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Books

 

Intelligent multimedia surveillance
    
P. Atrey, M. Kankanhalli, A. Cavallaro
     Springer-Verlag GmbH, in preparation

 

Analysis, retrieval and delivery of multimedia content
    
N. Adami, A. Cavallaro, R. Leonardi, P. Migliorati
     Springer, ISBN-13: 978-1461438304, August 2012

 

Video Tracking: Theory and Practice [link] [Hard cover] [Kindle edition]
    
E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
     Wiley and Sons, ISBN: 978-0-470-74964-7, January 2011

 

Multi-Camera Networks: Principles and Applications [link]
    
H. Aghajan, A. Cavallaro
     Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-374633-7, May 2009


 

Journal papers

 


Action-based multi-camera synchronization
pdf video [source code]

    L. Zini, A. Cavallaro, F. Odone

    IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (to appear)

 

Multi-target tracking on confidence maps: an application to people tracking pdf [video]

    F. Poiesi, R. Mazzon, A. Cavallaro

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding (to appear)


A protocol for evaluating video trackers under real-world conditions
pdf [video] [source code]

    T. Nawaz, A. Cavallaro

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 22, Issue 4, April 2013, pp. 1354-1361

 

Multi-camera tracking using a Multi-Goal Social Force Model pdf [video]

     R. Mazzon, A. Cavallaro

     Neurocomputing, Vol. 100, January 2013, pp. 41-50

 

Adaptive appearance modeling for video tracking: survey and evaluation pdf

    S. Salti, A. Cavallaro, L. Di Stefano

    IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 21, Issue 10, October 2012, pp. 4334-4348

 

Person re-identification in crowd pdf [video]

     R. Mazzon, S.F. Tahir, A. Cavallaro

     Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 33, Issue 14, October 2012, pp. 1828-1837

 

Automated localization of a camera network [pdf] [video]

     N. Anjum, A. Cavallaro

     IEEE Intelligent Systems, Vol. 27, Issue 5, September-October 2012, pp. 10-18

 

Adaptive on-line performance evaluation of video trackers pdf
    J.C. SanMiguel, A. Cavallaro and J.M. Martinez
    
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 21, Issue 5, May 2012, pp. 2812-2823

 

Image coding using depth blurring for aesthetically acceptable distortion pdf [source code] [related video]
    
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
    
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 20, Issue 11, November 2011

 

Video analysis on resource-limited systems (Editorial)

     R. Chellappa, A. Cavallaro, Y. Wu, C. Shan, Y. Fu, K. Pulli

     IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, Issue 10, October 2011

 

Distributed and decentralized multi-camera tracking [pdf]
     M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
     IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 28, Issue 3, May 2011

 

Video analytics for surveillance: theory and practice

     C. Regazzoni, A. Cavallaro, Y. Wu, J. Konrad, A. Hampapur

     IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 27, Issue 5, September 2010

 

Multi-camera and multi-modal sensor fusion (Editorial)

     A. Cavallaro, H. Aghajan

     Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114, Issue 6, June 2010

 

Event monitoring via local motion abnormality detection in non-linear subspace [pdf] [video]
     I. Tziakos, A. Cavallaro, L.-Q. Xu
     Neurocomputing, Vol. 73, Issues 10-12, June 2010, pp 1539-2290

 

Accurate and efficient method for smoothly space-variant Gaussian blurring [source code] [pdf] [video]
    
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
    
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 19, Issue 5, May 2010, pp. 1362-1370

 

Content and task-based view selection from multiple video streams [pdf] [video]

    F. Daniyal, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
    
Multimedia Tools And Applications, Vol. 46, Numbers 2-3, January 2010, pp. 235-258

 

Security and surveillance: performance evaluation (Guest editorial)

     A. Cavallaro

    Annals of the BMVA, Vol. 2010, No. 1, 2010, pp 1−2

 

Learning scene context for multiple object tracking [pdf]
    
E. Maggio and A. Cavallaro
    
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, Issue 8, August 2009, pp. 1873-1884

 

3D face analysis using a point distribution model [software] [pdf] [video]
       P. Nair and A. Cavallaro
      
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 11, Issue 4, June 2009, pp. 611-623

 

Accurate appearance-based Bayesian tracking for maneuvering targets [pdf]
        E. Maggio and A. Cavallaro 
       
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 113, Issue 4, April 2009, pp. 544-555

 

Video event segmentation and visualisation in non-linear subspace [pdf] [video]
      I. Tziakos, A. Cavallaro, L.-Q. Xu
      Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue on Video-based and Event Analysis, Vol. 30, Number 2, January 2009, pp. 123-131

 

Multi-feature object trajectory clustering for video analysis [source code] [pdf] [video]
       N. Anjum,  A. Cavallaro
      
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
Vol. 18, Issue 11, November 2008

 

Efficient multi-target visual tracking using Random Finite Sets [pdf] [video]
       E. Maggio, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
      
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,
Vol. 18, Issue 8, August 2008, pp.1016-1027

 

Video Tracking in Complex Scenes for Surveillance (Editorial)
        C. Regazzoni, A. Cavallaro, F. Porikli
        EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Volume 2008 (2008)

 

Multi-view trajectory mapping using homography with lens distortion correction [pdf]
       G. Kayumbi and A. Cavallaro
      
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Article ID 145715, doi:10.1155/2008/145715, Volume 2008 (2008)

 

Target detection and tracking with heterogeneous sensors [pdf] [video]
       H. Zhou, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
      
IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 2, Issue 4, August 2008, pp.503-513

 

Detection and tracking of humans and faces [pdf]
      S. Karlsson, M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
      EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, Article ID 526191, doi:10.1155/2008/526191, Volume 2008 (2008)

 

Adaptive multi-feature tracking in a particle filtering framework [pdf]
       
E. Maggio, F. Smeraldi, A. Cavallaro
        IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology,  Vol. 17, Issue 10, October 2007, pp.1348-1359

 

Multi-sensor object detection and tracking (Editorial)
        A. Cavallaro
        Signal, Image and Video Processing, Vol. 1, No. 2, June 2007, pp. 99-100

 

Privacy in video surveillance
        A. Cavallaro
        IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Vol. 24, Issue 2, March 2007

 

Semantic video analysis for adaptive content delivery and automatic description [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, O.Steiger, T. Ebrahimi
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 15, Issue 10, October 2005, pp.1200-1209

 

Shadow-aware object-based video processing  [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, E. Salvador, T. Ebrahimi
IEE Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 152, Issue 4, August 2005, pp. 14- 22

 

Tracking video objects in cluttered background  [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, O.Steiger, T. Ebrahimi 
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, 15(4), April 2005, pp.575- 584

 

Interaction between high-level and low-level image analysis for semantic video object extraction [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi 
Journal on Applied Signal Processing, Special Issue on: Object-based and semantic image and video analysis, vol. 2004, n. 6, June 2004, pp. 786-797

 

Cast shadow segmentation using invariant colour features
E. Salvador, A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi 
Computer Vision and Image Understanding, vol. 95, n.2, August 2004, pp. 238-259

 

Image Analysis for Video Surveillance based on Spatial Regularization of a Statistical Change Detection
F. Ziliani and A. Cavallaro
Real-Time Imaging, Special Issue on: Video Processing and Communications in Real-Time Video-Based Surveillance Systems, Vol. 7, No. 5, October 2001, pp. 389-399



 

Book chapters

 

View selection
F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
in Emerging Technologies for 3D Video, (Eds: F. Dufaux et al.), Wiley, (to appear)

 

Multi-target tracking in video
F. Poiesi, A. Cavallaro
in Video Processing, (Eds: A Roy-Chowdhury et al.), Elsevier, (to appear)

 

Simultaneous detection and tracking with multiple cameras
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
in Computer Vision and Machine Learning for Image and Video Analysis, (Eds: R. Cipolla et al.), Springer Verlag, 2012

 

Change detection for object segmentation
A. Cavallaro
in Smart Cameras, (Ed: A.N. Belbachir), Springer, ISBN: 978-1-4419-0952-7, 2010

 

Multi-view multi-object detection tracking
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
in Computer Vision: Detection, Recognition and Reconstruction, (Eds: R. Cipolla et al.), Springer Verlag GmbH, 2010

 

Trajectory clustering for scene context learning and outlier detection
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
in Encyclopaedia Video Mining, (Eds: D. Schonfeld et al.) Springer-Verlag, 2010

 

Recognizing interactions in video
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
in Intelligent Multimedia Analysis for Security Applications, (Eds: S. Velastin et al.) Springer, ISBN: 978-3-642-11754-1, 2010

 

Multi-camera calibration and global trajectory fusion
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
in Intelligent Video Surveillance: Systems and Technologies, (Eds: Y. Ma and G. Qian) CRC Press, ISBN: 978-1-4398-1328-7, December 2009

 

Perceptual semantics
A. Cavallaro, S. Winkler
in Multimedia Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications (Ed: M. Rahman), pp. 1441-1455, Information Science Reference, June 2008.

 

Perceptual semantics
A. Cavallaro, S. Winkler
in Digital Multimedia Perception and Design (Eds: G. Ghinea, S. Y. Chen), Idea Group Publishing, ISBN 159140861-X, April 2006

 

Universal Multimedia Access
A. Cavallaro
in Encyclopaedia of Multimedia Technology and Networking (Ed. M. Pagani) Idea Group Reference, ISBN 1-59140-561-0, May 2005

 

Automatic and Interactive Segmentation of Video Sequences
R. Castagno, A. Cavallaro, F. Ziliani, T. Ebrahimi
in Non Linear Model-based Image/Video Processing and Analysis, I.Pitas, C. Kotropoulos (Eds.), WILEY & SONS, chapter 6, April 2001

 

Image Analysis for Advanced Video Surveillance
      
A. Cavallaro and F. Ziliani
       in Multimedia Video-Based Surveillance Systems, G.L.Foresti, P.Mahonen, C.S.Regazzoni (Eds.),
       KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS, Boston, chapter 2.3, pp. 57-67, 2000

 

A Motion Compensation Algorithm Based on Non Linear Geometric Transformation and Quadtree Decomposition
       A. Cavallaro, S. Marsi, G.L. Sicuranza
       in Signal Analysis and Prediction, A.Prochazka, J.Uhlir, P.J.W.Rayner, N.G.Kingsbury (Eds.),
      BIRKHAUSER, Boston, ISBN 0-8176-4042-8, chapter 23, pp. 339-350, 1998

 

 

Refereed conference papers

 

Detecting group interactions by online association of trajectory data
F. Chen, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Vancouver, Canada, May 26-31, 2013

 

Error propagation in multi-camera tracking
G. Kayumbi, P.L. Mazzeo, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of 8th Int. Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Systems (SITIS), Naples, 25-29 November, 2012

 

Interaction recognition in wide areas using audiovisual sensors
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Orlando, 30 September - 3 October, 2012

 

People-background segmentation with unequal error cost
A. Garcia-Martin, A. Cavallaro, J.M. Martinez
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Orlando, 30 September - 3 October, 2012

 

Standalone evaluation of deterministic video tracking
J.C. San Miguel, A. Cavallaro, J.M. Martinez
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Orlando, 30 September - 3 October, 2012

 

Multi-camera scheduling for video production [pdf] [video]
F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London, 16-17 November, 2011

 

Distributed target tracking under realistic network conditions [source code] [pdf]
C. Nastasi, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD), London, UK, 28-29 September, 2011

 

WiSE-MNet: an experimental environment for Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks [source code] [pdf]
C. Nastasi, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of Sensor Signal Processing for Defence (SSPD), London, UK, 28-29 September, 2011

 

PFT: a protocol for evaluating video trackers [source code] [pdf] [video]
T. Nawaz, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, 11-14 September, 2011

 

Efficient depth blurring with occlusion handling
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, 11-14 September, 2011

 

Abnormal motion detection in crowded scenes using local spatio-temporal analysis [video (.avi file)]
F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Prague, 22-27 May, 2011

 

Detector-less ball localization using context and motion flow analysis [video]
F. Poiesi, F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 26-29 September, 2010

 

Evaluation of on-line quality estimators for object tracking
J.C. San Miguel, A. Cavallaro, J.M. Martinez
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, 26-29 September, 2010

 

Local abnormality detection in video using subspace learning
I. Tziakos, A. Cavallaro, L.-Q. Xu
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Signal and Video based Surveillance, Boston, USA, 29 Aug. - 1 Sept., 2010

 

Trajectory association and fusion across partially overlapping cameras [pdf] [video][best paper award]
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Signal and Video based Surveillance, Genoa, I, September 2-4, 2009

 

Compact signatures for 3D face recognition under varying expressions [pdf] [video]
F. Daniyal, P. Nair, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Signal and Video based Surveillance, Genoa, I, September 2-4, 2009

 

Multi-camera track-before-detect [pdf] [video]
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Como, Italy, 30 August - 2 September, 2009

 

Localization of distributed wireless cameras [pdf] [video]
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conf. on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Como, Italy, 30 August - 2 September, 2009

 

Space-time audio-visual speech recognition with multiple multi-class probabilistic Support Vector Machines
S. Pachoud, S. Gong, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of Int. Conf. on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing (AVSP), Norwich, UK, September 10-13, 2009

 

Audio-assisted trajectory estimation in non-overlapping multi-camera networks [pdf] [video]     [invited paper]
M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009

 

Multi-foveation filtering [pdf] [video]
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009

 

Distance blurring for space-variant image coding [Winner of the ICASSP Student Paper Contest] [pdf] [video]
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009

 

Grouping motion trajectories
S. Pachoud, E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro,
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Taipei, Taiwan, April 19-24, 2009

 

Content-aware ranking of video segments
F. Daniyal, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Stanford, California (USA), 7-11 September, 2008

 

Global trajectory reconstruction from distributed visual sensors
G. Kayumbi, N. Anjum,  A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Stanford, California (USA), 7-11 September, 2008

 

Object and scene-centric activity detection using state occupancy duration modelling [pdf] [video]
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Signal and Video based Surveillance, Santa Fe, New Mexico (USA), September 1-3, 2008

 

Matching 3D faces with partial data [pdf] [video]
 P. Nair and A. Cavallaro
 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Leeds (UK), September 1-4, 2008

 

Video augmentation for improving audio speech recognition under noise
 S. Pachoud, S. Gong,  A. Cavallaro
 British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Leeds (UK), September 1-4, 2008

 

Distributed visual sensing for virtual top-view trajectory generation in football videos
G. Kayumbi, P.L. Mazzeo, P. Spagnolo, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval (CIVR), Niagara Falls, Canada, July 7-9, 2008

 

Macro-cuboids based probabilistic matching for lip-reading digits
S. Pachoud, S. Gong, A. Cavallaro
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Anchorage, Alaska (USA), June 24-26, 2008

 

Robust homography-based trajectory transformation for multi-camera scene analysis
G. Kayumbi and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Vienna (A), 25-28 September, 2007

 

Audiovisual tracking using STAC sensors
H. Zhou, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of ACM / IEEE Int. Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC), Vienna (A), 25-28 September, 2007

 

Multi-camera scene analysis using an object-centric continuous distribution Hidden Markov Model
M. Taj and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 16-19 September, 2007

 

Unsupervised fuzzy clustering for trajectory analysis
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 16-19 September, 2007

 

Multi-modal particle filtering tracking using appearance, motion and audio likelihoods
M. Bregonzio, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 16-19 September, 2007

 

Region segmentation and feature point extraction on 3D faces using a point distribution model
P. Nair and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), San Antonio, Texas (USA), 16-19 September, 2007

 

Single camera calibration for trajectory-based behavior analysis [pdf] [video]
N. Anjum and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Advanced Signal and Video based Surveillance, London (UK), September 5-7, 2007

 

Person and vehicle detection and tracking: experiments on the CLEAR dataset
M. Taj, E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Workshop, Baltimore, Maryland (USA), May 8-9 2007

 

Relative position estimation of non-overlapping cameras [pdf] [video]
N. Anjum, M. Taj, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), April 15-20, 2007

 

Tracking atoms with particles for audio-visual source localization [pdf]
G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst, E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), April 15-20, 2007

 

Particle PHD filter for multi-target visual tracking [Winner of the ICASSP Student Paper Contest] [pdf]
E. Maggio, E. Piccardo, C. Regazzoni, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), April 15-20, 2007

 

Hands-on experience in image processing: the automated lecture cameraman
A. Cavallaro, R. Chandrasekera, M. Taj
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Honolulu (USA), April 15-20, 2007

 

Evaluation of multi-sensor surveillance event detectors
F. Ziliani and A. Cavallaro
IET Conference on Imaging for Crime Detection and Prevention (ICDP 2006), London, UK, 13-14 June, 2006

 

Surveillance scene change detection
A. Cavallaro and L-Q. Xu
IEEE International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS2006), in conjunction with ECCV, Graz, Austria, 7-13 May, 2006

 

Multi-feature graph-based object tracking [pdf]
         M. Taj, E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
         Proc. of Classification of Events, Activities and Relationships (CLEAR) Workshop,
         Springer LNCS 4122, pp. 190-199, Southampton, UK, 6-7 April, 2006

 

Event detection in underground stations using multiple heterogeneous surveillance cameras     [invited paper]
A. Cavallaro
Proc. of International Symposium on Visual Computing, Intelligent Vehicles and Autonomous Navigation, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, 5-7 December 2005.

 

Facial scan change detection    [Winner of the QM Electronic Engineering Showcase Event]
Prathap Nair, Lifong Zou, Andrea Cavallaro
2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT), pp. 77-82, London, UK, 30 Nov- 1 Dec, 2005

 

Performance evaluation of event detection solutions: the CREDS experience
     
F. Ziliani, S. Velastin, F. Porikli, L. Marcenaro, T. Kelliher, A. Cavallaro, P. Bruneaut
      Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2005), Como (I), 15-16 September 2005

 

Surveillance video for mobile devices
     
O. Steiger,  T. Ebrahimi, A. Cavallaro
      Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2005), Como (I), 15-16 September 2005

 

Multi-part target representation for colour tracking [pdf]   [rated among the top 10% of the accepted papers]
      
E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
       Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Genova (I), 11-14 September 2005

 

Combining Colour and Orientation for Adaptive Particle Filter-based Tracking [pdf]
      E. Maggio, F. Smeraldi, A. Cavallaro
      British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Oxford (UK), 6-8 September 2005

 

Evaluating perceptually pre-filtered video
      
O. Steiger,  T. Ebrahimi, A. Cavallaro
       Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME-2005), Amsterdam (NL), 6-8 July 2005.

 

Characterisation of tracking performance [pdf]
        A. Cavallaro, F. Ziliani
        Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2005), Montreux (CH), 13-15 April 2005.

 

Real-time generation of annotated video for surveillance
       O. Steiger,  T. Ebrahimi, A. Cavallaro
       Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2005), Montreux (CH), 13-15 April 2005.

 

Hybrid Particle Filter and Mean Shift tracker with adaptive transition model [Winner of the ICASSP Student Paper Contest]  [demo] [pdf]
E. Maggio, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Signal Processing Society International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 19-23, 2005

 

Image analysis and computer vision for undergraduates    [QM Drapers' Prize for the Development of Learning and Teaching]
A. Cavallaro
Proc. of IEEE Signal Processing Society International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Philadelphia, PA, USA, March 19-23, 2005

 

Adding privacy constraints to video-based applications [pdf]
A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantics and Digital Media Technology, London, 25-26 November 2004

 

Segmentation-driven perceptual quality metric [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, S. Winkler
Proc. of  IEEE Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore, 24-27 October 2004

 

Perceptual pre-filtering for video coding     [invited paper]
A. Cavallaro, O. Steiger, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Intelligent Multimedia, Video and Speech Processing, Hong Kong, 20-22 October 2004

 

Scalable Colour Image Coding with Matching Pursuit   [pdf]
R. Ventura, P. Vandergheynst, P. Frossard, A. Cavallaro
Proc. of  IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2004), Montreal (Canada), 17-21 May 2004

 

Shadow detection in image sequences  
A. Cavallaro, E. Salvador, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of  IEE Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP), London (UK), 15-16 March 2004

 

 Semantic segmentation and description for video transcoding   [pdf]  [ps.gz]
A. Cavallaro, O. Steiger, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003, Baltimore (MD, USA), 6-9 July 2003

 

 

Object-based video: extraction tools, evaluation metrics and applications   [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, Lugano (Switzerland), 8-11 July 2003

 

Classification of change detection algorithms for object-based applications   [pdf
A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2003), London (UK), 9-11 April 2003

 

Spatio-temporal shadow segmentation and tracking
E. Salvador, A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of SPIE Image and Video Communication and Processing, Santa Clara (California, USA), 21-24 January 2003

 

 Multiple video object tracking in complex scenes   [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, O. Steiger, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of ACM Multimedia 2002, Juan les Pins (France), 1-6 December 2002

 

 Accurate video object segmentation through change detection
A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Lausanne (Switzerland), 26-29 August 2002

 

Objective evaluation of segmentation quality using spatio-temporal context   [pdf]  [ps.gz]
A. Cavallaro, E. Drelie, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Rochester (New York, USA), 22-25 September 2002

 

MPEG-7 Description of Generic Video Objects for Scene Reconstruction
O. Steiger, A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose (California, USA), pp. 947-958, 21-23 January 2002

 

Change detection based on color edges   [pdf]
A. Cavallaro and T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS-2001), Sydney (Australia), 6-9 May 2001

 

Segmenting moving objects: the MODEST video object kernel    [pdf]  [ps.gz]     [invited paper]
A. Cavallaro, D. Douxchamps, T. Ebrahimi, B.Macq
Proc. of Workshop on Image Analysis For Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS-2001), 16-17 May 2001

 

 Shadow Identification and Classification using Invariant Color Models   [pdf]
E. Salvador, A. Cavallaro, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP-2001) Salt Lake City (Utah, USA), 7-11 May, 2001

 

Video Object Extraction based on Adaptive Background and Statistical Change Detection   [ps.gz]
A. Cavallaro and T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of SPIE Visual Communications and Image Processing, San Jose (California, USA), pp. 465-475, 21-26 January 2001

 

Vehicle extraction based on focus of attention, multi feature segmentation and tracking   [pdf]
A. Cavallaro, F. Ziliani, R. Castagno, T. Ebrahimi
Proc. of X European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO-2000), Tampere (Finland), pp. 2161-2164, 5-8 September 2000

 

Video-Based Multi-Agent Traffic Surveillance System   [pdf]
B. Abreu, L. Botelho, A. Cavallaro, et al.
Proc. of IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV2000), Detroit (USA), pp. 457-462, 3-5 October 2000

 

 Image Analysis for Video Surveillance based on Spatial Regularization of a Statistical Change Detection
F. Ziliani and A. Cavallaro
Proc. of 10th Int. Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP'99), Venice (Italy), pp. 1108-1111, 27-29 September 1999

 

High Level Descriptors of Video Surveillance Sequences   [pdf]
P. Piscaglia, A. Cavallaro, M. Bonnet and D. Douxchamps
Proc. of European Conf. on Multimedia Applications, Services and Techniques (ECMAST), Madrid, pp. 316-331, 26-28 May 1999

 

A Motion Compensation Algorithm Based on Non Linear Geometric Transformation and Quadtree Structure   [ps.gz]
 A. Cavallaro, S. Marsi and G.L. Sicuranza
Proc. of The First European Conference on Signal Analysis and Prediction (ECSAP'97), Prague, 24-27 June 1997

 

Miscellanea

 

Person Runs detection for the TRECVID Surveillance Event Detection task
F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
TREC Video Retrieval Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA,15-17 November 2010

 

Event analysis on the TRECVid 2008 London Gatwick dataset
M. Taj, F. Daniyal, A. Cavallaro
TREC Video Retrieval Workshop, Gaithersburg, MD, USA, 17-18 November 2008

 

Region-of-interest video encoding using object tracking data
T. Popkin, A. Cavallaro, D. Hands
BMVA Inaugural Student Papers Meeting, London (UK), 28 March 2007

 

Automatic macro-block based feature selection for lip-reading
S. Pachoud, S. Gong, A. Cavallaro
BMVA Inaugural Student Papers Meeting, London (UK), 28 March 2007

 

Landmark detection in 2.5-D facial scans
P. Nair and A. Cavallaro
BMVA symposium on Vision-based Biometrics, London (UK), 14 February 2007

 

Theses

 

A. Cavallaro, "From visual information to knowledge: semantic video object segmentation, tracking and description",
Ph.D. Thesis, n.2515, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Switzerland, January 2002
Advisor: Prof. T. Ebrahimi. Committee members: Prof. M. Kunt, Dr. F. Moscheni, Prof. Ph. Robert (president), Prof. G.L. Sicuranza, Prof. T. Sikora, Prof. S. Susstrunk

 

 A. Cavallaro, "Video Compression based on Non Linear Techniques",
M.Sc. Thesis, University of Trieste, Italy, October 1996
Advisor: Prof. G.L. Sicuranza. Co-advisors: Dr.S. Marsi, Dr. S. Cucchi.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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