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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
• 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
• L. Nanni, A. Lumini and S. Brahnam, "Ensemble of texture descriptors for face recognition obtained by varying feature transforms and preprocessing approaches", Applied Soft Computing, vol.61, pp.8-16, December 2017. Abstract
• A. Lumini, L. Nanni and S. Brahnam, "Ensemble of texture descriptors and classifiers for face recognition", Applied Computing and Informatics, vol.13, no.1, pp.79-91, January 2017. Abstract
• A. Lumini, L. Nanni and S. Ghidoni, "Deep Features Combined with Hand-Crafted Features for Face Recognition", International Journal of Computer Research, vol.23, no.2, pp.123-136, April 2016. 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. 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
• Y. Sun, M. Tistarelli and D. Maltoni, "Structural Similarity based image quality map for face recognition across plastic surgery", in proceedings 6th International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems (BTASBTAS 2013), Washington, DC, pp.1-8, September 2013. Abstract
• L. Nanni, A. Lumini, S. Brahnam and M. Migliardi, "Ensemble Of Patterns Of Oriented Edge Magnitudes Descriptors For Face Recognition", in proceedings The 17th International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV13), Las Vegas, USA, pp.675-680, July 2013. 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, S. Brahnam and A. Lumini, "Fusion of lighting insensitive approaches for illumination robust face recognition", in Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Issues, Nova Publisher, 2011. 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
• 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
• L. Nanni and A. Lumini, "A supervised method to discriminate between impostors and genuine in biometry", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.36, no.7, pp.10401-10407, 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
• S. Brahnam and L. Nanni, "Predicting trait impressions of faces using classifier ensembles", in Christine L. Mumford and Lakhmi C. Jain, Collaborative Computational Intelligence. Collaboration, Fusion and Emergence, vol.1, Springer, 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
• L. Nanni and A. Lumini, "Genetic nearest feature plane", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.36, no.1, pp.838-843, January 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
• A. Lumini and L. Nanni, "Over-complete feature generation and feature selection for biometry", Expert Systems With Applications, vol.35, no.4, pp.2049-2055, November 2008. Abstract
• S. Brahnam, L. Nanni and S. Randall, "Neonatal Facial Pain Detection Using NNSOA and LSVM", in proceedings International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision, and Pattern Recognition (IPCV), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, July 2008.
• L. Nanni and A. Lumini, "Random Subspace for an improved BioHashing for Face authentication", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.29, no.3, pp.295-300, February 2008. Abstract
• L. Nanni and A. Lumini, "Wavelet Decomposition Tree selection for Palm and Face authentication", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.29, no.3, pp.343-353, February 2008. Abstract
• L. Nanni and A. Lumini, "RegionBoost Learning for 2D+3D based Face Recognition", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.28, no.15, pp.2063-2070, November 2007. 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
• S. Brahnam, L. Nanni and S. Randall, "Introduction to neonatal facial pain detection using common and advanced face classification techniques", in H. Yoshida, A. Jain, A. Ichalkaranje, L. C. Jain, N. Ichalkaranje, Computational Intelligence In Healthcare, Springer, 2007.
• L. Nanni and D. Maio, "Weighted Sub-Gabor For Face Recognition", Pattern Recognition Letters, vol.28, no.4, pp.487-492, March 2007. Abstract
• A. Lumini and L. Nanni, "An advanced multi-modal method for human authentication featuring biometrics data and tokenised random numbers", NeuroComputing, vol.69, no.13, pp.1706-1710, August 2006. Abstract
• A. Lumini and L. Nanni, "An approach for improving Face Recognition in presence of inaccurate detection", NeuroComputing, vol.69, no.13, pp.1678-1682, August 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
• A. Lumini and L. Nanni, "Combining classifiers to obtain a reliable method for face recognition", Multimedia Cyberscape Journal, vol.3, no.3, pp.47-53, June 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
• A. Franco, D. Maltoni and L. Nanni, "Recognition of faces: a literature survey", Technical Report, Biometric System Lab - University of Bologna, June 2003.
• 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, "Subspace classification for face recognition", in proceedings Workshop on Biometric Authentication - ECCV'02 (BIOW2002), Copenhagen, pp.133-141, June 2002. Abstract
• 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
• 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
• M. Golfarelli, D. Maio and D. Maltoni, "On The Error-Reject tradeoff in Biometric Verification Systems", IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis Machine Intelligence, vol.19, no.7, pp.786-796, July 1997. Abstract