Francesca Odone

• A compositional approach for 3D Arm-Hand Action Recognition, Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Francesca Odone, Giorgio Metta, IEEE Workshop on Robot Vision (WoRV), 2013
• Multi-class image classification: sparsity does it better, Sean Ryan Fanello, Nicoletta Noceti, Giorgio Metta, Francesca Odone, VISAPP: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications., 2013
• Action-based multi-camera synchronization, Luca Zini, Andrea Cavallaro, Francesca Odone, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 2013
• A set of full-body movement features for emotion recognition to help children affected by autism spectrum condition, Stefano Piana, Alessandra Staglianò, Antonio Camurri, Francesca Odone, IDGEI International Workshop, 2013
• Combining retrieval and classification for real-time face recognition, Giovanni Fusco, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Proc. of AVSS 2012, 2012
• Learning common behaviors from large sets of unlabeled temporal series, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Image and Vision Computing, 2012
• A Vision-Based Navigation Facility for planetary Entry Descent Landing, Piergiorgio Lanza, Nicoletta Noceti, Corrado Maddaleno, Antonio Toma, Luca Zini, Francesca Odone, Proc. of ECCV 2012, 2012
• All gestures you can: a memory game against a Humanoid Robot, Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Francesca Odone, Giorgio Metta, Humanoids2012: IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 2012
• Learning Behavioral Patterns of Time Series for Video-Surveillance, Francesca Odone, Nicoletta Noceti, Matteo Santoro, Machine Learning for Vision-Based Motion Analysis, 2011
• Using object affordances to improve object recognition, Castellini Claudio, Tommasi Tatiana, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Caputo Barbara, IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 2011
• Efficient pedestrian detection with group lasso, Luca Zini, Francesca Odone, IEEE ICCV Workshops - Visual Surveillance , 2011
• Learning how to grasp objects, Annalisa Barla, Baldassarre Luca, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Proc. of ESANN, European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks , 2010
• Unsupervised video surveillance, Francesca Odone, Nicoletta Noceti, Proc. of ACCV 2010, 2010
• Relative Pose estimation for planetary Entry Descent and Landing, Francesca Odone, Alessandro Verri, Luca Zini, Piergiorgio Lanza, Alessandra Mercer, ACCV - Workshop on "Computer Vision for Vehicle Tecnologies: from Earth to Mars", 2010
• An adaptive video surveillance architecture for video analysis, Luca Zini, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference, 2010
• Low-cost face biometry for visually impaired users, Balduzzi Luigi, Giovanni Fusco, Francesca Odone, Dini Silvia, Mesiti Marco, Destrero Augusto, Lovato Alberto, 2010 IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications , 2010
• Towards a theoretical framework for learning multi-modal patterns for embodied agents, Nicoletta Noceti, B. Caputo, C. Castellini, L. Baldassarre, Annalisa Barla, Lorenzo Rosasco, Francesca Odone, G. Sandini, IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING – ICIAP 2009, 2009
• A Regularized Framework for Feature Selection in Face Detection and Authentication, A. Destrero, C. De Mol, F. Odone, A. Verri, International Journal on Computer Vision, 2009
• A sparsity-enforcing method for learning face features., A. Destrero, C. De Mol, F. Odone, A. Verri, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 2009
• Improving 3D Shape Retrieval with SVM, E. Delponte, C. Basso, F. Odone, E. Puppo, Proceedings of GRAPP 2009, 2009
• Spatio-temporal constraints for on-line 3D object recognition in videos, N. Noceti, E. Delponte, F. Odone, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2009
• Machine learning techniques for biometrics, F. Odone, M. Pontil, A. Verri, Handbook of remote biometrics for surveillance and security, 2009
• A classification architecture based on connected components for text detection in unconstrained environments, L. Zini, A. Destrero, F. Odone, Proc of AVSS, 2009
• Combined motion and appearance models for robust object tracking in real-time, N. Noceti, A. Destrero, A. Lovato, F. Odone, Proc of AVSS, 2009
• Towards an unsupervised framework for behavior analysis, N. Noceti, F. Odone, Workshop on Patterns Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behavior Analysis (PRAI*HBA), 2009
• Unsupervised Learning of Behavioural Patterns for Video-Surveillance, N. Noceti, M. Santoro, F. Odone, Proceedings of MLVMA-ECCV, 2008
• String-based Spectral Clustering for Understanding Human Behaviours, N. Noceti, M. Santoro, F. Odone, Proceedings of THEMIS-BMVC, 2008
• Spectral Algorithms for Supervised Learning., L. Lo Gerfo, L. Rosasco, F. Odone, E. De Vito, A. Verri, Neural Computation, 2008
• A prototype system for unconstrained face verification based on statistical learning, A. Destrero, A. Lovato, F. Odone, works. on Faces in 'Real-Life' Images: Detection, Alignment, and Recognition - ECCV, 2008
• Feature selection for high dimensional data., A. Destrero, S. Mosci, C. De Mol, A. Verri, F. Odone, Computational Management Science, 2008
• Image Classification and Retrieval with Kernel Methods, F. Odone, A. Verri, Kernel methods in bioengineering, communications and image processing, 2007
• Statistical learning approaches with application to face detection, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proceedings of the Summer School on Biometrics, 2007
• The importance of continuous views for real-time 3D object recognition, E. Delponte, N. Noceti, F. Odone, A. Verri, ICCV07 Workshop on 3D Representation for Recognition (3dRR-07), 2007
• A regularized approach to feature selection for face detection, A. Destrero, C. De Mol, F. Odone, A. Verri, Asian Conference on Computer Vision - ACCV, 2007
• A system for face detection and tracking in unconstrained environments, A. Destrero, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proceedings of the Int. Conf. on AVSS, 2007
• Appearance-based 3D object recognition with time-invariant features, E. Delponte, N. Noceti, F. Odone, A. Verri, IEEE Proceedings of ICIAP, 2007
• A trainable system for face detection in unconstrained environments, A. Destrero, F. Odone, A. Verri, IEEE Proceedings of ICIAP, 2007
• Spatio-temporal constraints for matching view-based descriptions of 3D object, E. Delponte, N. Noceti, F. Odone, A. Verri, WIAMIS, 2007
• SVD-matching using SIFT features, E. Delponte, F. Isgro, F. Odone, A. Verri, Graphical Models, 2006
• Analysis on a local approach to 3D object recognition, E. Delponte, E. Arnaud, F. Odone, A. Verri, DAGM06, 2006
• Trains of keypoints for 3D object recognition, E. Delponte, E. Arnaud, F. Odone, A. Verri, International Conference on Pattern Recognition ICPR, 2006
• Feature selection with nonparametric statistics, E. Franceschi, F. Odone, F. Smeraldi, A. Verri, International Conference on Image Processing, 2005
• Web tools to support image classification, Francesca Odone, Annalisa Barla, E. Franceschi, Alessandro Verri, Proc. SPIE Internet Imaging Conference, 2005
• Building kernels from binary strings for image matching, Francesca Odone, Annalisa Barla, Alessandro Verri, Image Processing, IEEE Transaction on, 2005
• Support Vector Algorithms as Regularization Networks, A. Caponnetto, L. Rosasco, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proc. 13th European Symposium on Artificial Neural Network, 2005
• Large baseline matching of scale invariant features, E. Delponte, F. Isgrò, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proc. Int. Conf. Image Anal and Proc., 2005
• SVD-matching using SIFT features, E. Delponte, F. Isgrò, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proc. Int. Conf. on Vis, Video and Graphics, 2005
• An open system for 3D reconstruction from multiple sensors, F. Isgrò, F. Odone, A. Verri, Proc. Int. Work. on Comput Arch for Mach Perception, 2005
• Learning from examples as an inverse problem, E. De Vito, L. Rosasco, A. Caponnetto, U. De Giovannini, F. Odone, Journal of Machine Learning Research, 2005
• Learning regularization and ill-posed inverse problems, L. Rosasco, A. Caponnetto, E. De Vito, F. Odone, U. De Giovannini, Eighteenth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2004
• Finding objects with hypothesis testing, E. Franceschi, F. Odone, F. Smeraldi, A. Verri, Learning for Adaptable Visual Systems, satellite event of ICPR, 2004
• Histogram intersection kernel for image classification, Francesca Odone, Annalisa Barla, Alessandro Verri, Proc. Int. Conf. Image Proc, 2003
• Old Fashioned State-of-the-Art Image Classification, Annalisa Barla, Francesca Odone, Alessandro Verri, Proc. Int. Conf. Image Anal and Proc., 2003
• Image Kernels, Annalisa Barla, E. Franceschi, Francesca Odone, Alessandro Verri, Proceedings of the International Workshop on Pattern Recognition with Support Vector Machines, 2002
• Hausdorff Kernel for 3D Object Acquisition and Detection, Annalisa Barla, Francesca Odone, Alessandro Verri, Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2002, 2002
• A layered representation of a video shot with mosaicing, F. Odone, A. Fusiello, E. Trucco, Pattern Analysis and Applications, 2002
• Real-time image recognition, F. Odone, A.Verri, Opto-mechatronic Systems Handbook, 2002
• Kernel-based 3D Object Representation, Annalisa Barla, Francesca Odone, Proceedings of ICANN, 2002
• A flexible algorithm for image matching, F. Odone, E. Trucco, A. Verri, Proc. Int. Conf. Image Anal. and Proc., 2001
• General purpose matching of grey level arbitrary images, F. Odone, E. Trucco, A. Verri, Proc. 4th Int. Work. Visual Form, 2001
• A Trainable System for Grading Fish from Images, F. Odone, E. Trucco, A. Verri, App. Artif. Intell., 2001
• General purpose matching of grey level arbitrary images, F. Odone, E. Trucco, A. Verri, 4th International Workshop on Visual Forms, 2000
• Visual Learning of Weight from Shape Using Support Vector Machines, F. Odone, E. Trucco, A. Verri, Proc. British Machine Vis. Conf., 1998

• Action understanding
• 3D object recognition for robotics
• 3D modeling and location
• Face retrieval and validation
• Behavior analysis

• SAFEPOST
• POR IMAVIS - OnAIR
• POR GIGAVISION
• Actions representations and their impairement
• Study and development of low cost video-based systems to support visually impaired users

My interests are in the fields of Computer Vision and Statistical Learning. In particular my research activity includes

1. theory and algorithms for classification, feature selection and unlabeled data analysis.

2. study and development of methods for object detection and recognition in images and image sequences and modeling of complex dynamic events

3. analysis and development of applications in the fields of video-surveillance, biometrics and computer vision for Entry Descent and Landing (EDL).

Currently I am research coordinator of two funded technology transfer programs, with Thales Alenia Space spa and Gigavision srl.

I teach Computer Vision for the First Degree and Master Degree courses in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Genova. Recently I held two PhD courses on theory and applications of Statistical Learning: Dottorato Europeo in Tecnologie dell’Informazione, ARCES, Università di Bologna (2007) and Dottorato in ''Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Informazione e la Conoscenza" Università degli Studi di Genova (2008, 2009,2010), the latter with Lorenzo Rosasco.

At present I am supervising two PhD students:  Giovanni Fusco and Luca Zini, both sponsored by a Regione Liguria research grant.

Research keywords: computer vision, learning algorithms, object detection, behavior understanding, feature selection, video-surveillance.