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 International journals

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Neighbor cache prefetching for multimedia image and video processing”, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 4, August 2004, pp. 539-552 (ISSN: 1520-9210).

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Detecting moving objects, ghosts and shadows in video streams”, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 25, no. 10, October 2003, pp. 1337-1342 (ISSN: 0162-8828).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Improving cache performance for multimedia applications”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, vol. 20, no. 3, June 2003, pp. 159-178, Kluwer Academic Publishers (ISSN: 1380-7501).

·                 M. Piccardi, T. Jan, “Recent Advances in Computer Vision”, The Industrial Physicist, vol. 9, no. 1, pp.18-21, Feb/Mar. 2003, American Institute of Physics (ISSN: 1082-1848).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Gavanelli, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, and M. Piccardi, “From eager to lazy constrained data acquisition: a general framework”, New Generation Computing, v. 19, n. 4, pp. 339-367, Aug. 2001, Ohmsha (former publisher: Springer-Verlag; ISSN: 0288-3635).

·                 R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, M. Piccardi, and F. Riguzzi, “An application of machine learning and statistics to defect detection”, Intelligent Data Analysis, v. 5, 2001, pp. 151-164, IOS Press (ISSN: 1088-467X).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi and P. Mello, “Image analysis and rule-based reasoning for a traffic monitoring system”, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, v. 1, n. 2, Jun. 2000, pp. 119-130 (ISSN: 1524-9050).

·                 Callipo, R. Cucchiara, and M. Piccardi, “Computational models for machine vision on shared memory multiprocessors”, Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, v. 7, 2000, pp. 39-52, Wiley Interscience/IOS Press (ISSN: 1069-2509).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Eliciting visual primitives for detection of elongated shapes”, Image and Vision Computing, v. 17, n. 5-6, pp. 347-355, Apr. 1999, Elsevier Science B.V. (ISSN: 0262-8856).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and P. Mello, “Tecniche di visione e intelligenza artificiale per la diagnostica industriale” (Computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques for industrial diagnostics – in Italian), Manutenzione, Tecnica and Management, n. 5, Feb. 1998, pp. 53-59, Reed Business Information, Brussels, Belgium (ISSN: 1123-1084).

·                 R. Cucchiara, G. Neri, and M. Piccardi, “A real-time architecture for the Hough transform”, Journal of Systems Architecture, v. 45, n. 1, Sept. 1998, pp. 31-45, Elsevier Science B.V. (ISSN: 1383-7621).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Piccardi, and T. Salmon Cinotti, “The GIOTTO system: a parallel computer for image processing”, Real-Time Imaging, v. 3, n. 5, pp. 343-353, Oct. 1997, Academic Press (ISSN: 1077-2014).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, and M. Piccardi, “Detection of circular objects by wave propagation on a mesh-connected computer”, International Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, v. 31, n. 1, pp. 77-87, Nov. 1995, Academic Press (ISSN: 0743-7315).

·                 T. Salmon Cinotti, G. Neri, R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Piccardi, and G. Rustichelli, “New research and developments in high performance image processing on MBII”, REAL TiMES, no. 15, Intel OMC Co., 1993, Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

 

Book chapters

·                 “Video-based Surveillance Systems: Computer Vision and Distributed Processing", [P. Remagnino, G. Jones, N. Paragios, C. Regazzoni (eds)], Kluwer Academic Publishers, ISBN 0-7923-7632-3.

 

Conference Proceedings

·                 M. Piccardi, T. Jan, “Mean-shift background image modelling”, in Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-2004, Singapore, October 2004.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, T. Jan,  “Bimodal Emotion Modelling from Facial and Upper-Body Gesture for Affective HCI”, in Proc. of CHISIG OZCHI 2004, Wollongong, Australia, November 2004.

·                 M. Piccardi, “Background subtraction techniques: a review”, in Proc. of IEEE SMC 2004 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, T. Jan, “Comparative Beauty Classification for Pre-Surgery Planning”, in Proc. of IEEE SMC 2004 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004.

·                 T. Jan, P.-H. Tsai, M. Piccardi, T. Hintz, “Efficient Video Object Classifier using Locality-Enhanced Support Vector Machines”, in Proc. of IEEE SMC 2004 International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, The Hague, The Netherlands, October 2004.

·                 T. Jan, M. Piccardi, P.-H. Tsai, “Neural Network Based Threat Assessment for Automated Visual Surveillance”, in Proc. of IJCNN 2004 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Budapest, Hungary, July 2004.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, T. Jan,  “Face and Body Gesture Analysis for Multimodal HCI”, in Proc. of APCHI 2004 6th Asia-Pacific Conference on Computer-Human Interaction incorporating the 5th ACM SIGCHI-NZ Symposium, Rotorua, New Zealand, June-July 2004.

·                 W Jia, X. He, M. Piccardi, “Automatic Number Plate Recognition: An Overview”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology (CISST '04), June 2004, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, T. Jan,  “Face and Body Gesture Recognition for a Vision-Based Multimodal Analyzer”, in Proc. of Visual Information Processing, Sydney, Australia, December 2003.

·                 T. Jan, M. Piccardi, T. Hintz, “Neural classifiers for automated video surveillance”, in Proc. of IEEE International Workshop on Neural Network for Signal Processing (IEEE-NNSP), Toulouse, France, September 17-19, 2003, pp. 729-738.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, T. Jan, “Performance Evaluation of an Automated Classifier of Female Facial Beauty”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology (CISST '03), June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, vol. 2, pp. 652-656.

·                 T. Jan, M. Piccardi, H. Gunes, “Suspicious Behavior Assessment for Visual Surveillance Using Neural Network Classifiers”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Imaging Science, Systems and Technology (CISST '03), June 23-26, 2003, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, vol. 2, pp. 657-664.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, and T. Jan, “Automated Classification of Female Facial Beauty by Image Analysis and Supervised Learning”, accepted for publication in Proc. of SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing 2004 (EI25), 18–22 January 2004, San Jose, California, USA.

·                 T. Jan, T. Hintz, and M. Piccardi, “Effective surveillance image analysis using combination of linear regression and modified probabilistic neural network”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation, February 12-14, 2003, Vienna, Austria.

·                 T. Jan, M. Piccardi, and T. Hintz, “Detection of suspicious pedestrian behavior using modified probabilistic neural networks”, in Proc. of the Int. Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Modeling, Control and Automation, February 12-14, 2003, Vienna, Austria.

·                 H. Gunes, M. Piccardi, and T. Jan, “Automated classification of female facial beauty using learning algorithms”, in Proc. of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2002, Nov. 26-28, 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 169-173.

·                 T. Jan, A. Krishna, M. Piccardi and T. Hintz, “Effective surveillance image analysis using combination of linear regression model and modified probabilistic neural networks”, in Proc. of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2002, Nov. 26-28, 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 19-22.

·                 T. Jan, M. Piccardi and T. Hintz, “Detection of suspicious pedestrian behavior using modified probabilistic neural network”, in Proc. of Image and Vision Computing New Zealand 2002, Nov. 26-28, 2002, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 237-241.

·                 F. Cavalli, R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati,  “Performance analysis of MPEG-4 decoder and encoder”, in Proc. of 4th EURASIP-IEEE Region 8 International Symposium on Video/Image Processing and Multimedia Communications VIPromCom-2002, June 16-19, 2002, Zadar, Croatia, pp.227-231.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Data-type Dependent Cache Prefetching for MPEG Applications, in Proc. of IPCCC 2002 – 21st IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, April 3-5, 2002, Phoenix, AZ, USA, pp. 115-122.

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Detecting objects, shadows and ghosts in video streams by exploiting color and motion information”, in Proc. of ICIAP 2001, 11th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Palermo, Italy, September 26-28, 2001, pp. 360-365.

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, G. Neri, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “The Sakbot system for moving object detection and tracking”, in Proc. of 2nd European Workshop on Advanced Video-based Surveillance, 4th September 2001, Kingston upon Thames, London, UK.

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, M. Piccardi, A. Prati, and S. Sirotti, “Improving shadow suppression in moving object detection with HSV color information ”, in Proc. of the 4th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, August 25-29, 2001, Oakland, CA, USA, pp.334-339.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Temporal analysis of cache prefetching strategies for multimedia applications”, in Proc. of IPCCC 2001 - 20th IEEE International Performance, Computing, and Communications Conference, April 4-6 2001, Phoenix, AZ, USA, pp. 311-318.

·                 R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, M. Piccardi, and F. Riguzzi, “Comparing statistical and machine learning techniques for visual pattern classification”, in Proc. of ECAI 2000 Workshop on Machine Learning in Computer Vision, Aug. 20-25, 2000, Berlin, Germany.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Focus based feature extraction for pallets recognition”, in Proc. of BMVC2000 - The Eleventh British Machine Vision Conference, Sept. 11-14, 2000, Bristol, UK.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Hardware prefetching techniques for cache memories in multimedia applications”, in Proc. of CAMP 2000 – IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architectures for Machine Perception, 2000, pp. 311-319, (ISBN 0-7695-0740-9).

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Statistic and Knowledge-based Moving Object Detection in Traffic Scenes”, in Proc. of ITSC-2000 - The 3rd Annual IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Oct. 1-5, 2000, Dearborn, MI, USA, pp. 27-32.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Improving data prefetching efficacy in multimedia applications”, in Proc. of SSGRR 2000, Scuola Superiore G. Romolo Reiss, L’Aquila, Italy, July 31, 2000.

·                 R. Cucchiara, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, and M. Piccardi, “3D object recognition by VC-graphs and Interactive Constraint Satisfaction”, in Proc. of ICIAP’99 - 10th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing, 1999, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 508-513, (ISBN 0-7695-0040-4).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, A. Prati, and N. Scarabottolo, “Real-time segmentation of moving vehicles”, in Proc. of ICIAP’99 - 10th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing, 1999, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 618-623, (ISBN 0-7695-0040-4).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and P. Mello, “Image Analysis and Rule-based Reasoning for a Traffic Monitoring System”, in Proc. of IEEE ITSC99 – Int. Conf. on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999 (ISBN 0-7803-4975-X).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Vehicle Detection under Day and Night Illumination”, in Proc. of IIA’99 – Third Int. ICSC Symp. on Intelligent Industrial Automation., Special Session on Vision Based Intelligent Systems for Surveillance and Traffic Control, 1999, pp. 789-794 (ISBN 3-906454-16-9).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Exploiting Cache in Multimedia”, in Proc. of IEEE ICMCS’99 - Int. Conf on Multimedia Computing and Systems, 1999, IEEE Computer Society, pp. 345-350 (ISBN 0-7695-0253-9).

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Gavanelli, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, and M. Piccardi, “Constraint propagation and value acquisition: why we should do it interactively”, in Proc. of IJCAI99 – 16th Int. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1999, pp. 468-473 (ISBN 1-55860-613-0).

·                 M. Gavanelli, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, R. Cucchiara, and M. Piccardi, “Extending CLP(FD) with interactive data acquisition for 3D visual object recognition”, in Proc. of PACLP’99, 1999, pp. 137-155  (ISBN 1-902426-01-0).

·                 M. Barattin, R. Cucchiara, and M. Piccardi, “A rule-based vehicular traffic tracking system” in Proc. of JCIS’98 – CVPRIP’98, First Int. Works. on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing, 1998, pp. 334-337, Association for Intelligent Machinery, Oct. 23, 1998, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA.

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Exploiting image processing locality in cache pre-fetching”, in Proc. of IEEE HiPC98 – First Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing, 1998, pp. 466-472, IEEE Computer Society (ISBN 0-8186-9194-8).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Cache pre-fetching for image processing”, in Proc. of MTAC98 – Multimedia Technology and Applications Conference, 1998, pp. 124-128, Sept. 15, 1998, Anaheim, California, USA.

·                 R. Cucchiara, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Milano, and M. Piccardi, “Interactive Constraint Satisfaction and its application to visual object recognition”, in Proc. of AGP’98 – Joint Conference on Declarative Programming, 1998, pp. 57-69, July 20, 1998, A Coruña, Spain.

·                 R. Cucchiara, C. Grana, and M. Piccardi, “Iterative fuzzy clustering for detecting regions of interest in skin lesions”, in Proc. of AI*IA99 - Settimo Congresso dell’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, 2001.

·                 R. Cucchiara, E. Lamma, P. Mello, M. Piccardi, and L. Testoni, “Diagnosi di malfunzionamenti in sensori di monitoring mediante tecniche di intelligenza artificiale” (Fault diagnosis of monitoring sensors with artificial intelligence techniques – in Italian), in Proc. of Giornata di Studio dell’ A.I.MAN. L’ottimizzazione della manutenzione attraverso il monitoraggio, 1999.

·                 R. Cucchiara, M. Gavanelli, M. Piccardi, and A. Prati, “Rule-based reasoning on visual data for urban traffic monitoring”, in Proc. of AI*IA99 - Sesto Congresso della Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, Pitagora, 1999, pp. 89-98.

·                 R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, A. Vicentini, M. Milano, M. Piccardi, and E. Mainardi, “Multimedia services for the international trade”, in Proc. of AI*IA98 – Sesto Convegno dell’Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, 1998, pp. 115-119.

·                 M. Bariani, R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, and M. Piccardi, “Comparing machine learning tools for visual pattern classification”, in Proc. of Giornata di Lavoro AI*IA/IAPR-IC IAPRVA98 - Tecniche di Intelligenza Artificiale and Pattern Recognition per la Visione Artificiale, 1998, pp. 158-163.

·                 R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, E. Lamma, M. Gavanelli, M. Milano, and M. Piccardi, “Object recognition by Interactive Constraint Satisfaction”, in Proc. of Giornata di Lavoro AI*IA/IAPR-IC IAPRVA98 - Tecniche di Intelligenza Artificiale and Pattern Recognition per la Visione Artificiale, 1998, pp. 53-58.

·                 S. Zuffi, A. Leardini, F. Catani, R. Cucchiara, and M. Piccardi, “Elaborazione di immagini per la diagnostica di articolazioni artificiali” (Image processing for diagnostics of artificial joint replacements – in Italian), in Proc. of Giornata di Studio dell’ A.I.MAN. Tecniche di analisi per la manutenzione di impianti industriali, 1998.

·                 R. Cucchiara, A. Callipo, and M. Piccardi, “The Multi-Stage Block Data Flow paradigm for crossbar multiprocessors”, in Proc. of PDCS-97 - 10th Int. Conf. on Parallel and Distributed Computing Systems, October 1-3, 1997, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, pp. 131-135 (ISBN 1-880843-21-8).

·                 M. Bariani, R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, and M. Piccardi, “Learning for feature selection and shape detection”, in Proc. of ICIAP’97 - 9th Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing, September 17-19, 1997, Florence, Italy, pp. 535-542, Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 1310  (ISBN 3-540-63507-6).

·                 M. Bariani, R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, and M. Piccardi, “Exploiting symbolic learning in visual inspection”, in Proc. of IDA 97 - Second Int. Symp. on Intelligent Data Analysis, London, UK, August 4-6 1997, Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 1280, Springer, pp. 223-234  (ISBN 3-540-63346-4).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Eliciting visual primitives for detecting elongated shapes”, in Proc. of IWVF3 - 3rd Int. Workshop on Visual Form, Capri, Italy, May 28-30, 1997, pp. 130-139 (ISBN 981-02-3258-6).

·                 R. Cucchiara, A. Callipo, and M. Piccardi, “Block processing on multiprocessor DSPs for multimedia applications”, in Proc. of MMSP’97 - First IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Princeton, New Jersey, June 23-25, 1997, pp. 439-444 (ISBN 0-7803-3780-8).

·                 M. Bariani, R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, and M. Piccardi, “Data mining for automated visual inspection”, in Proc. of PADD’97 - First Int. Conf. on the Practical Application of Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 23-25 April 1997, London, UK, pp. 51-64 (ISBN 0-9525554-7-6).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “Detection of luminosity profiles of elongated shapes”, in Proc. of ICIP 96 - Int. Conf. on Image Processing 1996, IEEE, vol. 3, pp. 635-638 (ISBN 0-7803-3258-X).

·                 R. Cucchiara and M. Piccardi, “DARPA benchmark image processing on SIMD parallel machines”, in Proc. of ICA3PP 96 - IEEE 2nd International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, 1996, pp. 171-178 (ISBN 0-7803-3259-5).

·                 M. Bariani, R. Cucchiara, P. Mello, and M. Piccardi, “Using machine learning for defect detection”, Quinto Workshop sulla Percezione, Associazione Italiana per l’Intelligenza Artificiale, 1996.

·                 M. Piccardi, T. Salmon Cinotti, and S. Zuffi, “A preliminary performance evaluation of the Quadrics architecture with the DARPA Image Understanding benchmark”, in Proc. of HPCN 95 - Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing and Networking, 1995, Lecture Notes in Computer Science v. 919, Springer, pp. 124-129 (ISBN 3-540-59393-4).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Monacelli, M. Piccardi, and G. Rustichelli, “A parallel vision subsystem for robotic inspection and manipulation”, in Proc. of Int. Conf. IECON 94, 1994 (ISBN 0-7803-1328-3).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Monacelli, M. Piccardi, G. Rustichelli, and T. Salmon Cinotti, “The prototype of a heterogeneous machine for robot vision: architecture, programming and performance”, in Proc. of Int. Symp. IPPS ‘94 Parallel System Fair, spons. IEEE Comp. Society, 1994 (ISBN 0-9636720-1-0).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Piccardi, and T. Salmon Cinotti, “Recognition of circular shapes on a SIMD-parallel machine”, in Proc. of ISCIS VIII - The Eigth Int. Symp. on Computer and Information Sciences, IEEE Computer Society Turkey, 1993, 3 Nov. 1993, Istanbul, Turkey.

·                 M. Piccardi, L. Di Stefano, R. Cucchiara, and T. Salmon Cinotti, “Processing of variable size images on a cellular array: performance analysis with the Abingdon Cross benchmark”, in Proc. of ASAP 93 - EUROMICRO/IEEE Int. Conf. on Application-Specific Array Processors, 1993, pp.172-175 (ISBN 0-8186-3492-8).

·                 R. Cucchiara, L. Di Stefano, M. Monacelli, M. Piccardi, G. Rustichelli, and T. Salmon Cinotti, “Una macchina per l’analisi di immagini in applicazioni robotiche” (An image analysis machine for robotic applications - in Italian), in Proc. of 94a Riunione Annuale AEI, sessione Elaborazione di segnali ed immagini, 1993.

 

 

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