Dr Fabrizio Smeraldi
Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Bioinformatics, Cybersecurity, Health Informatics, Social Media Analysis
Interests
Fabrizio is a Machine Learning researcher with over 25 years of experience and a solid interdisciplinary profile. He has published at an international level on pattern recognition, face biometrics, low-level vision, robotics, bioinformatics, cybersecurity and social media analysis. He is a co-founder of Mebomine, a health informatics startup that focusses on extracting the voice of the patient and real world evidence from online health boards.Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Publications of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI2021
Analysis of mental and physical disorders associated with COVID-19 in online health forums: a natural language processing studyPatel R Smeraldi F Irving J
Bmj Open, Bmj vol. 11 (11)
01-11-2021
2020
Partial Order Rank Features in Colour SpaceSmeraldi F Bianconi F Fernández A
Applied Sciences, Mdpi vol. 10 (2)
10-01-2020
Investigating Comorbidity of Mental and Physical Disorders in Online Health ForumsAbdollahyan M Smeraldi F Patel R Bessant C
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Applications of Intelligent Systems., 1-5.
07-01-2020
2019
Comparative Evaluation of Hand-Crafted Image Descriptors vs. Off-the-Shelf CNN-Based Features for Colour Texture Classification under Ideal and Realistic ConditionsBello-Cerezo R Bianconi F Di Maria F Napoletano P
Applied Sciences, Mdpi vol. 9 (4)
20-02-2019
Engaging With Contemporary Dance: What Can Body Movements Tell us About Audience Responses?Theodorou L Healey PGT
Front Psychol vol. 10, 71-71.
01-02-2019
2018
Visual Localization in the Presence of Appearance Changes Using the Partial Order KernelABDOLLAHYAN M Bellocchio E Costante G Bianconi F SMERALDI F
European Signal Processing Conference.
03-12-2018
2017
Compact color texture descriptor based on rank transform and product ordering in the RGB color spaceFernandez A Lima D
International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (CEFRL-ICCV) Venice, Italy 22 Oct 2017 - 29 Oct 2017.
29-10-2017
Hand-Designed Local Image Descriptors vs. Off-the-Shelf CNN-Based Features for Texture Classification: An Experimental ComparisonBello-Cerezo R Bianconi F Cascianelli S di Maria F
Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies. vol. 76, 1-10.
28-05-2017
POKer: a Partial Order Kernel for Comparing Strings with Alternative SubstringsABDOLLAHYAN M
European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning Bruges, Belgium 26 Apr 2017 - 28 Apr 2017.
26-04-2017
2016
Personal identification based on skin texture features from the forearm and multi-modal imaging.Bianconi F Chirikhina E Smeraldi F Bontozoglou C
Skin Res Technol
20-11-2016
Efficient Numerical Frameworks for Multi-Objective Cyber Security PlanningKHOUZANI MHR MALACARIA P HANKIN C FIELDER A SMERALDI F
European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS) 2016 Heraklion, Crete, Greece 26 Sep 2016 - 30 Sep 2016.
15-09-2016
Exploring Audience Behaviour During Contemporary Dance PerformancesTheodorou L Smeraldi F
Proceedings of the 3rd International Symposium on Movement and Computing., 1-7.
05-07-2016
Decision support approaches for cyber security investmentFielder A Panaousis E Malacaria P Hankin C Smeraldi F
Decision Support Systems vol. 86, 13-23.
19-03-2016
2014
How to spend itSmeraldi F Malacaria P
, Association For Computing Machinery (Acm), 1-4.
06-05-2014
Cybersecurity Games and Investments: A Decision Support ApproachPanaousis E Fielder A Malacaria P Hankin C Smeraldi F
Lecture Notes in Computer Science. vol. 8840, 266-286.
01-01-2014
Game Theory Meets Information Security ManagementFielder A Panaousis E Malacaria P Hankin C Smeraldi F
IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. vol. 428, 15-29.
01-01-2014
2011
Online multiple instance learning applied to hand detection in a humanoid robotCiliberto C Smeraldi F Natale L
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems., 1526-1532.
29-12-2011
Online Multiple Instance Learning applied to hand detection in a humanoid robotCiliberto C Smeraldi F Natale L
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Genova, Italy 25 Sep 2011 - 30 Sep 2011.
01-09-2011
CLOOSTING: CLustering data with bOOSTINGSmeraldi F Bicego M Cristani M
To appear in the Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Multiple Classifier Systems, Naples (Italy).
01-06-2011
On the probabilistic logical modelling of quantum and geometrically–inspired IRSmeraldi F Martinez-Alvarez M
Proceeding of the 2nd Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, Milan (Italy).
01-01-2011
2010
Handling missing features with boosting algorithms for protein–protein interaction predictionSmeraldi F Defoin-Platel M
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS’10), Gothenburg (Sweden)., 132–147-132–147.
01-08-2010
A descriptive approach to modelling learningMartinez-Alvarez M Smeraldi F
Proceedings of the 1st Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2010), Madrid (Spain)., 183–194-183–194.
01-06-2010
Handling Missing Features with Boosting Algorithms for Protein-Protein Interaction PredictionSmeraldi F Defoin-Platel M Saqi M Lambrix P Kemp G
DATA INTEGRATION IN THE LIFE SCIENCES. vol. 6254, 132-147.
01-01-2010
2009
Fast algorithms for the computation of rankletsSmeraldi F
Proceedings of ICIP, Cairo (Egypt).
01-11-2009
Variance ranklets: orientation–selective rank features for contrast modulationsAzzopardi G
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference, London (UK).
01-09-2009
2008
On Adaboost and optimal betting strategiesMalacaria P
Proceedings of the 1st national ICT conference (WICT), Valletta (Malta).
01-11-2008
2007
Adaptive multi–feature tracking in a particle filter frameworkMaggio E Smeraldi F Cavallaro A
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems For Video Technology vol. 17, 1348–1359-1348–1359.
01-10-2007
Adaptive multi-feature tracking in a particle filtering frameworkMAGGIO E SMERALDI F CAVALLARO A
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems For Video Technology vol. 17 Issue 10, 1348-1359.
01-10-2007
Non-rigid structure from motion using ranklet–based tracking and non-linear optimizationBue AD Smeraldi F
Image and Vision Computing vol. 25, 297–310-297–310.
01-03-2007
Non-rigid structure from motion using ranklet-based tracking and non-linear optimizationDel Bue A Smeraldi F
Image Vision Comput vol. 25 (3), 297-310.
01-03-2007
2005
A classical tool revisited: Object detection by statistical testingFranceschi E Odone F
Proceedings of the SICE Annual Conference., 2961-2964.
01-12-2005
Combining Colour and Orientation for Adaptive Particle Filter-based TrackingSmeraldi F CAVALLARO A Maggio E
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Oxford, 6-8 September 2005.
06-09-2005
Feature selection with nonparametric statisticsFranceschi E Odone F Verri A
2005 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vols 1-5., 1085-1088.
01-01-2005
Feature Selection with Nonparametric StatisticsFranceschi E Odone F Smeraldi F
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2005. vol. 1, 322-325.
01-01-2005
Tracking points on deformable objects with rankletsSmeraldi F Del Bue A Agapito L
2005 International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Vols 1-5., 3749-3752.
01-01-2005
2004
Non-rigid structure from motion using nonparametric tracking and non-linear optimizationBue AD Smeraldi F
IEEE Workshop in Articulated and Nonrigid Motion ANM04, held in conjunction with CVPR2004., 8–8-8–8.
01-06-2004
Cognitive navigation based on nonuniform Gabor space sampling, unsupervised growing networks, and reinforcement learning.Arleo A Smeraldi F
IEEE Trans Neural Netw vol. 15 (3), 639-652.
01-05-2004
Finding objects with hypothesis testingSMERALDI F Verri A Odone F
Proceedings of the Workshop on Learning for Adaptable Visual Systems, in conjunction with ICPR'04, Cambridge, UK.
01-01-2004
Non-rigid structure from motion using nonparametric tracking and non-linear optimizationSMERALDI F Agapito L Del Bue A
IEEE Workshop in Articulated and Nonrigid Motion ANMO4, held in conjunction with CVPR2004, Washington D.C (USA).
01-01-2004
2003
Special issue - Audio- and Video-Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2001) - PrefaceSmeraldi F
Pattern Recogn Lett vol. 24 (13), 2103-2104.
01-09-2003
Ranklets on hexagonal pixel latticesSMERALDI F
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference. Norwich, UK. vol 1.
01-01-2003
A Nonparametric approach to face detection using rankletsSmeraldi F Kittler J Nixon MS
AUDIO-AND VIDEO-BASED BIOMETRIC PERSON AUTHENTICATION, PROCEEDINGS. vol. 2688, 351-359.
01-01-2003
2002
Retinal vision applied to facial features detection and face authenticationSmeraldi F Bigun J
Pattern Recogn Lett vol. 23 (4), 463-475.
01-02-2002
Ranklets: orientation selective non-parametric features applied to face detectionSmeraldi F Kasturi R Laurendeau D Suen C
16TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOL III, PROCEEDINGS., 379-382.
01-01-2002
Support vector features and the role of dimensionality in face authenticationSmeraldi F Gerstner W Lee SE Verri A
PATTERN RECOGNITON WITH SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES, PROCEEDINGS. vol. 2388, 249-259.
01-01-2002
2001
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics): PrefaceBigun J Smeraldi F
01-12-2001
Place cells and spatial navigation based on 2D visual feature extraction, path integration, and reinforcement learningArleo A Smeraldi F Gerstner W Leen TK Dietterich TG Tresp V
ADVANCES IN NEURAL INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS 13. vol. 13, 89-95.
01-01-2001
PrefaceBigun J
01-01-2001
Audio-- and video-- based biometric person authentication, third international conference: proceedingsvarious Bigun J Smeraldi F
01-01-2001
2000
Place cells and spatial navigation based on vision, path integration, and reinforcement learningArleo A Smeraldi F
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems. vol. 13, 89–95-89–95.
01-12-2000
Comparison of face verification results on the XM2VTS databaseMatas J Hamouz M Jonsson K Kittler J Li Y Tefas A Pitas I Tan T et al.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Barcelona (Spain), September 2000. vol. 4, 858–863-858–863.
01-09-2000
On the role of dimensionality in face authenticationSmeraldi F Bigün J
Proceedings of the Symposium of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis, Halmstad (Sweden)., 87–91-87–91.
01-03-2000
Comparison of face verification results on the XM2VTS databaseMatas J Hamouz M Jonsson K Kittler J Li Y Tefas A Pitas I Tan T et al.
15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PATTERN RECOGNITION, VOL 4, PROCEEDINGS., 858-863.
01-01-2000
Saccadic search with Gabor features applied to eye detection and real-time head trackingSmeraldi F Carmona O Bigün J
Image and Vision Computing vol. 18, 323–329-323–329.
01-01-2000
1999
Facial features detection by saccadic exploration of the Gabor decomposition and Support Vector MachinesSmeraldi F Capdevielle N Bigün J
Proceedings of the 11th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis – SCIA 99, Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. vol. I, 39-44-39-44.
01-06-1999
Gabor decomposition driven saccades applied to facial features detection for visual biometrics applicationsSmeraldi F Capdevielle N
Proceedings of the 1999 Symposium of the Swedish Society for Automated Image Analysis, Göteborg (Sweden)., 85–88-85–88.
01-03-1999
Face Authentication by retinotopic sampling of the Gabor decomposition and Support Vector MachinesSmeraldi F Bigun J
Audio and Video based Person Authentication - AVBPA99., 125–129-125–129.
01-01-1999
1998
Real–Time Head Tracking by Saccadic Exploration and Gabor DecompositionSmeraldi F Bigun J Almeida AT Araujo H
Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control. vol. IEEE Cat. Num. 98TH8354, 684–687-684–687.
01-01-1998
Multi modal person authenticationBigun J Duc B Fischer S Makarov A HWE A
Nato-Asi advanced study on face recogniton. vol. F 163, 26–50-26–50.
01-01-1998
Facial features detection by saccadic exploration of the Gabor decompositionSmeraldi F
International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-98, Chicago, October 4-7. vol. 3, 163–167-163–167.
01-01-1998
On the use of skin texture features for gender recognition: An experimental evaluationBianconi F Smeraldi F Abdollahyan M Xiao P
Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications.
Identifying Potential Regulatory Elements by Transcription Factor Binding Site Alignment using Partial Order GraphsABDOLLAHYAN M ELGAR G SMERALDI F
International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science, World Scientific Publishing
Visualising the Topological Structure of Health-related Message Board User NetworksABDOLLAHYAN M Mondragón RJ BESSANT C SMERALDI F
Applications of Intelligent Systems.
Grants
Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AIQMUL-EPSRC Flexible Innovation Starter AwardFabrizio Smeraldi
£5,000 EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
15-11-2018 - 14-05-2019
Research Group
PhD Students
- Eduardo Castro Cruces
Predicting Ecosystem Re-Assembly Using Machine Learning - Phil Mercy
Rim (Minds) - Bruno Petrungaro
Enhancing The Process of Constructing Causal Models For Time-Series Healthcare Decision Support - Yujie Zeng
Data-Driven Discovery of Interaction Structures in Complex Ecosystems
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