Publications

 

PH.D. THESIS


F. Tombari

“Methodologies for visual correspondence”

DEIS, University of Bologna, Italy, 2009

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BOOK CHAPTERS and CONTRIBUTIONS

 

F. Tombari

Three Dimensional Shape Descriptors

in Book: “Computer Vision: A Reference Guide”, pp. 793-797, I. Katsushi editor, Springer, 2012, ISBN 978-038-7307-71-8, DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-31439-6_423


F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia

“Robust visual correspondence: theory and applications”

in Book: “Stereo vision”, edited by Asim Bhatti, November 2008, ISBN 978-953-7619-22-0

Publisher: I-Tech Education and Publishing, Vienna, Austria

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INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS

A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, M. Vincze

“A Global Hypothesis Verification Framework for 3D Object Recognition in Clutter”

IEEE Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), in press

 

A. E. Ichim, F. Tombari

“Semantic Parametric Body Shape Estimation from Noisy Depth Sequences”

Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS), Vol. 75, pp. 539-549, January 2016

 

F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“The Maximal Self-Dissimilarity Interest Point Detector”

IPSJ Trans. on Computer Vision and Applications (CVA), Vol. 7, pp. 175-188, December 2015

 

D. Holz, A. Ichim, F. Tombari, R. Rusu, S. Behnke

“Registration with the Point Cloud Library – A Modular Framework for Aligning 3D Point Clouds”

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), Vol. 22, n. 4, pp. 110-124, December 2015

 

M. Gesto-Diaz, F. Tombari, P. Rodriguez-Gonzalvez, D. Gonzalez-Aguilera

“Analysis and evaluation between the first and the second generation of RGB-D sensors”

IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol, 15, n. 11, pp. 6507 – 6516, November 2015

 

S. Salti, A. Petrelli, F. Tombari, N. Fioraio, L. Di Stefano

Traffic Sign Detection via Interest Region Extraction”

Pattern Recognition, Vol. 48, n. 4, pp. 1039–1049, April 2015

 

S. Salti, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

SHOT: Unique Signatures of Histograms for Surface and Texture Description

Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Vol. 125, pp. 251–264, August 2014

 

M. Magno, F. Tombari, D. Brunelli, L. Di Stefano, L. Benini

” Multimodal Video Analysis on Self-powered Resource-Limited Wireless Sensor Node”

IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems (JETCAS), Vol. 3, n. 2, pp. 223-235, June 2013

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F. Tombari, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“Performance Evaluation of 3D Keypoint Detectors”

International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Vol. 102, n. 1-3, pp. 198-220, 2013

 

A. Aldoma, Z.C. Marton, F. Tombari, W. Wohlkinger, C. Potthast, B. Zeisl, R.B. Rusu, S. Gedikli, M. Vincze

Point Cloud Library: Three-Dimensional Object Recognition and 6 DOF Pose Estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine (RAM), Vol. 19, n. 3, pp. 80-91, September 2012

 

F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Hough voting for 3D object recognition under occlusion and clutter”

IPSJ Trans. on Computer Vision and Applications (CVA), vol. 4, pp 20-29, March 2012

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W. Ouyang, F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano, W.K. Cham

“Performance Evaluation of Full Search Equivalent Pattern Matching Algorithms”

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 34(1), pp 127-143, 2012

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F. Tombari, W. Ouyang, L. Di Stefano, W.K. Cham

“Adaptive Low Resolution Pruning for Fast Full-Search Equivalent Pattern Matching”

Pattern Recognition Letters (JPRL), 32(15), pp 2119-2127, November 2011

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Efficient template matching for multi-channel images”

Pattern Recognition Letters (JPRL), 32(5), pp 694-700, April 2011

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F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano

“Full search-equivalent pattern matching with Incremental Dissimilarity Approximations”

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 31(1), pp 129-141, January 2009

(DEIS Best Paper Award 2009)

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Fast Full-Search equivalent Template Matching by Enhanced Bounded Correlation”

IEEE Journal of Transactions in Image Processing (TIP), 17(4), pp 528-538, April 2008

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L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari

“ZNCC-based Template Matching using Bounded Partial Correlation”

Pattern Recognition Letters (JPRL), Vol. 16, No 14, pp 2129-2134, October 2005

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PEER-REVIEWED INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

2015

S. Salti, F. Tombari, R. Spezialetti, L. Di Stefano

Learning a Descriptor-specific 3D Keypoint Detector

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015, Santiago, Chile

 

D. Tan, F. Tombari, S. Ilic, N. Navab

A Versatile Learning-based 3D Temporal Tracker: Scalable, Robust, Online

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2015, Santiago, Chile

 

D. Tan, F. Tombari, N. Navab

A Combined Generalized and Subject-Specific 3D Head Pose Estimation

International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), October 2015, Lyon France

 

C.H. Huang, F. Tombari, N. Navab

“Repeatable Local Coordinate Frames for 3D Human Motion Tracking: from Rigid to Non-Rigid”

International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), October 2015, Lyon France

 

F. Milletari, A. Ahmadi, C. Kroll, C. Hennersperger, F. Tombari, A. Shah, A. Plate, K. Bötzel, N. Navab

“Robust Segmentation of Various Anatomies in 3D Ultrasound Using Hough Forests and Learned Data Representations”

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI 2015), October 2015, Munich, Germany

 

N. Rieke, D. Tan, M. Alsheakhali, F. Tombari, C. Amat di San Filippo, V. Belagiannis, A. Eslami, N. Navab

“Surgical Tool Tracking and Pose Estimation in Retinal Microsurgery”

International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Interventions (MICCAI 2015), October 2015, Munich, Germany

 

V. Zografos, A. Valentinitsch, M. Rempfler, F. Tombari, B. Menze

“Hierarchical multi-organ segmentation without registration in 3D abdominal CT images”

MICCAI Workshop on Medical Computer Vision: Algorithms for Big Data (MCV), October 2015, Munich, Germany

 

C. Amat di San Filippo, F. Tombari, A. Eslami, N. Navab

“Performance Evaluation of Keypoint Detectors in Retina Microsurgery”

MICCAI Workshop on Interventional Microscopy (IM), October 2015, Munich, Germany

 

F. Achilles, F. Tombari, V. Belagiannis, A. Loesch, S. Noachtar, N. Navab

“Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Epileptic Seizure Detection”

MICCAI Workshop on Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis (DLMIA), October 2015, Munich, Germany

 

F. Milletari, W. Kehl, F. Tombari, S. Ilic, S. Ahmadi, N. Navab

“Universal Hough dictionaries for object tracking”

26th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2015, Swansea, UK

 

W. Kehl, F. Tombari, N. Navab, S. Ilic, V. Lepetit

“Hashmod: A Hashing Method for Scalable 3D Object Detection”

26th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), September 2015, Swansea, UK

 

S. Habert, M. Ma, W. Kehl, X. Wang, F. Tombari, P. Fallavollita, N. Navab

“Augmenting mobile C-arm fluoroscopes via Stereo-RGBD sensors for multimodal visualization”

International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), September 2015, Fukuoka, Japan

 

H. Naik, F. Tombari, C. Resch, P. Keitler, N. Navab

“A Step Closer To Reality: Closed Loop Dynamic Registration Correction in SAR”

International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), September 2015, Fukuoka, Japan

 

K. Tateno, F. Tombari, N. Navab

“Real-Time and Scalable Incremental Segmentation on Dense SLAM”

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2015, Hamburg, Germany

 

F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Bounded Non-Local Means for Fast and Effective Image Denoising”

18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), September 2015, Genova, Italy

 

2014

F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Interest Points via Maximal Self-Dissimilarities”

12th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV), November 1-5, 2014, Singapore

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F. Tombari, N. Fioraio, T. Cavallari, S. Salti, A. Petrelli, L. Di stefano

Automatic detection of pole-like structures in 3D urban environments

International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 2014, Chicago, USA

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2013

F. Tombari, A. Franchi, L. Di stefano

“BOLD features to detect texture-less objects”

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), December 2013, Sydney, Australia

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F. Tombari, F. Remondino

“Feature-based automatic 3D registration for cultural heritage applications”

Digital Heritage, October 2013, Marseille, France

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S. Salti, A. Petrelli, F. Tombari, N. Fioraio, L. Di Stefano

“A traffic sign detection pipeline based on interest region extraction”

Int. Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), August 4-9, 2013, Dallas, Texas (USA)

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D. Palossi, F. Tombari, S. Salti, M. Ruggiero, L. Di Stefano, L. Benini

“GPU-SHOT: parallel optimization for real-time 3D local description”

9th IEEE Embedded Vision Workshop (EVW) – in conj. with IEEE CVPR 2013, June 24, 2013, Portland, Oregon (USA)

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A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, W. Kropatsch, M. Vincze

“Localizing and segmenting objects with 3D objectness”

18th Computer Vision Winter Workshop (CVWW ), February 2013, Hernstein, Austria

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A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, J. Prankl, A. Richtsfeld, L. Di Stefano, M. Vincze

“Multimodal Cue Integration through Hypotheses Verification for RGB-D Object Recognition and 6DOF Pose Estimation”

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2013, Karlsruhe, Germany

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2012

S. Salti, A. Petrelli, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

On the Affinity between 3D Detectors and Descriptors

3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission Conference (3DIMPVT), October 13-15, Zurich, Switzerland

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F. Malaguti, F. Tombari, S. Salti, D. Pau, L. Di Stefano

Toward compressed 3D descriptors

3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission Conference (3DIMPVT), October 13-15, Zurich, Switzerland

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A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, M. Vincze

A global hypothesis verification method for 3D object recognition

12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), October 2012, Firenze, Italy

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A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, R.B. Rusu, M. Vincze

OUR-CVFH: Oriented, Unique and Repeatable Clustered Viewpoint Feature Histogram for Object Recognition and 6DOF Pose Estimation

Joint DAGM-OAGM Pattern Recognition Symposium (DAGM-OAGM), August 2012, Graz, Austria

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A. Aldoma, F. Tombari, M. Vincze

“Supervised Learning of Hidden and Non-Hidden 0-order Affordances”

IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), May 2012, St. Paul, US

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2011

F. Tombari, F. Gori, L. Di Stefano

“Evaluation of stereo algorithms for 3D object recognition”

1st IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robot Perception (CORP), in conj. with ICCV’ 11, November 12, Barcelona, Spain

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Giardino

“Online Learning for automatic segmentation of 3D data”

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), September 25-30, San Francisco, US

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F. Tombari, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“A combined texture-shape descriptor for enhanced 3D feature matching”

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2011), September 11-14, Brussels, Belgium.

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Automatic Semantic Segmentation of 3D Urban Scenes”

Demo/Shot Paper Session, 3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission Conference (3DIMPVT 2011), May 16-19, HangZhou, China

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“3D Data Segmentation by Local Classification and Markov Random Fields”

3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission Conference (3DIMPVT 2011), May 16-19, HangZhou, China

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S. Salti, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“A Performance Evaluation of 3D Keypoint Detection”

3D Imaging, Modeling, Processing, Visualization and Transmission Conference (3DIMPVT 2011), May 16-19, HangZhou, China

(Best Paper Award Runner-up)

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F. Tombari, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“RGB-D object recognition and localization with clutter and occlusions”

RGB-D Workshop on 3D Perception in Robotics, euRobotics Forum, April 8, 2011, Vasteras, Sweden

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Improving Geometric Hashing by means of feature descriptors”

International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2011), March 5-7, Algarve, Portugal

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2010

F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano

“Stereo for robots: quantitative evaluation of efficient and low-memory dense stereo algorithms”

11th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 10), December 7-10, 2010, Singapore

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, A.Mainetti

“A 3D reconstruction system based on improved Spacetime Stereo”

11th Int. Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV 10), December 7-10, 2010, Singapore

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Object recognition in 3D scenes with occlusions and clutter by Hough voting”

4th Pacific-Rim Symposium on image and Video Technology (PSIVT 10), November 14-17, 2010, Singapore

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S. Salti, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“On the use of Implicit Shape Models for recognition of object categories in 3D data”

10th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 10), November 8-12, 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand

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A. Lanza, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Second-order polynomial models for background subtraction”

ACCV Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 10), November 8, 2010, Queenstown, New Zealand

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F. Tombari, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“Unique Shape Context for 3D data description”

International Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR 10)  – in conjuction with ACM Multimedia 2010, October 25, 2010, Florence, Italy

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A. Lanza, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Robust and efficient background subtraction by quadratic polynomial fitting”

International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 10), September 26-29, 2010, Hong Kong, China

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F. Tombari, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“Unique signatures of Histograms for local surface description”

11th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 10), September 5-11, 2010, Hersonissos, Crete, Greece

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A. Lanza, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Accurate and efficient background subtraction by monotonic second-degree polynomial fitting”

7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 10), August 29 – September 1, 2010, Boston, USA

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2009

F. Tombari, A. Lanza, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia

Non-linear Parametric Bayesian Regression for Robust Background Subtraction”

Workshop on Motion and Video Computing (WMVC/MOTION) as part of IEEE Winter Vision Meetings 2009, December 7-10, 2009, Snowbird, Utah, USA

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F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano, F. Regoli, R. Viti

“A template analysis methodology to improve the efficiency of fast matching algorithms”

Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 09), September 28-October 2, 2009, Bordeaux, France

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Enhanced low-resolution pruning for fast full-search template matching”

Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 09), September 28-October 2, 2009, Bordeaux, France

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M. Magno, F. Tombari, D. Brunelli, L. Di Stefano, L. Benini

“Multimodal abandoned/removed object detection for low power video surveillance systems”

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 09), September 2-4, 2009, Genoa, Italy

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F. Tombari, K. Konolige

“A practical stereo system based on regularization and texture projection”

6th International Conference on Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 09), July 2-5, 2009, Milan, Italy

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2008

F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano, E. Addimanda

“Near real-time stereo based on effective cost aggregation”

International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 08), December 8-11, 2008, Tampa, Florida, USA

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, A. Zanetti

“Graffiti detection using a Time-Of-Flight camera”

Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 08), October 20-24, 2008, Juan-les-Pins, France

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M. Magno, F. Tombari, D. Brunelli, L. Di Stefano, L. Benini

“Multi-modal video surveillance aided by pyroelectric infrared sensors”

ECCV Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion, Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2), October 18, 2008, Marseille, France

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L. Di Stefano, F. Tombari, A. Lanza, S. Mattoccia, S. Monti

“Graffiti detection using two views”

ECCV 8th International Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 08), October 17, 2008, Marseille, France

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Reliable rejection of mismatching candidates for efficient ZNCC template matching”

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 08), October 12-15, 2008, San Diego, California, USA

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L. Di Stefano, F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, M. Balasso

“Multi-view access monitoring and singularization in interlocks”

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 08), September 1-3, 2008, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

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P. Azzari, L. Di Stefano, F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia

“Markerless augmented reality using image mosaics”

International Conference on Image and Signal Processing (ICISP 08), July 1-3, 2008, Cherbourg-Octeville, Normandy, France

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F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano, E. Addimanda

“Classification and evaluation of cost aggregation methods for stereo correspondence”

IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 08), June 24-26, 2008, Anchorage, Alaska

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, A. Galanti

“Performance evaluation of robust matching measures”

3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 08), January 22-25, 2008, Funchal-Madeira, Portugal

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2007

F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano

“Segmentation-based adaptive support for accurate stereo correspondence”

IEEE Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT 07), December 17-19, 2007, Santiago, Chile

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F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano, F. Tonelli

“Detecting motion by means of 2D and 3D information”

ACCV’07 Workshop on Multi-dimensional and Multi-view Image Processing (ACCV WS 2007), November 19, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

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L. Di Stefano, F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, E. De Lisi

“Robust and accurate change detection under sudden illumination variations”

ACCV’07 Workshop on Multi-dimensional and Multi-view Image Processing (ACCV WS 2007), November 19, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano

“Stereo vision enabling precise border localization within a scanline optimization framework”

8th Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV 07), November 18-22, 2007, Tokyo, Japan

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F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia

“A robust measure for visual correspondence”

14th IAPR International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 07), September 10-13, 2007, Modena, Italy

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S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, L. Di Stefano, M. Pignoloni

“Efficient and optimal block matching for motion estimation”

14th IAPR International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 07), September 10-13, 2007, Modena, Italy

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2006-previous

F. Tombari, S. Mattoccia, L. Di Stefano

“Template Matching based on the Lp norm using sufficient conditions with incremental approximations”

IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS 06), November 22-24, 2006, Sydney, Australia

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L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari

“Speeding-up NCC-based template matching using parallel multimedia instructions”

IEEE International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception (CAMP 05), July 4-6, 2005, Palermo, Italy

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L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari

“An algorithm for efficient and exhaustive template matching”

International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR 04), September 29-October 1, 2004, Porto, Portugal

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INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINES

F. Tombari, N. Fioraio, T. Cavallari, L. Di Stefano

“Poles from Point Clouds”

GIM International, Vol. 28, n. 10, October 2014

 

INVITED CONTRIBUTIONS

F. Tombari, A. Lanza, S. Salti, L. Di Stefano

“Low and mid-level video analysis for advanced surveillance applications”

2nd Workshop on VIdeo Surveillance projects in ITaly (VISIT 2011), May 2011, Modena, Italy

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L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari, A. Lanza

“Video Surveillance @ CVLab”

1st Workshop on VIdeo Surveillance projects in ITaly (VISIT 2008), May 22nd, 2008, Modena, Italy

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TECHNICAL REPORTS

L. Di Stefano, S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari

“Improving efficiency of ZNCC-based template matching: theory and experimental results”

Technical Report IEIIT-BO-04-04, Bologna, March 2004

 

S. Mattoccia, F. Tombari

“About the accuracy of performance evaluation metrics aimed at estimating the Bounded Partial Correlation benefits”

Technical Report IEIIT-BO-01-04, Bologna, January 2004