Francesco Guarnera

Research Fellow - Ciclo XXXIV

Francesco Guarnera

Research Fellow

Publications

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.

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. . 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. . 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.