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Biography
Federica Battisti is Associate Professor in the Department of Information Engineering at University of Padova.
She received the Laurea (Master of Science) in Electronic Engineering from Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy, in July 2006. From August 2005 to February 2006 she worked as a Research Assistant at Tampere International Center for Signal Processing (TICSP) in Tampere University of Technology (TUT) located in Tampere, Finland. Her work in TICSP resulted in her master thesis titled ‘Data hiding techniques in the Fibonacci domain’. During her staying in TICSP, she had been involved in a Human Visual System based image quality assessment project. This work was a part of a bigger research to obtain perceptually reliable objective image quality metrics. From November 2006 to November 2009, she has been a Ph.D. student in Telecommunication Engineering at Università degli Studi Roma Tre and in March 2010 she received the Ph.D. degree with a thesis titled ‘Multimedia data hiding based on human perception characteristics’. From December 2010 to July 2020 she has been non-tenured Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at Università degli Studi Roma Tre.
Her main research interests are signal and image processing with focus on subjective quality analysis of visual contents. Her research activity started with the design and implementation of watermarking techniques for granting the ownership protection of images. The investigation on this topic led to the study of quality issues related to the watermark invisibility that resulted in the definition of new image quality metrics and in the contribution to the creation of a widely used database for quality metrics benchmark. The interest on image quality was later extended to video and multi-view imaging.
Currently, the area of interest is in the quality assessment of immersive media.
She serves as Editor-in-Chief of EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (2024- present).
She is Vice-Chair of the IEEE P3333.1.4_WG – Human factors for the Quality Assessment of Light Field Imaging Working Group (November 2020 – present).
She is Vice-Chair of the EURASIP Visual Information Processing Special Area Team (2022 – present).
She is an IEEE Senior member (2015 – present).
Research areas
Immersive media
Publications
2024
Stress Assessment for Augmented Reality Applications Based on Head Movement Features Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, pp. 1-14, 2024.
Questset: A VR Dataset for Network and Quality of Experience Studies Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 15th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference, pp. 408–414, 2024.
On the identification of the leading sensory cue in mulsemedia VR applications Proceedings Article
In: 2024 16th International Conference on Quality of Multimedia Experience (QoMEX), pp. 36-42, 2024.
Interaction goes virtual: towards collaborative XR Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2024 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences, pp. 443–446, Association for Computing Machinery, Stockholm, Sweden, 2024, ISBN: 9798400705038.
2023
Definition of guidelines for virtual reality application design based on visual attention Journal Article
In: Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2023.
A study on the impact of virtual reality on user attention Conference
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), IEEE, 2023.
A context-based framework for enhancing GNSS performance and security Conference
IEEE/ION PLANS2023, 2023.
No-Reference Light Field Image Quality Assessment Exploiting Saliency Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, pp. 1-11, 2023, ISSN: 0018-9316.
Omnidirectional video saliency Book Section
In: Immersive Video Technologies, pp. 123–158, Academic Press, 2023.
Selective video enhancement in the Laguerre–Gauss domain Journal Article
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 110, pp. 116876, 2023.
A CNN-based no reference image quality metric exploiting content saliency Journal Article
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 111, pp. 116899, 2023.
Measuring 3D Video Quality of Experience (QoE) Using A Hybrid Metric Based on Spatial Resolution and Depth Cues Journal Article
In: Journal of Imaging, vol. 9, no. 12, pp. 281, 2023.
An ablation study on 360-degree saliency estimation Proceedings Article
In: 2023 International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2023.
An Ablation Study on 360-Degree Saliency Estimation Proceedings Article
In: 2023 International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), pp. 1-6, 2023.
Subjective evaluation of dynamic point clouds: impact of compression and exploration behaviour Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 31st European Signal Processing Conference, 2023.
2022
A Semantic Segmentation-based Approach for Train Positioning Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2022 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, pp. 1380–1391, 2022.
On the Design of High Accuracy Rail Digital Maps based on Sensor Fusion Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 2022 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, pp. 1420–1431, 2022.
GNSS-Imaging Data Fusion for Integrity Enhancement in Autonomous Vehicles Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 4690–4704, 2022.
A New Model for Cognitive IVT based on loT for Critical Safety Solutions: Firefighter Use Case Proceedings Article
In: 2022 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces Abstracts and Workshops (VRW), pp. 381–386, IEEE 2022.
Simulation-based virtual reality training for firefighters Journal Article
In: Electronic Imaging, vol. 34, pp. 1–5, 2022.
Human reaction time in a mixed reality environment Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Neuroscience, vol. 16, pp. 1410, 2022.
Sound Event Detection for Human Safety and Security in Noisy Environments Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, 2022.
HEROES: A Video-Based Human Emotion Recognition Database Proceedings Article
In: 2022 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
3D Object Detection on Synthetic Point Clouds for Railway Applications Proceedings Article
In: 2022 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
Analysis of a 2D Representation for CPS Anomaly Detection in a Context-Based Security Framework Journal Article
In: Frontiers in Signal Processing, vol. 1, pp. 19, 2022.
Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection by Learning on 2D Data Representations Proceedings Article
In: 2022 9th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), pp. 53–58, IEEE 2022.
Deep 3D Model Optimization for Immersive and Interactive Applications Proceedings Article
In: 2022 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
2021
Subjective quality evaluation of light field data under coding distortions Proceedings Article
In: 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 526–530, IEEE 2021.
Progressive Training Of Convolutional Neural Networks For Acoustic Events Classification Proceedings Article
In: 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 26–30, IEEE 2021.
Point Cloud Visualization Methods: A Study on Subjective Preferences Proceedings Article
In: 2020 28th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 595–599, IEEE 2021.
Early detection of children with autism spectrum disorder based on visual exploration of images Journal Article
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 94, pp. 116184, 2021.
Inferring Anomaly Situation from Multiple Data Sources in Cyber Physical Systems Proceedings Article
In: Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection: First International Workshop, CPS4CIP 2020, Guildford, UK, September 18, 2020, Revised Selected Papers 1, pp. 67–76, Springer International Publishing 2021.
Saliency-based deep blind image quality assessment Journal Article
In: Electronic Imaging, vol. 2021, no. 9, pp. 225–1, 2021.
On the Use of Fibonacci Sequences for Detecting Injection Attacks in Cyber Physical Systems Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 41787–41798, 2021.
A No Reference Deep Learning Based Model for Quality Assessment of UGC Videos Proceedings Article
In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2021.
Subjective Evaluation of Visual Quality and Simulator Sickness of Short 360$^$backslash$circ $ Videos: ITU-T Rec. P. 919 Journal Article
In: IEEE transactions on multimedia, vol. 24, pp. 3087–3100, 2021.
Exploiting saliency in quality assessment for light field images Proceedings Article
In: 2021 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2021.
A study on human reaction time in a mixed reality environment Proceedings Article
In: 2021 International Symposium on Signals, Circuits and Systems (ISSCS), pp. 1–4, IEEE 2021.
Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection Journal Article
In: 2021.
High Accuracy High Integrity Train Positioning based on GNSS and Image Processing Integration Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+ 2021), pp. 2670–2680, 2021.
IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Journal Article
In: 2021.
Analysis of the influence of human faces for the estimation of salience in omnidirectional images Proceedings Article
In: 2021 IEEE 23rd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2021.
2020
The Influence of Different Levels of Cognitive Engagement on the Seated Postural Sway Journal Article
In: Electronics, vol. 9, no. 4, pp. 601, 2020.
Virtual track: A vision-based integrity enhancement Proceedings Article
In: 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), pp. 1625–1634, IEEE 2020.
A hybrid position estimation framework based on GNSS and visual sensor fusion Proceedings Article
In: 2020 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), pp. 979–986, IEEE 2020.
QoE and Immersive Media: A New Challenge Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Quality of Experience (QoE) in Visual Multimedia Applications, pp. 1–1, 2020.
On the Use of Differential Correction Clustering for Facing Spoofing Attacks to GNSS Augmentation Networks Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 219903–219922, 2020.
IEEE 22nd International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing Journal Article
In: 2020.
Perceptual quality of light field images and impact of visualization techniques Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, vol. 67, no. 2, pp. 395–408, 2020.
Manage Security on 5G Communication Networks: The Software Defined Security Paradigm Journal Article
In: CYBER-PHYSICAL THREAT INTELLIGENCE FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURES SECURITY, pp. 328, 2020.