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• M. Ferrara, R. Cappelli and D. Maltoni, "Detecting Double-Identity Fingerprint Attacks", IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, May 2023. 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
• G. Borghi, E. Pancisi, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "A Double Siamese Framework for Differential Morphing Attack Detection", Sensors, vol.21, no.10, May 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
• C. Busch, S. Caillebotte, U. Seidel, F. Knopjes, D. Maltoni, M. Ferrara, R.J. Veldhuis, L. Spreeuwers, K. Raja, R. Raghavendra, M. Gomez-Barrero and C. Rathgeb, "Face Morphing Attacks: What needs to be done", in proceedings International Conference on Biometrics for Borders (ICBB), October 2019. 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
• 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
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Large scale fingerprint recognition accelerated in hardware", in Martin Drahanský, Hand-Based Biometrics: Methods and technology, IET, 2018. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Generating synthetic fingerprints", in Martin Drahanský, Hand-Based Biometrics: Methods and technology, IET, 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
• M. Ferrara, R. Cappelli and D. Maltoni, "On the Feasibility of Creating Double-Identity Fingerprints", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.12, no.4, pp.892-900, April 2017. Abstract
• S. Papi, M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and A. Anthonioz, "On the Generation of Synthetic Fingerprint Alterations", in proceedings International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2016. 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
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Large-scale fingerprint identification on GPU", Information Sciences, vol.306, pp.1-20, June 2015. Abstract
• L. Nanni, A. Lumini, M. Ferrara and R. Cappelli, "Combining biometric matchers by means of machine learning and statistical approaches", NeuroComputing, vol.149, no.B, pp. 526-535, February 2015. 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
• M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "A Two-Factor Protection Scheme for MCC Fingerprint Templates", in proceedings International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, September 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, D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "A Simple and Effective Two-Factor Protection Scheme for MCC Fingerprint Templates", Technical Report, Biometric System Lab - University of Bologna, April 2014. Abstract
• 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, D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "Noninvertible Minutia Cylinder-Code Representation", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.7, no.6, pp.1727-1737, December 2012. Abstract
• R. Cappelli and M. Ferrara, "A Fingerprint Retrieval System Based on Level-1 and Level-2 Features", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.39, no.12, pp.10465-10478, September 2012. 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
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maio, "A Fast and Accurate Palmprint Recognition System based on Minutiae", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, vol.42, no.3, pp.956-962, June 2012. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Robust Fingerprint Matching using Minutia Cylinder-Code Representation", IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter, vol.3, pp.5, April 2012.
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Minutiae-Based Fingerprint Matching", in Liu Chengjun, Mago Vijay Kumar, Cross Disciplinary Biometric Systems, Springer, 2012. Abstract
• L. Nanni, A. Lumini, M. Ferrara and R. Cappelli, "Learning for combining fingerprint matchers: a case study FVC-OnGoing", in Elizabeth T. Mueller, Neurocomputing: Learning, Architectures and Modeling, Nova Publishers, 2012. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and F. Turroni, "Fingerprint Verification Competition at IJCB2011", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB11), Washington DC, October 2011. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maio, "Candidate List Reduction based on the Analysis of Fingerprint Indexing Scores", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.6, no.3, pp.1160-1164, September 2011. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Indexing based on Minutia Cylinder-Code", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.33, no.5, pp.1051-1057, May 2011. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Minutia Cylinder-Code: a new representation and matching technique for fingerprint recognition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.32, no.12, pp.2128-2141, December 2010. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, D. Maltoni and M. Tistarelli, "MCC: a Baseline Algorithm for Fingerprint Verification in FVC-onGoing", in proceedings 11th International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV), Singapore, December 2010. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, Biometric Fingerprint Recognition Systems, Lambert Academic Publishing, 2010.
• 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
• B. Dorizzi, R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, D. Maio, D. Maltoni, N. Houmani, S. Garcia-Salicetti and A. Mayoue, "Fingerprint and On-Line Signature Verification Competitions at ICB 2009", in proceedings International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), Alghero, Italy, pp.725-732, June 2009. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Metodo di codifica delle minuzie di una impronta digitale e corrispondente metodo di riconoscimento di impronte digitali", Patent N. ITBO2009A000149, 2009.  Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "On the Operational Quality of Fingerprint Scanners", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.3, no.2, pp.192-202, June 2008. Abstract
• A. Alessandroni, R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Definition of Fingerprint Scanner Image Quality Specifications by Operational Quality", in proceedings European Workshop on Biometrics and Identity Management (BIOID 2008), Roskilde, Denmark, pp.29-35, May 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. 
• M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "On the Operational Quality of Fingerprint Scanners", in proceedings Second NIST Biometric Quality Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2007.
• 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, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "The Quality of Fingerprint Scanners and Its Impact on the Accuracy of Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms", in proceedings Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security (MRCS2006), Istanbul, pp.10-16, September 2006. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "The Quality of Fingerprint Scanners and its Impact on the Accuracy of Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms", in proceedings First NIST Biometric Quality Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 2006.