Prof. Todor Ganchev

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Books

[B1]. Ganchev T. (2017) Computational Bioacoustics: Biodiversity Monitoring and Assessment. First Edition. De Gruyter, Berlin, June. 2017. ISBN: 978-1-61451-729-0, https://doi.org/10.1515/9781614516316

Journal articles

Ventura T.M., Ganchev T.D., Pérez-Granados C., de Oliveira A.G., Pedroso G.S.G., Marques M.I., Schuchmann K.-L. (2024). The importance of acoustic background modelling in CNN-based detection of the Neotropical White-lored Spinetail (Aves, Passeriformes, Furnaridae). Bioacoustics (TBIO), vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 103–121. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2024.2309362
Oliveira, A.G., Ventura, T.M., Ganchev, T.D., Silva, L.N.S., Marques, M.I., Schuchmann, K.-L. (2020). Speeding up training of automated bird recognizers by data reduction of audio features, PeerJ, 2020 (1), art. no. e8407, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/7717/peerj.8407, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079093983&doi=10.7717%2fpeerj.8407&partnerID=40&md5=fb17a08a062a61c84816ee2edc0e34c8
Pérez-Granados C., K.-L. Schuchmann, Ganchev, C. Strüssmann, T. Figueras Dorado-Rodrigues, A. S. de Oliveira Tissiani, F. Ferreira de Deus, M. I. Marques (2020). Elucidating the diel and seasonal calling behaviour of Elachistocleis matogrosso (Anura: Microhylidae), Journal of Natural History, 53:43-44, 2699-2710, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2020.1728409
Lima, K.-L Schuchmann, A. Tissiani, L. Nunes, O. Jahn, T. Ganchev, M. Lhano, M. Marques (2018). “Tegmina-size variation in a Neotropical cricket with implications on spectral song properties”, Journal of Natural History (TNAH), ISSN: 0022-2933, vol. 52, no. 19-20, pp. 1225-1241, Taylor & Francis, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2018.1457728, IF2016=0.834
Jahn, T. Ganchev, M. I. Marques, K-L. Schuchmann (2017). Automated sound recognition provides insights into the life history of a tropical bird, PLoS ONE 12(1): e0169041. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0169041
K-L. Schuchmann, A.S. Tissiani, F.F. de Deus, F. Nunes, L. Moecklinghoff, O. Jahn, T. Ganchev, K. Burs, M.I. Marques (2016). “INAU Pantanal BioData Center: o primeiro banco de dados audiovisual para áreas úmidas do Brasil”, SB Zoologia, ISSN 1808-0812, vol. XXXVIII, Número 118, Curitiba, Setembro, 2016. pp. 4-6.
M. Lima, L. P. Martins, M. R. Pereira, T. Ganchev, O. Jahn, M. G. Lhano, M. I. Marques, K.-L. Schuchmann (2016). Lerneca inalata beripocone Subsp. Nov. (Orthoptera, Phalangopsidae, Luzarinae): New Taxon for the Northern Pantanal of Brazil. Zootaxa ISSN: 1175-5326., Oct 17;4175(4):366-376. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4175.4.6. , (IF2015=0.994).
G. de Oliveira, T. M. Ventura, T. Ganchev, J. M. de Figueiredo, O. Jahn, M. I. Marques, K.-L. Schuchmann (2015). “Bird acoustic activity detection based on morphological filtering of the spectrogram”, Applied Acoustics, ISSN: 0003-682X, Elsevier, vol. 98, no. Nov. 2015, pp. 34–42. (IF2014=1.024). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2015.04.014
Ganchev, O. Jahn, M. I. Marques, J. M. de Figueiredo, K.-L. Schuchmann (2015). “Automated acoustic detection of Vanellus chilensis lampronotus”, Expert Systems with Applications, ISSN: 0957-4174, Elsevier, vol. 42, no. 15–16, Sept. 2015, pp. 6098–6111, (IF2014=2.240). http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.03.036
T. Ventura, A. G. de Oliveira, T. D. Ganchev, J. M. de Figueiredo, O. Jahn, M. I. Marques, K.-L. Schuchmann (2015). Audio parameterization with robust frame selection for improved bird identification, Expert Systems with Applications, ISSN 0957-4174, Elsevier, vol. 42, no. 22, Dec. 2015, pp. 8463-8471, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2015.07.002, (IF2014=2.240).
Ganchev (2015). “Morphological Processing оf the Audio Spectrogram for Improved Acoustic Recognition of Bird Species”, Списание „Акустика“, ISSN 1312-4897, СЕЕС– София, България, брой 17, Дек. 2015, стр.66-69.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, O. Jahn, K. Riede (2013). “Integration of Temporal Contextual Information for Robust Acoustic Recognition of Bird Species from Real-Field Data”, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA), ISSN: 2074-904X, vol.5, no.7. pp.9-15, 2013, http://www.mecs-press.org/ijisa/index.html
Potamitis, T. Ganchev, D. Kododimas: On Automatic Bioacoustic Detection of Pests: The Cases of Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus and Sitophilus Oryzae, Journal of Economic Entomology, ISSN 0022-0493, vol.102, no. 4, 2009, pp. 1681-1690.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis: Automatic Acoustic Identification of Singing Insects, Bioacoustics: The International Journal of Animal Sound and its Recording, ISSN 0952-4622, vol. 16, no.3, 2007. pp. 281-328.
Денева П., Ганчев Т., (2018). Моделиране на характеристична мелодия на птичи вокализации, списание Компютърни Науки и Технологии, Година XVI, Брой 1/2018, ТУ-Варна, стр.156-160.
Dukov, P. Deneva, T. Ganchev, P. Parushev (2016) “Intelligent Audio Logger for Bird Sounds”, Списание Акустика-2016, ISSN 1312-4897, брой 18, 2016, pp.87-90.

Book chapters

[BC1] T. Ganchev (2019). „Ubiquitous Computing & Biodiversity Monitoring”, Book Chapter 8 in Eds: Amy Neustein, “Advances in Ubiquitous Computing: Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Cities, and Ecological Monitoring”, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-816801-1.00008-6

[BC6] Potamitis I., Ganchev T.: Generalized Recognition of Sound Events: Approaches and Applications, Chapter 3 in Multimedia Services in Intelligent Environments, Studies in Computational Intelligence (SCI) 120, ISBN 978-3-540-78491-3, (Eds: G.A. Tsihrintzis and L.C. Jain.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2008, pp.41–79.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Ganchev, I. Mporas, O. Jahn, K. Riede, K.-L. Schuchmann, N. Fakotakis (2012). "Acoustic Bird Activity Detection on Real-Field Data", I. Maglogiannis, V. Plagianakos, and I. Vlahavas (Eds.): SETN 2012, LNAI 7297, pp. 190–197, 2012. © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2012.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, O. Jahn, K. Riede, K.-L. Schuchmann (2012). “Automated Acoustic Classification of Bird Species from Real -Field Recordings”, Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI-2012), November 7-9, 2012, Athens, Greece.
Ganchev, K. Riede, I. Potamitis, T. Stoyanova, S. Ntalampiras, V. Dimitriou, B. Nomikos, K. Birkos, O. Jahn, N. Fakotakis (2011). “AmiBio: Automatic acoustic Monitoring and Inventorying of BIOdiversity”, Poster and presentation at the IBAC 2011, La Rochelle, France, 12-16 September 2011.
Theodorou, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Sound Source Enumeration in Real-World Setup”, Proc. of the 5th National Conference ACOUSTICS 2010, Athens, Greece, October 4-6, 2010.
Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Automatic Bioacoustic Detection of Rhynchophorus Ferrugineus, Proc. of the EUSIPCO 2008, August 25-29, Luisiane, Switzerland.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis: Acoustic Monitoring of Singing Insects, Proc. of the ICASSP-2007. Vol.4, pp.721-724.
Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Automatic Acoustic Identification of Crickets and Cicadas, Proc. of the 20th IEEE International Symposium Signal Processing and Application, ISSPA-2007, Sharjah Millennium Hotel, United Arab Emirates (UAE), February 12-15, 2007.

Magazines & Bulletins

Ventura, T.M., Oliveira, A.G., Ganchev, T.D., Marques, M. I., Schuchmann, K.-L. Inteligência Artificial a Serviço da Biodiversidade do Pantanal. Revista Computação Brasil. Porto Alegre, pp.23-26, 2020.
-L. Schuchmann, M.I. Marques, O. Jahn, T. Ganchev, J. M. de Figueiredo (2014). Os Sons do Pantanal: um projeto de monitoramento acústico automatizado da biodiversidade, Boletim Informativo Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 108: 11-12 April.
Moecklinghoff, K.-L. Schuchmann, K. Burs, R. Wistuba, M.I. Marques, O. Jahn, T. Ganchev, J.M. de Figueiredo, F.F. de Deus (2014). Descobrindo a vida secreta dos mamíferos do Pantanal, Boletim Informativo Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia 108: 7-8 April.
-L. Schuchmann, M.I. Marquez, O. Jahn, T. Ganchev, J. M. de Figueiredo (2014). Os Sons do Pantanal CRBio-01, O Biólogo 29: 12-15 Jan-Fev-Mar.

Technical Reports

[R1] T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, A. Lazaridis, N. Fakotakis, I. Potamitis, B. Nomikos, V. Dimitriou, K. Riede, Olaf Jahn “Action A.1 Management and coordination plan”. (report). AmiBio project, April 2010. http://www.amibio-project.eu/

[R2] S. Ntalampiras, T. Kostoulas, Ts. Stoyanova, I. Potamitis, Olaf Jahn, B. Nomikos, V. Dimitriou, K. Mpirkos, T. Ganchev, K. Riede: “Action A.3 Requirements analysis and specification of technology design aspects.” (report). AmiBio project, January 2011.

[R3] T. Ganchev, S. Ntalampiras, K. Mpirkos, T. Stoyanova, I. Mporas, I. Potamitis, O. Jahn, K. Riede: “Action A.4 Overall design of the autonomous surveillance framework”. (report). AmiBio project, March 2011.

[R4] T. Ganchev, K. Birkos, T. Stoyanova, T. Kostoulas, I. Potamitis, O. Jahn, K. Riede: “Action A.5 Development of data acquisition module for the sensor nodes”. (report). AmiBio project, June 2011.

[R5] K. Birkos, T. Ganchev: “Action A.6 Development of wireless sensor network – architecture and communication protocols”. (report). AmiBio project, June 2011.

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Journal articles

Mporas, T. Ganchev: Estimation of Unknown Speaker’s Height from Speech, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 12, no. 4, 2009, pp.149-160.
Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman: Particle Swarm Optimization for Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, IEEE, USA, ISSN: 1558-7916, vol. 17, no. 2, 2009. pp. 344-353.
Siafarikas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Speech Recognition Using Wavelet Packet Features, Journal of Wavelet Theory and Applications, ISSN 0973-6336, vol. 2, no. 1, 2008. pp. 41-59.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Wavelet Packet Approximation of Critical Bands for Speaker Verification. International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007. pp. 197-218.
Ganchev, D.K. Tasoulis, M.N. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with application to Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Neurocomputing, ISSN 0925-2312, vol. 70, no. 7-9, March 2007. pp. 1424-1438.
Giannakopoulos, N.-A. Tatlas, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: A Practical, Real-Time Speech-Driven Home Automation Front-end, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, ISSN 0098-3063, vol. 51, no. 2, May 2005. pp. 514-523.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification for Real Fast-Varying Noisy Environments, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 7, no.4, October 2004. pp. 281-292.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with Application to Speaker Verification, GESTS International Transaction on Speech Science and Engineering, ISSN 1738-4737, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2004. pp. 1-13.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Speaker Verification Reinforced by Objective Wavelet Packets-based Speech Parameterization, GESTS International Transaction on Speech Science and Engineering, ISSN 1738-4737, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2004. pp. 60-71.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: A Model Based Approach for Robust Text-Independent Speaker Verification in Adverse Environments, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, AMSE Periodicals, vol. 47, no. 3, 2004. pp. 47-66.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, “Automatic Height Estimation from Speech in Real-World Setup”, Proc. of the 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), Aalborg, Danmark, August 23-27, 2010. pp. 800-804.
Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, “Audio Features Selection for Automatic Height Estimation from Speech”, S. Konstantopoulos et al. (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models, and Applications, Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2010, Athens, Greece, May 4-7, 2010, LNAI 6040/2010. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, pp. 81–90.
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, A. Störmer, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, Prometheus Database: A Multimodal Corpus for Research on Modeling and Interpreting Human Behavior, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Santorini, Greece. 5-7 July, 2009.
Ntalampiras, I. Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Audio Database in Support of Potential Threat and Crisis Situation Management, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Ahlberg, D. Arsic, T. Ganchev, A. Linderhed, P. Menezes, S. Ntalampiras, T. Olma, I. Potamitis, J. Ros: Prometheus: Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Wavelet Packet Bases for Speaker Recognition, Proc. of the ICTAI-2007, October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, pp.514-517.
Saeidi, T. Ganchev, H.S. Mohammadi: Text independent speaker verification using enhanced sorted Gaussian mixture model, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC-07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 24-27, 2007.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: The WCL-1 System in the 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation and 2003 NFI/TNO Forensic Speaker Recognition Evaluation, Proc. of the SPECOM-2006, 25-29 June 2006, pp.109-114.
Ganchev, M. Siafarikas and N. Fakotakis: Evaluation of speech parameterization methods for speaker recognition, Proc. of the Acoustics-2006, Sept 18-19, 2006. pp. 105-110.
Ganchev, P. Zervas, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Benchmarking Feature Selection Techniques on the Speaker Verification Task, Proc. of the CSNDSP-06, 19-21 July, 2006. pp. 314-318.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Comparative Evaluation of Various MFCC Implementations on the Speaker Verification Task, Proc. of the SPECOM-2005, October 17-19, 2005. Patras, Greece. Vol. 1, pp. 191-194.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Overlapping Wavelet Packet Features for Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2005, September 4-8, 2005. Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 3121-3124.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the ICASSP-2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, Vol.1, pp. 41-44.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Wavelet Packets Based Speaker Verification, Proc. of the ISCA Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop - Odyssey-2004, Toledo, Spain, May 31-June 3, 2004, pp. 257-264.
Moller, J. Krebber, A. Raake, P. Smeele, M. Rajman, M. Melichar, V. Pallotta, G. Tsakou, B. Kladis, A. Vovos, J. Hoonhout, D. Schuchardt, N. Fakotakis, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: INSPIRE: Evaluation of a Smart-Home System for Infotainment Management and Device Control, Proc. of the LREC-2004, Lisbon, May 26-28 2004, pp.1603-1606.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Objective Wavelet Packet Features for Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2004 - ICSLP, Oct 4- 8, Jeju, Korea, 2004, pp. 2365-2368.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: The WCL-1 System in the NIST Year 2004 Speaker Recognition Evaluation, Proc. of the 2004 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop, June 3-4, 2004, Toledo, Spain.
Ganchev, M. Siafarikas, N. Fakotakis: Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. LNAI 3206/2004, Sept. 2004, pp. 299-306.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Toward 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation: The WCL-1 System, Proc. of the SPECOM-2003, Moscow, Russia, October 27-29, 2003. pp.v256-261.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003. Volume III, pp. 1673-1676.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis: Noise-Source Modelling for Robust Speaker Verification in Adverse Environments, Proc. of the ISAP-2003, Lemnos, Greece, August 31st - September 3rd, 2003. paper no. ISAP03/137.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Impostor Modelling Techniques for Speaker Verification Based on Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the SPPRA-2003, Rhodes, Greece, June 30-July 2, 2003. pp. 185-190.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: One-Speaker Detection - Limited Data: The WCL-1 System, Proc. of the 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Workshop, College Park, MD, USA, June 24-25, 2003.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification: The WCL-1 System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Matousek and Mautner (Eds.), Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 2807/2003, September 2003, pp. 263-268.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: A Speaker Verification System Based On Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the 2002 NIST Speaker Recognition Workshop, Vienna, Virginia, USA, May 20-22, 2002.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification Based on Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the Acoustics-2002, Sept 30th-Oct 1st, 2002, Patras, Greece. pp. 159-166.
Ganchev, A. Tsopanoglou, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Probabilistic Neural Networks Combined with GMMs for Speaker Recognition over Telephone Channels, Proc. of the DSP-2002, July 1-3, 2002, Santorini, Greece. Volume II, pp. 1081-1084.

Technical reports

[R1] Ganchev T., Kladis B. “Speaker Recognition Component”, Deliverable 2.3, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746). University of Patras, Greece, 2003.

[R2] Ganchev T., Fakotakis N., G. Kokkinakis. “Probabilistic neural networks based speaker verification in forensic scenario”, Technical Report submitted to the 2003 NFI/TNO Forensic Speaker Recognition Evaluation, The Netherlands.

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Journal articles

Markova V, Ganchev T, Filkova S, Markov M. (2024). MMD-MSD: A Multimodal Multisensory Dataset in Support of Research and Technology Development for Musculoskeletal Disorders. Algorithms. 2024; 17(5):187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/a17050187
Markov M., Kalinin Y., Markova V., Ganchev T. (2023). Towards Implementation of Emotional Intelligence in Human–Machine Collaborative Systems, MDPI Electronics,2023 vol.12, no. 18, 3852. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics12183852
Zhou L., Nandal A., Ganchev T., Dhaka A. (2022). Breast Cancer Detection by Fusion of Deep Features with CNN Extracted Features, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, ISSN: 1740-8865, 2022. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Switzerland.
Markova, M. Markov, T. Ganchev, K. Kalinkov (2022). "An Automated Identification of Mental Workload in a Person-Independent Setup", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics, and Data Communication (IJEEDC), Vol.10, Issue 9, pp. 30-38.
Markova V., Ganchev T., Kalinkov K., Markov M. (2021). Detection of acute stress caused by cognitive tasks based on physiological signals, Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, vol.10, no.5, pp. 2539-2547, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11591/eei.v10i5.3130
Feradov, F., Mporas, I., Ganchev, T. (2020). Evaluation of features in detection of dislike responses to audio–visual stimuli from EEG signals. Computers, 9 (2), art. no. 33. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/computers9020033, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85084117098&doi=10.3390%2fcomputers9020033&partnerID=40&md5=22df05ec158a97455852c23605d714e8
Markova V., C. Dicheva, F. Feradov, Y. Kalinin, Ganchev T. (2016). “SLADE –stress level and emotional state assessment database: phase 1”, Computer science and technologies journal, Technical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, vol.1, pp.60-68, 2016.
Feradov, Т. Ganchev (2015). “Ranking of EEG Time-Domain Features on the Negative Emotions Recognition Task”, Annual Journal of Electronics, ISSN 1314-0078, vol. 9, pp. 26-29.
Feradov F., Ganchev (2014). “Detection of Negative Emotional States from Electroencephalographic (EEG) Signals”, Annual Journal of Electronics, ISSN 1314-0078, Sofia 2014, pp.66-69.
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, M. Hofmann, M. Andersson, T. Ganchev (2014). PROMETHEUS: heterogeneous sensor database in support of research on human behavioral patterns in unrestricted environments, Signal, Image and Video Processing, ISSN: 1863-1703. Oct. 2014, vol.8, no.7, pp.1211–1231, DOI 10.1007/s11760-012-0346-9, http://www.springerlink.com/content/7840844077131961/fulltext.pdf (IF2014=1.430)
Kostoulas, T. Winkler, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, J. Köhler (2013). “The MoveOn Database: Motorcycle Environment Speech and Noise Database for Command and Control Applications”, Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, ISSN: 1574-020X, Springer, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 539-563. (IF2012=0.659) doi:10.1007/s10579-013-9222-7
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, J. J. Santamaria, S. Jimenez-Murcia, F. Fernandez-Aranda, N. Fakotakis (2012). Affective Speech Interface in Serious Games for Supporting Therapy of Mental Disorders, Expert Systems with Applications, vol.39, no.12, September 2012, pp. 11072–11079. DOI=10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.067.
Fernandez-Aranda, S. Jimenez-Murcia, J.J. Santamaria, K. Gunnard, A. Soto, E. Kalapanidas, R.G. Bults, C. Davarakis , T. Ganchev, R. Granero, D. Konstantas, T. Kostoulas, T. Lam, M. Lucas, C. Masuet-Aumatell, M.H. Moussa, J. Nielsen, E. Penelo (2012).Video games as a complementary tool in mental disorders: Playmancer a european multicenter study, Journal of Mental Health, 2012 Informa UK, Ltd., ISSN: 0963-8237, ISSN: 1360-0567, August 2012, 21(4): 364–374. DOI=10.3109/ 09638237.2012.664302.
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev (2012). Phone Duration Modeling of Affective Speech using Support Vector Regression, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA), ISSN: 2074-904X (Print), ISSN: 2074-9058 (Online), vol.4, no.8, 2012. pp.1-9. http://www.mecs-press.org/ijisa/v4n8.html
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Phonetic Segmentation of Emotional Speech with HMM-based Methods, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 0218-0014, 2010.
Lazaridis, T. Ganchev, T. Kostoulas, I. Mporas, N. 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, 2010. Springer, pp. 175-188. doi:10.1007/s10772-010-9077-x
Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Robust Speech Interaction in Motorcycle Environment, Expert Systems With Applications, ISSN: 0957-4174, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2010. pp. 1827-1835.
Калинков К., В. Маркова, Т. Ганчев (2018). Извличане на описатели от физиологични сигнали за разпознаване на емоции и стрес, списание Компютърни Науки и Технологии, Година XVI, Брой 2/2018, ТУ-Варна, стр. 34-41.

Edited volumes

[EV1] (Eds.) Nandal A., Zhou L., Dhaka A., Ganchev T., F. Nait-Abdesselam (2023). Machine Learning in Medical Imaging and Computer Vision. The IET Publishing, Dec. 2023. ISBN: 978-1-83953-593-2, Product code: PBHE0490, 382 pages.

[EV2] (Eds.) V. Markova, T. Ganchev (2021). Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, (BIA-2021), June 2-4, 2022, IEEE Digital Library, 2022.

[EV3] (Eds.) V. Markova, T. Ganchev (2020). Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, (BIA-2020), Sept. 24-27, 2020, IEEE Digital Library, 2020.

[EV4] (Eds.) V. Markova, T. Ganchev (2019). Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, (BIA-2019), Nov. 8-9, 2019, IEEE Digital Library, 2019.

[EV5] (Eds.) V. Markova, T. Ganchev (2017). Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Data Acquisition and Applications Workshop, Oct. 13-14, 2017, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. ColorPrint 2017.

[EV6] (Eds) T. Ganchev, R. Dimova (2015). Сборник Иновации и Бизнес 2015 ‐ Научен форум "Приложни технологии свързани със здравето", Печатна база ТУ‐Варна, 2015. ISBN 978‐954‐20‐0751‐7

Book chapters

[BC1] A.K. Sharma, A. Nandal, T. Ganchev, A. Dhaka. (2022). “Breast Cancer Classification Using CNN Extracted Features: A Comprehensive Review”, Chapter 8 in the edited volume “Application of Deep Learning Methods in Healthcare and Medical Science”, 1st Ed., Published 2022, Apple Academic Press, eBook ISBN: 9781003303855. Breast Cancer Classification Using CNN Extracted Features: A Comprehen (taylorfrancis.com)

[BC2] Markova V., T. Ganchev (2017). „Technological support to stress level monitoring”, Book Chapter 6 (DOI: 10.1049/PBHE010E_ch6) in Eds: R. Goleva, I. Ganchev, C. Dobre, N. Garcia, C. Valderrama), ‘Enhanced Living Environments: From Models to Technologies’, ISBN: 978-1-78561-211-4, e-ISBN: 9781785612121, in The IET Book Series on e-Health Technologies, IET Publisher, November 2017. pp.101-131.

[BC3] S. Jimenez-Murcia, F. Fernandez-Aranda, E. Kalapanidas, D. Konstantas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, T. Lam, J. Santamaria, T. Raguin, C. Breiteneder, H. Kaufmann, C. Davarakis (2009) "Playmancer Project: A Serious videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders", In: Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences. Stud Health Technol Inform., Chapter 39, Edited by:Wiederhold, B. & Riva, G. (Eds.). pp. 163-166 Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN:978-1-60750-017-9.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Vachinska S., Markova V., Ganchev T. (2022). A Risk Assessment Study on Musculoskeletal Disorders in Computer Users Based on A Modified Nordic Musculoskeletal Questionnaire, Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol.374 LNNS, pp.433-444, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-96638-6_45, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85127022778&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-030-96638-6_45&partnerID=40&md5=83e0bd05cb2a1927adc15298f4832c3b
Markova, V.I., Kalinkov, K.B., Ganchev, T.D. (2020). Improved Peak Detection Algorithm for Photoplethysmographic Signals, Proceedings of the 28th National Conference with International Participation, TELECOM 2020, art. no. 9299546, pp. 10-13. DOI: 10.1109/TELECOM50385.2020.9299546, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099470230&doi=10.1109%2fTELECOM50385.2020.9299546&partnerID=40&md5=43c06f7cb38e8dc4094c156a13ab8732
Feradov, F., Ganchev, T. (2020). Identification of Affective Mental Activity Based on Multichannel EEG Signals, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244279, pp. 101-104. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244279, Available https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096769425&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244279&partnerID=40&md5=a4bd7e3f324697f94753fddee3ef9bce
Marinova, G., Ganchev, T., Nikolov, N. (2020). Synthesis of Characteristic Descriptors for the Detection of Distress, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244488, pp. 73-76. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244488, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096795901&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244488&partnerID=40&md5=177698c6478b7939c3b049b4c8b57e6c
Kalinkov, K., Markova, V., Ganchev, T. (2020). Heart Rate Variability calculation methods, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244285, pp. 97-100. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244285, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096795834&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244285&partnerID=40&md5=a6cc3cf90f677d0cd2d475dbe1715907
Ivanov, M., Markova, V., Ganchev, T. (2020). An Overview of Network Architectures and Technology for Wearable Sensor-based Health Monitoring Systems, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244286, pp. 81-84. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244286, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096781747&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244286&partnerID=40&md5=1a54aacdc76ca2d1b9444f9385f4bc39
Feradov, F., Ganchev, T., Markova, V. (2020). Automated Detection of Cognitive Load from Peripheral Physiological Signals based on Hjorth's Parameters, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244287, pp. 85-88. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244287, Available at: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096760327&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244287&partnerID=40&md5=633f861669c48fe8af4df074753c54f7
Markova, V., Ganchev, T., Kalinkov, K. (2019), CLAS: A Database for Cognitive Load, Affect and Stress Recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967457. DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967457, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079281190&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967457&partnerID=40&md5=75cc951b2bde008df91514fc88254821
Kalinkov, K., Ganchev, T., Markova, V. (2019). Adaptive Feature Selection through Fisher Discriminant Ratio, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967450, DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967450, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079274220&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967450&partnerID=40&md5=234b27a685edb4fdf3b912083ff3f9c4
Pencheva, E., Markova, V., Atanasov, I., Ganchev, T. (2019). An approach to improve reliability of vital signs monitoring, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967467. DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967467, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079273588&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967467&partnerID=40&md5=c17350b4334f4974af9995543b59d4f8
Bougou, V., Mporas, I., Schirmer, P., Ganchev, T. (2019). Evaluation of EEG connectivity network measures based features in schizophrenia classification, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967453, DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967453, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079269691&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967453&partnerID=40&md5=c9693d715b3742d945d33b79d777043c
Markova, V.I., Ganchev, T.D. (2019). Technological support for the needs of personalized training, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019 -, art. no. 9000468. DOI: 10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000468, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081203446&doi=10.1109%2fEAEEIE46886.2019.9000468&partnerID=40&md5=5f86006b9c27caffc811f2ba89909e40
Feradov, F.N., Ganchev, T.D. (2019). Spectral Features of EEG Signals for the Automated Recognition of Negative Emotional States, 2019 28th International Scientific Conference Electronics, ET 2019 - Proceedings, art. no. 8878557, DOI: 10.1109/ET.2019.8878557, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074941352&doi=10.1109%2fET.2019.8878557&partnerID=40&md5=f822c3cb0d3ae59e9e1c8cf378dab193
Kalinkov, K., Markova, V., Ganchev, T. (2019). Front-end Processing of Physiological Signals for the Automated Detection of High-arousal Negative Valence Conditions. Proceedings of the 10th National Conference with International Participation, ELECTRONICA 2019, art. no. 8825647, DOI: 10.1109/ELECTRONICA.2019.8825647, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072819033&doi=10.1109%2fELECTRONICA.2019.8825647&partnerID=40&md5=f601757caf063152a92119a77d7deacc
Markova, T. Ganchev, K. Kalinkov (2018). “Detection of Negative Emotions and High-Arousal Negative-Valence States on the Move”, Proc. of the RTUWO'18, Riga, Latvia, Nov. 15 – 16, 2018, pp.61-65.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). „Constrained Attribute Selection for Stress Detection Based on Physiological Signals”, Proc. of the 2018 International Conference on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing (SSIP2018), Prague, Czech, October 12 – 14, 2018.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). “Three-step Attribute Selection for Stress Detection based on Physiological Signals”, Proc. XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET2018, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 13 – 15, 2018.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). “Automated Recognition of Affect and Stress evoked by Audio-Visual stimuli”, Proc. of the Seventh Balkan conference on lighting (BALKANLIGHT 2018), Varna, Bulgaria, September 20 – 22, 2018.
Ganchev, V. Markova, I. Lefterov, Y. Kalinin (2017). “Overall Design of the SLADE Data Acquisition System”, Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp.56-65.
Feradov, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev (2017). „Evaluation of Cepstral Coefficients as Features in EEG-based Recognition of Emotional States“, Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp 504-511
Markova, K. Kalinkov, P. Stanev, T. Ganchev (2017). “Automated Stress Level Monitoring in Mobile Setup”. Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria, in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp.323-331.
Feradov, T. Ganchev (2017). “Ranking of statistical features of negative emotional states from EEG signals”, Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Data Acquisition and Applications Workshop, Oct. 13-14, 2017, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. pp.20-23
Feradov F., Ganchev T. (2016). „Spatio-temporal EEG signal descriptors for recognition of negative emotional states“, International Scientific Conference Electronics (ET-2016) Sep 12 2016. IEEE
Feradov F., Ganchev, N. Nikolov (2015). “A Study of Short-Time Energy as a Feature in BCI”, International Scientific Conference UNITECH-2015, 21–22 November 2015, Gabrovo.
Ф. Ферадов, Ж. Жеков, Т. Ганчев (2015). “Оценка на ефективността на статистическите описатели, извлечени от времевата област, при класификацията на епилептични пристъпи”, Иновации и Бизнес 2015 ‹‹Приложни технологии свързани със здравето››, Окт. 9-10, ТУ-Варна
Н. Дуков, Т. Ганчев, Д. Ковачев (2015). „Изследване на архитектури на изкуствени невронни мрежи за класфикация на неврологични разстройства и сърдечни заболявания”, Иновации и Бизнес 2015 ‹‹Приложни технологии свързани със здравето››, Окт. 9-10, ТУ-Варна, pp.148-151.
Feradov, T. Ganchev, I. Ivanov (2015). Detection of Sleep Disorders Based on Time-Domain EEG Signal Descriptors. Годишник на ТУ-Варна – 2015, pp.54-58.
Feradov F., Ganchev (2014). “Detection of Negative Emotions from EEG Signals using Time-Domain Features”, International Scientific Conference UNITECH-2014, 21–22 November 2014, Gabrovo.
Feradov F., Ganchev T. (2014). „Evaluation of Electrode Setups for EEG-based Automated Emotion Detector”, Годишник на ТУ-Варна 2014.
Andersson, S. Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, J. Rydell, A. Ahlberg, N. Fakotakis, “Fusion of acoustic and optical sensor data for automatic fight detection in urban environments”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2010), Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010. doi:10.1109/icif.2010.5712105
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, A. Lazaridis, N. Fakotakis, “Enhancing Emotion Recognition from Speech through Feature Selection”, Proc. of the TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6-10, 2010.

Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Affect recognition in real life scenarios”, Proc. of the 3rd COST 2102 International Training School on Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Caserta, Italy, March 15-19, 2010. A. Esposito et al. (Eds.): COST 2102 Int. Training School 2010, LNCS 6456, 2011, pp. 429–435.
Kostoulas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, F. Fernández-Aranda, J. J. Santamaría, S. Jiménez-Murcia, M. Ben Moussa, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, N. Fakotakis, “The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environment”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3011-3015.
Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, “Heterogeneous Sensor Database in Support of Human Behaviour Analysis in Unrestricted Environments: The Audio Part”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3006-3010.
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, A. Störmer, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, Prometheus Database: A Multimodal Corpus for Research on Modeling and Interpreting Human Behavior, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Santorini, Greece. 5-7 July, 2009.
Jiménez-Murcia, S, Fernández-Aranda, F., Kalapanidas, E., Konstantas, D., Ganchev, T., Kocsis, O., Lam, T., Santmaría, JJ., Raguin, T., Breiteneder, C, Kaufmann, H., & Davarakis, C. (2009). Playmancer Project: A Serious videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders. (Presented at the 14th Annual CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference, Italy, 2009). In Wiederhold, B. & Riva, G. (Eds.). Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-60750-017-9, Stud Health Technol Inform., Chapter 39, pp. 163-166.
Kocsis, E. Kalapanidas, F. Fernández-Aranda, T. Lam, T. Ganchev, S. Jiménez-Murcia, T. Raguin, T. Kostoulas, N. Katsaounos, Serious videogames as therapeutical tool for mental disorders: enhanced human computer interaction in PlayMancer, 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09 (14, 15 - 17 July 2009), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts.
S. Lopez, J.J. Santamaría Lorenzo, I. Krug, L.F. Gamazo, K. Gunnard, E. Kalapanidas, D. Konstantas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, T. Lam, T. Raguin, C. Breiteneder, H. Kaufmann, C. Davarakis, F. Fernández-Aranda, S. Jiménez-Murcia, A Review of Serious Games as Psychological Support in Health, 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09 (14, 15 - 17 July 2009), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts.
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: The Effect of Emotional Speech on a Smart-Home Application, Proc of the 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE-2008, Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.
Ntalampiras, I. Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Audio Database in Support of Potential Threat and Crisis Situation Management, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Winkler, T. Kostoulas, R. Adderley, C. Bonkowski, T. Ganchev, J. Kohler, N. Fakotakis: The MoveOn Motorcycle Speech Corpus, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis: A Real-World Emotional Speech Corpus for Modern Greek, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Kalapanidas, H. Watanabe, C. Davarakis, H. Kaufmann, F.F. Aranda, T. Lam, T. Ganchev, D. Konstantas: PlayMancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008, July 5-8, Porto, Portugal.
Ahlberg, D. Arsic, T. Ganchev, A. Linderhed, P. Menezes, S. Ntalampiras, T. Olma, I. Potamitis, J. Ros: Prometheus: Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, N. 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, 2008., pp.235-242.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis: Detection of Negative Emotional States in Real-World Scenario, Proc. of the ICTAI-2007, October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, pp.502-509.
Zervas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Negative Emotional State Detection from Speech, Proc. of the CSNDSP-06, 19-21 July, 2006. pp. 310-313.

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Journal articles

Markov M., Kalinin Y., Markova V., Ganchev T. (2023). Towards Implementation of Emotional Intelligence in Human–Machine Collaborative Systems, MDPI Electronics, vol.12, no. 18, 3852
Markova, M. Markov, T. Ganchev, K. Kalinkov (2022). "An Automated Identification of Mental Workload in a Person- Independent Setup", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics, and Data Communication (IJEEDC), Vol.10, Issue 9, pp. 30-38.
М. Markov, Ganchev (2022). "Intelligent Human-Machine Interface Framework", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics, and Data Communication (IJEEDC), Vol.9, Issue 9, pp. 41-46.
Feradov F., Markova V., Ganchev T. (2022). Automated Detection of Improper Sitting Postures in Computer Users Based on Motion Capture Sensors, MDPI Computers, 11 (7), art. no. 116. (2022), DOI: 10.3390/computers11070116 (Scopus Q2; WoS Q3)
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, M. Hofmann, M. Andersson, T. Ganchev (2014). PROMETHEUS: heterogeneous sensor database in support of research on human behavioral patterns in unrestricted environments, Signal, Image and Video Processing, ISSN: 1863-1703. Oct. 2014, vol.8, no.7, pp.1211–1231, DOI 10.1007/s11760-012-0346-9, http://www.springerlink.com/content/7840844077131961/fulltext.pdf (IF2014=1.430)
M. Potirakis, N.-A. Tatlas, N. Zafeiropoulos, T. Ganchev, M. Rangoussi (2013). “Assessment of military intercom headsets for maximum voice reproduction level in high noise conditions”, Applied Acoustics, vol. 74, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 870-881, ISSN 0003-682X, 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.12.009, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003682X12003593 (IF2012=1.097)
M. Potirakis, T. Ganchev, G. Tuna, N.-A. Tatlas, R. Zogo (2013). “Design Considerations of an Interactive Robotic Agent for Public Libraries”, Journal of Balkan Libraries Union, ISSN 2148-077X, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2013. http://bkdb.trakya.edu.tr/index.php/bluj/article/view/3/8
Kostoulas, T. Winkler, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, J. Köhler (2013). “The MoveOn Database: Motorcycle Environment Speech and Noise Database for Command and Control Applications”, Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, ISSN: 1574-020X, Springer, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 539-563. (IF2012=0.659) doi:10.1007/s10579-013-9222-7
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, J. J. Santamaria, S. Jimenez-Murcia, F. Fernandez-Aranda, N. Fakotakis (2012). Affective Speech Interface in Serious Games for Supporting Therapy of Mental Disorders, Expert Systems with Applications, vol.39, no.12, September 2012, pp. 11072–11079. DOI=10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.067.
Fernandez-Aranda, S. Jimenez-Murcia, J.J. Santamaria, K. Gunnard, A. Soto, E. Kalapanidas, R.G. Bults, C. Davarakis , T. Ganchev, R. Granero, D. Konstantas, T. Kostoulas, T. Lam, M. Lucas, C. Masuet-Aumatell, M.H. Moussa, J. Nielsen, E. Penelo (2012).Video games as a complementary tool in mental disorders: Playmancer a european multicenter study, Journal of Mental Health, 2012 Informa UK, Ltd., ISSN: 0963-8237, ISSN: 1360-0567, August 2012, 21(4): 364–374. DOI=10.3109/ 09638237.2012.664302.
Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Robust Speech Interaction in Motorcycle Environment, Expert Systems With Applications, ISSN: 0957-4174, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2010. pp. 1827-1835.
Kalapanidas, C. Davarakis, F. Fernández-Aranda, S. Jiménez-Murcia, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, H. Kaufmann, T. Lam, D. Konstantas: PlayMancer: Games for Health with Accessibility in Mind, Communications & Strategies, no. 73, March 2009.
Giannakopoulos, N.-A. Tatlas, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: A Practical, Real-Time Speech-Driven Home Automation Front-end, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, ISSN 0098-3063, vol. 51, no. 2, May 2005. pp. 514-523.

Book chapters

[BC1] S. Jimenez-Murcia, F. Fernandez-Aranda, E. Kalapanidas, D. Konstantas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, T. Lam, J. Santamaria, T. Raguin, C. Breiteneder, H. Kaufmann, C. Davarakis (2009) "Playmancer Project: A Serious videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders", In: Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences. Stud Health Technol Inform., Chapter 39, Edited by:Wiederhold, B. & Riva, G. (Eds.). pp. 163-166 Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN:978-1-60750-017-9.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Markova, V.I., Ganchev, T.D. (2019). Technological support for the needs of personalized training, Proceedings of the 29th Annual Conference of the European Association for Education in Electrical and Information Engineering, EAEEIE 2019 -, art. no. 9000468. DOI: 10.1109/EAEEIE46886.2019.9000468, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85081203446&doi=10.1109%2fEAEEIE46886.2019.9000468&partnerID=40&md5=5f86006b9c27caffc811f2ba89909e40
Ganchev, V. Markova, I. Lefterov, Y. Kalinin, “Overall Design of the SLADE Data Acquisition System”, Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp.56-65.
Farhi, V. Valchev, T. Ganchev, V. Vanhecke, I.A. Gorriz, D. Bischof, H. Nikolov, V. Kiriakov (2013). “The TrainWind Project: an E-Learning Platform for Vocational Training in Wind Energy Technologies”, International Jubilee Conference: 50-th Anniversary Department ETET, 2013, Varna, Bulgaria.
Ν. Κατσαούνος, Ι. Μπόρας, Θ. Κωστούλας, T. Ganchev, Ν. Φακωτάκης (2010). Φωνητική πύλη Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών, ”, Proc. of the 5th National Conference ACOUSTICS 2010, Athens, Greece, October 4-6, 2010.
Kostoulas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, F. Fernández-Aranda, J. J. Santamaría, S. Jiménez-Murcia, M. Ben Moussa, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, N. Fakotakis, “The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environment”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3011-3015.
Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, “Heterogeneous Sensor Database in Support of Human Behaviour Analysis in Unrestricted Environments: The Audio Part”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3006-3010.
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, A. Störmer, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, Prometheus Database: A Multimodal Corpus for Research on Modeling and Interpreting Human Behavior, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Santorini, Greece. 5-7 July, 2009.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, Performance Evaluation of a Speech Interface for Motorcycle Environment, 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2009), April 23-25, 2009, Proc. published in the IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 296; Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations III; Eds. Iliadis, L., Vlahavas, I., Bramer, M.; (Boston: Springer), pp. 259–266.
Kocsis, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, G. Papadopoulos, N. Fakotakis: „Multi-modal system architecture for serious gaming”, Proc. published in the IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 296; Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations III; Eds. Iliadis, L., Vlahavas, I., Bramer, M.; (Boston: Springer), pp.441-447.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, T. Kostoulas, K. Kermanidis, N. Fakotakis, Automatic Speech Recognition System for Home Appliances Control, Proc of the 13^th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, PCI-2009, Corfu, Greece, September 10-12, 2009, pp.114-117. doi:10.1109/pci.2009.24
Jiménez-Murcia, S, Fernández-Aranda, F., Kalapanidas, E., Konstantas, D., Ganchev, T., Kocsis, O., Lam, T., Santmaría, JJ., Raguin, T., Breiteneder, C, Kaufmann, H., & Davarakis, C. (2009). Playmancer Project: A Serious videogame as an Additional Therapy Tool for Eating and Impulse Control Disorders. (Presented at the 14th Annual CyberTherapy & CyberPsychology Conference, Italy, 2009). In Wiederhold, B. & Riva, G. (Eds.). Annual Review of Cybertherapy and Telemedicine 2009: Advanced Technologies in the Behavioral, Social and Neurosciences. Amsterdam: IOS Press. ISBN: 978-1-60750-017-9, Stud Health Technol Inform., Chapter 39, pp. 163-166.
Kocsis, E. Kalapanidas, F. Fernández-Aranda, T. Lam, T. Ganchev, S. Jiménez-Murcia, T. Raguin, T. Kostoulas, N. Katsaounos, Serious videogames as therapeutical tool for mental disorders: enhanced human computer interaction in PlayMancer, 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09 (14, 15 - 17 July 2009), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts.
S. Lopez, J.J. Santamaría Lorenzo, I. Krug, L.F. Gamazo, K. Gunnard, E. Kalapanidas, D. Konstantas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, T. Lam, T. Raguin, C. Breiteneder, H. Kaufmann, C. Davarakis, F. Fernández-Aranda, S. Jiménez-Murcia, A Review of Serious Games as Psychological Support in Health, 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09 (14, 15 - 17 July 2009), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts.
Conconi, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, G. Papadopoulos, F. Fernández-Aranda, S. Jiménez-Murcia: PlayMancer: A Serious Gaming 3D Environment, Proc of the 4th International Conference on Automated Solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-Channel Distribution, AXMEDIS 2008, Florence, Italy, Nov. 17-19, 2008.
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: The Effect of Emotional Speech on a Smart-Home Application, Proc of the 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE-2008, Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.
Ntalampiras, I. Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Audio Database in Support of Potential Threat and Crisis Situation Management, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Winkler, T. Kostoulas, R. Adderley, C. Bonkowski, T. Ganchev, J. Kohler, N. Fakotakis: The MoveOn Motorcycle Speech Corpus, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Kalapanidas, H. Watanabe, C. Davarakis, H. Kaufmann, F.F. Aranda, T. Lam, T. Ganchev and D. Konstantas: PlayMancer: A European Serious Gaming 3D Environment, Proc. of the 3rd International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, ICSOFT 2008, July 5-8, Porto, Portugal.
Ahlberg, D. Arsic, T. Ganchev, A. Linderhed, P. Menezes, S. Ntalampiras, T. Olma, I. Potamitis, J. Ros: Prometheus: Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Kalapanidas, C. Davarakis, M. Nani, T. Winkler, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, A. Handzlik, G. Swiecanski, A. Badii, A. Khan, R. Adderley, F. Cappadona, D. Pirez: MoveON: A Multimodal Information Management Application for Police Motorcyclists, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Ganchev, O. Kocsis, D. Lyras, N. Katsaounos, I. Mporas, A. Lazaridis, T. Kostoulas, S. Ntalampiras, M. Siafarikas, G. Papadopoulos, K. Sgarbas, N. Fakotakis: Natural Spoken Dialogue Interaction: Technology, Tools, Resources and Applications, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, A. Lazaridis, S. Ntalampiras, N. Fakotakis: LOGOS: A Multimodal Dialogue System for Controlling Smart Appliances, Proc. of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, KES-IIMSS-2008, Piraeus, Greece, July 9-11, 2008, Piraeus, Greece, July 9-11, 2008, Studies in Computational Intelligence 142 (G.A. Tsihrintzis, et al Eds.), ISBN 978-3-540-68126-7, Springer, pp.585-594.
Lazaridis, T. Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, S. Ntalampiras, N. Fakotakis, Human Evaluation of the LOGOS Multimodal Dialogue System, 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA-2008, July 15-19, Athens, Greece.
Moller, J. Krebber, A. Raake, P. Smeele, M. Rajman, M. Melichar, V. Pallotta, G. Tsakou, B. Kladis, A. Vovos, J. Hoonhout, D. Schuchardt, N. Fakotakis, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: INSPIRE: Evaluation of a Smart-Home System for Infotainment Management and Device Control, Proc. of the LREC-2004, Lisbon, May 26-28 2004, pp.1603-1606.

Technical reports

[R1] Winkler T., Ganchev T., Kostoulas T., Mporas I., Lazaridis A., Ntalampiras S., Badii A., Adderley R., Bonkowski C. “Report on Audio databases, Noise processing environment, ASR and TTS modules”, Deliverable D5, MoveOn project (Multi-modal and multi-sensor zero-distraction interaction interface for two wheel vehicles ON the move, IST– 2005 – 034753), Fraunhofer, St. Augustin, Germany, 2007.

[R2] Kladis B., Vovos A., Gianakopoulos T., Ganchev T., Schuchardt D., “D5.2: Report on INSPIRE Prototype System”, Deliverable 5.2, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote-microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746), Knowledge S.A., Patras, Greece, September, 2004.

[R3] Kladis B., Vovos A., Gianakopoulos T., Tatlas N.-A., Ganchev T., Schuchardt D., “D5.1: Report on system Integration & Optimization”, Deliverable 5.1, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote-microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746), Knowledge S.A., Patras, Greece, March, 2004.

[R4] Boland H., Hoonhout J., Krebber J., Möller S., Schuchardt D., Melichar M., Ganchev T., Kladis B., Smeele P., “System Usability Evaluation Report”, Deliverable 6.1, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote-microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746). The Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), The Netherlands, July, 2004.

[R5] Smeele P., Krebber J., Möller S., Ganchev T., Vovos A., Kladis B. “System Component Assessment Report”, Deliverable 6.1, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote-microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746). Institut für Kommunikationsakustik, Ruhr-Universität, D-Bochum, Germany, February, 2004.

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Journals

Ventura T.M., Ganchev T.D., Pérez-Granados C., de Oliveira A.G., Pedroso G.S.G., Marques M.I., Schuchmann K.-L. (2024). The importance of acoustic background modelling in CNN-based detection of the Neotropical White-lored Spinetail (Aves, Passeriformes, Furnaridae). Bioacoustics (TBIO), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/09524622.2024.2309362.
Zhou L., Nandal A., Ganchev T., Dhaka A. (2022). Breast Cancer Detection by Fusion of Deep Features with CNN Extracted Features, International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications, ISSN: 1740-8865, 2022. Inderscience Enterprises Ltd, Switzerland.
Dukov, N.T., Ganchev, T.D., Vrahatis, M.N. (2019). Evaluation of PNN pattern-layer activation function approximations in different training setups, International Journal of Speech Technology, Volume 22, Issue 4, 1 December 2019, 1039-1049
Н. Дуков, Т. Ганчев, (2018). Нови невронни модели на ЛРВНМ базирани на RELU активиращи функции, списание Компютърни Науки и Технологии, ISSN 1312-3335, Година XVI, Брой 1/2018, ТУ-Варна, стр.135-142.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis (2011). Context-adaptive pre-processing scheme for robust speech recognition in fast-varying noise environment, Signal Processing, 91 (8) 2011, pp. 2101-2111. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.03.020,
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, G. Kokkinakis, N. Fakotakis: Improving Phone Duration Modelling Using Support Vector Regression Fusion, Speech Communication, ISSN 0167-6393, vol. 53, no.1, Jan. 2011, pp. 85-97.
Ganchev: Enhanced Training for the Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, ISSN: 0218-2130, vol. 18, no. 6, 2009. pp. 853-881.
Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman: Particle Swarm Optimization for Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, IEEE, USA, ISSN: 1558-7916, vol. 17, no. 2, 2009. pp. 344-353.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Phonetic Segmentation using Multiple Speech Features, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 73-85. doi:10.1007/s10772-009-9038-4
Ganchev, D.K. Tasoulis, M.N. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with application to Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Neurocomputing, ISSN 0925-2312, vol. 70, no. 7-9, March 2007. pp. 1424-1438.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with Application to Speaker Verification, GESTS International Transaction on Speech Science and Engineering, ISSN 1738-4737, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2004. pp. 1-13.

Edited volumes

[EV2] (Eds.) Kovalev I., Semenkin E., Schwenker F., Shaidurov V., Ganchev T., Škraba A., Stanimirović P., Kolehmainen M., Kronberger G., Affenzeller M., Brester C., Ryzhikov I., Kazakovtsev L., Sopov E., Semenkina M., Akhmedova S., Stanovov V. (2022). Preface to the 2022 CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol.3091, 5th International Scientific Workshop on Modeling, Information Processing and Computing, MIP: Computing-V 2022, Krasnoyarsk, 25 January 2022, Code 177343, URL: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125389695&partnerID=40&md5=d4a06e20d4306bb13aa47b8429f8f22a

Book chapters

[BC2] Ganchev T.: Locally Recurrent Neural Networks and Their Applications, Chapter IX in Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends: Algorithms, Methods and Techniques, ISBN 978-1-60566-766-9, (Eds: E. Soria, J.D. Martin, R. Magdalena, M. Martinez, and A.J. Serrano.), IGI Global, August 2009, pp.195-222.

[BC3] Ganchev T., Parsopoulos K.E., Vrahatis M.N., Fakotakis N.: Partially Connected Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks, Chapter 18 in Recurrent Neural Networks, ISBN 978-3-902613-28-8, September 2008, (Eds: X.-L. Hu and P. Balasubramaniam), InTech, Vienna, Austria, pp.377-400.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Dukov, T. Ganchev, D. Kovachev (2017). „FPGA implementation of the Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network“. Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. , in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp 419-428.
Dukov, T. Ganchev (2017). “Empirical study on ReLU based neuron models of the LRPNN”, Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Data Acquisition and Applications Workshop, Oct. 13-14, 2017, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. pp.24-27
Dukov N., Ganchev, D. Kovachev, M. Vrahatis (2015). “Population Size Trade-offs in DE and PSO-based Methods for PNN Training”, International Scientific Conference, UNITECH-2015, 21–22 November 2015, Gabrovo.
Н. Дуков, Т. Ганчев, Д. Ковачев (2015). „Изследване на архитектури на изкуствени невронни мрежи за класфикация на неврологични разстройства и сърдечни заболявания”, Иновации и Бизнес 2015 ‹‹Приложни технологии свързани със здравето››, Окт. 9-10, ТУ-Варна, pp.148-151.
Dukov, T. Ganchev, D. Kovachev (2015). Reduced-complexity FPGA-implementation of PNN for classification of binary images. Годишник на ТУ-Варна – 2015, pp.59-63.
Dukov N., Ganchev, D. Kovachev (2014). “FPGA Implementation of Probabilistic Neural Network with the Altera Cyclone Family”, International Scientific Conference UNITECH-2014, 21–22 November 2014, Gabrovo.
Dukov N., Ganchev T., Kovachev D. (2014). “Empirical Study оf PNN Sensitivity to the Exponential Function Approximation in FPGA Implementations”, Годишник на ТУ-Варна 2014.
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Support Vector Regression Fusion Scheme in Phone Duration Modeling”, Proc. of the ICASSP-2011, Prague, Check Republic, pp. 4732-4735. doi:10.1109/icassp.2011.5947412
Andersson, S. Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, J. Rydell, A. Ahlberg, N. Fakotakis, “Fusion of acoustic and optical sensor data for automatic fight detection in urban environments”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2010), Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010. doi:10.1109/icif.2010.5712105
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: A Hybrid Architecture for Automatic Segmentation of Speech Waveforms, Proc. of the ICASSP-2008, Las Vegas, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008, pp.4457-4460. doi:10.1109/icassp.2008.4518645
Saeidi, H.R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R.D. Rodman: Hierarchical mixture clustering and its application to GMM based text independent speaker identification, Proc. of the International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST2008, Teheran, Iran, Aug. 27-28, 2008, pp.770-773.
Saeidi, H.S. Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R.D. Rodman: Effects of Feature Domain Normalizations on Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, 13th International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2008, Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008.
Saeidi, T. Ganchev, H.S. Mohammadi: Text independent speaker verification using enhanced sorted Gaussian mixture model, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC-07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 24-27, 2007.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the ICASSP-2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, Vol.1, pp. 41-44.
Maragoudakis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-Of-Speech Tagger, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. LNAI 3206/2004, Sept. 2004, pp. 137-145.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003. Volume III, pp. 1673-1676.

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Journal articles

Markova V, Ganchev T, Filkova S, Markov M. (2024). MMD-MSD: A Multimodal Multisensory Dataset in Support of Research and Technology Development for Musculoskeletal Disorders. Algorithms. 2024; 17(5):187. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/a17050187
Markova, M. Markov, T. Ganchev, K. Kalinkov (2022). "An Automated Identification of Mental Workload in a Person-Independent Setup", International Journal of Electrical, Electronics, and Data Communication (IJEEDC), Vol.10, Issue 9, pp. 30-38.
Markova V., Ganchev T., Kalinkov K., Markov M. (2021). Detection of acute stress caused by cognitive tasks based on physiological signals, Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics, vol.10, no.5, pp. 2539-2547, DOI: 10.11591/eei.v10i5.3130
Feradov, F., Mporas, I., Ganchev, T. (2020). Evaluation of features in detection of dislike responses to audio–visual stimuli from EEG signals. Computers, 9 (2), art. no. 33. DOI: 10.3390/computers9020033, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85084117098&doi=10.3390%2fcomputers9020033&partnerID=40&md5=22df05ec158a97455852c23605d714e8
Калинков К., В. Маркова, Т. Ганчев (2018). Извличане на описатели от физиологични сигнали за разпознаване на емоции и стрес, списание Компютърни Науки и Технологии, Година XVI, Брой 2/2018, ТУ-Варна, стр. 34-41.
Markova V., C. Dicheva, F. Feradov, Y. Kalinin, Ganchev, (2016). “SLADE –stress level and emotional state assessment database: phase 1”, Computer science and technologies journal, Technical University of Varna, Varna, Bulgaria, vol.1, pp.60-68, 2016.
Feradov, Т. Ganchev (2015). “Ranking of EEG Time-Domain Features on the Negative Emotions Recognition Task”, Annual Journal of Electronics, ISSN 1314-0078, vol. 9, pp. 26-29.
Feradov F., Ganchev (2014). “Detection of Negative Emotional States from Electroencephalographic (EEG) Signals”, Annual Journal of Electronics, ISSN 1314-0078, Sofia 2014, pp.66-69.

Book chapters

[BC1] Markova V., T. Ganchev (2017). „Technological support to stress level monitoring”, Book Chapter 6 (DOI: 10.1049/PBHE010E_ch6) in Eds: R. Goleva, I. Ganchev, C. Dobre, N. Garcia, C. Valderrama), ‘Enhanced Living Environments: From Models to Technologies’, ISBN: 978-1-78561-211-4, e-ISBN: 9781785612121, in The IET Book Series on e-Health Technologies, IET Publisher, November 2017. pp.101-131.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Markova, V.I., Kalinkov, K.B., Ganchev, T.D. (2020). Improved Peak Detection Algorithm for Photoplethysmographic Signals, Proceedings of the 28th National Conference with International Participation, TELECOM 2020, art. no. 9299546, pp. 10-13. DOI: 10.1109/TELECOM50385.2020.9299546, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85099470230&doi=10.1109%2fTELECOM50385.2020.9299546&partnerID=40&md5=43c06f7cb38e8dc4094c156a13ab8732
Feradov, F., Ganchev, T. (2020). Identification of Affective Mental Activity Based on Multichannel EEG Signals, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244279, pp. 101-104. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244279, Available https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096769425&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244279&partnerID=40&md5=a4bd7e3f324697f94753fddee3ef9bce
Kalinkov, K., Markova, V., Ganchev, T. (2020). Heart Rate Variability calculation methods, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244285, pp. 97-100. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244285, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096795834&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244285&partnerID=40&md5=a6cc3cf90f677d0cd2d475dbe1715907
Feradov, F., Ganchev, T., Markova, V. (2020). Automated Detection of Cognitive Load from Peripheral Physiological Signals based on Hjorth's Parameters, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2020, art. no. 9244287, pp. 85-88. DOI: 10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244287, Available at: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85096760327&doi=10.1109%2fBIA50171.2020.9244287&partnerID=40&md5=633f861669c48fe8af4df074753c54f7
Markova, V., Ganchev, T., Kalinkov, K. (2019), CLAS: A Database for Cognitive Load, Affect and Stress Recognition, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967457. DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967457, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079281190&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967457&partnerID=40&md5=75cc951b2bde008df91514fc88254821
Kalinkov, K., Ganchev, T., Markova, V. (2019). Adaptive Feature Selection through Fisher Discriminant Ratio, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967450, DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967450, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079274220&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967450&partnerID=40&md5=234b27a685edb4fdf3b912083ff3f9c4
Pencheva, E., Markova, V., Atanasov, I., Ganchev, T. (2019). An approach to improve reliability of vital signs monitoring, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967467. DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967467, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079273588&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967467&partnerID=40&md5=c17350b4334f4974af9995543b59d4f8
Bougou, V., Mporas, I., Schirmer, P., Ganchev, T. (2019). Evaluation of EEG connectivity network measures based features in schizophrenia classification, Proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications, BIA 2019, art. no. 8967453, DOI: 10.1109/BIA48344.2019.8967453, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85079269691&doi=10.1109%2fBIA48344.2019.8967453&partnerID=40&md5=c9693d715b3742d945d33b79d777043c
Feradov, F.N., Ganchev, T.D. (2019). Spectral Features of EEG Signals for the Automated Recognition of Negative Emotional States, 2019 28th International Scientific Conference Electronics, ET 2019 - Proceedings, art. no. 8878557, DOI: 10.1109/ET.2019.8878557, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85074941352&doi=10.1109%2fET.2019.8878557&partnerID=40&md5=f822c3cb0d3ae59e9e1c8cf378dab193
Kalinkov, K., Markova, V., Ganchev, T. (2019). Front-end Processing of Physiological Signals for the Automated Detection of High-arousal Negative Valence Conditions. Proceedings of the 10th National Conference with International Participation, ELECTRONICA 2019, art. no. 8825647, DOI: 10.1109/ELECTRONICA.2019.8825647, Available: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85072819033&doi=10.1109%2fELECTRONICA.2019.8825647&partnerID=40&md5=f601757caf063152a92119a77d7deacc
Markova, T. Ganchev, K. Kalinkov (2018). “Detection of Negative Emotions and High-Arousal Negative-Valence States on the Move”, Proc. of the RTUWO'18, Riga, Latvia, Nov. 15 – 16, 2018, pp.61-65.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). „Constrained Attribute Selection for Stress Detection Based on Physiological Signals”, Proc. of the 2018 International Conference on Sensors, Signal and Image Processing (SSIP2018), Prague, Czech, October 12 – 14, 2018.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). “Three-step Attribute Selection for Stress Detection based on Physiological Signals”, Proc. XXVII International Scientific Conference Electronics - ET2018, Sozopol, Bulgaria, September 13 – 15, 2018.
Markova, T. Ganchev (2018). “Automated Recognition of Affect and Stress evoked by Audio-Visual stimuli”, Proc. of the Seventh Balkan conference on lighting (BALKANLIGHT 2018), Varna, Bulgaria, September 20 – 22, 2018.
Ganchev, V. Markova, I. Lefterov, Y. Kalinin, “Overall Design of the SLADE Data Acquisition System”, Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp.56-65.
Feradov, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev (2017). „Evaluation of Cepstral Coefficients as Features in EEG-based Recognition of Emotional States“, Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria. in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp 504-511
Markova, K. Kalinkov, P. Stanev, T. Ganchev (2017). “Automated Stress Level Monitoring in Mobile Setup”. Proc. of the IITI-2017, September 14-16, 2017, Varna, Bulgaria, in “Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing”, ISSN: 2194-5357, vol. 680, pp.323-331.
Feradov, T. Ganchev (2017). “Ranking of statistical features of negative emotional states from EEG signals”, Proc. of the IEEE Biomedical Data Acquisition and Applications Workshop, Oct. 13-14, 2017, Technical University of Varna, Bulgaria. pp.20-23
Feradov F., Ganchev T. (2016). „Spatio-temporal EEG signal descriptors for recognition of negative emotional states“, International Scientific Conference Electronics (ET-2016) Sep 12 2016. IEEE
Feradov F., Ganchev, N. Nikolov (2015). “A Study of Short-Time Energy as a Feature in BCI”, International Scientific Conference UNITECH-2015, 21–22 November 2015, Gabrovo.
Ф. Ферадов, Ж. Жеков, Т. Ганчев (2015). “Оценка на ефективността на статистическите описатели, извлечени от времевата област, при класификацията на епилептични пристъпи”, Иновации и Бизнес 2015 ‹‹Приложни технологии свързани със здравето››, Окт. 9-10, ТУ-Варна,
Feradov, T. Ganchev, I. Ivanov (2015). Detection of Sleep Disorders Based on Time-Domain EEG Signal Descriptors. Годишник на ТУ-Варна – 2015, pp.54-58.
Feradov F., Ganchev (2014). “Detection of Negative Emotions from EEG Signals using Time-Domain Features”, International Scientific Conference UNITECH-2014, 21–22 November 2014, Gabrovo.
Feradov F., Ganchev T. (2014). „Evaluation of Electrode Setups for EEG-based Automated Emotion Detector”, Годишник на ТУ-Варна 2014.

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Books

[B1]. Ganchev T. (2011) Contemporary methods for speech parameterization. First Edition. Springer New York, 2011. ISBN: 978-1-4419-8446-3, e-ISBN: 978-1-4419-8447-0. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8447-0.

Journal articles

Ganchev, M. Siafarikas, I. Mporas, Ts. Stoyanova (2014). “Wavelet basis selection for enhanced speech parametrization in speaker verification”, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN: 1381-2416, vol. 17, no. 2014, pp. 27-36. DOI: 10.1007/s10772-013-9202-8.
Paunov P., T. Ganchev (2014). “Low-complexity method for height estimation from speech”, Списание „Акустика“, ISSN 1312-4897, СЕЕС– София, България, брой 16, Дек. 2014, стр.121-124.
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, M. Hofmann, M. Andersson, T. Ganchev (2014). PROMETHEUS: heterogeneous sensor database in support of research on human behavioral patterns in unrestricted environments, Signal, Image and Video Processing, ISSN: 1863-1703. Oct. 2014, vol.8, no.7, pp.1211–1231, DOI 10.1007/s11760-012-0346-9, http://www.springerlink.com/content/7840844077131961/fulltext.pdf (IF2014=1.430)
M. Potirakis, N.-A. Tatlas, N. Zafeiropoulos, T. Ganchev, M. Rangoussi (2013). “Assessment of military intercom headsets for maximum voice reproduction level in high noise conditions”, Applied Acoustics, vol. 74, no. 6, June 2013, pp. 870-881, ISSN 0003-682X, 10.1016/j.apacoust.2012.12.009, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003682X12003593 (IF2012=1.097)
M. Potirakis, T. Ganchev, G. Tuna, N.-A. Tatlas, R. Zogo (2013). “Design Considerations of an Interactive Robotic Agent for Public Libraries”, Journal of Balkan Libraries Union, ISSN 2148-077X, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-6, 2013. http://bkdb.trakya.edu.tr/index.php/bluj/article/view/3/8
Kostoulas, T. Winkler, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, J. Köhler (2013). “The MoveOn Database: Motorcycle Environment Speech and Noise Database for Command and Control Applications”, Language Resources and Evaluation Journal, ISSN: 1574-020X, Springer, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 539-563. (IF2012=0.659) doi:10.1007/s10579-013-9222-7
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, J. J. Santamaria, S. Jimenez-Murcia, F. Fernandez-Aranda, N. Fakotakis (2012). Affective Speech Interface in Serious Games for Supporting Therapy of Mental Disorders, Expert Systems with Applications, vol.39, no.12, September 2012, pp. 11072–11079. DOI=10.1016/j.eswa.2012.03.067.
Lazaridis, T. Ganchev, I.Mporas, E. Dermatas, N. Fakotakis, (2012). Two-stage phone duration modelling with feature construction and feature vector extension for the needs of speech synthesis, Computer Speech & Language, ISSN 0885-2308, vol. 26, no. 4, August 2012, pp. 274-292, DOI=10.1016/j.csl.2012.01.009.
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev (2012). Phone Duration Modeling of Affective Speech using Support Vector Regression, International Journal of Intelligent Systems and Applications (IJISA), ISSN: 2074-904X (Print), ISSN: 2074-9058 (Online), vol.4, no.8, 2012. pp.1-9. http://www.mecs-press.org/ijisa/v4n8.html
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis (2011). Context-adaptive pre-processing scheme for robust speech recognition in fast-varying noise environment, Signal Processing, 91 (8) 2011, pp. 2101-2111. DOI: 10.1016/j.sigpro.2011.03.020,
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, G. Kokkinakis, N. Fakotakis: Improving Phone Duration Modelling Using Support Vector Regression Fusion, Speech Communication, ISSN 0167-6393, vol. 53, no.1, Jan. 2011, pp. 85-97.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Phonetic Segmentation of Emotional Speech with HMM-based Methods, International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 0218-0014, 2010.
Lazaridis, T. Ganchev, T. Kostoulas, I. Mporas, N. 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, 2010. Springer, pp. 175-188. doi:10.1007/s10772-010-9077-x
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis: Speech Enhancement for Robust Speech Recognition in Motorcycle Environment, International Journal on AI Tools (IJAIT), Special issue on “Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Pervasive Computing”, vol. 19, no. 2, 2010, pp. 159-173. doi:10.1142/s0218213010000091
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Speech Segmentation using Regression Fusion of Boundary Predictions, Computer Speech & Language, ISSN: 0885-2308, vol. 24, no. 2, 2010. Elsevier, pp. 273-288.
Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Robust Speech Interaction in Motorcycle Environment, Expert Systems With Applications, ISSN: 0957-4174, vol. 37, no. 3, March 2010. pp. 1827-1835.
Mporas, T. Ganchev: Estimation of Unknown Speaker’s Height from Speech, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 12, no. 4, 2009, pp.149-160.
Ganchev: Enhanced Training for the Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks, International Journal of Artificial Intelligence Tools, ISSN: 0218-2130, vol. 18, no. 6, 2009. pp. 853-881.
Saeidi, H. R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R. D. Rodman: Particle Swarm Optimization for Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language Processing, IEEE, USA, ISSN: 1558-7916, vol. 17, no. 2, 2009. pp. 344-353.
Kalapanidas, C. Davarakis, F. Fernández-Aranda, S. Jiménez-Murcia, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, H. Kaufmann, T. Lam, D. Konstantas: PlayMancer: Games for Health with Accessibility in Mind, Communications & Strategies, no. 73, March 2009.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Phonetic Segmentation using Multiple Speech Features, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 11, no. 2, June 2008, pp. 73-85. doi:10.1007/s10772-009-9038-4
Siafarikas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Speech Recognition Using Wavelet Packet Features, Journal of Wavelet Theory and Applications, ISSN 0973-6336, vol. 2, no. 1, 2008. pp. 41-59.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Wavelet Packet Approximation of Critical Bands for Speaker Verification. International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 10, no. 4, 2007. pp. 197-218.
Ganchev, D.K. Tasoulis, M.N. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with application to Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Neurocomputing, ISSN 0925-2312, vol. 70, no. 7-9, March 2007. pp. 1424-1438.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, M. Siafarikas, N. Fakotakis: Comparison of Speech Features on the Speech Recognition Task, Journal of Computer Science, ISSN 1549-3636, vol. 3, no. 8, 2007. pp. 608-616.
Giannakopoulos, N.-A. Tatlas, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: A Practical, Real-Time Speech-Driven Home Automation Front-end, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, ISSN 0098-3063, vol. 51, no. 2, May 2005. pp. 514-523.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification for Real Fast-Varying Noisy Environments, International Journal of Speech Technology, ISSN 1381-2416, vol. 7, no.4, October 2004. pp. 281-292.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks with Application to Speaker Verification, GESTS International Transaction on Speech Science and Engineering, ISSN 1738-4737, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2004. pp. 1-13.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Speaker Verification Reinforced by Objective Wavelet Packets-based Speech Parameterization, GESTS International Transaction on Speech Science and Engineering, ISSN 1738-4737, vol. 1, no. 2, December 2004. pp. 60-71.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: A Model Based Approach for Robust Text-Independent Speaker Verification in Adverse Environments, Signal Processing and Pattern Recognition, AMSE Periodicals, vol. 47, no. 3, 2004. pp. 47-66.

Book chapters

[BC4] Ganchev T.: Locally Recurrent Neural Networks and Their Applications, Chapter IX in Handbook of Research on Machine Learning Applications and Trends: Algorithms, Methods and Techniques, ISBN 978-1-60566-766-9, (Eds: E. Soria, J.D. Martin, R. Magdalena, M. Martinez, and A.J. Serrano.), IGI Global, August 2009, pp.195-222.

[BC5] Ganchev T., Parsopoulos K.E., Vrahatis M.N., Fakotakis N.: Partially Connected Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks, Chapter 18 in Recurrent Neural Networks, ISBN 978-3-902613-28-8, September 2008, (Eds: X.-L. Hu and P. Balasubramaniam), InTech, Vienna, Austria, pp.377-400.

Conference Proceedings and Lecture Notes

Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, “Dynamic Selection of a Speech Enhancement Method for Robust Speech Recognition in Moving Motorcycle Environment”, Proc. of the ICASSP-2011, Prague, Check Republic, pp. 5176-5179.
Lazaridis, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Support Vector Regression Fusion Scheme in Phone Duration Modeling”, Proc. of the ICASSP-2011, Prague, Check Republic, pp. 4732-4735. doi:10.1109/icassp.2011.5947412
Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, “Automatic Height Estimation from Speech in Real-World Setup”, Proc. of the 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2010), Aalborg, Danmark, August 23-27, 2010. pp. 800-804.
Theodorou, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Sound Source Enumeration in Real-World Setup”, Proc. of the 5th National Conference ACOUSTICS 2010, Athens, Greece, October 4-6, 2010.
Andersson, S. Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, J. Rydell, A. Ahlberg, N. Fakotakis, “Fusion of acoustic and optical sensor data for automatic fight detection in urban environments”, Proc. of the 13th International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION 2010), Edinburgh, UK, July 26-29, 2010. doi:10.1109/icif.2010.5712105
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, A. Lazaridis, N. Fakotakis, “Enhancing Emotion Recognition from Speech through Feature Selection”, Proc. of the TSD 2010, Brno, Czech Republic, September 6-10, 2010.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, “Affect recognition in real life scenarios”, Proc. of the 3rd COST 2102 International Training School on Toward Autonomous, Adaptive, and Context-Aware Multimodal Interfaces: Theoretical and Practical Issues, Caserta, Italy, March 15-19, 2010. A. Esposito et al. (Eds.): COST 2102 Int. Training School 2010, LNCS 6456, 2011, pp. 429–435.
Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, “Audio Features Selection for Automatic Height Estimation from Speech”, S. Konstantopoulos et al. (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models, and Applications, Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2010, Athens, Greece, May 4-7, 2010, LNAI 6040/2010. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, pp. 81–90.
Lazaridis, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, T. Kostoulas, N. Fakotakis, “Feature Selection for Improved Phone Duration Modeling of Greek Emotional Speech”, S. Konstantopoulos et al. (Eds.): Advances in Artificial Intelligence: Theories, Models, and Applications, Proceedings of the 6th Hellenic Conference on AI, SETN 2010, Athens, Greece, May 4-7, 2010, LNAI 6040. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010, pp. 357–362.
Ν. Κατσαούνος, Ι. Μπόρας, Θ. Κωστούλας, T. Ganchev, Ν. Φακωτάκης (2010). Φωνητική πύλη Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών, ”, Proc. of the 5th National Conference ACOUSTICS 2010, Athens, Greece, October 4-6, 2010.
Lazaridis, T. Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, “Vergina: A Modern Greek Speech Database for Speech Synthesis”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 117-121.
Kostoulas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, F. Fernández-Aranda, J. J. Santamaría, S. Jiménez-Murcia, M. Ben Moussa, N. Magnenat-Thalmann, N. Fakotakis, “The PlayMancer Database: A Multimodal Affect Database in Support of Research and Development Activities in Serious Game Environment”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3011-3015.
Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, “Heterogeneous Sensor Database in Support of Human Behaviour Analysis in Unrestricted Environments: The Audio Part”, Proc. of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010), May 19-21, Valletta, Malta, Eds. N. Calzolari et al., European Language Resources Association (ELRA), ISBN: 2-9517408-6-7. pp. 3006-3010.
Ganchev, A. Lazaridis, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis, Average Performance Loss Measure for Assessment of Voice Conversion Systems, Proc. of the 13-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM'2009, June 21-25, St. Petersburg, Russia. pp. 275-280.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, Greek - Cypriot Dialect Recognition based on Phone Recognition Features, Proc. of the 13-th International Conference on Speech and Computer SPECOM'2009, June 21-25, St. Petersburg, Russia. pp. 271-274.
Mporas, O. Kocsis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, A Collaborative Speech Enhancement Approach For Speech Recognition In Motorcycle Environment, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Santorini, Greece. 5-7 July, 2009. doi:10.1109/icdsp.2009.5201212
Ntalampiras, D. Arsić, A. Störmer, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, Prometheus Database: A Multimodal Corpus for Research on Modeling and Interpreting Human Behavior, Proc. of the 16th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP 2009), Santorini, Greece. 5-7 July, 2009.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, Performance Evaluation of a Speech Interface for Motorcycle Environment, 5th IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications & Innovations (AIAI 2009), April 23-25, 2009, Proc. published in the IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 296; Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations III; Eds. Iliadis, L., Vlahavas, I., Bramer, M.; (Boston: Springer), pp. 259–266.
Kocsis, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, G. Papadopoulos, N. Fakotakis: „Multi-modal system architecture for serious gaming”, Proc. published in the IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, Volume 296; Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations III; Eds. Iliadis, L., Vlahavas, I., Bramer, M.; (Boston: Springer), pp.441-447.
Mporas, A. Lazaridis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, Using Hybrid HMM-based Speech Segmentation to Improve Synthetic Speech Quality, Proc of the 13^th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, PCI-2009, Corfu, Greece, September 10-12, 2009, pp.118-122. doi:10.1109/pci.2009.25
Mporas, T. Ganchev, T. Kostoulas, K. Kermanidis, N. Fakotakis, Automatic Speech Recognition System for Home Appliances Control, Proc of the 13^th Panhellenic Conference in Informatics, PCI-2009, Corfu, Greece, September 10-12, 2009, pp.114-117. doi:10.1109/pci.2009.24
Kocsis, E. Kalapanidas, F. Fernández-Aranda, T. Lam, T. Ganchev, S. Jiménez-Murcia, T. Raguin, T. Kostoulas, N. Katsaounos, Serious videogames as therapeutical tool for mental disorders: enhanced human computer interaction in PlayMancer, 13th International Conference on Information Visualisation IV09 (14, 15 - 17 July 2009), Pompeu Fabra University (UPF), Barcelona, Spain. Poster & abstract in the Book of abstracts.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: A Hybrid Architecture for Automatic Segmentation of Speech Waveforms, Proc. of the ICASSP-2008, Las Vegas, USA, March 30 - April 4, 2008, pp.4457-4460. doi:10.1109/icassp.2008.4518645
Ganchev, A. Lazaridis, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis: Performance Evaluation for Voice Conversion Systems, Proc. of the 11th International Conference, TSD 2008, Brno, Czech Republic, September 8-12, 2008, LNAI 5246, Sojka et al. (Eds), Springer-Verlag, ISSN 0302-9743, pp.317-324.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Phonotactic Recognition of Greek and Cypriot Dialects from Telephone Speech, Proc. of the SETN 2008, Oct. 2-4 2008, Syros, Greece, pp.173-181.
Saeidi, H.R. Sadegh Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R.D. Rodman: Hierarchical mixture clustering and its application to GMM based text independent speaker identification, Proc. of the International Symposium on Telecommunications, IST2008, Teheran, Iran, Aug. 27-28, 2008, pp.770-773.
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: The Effect of Emotional Speech on a Smart-Home Application, Proc of the 21st International Conference on Industrial, Engineering & Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems, IEA-AIE-2008, Wroclaw, Poland, June 18-20, 2008.
Ntalampiras, I. Potamitis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Audio Database in Support of Potential Threat and Crisis Situation Management, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Winkler, T. Kostoulas, R. Adderley, C. Bonkowski, T. Ganchev, J. Kohler, N. Fakotakis: The MoveOn Motorcycle Speech Corpus, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis: A Real-World Emotional Speech Corpus for Modern Greek, LREC-2008, Morocco, May 28-30, 2008.
Saeidi, H.S. Mohammadi, T. Ganchev, R.D. Rodman: Effects of Feature Domain Normalizations on Text-Independent Speaker Verification Using Sorted Adapted Gaussian Mixture Models, 13th International CSI Computer Conference, CSICC-2008, Kish Island, Iran, March 9-11, 2008.
Ahlberg, D. Arsic, T. Ganchev, A. Linderhed, P. Menezes, S. Ntalampiras, T. Olma, I. Potamitis, J. Ros: Prometheus: Prediction and interpretation of human behaviour based on probabilistic structures and heterogeneous sensors, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Kalapanidas, C. Davarakis, M. Nani, T. Winkler, T. Ganchev, O. Kocsis, N. Fakotakis, A. Handzlik, G. Swiecanski, A. Badii, A. Khan, R. Adderley, F. Cappadona, D. Pirez: MoveON: A Multimodal Information Management Application for Police Motorcyclists, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Ganchev, O. Kocsis, D. Lyras, N. Katsaounos, I. Mporas, A. Lazaridis, T. Kostoulas, S. Ntalampiras, M. Siafarikas, G. Papadopoulos, K. Sgarbas, N. Fakotakis: Natural Spoken Dialogue Interaction: Technology, Tools, Resources and Applications, Proc. of the System Demonstrations of the 18th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI 2008, ISBN: 978-960-6843-17-4, July 23-25, 2008, Patras, Greece.
Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, A. Lazaridis, S. Ntalampiras, N. Fakotakis: LOGOS: A Multimodal Dialogue System for Controlling Smart Appliances, Proc. of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, KES-IIMSS-2008, Piraeus, Greece, July 9-11, 2008, Piraeus, Greece, July 9-11, 2008, Studies in Computational Intelligence 142 (G.A. Tsihrintzis, et al Eds.), ISBN 978-3-540-68126-7, Springer, pp.585-594.
Ntalampiras, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis, Objective Comparison of Speech Enhancement Algorithms under real world conditions, 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA-2008, July 15-19, Athens, Greece.
Lazaridis, T. Kostoulas, I. Mporas, T. Ganchev, N. Katsaounos, S. Ntalampiras, N. Fakotakis, Human Evaluation of the LOGOS Multimodal Dialogue System, 1st International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, PETRA-2008, July 15-19, Athens, Greece.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, N. 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, 2008., pp.235-242.
Kostoulas, T. Ganchev, I. Mporas, N. Fakotakis: Detection of Negative Emotional States in Real-World Scenario, Proc. of the ICTAI-2007, October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, pp.502-509.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, M. Siafarikas, T. Kostoulas: Comparative Evaluation of Speech Parameterizations for Speech Recognition, Proc. of the ICTAI-2007, October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, pp.510-513.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Wavelet Packet Bases for Speaker Recognition, Proc. of the ICTAI-2007, October 29-31, 2007, Patras, Greece, pp.514-517.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, E. Kotinas, N. Fakotakis: Examining the Influence of Speech Frame Size and Number of Cepstral Coefficients on the Speech Recognition Performance, Proc. of the SPECOM-2007, October 15-18, 2007, Moscow, Russia, pp.134-139.
Saeidi, T. Ganchev, H.S. Mohammadi: Text independent speaker verification using enhanced sorted Gaussian mixture model, Proc. of the 2007 IEEE International Conference on Signal Processing and Communication (ICSPC-07), Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE), November 24-27, 2007.
Mporas, T. Ganchev, P. Zervas, N. Fakotakis: Recognition of Greek Phonemes using Support Vector Machines, G. Antoniou et al. (Eds.): SETN-2006, LNAI 3955, © Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2006. pp. 290-300.
Zervas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Negative Emotional State Detection from Speech, Proc. of the CSNDSP-06, 19-21 July, 2006. pp. 310-313.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: The WCL-1 System in the 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation and 2003 NFI/TNO Forensic Speaker Recognition Evaluation, Proc. of the SPECOM-2006, 25-29 June 2006, pp.109-114.
Ganchev, M. Siafarikas and N. Fakotakis: Evaluation of speech parameterization methods for speaker recognition, Proc. of the Acoustics-2006, Sept 18-19, 2006. pp. 105-110.
Ganchev, P. Zervas, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Benchmarking Feature Selection Techniques on the Speaker Verification Task, Proc. of the CSNDSP-06, 19-21 July, 2006. pp. 314-318.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Comparative Evaluation of Various MFCC Implementations on the Speaker Verification Task, Proc. of the SPECOM-2005, October 17-19, 2005. Patras, Greece. Vol. 1, pp. 191-194.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Overlapping Wavelet Packet Features for Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2005, September 4-8, 2005. Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 3121-3124.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Generalized Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Networks for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the ICASSP-2004, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, May 17-21, 2004, Vol.1, pp. 41-44.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Wavelet Packets Based Speaker Verification, Proc. of the ISCA Speaker and Language Recognition Workshop - Odyssey-2004, Toledo, Spain, May 31-June 3, 2004, pp. 257-264.
Moller, J. Krebber, A. Raake, P. Smeele, M. Rajman, M. Melichar, V. Pallotta, G. Tsakou, B. Kladis, A. Vovos, J. Hoonhout, D. Schuchardt, N. Fakotakis, T. Ganchev, I. Potamitis: INSPIRE: Evaluation of a Smart-Home System for Infotainment Management and Device Control, Proc. of the LREC-2004, Lisbon, May 26-28 2004, pp.1603-1606.
Siafarikas, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Objective Wavelet Packet Features for Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2004 - ICSLP, Oct 4- 8, Jeju, Korea, 2004, pp. 2365-2368.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: The WCL-1 System in the NIST Year 2004 Speaker Recognition Evaluation, Proc. of the 2004 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation Workshop, June 3-4, 2004, Toledo, Spain.
Maragoudakis, T. Ganchev, N. Fakotakis: Bayesian Reinforcement for a Probabilistic Neural Net Part-Of-Speech Tagger, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. LNAI 3206/2004, Sept. 2004, pp. 137-145.
Ganchev, M. Siafarikas, N. Fakotakis: Speaker Verification Based on Wavelet Packets, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, ISSN: 0302-9743, vol. LNAI 3206/2004, Sept. 2004, pp. 299-306.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Toward 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Evaluation: The WCL-1 System, Proc. of the SPECOM-2003, Moscow, Russia, October 27-29, 2003. pp.v256-261.
Ganchev, D. Tasoulis, M. Vrahatis, N. Fakotakis: Locally Recurrent Probabilistic Neural Network for Text-Independent Speaker Verification, Proc. of the InterSpeech-2003, Geneva, Switzerland, September 1-4, 2003. Volume III, pp. 1673-1676.
Ganchev, I. Potamitis, N. Fakotakis: Noise-Source Modelling for Robust Speaker Verification in Adverse Environments, Proc. of the ISAP-2003, Lemnos, Greece, August 31st - September 3rd, 2003. paper no. ISAP03/137.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Impostor Modelling Techniques for Speaker Verification Based on Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the SPPRA-2003, Rhodes, Greece, June 30-July 2, 2003. pp. 185-190.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: One-Speaker Detection - Limited Data: The WCL-1 System, Proc. of the 2003 NIST Speaker Recognition Workshop, College Park, MD, USA, June 24-25, 2003.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification: The WCL-1 System, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), Matousek and Mautner (Eds.), Springer Verlag, vol. LNAI 2807/2003, September 2003, pp. 263-268.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: A Speaker Verification System Based On Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the 2002 NIST Speaker Recognition Workshop, Vienna, Virginia, USA, May 20-22, 2002.
Ganchev, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Text-Independent Speaker Verification Based on Probabilistic Neural Networks, Proc. of the Acoustics-2002, Sept 30th-Oct 1st, 2002, Patras, Greece. pp. 159-166.
Ganchev, A. Tsopanoglou, N. Fakotakis, G. Kokkinakis: Probabilistic Neural Networks Combined with GMMs for Speaker Recognition over Telephone Channels, Proc. of the DSP-2002, July 1-3, 2002, Santorini, Greece. Volume II, pp. 1081-1084.
Ganchev, J. Kolev: Research on Development and Improvement of Low-Bit-Rate Speech Systems, Proc. of the 7th National Applied Science Conference with International Participation “Electronics ET-98”, Sept 23-25, 1998, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, T. Ganchev, Hr. Sverchkova, K. Gribneva: Subjective Tests for Bulgarian Language for Assessing Intelligibility of Low-bit-rate Speech Coders, Anniversary scientific session - 35 years Technical University - Varna, Oct 16-18, 1997, Varna, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, T. Ganchev, D. Nikolov: A Pitch Determination Method, Proc. of the 5th National Applied Science Conference with International Participation “Electronics ET-96”, Sept 28-30, 1996, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, I. Buliev, T. Ganchev: Speech Recognition with Neural Networks, Proc. of the 4th National Applied Science Conference with International Participation “Electronics ET-95”, Sept 28-30, 1995, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, T. Ganchev: Low-Bit-Rate Speech Coding, Proc. of the 4th National Applied Science Conference with International Participation “Electronics ET-95”, Sept 28-30, 1995, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, I. Buliev, T. Gantchev: Investigation on Digital Signal Processing, Proc. of the 40th Internationales Wissenschaftliches Kolloquium, Sept 18-21, 1995, Ilmenau, Germany.
Kolev, K. Ralev, T. Ganchev, Ts. Lazarova, Investigations on Speech Recognition, Proc. of the 3rd National Applied Science Conference “Electronics ET-94”, Sept 28-30, 1994, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)
Kolev, V. Penchev, T. Ganchev, G. Grigorov, I. Iliev: Research and Development Projects on Digital Signal Processing, Proc. of the 2nd National Applied Science Conference “Electronics ET-93”, Sept 29-Oct 1, 1993, Sozopol, Bulgaria. (in Bulgarian)

Technical Reports

[R6] Ganchev T., Kladis B. “Speaker Recognition Component”, Deliverable 2.3, IST project INSPIRE (Infotainment management with Speech Interaction via Remote microphones and telephone interfaces, IST-2001-32746). University of Patras, Greece, 2003.

[R7] Ganchev T., Fakotakis N., G. Kokkinakis. “Probabilistic neural networks based speaker verification in forensic scenario”, Technical Report submitted to the 2003 NFI/TNO Forensic Speaker Recognition Evaluation, The Netherlands.

[R8] Ganchev T., Nikolov D., “Advanced 2400bps VOCODER-BL for Bulgarian Language”, Technical Report submitted to the Texas Instruments DSP Solutions Challenge 1997, Technical University of Varna, Dept. of Electronics, Oct 20, 1997.

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Journal articles

Ganchev T., Markova V., Valcheva-Georgieva I., Dobrev I. (2022). Assessment of pollution with heavy metals and petroleum products in the sediments of Varna Lake, Review of the Bulgarian Geological Society, vol. 83, part 2, 2022, p. 3–9.

Conference Proceedings

Ganchev T, Markova V, Valcheva-Georgieva I, Dobrev I. (2023). Pollution of Varna Lake and possibilities of using the pollutants as resources. Proc. of the E3S Web of Conferences, vol. 404, pages. 03002. EDP Sciences. 2023.