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• A. Franco, A. Magnani, D. Maltoni, D. Maio, L. Odorisio and A. De Maria, "Face image quality assessment in electronic ID documents", IEEE Access, pp.77744 - 77758, July 2022. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maltoni and C. Busch, "Morphing Attack Potential", in proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), Salzburg, Austria, April 2022. Abstract
• M. Ferrara and A. Franco, "Morph Creation and Vulnerability of Face Recognition Systems to Morphing", in Handbook of Digital Face Manipulation and Detection, Springer, 2022. Abstract
• M. Brighi, A. Franco and D. Maio, "ActivityExplorer: a semi-supervised approach to discover unknown activity classes in HAR systems", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.151, pp.340-347, November 2021. Abstract
• E. Lopez-Lopez, C. V. Regueiro, X. M. Pardo, A. Franco and A. Lumini, "Towards a Self-sufficient Face Verification System", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.174, pp.114734, July 2021. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Face morphing detection in the presence of printing/scanning and heterogeneous image sources", IET Biometrics Special Issue on presentation attacks on biometric systems, vol.10, no.3, pp.290-303, May 2021. Abstract
• K. Raja, M. Ferrara, A. Franco, L. Spreeuwers, I. Batskos, F. De Wit, M. Gomez-Barrero, U. Scherhag, D. Fischer, S. Venkatesh, J. M. Singh, G. Li, L. Bergeron, S. Isadskiy, R. Raghavendra, C. Rathgeb, D. Frings, U. Seidel, F. Knopjes, R.J. Veldhuis, D. Maltoni and C. Busch, "Morphing Attack Detection - Database, Evaluation Platform and Benchmarking", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.16, pp.4336-4351, November 2020. Abstract
• A. Franco, A. Magnani and D. Maio, "A multimodal approach for human activity recognition based on skeleton and RGB data", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.131, pp.293-299, March 2020. Abstract
• A. Franco, A. Magnani and D. Maio, "Template co-updating in multi-modal human activity recognition systems", in proceedings 35th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC), Brno, Czech Republic, pp.2113-2116, March 2020. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Decoupling texture blending and shape warping in face morphing", in proceedings International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2019. Abstract
• L. Mazzini, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Gesture Recognition by Leap Motion Controller and LSTM Networks for CAD-oriented Interfaces", in proceedings 20th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP19), Trento, pp.185-195, September 2019. Abstract
• E. Lopez-Lopez, C. V. Regueiro, X. M. Pardo, A. Franco and A. Lumini, "Incremental Learning Techniques within a Self-updating Approach for Face Verification in Video-Surveillance", in proceedings 9th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPria2019), Madrid, pp.25-37, July 2019. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Face morphing detection in the presence of printing/scanning and heterogeneous image sources", Technical Report, ArXiv 1901.08811, January 2019. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Face Demorphing in the Presence of Facial Appearance Variations", in proceedings European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, pp.2365-2369, September 2018. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Face Demorphing", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.13, no.4, pp.1008-1017, April 2018. Abstract
• A. Franco, A. Magnani and D. Maio, "Joint orientations from skeleton data for human activity recognition", in proceedings 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP17), Catania, pp.152-162, September 2017. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "On the Effects of Image Alterations on Face Recognition Accuracy", in Thirimachos Bourlai, Face Recognition Across the Electromagnetic Spectrum, Springer, 2016. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "The Magic Passport", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), Clearwater, Florida, USA, pp.1-7, October 2014. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maio and F. Turroni, "Spatio-temporal keypoints for video-based face recognition", in proceedings 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR14), Stockholm, pp.489-494, August 2014. Abstract
• S. Buoncompagni, A. Franco and D. Maio, "Shape features for candidate photo selection in sketch recognition", in proceedings 22nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR14), Stockholm, pp.1728-1733, August 2014. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maio, "On the use of the Kinect sensor for human identification in smart environments", Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, vol.6, no.4, pp.435-446, July 2014. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "FICV: a new FVC-onGoing benchmark area on Face Compliance Verification to ISO/IEC 19794-5:2011 standard", EAB Newsletter, no.1, pp.15-17, April 2014.
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maltoni and Y. Sun, "On the Impact of Alterations on Face Photo Recognition Accuracy", in proceedings International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2013), Naples (Italy), vol.8156, pp.743-751, September 2013. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Face Image Conformance to ISO/ICAO standards in Machine Readable Travel Documents", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.7, no.4, pp.1204-1213, August 2012. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maio, "A multi-classifier approach to face image segmentation for travel documents", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.39, no.9, pp.8452-8466, July 2012. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Face Recognition in Ambient Intelligence Applications", in Paul McCullagh, Juan Carlos Augusto, Handbook on Ambient Assisted Living for Healthcare, Well-being and Rehabilitation, vol.11, IOS Press, 2012. Abstract
• L. Nanni and A. Franco, "Reduced Reward-Punishment Editing for building ensembles of classifiers", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.38, no.3, pp.2395-2400, March 2011. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maltoni and L. Nanni, "Data pre-processing through Reward-Punishment Editing", Pattern Analysis and Applications, vol.13, no.4, pp.367-381, November 2010. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Incremental template updating for face recognition in home environments", Pattern Recognition, vol.43, no.8, pp.2891-2903, August 2010. Abstract
• D. Maltoni, A. Franco, M. Ferrara, D. Maio and A. Nardelli, "Biolab-ICAO: A New Benchmark to Evaluate Applications Assessing Face Image Compliance to ISO/IEC 19794-5 Standard", in proceedings 16th International Conference on Image Processing (2009), Cairo, pp.41-44, November 2009. Abstract
• A. Franco and D. Maio, "Similarity searches in face databases", in proceedings International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP09), Vietri sul Mare, pp.443-450, September 2009. Abstract
• A. Franco and L. Nanni, "Fusion of Classifiers For Illumination Robust Face Recognition", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.36, no.5, pp.8946-8954, July 2009. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "The Big Brother database: evaluating face recognition in smart home environments", in proceedings International Conference on Biometrics (ICB09), pp.142-150, June 2009. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "2D Face Recognition based on Supervised Subspace Learning from 3D Models", Pattern Recognition, vol.41, no.12, pp.3822-3833, December 2008. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Evaluating systems assessing face-image compliance with ICAO/ISO standards", in proceedings European Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management (BIOID 2008), Roskilde, Denmark, pp.191-199, May 2008. Abstract
• A. Alessandroni, M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maio, D. Maltoni and L Palumbo, "Evaluating systems assessing face-image compliance with ICAO/ISO standards", Technical Report, DEIS - University of Bologna, March 2008. Abstract
• A. Alessandroni, M. Ferrara, A. Franco, D. Maio, D. Maltoni and L Palumbo, "Test compliance ICAO su foto del volto in formato Tokenizzabile", Technical Report, DEIS - University of Bologna, March 2008. 
• A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Synthesis and Spoof Detection", in N.K. Ratha, V. Govindaraju, Advances in Biometrics: Sensors, Algorithms and Systems, Springer, 2008. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Franco and D. Maio, "Gabor Saliency Map for Face Recognition", in proceedings 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP07), Modena, Italy, pp.443-447, September 2007. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint scanner focusing estimation by Top Sharpening Index", in proceedings 14th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP07), Modena, Italy, pp.223-228, September 2007. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint verification competition 2006", Biometric Technology Today, vol.15, no.7-8, pp.7-9, August 2007. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Estimating Image Focusing in Fingerprint Scanners", in proceedings Workshop on Automatic Identification Advances Technologies (AutoID07), Alghero, Italy, pp.30-34, June 2007. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Guardie e ladri nell'era biometrica", Darwin, no.13, pp.48-53, May 2006. 
• D. Baldisserra, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fake Fingerprint Detection by Odor Analysis", in proceedings International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA06), Hong Kong, January 2006. Abstract
• A. Franco, A. Lumini, D. Maio and L. Nanni, "An Enhanced Subspace Method for Face Recognition", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.27, no.1, pp.76-84, January 2006. Abstract
• D. Baldisserra, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Apparecchio e metodo per discriminare una impronta digitale vera da una impronta digitale artificiale attraverso l’analisi dell’odore del dito associato all’impronta digitale da discriminare", Patent N. BO2005A000398, 2005.  Abstract
• A. Franco, A. Lumini and D. Maio, "A Hierarchical Approach for Face Recognition", in proceedings International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP04), Marbella, Spain, pp.54-59, September 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Franco, D. Maltoni and L. Nanni, "Combining Template-based and feature-based face detectors", in proceedings International Conference on Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing (VIIP04), Marbella, Spain, pp.50-53, September 2004. Abstract
• L. Nanni, A. Franco and R. Cappelli, "Towards a robust face detector", in proceedings Biometric Authentication Workshop (BIOAW04), Prague (Czech Republic), pp.57-69, May 2004. Abstract
• A. Franco, D. Maltoni and L. Nanni, "Recognition of faces: a literature survey", Technical Report, Biometric System Lab - University of Bologna, June 2003.
• A. Franco, A. Lumini and D. Maio, "A hierarchical approach for face recognition", in proceedings Workshop on Automatic Identification Advances Technologies (AutoID'02), Tarrytown (NY), pp.155-158, March 2002. Abstract
• G. Borghi, G. Graffieti, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Incremental Training of Face Morphing Detectors", to appear on proceedings 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR22), Montréal, Québec, August 2022. Abstract