Dr. Theodoros Kostoulas

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Address

Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory
Computer Science Department
University of Geneva
7 route de Drize, Battelle, Building A
CH-1227 Carouge

Function

Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer

Biography

Theodoros Kostoulas was born in 1982, in Athens. Since March 2013 he has been working as post-doc researcher at the Computer Vision and Multimedia Laboratory & Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at University of Geneva.

In February 2005, he received the Diploma of Electrical and Computer Engineer degree, from the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Patras, and in February 2012 the PhD degree from the same department, where he continued working as post-doc researcher. His research interests include Human-Computer Interaction, Affective Computing, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Multimodal Signal Processing, Speech Processing, Emotion Recognition from Speech.

Please refer to my personal website for further info.

Research

  • Affective Computing
  • Human Computer Interaction

Publications

PhD Thesis

1. 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

1. 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.

Journals

5. 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, Nikos Fakotakis, Nadine Riesco, Ines Wolz, Josep Comín-Colet, Valentina Cardi, Janet Treasure, José Antonio Fernández-Formoso, José Manuel Menchón, Fernando Fernández-Aranda, "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.

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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, Tony Lam, Mikkel Lucas, Cristina Masuet-Aumatell, Maher H Moussa, Jeppe Nielsen, Eva Penelo, "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.

1. 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.

 

Book Chapters

6. 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.

5. 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.

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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.

 

Conferences with proceedings

16. 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

15. 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.

14. 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.

13. 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.

12. 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. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts, 2009.

11. 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.

10. 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 Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA 2008, Athens, Greece, 15-19 July, 2008.

9. 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.

8. 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.

7. 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, Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, July 2008, pp. 33-34, 2008.

6. Iosif 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.

5. 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.

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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.

 

Other conferences

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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

13. 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.

12. 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.

11. 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.

10. 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

9. 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

8. 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

7. 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

6. 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

5. 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.

4. 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.

3. 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.

2. 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.

1. 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.