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”, 6^th 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