Alessandro Ortis
Alessandro Ortis
Associate Professor
Publications
Georgia Fargetta, Massimo Orazio Spata, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato, et al..
Biovid dataset and challenge: biometric user recognition on smartphone data in real-world conditions.
Multimedia Systems.
2026.
Rosario Licciardello, Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Learning Shared Visual Representations for Manga Title and Target Classification.
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Workshops - MANPU.
2026.
Francesco Spina, Sebastiano Battiato, Angelo Battaglia, Giuseppe Bilotta, Iole Serena Diliberto, Danilo Nastasi, Alessandro Ortis, Gaetana Ganci.
Semi-supervised learning for proxy thermal-state classification on hydrothermal systems: The case of Vulcano (2016-2024).
Remote Sensing Applications: Society and Environment.
2026.
Mo Spata, Vm Russo, A Ortis, S Battiato.
A New Pipeline for Snooping Keystroke Based on Deep Learning Algorithm.
IEEE Access.
2025.
Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato, Laura Rosa Maria Scrimali.
Analyzing interactions in donation-based live streaming platforms: a multi-leader-follower game approach.
Social Network Analysis and Mining.
2025.
Alessio B. Chisari, Luca Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Wladimiro Carlo Patatu, Sebastiano Battiato, Mario Valerio Giuffrida.
Benchmarking computer vision architectures for cloud detection from lidar ceilometer backscatter data.
The Visual Computer.
2025.
Georgia Fargetta, Stefano Anile, Luigi Priano, Massimo Orazio Spata, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Bridging AI and wildlife conservation: Classifying wildcats from genetically validated images.
Ecological Informatics.
2025.
Irene Amerini, Mauro Barni, Sebastiano Battiato, Paolo Bestagini, Giulia Boato, Vittoria Bruni, Roberto Caldelli, Francesco De Natale, Rocco De Nicola, Luca Guarnera, Sara Mandelli, Taiba Majid, Gian Luca Marcialis, Marco Micheletto, Andrea Montibeller, Giulia Orrù, Alessandro Ortis, Pericle Perazzo, Giovanni Puglisi, Nischay Purnekar, Davide Salvi, Stefano Tubaro, Massimo Villari, Domenico Vitulano.
Deepfake Media Forensics: Status and Future Challenges.
Journal of Imaging.
2025.
Rosa Zuccara, Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Exploiting Adversarial Learning and Topology Augmentation for Open-Set Visual Recognition.
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW).
2025.
Georgia Fargetta, Emanuele Rosario Fiorito, Rosario Licciardello, Paolo Vivera, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
You Only Look at Manga Faces: a YOLOv12-based Approach on Manga Datasets and Benchmark.
PeerJ Computer Science.
2025.
Massimo Orazio Spata; Sabrina Conoci; Alessandro Ortis; Sebastiano Battiato.
A Novel Pipeline Based on Attention Mechanism Within a GNN to Predict New Edges Between Diseases and Genes.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE).
2024.
Massimo Orazio Spata, Valerio Maria Russo, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Acoustic Side Channel Attack for Keystroke Splitting in the Wild.
2024 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE).
2024.
Massimo Orazio Spata, Luigi Priano, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
A Cross Platform Mobile Application for Indoor Navigation.
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2024.
Massimo Orazio Spata, , Valerio Maria Russo, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
A New Deep Learning Pipeline for Acoustic Attack on Keyboards.
Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems ((LNNS,volume 1065)).
2024.
Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Neural Optimization for Pharmaceutical Transportation Under Stressful Conditions.
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2024.
Georgia Fargetta, Alessandro Ortis, Stefano Anile,, Sebastiano Battiato.
Evaluation of CNNs for Wildcats Classification in Real World Scenario.
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2024.
M. Grisanti, M.A. Napoli Spatafora, A. Ortis, S. Battiato.
E-ELPV: Extended ELPV Dataset For Accurate Solar Cells Defect Classification.
IntelliSys 2023.
2023.
Maria Ausilia Napoli Spatafora, Massimo O. Spata, Luca Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Benchmarking of Blind Video Deblurring Methods on Long Exposure and Resource Poor Settings.
Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2023.
2023.
Francesco Guarnera, Alessia Rondinella , Oliver Giudice, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Rundo, Giorgio Fallica, Francesco Traina, Sabrina Conoci.
Early Detection of Hip Periprosthetic Joint Infections Through CNN on Computed Tomography Images.
Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2023.
2023.
Maria Ausilia Napoli Spatafora, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
GLR: Gradient-Based Learning Rate Scheduler.
Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2023.
2023.
A. Rondinella, F. Guarnera, O. Giudice, A. Ortis, F. Rundo, S. Battiato.
Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network for CT Scan COVID-19 Detection.
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW).
2023.
Massimo Orazio Spata, Sebastiano Battiato, Alessandro Ortis, Francesco Rundo, Michele Calabretta, Carmelo Pino, Angelo Messina.
Deep Learning Algorithm for Advanced Level-3 Inverse-Modeling of Silicon-Carbide Power MOSFET Devices.
ICCSS 2023.
2023.
Alessia Rondinella, Elena Crispino, Francesco Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Alessandro Ortis, Giulia Russo, Clara Di Lorenzo, Davide Maimone, Francesco Pappalardo, Sebastiano Battiato.
Boosting multiple sclerosis lesion segmentation through attention mechanism.
Elsevier.
2023.
Francesco Rundo, Ilaria Anfuso, Maria Grazia Amore, Alessandro Ortis, Angelo Messina, Sabrina Conoci, Sebastiano Battiato.
Advanced eNose-driven pedestrian tracking pipeline for intelligent car driver assisting system: preliminary results.
Sensors.
2022.
Dario Allegra, Sebastiano Battiato, Vincenzo Cutello, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Giovanni Gallo, Antonino Furnari, Daniela Giordano, Alessandro Ortis, Simone Palazzo, Mario. Pavone, Concetto Spampinato, Filippo Stanco.
AI per l'Industria presso Università degli Studi di Catania.
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2022.
Nino Cauli, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Fooling a Face Recognition System with a Marker-Free Label-Consistent Backdoor Attack.
Image Analysis and Processing--ICIAP 2022: 21st International Conference, Lecce, Italy, May 23--27, 2022, Proceedings, Part II.
2022.
Lorenzo Carnevale, Alessandro Ortis, Giancarlo Fortino, Sebastiano Battiato, Massimo Villari.
From Cloud-Edge to Edge-Edge Continuum: the Swarm-Based Edge Computing Systems.
2022 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech).
2022.
Sebastiano Battiato, Martina Marchetti-deschmann, Simona Francese, Alessandro Ortis.
Interdisciplinary forensics: government, academia and industry interaction.
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2022.
Venera Tomaselli, Sebastiano Battiato, Alessandro Ortis, Giulio G Cantone, Salvatore Urso, Riccardo Polosa.
Methods, developments, and technological innovations for population surveys.
Social Science Computer Review.
2022.
Maria Ausilia Napoli Spatafora, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Mixup Data Augmentation for COVID-19 Infection Percentage Estimation.
Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops: ICIAP International Workshops, Lecce, Italy, May 23--27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II.
2022.
Rosa Zuccar{`a}, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Recognition of complex gestures for real-time emoji assignment.
Image Analysis and Processing. ICIAP 2022 Workshops: ICIAP International Workshops, Lecce, Italy, May 23--27, 2022, Revised Selected Papers, Part II.
2022.
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Puglisi, Antonino Paratore, Linh Mq Bui, Marco Fontani, Davide Alessandro Coccomini, Roberto Caldelli Et Al..
The Face Deepfake Detection Challenge.
Journal of Imaging.
2022.
Maria Ausilia Napoli Spatafora, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Towards an Efficient Facial Image Compression with Neural Networks.
Image Analysis and Processing--ICIAP 2022: 21st International Conference, Lecce, Italy, May 23--27, 2022, Proceedings, Part I.
2022.
Mazhar Hussain, Alessandro Ortis, Riccardo Polosa, Sebastiano Battiato.
User-Biased Food Recognition for Health Monitoring.
Image Analysis and Processing--ICIAP 2022: 21st International Conference, Lecce, Italy, May 23--27, 2022, Proceedings, Part III.
2022.
Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Francesca Trenta, Lorenzo Ascari, Consolata Siniscalco, Tommaso De Gregorio, Eloy Suárez.
Pollen Grain Classification Challenge 2020.
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, January 10-15, 2021, Proceedings, Part VIII.
2021.
Alessandro Ortis, Marco Grisanti, Francesco Rundo, Sebastiano Battiato.
A Benchmark Evaluation of Adaptive Image Compression for Multi Picture Object Stereoscopic Images.
Journal of Imaging.
2021.
Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Giovanni Torrisi, Sebastiano Battiato.
Exploiting objective text description of images for visual sentiment analysis.
Multimedia Tools and Applications.
2021.
Francesca Trenta, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Fine-Grained Image Classification for Pollen Grain Microscope Images.
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns. CAIP 2021.
2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Pasquale Caponnetto, Oliver Giudice, Mazhar Hussain, Roberto Leotta, Alessandro Ortis, Riccardo Polosa.
Food Recognition for Dietary Monitoring during Smoke Quitting..
IMPROVE.
2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Francesco Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Francesca Trenta, Lorenzo Ascari, Consolata Siniscalco, Tommaso De Gregorio, Eloy Suárez.
Pollen Grain Classification Challenge 2020: Challenge Report.
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, January 10-15, 2021, Proceedings, Part VIII.
2021.
Rami Reddy Devaram, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato, Arcangelo R Bruna, Valeria Tomaselli.
Real-time thermal face identification system for low memory vision applications using cnn.
Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, January 10--15, 2021, Proceedings, Part V.
2021.
Dario Allegra, Sebastiano Battiato, Alessandro Ortis, Salvatore Urso, Riccardo Polosa.
A Review on Food Recognition Technology for Health Applications.
Health Psychology Research.
2020.
Sebastiano Battiato, Roberto Leotta, Alessandro Ortis, Sabrina Conoci, Francesco Rundo, Francesca Trenta.
Benchmarking of Computer Vision Algorithms for Driver Monitoring on Automotive-grade Devices.
AEIT Automotive 2020.
2020.
Battiato, Sebastiano, Ortis, Alessandro, Trenta, Francesca, Ascari, Lorenzo, Politi, Mara, Siniscalco, Consolata.
Detection and Classification of Pollen Grain Microscope Images.
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops.
2020.
Battiato, Sebastiano, Alessandro Ortis, Francesca Trenta, Lorenzo Ascari, Maria Politi, Consolata Siniscalco.
POLLEN13K: A LARGE SCALE MICROSCOPE POLLEN GRAIN IMAGE DATASET.
2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
2020.
Ortis, A., Caponnetto, P., Polosa, R., Urso, S., Battiato, S..
A Report on Smoking Detection and Quitting Technologies.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH).
2020.
Ortis, Alessandro, Giovanni Maria Farinella,, Sebastiano Battiato..
Survey on Visual Sentiment Analysis.
IET Image Processing.
2020.
Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Giovanni Torrisi, Sebastiano Battiato.
Exploiting objective text description of images for visual sentiment analysis.
Multimedia Tools and Applications.
2020.
Dario Allegra, Sebastiano Battiato, Alessandro Ortis, Salvatore Urso, Riccardo Polosa.
A review on food recognition technology for health applications.
Health Psychology Research.
2020.
Sebastiano Battiato, Sabrina Conoci, Roberto Leotta, Alessandro Ortis, Francesco Rundo, Francesca Trenta.
Benchmarking of computer vision algorithms for driver monitoring on automotive-grade devices.
2020 AEIT International Conference of Electrical and Electronic Technologies for Automotive (AEIT AUTOMOTIVE).
2020.
A. Ortis, G. M. Farinella, S. Battiato.
Predicting Social Image Popularity Dynamics at Time Zero.
IEEE Access.
2019.
Tiziana Rotondo, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato.
Generalised Gradient Vector Flow for Content-Aware Image Resizing.
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2019.
Ortis, Alessandro, Farinella, Giovanni Maria, Battiato, Sebastiano.
Prediction of Social Image Popularity Dynamics.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science.
2019.
Tang, Hongxiang, Ortis, Alessandro, Battiato, Sebastiano.
The Impact of Padding on Image Classification by Using Pre-trained Convolutional Neural Networks.
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.
2019.
Francesco Rundo, Alessandro Ortis, Sebastiano Battiato, Sabrina Conoci.
Advanced Multi-neural System for Cuff-less Blood Pressure Estimation through Nonlinear HC-features.
Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications.
2019.
Ortis, Alessandro, Farinella, Giovanni Maria, Battiato, Sebastiano.
An Overview on Image Sentiment Analysis: Methods, Datasets and Current Challenges.
Proceedings of the 16th International Joint Conference on e-Business and Telecommunications.
2019.
A. Ortis, G. M. Farinella, G. Torrisi, S. Battiato.
Visual Sentiment Analysis Based on on Objective Text Description of Images.
2018 International Conference on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI).
2018.
Rundo, Francesco, Ortis, Alessandro, Battiato, Sebastiano, Conoci, Sabrina.
Advanced bio-inspired system for noninvasive cuff-less blood pressure estimation from physiological signal analysis.
Computation.
2018.
Francesco Rundo, Sabrina Conoci, Giuseppe L. Banna, Alessandro Ortis, Filippo Stanco, Sebastiano Battiato.
Evaluation of Levenberg–Marquardt neural networks and stacked autoencoders clustering for skin lesion analysis, screening and follow-up.
IET Computer Vision.
2018.
Rundo, F., Conoci, S., Ortis, A., Battiato, S..
An advanced bio-inspired photoplethysmography (PPG) and ECG pattern recognition system for medical assessment.
Sensors (Switzerland).
2018.
F Rundo, S Conoci, G L Banna, A Ortis, F Stanco, S Battiato.
Evaluation of Levenberg--Marquardt neural networks and stacked autoencoders clustering for skin lesion analysis, screening and follow-up.
IET Computer Vision.
2018.
Battiato, S., Cantelli, L., D’urso, F., Farinella, G.M., Guarnera, L., Guastella, D., Melita, C.D., Muscato, G., Ortis, A., Ragusa, F., Santoro, C..
A system for autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving vehicle.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
2017.
Luciano Cantelli, Dario Guastella, Carmelo Donato Melita, Giovanni Muscato, Sebastiano Battiato, Fabio D’urso, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Alessandro Ortis, Corrado Santoro.
Autonomous Landing of a UAV on a Moving Vehicle For the MBZIRC.
International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines (CLAWAR).
2017.
Ortis, A., Farinella, G.M., D'amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G., Battiato, S..
Organizing egocentric videos of daily living activities.
Pattern Recognition.
2017.
Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Milotta, F.L.M., Ortis, A., Stanco, F., D’amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G..
Organizing videos streams for clustering and estimation of popular scenes.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
2017.
Ortis, A., Farinella, G.M., D'amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G., Battiato, S..
Organizing egocentric videos for daily living monitoring.
LTA 2016 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Lifelogging Tools and Applications, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016.
2016.
Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Milotta, F.L.M., Ortis, A., Addesso, L., Casella, A., D'amico, V., Torrisi, G..
The social picture.
ICMR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval.
2016.
Ortis A, Farinella Gm, D'amico, V, Addesso L, Torrisi G, Battiato S..
RECfusion: Automatic video curation driven by visual content popularity.
MM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference.
2015.
Ortis A, Rundo F, Di Giore, Battiato S..
Adaptive Compression of Stereoscopic Images.
Proceedings of International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.
2013.
Ortis A, Battiato S..
A new fast matching method for adaptive compression of stereoscopic images.
Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
2000.