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• 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
• M. R. Prasad, A. Makrushin, M. Ferrara, C. Kraetzer and J. Dittmann, "GAN-based Minutiae-driven Fingerprint Morphing", in proceedings ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), Baiona, Spain, June 2024. Abstract
• M. Ferrara, R. Cappelli and D. Maltoni, "Detecting Double-Identity Fingerprint Attacks", IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science, vol.5, no.4, pp.476-485, October 2023. 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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
• 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