Dr. Panagiotis Tsiamyrtzis

Research Interests and Projects

Publications

Refereed Journal Papers

[J30] New! Spatio-Temporal Smoothing as a Basis for Facial Tissue Tracking in Thermal Imaging Y. Zhou, P. Tsiamyrtzis, P. Lindner, I. Timofeyev, and I. Pavlidis IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 60, no. 5, pp. 1280-1289, May 2013. [Impact Factor: 2.347]
[J29] New! Perinasal Imaging of Physiological Stress and Its Affective Potential D. Shastri, M. Papadakis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, B. Bass, and I. Pavlidis IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, vol. 3, no. 3, July 2012. [Impact Factor: TBA] Manuscript: Size: 1.37 MB
[J28] Fast by Nature - How Stress Patterns Define Human Experience and Performance in Dexterous Tasks I. Pavlidis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, D. Shastri, A. Wesley, Y. Zhou, P. Lindner, P. Buddharaju, R. Joseph, A. Mandapati, B. Dunkin, and B. Bass NATURE Scientific Reports, vol. 2, March 2012. [Impact Factor: TBA], [Citations]
[J25] Description and clinical studies of a device for the instantaneous detection of office-place stress J. Levine, I. Pavlidis, L. MacBride, Z. Zhu, and P. Tsiamyrtzis WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment, and Rehabilitation, vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 359-364, November 2009. [Impact Factor: 0.747] Manuscript: Size: 492.25 Kb
[J22] Imaging facial signs of neurophysiological responses D. Shastri, A. Merla, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, vol. 56, no. 2, pp. 477-84, February 2009. [Impact Factor: 2.347], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1003.52 Kb
[J18] Coalitional tracking J. Dowdall, I.T. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 106, no. 2-3, pp. 205-19, May 2007. [Impact Factor: 2.838], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 3.08 MB
[J17] Physiology-based face recognition in the thermal infrared spectrum P. Buddharaju, I.T. Pavlidis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and M. Bazakos IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 613-26, April 2007. [Impact Factor: 7.534], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 3.66 MB
[J16] Imaging facial physiology for the detection of deceit P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M.G. Frank, and P. Ekman International Journal of Computer Vision, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 197-214, February 2007. [Impact Factor: 6.986], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 717.86 Kb
[J10] Deter: detection of events for threat evaluation and recognition V. Morellas, I. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Machine Vision and Applications, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 29-45, October 2003. [Impact Factor: 1.691], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 421.03 Kb
[J7] Urban surveillance systems: From the laboratory to the commercial world I. Pavlidis, V. Morellas, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and S. Harp Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 89, no. 10, pp. 1478-97, October 2001. [Impact Factor: 6.233], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 405.02 Kb

Refereed Conference Papers

[C65] New! Spatiotemporal Reconstruction of the Breathing Function D. Duong, D. Shastri, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2012, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2012. [Acceptance Rate: 31.8%] Manuscript: Size: 1.01 MB
[C59] Collaborative Tracking for MRI-Guided Robotic Intervention on the Beating Heart Y. Zhou, E. Yeniaras, P. Tsiamyrtzis, N. Tsekos, and I. Pavlidis Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2010, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Beijing, China, vol. 6363, pp. 351-358, September 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 32.0%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 240.91 Kb
[C56] O job, can you return my mojo? Improving human engagement and enjoyment in routine activities D. Shastri, Y. Fujiki, R. Buffington, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 2010 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Atlanta, Georgia, April 2010. [Acceptance Rate: 22%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 916.75 Kb
[C54] Tissue Tracking in Thermo-physiological Imagery Through Spatio-temporal Smoothing Y. Zhou, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2009, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5762, pp. 1092-1099, September 2009. [Acceptance Rate: 27.0%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 2.67 MB
[C50] Making sense of accelerometer measurements in pervasive physical activity applications Y. Fujiki, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Ext. Abstract of the 2009 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), Boston, Massachusetts, April 2009. [Acceptance Rate: 25.0%], [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1.13 MB
[C48] A Probabilistic Template Update Method for Tracking Facial Tissue in Thermal Infrared Y. Zhou, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2008. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 4.50 MB
[C47] The segmentation of the supraorbital vessels in thermal imagery Z. Zhu, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 5th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Santa Fe, New Mexico, September 2008. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 2.87 MB
[C45] Periorbital thermal signal extraction and applications D. Shastri, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Vancouver, British Columbia, pp. 102-5, August 2008. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 323.11 Kb
[C43] Imaging facial signs of neuro-physiological responses D. Shastri, A. Merla, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention-MICCAI, Brisbane, Australia, October 2007. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 1002.10 Kb
[C41] Forehead thermal signature extraction in lie detection Z. Zhu, P. Tsiamyrtzis, and I. Pavlidis Proceedings of the 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Lyon, France, pp. 243-6, August 2007. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 807.02 Kb
[C33] Coalitional tracking in facial infrared imaging and beyond J. Dowdall, I.T. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, New York, pp. 134-41, June 2006. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 849.90 Kb
[C32] Pose-invariant physiological face recognition in the thermal infrared spectrum P. Buddharaju, I.T. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, New York, New York, pp. 53-60, June 2006. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 803.36 Kb
[C30] Physiology-based face recognition P. Buddharaju, I.T. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Lake Como, Italy, pp. 354-9, September 2005. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 765.69 Kb
[C27] Automatic THErmal MOnitoring System (ATHEMOS) for deception detection P. Buddharaju, J. Dowdall, P. Tsiamyrtzis, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, and M. G. Frank Video Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, San Diego, California, June 2005. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 40.38 MB
[C25] Touchless monitoring of breathing function R. Murthy, I. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Proceedings of the 26th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, San Francisco, California, vol. 2, pp. 1196-9, September 2004. [Citations] Manuscript: Size: 137.65 Kb

Books/Chapters

[B11] Coalitional Tracker for Deception Detection in Thermal Imagery J. Dowdall, I. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Augmented Vision Perception in Infrared: Algorithms and Applied Systems, Advances in Pattern Recognition, R.I. Hammoud, editors, ch. 5, pp. 113-137, Springer-Verlag, 2009 Manuscript: Size: 925.58 Kb
[B7] Biometrics: Face recognition in thermal infrared I. Pavlidis, P. Tsiamyrtzis, C. Manohar, and P. Buddharaju Biomedical Engineering Handbook, 3rd Edition, ch. 29, pp. 1-15, CRC Press, 2006 Manuscript: Size: 1.80 MB

Invited Conference Papers

[I6] Lie detection - recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M.G. Frank, and P. Ekman Proceedings of SPIE Sensors, and Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) Technologies for Homeland Security and Homeland Defense IV, E. M. Carapezza, editors, vol. 5778, Orlando, Florida, March 2005 Manuscript: Size: 607.18 Kb

Conference Abstracts

[A10] Touchless monitoring of breath function R. Murthy, I. Pavlidis, and P. Tsiamyrtzis Abstracts of the 22nd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, Texas, February 2005 Manuscript: Size: 7.95 Kb
[A7] Lie detection: recovery of the periorbital signal through tandem tracking and noise suppression in thermal facial video P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, I. Pavlidis, M. G. Frank, and P. Ekman Abstracts of the 22nd Annual Houston Conference on Biomedical Engineering Research, Houston, Texas, February 2005 Manuscript: Size: 9.04 Kb

Technical Reports

[T6] Imaging facial physiology for the detection of deceit P. Tsiamyrtzis, J. Dowdall, D. Shastri, and I. Pavlidis Technical Report UH-CS-05-25, Computer Science Department, University of Houston, November 2005 Manuscript: Size: 1019.31 Kb