2019 Eurasip Meritorious Service Award (presented at EUSIPCO-2019)
Our book: T. Giannakopoulos and A. Pikrakis,"Introduction to audio analysis: a MATLAB approach" was included in the ACM Computing Reviews' 19th Annual Best of Computing list(year 2014). The full list can be accessed here.
1st place, MIREX-2013 - Task: MIREX 2013: Audio Train/Test: Genre Classification (Latin), for the algorithm: Pikrakis, A., “A deep learning approach to rhythm modeling with applications”, 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music (ΜML 2013,), held in conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD 2013), Prague, Czech Republic, September 23, 2013.
Best Student Paper Award: Giannakopoulos, T., Pikrakis, A., Theodoridis, S., “A multi-class audio classification method with respect to violent content in movies using Bayesian Networks”, Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (IEEE-MMSP), pp. 90-93, 2007, Chania, Crete, Greece