Marco Cristani
Assistant Professor
Computer Science Dept.
University of Verona

Journal papers

-SOCIAL SIGNALLING-

  • NEW! A. Sedda, V. Manfredi, G. Bottini, M.Cristani, V. Murino, Automatic human interaction understanding: lessons from a multidisciplinary approach, Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol.6, num 57, 2012
  • M. Cristani, R. Raghavendra, A. Del Bue, V. Murino, Human Behavior Analysis in Video Surveillance: a Social Signal Processing Perspective, Neurocomputing, 2012, | pdf
  • L. Bazzani, D. Tosato, M. Cristani, M. Farenzena, G. Pagetti, G. Menegaz, and V. Murino. Social interactions by visual focus of attention in a three-dimensional environment. Expert Systems, 2011.
  • A. Pesarin, M. Cristani, V. Murino, A. Vinciarelli, Conversation Analysis at Work: Detection of Conflict in Competitive Discussions through Semi-Automatic Turn-Organization Analysis, Cognitive Processing, accepted on 12-09-2011, | pdf
  • M. Cristani, A. Pesarin, C. Drioli, A. Tavano, A. Perina, V. Murino, Generative modeling and classification of dialogs by a low-level turn-taking feature, Pattern Recognition, Volume 44, Issue 8, August 2011, Pages 1785-1800, | pdf

-SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS-

  • L.Bazzani, M. Cristani, A. Perina, V. Murino, Multiple-shot Person Re-identification by Chromatic and Epitomic Analyses, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 33, Issue 7, 1 May 2012, Pages 898–903 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M. Farenzena, D. Bloisi, V. Murino, Background Subtraction for Automated Multisensor Surveillance: a Comprehensive Review, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. 2010, Article ID 343057, 2010 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino, Audio-Visual Event Recognition, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 9/2 pp. 257-267, February 2007 | pdf
  • M. Bicego, M. Cristani, V. Murino, Unsupervised Scene Analysis: A Hidden Markov Model Approach, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 102/1, pp. 22-41, April 2006 | pdf

-IMAGE CATEGORIZATION -

  • A. Perina, M. Cristani, V. Murino, Learning natural scene categories by selective multi-scale feature extraction, Image and Vision Computing, Volume 28, Issue 6, June 2010, Pages 927-939 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, A. Perina, U. Castellani, V. Murino. Geo-located image categorization and location recognition. Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Vol. 102/1, pp. 245-252, June 2009 | pdf

-GENERATIVE MODELING-

  • NEW! Nebojsa Jojic, Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Vittorio Murino, Stel Component Analysis: joint segmentation, modeling and recognition of objects classes, International Journal of Computer Vision, no. PrePrints, 2012| pdf
  • NEW! Alessandro Perina, Marco Cristani, Umberto Castellani, Vittorio Murino, Nebojsa Jojic, Free Energy Score Spaces: Using Generative Information in Discriminative Classifiers, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, no. PrePrints, 2012

-LEARNING IN COMPUTER VISION-

  • Umberto Castellani, Marco Cristani, Vittorio Murino, Statistical 3D Shape Analysis by Local Generative Descriptors, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 33 no. 12, 2011, pp. 2555-2560
  • U.Castellani, M.Cristani, S.Fantoni, V.Murino, Interest points detection and matching by exploiting 3D mesh saliency in a Hidden Markov Model framework, Computer Graphics Forum Vol. 29(2), (also published in the Proceedings of Eurographics 2008, Creta | pdf

-BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSIS-

  • U. Castellani, M. Cristani, A. Daducci, P. Farace, P. Marzola, V. Murino, A. Sbarbati. DCE-MRI Data Analysis for Cancer Area Classification. Methods of information in medicine, Vol. 48, No. 3, June 2009, pp. 248-253
  • A. Perina, M. Cristani, L. Xumerle, V. Murino, P.F. Pignatti, G. Malerba, Fully non-homogeneous hidden Markov model double net: A generative model for haplotype reconstruction and block discovery, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Volume 45, Issues 2-3, Computational Intelligence and Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, February-March 2009, Pages 135-150
  • Umberto Castellani, Marco Cristani, Carlo Combi, Vittorio Murino, Andrea Sbarbati, Pasquina Marzola. Visual MRI: Merging information visualization and non-parametric clustering techniques for MRI dataset analysis. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. Vol. 44, No. 3, Novembre 2008, pp. 171-282

-PATTERN RECOGNITION AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES-

  • B. Torre, M. Bicego, M. Cristani, V. Murino, A. Diaspro, R. Cingolani:Combination of atomic force microscopy and principal component analysis as a general method for direct recognition of functional and structural domains in nanonocomposite materials (p NA), Microscopy Research and Technique, Special Issue: Nanophysics,Volume 73, Issue 10, pages 973–981, October 2010

Book chapters

-SOCIAL SIGNALLING-

  • L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, G. Pagetti, D. Tosato, G. Menegaz, and V. Murino. Analyzing groups: a social signaling perspective. In Video Analytics for Business Intelligence, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, 2012.

-MOTION | SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS and MOTION DETECTION-

  • D. S. Cheng, M. Cristani, V. Murino. Distillation: a super-resolution approach for the selective analysis of noisy and unconstrained video, in Machine Learning for Human Motion Analysis, L.Wang , L.Cheng , G.Zhao, IGI Global , 2009

Book contributions

-MOTION | SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS and MOTION DETECTION-

  • M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino, Audio-video integration for background modelling, in Computer Vision - ECCV 2004 (European Conference on Computer Vision, acceptance rate = 34%), Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3022, T. Pajdla, J. Matas, Eds., pp. 202-213, Springer, 2004 | pdf

-PATTERN RECOGNITION AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES-

  • M. Bicego, M. Cristani, A. Fusiello, V. Murino, Watershed-based Unsupervised Clustering, in Lecture Notes on Computer Science n. 2683, A.Rangarajan, M.Figueiredo, J.Zerubia Eds., Springer, pp. 83-94, 2003 | pdf

Refereed conference papers

-SOCIAL SIGNALLING-

  • M.Cristani, G.Paggetti, A. Vinciarelli, L.Bazzani, G.Menegaz, V.Murino, Towards Computational Proxemics: Inferring Social Relations from Interpersonal Distances, In Proceedings of SOCIALCOM 2011, Boston, October 2011
  • M.Cristani, A. Pesarin, A.Vinciarelli, M.Crocco, V.Murino, Look at Who's Talking: Voice Activity Detection by Automated Gesture Analysis, In Proceedings of Workshop of Interactive Human Behavior Analysis in Open or Public Spaces (INTERHUB 2011), Amsterdam, November 2011
  • R. Raghavendra, A. Del Bue, M. Cristani and V. Murino, Abnormal Crowd Behavior Detection by Social Force Optimization, In Proceedings of Int. Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, Amsterdam, November 2011
  • R. Raghavendra, A. Del Bue, M. Cristani and V. Murino, Optimizing Interaction Force for Global Anomaly Detection in Crowded Scenes, In Proceedings of 1st IEEE Workshop on Modeling, Simulation and Visual Analysis of Large Crowds, Barcellona, November 2011
  • M.Cristani, L.Bazzani, G.Paggetti, A. Fossati, A.Del Bue, D.Tosato, G.Menegaz, V.Murino, Social interaction discovery by statistical analysis of F-formations, In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference, Dundee, August 2011
  • M. Cristani, V.Murino, and A. Vinciarelli. Socially intelligent surveillance and monitoring: Analysing social dimensions of physical space. In First IEEE Internationa Workshop on Socially Intelligent Surveillance and Monitoring (SISM 2010), San Francisco, California, 2010. | pdf
  • A. Pesarin, P. Calanca, V. Murino, and M. Cristani. A generative score space for statistical dialog characterization in social signalling. In Proc. Workshop on Statistical Pattern Recognition, 2010
  • M. Farenzena, A. Tavano, L. Bazzani, D. Tosato, G.Paggetti, G. Menegaz, V. Murino, M.Cristani, Social Interactions by Visual Focus of Attention in a Three-Dimensional Environment, Wks on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence for Human Behaviour Analysis (PRAI*HBA), Dec. 2009. | pdf
  • M. Farenzena, L. Bazzani, and V. Murino, M. Cristani. Towards a Subject-Centered Analysis for Automated Video Surveillance, In the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2009 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, A. Pesarin, C. Drioli, A. Perina, A. Tavano and V. Murino. Auditory Dialog Analysis and Understanding by Generative Modelling of Interactional Dynamics, Second IEEE Workshop on CVPR for Human Communicative Behavior Analysis, Miami 2009, 103-109 | pdf
  • A.Pesarin, M.Cristani, V.Murino, C.Diroli and A.Perina,A statistical signature for automatic dialogue classification. In proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) Tampa, Florida.
  • M.Cristani and V.Murino. Time-dependent interactive graphical models for human activity analysis. In International Workshop on Advances in Pattern Recognition (IWAPR), Plymouth, July 2007, pp 109-118. | pdf

-SURVEILLANCE APPLICATIONS-

  • NEW! S. Martelli, M. Cristani, V. Murino, Stereo-Based Framework for Pedestrian Detection with Partial Occlusion Handling In Proceedings of 9th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance, Beijing, September 2012, | pdf
  • NEW! M. San Biagio, M. Crocco, M. Cristani, S. Martelli, V. Murino, Low-level Multimodal Integration on Riemannian Manifolds for Automatic Pedestrian Detection. In Proceedings of 15th International Conference on Information Fusion, Singapore, July 2012
  • NEW! L. Bazzani, M. Cristani and V. Murino. Decentralized Particle Filter for Joint Individual-Group Tracking. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012), Providence, June 2012
  • NEW! M. San Biagio, M. Crocco, M. Cristani. Recursive Segmentation based on Higher Order Statistics in Thermal Imaging Pedestrian Detection. In Proceedings of 5th International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, Rome, May 2012
  • D.S Cheng, M. Cristani, M. Stoppa, L. Bazzani, V. Murino, Custom Pictorial Structures for Re-identification, In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference, Dundee, August 2011
  • S. Martelli, D. Tosato, M. Cristani, V. Murino, FPGA-Based Pedestrian Detection Using Array of Covariance Features, In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Belgium, August 2011
  • R. Satta, G. Fumera, F. Roli, M. Cristani, Vittorio Murino, A Multiple Component Matching Framework for Person Re-Identification, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Ravenna, September 2011
  • S. Martelli, D. Tosato, M. Cristani, V. Murino, Fast FPGA-Based Architecture for Pedestrian Detection Based on Covariance Matrices, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Brussels, September 2011
  • D.Tosato, M. Farenzena, M. Spera, V.Murino, M.Cristani  Multi-class Classification on Riemannian Manifolds for Video Surveillance. ECCV 2010
  • D. Tosato, M. Farenzena, M.Cristani and V. Murino. Part-based human detection on Riemannian manifolds. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, September 2010
  • L. Bazzani, M. Cristani and V. Murino. Collaborative particle filters for group tracking. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Hong Kong, September 2010
  • S. Martelli, D. Tosato, M. Farenzena, M. Cristani and V. Murino. An FPGA-based Classification Architecture on Riemannian Manifolds. In Proceedings of DEXA Workshop on Interactive Multimodal Pattern Recognition in Embedded SystemS , Spain 2010
  • M. Farenzena, L. Bazzani, A. Perina, V. Murino, and M. Cristani. Person re-identification by symmetry-driven accumulation of local features. In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2010. | pdf
  • L. Bazzani, M. Farenzena, A. Perina, V. Murino, and M. Cristani. Multiple-shot person re-identification by hpe signature, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.
  • D. Tosato, M. Farenzena, V. Murino, and M. Cristani. A re-evaluation of pedestrian detection on riemannian manifolds. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010.
  • L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino. Subjective online feature selection for occlusion management in tracking applications, Proc. Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP2009) | pdf
  • A.Perina, M.Cristani, V.Murino and N.Jojic. Capturing video structure with mixture of probabilistic index maps . In 1th ECCV-workshop on Machine learning for vision-based motion analysis. 10th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV, 2008, Marseille, France
  • M. Cristani, V.Murino, Background subtraction with adaptive spatio-temporal neighborhood analysis, Proceedings of VISAPP,International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications 2008, Madeira, PT | pdf
  • M. Cristani, V.Murino, A Spatial Sampling Mechanism for Effective Background Subtraction, Proceedings of VISAPP,International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications 2007, Vol.2 (Image Understanding, Motion, Tracking and Stero Vision) pp. 403-410 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M.Bicego, V.Murino Audio-Visual Foreground Extraction for Event Characterization, International Workshop on Semantic Learning Applications in Multimedia (SLAM), in association with CVPR 2006 | pdf
  • A. Colombari, M. Cristani, V.Murino and A.Fusiello Exemplar-based Background Model Initialization, Proceedings of ACM VSSN 2005 Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, pp.29-36, November 2005 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, D.S. Cheng, V. Murino, D. Pannullo, Distilling Information with Super-Resolution for Video Surveillance, 2nd ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks, New York, USA, pp.2-11, October 2004 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino, On-line adaptive background modelling for audio surveillance, Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2004, Cambridge, UK, Vol.2, pp. 399-402, August 2004 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino,  Multi-level Background Initialization using Hidden Markov Models, First ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Video Surveillance, Berkeley, CA, USA, pp. 11-20, Nov. 2003 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, M. Bicego, V. Murino, Integrated Region- and Pixel-based Approach to Background Modelling, IEEE Wks. on Motion and Video Computing, Orlando, FL, pp. 3-8, Dec. 2002 | pdf

-GENERATIVE MODELLING-

  • NEW! M.H. Quang, M. Cristani and V. Murino. A regularized spectral algorithm for Hidden Markov Models with applications in computer vision In Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2012), Providence, June 2012
  • A.Perina, N.Jojic, U.Castellani, M.Cristani, V.Murino. Hierarchical Stel Model and the Hierarchical Stel Kernel. ECCV 2010, (oral)
  • A. Perina, M. Cristani, and V. Murino. 2lda: segmentation for recognition. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Pattern Recognition, 2010
  • A.Perina, M.Cristani, U. Castellani, V.Murino, N.Jojic. Free energy score space,In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), Vancouver, Canada, Dec. 2009| pdf
  • A.Perina, M.Cristani, U. Castellani, V.Murino, N.Jojic. A hybrid generative/discriminative classification framework based on free-energy terms, Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision ICCV 2009, Kyoto, Japan, Oct. 2009 | pdf
  • A.Perina, M.Cristani, U.Castellani and V.Murino. A new generative feature set based on entropy distance for discriminative classification In IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP 2009, September 2009, Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy, pp.199-208 | pdf
  • N.Jojic, A.Perina, M.Cristani, V.Murino, B.Frey. Stel component analysis: Modeling spatial correlations in image class structure. In IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition CVPR 2009, Miami, FL, USA, June 2009 | pdf

-IMAGE CATEGORIZATION-

  • A.Perina, M.Cristani and V.Murino. Unsupervised Learning of saliency concepts for image classification and retrieval. In 13th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP), Havana, Cuba, September 2008.
  • M.Cristani, A.Perina, Umberto Castellani,and V.Murino. Content Visualization and Management of Geo-located Image Databases In proceedings of ACM SIGCHI CHI 2008 (Work in Progress) Florence, Italy, pp.2823-2828 | pdf
  • M.Cristani, A.Perina, Umberto Castellani,and V.Murino. Geo-located image analysis using latent representations. In proceedings of IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2008, Anchorage, Alaska
  • M.Cristani, A.Perina and V.Murino. Geo-located image grouping using latent descriptions. In 6th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS), Santorini May 2008 | pdf
  • A.Perina, M.Cristani and V.Murino. Natural scene categorization by hierarchical extraction of tipicality patterns. In IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Modena September 2007, pp.801-806 | pdf

-LEARNING IN COMPUTER VISION-

  • U. Castellani , G. Cortelazzo , M. Cristani , E. Delponte, A. Fusiello, A. Giachetti S. Mizzaro, F. Odone, E. Puppo, R. Scateni, P. Zanuttigh. 3-SHIRT: Three-Dimensional Shape Indexing and Retrieval Techniques, In proceedings of Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference 2008| pdf
  • U.Castellani, M.Cristani, X.Gong, A.K. Jain and V.Murino. Sparse point statistical characterization for 3D face analysis. In proceedings of IEEE Computer Society Workshop on Biometrics (in association with CVPR 2008), Anchorage, Alaska
  • M. Farenzena, M. Cristani, U. Castellani, A.Fusiello, 3D Object Face Clustering using Unsupervised Mean Shift, Proceedings of Eurographics Italia, Trento, Italy, pp. 39-43, 2007| pdf
  • U. Castellani, M. Cristani, P. Marzola, V. Murino, E. Rossato, A. Sbarbati, Cancer area characterization by non-parametric clustering, Intelligent Data Analysis in Biomedicine and Pharmacology, Verona, Italy, 2006 | pdf
  • U. Castellani, M. Cristani, V.Murino Acoustic Range Image Segmentation by Effective Mean Shift, Proceedings of Int’l Conf. on Image Processing ICIP 2006,  pp 2437-2440, October 2006 | pdf
  • M. Cristani, U. Castellani, V.Murino Adaptive Feature Integration for Segmentation of 3D Data by Unsupervised Density Estimation, Proceedings of Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition ICPR 2006, vol.4, pp. 21-24, August 2006 | pdf
  • U. Castellani, M. Cristani, V.Murino 3D Data Segmentation Using a Non-Parametric Density Estimation Approach, Proceedings of Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference ’06 , pp.99-103, 2006 | pdf

-BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOMEDICAL DATA ANALYSIS-

  • A. Perina, P. Lovato, M.Cristani, M. Bicego. A comparison on score spaces for expression microarray data classication, Proc. 6th IAPR International Conference on. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics,2011
  • D. S. Cheng, M. Bicego, U. Castellani, M. Cristani, S. Cerruti, M. Bellani, G. Rambaldelli, M. Aztori, P. Brambilla, V. Murino. A Hybrid Generative/Discriminative Method for Classification of Regions of Interest in Schizophrenia Brain MRI, Proc. of MICCAI09 workshop on Probabilistic Models for Medical Image Analysis, 2009|
  • A. Daducci, U. Castellani, M. Cristani, P. Farace, P. Marzola, A. Sbarbati, V. Murino. Learning Approach to Analyze Tumour Heterogeneity in DCE-MRI Data During Anti-cancer Treatment, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine AIME 2009, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence Vol. 5651/2009, July 2009, pp. 385-389 | pdf
  • A. Perina, M. Cristani, G. Malerba, L. Xumerle, V. Murino, P.F. Pignatti, Unsupervised Haplotype Reconstruction and LD Blocks Discovery in a Hidden Markov Framework, Proceedings of Computational Intelligence Methods for BioInformatics and Biostatistics workshop, Portofino, Italy, pp. 659-665, 2007 | pdf

-PATTERN RECOGNITION AND CLUSTERING TECHNIQUES-

  • F. Smeraldi, M. Bicego, M.Cristani, V.Murino, CLOOSTING: CLustering data with bOOSTING, 10th International Workshop On Multiple Classifier Systems, 2011
  • M. Bicego, M. Cristani, V. Murino, E. Pekalska, R. Duin. Clustering-based construction of Hidden Markov Models for generative kernels, In proceedings of the International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR2009), Bonn, pp.466-479| pdf
  • M.Bicego, M.Cristani and V.Murino. Sparseness Achievement with Hidden Markov Models for 2D shape analysis. In IEEE International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Modena September 2007, pp.67-72 (BEST POSTER AWARD)| pdf

-MULTIMEDIA-

  • M.Cristani, A.Pesarin, C.Drioli, A.Rodà, M. Grapulin, V.Murino, N.Sebe. Toward an Automatically Generated Soundtrack from Low-level Cross-modal Correlations for Automotive Scenarios ACM Multimedia 2010 (full paper)