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Drossos Konstantinos
Thesis subject: "Emotion Information Retrieval from Sound Events"
Current affiliation: Post doctoral researcher at Audio Research Group, Department of Signal Processing, Tampere University of Technology.
Journal publications
2015K. Drossos, A. Floros, K.-L. Kermanidis, "Evaluating the Impact of Sound Events' Rhythm Characteristics to Listener's Valence," Journal of Audio Engineering Society, Vol. 63, No. 3, pp. 139-153, 2015
K. Drossos, A. Floros, A. Giannakoulopoulos, N.-G. Kanellopoulos, "Investigating the Impact of Sound Angular Position on the Listener Affective State," IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 27-42, 2015
Β. Psarras, A. Floros, M. Strapatsakis and C. Drosos, “Emotional control and visual representation using advanced audiovisual interaction”, International Journal on Arts and Technology, Special Issue: “Interactive Experiences in Multimedia and Augmented Environments”, Vol. 4, No 4, 2011, pp. 480 - 498.
Conference proceedings
2017K. Drossos, S. Mimilakis, A. Floros, T. Virtanen and G. Schuller, “Close Miking Empirical Practice Verification: A Source Separation Approach”, In Proc. of the AES 142 Convention, Berlin, Germany, May 2017.
G. Giannakopoulos, V. Giannakopoulos, N. Zorbas, K. Drossos, A. Floros and N.- A. Tatlas, "Novel applications - audio games for children with vision problems," National Conference ACOUSTICS 2016, Oct. 3-4, Piraeus, Greece, 2016
K. Drossos, A. Floros, and N.-G. Kanellopoulos, "A Loudness-based Adaptive Equalization Technique for Subjectively Improved Sound Reproduction," Audio Engineering Society 136th Convention, Berlin, April 2014.
K. Drossos, A. Floros, and A. Giannakoulopoulos "BEADS: A Dataset of Binaural Emotionally Annotated Digital Sounds, " In Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2014), Chania, Creete, Greece, July 7-9, 2014.
K. Drossos, A. Floros, S. Potirakis, N.-A., Tatlas and G. Tuna, "A Socially-Intelligent Multi-Robot Service Team for In-Home Monitoring," n Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2014), Chania, Creete, Greece, July 7-9, 2014.
K. Drossos, A. Floros, "Investigation of the Possibility of Mapping Emotional Information from Audio to Visual Channel", in proceedings of the national conference ACOUSTICS 2014, Oct. 20-21, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2014
M. Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, A. Floros, K. Drosos, K. Koukoudis, M. Kyzalas and A. Kalantzis, "Swarm Lake: A Game of Swarm Intelligence, Human Interaction and Collaborative Music Composition", in proceedings of joint conference ICMC/SMC 2014, Sep. 14-20, Athens, Greece, 2014.
K. Drossos, R. Kotsakis, G. Kalliris and A. Floros, “Sound Events and Emotions: Investigating the Relation of Rhythmic Characteristics and Arousal”, In Proc. of the 4th International Conference on Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications (IISA 2013), Piraeus, July 2013.
K. Drossos, A. Floros and K. Koukoudis, “Gestural User Interface for Audio Multitrack Real-time Stereo Mixing”, In Proc. of the 8th AudioMostly Conference on Interaction with Sound, Sept. 18-20, 2013, Pitea, Sweden.
S. Mimilakis, K. Drossos, A. Floros and D. Katerelos, “Automated Tonal Balance Enhancement for Audio Mastering Applications”, Audio Engineering Society 134th Convention, Rome, May 2013 (preprint 8836).
K. Drossos, R. Kotsakis, P. Pappas, G. Kalliris and A. Floros, “Investigating Auditory Human-Machine Interaction: Analysis and Classification of Sounds Commonly Used by Consumer Devices”, Audio Engineering Society 134th Convention, Rome, May 2013 (preprint 8812).
Κ. Drossos and A. Floros, “An Approach for Modeling Affective Acoustic Ecology in City Environments”, Πρακτικά του ECHOPOLIS International Conference - Days of Sound, Athens, Greece, Sept. 29 - Oct. 3, 2013.
K. Drossos, S. Mimilakis A. Floros and N. Kanellopoulos, “Stereo Goes Mobile: Spatial Enhancement for Short-distance Loudspeaker Setups”, In Proc. of the 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing (IIHMSP 2012), Piraeus, Greece, July 2012, pp. 432 - 435.
K. Drossos, A. Floros and N. Kanellopoulos, “Affective Acoustic Ecology: Towards Emotionally Enhanced Sound Events” In Proc. of the 7th AudioMostly Conference on Interaction With Sound, Sept. 26 - 28, 2012, Corfu, Greece, pp. 109 - 116 (doi: 10.1145/2371456.2371474).
K. Drossos, A. Floros, K. Agkavanakis and N. Kanellopoulos, “Emergency Voice / Stress-level Combined Recognition for Intelligent House Applications”, Audio Engineering Society 132nd Convention, Budapest, April 2012 (preprint 8596).
D. Katerelos, Κ. Drossos, Α. Kokkinos, St. Mimilakis and Α. Floros, “iReflectors – Smart Acoustic Reflectors for Composite Materials”, In Proc. of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics National Conference “Acoustics 2012”, Corfu, Greece, October 2012, pp. 234 - 241 (in Greek).
Κ. Drossos, Α. Giannakoulopoulos and A. Floros, “An Internet-based Platform for Affective Assesment over Audio Signals”, In Proc. of the Hellenic Institute of Acoustics National Conference “Acoustics 2012”, Corfu, Greece, October 2012, pp. 250 - 257 (in Greek).
P. Vlamos, A. Floros, M. Giannakos and K. Drossos, “Towards an Interactive e-learning System based on Emotions and Affective Cognition”, In Proc. of the International Conference on Information Communication Technologies in Education (ICICTE 2010), 8 – 10 July 2010, Corfu, Greece, pp. 367 – 376.
N. Grigoriou, A. Floros and K. Drossos, “Binaural Mixing Using Gestural Control Interaction”, In Proc. of the AudioMostly 2010 5th Conference on Interaction with Sound, September 2010, Pitea, Sweden, pp. 28 - 33.
Chapters
2015Drossos, K., Kaliakatsos-Papakostas, M., Floros, A., "Affective Audio Synthesis for Sound Experience Enhancement", Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Inovation, Deliyannis, I., Kostagiolas, P. (Eds), IGI-Global, pp. 122-145, 2015.
Other publications
2013K. Drossos and A. Floros, “Temporal Characteristics of Emotionally Annotated Sound Events”, TIMELY School on “Timing and Time Perception: Procedures, Measures, & Applications”, Corfu, Greece, February 4-8, 2013.
E. Kokkinis, K. Drossos, N. - A. Tatlas, A. Floros, A. Tsilfidis and K. Agavanakis, “Smart microphone sensor system platform”, Audio Engineering Society 132 Convention, Engineering Brief, April 2012.
Research material
2014BEADS Dataset. Raw (monophonic) sounds and Head Related Transfer Functions (HRTFs) should be obtained from the corresponding resources. The sounds can be obtained from here and the HRTFs from here.
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