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• M. Robledo-Moreno, G. Borghi, N. Di Domenico, A. Franco, K. Raja and D. Maltoni, "Towards Federated Learning for Morphing Attack Detection", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB24), Buffalo, New York, USA, September 2024. Abstract
• G. Borghi, A. Franco, N. Di Domenico, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "V-MAD: Video-based Morphing Attack Detection in operational scenarios", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB24), Buffalo, NY, USA, September 2024. Abstract
• A. Franco, M. Ferrara, C. Liu, C. Busch and D. Maltoni, "On the Impact of Face Image Quality on Morphing Attack Detection", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB24), Buffalo, NY, USA, September 2024. Abstract
• N. Di Domenico, G. Borghi, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "ONOT: a High-Quality ICAO-compliant Synthetic Mugshot Dataset", in proceedings 18th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG24), Istanbul, Turkey, May 2024. Abstract
• N. Di Domenico, G. Borghi, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Face Restoration for Morphed Images Retouching", in proceedings 12th International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics 24 (IWBF), Enschede, Netherlands, April 2024. Abstract
• N. Di Domenico, G. Borghi, A. Franco, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "A Framework to Improve the Comparability and Reproducibility of Morphing Attack Detectors", in proceedings International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), pp.525-530, October 2023. Abstract
• A. Franco, F. Løvåsdal and D. Maltoni, "On the human ability in detecting digitally manipulated face images", in proceedings International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE), pp.531-536, October 2023. Abstract
• G. Borghi, N. Di Domenico, A. Franco, M. Ferrara and D. Maltoni, "Revelio: a Modular and Effective Framework for Reproducible Training and Evaluation of Morphing Attack Detectors", IEEE Access, vol.11, pp.120419-120437, October 2023. Abstract
• L. Pellegrini, G. Borghi, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Detecting Morphing Attacks via Continual Incremental Training", in proceedings International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), pp.1-10, September 2023. Abstract
• N. Di Domenico, G. Borghi, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Combining identity features and artifact analysis for Differential Morphing Attack Detection", in proceedings 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP23), Udine, pp.100-111, September 2023. Abstract
• G. Borghi, G. Graffieti, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Incremental Training of Face Morphing Detectors", in proceedings 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR22), Montréal, Québec, pp.914-921, August 2022. Abstract
• 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, A. Franco, N. Di Domenico, M. Ferrara, U. Latif and D. Maltoni, "MONOT: High-Quality Privacy-compliant Morphed Synthetic Images for Everyone", to appear on proceedings IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Rome, Italy, December 2024. Abstract
• M. Dadi, A. Franco and D. Maltoni, "Supporting Human Examiners in Facial Image Manipulation Detection", to appear on proceedings International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE24), St Albans, London, UK, October 2024. Abstract
• G. Borghi, A. Franco, N. Di Domenico and D. Maltoni, "TONO: a Synthetic Dataset for Face Image Compliance to ISO/ICAO Standard", to appear on proceedings Workshop on Synthetic Data for Computer Vision, September 2024. Abstract
• C. Liu, M. Ferrara, A. Franco, G. Borghi and D. Zhong, "Differential Morphing Attack Detection via Triplet-Based Metric Learning and Artifact Extraction", to appear on proceedings International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, September 2024. Abstract