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Biography
Simone Milani was born in 1978. He received his Laurea Degree (5 years course) with honors from the University of Padova, Italy, on December 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering on March 2007. From August 2005 to June 2006 he was visiting Ph.D. student at the University of California – Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA. From January 2007 he started working as a post-doc researcher for the University of Padova, University of Udine and Politecnico di Milano, Italy. On May 2014 he started working as assistant professor at the University of Padova until March 2020 since he got an associate professor at the same university. He has also been a visiting researcher at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brasil in 2019. He works in the multimedia research group and his research activity is focused on image/video/audio/3D data compression and multimedia forensics.
His research interest includes 3D reconstruction and understanding, light field data processing, learned compression scheme, point cloud compression/segmentation/classification, semantic segmentation of 3D data, audio compression, Time-of-Flight sensor data processing, depth compression, multimedia forensics, biometrics, anomaly detection and multimedia security issues. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transaction on Image Processing. He has been involved in several European (FP7 REWIND, POR FESR Rebuilding the Past), National and university funded projects. He has co-authored many journal papers and conference proceedings.
Research areas
Publications
2024
Enhanced Model Robustness to Input Corruptions by Per-corruption Adaptation of Normalization Statistics Proceedings Article
In: IEEE, (Ed.): IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024.
Continual Road-Scene Semantic Segmentation via Feature-Aligned Symmetric Multi-Modal Network Proceedings Article
In: IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024.
2023
CACTUS: Content-Aware Compression and Transmission Using Semantics for Automotive LiDAR Data Journal Article
In: Sensors, vol. 23, iss. 12, 2023.
Continual Learning for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation: Class-Incremental and Coarse-to-Fine strategies on Sparse Data Proceedings Article
In: International Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, 2023.
Learning from Mistakes: Self-Regularizing Hierarchical Representations in Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, pp. 1-11, 2023.
2022
Features Denoising for Learned Image Coding Proceedings Article
In: 2022 10th European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
Hand Me Your PIN! Inferring ATM PINs of Users Typing with a Covered Hand Proceedings Article
In: 31st USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX Security 22), pp. 1687–1704, 2022.
Real or Virtual: A Video Conferencing Background Manipulation-Detection System Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.11853, 2022.
Responsible innovation at work: gamification, public engagement, and privacy by design Journal Article
In: Journal of Responsible Innovation, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 315–343, 2022.
A Workflow and Digital Filters for Correcting Speed and Equalization Errors on Digitized Audio Open-Reel Magnetic Tapes Journal Article
In: Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, vol. 70, no. 6, pp. 495–509, 2022.
The Sound of Silence: Efficiency of First Digit Features in Synthetic Audio Detection Proceedings Article
In: 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
A study on the impact of multiview distributed feature coding on a multicamera vehicle tracking system at roundabouts Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 39502–39517, 2022.
A distributed rate-control approach to reduce communication burdens in VSNs Journal Article
In: IEEE Access, 2022.
A Comparative Evaluation of Well-known Feature Extractors for Multi-view Vehicle Tracking in VSNs Proceedings Article
In: 2022 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Communications and Networking (ComNet), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2022.
Recent advancements in learning algorithms for point clouds: An updated overview Journal Article
In: Sensors, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 1357, 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
The vertical spine. A new observation and exhibition tower on the Como Lake Journal Article
In: 2021.
A distributed source autoencoder of local visual descriptors for 3D reconstruction Journal Article
In: Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 146, pp. 193–199, 2021.
Adae: Adversarial distributed source autoencoder for point cloud compression Proceedings Article
In: 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 3078–3082, IEEE 2021.
Do Not Deceive Your Employer with a Virtual Background: A Video Conferencing Manipulation-Detection System Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.15130, 2021.
Focal: A forgery localization framework based on video coding self-consistency Journal Article
In: IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing, vol. 2, pp. 217–229, 2021.
Looking Through Walls: Inferring Scenes from Video-Surveillance Encrypted Traffic Proceedings Article
In: ICASSP 2021-2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2595–2599, IEEE 2021.
A workflow and novel digital filters for compensating speed and equalization errors on digitized audio open-reel tapes Proceedings Article
In: Proceedings of the 16th International Audio Mostly Conference, pp. 224–231, 2021.
On the use of Benford’s law to detect GAN-generated images Proceedings Article
In: 2020 25th international conference on pattern recognition (ICPR), pp. 5495–5502, IEEE 2021.
Neural network for denoising and reading degraded license plates Proceedings Article
In: Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges: Virtual Event, January 10–15, 2021, Proceedings, Part VI, pp. 484–499, Springer International Publishing 2021.
Effectiveness of VR immersive applications for public speaking enhancement Journal Article
In: Electronic Imaging, vol. 2021, no. 9, pp. 294–1, 2021.
2020
Advanced assistive maintenance based on augmented reality and 5G networking Journal Article
In: Sensors, vol. 20, no. 24, pp. 7157, 2020.
A syndrome-based autoencoder for point cloud geometry compression Proceedings Article
In: 2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2686–2690, IEEE 2020.
A transform coding strategy for dynamic point clouds Journal Article
In: IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 29, pp. 8213–8225, 2020.
Ground-to-aerial viewpoint localization via landmark graphs matching Journal Article
In: IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 27, pp. 1490–1494, 2020.
Phylogenetic minimum spanning tree reconstruction using autoencoders Proceedings Article
In: ICASSP 2020-2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2817–2821, IEEE 2020.
2019
Seq2Seq RNN based gait anomaly detection from smartphone acquired multimodal motion data Journal Article
In: arXiv preprint arXiv:1911.08608, 2019.
Driver attention analysis and drowsiness detection using mobile devices Journal Article
In: 2019.
Material identification using RF sensors and convolutional neural networks Proceedings Article
In: ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3662–3666, IEEE 2019.
Phylogenetic analysis of software using cache miss statistics Proceedings Article
In: ICASSP 2019-2019 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 2552–2556, IEEE 2019.
Rendering-aware point cloud coding for mixed reality devices Proceedings Article
In: 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 3706–3710, IEEE 2019.
2018
Phylogenetic analysis of multimedia codec software Proceedings Article
In: 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 1427–1431, IEEE 2018.
A transform coding strategy for voxelized dynamic point clouds Proceedings Article
In: 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 2954–2958, IEEE 2018.
Improving Consensus-Based Distributed Camera Calibration Via Edge Pruning and Graph Traversal Initialization Proceedings Article
In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 3166–3170, IEEE 2018.
Stay true to the sound of history: philology, phylogenetics and information engineering in musicology Journal Article
In: Applied Sciences, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 226, 2018.
Video codec forensics based on convolutional neural networks Proceedings Article
In: 2018 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 530–534, IEEE 2018.
2017
Improving three-dimensional reconstruction of buildings from web-harvested images using forensic clues Journal Article
In: Journal of Electronic Imaging, vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 011009–011009, 2017.
Video phylogeny tree reconstruction using aging measures Proceedings Article
In: 2017 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), pp. 2181–2185, IEEE 2017.
Improving 3D reconstruction tracks using denoised euclidean distance matrices Proceedings Article
In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 740–744, IEEE 2017.
Fast point cloud compression via reversible cellular automata block transform Proceedings Article
In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 4013–4017, IEEE 2017.
3D reconstruction from web harvested images using a forensic quality metric Proceedings Article
In: 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1997–2001, IEEE 2017.
Audio phylogenetic analysis using geometric transforms Proceedings Article
In: 2017 IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), pp. 1–6, IEEE 2017.
2016
Correction and interpolation of depth maps from structured light infrared sensors Journal Article
In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 41, pp. 28–39, 2016.
A rate control algorithm for video coding in augmented reality applications Proceedings Article
In: 2016 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), pp. 1–5, IEEE 2016.
Depth map coding with elastic contours and 3D surface prediction Proceedings Article
In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1106–1110, IEEE 2016.