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• 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
• J. Galbally, J. Fierrez-Aguilar and R. Cappelli, "An Introduction to Fingerprint Presentation Attack Detection", in Marcel, Sébastien, Nixon, Mark S., Li, Stan Z. (Eds), Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, Springer, 2019. 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, 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
• D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli and D. Meuwly, "Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems: From Fingerprints to Fingermarks", in Massimo Tistarelli, Christophe Champod, Handbook of Biometrics for Forensic Science, Springer, 2017. Abstract
• A. Morales, M.A. Ferrer, R. Cappelli, D. Maltoni, J. Fierrez-Aguilar and J. Ortega-Garcia, "Synthesis of Large Scale Hand-Shape Databases for Biometric Applications", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.63, pp.183-189, December 2015.
• A. Adler and R. Cappelli, "Template Security", in Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Editors), Encyclopedia of Biometrics (second edition), Springer, 2015.
• R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Sample Synthesis", in Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Editors), Encyclopedia of Biometrics (second edition), Springer, 2015.
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe", in Stan Z. Li and Anil K. Jain (Editors), Encyclopedia of Biometrics (second edition), Springer, 2015.
• 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
• A. Morales, R. Cappelli, M.A. Ferrer and D. Maltoni, "Synthesis and Evaluation of High Resolution Hand-Prints", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.9, no.11, pp.1922-1932, November 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, 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
• J. Galbally, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Anti-spoofing in Biometric Systems", in Marcel, Sébastien, Nixon, Mark S., Li, Stan Z. (Eds), Handbook of Biometric Anti-Spoofing, Springer, 2014. 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
• 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, D. Maltoni and F. Turroni, "Fingerprint Enhancement using Contextual Iterative Filtering", in proceedings 5th International Conference on Biometrics (ICB2012), New Delhi, India, March 2012. Abstract
• 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, "Fast and Accurate Fingerprint Indexing based on Ridge Orientation and Frequency", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part B, vol.41, no.6, pp.1511-1521, December 2011. 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
• F. Turroni, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli and D. Maio, "Improving Fingerprint Orientation Extraction", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.6, no.3, pp.1002-1013, 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
• R. Cappelli, D. Maltoni and F. Turroni, "Benchmarking Local Orientation Extraction in Fingerprint Recognition", in proceedings 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), Istanbul, pp.1144-1147, August 2010. Abstract
• J. Galbally, R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, G. Gonzalez-de-Rivera, D. Maltoni, J. Fierrez-Aguilar, J. Ortega-Garcia and D. Maio, "An Evaluation of Direct Attacks Using Fake Fingers Generated from ISO Templates", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.31, no.8, pp.725-732, June 2010. Award winning papers from the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 19th International Conference in Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Abstract
• R. Cappelli and D. Maltoni, "FVC-onGoing: On-line Evaluation of Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms", in proceedings International Biometric Performance Conference (IBPC2010), Gaithersburg, Maryland, March 2010.
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Semi-automatic Enhancement of Very Low Quality Fingerprints", in proceedings 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA09), Salzburg, pp.678-683, September 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 and D. Maltoni, "On the Spatial Distribution of Fingerprint Singularities", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.31, no.4, pp.742-748, April 2009. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "Synthetic fingerprint generation", in D. Maltoni, D. Maio, A.K. Jain and S. Prabhakar, Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition (Second Edition), Springer (London), 2009.
• D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "Advances in fingerprint modeling", Image and Vision Computing, vol.27, no.3, pp.258-268, February 2009. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Sample Synthesis", in Stan Li (Editor), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2009. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe", in Stan Li (Editor), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 2009. Abstract
• A. Adler and R. Cappelli, "Template Security", in Stan Li (Editor), Encyclopedia of Biometrics, Springer, 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
• J. Galbally, R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maltoni and J. Fierrez-Aguilar, "Fake Fingertip Generation from a Minutiae Template", in proceedings 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008), Tampa, Florida, USA, pp.1-4, December 2008. IBM Best Student Paper Award. Abstract
• D. Maltoni and R. Cappelli, "Fingerprint Recognition", in Anil K. Jain, Patrick Flynn, Arun A. Ross, Handbook of Biometrics, Springer, 2008.
• 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
• R. Cappelli, "Use of Synthetic Data for Evaluating the Quality of Minutia Extraction Algorithms", in proceedings Second NIST Biometric Quality Workshop, Gaithersburg, Maryland, November 2007.
• 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
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Image Reconstruction from Standard Templates", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.29, no.9, pp.1489-1503, 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
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Evaluating Minutiae Template Vulnerability to Masquerade Attack", in proceedings 5th Workshop on Automatic Identification Advances Technologies (AutoID2007), Alghero, June 2007. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Can Fingerprints be Reconstructed from ISO Templates?", in proceedings International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2006), Singapore, pp.191-196, December 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 Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security (MRCS2006), Istanbul, pp.10-16, September 2006. Abstract
• A. Antonelli, R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fake Finger Detection by Skin Distortion Analysis", IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol.1, no.3, pp.360-373, September 2006. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Franco, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Guardie e ladri nell'era biometrica", Darwin, no.13, pp.48-53, May 2006. 
• 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.
• A. Antonelli, R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "A new approach to fake finger detection based on skin distortion", in proceedings International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA06), Hong Kong, January 2006. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "Performance Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Systems", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.28, no.1, pp.3-18, January 2006. Abstract
• J. Fierrez-Aguilar, L. Nanni, J. Ortega-Garcia, R. Cappelli and D. Maltoni, "Combining Multiple Matchers for Fingerprint Verification: A Case Study in FVC2004", in proceedings 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP2005), Cagliari, September 2005. Abstract
• D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "Technology Evaluation of Fingerprint Verification Algorithms", in J.L. Wayman, A.K. Jain, D. Maltoni, D. Maio, Biometric Systems - Technology, Design and Performance Evaluation, Springer, 2005. Abstract
• A. Antonelli, R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Apparecchio e metodo per discriminare una impronta digitale vera da una impronta digitale artificiale falsa, attraverso l’analisi della distorsione elastica della pelle", Patent N. BO2005A000399, 2005.  Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "An Improved Noise Model for the Generation of Synthetic Fingerprints", in proceedings Eighth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2004), Kunming, China, December 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "Fingerprints: Recognition, Performance Evaluation and Synthetic Generation", in proceedings 5th Chinese Conference on Biometric Recognition (SINOBIOMETRICS2004), Guangzhou, pp.4, December 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Technology Evaluations of Fingerprint-Based Biometric Systems", in proceedings 12th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO2004), Vienna, Austria, pp.1405-1408, September 2004. Invited paper. 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
• D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2004: Third Fingerprint Verification Competition", in proceedings International Conference on Biometric Authentication (ICBA04), Hong Kong, pp.1-7, July 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe: an Approach to Synthetic Fingerprint Generation", in proceedings International Workshop on Biometric Technologies (BT2004), Calgary, Canada, pp.147-154, June 2004. Invited paper. 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
• R. Cappelli, "FVC: Fingerprint Verification Competitions", in proceedings Second BSI-Symposium on Biometrics 2004, Darmstadt (Germany), pp.56-63, March 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli and D. Maio, "The State of the Art in Fingerprint Classification", in N. Ratha and R. Bolle, Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems, Springer, 2004. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio, D. Maltoni and L. Nanni, "A two-stage fingerprint classification system", in proceedings ACM SIGMM Multimedia Biometrics Methods and Applications Workshop (WBMA03), Berkley, pp.95-99, November 2003. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Subspace Adaptation for Incremental Face Learning", in proceedings Seventh International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2002), Singapore, pp.974-979, December 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-Database Generation", in proceedings 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Québec City, vol.3, pp.744-747, August 2002. Abstract
• D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2002: Second Fingerprint Verification Competition", in proceedings 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2002), Québec City, vol.3, pp.811-814, August 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Subspace classification for face recognition", in proceedings Workshop on Biometric Authentication - ECCV'02 (BIOW2002), Copenhagen, pp.133-141, June 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "A Multi-Classifier Approach to Fingerprint Classification", Pattern Analysis and Applications Special Issue on Fusion of Multiple Classifiers, vol.5, no.2, pp.136-144, May 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, "SFinGe: Synthetic Fingerprint Generator", in proceedings 12th CardTech/SecurTech (CTST2002), April 2002. Invited. Abstract
• D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2000: Fingerprint Verification Competition", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.24, no.3, pp.402-412, March 2002. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Multi-space KL for Pattern Representation and Classification", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.23, no.9, pp.977-996, September 2001. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Modelling Plastic Distortion in Fingerprint Images", in proceedings Second International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition (ICAPR2001), Rio de Janeiro, pp.369-376, March 2001. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Indexing Fingerprint Databases for Efficient 1:N Matching", in proceedings Sixth International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV2000), Singapore, December 2000. Invited Paper. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Erol, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Synthetic Fingerprint-image Generation", in proceedings 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2000), Barcelona, vol.3, pp.475-478, September 2000. Abstract
• D. Maio, D. Maltoni, R. Cappelli, J.L. Wayman and A.K. Jain, "FVC2000: Fingerprint Verification Competition", Technical Report, DEIS - University of Bologna, September 2000. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Combining Fingerprint Classifiers", in proceedings First International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems (MCS2000), Cagliari, pp.351-361, June 2000. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Classification based on Multi-space KL", in proceedings Workshop on Automatic Identification Advances Technologies (AutoID'99), Summit (NJ), pp.117-120, October 1999. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Similarity Search using Multi-space KL", in proceedings International Workshop on Similarity Search - DEXA'99 (IWOSS'99), Florence (Italy), pp.155-160, August 1999. Abstract
• R. Cappelli, A. Lumini, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "Fingerprint Classification by Directional Image Partitioning", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.21, no.5, pp.402-421, May 1999. Abstract