Francesco Guarnera
Francesco Guarnera
Research Fellow
Publications
Antonio Scardace, Lemuel Puglisi, Francesco Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Daniele Ravì.
A Novel Metric for Detecting Memorization in Generative Models for Brain MRI Synthesis.
IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV).
2026.
Claudio Giusti, Luca Guarnera, Mirko Casu, Sebastiano Battiato.
Fraud is not just rarity: A causal prototype attention approach to realistic synthetic oversampling.
Knowledge-Based Systems.
2026.
Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, Zahid Akhtar, Sebastiano Battiato.
HexMIL: Hierarchical Attention MIL for Ante-Hoc Explainable Detection of AI-Manipulated CT Volumes.
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM).
2026.
Claudio Giusti, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato.
Proto-LeakNet: Towards signal-leak aware attribution in synthetic human face imagery.
Computer Vision and Image Understanding.
2026.
Roberto Leotta, Salvatore Alfio Sambataro, Claudio Vittorio Ragaglia, Mirko Casu, Yuri Petralia, Francesco Guarnera, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato.
SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes.
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
2026.
Mattia Litrico, Francesco Guarnera, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, Daniele Ravì, Sebastiano Battiato.
Temporally-aware diffusion model for brain progression modelling with bidirectional temporal regularisation.
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics.
2026.
Alessandro Tomarchio, Giovanni Piccinini, Georgia Fargetta, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato.
When Art Meets Forensics: Exploring the Authentication of Shikishi Artworks.
IEEE International Conference on Advanced Visual and Signal-Based Systems (AVSS).
2026.
Orazio Pontorno, Mattia Litrico, Luca Guarnera, Valerio Giuffrida, Sebastiano Battiato.
µFlow: Leveraging Average Images for Improving Generalisation of Deepfake Faces Detectors.
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV).
2026.
Sebastiano Battiato, Mirko Casu, Francesco Guarnera, Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi, Orazio Pontorno, Claudio Ragaglia, Zahid Akhtar.
(DFF '25) 1st Deepfake Forensics Workshop: Detection, Attribution, Recognition, and Adversarial Challenges in the Era of AI-Generated Media.
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '25).
2025.
Mirko Casu, Luca Guarnera, Ignazio Zangara, Pasquale Caponnetto, Sebastiano Battiato.
A (Mid)journey Through Reality: Assessing Accuracy, Impostor Bias, and Automation Bias in Human Detection of AI-Generated Images.
Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies.
2025.
Sebastiano Battiato, Mirko Casu, Francesco Guarnera, Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi, Orazio Pontorno, Claudio Ragaglia, Zahid Akhtar.
Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors: A Challenge in the Era of AI-Generated Media (AADD-2025).
Proceedings of the 33rd ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM '25).
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.
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.
Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato.
DeepFeatureX-SN: Generalization of deepfake detection via contrastive learning.
Multimedia Tools and Applications.
2025.
Alessia Rondinella, Francesco Guarnera, Francesco Rundo, Sebastiano Battiato.
DeepSeg-MS: A 3D Network Based on Hierarchical Multi-Scale Learning for MRI Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation.
IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (ICCVW).
2025.
Mirko Casu, Francesco Guarnera, Giusy Rita Maria La Rosa, Sebastiano Battiato, Pasquale Caponnetto, Riccardo Polosa, Rosalia Emma.
Smoking Detection and Cessation: An Updated Scoping Review of Digital and Mobile Health Technologies.
IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics.
2025.
Pietro Bongini, Sara Mandelli, Andrea Montibeller, Mirko Casu, Orazio Pontorno, Claudio Ragaglia, Luca Zanchetta, Mattia Aquilina, Taiba Majid Wani, Luca Guarnera, Benedetta Tondi, Giulia Boato, Paolo Bestagini, Irene Amerini, Francesco De Natale, Sebastiano Battiato, Mauro Barni.
WILD: a new in-the-Wild Image Linkage Dataset for synthetic image attribution.
International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN).
2025.
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.
Roberto Leotta , Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato.
Not with My Name! Inferring Artists’ Names of Input Strings Employed by Diffusion Models.
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.
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.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi.
CNN-based first quantization estimation of double compressed JPEG images.
Elsevier.
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.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi.
Estimating Previous Quantization Factors on Multiple JPEG Compressed Images.
EURASIP Journal on Information Security.
2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi.
First Quantization Estimation by a Robust Data Exploitation Strategy of DCT Coefficients.
IEEE Access.
2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Giovanni Puglisi.
Computational Data Analysis for First Quantization Estimation on JPEG Double Compressed Images.
2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
2021.
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.
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.
Oliver Giudice, Dario Allegra, Francesco Guarnera, Filippo Stanco, Sebastiano Battiato.
Animated Gif Optimization By Adaptive Color Local Table Management.
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2020.
Sebastiano Battiato, Luciano Cantelli, Fabio D'urso, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Luca Guarnera, Dario Calogero Guastella, Rosario Leonardi, Alessia Li Noce, Giovanni Muscato, Alessio Piazza, Francesco Ragusa, Corrado Santoro, Giuseppe Sutera, Antonino Zappalà..
The UNICT-TEAM vision modules for the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020.
Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition Symposium (MBZIRC).
2020.
Francesco Guarnera, Dario Allegra, Oliver Giudice, Filippo Stanco, Sebastiano Battiato.
A New Study On Wood Fibers Textures: Documents Authentication Through LBP Fingerprint.
2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP).
2019.
Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Angelo Salici, Claudio Ciampini, Vito Matranga, Sebastiano Battiato.
Forensic Analisys of Handwritten Documents with GRAPHJ.
Journal of Electronic Imaging.
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.
Guarnera, L., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Salici, A., Ciampini, C., Matranga, V., Battiato, S..
GRAPHJ: A Forensics Tool for Handwriting Analysis.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics).
2017.
Ravì, D., Bober, M., Farinella, G.M., Guarnera, M., Battiato, S..
Semantic segmentation of images exploiting DCT based features and random forest.
Pattern Recognition.
2016.
Caccamo M, Guarnera G C, Licitra G, Azzaro G., Petriglieri R., Gallo G..
Estimation of cow's body condition score through statistical shape analysis and regression machines from images acquired using low-cost digital cameras.
7th European Conference on Precision Livestock Farming.
2015.
Bruna Ar, Farinella G M, Guarnera Gc, Battiato S..
Forgery Detection and Value Identification of Euro Banknotes.
IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL.
2013.
G Azzaro, M Caccamo, Jd Ferguson, Battiato S., Gm Farinella, Gc Guarnera, G Puglisi, R Petriglieri, G Licitra.
Objective Estimation of Body Condition Score by Modeling Cow Body Shape from Digital Images.
JOURNAL OF DAIRY SCIENCE.
2011.
Battiato S., G.M. Farinella, G.C. Guarnera, T. Meccio, G. Puglisi, D. Ravì, R. Rizzo.
Bags of Phrases with Codebooks Alignment for Near Duplicate Image Detection.
MiFor '10: Proceedings of the 2nd ACM workshop on Multimedia in forensics, security and intelligence.
2010.
Battiato S., 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.
Proceedings of WAPA 2010 - Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis - September 2010, Cumberland Lodge (Windsor, UK) – Journal of Machine Learning Research: Workshop and Conference Proceedings -.
2010.
Battiato S., G. M. Farinella, M. Guarnera, G. Messina, D. Ravì.
Red-Eyes Removal Through Cluster Based Linear Discriminant Analysis.
Proceedings of IEEE ICIP 2010 - International Conference on Image Processing.
2010.
Battiato S., G. Puglisi, A. R. Bruna, A. Capra, M. Guarnera.
Image Processing for Embedded Devices.
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2010.
Battiato S., G..M. Farinella, M. Guarnera, G. Messina, D. Ravì.
Red-Eyes Removal Through Cluster Based Boosting on Gray Codes.
EURASIP JOURNAL ON IMAGE AND VIDEO PROCESSING.
2010.
S Battiato, G M Farinella, G Gallo, G C Guarnera.
Neurofuzzy segmentation of microarray images.
19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR).
2008.
Battiato S., M. Guarnera, G. Messina, V. Tomaselli.
Recent Patents on Color Demosaicing.
RECENT PATENTS ON COMPUTER SCIENCE.
2008.
Battiato S., 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.
2007.
Battiato S., G. Di Blasi, G. Farinella, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera.
Ad Hoc Segmentation Pipeline for Microarray Image Analysis.
Proceedings of SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006.
2006.
Battiato S., A. Castorina, M. Guarnera, P. Vivirito.
A Global Enhancement Pipeline for Low-cost Imaging Devices.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CONSUMER ELECTRONICS.
2003.
Battiato S., A. Castorina, M. Guarnera, F. Vella.
A Light Viewfinder Pipeline for Consumer Devices Application.
Proceedings of IEEE ICME’03 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo 2003.
2003.
Battiato S., A. Castorina, M. Guarnera, P. Vivirito.
An Adaptive Global Enhancement Pipeline for Low Cost Imaging Sensors.
Proceedings of IEEE ICCE’03 - International Conference on Consumer Electronics 2003.
2003.
Battiato S., M. Guarnera, M. Mancuso, A. Bruna.
Bayer Image Enlargement Using Correlated Color Components.
Proceedings of IEEE ICCE’02 International Conference on Consumer Electronics.
2002.
Battiato S., C. Guarnera, G. Di Blasi, G. Gallo, G. Puglisi.
A Novel Artificial Mosaic Generation Technique Driven by Local Gradient Analysis.
International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2008.
2000.
Battiato S., G. Di Blasi, G. Gallo, G. C. Guarnera, G. Puglisi.
Artificial Mosaic by Gradient Vector Flow.
Eurographics 2008 (Short Papers).
2000.
Battiato S., G. M. Farinella, M. Guarnera, G. Messina, D. Ravì.
Boosting Gray Codes for Red Eyes Removal.
Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition.
2000.
Battiato S., A.R. Bruna, G.M. Farinella, G.C. Guarnera.
Counterfeit Detection and Value Recognition of Euro Banknotes.
Proceedings of VISAPP 2013 – Barcelona (Spain) – February 2013;.
2000.
Giuffrida Mv, Farinella Gm, Battiato S., Guarnera M.
Exploiting time-multiplexing structured light with picoprojectors.
roceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering.
2000.
Gallo G., G.C.Guarnera, G.Catanuto.
Human breast shape analysis using PCA.
Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Bio-inspired Systems and Signal Processing.
2000.
Battiato S., Giovanni Maria Farinella, Mirko Guarnera, Daniele Ravì, Valeria Tomaselli.
Instant Scene Recognition on Mobile Platform.
In Proceedings of ECCV DEMO 2012 European Conference on Computer Vision.
2000.
G. Azzaro, M. Caccamo, J. D. Ferguson, Battiato S., 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.
2000.
Gallo G., Guarnera G, Catanuto G, Pane F.
Parametric Representation of Human Breast Shapes.
proceedings of IEEE International Workshop on Medical Measurements and Applications, 2009.
2000.
Battiato S., M. Mancuso, A. Bosco, M. Guarnera.
Psychovisual and Statistical Optimization of Quantization Tables for DCT Compression Engines.
Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing.
2000.
Battiato S., M. Guarnera, T. Meccio, G. Messina.
Red Eye Detection through Bag-of-Keypoints Classification.
In Proceedings of International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2009 - Vietri sul Mare (Sa), Italy, September 2009 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 5716, 2009;.
2000.