering, and Computer Networks and Communications. The specific topics addressed in their work include Robotics and Sensor-Based Localization, Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods, Advanced Vision and Imaging, Advanced Neural Network Applications, Infrastructure Maintenance and Monitoring, Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques, and Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications.

Frequent venues for their publications include:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
  • Signal Processing Image Communication

Some of their recent papers are:

  • "Rethinking Road Surface 3-D Reconstruction and Pothole Detection: From Perspective Transformation to Disparity Map Segmentation" (2021), IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics
  • "Computer Vision for Autonomous UAV Flight Safety: An Overview and a Vision-based Safe Landing Pipeline Example" (2021), ACM Computing Surveys
  • "Age of Information in SWIPT-Enabled Wireless Communication System for 5GB" (2020), IEEE Wireless Communications
  • "Three-Filters-to-Normal: An Accurate and Ultrafast Surface Normal Estimator" (2021), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Fast CNN-Based Single-Person 2D Human Pose Estimation for Autonomous Systems" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology

Collaborations constitute a significant part of Ioannis Pitas's academic output. Frequent coauthors include Ioannis Mademlis, Vasileios Mygdalis, Rui Fan, Christos Papaioannidis, and Anastasios Tefas, reflecting a collaborative engagement across various related research areas.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear Digital Filters : Principles and Applications

    I. Pitas;A. N. Venetsanopoulos

  • Digital Image Processing Algorithms and Applications

    Ioannis Pitas

  • Nonlinear Digital Filters

    I. Pitas;A. N. Venetsanopoulos

  • Robust audio watermarking in the time domain

    P. Bassia;I. Pitas;N. Nikolaidis

  • Facial Expression Recognition in Image Sequences Using Geometric Deformation Features and Support Vector Machines

    I. Kotsia;I. Pitas

  • Robust image watermarking in the spatial domain

    N. Nikolaidis;I. Pitas

  • Digital Image Processing Algorithms

    Ioannis Pitas

  • The eNTERFACE’05 Audio-Visual Emotion Database

    O. Martin;I. Kotsia;B. Macq;I. Pitas

  • Order statistics in digital image processing

    I. Pitas;A.N. Venetsanopoulos

  • 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014)

    Konstantinos Papachristou;Anastasios Tefas;Nikos Nikolaidis;Ioannis Pitas

  • A method for signature casting on digital images

    I. Pitas

  • A novel method for automatic face segmentation, facial feature extraction and tracking

    Karin Sobottka;Ioannis Pitas

  • Video shot detection and condensed representation. a review

    C. Cotsaces;N. Nikolaidis;I. Pitas

  • Information theory-based shot cut/fade detection and video summarization

    Z. Cernekova;I. Pitas;C. Nikou

  • Rule-based face detection in frontal views

    C. Kotropoulos;I. Pitas

  • Exploiting discriminant information in nonnegative matrix factorization with application to frontal face verification

    S. Zafeiriou;A. Tefas;I. Buciu;I. Pitas

  • The use of watermarks in the protection of digital multimedia products

    G. Voyatzis;I. Pitas

  • Copyright protection of images using robust digital signatures

    N. Nikolaidis;I. Pitas

  • Image watermarking using DCT domain constraints

    A.G. Bors;I. Pitas

  • Morphological shape decomposition

    I. Pitas;A.N. Venetsanopoulos

  • Robust audio watermarking in the time domain

    P. Bossia;I. Pitas

Frequent Co-Authors

Anastasios Tefas
Anastasios Tefas Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Nikos Nikolaidis
Nikos Nikolaidis Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Constantine Kotropoulos
Constantine Kotropoulos Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Alexandros Iosifidis
Alexandros Iosifidis Aarhus University
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos
Anastasios N. Venetsanopoulos Toronto Metropolitan University
Stefanos Zafeiriou
Stefanos Zafeiriou Imperial College London
Michael G. Strintzis
Michael G. Strintzis Information Technologies Institute, Greece
Moncef Gabbouj
Moncef Gabbouj Tampere University
Maja Pantic
Maja Pantic Imperial College London
Petros Maragos
Petros Maragos National Technical University of Athens

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