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• Investigating Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders in Online Health Forums, by M. Abdollahyan, F. Smeraldi, R. Patel, C. Bessant, in 3rd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS20), Article 11, pp 1-5, ACM Proceedings, doi:10.1145/3378184. 3378195, January 2020

• Partial Order Rank Features in Colour Space, by F. Smeraldi, F. Bianconi, A. Fernández, E. González, in Applied Sciences, vol 10, no 2, pp 449-511, doi:10.3390/app10020499, 2020

• Comparative evaluation of hand-crafted image descriptors vs. off-the-shelf CNN-based features for colour texture classification under ideal and realistic conditions, by R. Bello-Cerezo, F. Bianconi, F. Di Maria, P. Napoletano and F. Smeraldi, in Applied Sciences, vol 9, no 4, pp 738-769; doi:10.3390/app9040738, 2019

• Engaging with contemporary dance: what can body movements tell us about audience responses?, by L. Theodorou, P. G. T. Healey and F. Smeraldi, in Frontiers in Psychology, Volume 10, Article 71, February 2019

• Visual Localization in the Presence of Appearance Changes Using the Partial Order Kernel, by M. Abdollahyan, S. Cascianelli, E. Bellocchio, G. Costante, T. A. Ciarfuglia, F. Bianconi, F. Smeraldi and M. L. Fravolini, in Proceedings of EUSIPCO, pp 702-706, Sept 2018

• Identifying potential regulatory elements by transcription factor binding site alignment using partial order graphs, by M. Abdollahyan, G. Elgar and F. Smeraldi, in Foundations of Computer Science, vol 29, no. 8, pp 1345-1354, 2018

• Visualising the topological structure of health-related message board user networks, by M. Abdollahyan, R. J. Mondragón, C. Bessant and F. Smeraldi , in Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS18), Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol 310, pp 274-279, 2018

• Hand-designed local image descriptors vs. off-the-shelf CNN-based features for texture classification: an experimental comparison, by R. Bello-Cerezo, F. Bianconi, S. Cascianelli, M. L. Fravolini, F. di Maria and F. Smeraldi, in Proceedings of KES-IIMSS 2017, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 76, pp 1-10, Springer 2018. Winner of the Best Research Paper Award

• POKer: a Partial Order Kernel for comparing strings with alternative substrings, by M. Abdollahyan and F. Smeraldi, in Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN), pp 263-268, 2017

• On the use of skin texture features for gender recognition: an experimental evaluation, by F. Bianconi, F. Smeraldi, M. Abdollahyan and P. Xiao, in Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), 2016

• Personal identification based on forearm skin texture analysis and multi-modal imaging, by F. Bianconi, E. Chirikhina, F. Smeraldi, C. Bontozoglou and P. Xiao, Skin Research and Technology, DOI:10.1111/srt.12348, 2016

• Efficient numerical frameworks for multi-objective cyber security planning, by M. H. R. Khouzani, P. Malacaria, C. Hankin, A. Fielder and F. Smeraldi, in Proceedings of the 21st European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS), LNCS, Vol 9879, pages 179-197, 2016

• Decision Support Approaches for Cyber Security Investment, by A. Fielder, E. Panaousis, P. Malacaria, C. Hankin and F. Smeraldi, in Decision Support Systems, vol 86, pages 13-23, June 2016

• Exploring audience behaviour during contemporary dance performances, by L. Theodorou, P. G. T. Healey and F. Smeraldi, , in Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing (MOCO), doi:10.1145/2948910.2948928, June 2016

• Cybersecurity games and investments: A decision support approach, by Emmanouil Panaousis, Andrew Fielder, Pasquale Malacaria, Chris Hankin and Fabrizio Smeraldi, in Proceedings of then 5th Conference on Decision and Game Theory for Security (GameSec 2014), Los Angeles (CA) USA, LNCS 8840, pp 266-286, Springer, 2014

• Game theory meets information security management by Andrew Fielder, Emmanouil Panaousis, Pasquale Malacaria, Chris Hankin and Fabrizio Smeraldi, Proceedings of the 29th IFIP TC-11 International Information Security and Privacy Conference (SEC 2014), Marrakech, Morocco, June 2-4, 2014

• How to spend it: optimal investment for cyber security by Fabrizio Smeraldi and Pasquale Malacaria, 1st International Workshop on Agents and Cybersecurity (ACySe2014), Paris (France), May 5th 2014

• Development and automation of a test of impulse control in zebrafish by Matthew O. Parker, Dennis Ife, Jun Ma, Mahesh Pancholi, Fabrizio Smeraldi, Chris Straw and Caroline H. Brennan, Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience, doi:10.3389/fnsys.2013.00065, October 10th, 2013

• Thermodynamic Aspects of Confidentiality, by P. Malacaria and F. Smeraldi, Information and Computation vol 226, pages 76-93, 2013

• The Thermodynamics of Confidentiality, by P. Malacaria and F. Smeraldi, in Proceedings of Computer Security Foundations, CSF 2012

• Online multiple instance learning applied to hand detection in a humanoid robot, by C. Ciliberto, F. Smeraldi, L. Natale and G. Metta, in Proc. of the International conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco (USA), pp 1526-1532, 2011

• CLOOSTING: CLustering data with bOOSTING, by F. Smeraldi, M. Bicego, M. Cristani and V. Murino, in Proc. of the 10th international workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, pp 289-298, Springer (LNCS), 2011

• On the probabilistic logical modelling of quantum and geometrically-inspired IR, by F. Smeraldi, M. Martinez-Alvarez, I. Frommholz and T. Rolleke, in Proceedings of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop (IIR), Milano (Italy), January 2011

• Descriptive approach to modelling learning, by M. Martinez-Alvarez, F. Smeraldi and T. Rolleke, in Proceedings of the Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval, 2010

• Handling Missing Features with Boosting Algorithms for Protein-Protein interaction prediction, by F. Smeraldi, M. Defoin-Platel and M. Saqi, in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, pp 132-147, Gothenburg (Sweden), Aug 2010, DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-15120-0_11

• Fast algorithms for the computation of Ranklets, by F. Smeraldi, in: Proceedings of ICIP, Cairo (Egypt), pp 3969-3972, November 2009

• Variance Ranklets: orientation-selective rank features for contrast modulations, by G. Azzopardi, F. Smeraldi, in: Proc. of the British Machine Vision Conference, London (UK), Sept 2009

• On Adaboost and optimal betting strategies, by P. Malacaria, F. Smeraldi, in: Proc. of the 5th International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN/WORLDCOMP), CSREA Press, pp 326-332, July 2009

• On Adaboost and optimal betting strategies, by P. Malacaria, F. Smeraldi, in: Proc. of the 1st National ICT Conference (WICT), Valletta (Malta), Nov 2008

• Adaptive multi-feature tracking in a particle filter framework, by E. Maggio, F. Smeraldi and A. Cavallaro, in: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, volume 17, issue 10, pages 1348-1359, October 2007

• Non-rigid structure from motion using ranklet-based tracking and non-linear optimization, by A. Del Bue, F. Smeraldi and L. Agapito, in: Image and Vision Computing, volume 25, issue 3, pages 297-310, March 2007

• Feature selection with nonparametric statistics, by E. Franceschi, F. Odone, F. Smeraldi and A. Verri, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, volume I, pages 325-328, Genoa, Italy, September 2005

• Tracking points on deformable objects with ranklets, by F. Smeraldi, A. Del Bue and L. Agapito, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing, volume III, pages 121-124, Genoa, Italy, September 2005

• Combining colour and orientation for adaptive particle filter-based tracking, by E. Maggio, F. Smeraldi and A. Cavallaro, in: Proceedings of the Bristish Machine Vision Conference, volume II, pages 659-668, Oxford, UK, September 2005

• A classical tool revisited: object detection by statistical testing, by E. Franceschi, F. Odone, F. Smeraldi and A. Verri, in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Instrumentation, Control and Information Technology (SICE), pages 2961 - 2964, Okayama, Japan, August 2005

• Finding objects with hypothesis testing, by E. Franceschi, F. Odone, F. Smeraldi and A. Verri, in: Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning for Adaptable Visual Systems (LAVS), in conjunction with ICPR'04, Cambridge, UK, August 2004

• Non-rigid structure from motion using non-parametric tracking and non-linear optimization, by A. Del Bue, F. Smeraldi and L. Agapito, in: Proceedings of the IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, Washington DC, June 2004

• Cognitive navigation based on non-uniform Gabor space sampling, unsupervised growing networks, and reinforcement learning, by A. Arleo, F. Smeraldi and W. Gerstner, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 15, No. 3, pages 639-652, May 2004

• Ranklets on Hexagonal Pixel Lattices, by F. Smeraldi and M. A. Rob, in: Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, Norwich, UK, vol. 1, pages 163-170, September 2003

• A nonparametric approach to face detection using ranklets, by F. Smeraldi, in: Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Audio and Video-based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 03), Guildford, UK, pages 351-359, June 2003

• Ranklets: orientation selective non-parametric features applied to face detection, by F. Smeraldi, in: Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Quebec QC, vol. 3, pages 379-382, August 2002

• Support Vector Features and the role of dimensionality in face authentication, by F. Smeraldi, J. Bigun and W. Gerstner, Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Pattern Recognition with Support Vector Machines (SVM 2002), Niagra Falls, Canada, pages 249-259, August 2002

• Retinal vision applied to facial features detection and face authentication, by F. Smeraldi and J. Bigun, Pattern Recognition Letters 23 (2002), pages 463 - 475

• Place cells and spatial navigation based on vision, path integration, and reinforcement learning, by A. Arleo, F. Smeraldi, S. Hug and W. Gerstner, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, vol. 13, pages 89-95, MIT Press, December 2000

• Comparison of face verification results on the XM2VTS database, by J. Matas and M. Hamouz and K. Jonsson and J. Kittler and Y. Li and C. Kotropoulos and A. Tefas and I. Pitas and T. Tan and H. Yan and F. Smeraldi and J. Bigun and N. Capdevielle and W. Gerstner and S. Ben-Yacoub and Y. Abdeljaoued and E. Mayoraz, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona (Spain), pages 858-863, vol 4, September 2000

• Saccadic Search with Gabor features applied to Eye Detection and Real-Time Head Tracking, by F. Smeraldi, O. Carmona and J. Bigün, Image and Vision Computing, vol 18, no 4, pages 323-329, March 2000

• Facial features detection by saccadic exploration of the Gabor decomposition and Support Vector Machines, by F. Smeraldi, N. Capdevielle and J. Bigun, in Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis, Kangerlussuaq (Greenland), volume I, pages 39-44, June 1999

• Face Authentication by retinotopic sampling of the Gabor decomposition and Support Vector Machines by F. Smeraldi, N. Capdevielle and J. Bigun, Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Audio and Video Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA'99), Washington DC (USA), pages 125-129, March 22nd-24th, 1999

• Gabor decomposition driven saccades applied to facial features detection for visual biometrics applications, by F. Smeraldi, N. Capdevielle and J. Bigün, in Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis, Göteborg (Sweden), pages 85-88 published by: School of Signals and Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Göteborg, March 1999.

• Facial feature detection by Saccadic Exploration of the Gabor Decomposition by F. Smeraldi and J. Bigun, Proceedings of the 1998 International Conference on Image Processing, Chicago (USA), vol. 3, pages 163 - 167, October 4 - 7, 1998

• Real-time Head Tracking by Saccadic Exploration and Gabor Decomposition by F. Smeraldi, O. Carmona and J. Bigün, Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC '98), Coimbra (Portugal), June 29th - July 1st, pages 684 - 687, IEEE Cat. Num. 98TH8354, 1998

• Multi-Modal Person Authentication by J. Bigun, B. Duc, S. Fischer, A. Makarov and F. Smeraldi, in Nato-Asi advanced study on face recognition, H. Wechsler et al. editors, pages 26-50, vol. F 163, Springer, 1998

Abstracts, Posters and Spoken Papers

• A Self-training Approach for Functional Annotation of UniProtKB Proteins, by M. Abdollahyan, R. Saidi, F. Smeraldi and M.-J. Martin: Poster and Lightning Talk, Function SIG, ISMB/ECCB 2017, to appear

• Overt audience responses to contemporary dance: is hand and body movement a signal of engagement? by L. Theodorou, P. Healey and F. Smeraldi: Extended Abstract, International Symposium on Performance Science 2017, to appear

• Transcription Factor Binding Site-based Alignment of Conserved Non-coding Sequences by M. Abdollahyan, F. Smeraldi, B. Noyvert and G. Elgar, 15th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB), 2016

• Interpersonal Coordination in Schizophrenia: The first 3D analysis of social interaction in schizophrenia by M. Lavelle, R. McCabe, P. G. T. Healey, C. Frauenberger, and F. Smeraldi, Conference of the International Society for the Psychological Treatments of Schizophrenias and Other Psychoses, Copenhagen, 2009 (ISPS2009)

Technical/Research Reports

• GeoDiver: Differential Gene Expression Analysis & Gene-Set Analysis For GEO Datasets, by I. Moghul, S. Hewapathirana, N. Nawaz, A. Rashid, M. Priebe, B. Vieira, F. Smeraldi and C. Bessant, BioRxiv, DOI:10.1101/127753, 2017

• Ranklets: a Complete Family of Multiscale, Orientation Selective Rank Features, by F. Smeraldi, Research Report RR0309-01, Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK, September 2003

• Saccadic Search with Gabor features applied to Eye Detection, by F. Smeraldi, A. Makarov and J. Bigün, technical report 98/256, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Computer Science Department, CH-1015 Lausanne, January 1998

• A Generalization of Deutsch's Example, by G. Costantini and F. Smeraldi, http://xxx.lanl.gov, quant-ph/9702020, 1997

Edited Volumes

• Special Issue of Pattern Recognition Letters on Multi-Modal Biometrics, F. Smeraldi and J. Bigun guest editors, Vol. 24, No. 13, September 2003

• Audio- and Video- Based Biometric Person Authentication, Third International Conference, AVBPA 2001, Halmstad, Sweden, June 2001: Proceedings, J. Bigun and F. Smeraldi editors, ISBN 3-540-42216-1, LNCS 2091, Springer, 2001

Ph.D. Thesis

Attention-driven Pattern Recognition, by F. Smeraldi, thesis no. 2153, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology - Lausanne, Switzerland, 2000

M.Sc. Thesis

Computazione e Crittografia Quantistiche (Quantum Computation and Cryptography), by F. Smeraldi, tesi di laurea in Fisica, Università degli Studi di Genova, anno accademico 1995/96 (MSc Thesis in Physics, in Italian)