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From Fully Supervised to Blind Digital Anastylosis on DAFNE Dataset

Anastylosis is an archaeological term consisting in a reconstruction technique whereby an artefact is restored using the original architectural elements. Experts can sometimes imply months or years to carry out this task counting on their expertise. …

Natural interaction with traffic control cameras through multimodal interfaces

Human-Computer Interfaces have always played a fundamental role in usability and commands’ interpretability of the modern software systems. With the explosion of the Artificial Intelligence concept, such interfaces have begun to fill the gap between …

A Voice User Interface for football event tagging applications

Manual event tagging may be a very long and stressful activity, due the monotonous operations involved. This is particularly true when dealing with online video tagging, as for football matches, in which the burden of events to tag can consist of …

Transfer Learning for Facial Attributes Prediction and Clustering

Notwithstanding the enhancement obtained in the last decade researches, the recognition of facial attributes is still today a trend. Besides the mere face recognition, the singular face features, like mouth, nose and hair, are considered as soft …

Automating Mockup-Based Usability Testing on the Mobile Device

User interface usability is a very relevant aspect, especially for mobile applications. In this paper we propose a methodology for automating user interface usability testing in the early phases of the development process directly on the mobile …

Continuous authentication on smartphone by means of periocular and virtual keystroke

Nowadays, biometric recognition and verification methods are everywhere, trying to face the security issues that constantly affect our digital-every day life. In addition, many special-purpose applications, also need a constant (continuous) …

What are you doing while answering your smartphone?

Context awareness is major component of Ambient Intelligence. In fact, Ambient Intelligent environments are designed to combine ubiquity, awareness, intelligence and natural interaction. Awareness is defined as the ability by the system to locate and …

An Augmented Reality Mobile App for Museums: Virtual Restoration of a Plate of Glass

One of the problems for archaeologic museums is having the opportunity to show most of the objects that they preserve. This is an action they can’t afford because of the limitation of exhibition spaces, the high number of artifacts they guard and/or …

Iris quality assessment: A statistical approach for biometric security applications

Biometric recognition is often affected by low quality images. This is especially true in iris recognition fields, due to the fact that the area of the iris is quite small and wrong detection are very common when standard iris detection methods are …

Have you permission to answer this phone?

The new frontier of biometrie authentication exploits wearable sensors. At present, there is no need of special equipment. Both cameras of increasing resolution, and MEMS-based sensors (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) are ubiquitously embedded in …