Periodo di riferimento: 2009-2015

Gabriella Sanniti di Baja è nata il 29/01/1950 ed ha svolto attività di ricerca in “Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision” presso l’Istituto di Cibernetica E. Caianiello” del CNR dall’autunno 1972, quando ha iniziato la preparazione della tesi di laurea, fino allo 01/02/2015, data in cui ha cessato il servizio quale Dirigente di Ricerca per raggiunti limiti d’età.

Ha conseguito la laurea in Fisica con 110 e lode su 110 presso l’Università Federico II di Napoli nel 1973 ed ha ricevuto il PhD Honoris Causa dall’Università di Uppsala, Uppsala, Svezia, nel 2002.
E’ stata Presidente dell’International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) nel biennio 2000-2002, membro dello IAPR Executive Committee dal 1994 al 2004, e chairperson/member di numerosi IAPR Standing Committees.

E’ stata Presidente del Gruppo Italiano di Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR) nel quadriennio 2008-2012. Dal 2000 è Editor-in-Chief di Pattern Recognition Letters. Dal 2000 è IAPR Fellow. Dal 2011 è “Foreign Member” della Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, Uppsala, Svezia.

Ha organizzato numerosi convegni internazionali (ICIAP, IWVF, ICPR, DGCI, BVAI, AVI, IEB) ed è stata Program Committee Member di numerosi convegni internazionali. Nel 2016 sarà Co- General Chair di ICPR 2016, la conferenza biennale di unta nella comunità IAPR.

Ha svolto attività di referee per le maggiori riviste nel settore di “Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision”.

L’attività di ricerca svolta da G. Sanniti di Baja nel periodo 2009-2014 ha riguardato le aree del settore “Pattern Recognition & Computer Vision” generalmente chiamate “visione artificiale a basso e a medio livello” e piu’ specificatamente: geometria e topologia digitali, trasformata distanza e sue applicazioni, sistemi di rappresentazione, multirisoluzione, decomposizione e
descrizione di immagini 2D e 3D, segmentazione, elaborazione di immagini a colori, biometria.

L’elenco delle pubblicazioni dal 2009 è riportato al punto 1.

L’elenco delle attività professionali a partire dal 2009 è riportato ai punti 2 e 3.

1. Pubblicazioni 2009-2015:

a. Articoli ISI

Frucci M., Perner P. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Case-based-reasoning for image segmentation
International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence 22(5), 829-842 (2008).

Arcelli C., Sanniti di Baja G. and Serino L.
A parallel algorithm to skeletonize the distance transform of 3D objects
Image and Vision Computing 27, 666-672 (2009).

Arcelli C., Sanniti di Baja G. and Serino L.
Distance driven skeletonization in voxel images
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 33 (4), 709-720 (2011)
doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2010.140

Arcelli C., Brancati N., Frucci M., Ramella G., Sanniti di Baja G.
A fully automatic one-scan adaptive zooming algorithm for color images
Signal Processing 91, 61-71 (2011)

Serino L., Arcelli C., and Sanniti di Baja G.
On the computation of the curve skeleton of 3D objects
Pattern Recognition Letters 32 (9), 1406-1414 (2011)
doi:10.1016/j.patrec.2010.07.005.

Ramella G., Sanniti di Baja G.
A new technique for color quantization based on histogram analysis and clustering
International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 27(3), 1360006—1-1360006—17, 2013
Doi: 10.1142/S0218001413600069

Serino L., Arcelli C., and Sanniti di Baja G.
Decomposing 3D objects in simple parts characterized by rectilinear spines
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 28 (7), 1460010—1-1460010—19, 2014
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001414600106

Serino L., Arcelli C., and Sanniti di Baja G.
From skeleton branches to object parts
Computer Vision and Image Understanding 129, 42–51, 2014.
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2014.05.002

Serino L., Sanniti di Baja G.
A new strategy for skeleton pruning
Pattern Recognition Letters. (Accepted 2015)

Saha P.K., Borgefors G., and Sanniti di Baja G.
A survey on skeletonization algorithms and their applications
Pattern Recognition Letters. (Accepted 2015)

Frucci M., Riccio D., Sanniti di Baja G., Serino l:
SEVERE: SEgmenting VEssels in REtina images
Pattern Recognition Letters. (Accepted 2015)

c. Articoli in atti di convegno

Arcelli C., Brancati N., Frucci M., Ramella G., Sanniti di Baja G. and Serino L.
Processing and analyzing 2D and 3D Images
5th National GIRPR Conference – June 10-11, 2010, Ascea Marina, SA (Italy) Proceedings in CD-ROM.

Serino L., Sanniti di Baja G. and Arcelli C.
Object decomposition via curvilinear skeleton partition
20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2010- August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul (Turkey)
Proceedings, 4081-4084, DOI 10.1109/ICPR.2010.992, IEEE CS Press

Serino L., Arcelli C. and Sanniti di Baja G.
A characterization of centers of maximal balls in the weighted distance transform of 3d digital objects
International Workshop on Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology WADGGM – August 22, 2010, Istanbul (Turkey)
Proceedings, 12-16 (2010).

Corato F, Frucci M, Sanniti di Baja G
Virtual training of surgery staff for hand washing procedure
International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI 2012, May 21-25, 2012, Capri, Naples (Italy)
Proceedings, 274-277, DOI 10.1145/2254556.2254608, ACM ISBN: 978-1-4503-1287-5

Arcelli C, Frucci M, Ramella G, Sanniti di Baja G, Serino L
New Tools for Processing and Analyzing Digital Images
6th National GIRPR Conference, May 21-23, 2012, Pontignano, Siena (Italy)
Proceedings in CD-ROM.

Arcelli C, Frucci M, Ramella G, Sanniti di Baja G, Serino L
Image Analysis at the Institute of Cybernetics E. Caianiello
7th National GIRPR Conference, June 18-20, 2014, Ascea Marina, Salerno (Italy)
Proceedings in CD-ROM.

Serino L. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Pruning the 3D curve skeleton
22th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2014- August 24-29, 2014, Stockholm (Sweden)
Proceedings, 1051-4651/14 $31.00, ©2014IEEE, 2269-2274,
10.1109/ICPR.2014.394

Frucci M, Galdi C, Nappi M, Riccio D and Sanniti di Baja G
IDEM: Iris Detection on Mobile devices
22th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2014- August 24-29, 2014, Stockholm (Sweden)
Proceedings ICPR2014, 1051-4651/14 $31.00 .© 2014 IEEE, 1752 – 1757
DOI 10.1109/ICPR.2014.308

Frucci M, Riccio D, Sanniti di Baja G, Serino L
Using Contrast and Directional Information for Retinal Vessels Segmentation
Int. Workshop Insight on Eye Biometrics – 10th Int. Conf. Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems, IEB2014 – SITIS2014, November 23-27, 2014, Marrakech, (Morocco)
Proc. SITIS 2014, 978-1-4799-7978-3/14. ©2014 IEEE, pp. 592-597,
DOI 10.1109/SITIS.2014.18 IEEE

d. Libri e volumi

Frucci M., Perner P. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Making image segmentation fully automatic by case-based-reasoning
Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, BSU Publ. Center, Krasnoproshin V., Ablameyko S., Sadykhov R. Eds., p. 26-30 (2009).

Arcelli C., Frucci M. and Sanniti di Baja G.
A new technique for image magnification
ICIAP 2009: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 5716, Foggia P., Sansone C., Vento M. Eds., p.53-61 (2009).

Brancati N., Frucci M. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Reconnecting broken ridges in fingerprint images
ICIAP 2009: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 5716, Foggia P., Sansone C., Vento M. Eds., p. 739-747 (2009).

Arcelli C., Sanniti di Baja G. and Serino L.
The curvilinear skeleton
DGCI 2009: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 5810, Brlek S., Reutenauer C., Provencal X. Eds., p.409-420 (2009).

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Color quantization by multiresolution analysis
CAIP 2009: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 5702, Jiang X., Petkov N. Eds., p.525–532 (2009).

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Multiresolution histogram analysis for color reduction
CIARP 2010: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 6419, Bloch I., Cesar M.R. Jr. Eds, p. 22-29 (2010).

Frucci M., Ramella G., Sanniti di Baja G., and Serino L.
Visione artificiale: La ricerca nell’Istituto di Cibernetica “E.Caianiello”
Memoria e Progetto, Edizioni GEM, Bologna, P. Greco e S. Termini Eds., p. 93-102 (2010).

Serino L., Sanniti di Baja G., and Arcelli C.
Using the skeleton for 3D object decomposition
SCIA 2011: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol.6688, Heyden A. and Kahl F. Eds, p. 447–456 (2011)

Serino L. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Selecting anchor points for 2D skeletonization
ICIAR 2011, Part I: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol.6753, Kamel M. and Campilho A. Eds, p. 344–353 (2011)

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Color histogram-based image segmentation
CAIP 2011: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 6854, Berciano A. Diaz-Pernil D., Kropatsch W. G., Molina-Abril H., and Real P. Eds., p. 76-83 (2011)

Frucci M. and Sanniti di Baja G.,
A new algorithm for image segmentation via watershed transformation
ICIAP 2011: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 6979, Foresti G.L. and Maino G. Eds., p. 168-177 (2011)

Sanniti di Baja G., Serino L., Arcelli C
From linear representations to object parts
MCPR2012: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 7329, Carrasco-Ochoa J.A. et al. Eds., p. 1-12 (2012) (Invited Talk)

Frucci M., Arcelli C., and Sanniti di Baja G.,
An automatic image scaling up algorithm
MCPR2012: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 7329, Carrasco-Ochoa J.A. et al. Eds., p. 35-44 (2012).

Serino L., Arcelli C., and Sanniti di Baja G.
From the zones of influence of skeleton branch points to meaningful object parts
DGCI2013: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 7749, R. Gonzalez-Diaz et al. Eds., p. 131-142 (2013).

Sanniti di Baja G, Serino L, and Arcelli C.
3D curve skeleton computation and use for discrete shape analysis
Innovations for Shape Analysis: Models and Algorithms, Springer, Breuss M., Bruckstein A., Maragos P. Eds., p. 117-136, (2013)
doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-34141-0_6

Serino L, Arcelli C and Sanniti di Baja G.
4D polygonal approximation of the skeleton for 3D object decomposition
ICPRAM 2013: SCITEPRESS Science and Technology Publications (ISBN: 978-989-8565-41-9), De Marsico M., Fred A. Eds, p. 467-472 (2013)

Frucci M., Sanniti di Baja G., Arcelli C. and Cordella L.P.
On the strategy to follow for skeleton pruning
ICPRAM 2013: SCITEPRESS Science and Technology Publications (ISBN: 978-989-8565-41-9), De Marsico M., Fred A. Eds, p. 263-266 (2013)

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Color quantization via spatial resolution reduction
VISAPP 2013: SCITEPRESS Science and Technology Publications (ISBN: 978-989-8565-47-1), Battiato S., Braz J. Eds, Vol. 1, p. 78-83 (2013)

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Image segmentation based on representative colors detection and region merging
MCPR 2013: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 7914, Carrasco-Ochoa et al. Eds., p. 175-184 (2013).
Doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-38989-4_18

Ramella G. and Sanniti di Baja G.
Spatial Resolution and Distance Information for Color Quantization
ICIAP 2013, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 8157, A. Petrosino, Ed., pp. 642–651 (2013)

Serino L, Arcelli C and Sanniti di Baja G.
Approximating the skeleton for fine-to-coarse shape representation
ICIAP 2013, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 8156, A. Petrosino, Ed. p. 111-120 (2013)

Frucci M, Nappi M, Riccio D, Sanniti di Baja G
Using the watershed transform for iris detection
ICIAP 2013, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 8157, A. Petrosino, Ed. p. 269-278 (2013)

Cantoni V, Ferone A, Petrosino A, Sanniti di Baja G
A Supervised Approach to 3D Structural Classification of Proteins
New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2013, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer Publ. Vol. 8158, A. Petrosino, L. Maddalena, P. Pala Eds. p. 326-335 (2013)

Serino L, Arcelli C and Sanniti di Baja G.
Decomposing and sketching 3D objects by curve skeleton processing
CIARP 2013, Part I, Vol. 8258, J. Ruiz-Shulcloper and G. Sanniti di Baja Eds, p. 25–32, (2013).

Ferone A, Frucci M. Petrosino A, Sanniti di Baja G
Iris detection through watershed segmentation
BIOMET 2014, Vol 8897, V. Cantoni et Al. Eds, p. 57–65, (2014)
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-13386-7_5

Battistone F, Petrosino A, Sanniti di Baja G
GRUNTS: Graph Representation for UNsupervised Temporal Segmentation
ICIAP 2015, Part I, V. Murino and E. Puppo (Eds.), LNCS 9279, pp. 1–11, 2015.
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23231-7 21

f. Curatele

Carrasco-Ochoa JA, Martinez-Trinidad JF, Salas Rodriguez J, Sanniti di Baja G
5th Mexican Conference, MCPR 2013, Queretaro, Mexico, June 26-29, 2013. Proceedings
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. LNCS 7914, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-642-38988-7, ISSN: 0302-9743 (2013)

J. Ruiz-Shulcloper, G. Sanniti di Baja
Advances in Pattern Recognition and Application 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013 Havana, Cuba, November 2013 Proceedings, Part I.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 8258, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-642-41821-1, ISSN: 0302-9743 (2013)

J. Ruiz-Shulcloper, G. Sanniti di Baja
Advances in Pattern Recognition and Application 18th Iberoamerican Congress, CIARP 2013 Havana, Cuba, November 2013 Proceedings, Part II.
LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE, vol. 8259, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, 2013
ISBN: 978-3-642-41826-6, ISSN: 0302-9743 (2013)

J. Ruiz-Shulcloper, G. Sanniti di Baja
Editorial CIARP 2013 Special Issue
International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 28 (7), 1460001_1-1460001_5
DOI: 10.1142/S0218001414600015 (2014)

J. Ruiz-Shulcloper, G. Sanniti di Baja
Special Issue IDA-CIARP 2013 Special Issue
Intelligent Data Analysis Journal, 18 (Suplement 6/2014), S1-S114, online January 14, 2015
URL: http://iospress.metapress.com/content/gr7541p25541
(2015)

F. Martinez, A. Carrasco, J. Salas, G. Sanniti di Baja,
Editorial on the Special Issue “Pattern Recognition Applications in Computer Vision and Image Analysis”
Pattern Recognition, vol. 48, p. 1025-1026, Elsevier, (2015)

2. Attività editoriale dal 2009 (Editor, Referee, PC member,
General/Program Chair, Session chair)

1. Pattern Recognition Letters, Co-Editor-in-Chief (2000 – )
2. CAAI Transactions on Intelligent Systems, Editorial Board: international consultant
3. Collana Informatica, Franco Angeli, Milano, Membro del Comitato Scientifico.
4. MCPR 2013, Carrasco-Ochoa JA, Martinez-Trinidad JF, Salas Rodriguez J, Sanniti di Baja G (Eds.), LNCS 7914, BERLIN HEIDELBERG:Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 978-3-642-38988-7, ISSN: 0302-9743, Guest Editor
5. Pattern Recognition, Special Issue on “Pattern Recognition Applications in Computer Vision and Image Analysis”, Guest Editor (with Carrasco-Ochoa JA, Martinez-Trinidad JF, Salas Rodriguez J), 2013.
6. International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Referee
7. Image and Vision Computing, Referee
8. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Referee
9. Pattern Recognition, Referee
10. Journal of Electronic Imaging, Referee
11. Optical Engineering, Referee
12. Eurographics, Referee
13. Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, Referee
14. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Referee
15. 7th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition ICAPR 2009, Kolkata (India), February 4-6, Advisory Committee member and Referee
16. 13th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP’09, Munster (Germany) September 2-4, 2009, PC member
17. World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing NaBIC 2009, Coimbatore (India), December 9-11, 2009, PC member
18. 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA’09, Povoa de Varzim (Portugal), June 10-12, 2009, PC member
19. 15-th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery DGCI’09, Montréal (Canada), September 30-October 2, 2009, Montréal (QC) Canada, Steering Committee member and Referee
20. 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Robotics IROBOT 2009, Aveiro (Portugal), October, 12-15, 2009, PC member
21. 14th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP’09, Guadalajara (México), November 15-18, 2009, PC member
22. 15th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP2009, Vietri sul Mare, SA (Italy), September 8-11, 2009, Steering Committee member, Session chair and Referee
23. 10th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing PRIP 2009, Minsk (Belarus), May 19-21, 2009, Session Chair
24. International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition SoCPaR 2009, Malacca (Malaysia), December 04-07, 2009, PC member
25. 1st Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR 2009, Guadalajara (Mexico), November 14, 2009, PC member
26. 6th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining MLDM 2009, Leipzig (Germany ), July 23-25, 2009, Award Committee Member
27. Scuola Visione Macchine VISMAC2010, Catania (Italy) November 8-13, 2010 Scientific Committee Member
28. Special Session on Pattern Analysis and Recognition (PAR’2010) of the 2010 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation, June 28-July 2, 2010, Caen (France), PC member
29. International Conference on Computer Graphics and Vision ICCVG 2010, September 20-22, 2010, Warsaw (Poland), PC member
30. 2nd Mexican Congress on Pattern Recognition MCPR2010, September 27-29, Puebla (Mexico), PC member
31. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Me Measurement Systems VECIMS 2010, September 6-8, 2010, Taranto (Italy), PC member
32. 2010 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications CIMSA 2010, September 6-8, 2010, Taranto (Italy), PC member
33. 2010 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications BioMS, September 9, 2010, Taranto (Italy), PC member
34. International Workshop on Applications of Discrete Geometry and Mathematical Morphology WADGGM – August 22, 2010, Istanbul (Turkey), PC member
35. 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2010- August 23-26, 2010, Istanbul (Turkey), Track II co-chair
36. 8th Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference (EG-IT 2010), November 18-19, 2010, Genova, Italy, Invited Speaker
37. 2nd International Workshop on Computer Vision IWCV 2010, Vietri sul Mare, SA, (Italy), May 25-27, 2010, Co-General-Chair
38. 17th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis SCIA 2011 – May 23-27, 2011, Ystad Saltsjöbad, Sweden, PC Member
39. 5th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA 2011 -June 8-10, 2011, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Spain, PC member
40. 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2001 – September 14-16, 2011, Ravenna, Italy, Steering Committee member
41. 10th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology ISMM 2011 – July 6-8, 2011, Intra, Italy, PC member
42. Workshop on Pattern Analysis and Recognition PAR 2011 – July 4-8, 2011, Istanbul, Turkey, PC member
43. 4th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence PReMI’11, June 27-July 1, 2011, Moscow, Russia, Advisory Committee member
44. 16th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery DGCI2011 – April 6-8, 2011, Nancy, France, Steering Committee member and Reviewer
45. 3rd Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR2011 – June 29-July 2, 2011, Cancun, Mexico PC member
46. 14th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns CAIP 2011 – August 29-31, 2011, Seville, Spain, PC member
47. 11th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing PRIP 2011, – May 18-20, 2011, Minsk (Belarus), PC member
48. 11th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems – HIS’11- December 5-8, 2011, Malacca, Malaysa, PC member
49. 7th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems – CORES 2011- May 23-25, 2011, Wroclaw (Poland), PC member
50. 1st Short Spring School on Surveillance (S4) – May 17-19 2011, Modena, Italy, Scientific Committee member
51. 2011 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications, 28 September 2011, Milan, Italy, PC member
52. International Congress on Computer Science: Information Systems and Technologies CSIST 2011 (www.csist.bsu.by) – November 3, 2011, Minsk, Belarus, Program Committee member
53. Bionetics 2011, Special Track on Bio-inspired Approaches to Advanced Computing and Communications, December 5-7, 2011 – York, England, Program Committee member
54. AVI 2012, -Capri, Italy, May 21-25, 2012, Local Co-Chair
55. ICFHR 2012, Italy, Technical Committee member
56. 3rd IEEE workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications – September 14, 2012, Salerno, Program Committee member
57. International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications and Informatics (ICACCI-2012) – August 3-5, 2012, Chennai, India, August 3-5, 2012, Program Committee member
58. IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces, and Measurement Systems VECIMS 2012, July 2-4 2012, Tianjin, China, Program Committee Member
59. IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications CISMA2012, July 2-4 2012, Tianjin, China, Program Committee Member
60. 4th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR 2012, June 27-30, 2012, Huatulco (Mexico), invited speaker, tutorial, and Program Committee Member
61. Special Session on High Performance Computing in Computer Vision Applications, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications, IPTA 2012, Istanbul October 15, 2012, Program Committee Member.
62. 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2012- November 11-15, 2012, Tsukuba, Japan, Advisory Committee Member
63. International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data, in connection with ACM Multimedia 2012, Nara, Japan 29 Oct- 2Nov 2012, Program Committee Member.
64. 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2013 –September 11-13, 2013, Naples, Italy, Steering Committee Member.
65. 18th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2013, Havana
(Cuba), 20-23 November 2013, Co-General Chair.
66. 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis IbPRIA 2013,
June 5-7 2013, Madeira, Portugal, Program Committee Member.
67. 11th International Symposium on Mathematical Morpholgy ISMM 2013, 27-29
May 2013, Uppsala, Sweden, Program Committee Member.
68. 17th International Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery DGCI2013 – March 20-22, 2013, Sevilla, Spain, Steering Committee member, Reviewer and Session Chair.
69. 5th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR 2013, June 26-29, 2013, Querétaro (Mexico), Honorary Chair
70. 2nd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM 2013, February 15-18 2013, Barcelona (Spain), Program Committee Member and Session Chair
71. 5th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence (PReMI 2013), December 10-14, 2013, Kolkata, India, International Advisory Committee Member.
72. 2013 IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environment for Measurement Systems and Applications (IEEE CIVEMSA 2013), July 15-17, 2013, Milan, Italy, Program Committee Member
73. 5th. International Work-Conference on the Interplay between Natural and Artificial Computation (IWINAC 2013), June 10-14, 2013, Mallorca, Balearic Islands (Spain), Scientific Committee Member
74. 15th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2013), August 27-29, 2013, York, UK, Program Committee Member.
75. 4th IEEE workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications BIOMS 2013- September 9, 2013, Naples, Program Committee member
76. International Workshop on Video and Image Ground Truth for computer vision Applications (VIGTA’13) held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems ICVS 2013- July 16-18 2013, St. Petersburg, Russia, Program Committee member.
77. Congresso Nazionale AICA 2013, 18-20 Settembre 2013, Fisciano (Salerno), membro del Comitato di Programma.
78. ICPR2014, Track Co-Chair
79. 3rd International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods
ICPRAM 2014, March 6-8, 2014, Angers (France), Program Committee Member
80. 6th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR 2014, June 25-28, 2014, Cancun (Mexico), Program Committee Member
81. 10th International Conference on Machine Learning and Data Mining in Pattern Recognition, MLDM 2014, July 20-24, 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia (www.mldm.de ) Program Committee Member
82. 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent Systems and Applicaions, INISTA 2014, June 23-25, Alberobello, Italy
(http://www.inista.org/index.php ) Program Committee Member.
83. 19th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition CIARP 2014, Pto Vallarta, Mexico (http://www.ciarp.org/xix/), 2-5 November 2014, Program Committee Member.
84. 6th International Joint Conference on Knowledge Discovery Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management IC3K 2014, Rome, Italy 21-24 October 2014 (http://www.ic3k.org/) Doctoral Consortium Chair
85. 3rd ACM International Regular and Data Challenge Workshops on Multimedia Analysis for Ecological Data MAED2014, Orlndo, FL, USA, November 7 2014, http://maed2014.dieei.unict.it/description/),Program Committee Member.
86. Seed Project SPIN-CNR referee.
87. 16th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2015), September 2-4, 2015, Valletta, Malta, http://caip.eu.org/caip2015/ Program Committee Member.
88. 8th International Conference on Advances in Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, January 4-7, 2015, http://www.isical.ac.in/~icapr15/ , Advisory Committee Member
89. 7th Mexican Conference on Pattern Recognition MCPR 2015, June, 2015, Mexico City (Mexico), Program Committee Member
90. VAAM2015 – Video Analytics for Audience Measurement, Program Committee Member
91. 12th International Symposium on Mathematical Morphology ISMM 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland, May 27-29, 2015, Program Committee Member
92. International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics BioFor 2015, Genova, Italy, September 7th 2015 (http://www.grip.unina.it/biofor2015/), Program Committee Member
93. 5th Int. Conf. On Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods ICPRAM 2016, Rome, Italy, February 24-26, 2015 http://www.icpram.org/, Program Co-Chair.
94. 23rd Int. Conf. On Pattern Recognition ICPR2016, Cancun, Mexico, December 4-8, 2016, http://www.icpr2016.org/site/, Co-General Chair
95. 13th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing PRIP’16, October 3-5, 2016, Minsk, Belarus, http://www.prip.bsu.by, Program Committee Member

3. Attività professionali
1. Responsabile della commessa ICT.P10.002 Rappresentazione, Analisi e Descrizione di Immagini 2D e 3D fino alla data di pensionamento
2. IAPR Education Committee chair (1991-94)
3. IAPR Executive Committee Member:
4. IAPR Secretary (1994-2000)
5. IAPR President (2000-02)
6. IAPR Past President (2002-04)
7. IAPR Governing Board Member (2007- )
8. IAPR Nominating Committee chair (2002-04)
9. IAPR Fellow Committee chair (2004-2008)
10. IAPR Fellow Committee member (2008-2010)
11. IAPR JK Aggarwal Award Committee member (2005-2010 )
12. IAPR Advisory Committee member (2008-2014)
13. IAPR M.Petrou Prize Committee member (2014- )
14. IAPR ICPR Liaison Committee member (2012-2014)
15. Chair of the “Intermediate Level Computer Vision Group of the IAPR Italian Chapter, GIRPR (1988-)
16. Vice President GIRPR (2004-2008)
17. GIRPR President (2008-2012)
18. Pattern Recognition Letters, Editorial Board Member, (1998-2000)
19. Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier, Co-Editor-in-Chief (2000-)
20. IEEE Publication Board member (2000-02)
21. Expert CIVR (Committee for the evaluation of research in Italy) (2005)
22. External Reviewer of the EU project “HERMES”, 2007
23. Member of the SIREN (Italian Association Neural Networks) Scientfic Council (2009- )
24. Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, Sweden (2011 – )

4. Attività didattica, seminari, commissioni

1. Ciclo di lezioni su Rappresentazione e Analisi di oggetti digitali in 2 e 3 dimensioni, quale attivita’ integrativa al Corso di Laurea in Informatica Applicata presso la Facoltà di Scienze e Tecnologie dell’Universita’ Parthenope di Napoli (A.A. 2008/09, 2009/10, 2010/11)
2. Seminario “3D curve skeleton computation and use for object decomposition”, CBA, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2011.
3. Seminario “The skeletons are out of the closet: tools for image analysis”, Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, May 4 2012.
4. Tutorial “Discrete methods to analyse and represent 3D digital objects”, Huatulco, Mexico, June 30 2012
5. Tutorial “3D shape analysis”, Havana, November 2013
6. Evaluation Committee PhD Students, Universita’ di Modena-Reggio, Febbraio 2009, member
7. Evaluation Committee PhD Students, Universita’ di Genova, Aprile 2010, member
8. Evaluation Committee PhD Student, Uppsala University, Sweden, September 2008, member
9. Evaluation Committee PhD Student, Halmstad University, Sweden, June 2009, opponent
10. PhD Doctoral Committee, Applied Statistics Unit, Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India, Member (“Enhancing Effective Depth-of-field by Multi-focus Image Fusion using Morphological Techniques” PhD student Ishita De Ghosh), 2012.
11. PhD Doctoral Committee, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, Member (“A perceptual approach to shape analysis”, PhD student Fabio Guggeri), 2012.