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FootApp:an AI-powered system for football match annotation

In the last years, scientific and industrial research has experienced a growing interest in acquiring large annotated data sets to train artificial intelligence algorithms for tackling problems in different domains. In this context, we have observed …

A Facial Expression Recognition Approach for Social IoT Frameworks

Social IoT has become a sensitive topic in the last years, mainly due to the attraction of social networks and the related digital activities amongst the population. These techniques are gaining even more importance in the current period, in which …

An End-to-End Curriculum Learning Approach for Autonomous Driving Scenarios

In this work, we combine Curriculum Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning to learn without any prior domain knowledge, an end-to-end competitive driving policy for the CARLA autonomous driving simulator. To our knowledge, we are the first to …

CIOD:an intelligent class-incremental object detection system with nearest mean of exemplars

Object detection has been widely used in intelligent video surveillance, robot navigation, industrial detection, and other fields. Object detection can effectively reduce the consumption of human capital and has important practical significance. …

Emotion recognition by web-shaped model

Emotions recognition is widely applied for many tasks in different fields, from human-computer and human-robot interaction to learning platforms. Also, it can be used as an intrinsic approach for face recognition tasks, in which an …

Fully-automated deep learning pipeline for segmentation and classification of breast ultrasound images

Breast cancer is the most prevalent type of cancer among the female world population. Its early detection has a crucial role in enhancing the effectiveness of treatments, as well as reducing serious complications and deaths. Ultrasound imaging …

Introduction to the special issue on" Biometrics in Smart Cities:Techniques and Applications (BI_SCI)"

Smart Cities aim at improving the daily life of the citizens, by upgrading the services in terms of mobility, communications and power efficiency. Also, by measuring and acquiring the habits of a specific subject, it is meant to offer specific …

Visual question answering:Which investigated applications?

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an extremely stimulating and challenging research area where Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processig (NLP) have recently met. In image captioning and video summarization, the semantic information is …

SAFFO: A SIFT based approach for digital anastylosis for fresco recOnstruction

Anastylosis is an archaeological technique which focuses on the reconstruction of collapsed building and destroyed artworks, starting from the original pieces. Many digital approaches have been developed in the last decade, mainly based on 2D and 3D …

Web-Shaped Model for Head Pose Estimation: An Approach for Best Exemplar Selection

Head pose estimation is a sensitive topic in video surveillance/smart ambient scenarios since head rotations can hide/distort discriminative features of the face. Face recognition would often tackle the problem of video frames where subjects appear …