GIOVANNI MARIA FARINELLA

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Catania
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Edited Books

  • Computer Vision: Detection, Recognition and Reconstruction, Ed. R. Cipolla, S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISBN 978-3-642-12847-9, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2010
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Book Chapters

  • G. Farinella, S. Battiato, “Representation Models and Machine Learning Techniques for Scene Classification”, Chapter in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision, Ed. P. S. P. Wang, River publisher, ISBN: 978-87-92329-36-3, 2010
  • G. M. Farinella, D. Ravì, “Image Categorization”, Chapter in Image Processing for Embedded Devices, Applied Digital Imaging ebook series - Bentham Science Publisher, 2010.

Journals
  • G. M. Farinella, Sebastiano Battiato, “Scene Classification in Compressed and Constrained Domain”, IET Computer Vision, Institution of Engineering and Technology, IEEE Xplore digital library, United Kingdom, ISSN: 1751-9632, pp.1-27, 2011 (In Press)
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  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Giuffrida, C. Sismeiro, and G. Tribulato, "Exploiting Visual and Text features for Direct Marketing Learning in Time and Space Constrained Domains", Pattern Analysis and Application, Springer, Vol 13, Issue 2, 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Giuffrida, C. Sismeiro, and G. Tribulato, "Using Visual and Text Features for Direct Marketing on Multimedia Messaging Services Domain", Multimedia Tools and Applications Journal, Springer, Vol 42, Issue 1, 2009
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  • H. Andra, S. Battiato, G. Bilotta, G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, J. Orlik, G. Russo, A. Zemitis, "Structural Simulation of a Bone-Prosthesis System of the Knee Joint", Sensors Journal – MDPI Open Access - Special Issue on Medical Images Processing, Vol 8, pp 5897-5926, 2008
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  • G. Catanuto, A. Spano, A. Pennati, E. Riggio, G.M. Farinella, G. Impoco, S. Spoto, G. Gallo and M.B. Nava, "Experimental Methodology for Digital Breast Shape Analysis and Objective Surgical Outcome Evaluation", Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery, Elsevier, , Vol. 61, Issue 3, Pages 314-318, 2008
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  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, "Digital Mosaic Frameworks: an overview", Eurographics - Computer Graphic Forum, Vol 26. No. 4,Page 794-812, December 2007
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  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, "Adaptive Techniques for Microarray Image Analysis with Related Quality Assessment", Journal of Electronic Imaging, Vol. 16, issue 4, 2007
    [pdf]
  • G. Catanuto, A. Spano, A. Pennati, G. M. Farinella, S. Spoto, G. Impoco, G. Gallo and M. B. Nava, "Curvature mapping and outcome evaluation in breast plastic and reconstructive surgery", European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume 32, Supplement 1, Pages S69-S70, Elsevier, November 2006
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On-Line International Journals
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, D. Ravì, “Exploiting Textons Distributions on Spatial Hierarchy for Scene Classification”, Accepted for publication to EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, "Adaptive Techniques for Microarray Image Analysis with Related Quality Assessment", selected for the January 1, 2008 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, Vol 15, Issue 1, January 1, 2008
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On-Line National Journals
  • G.M. Farinella, A.M. Gueli, F. Stanco, "Automatic Recognition of Color Pigments from Raman Spectrum Analysis", Symposium on “Image Analysis Methods for Cultural Heritage”, 9th Congress of SIMAI (Italian Society of Mathematics Applied to Industry), Rome, 15 to 19 September 2008, COMMUNICATIONS TO SIMAI CONGRESS, vol. Vol 3; p. 1-9, ISSN: 1827-9015

Conferences 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi, G. Azzaro, M. Caccamo, "Assessment of Cow's Body Condition Score Through Statistical Shape Analysis and Regression Machines", accepted for publication in proceedings of International Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis, 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, M. Guarnera, G. Messina, D. Ravì, “Red-Eyes Removal Through Cluster Based Linear Discriminant Analysis”, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, M. Guarnera, G. Messina, D. Ravì, “Boosting Gray Codes for Red Eyes Removal”, Accepted for publication in Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010
  • S. Battiato, G.M. Farinella, G.C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi, G. Azzaro, M. Caccamo, G. Licitra, J. D. Ferguson, “Estimation of Cow’s Body Condition Score From Images”, International Workshop on Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior - Satellite event of the 20th International Conference of Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi, “Advanced analysis of image collections for digital investigation: status and perspective”, 10th Congress of SIMAI (Italian Society of Mathematics Applied to Industry), Cagliari, 21 to 25 June 2010

Conferences 2009
  • G. Azzaro, M. Caccamo, J. D. Ferguson, S. Battiato, G.M. Farinella, G.C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi, G. Licitra, “Modeling Cow Body Shape for Objective Estimation of Body Condition Score from Digital Images”, in Proceedings of Joint Meeting of ADSA, CSAS, and ASAS. Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 12-16 July, 2009, J. Anim. Sci. Vol. 87, E-Suppl. 2/J. Dairy Sci. Vol. 92, E-Suppl. 1, pp. 513
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, O. Garretto, C. Privitera, “Objective Analysis of Simple Kidney Cysts from CT Images”, in Proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications - Special Section on Image Analysis for Medical Measurements, 2009
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, E. Messina, "Naturalness Classification of Images into DCT Domain", In Proceedings of SPIE-IS&T 21th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2009 - Digital Photography V, 2009
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, D. Ravì, "Spatial Hierarchy of Textons Distributions for Scene Classification", In Proceedings of International MultiMedia Modeling Conference, 2009

Conferences 2008
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, D. Ravì, "Scene Categorization Using Bags of Textons on Spatial Hierarchy", In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2008
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, "Neurofuzzy Segmentation of Microarray Images", In Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2008
  • G.M. Farinella, S. Battiato, G. Gallo, R. Cipolla, "Natural Versus Artificial Scene Classification by Ordering Discrete Fourier Power Spectra", In Proceedings of 12th International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, SSPR 2008 - Satellite event of the 19th International Conference of Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2008, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5342, pp.137-146, 2008;
  • G.M. Farinella, E. Rustico, "Low cost finger tracking on flat surfaces", In Proceedings of 6th Conference Eurographics Italian chapter, 2008
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Giuffrida, C. Sismeiro, G. Tribulato, "Combining Visual and Text Features for Learning in Multimedia Direct Marketing Domain", In Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, The First International Workshop on Metadata Mining for Image Understanding (MMIU 2008), 22 January, 2008 - Funchal, Madeira - Portugal
  • G.M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. Mattiolo, "Ricostruzione semi-automatica di Modelli 3D di Edifici a partire da fotografie", AIAr 2008, V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria, Scienza e Beni Culturali, Siracusa, Sicilia, 26-29 febbraio 2008
  • A. Cavallaro, G.M. Farinella, G. Gallo, A.M. Gueli, F. Stanco, S.O. Troja, "Caratterizzazione di pigmenti pittorici: un algoritmo per l’identificazione dei picchi Raman", AIAr 2008, V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria, Scienza e Beni Culturali, Siracusa, Sicilia, 26-29 febbraio 2008
  • G.M. Farinella, F. Stanco, D. Tanasi, "Digital-Kamares: un sistema automatizzato per riconoscere e classificare la ceramica minoica di stile Kamares", AIAr 2008, V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria, Scienza e Beni Culturali, Siracusa, Sicilia, 26-29 febbraio 2008

Conferences 2007
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, O. Garretto, "Cortical Bone Classification by Local Context Analysis", In Proceedings of Mirage 2007: Computer Vision/Computer Graphics Collaboration Techniques and Applications, March, 28-30 2007, INRIA Rocquencourt, France - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Vol.4418, pp.567-578, 2007
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Giuffrida, G. Tribulato, "Data Mining Learning Bootstrap Through Semantic Thumbnail Analysis", in proceedings of SPIE-IS&T 19th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2007 - Multimedia Content Access: Algorithms and Systems (EI121), Vol. 6056, San Jose, California USA, 28 January–1 February, 2007
  • G. Catanuto, A. Spano, A.Pennati, G.M. Farinella, S. Spoto, G. Gallo, M.B.Nava, "Imaging 3d della mammella e valutazione obiettiva dell’outcome", VIII Giornata di studio su biomateriali e biomeccanica, Catania, 13 luglio 2007
  • G. M. Farinella, "Natural Versus Artificial Scene Classification by Ordering Discrete Fourier Power Spectra", Poster Section of International Computer Vision Summer School 2007, Sampieri (RG), Italia, 9-14 July, 2007

Conferences 2006
  • G. Catanuto, A. Spano, A. Pennati, G. M. Farinella, S. Spoto, G. Impoco, G. Gallo and M. B. Nava, "Curvature mapping and outcome evaluation in breast plastic and reconstructive surgery", in proceedings of 13th Congress of the European Society of Surgical Oncology, 29 November - 2 December 2006, Venice, IT (Oral Presentation)
  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. Impoco, "Medical Imaging Applications: Three Case Studies", in proceedings of CISI 2006, II Conferenza Italiana Sistemi Intelligenti, Ancona-Italia, 27-29 Settembre 2006
    [ pdf - Poster]
  • G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, G. Gallo, S. Spoto, G. Catanuto, M. B. Nava, "Objective Outcome Evaluation of Breast Surgery", in proceedings of Medical Image Computing & Computer Assisted Intervention 2006 - 9TH MICCAI Conference, Copenaghen, DK, 1-6 Oct. 2006 - Published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 4190, pp. 776–783, 2006.
    [ pdf - Poster -Link to Project]
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Puglisi, "Statistical Based Vectorization for Standard Vector Graphics", in proceedings of International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2006 - Fifth International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, CGGM 2006, Reading, UK, May 28-31 2006, – Published by Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 3992, pp. 334–341, 2006; [ISI Impact factor of 0,402 in latest 2006]
    [ pdf - supplementary material - presentation - Link to Project]
  • G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, G. Gallo, S. Spoto, G. Catanuto, "Unambiguous Analysis of Woman Breast Shape for Plastic Surgery Outcome Evaluation", in proceedings of 4th Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter – Catania, Italy, February 22-24, 2006
    [ pdf - presentation]
  • S. Battiato, C. Bosco, G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, "3D CT Segmentation for Clinical Evaluation of Knee Prosthesis Operations", in proceedings of 4th Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter – Catania, Italy, February 22-24, 2006
    [ pdf - poster]
  • G. M. Farinella, G. Mattiolo, "Solutions to 3D Building Reconstruction from Photographs", in proceedings of 4th Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter – Catania, Italy, February 22-24, 2006
    [ pdf - presentation]
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Puglisi, "SVG Vectorization by Statistical Region Merging", in proceedings of 4th Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter – Catania, Italy, February 22-24, 2006
    [ pdf - presentation]
  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, "A Survey of Digital Mosaic Techniques", in proceedings of 4th Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter – Catania, Italy, February 22-24, 2006
    [ pdf - presentation]
  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G.M. Farinella, G. Gallo, "A Novel Technique for Vermiculatum Mosaic Rendering", in proceedings of 14th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision, WSCG 2006 – Plzen, Czech Republic, 30 January - February 3, 2006
    [ abstract - pdf - presentation - Link to Project - Examples: Original1/Mosaic1, Original2 Mosaic2 ]
  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, "Ad-Hoc Segmentation Pipeline for Microarray Image Analysis", in proceedings of SPIE-IS&T 18th Annual Symposium Electronic Imaging Science and Technology 2006 - Image Processing: Algorithms and Systems V, Vol. 6064, 60640Y-1/12, San Jose, California USA, January 15-19, 2006
    [ abstract - pdf - poster - Further Information - Link to Project ]

Conferences 2005
  • G. Catanuto, G. Gallo, G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, A. Spano, A. Pennati, M. B. Nava, "Breast shape analysis", in proceedings of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery of the Breast: Third European Conference 2005, Istituto Nazionale Tumori, Milan 14-17 December, 2005
    [ pdf - presentation]

Patents
  • G. Messina, M. Guarnera, G. M. Farinella, "Method and Apparatus for Filtering Red and/or Golden Eye Artifacts in Digital Images", Application number IT-RM09A000669, 18 December 2009

Reports 2006
  • G. M. Farinella, "Report on Research Visit to the Computer Vision and Robotics Group at Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge Cambridge, UK, 5– 19 Febbraio 2006", Cod. RRVIPLABGMF003, Presented to Coordinamento di Dottorato in Informatica XX Ciclo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, 20 February 2006
  • S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella, G. Impoco, "Report on CT Segmentation" - Internal IPLAB Report, February 1, 2006
  • G. M. Farinella, "Report on Ph.D. Activity - A.A. 2005", Cod. RRVIPLABGMF002, Presented to Coordinamento di Dottorato in Informatica XX Ciclo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, 5 January 2006

Reports 2005

  • S. Battiato, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, "Statistical Algorithms For Microarray Image Analysis" - Internal IPLAB Report, October, 2005
    [pdf - Further Information - Link to Project ]
  • S. Battiato, C. Bosco, G. Di Blasi, G. M. Farinella, G. Gallo, "Huffman Modeling for DCT Based Coding", Internal IPLAB Report, September 2005
    [ pdf - Link to Project ]
  • G. M. Farinella, "Report on Research Visit to the Rainbow Research Group at Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK", Cod. RRVIPLABGMF001, Presented to Coordinamento di Dottorato in Informatica XX Ciclo, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, 15 September 2005

Thesis
  • Laurea's Thesis: "Teorie, Tecniche e Tecnologie di E-Government", Advisor: Prof. Alfredo Ferro, 2 April 2004