Dr Dimitrios Kollias

Dimitrios Kollias
PhD, FHEA, M-IEEE, M-BMVA, M-AAAI, AM-IARP

Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence

School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
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Research

multimodal AI, machine and deep learning, computer vision, affective computing & behaviour analysis, medical imaging & healthcare, digital humans

Interests

I am Assistant Professor in AI at Queen Mary University of London, UK. I am Fellow of Higher Education Academy, holder of Post-Graduate Certificate, IEEE member, BMVA member, AAAI member and IARP associate member.

I obtained the Ph.D. from Imperial College London, where I was a member of the iBUG group and recipient of the prestigious Teaching Fellowship of Imperial College London. I received the M.Sc. from Imperial College London and the Diploma/M.Sc. from the National Technical University of Athens.

I was awarded the 'Sullivan Thesis Prize' by British Machine Vision Association at BMVC 2023, a Prize for UK researchers, based on their Thesis’ originality, academic and industrial impact, breadth & depth.

I am listed in the most recent edition (for 2023) of the Stanford-Elsevier ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, where I am ranked: i) 31,716 out of 223,152 Top Scientists (among all disciplines and fields) globally; ii) 1,275 out of 399,064 Top Scientists in AI & Image Processing globally.

My research and interests span the areas of multimodal (image/video, audio, text, time series, sensors) machine and deep learning, trustworthy (fair, responsible, explainable and ethical) AI, data science and big data, computer vision, affective computing, behavior analysis & generation, digital humans, human machine interaction, medical imaging, mental health & healthcare.

I have co-authored more than 50 publications in the top journals and conferences, such as IJCV, CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, AAAI, TAFFC, ECAI and Neurocomputing. I am inventor of the 'Facial Behaviour Analysis' (2021) patent. My research has been funded and used by many top international companies. I have h-index 36, with over 5000 citations (according to google scholar).

I have been:
i) General Chair of the ABAW series of Workshops and Competitions in CVPR 2024, 2023 & 2022, ECCV 2024 & 2022, ICCV 2021 and IEEE FG 2020;
ii) co-Organizer & Chair of the DEF-MIA-COV19D series of Competitions and Workshops in CVPR 2024, IEEE ICASSP 2023, ECCV 2022 and ICCV 2021;
iii) co-Organizer of MRAC and REACT Workshops in ACM-MM 2024 & 2023;
iv) Co-organizer of Deepfakes Detection Grand Challenge at ACM-MM 2024.
I am reviewer in most top journals and conferences in my fields. I am reviewer for evaluation of grant proposals (e.g. EU, UK, Canada, Qatar).

You can find more details about me on my personal website:
https://sites.google.com/view/dimitrioskollias

Publications

solid heart iconPublications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI

2024

Relevant Publication1M-Deepfakes Detection Challenge
Cai Z, Dhall A, Ghosh S, Hayat M, Kollias D, Stefanov K and Tariq U
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM International Conference on Multimedia., 11355-11359.  
28-10-2024
Relevant PublicationMRAC Track 1: 2nd Workshop on Multimodal, Generative and Responsible Affective Computing
Ghosh S, Cai Z, Dhall A, Kollias D, Goecke R and Gedeon T
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing., 1-6.  
28-10-2024
Relevant PublicationMRAC '24 Chairs' Welcome
Tao J, Ghosh S, Lian Z, Cai Z, Schuller BW, Dhall A, Zhao G, Kollias D, Cambria E, Goecke R and Gedeon T
Mrac 2024 - Proceedings of The 2nd International Workshop On Multimodal and Responsible Affective Computing 
28-10-2024
bullet iconNEFELI: A deep-learning detection and tracking pipeline for enhancing autonomy in Advanced Air Mobility
Arsenos A, Petrongonas E, Filippopoulos O, Skliros C, Kollias D and Kollias S
Aerospace Science and Technology, Elsevier, 109613-109613.  
24-09-2024
Relevant PublicationCan Machine Learning Assist in Diagnosis of Primary Immune Thrombocytopenia? A Feasibility Study
Miah H, Kollias D, Pedone GL, Provan D and Chen F
Diagnostics, Mdpi vol. 14 (13) 
26-06-2024
Relevant PublicationCUE-Net: Violence Detection Video Analytics with Spatial Cropping, Enhanced UniformerV2 and Modified Efficient Additive Attention
Senadeera DC, Yang X, Kollias D and Slabaugh G
2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). vol. 00, 4888-4897.  
18-06-2024
bullet iconDomain adaptation, Explainability & Fairness in AI for Medical Image Analysis: Diagnosis of COVID-19 based on 3-D Chest CT-scans
Kollias D, Arsenos A and Kollias S
2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). vol. 00, 4907-4914.  
18-06-2024
Relevant PublicationThe 6th Affective Behavior Analysis in-the-wild (ABAW) Competition
Kollias D, Tzirakis P, Cowen A, Zafeiriou S, Kotsia I, Baird A, Gagne C, Shao C and Hu G
2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). vol. 00, 4587-4598.  
18-06-2024
Relevant PublicationEnsuring UAV Safety: A Vision-Only and Real-Time Framework for Collision Avoidance Through Object Detection, Tracking, and Distance Estimation
Karampinis V, Arsenos A, Filippopoulos O, Petrongonas E, Skliros C, Kollias D, Kollias S and Voulodimos A
2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). vol. 00, 1072-1079.  
07-06-2024
Relevant PublicationCommon Corruptions for Enhancing and Evaluating Robustness in Air-to-Air Visual Object Detection
Arsenos A, Karampinis V, Petrongonas E, Skliros C, Kollias D, Kollias S and Voulodimos A
Ieee Robotics and Automation Letters, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers 
03-06-2024
Relevant PublicationBridging the Gap: Protocol Towards Fair and Consistent Affect Analysis
Hu G, Papadopoulou E, Kollias D, Tzouveli P, Wei J and Yang X
2024 IEEE 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG). vol. 00, 1-9.  
31-05-2024
Relevant PublicationCovid-19 Computer-Aided Diagnosis through AI-Assisted CT Imaging Analysis: Deploying a Medical AI System
Gerogiannis D, Arsenos A, Kollias D, Nikitopoulos D and Kollias S
2024 IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI). vol. 00, 1-4.  
30-05-2024
Relevant PublicationCOVID‐19 Detection from Computed Tomography Images Using Slice Processing Techniques and a Modified Xception Classifier
Morani K, Ayana EK, Kollias D and Unay D
International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Hindawi vol. 2024 (1) 
24-05-2024
Relevant PublicationUncertainty-Guided Contrastive Learning For Single Source Domain Generalisation
Arsenos A, Kollias D, Petrongonas E, Skliros C and Kollias S
ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). vol. 00, 6935-6939.  
19-04-2024
Relevant PublicationDistribution Matching for Multi-Task Learning of Classification Tasks: A Large-Scale Study on Faces & Beyond
Kollias D, Sharmanska V and Zafeiriou S
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. vol. 38 (3), 2813-2821.  
24-03-2024
Relevant PublicationRobust Facial Reactions Generation: An Emotion-Aware Framework with Modality Compensation
Hu G, Wei J, Song S, Kollias D, Yang X, Sun Z and Kaloidas O
2024 IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB). vol. 00, 1-10.  
18-01-2024
Relevant PublicationDetecting COVID-19 in Computed Tomography Images: A Novel Approach Utilizing Segmentation with UNet Architecture, Lung Extraction, and CNN Classifier
Morani K, Ayana EK, Kollias D and Unay D
In Intelligent Computing, Springer Nature 450-465.  
01-01-2024

2023

Relevant PublicationBTDNet: A Multi-Modal Approach for Brain Tumor Radiogenomic Classification
Kollias D, Vendal K, Gadhavi P and Russom S
Applied Sciences, Mdpi vol. 13 (21) 
02-11-2023
Relevant PublicationA deep neural architecture for harmonizing 3-D input data analysis and decision making in medical imaging
Kollias D, Arsenos A and Kollias S
Neurocomputing, Elsevier vol. 542 
01-07-2023
Relevant PublicationData-Driven Covid-19 Detection Through Medical Imaging
Arsenos A, Davidhi A, Kollias D, Prassopoulos P and Kollias S
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW). vol. 00, 1-5.  
10-06-2023
Relevant PublicationAI-Enabled Analysis of 3-D CT Scans for Diagnosis of COVID-19 & its Severity
Kollias D, Arsenos A and Kollias S
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW). vol. 00, 1-5.  
10-06-2023
Relevant PublicationCoviDetector: A transfer learning-based semi supervised approach to detect Covid-19 using CXR images
Chowdhury D, Das A, Dey A, Banerjee S, Golec M, Kollias D, Kumar M, Kaur G, Kaur R, Arya RC, Wander G, Wander P, Wander GS, Parlikad AK, Gill SS and Uhlig S
Benchcouncil Transactions On Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations, Elsevier Bv vol. 3 (2), 100119-100119.  
01-06-2023
Relevant PublicationAi-mia: Covid-19 detection & severity analysis through medical imaging
Kollias D
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
12-02-2023
Relevant PublicationABAW: Learning from Synthetic Data & Multi-task Learning Challenges
Kollias D
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 13806, 157-172.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationMedical Image Segmentation: A Review of Modern Architectures
Salpea N, Tzouveli P and Kollias D
In Computer Vision – Eccv 2022 Workshops, Springer Nature 691-708.  
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationAbaw: Valence-arousal estimation, expression recognition, action unit detection & emotional reaction intensity estimation challenges
Kollias D
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
01-01-2023
Relevant PublicationMulti-Label Compound Expression Recognition: C-EXPR Database & Network
Kollias D
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
01-01-2023

2022

Relevant PublicationA Large Imaging Database and Novel Deep Neural Architecture for Covid-19 Diagnosis
Arsenos A, Kollias D and Kollias S
2022 IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP). vol. 00, 1-5.  
29-06-2022
Relevant PublicationA Large Imaging Database and Novel Deep Neural Architecture for Covid-19 Diagnosis
Kollias D
IEEE 14th Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Workshop (IVMSP)
16-06-2022
Relevant PublicationABAW: Valence-Arousal Estimation, Expression Recognition, Action Unit Detection & Multi-Task Learning Challenges
Kollias D
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
10-06-2022
Relevant PublicationMixAugment & Mixup: Augmentation Methods for Facial Expression Recognition
Kollias D
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR))
10-06-2022
Relevant PublicationMimicME: A Large Scale Diverse 4D Database for Facial Expression Analysis
Papaioannou A, Gecer B, Cheng S, Chrysos G, Deng J, Fotiadou E, Kampouris C, Kollias D, Moschoglou S, Songsri-In K, Ploumpis S, Trigeorgis G, Tzirakis P, Ververas E, Zhou Y, Ponniah A, Roussos A and Zafeiriou S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 13668, 467-484.  
01-01-2022

2021

Relevant PublicationMIA-COV19D: COVID-19 Detection through 3-D Chest CT Image Analysis
Kollias D, Arsenos A, Soukissian L and Kollias S
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW). vol. 00, 537-544.  
17-10-2021
Relevant PublicationAnalysing Affective Behavior in the second ABAW2 Competition
Kollias D and Zafeiriou S
2021 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW). vol. 00, 3645-3653.  
17-10-2021
Relevant PublicationMachine Learning for Predictive Modelling of Ambulance Calls
Yu M, Kollias D, Wingate J, Siriwardena N and Kollias S
Electronics, Mdpi vol. 10 (4) 
18-02-2021
Relevant PublicationTransparent Adaptation in Deep Medical Image Diagnosis
Kollias D, Vlaxos Y, Seferis M, Kollia I, Sukissian L, Wingate J and Kollias S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12641, 251-267.  
01-01-2021

2020

Relevant PublicationAnalysing Affective Behavior in the First ABAW 2020 Competition
Kollias D, Schulc A, Hajiyev E and Zafeiriou S
2020 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG 2020). vol. 00, 637-643.  
20-11-2020
Relevant PublicationExploiting Multi-CNN Features in CNN-RNN Based Dimensional Emotion Recognition on the OMG in-the-Wild Dataset
Kollias D and Zafeiriou S
Ieee Transactions On Affective Computing, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Ieee) vol. 12 (3), 595-606.  
04-08-2020
Relevant PublicationEfficient Context-Aware Lossy Image Compression
Xu J, Lytchier A, Cursio C, Kollias D, Besenbruch C and Zafar A
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). vol. 00, 552-554.  
19-06-2020
Relevant PublicationDeep Neural Network Augmentation: Generating Faces for Affect Analysis
Kollias D, Cheng S, Ververas E, Kotsia I and Zafeiriou S
International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer Nature vol. 128 (5), 1455-1484.  
22-02-2020
Relevant PublicationExpression, affect, action unit recognition: Aff-wild2, multi-task learning and arcface
Kollias D and Zafeiriou S
30th British Machine Vision Conference 2019, BMVC 2019
01-01-2020
Relevant PublicationVA-StarGAN: Continuous Affect Generation
Kollias D and Zafeiriou S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 12002, 227-238.  
01-01-2020

2019

Relevant PublicationDeep Affect Prediction in-the-Wild: Aff-Wild Database and Challenge, Deep Architectures, and Beyond
Kollias D, Tzirakis P, Nicolaou MA, Papaioannou A, Zhao G, Schuller B, Kotsia I and Zafeiriou S
International Journal of Computer Vision, Springer Nature vol. 127 (6-7), 907-929.  
13-02-2019
Relevant PublicationPhotorealistic Facial Synthesis in the Dimensional Affect Space
Kollias D, Cheng S, Pantic M and Zafeiriou S
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 11130, 475-491.  
01-01-2019

2018

Relevant PublicationTraining Deep Neural Networks with Different Datasets In-the-wild: The Emotion Recognition Paradigm
Kollias D and Zafeiriou S
2018 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN). vol. 00, 1-8.  
13-07-2018
Relevant PublicationMachine Learning for Neurodegenerative Disorder Diagnosis — Survey of Practices and Launch of Benchmark Dataset
Tagaris A, Kollias D, Stafylopatis A, Tagaris G and Kollias S
International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, World Scientific Publishing vol. 27 (03) 
01-05-2018

2017

Relevant PublicationDeep neural architectures for prediction in healthcare
Kollias D, Tagaris A, Stafylopatis A, Kollias S and Tagaris G
Complex & Intelligent Systems, Springer Nature vol. 4 (2), 119-131.  
13-11-2017
Relevant PublicationAdaptation and Contextualization of Deep Neural Network Models
Kollias D, Yu M, Tagaris A, Leontidis G, Kollias S and Stafylopatis A
2017 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)., 1-8.  
01-11-2017
Relevant PublicationAff-Wild: Valence and Arousal ‘in-the-Wild’ Challenge
Zafeiriou S, Kollias D, Nicolaou MA, Papaioannou A, Zhao G and Kotsia I
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)., 1980-1987.  
01-07-2017
Relevant PublicationRecognition of Affect in the Wild Using Deep Neural Networks
Kollias D, Nicolaou MA, Kotsia I, Zhao G and Zafeiriou S
2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW)., 1972-1979.  
01-07-2017
Relevant PublicationAssessment of Parkinson’s Disease Based on Deep Neural Networks
Tagaris A, Kollias D and Stafylopatis A
Communications in Computer and Information Science. vol. 744, 391-403.  
01-01-2017

2016

Relevant PublicationOn Line Emotion Detection Using Retrainable Deep Neural Networks
Kollias D, Tagaris A and Stafylopatis A
2016 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI)., 1-8.  
01-12-2016

2015

Relevant PublicationInterweaving Deep Learning and Semantic Techniques for Emotion Analysis in Human-Machine Interaction
Kollias D, Marandianos G, Raouzaiou A and Stafvlonatis A-G
2015 10th International Workshop on Semantic and Social Media Adaptation and Personalization (SMAP)., 1-6.  
01-11-2015