WIRN 2018

The Italian Workshop on Neural Networks

WIRN 2018

Program

DAY 1 – June 13 2018

8:30  – Registration

9:00 – 9:20: Welcome from the Chairs

Professors Francesco Carlo Morabito and Eros Pasero

 

9:20-10:20 “Maria Marinaro and Eduardo Caianiello Lecture”,

Chair: Francesco Carlo Morabito

Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK “Body language without the body: social signal processing in technology mediated settings”

 

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40 – 12:40 Regular Session

Chair: Francesco Camastra

  • 10:40 -11:00 Michele Scarpiniti, Simone Scardapane, Danilo Comminiello and Aurelio Uncini: Music genre classification using stacked auto-encoders
  • 11:00 -11:20 Pasquale Coscia, Lamberto Ballan, Francesco Palmieri, Alexandre Alahi and Silvio Savarese: Linear artificial forces for human dynamics in complex contexts
  • 11:20 -11:40 Fabio Vesperini, Luca Romeo, Emanuele Principi, Andrea Monteriù and Stefano Squartini: Convolutional recurrent neural networks and acoustic data augmentation for snore detection
  • 11:40 -12:00 Francesco Camastra and Gennaro Razi: Italian text categorization with lemmatization and support vector machines
  • 12:00 – 12:20 Antonietta Maria Esposito, Andrea De Bernardo, Salvatore Ferrara, Flora Giudicepietro and Lucia Pappalardo: SOM-based analysis of volcanic rocks: an application to Vesuvius and Campi Flegrei volcanoes
  • 12:20 – 12:40 Cosimo Ieracitano, Fabiola Pantò, Nadia Mammone, Annunziata Paviglianiti, Patrizia Frontera and Francesco Carlo Morabito: Towards an automatic classification of SEM images of nanomaterials via a deep learning approach

 

12:40 – 14:20 Lunch break

 

14:20-16:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

Chair: Gennaro Cordasco

  • 14:20 – 14:40 Anna Esposito, Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Antonietta M. Esposito, Mauro N. Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Nikolaos Bourbakis, Alda Troncone, and Gennaro Cordasco: Senior’s appreciation of humanoid robots
  • 14:40 – 15:00 Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Aniello Pascale, Luigi Maffei, Federico Cioffi, Ida Sergi, Augusto Gnisci and Massimiliano Masullo: The influence of personality traits on the measure of restorativeness in an urban park: A multisensory immersive virtual reality study
  • 15:00 – 15:20  Justine Reverdy, Maria Koutsombogera and Carl Vogel: Linguistic repetition in three-party conversations
  • 15:20 – 15:40 Ida Sergi, Augusto Gnisci, Vincenzo Paolo Senese and Angelo Di Gennaro: An experiment on how naïve people evaluate interruptions as effective, unpleasant and influential
  • 15:40 – 16:00 Carl Vogel and Maria Koutsombogera: Analyzing Likert scale inter-annotator disagreement

 

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

 

16:20- 18:40 Special Session on Neural networks and pattern recognition in medicine

Organizers: Giansalvo Cirrincione, and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

Chairs: Giansalvo Cirrincione and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

  • 16:20 – 16:40 Giansalvo Cirrincione, Vincenzo Randazzo and Eros Pasero: A neural based comparative analysis for feature extraction from ECG signals
  • 16:40 – 17:00 Giacomo Donato Cascarano, Antonio Brunetti, Domenico Buongiorno, Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta, Claudio Loconsole, Ilaria Bortone and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua: A multi-modal tool suite for parkinson evaluation and grading
  • 17:00 – 17:20 Leonardo Rundo, Changhee Han, Jin Zhang, Ryuichiro Hataya, Yudai Nagano, Carmelo Militello, Claudio Ferretti, Marco S. Nobile, Andrea Tangherloni, Maria Carla Gilardi, Salvatore Vitabile, Hideki Nakayama and Giancarlo Mauri: CNN-based prostate zonal segmentation on t2-weighted MR images: A cross-dataset study
  • 17:20 – 17:40 Pietro Barbiero, Andrea Bertotti, Gabriele Ciravegna, Giansalvo Cirrincione and Elio Piccolo: DNA microarray classification: A shallow neural network model
  • 17:40 – 18:00 Changhee Han, Leonardo Rundo, Ryosuke Araki, Yujiro Furukawa, Giancarlo Mauri, Hideki Nakayama and Hideaki Hayashi: Infinite brain MR images: PGGAN-based data augmentation for tumor detection
  • 18:00–18:20 Pietro Barbiero, Andrea Bertotti, Gabriele Ciravegna, Giansalvo Cirrincione and Elio Piccolo: DNA microarray classification: Evolutionary optimization of neural network hyperparameters
  • 18:20-18:40 Gabriele Ciravegna, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Federica Marcolin, Pietro Barbiero, Nicole Dagnes and Elio Piccolo: Assessing discriminating capability of geometrical descriptors for 3D face recognition by using the GH-EXIN neural network

 

DAY 2 – June 14 2018

8:30  – Registration

9:00  – 10:20  Regular Session

Chair: Nadia Mammone

9:00 – 9:20 Luca Barzanti, Silvio Giove and Alessandro Pezzi: An effective fuzzy recommender system for fund raising management

9:20 – 9:40 Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta, Sergio Mazzola, Giuseppe Gelardi, Antonio Brunetti, Nicola Marino and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua: Reconstruction, optimisation and quality check of microsoft HoloLens-acquired 3D points clouds

9:40 – 10:00 Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli and Alberto Cabri: The “Probabilistic Rand Index”: A look from some different perspectives

10:00 – 10:20: Federico Cozza, Paola Galdi, Angela Serra, Gabriele Pasqua, Luigi Pavone and Roberto Tagliaferri: Dimension reduction techniques in a brain computer interface application

 

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40 – 12:40 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

Chair: Vincenzo Paolo Senese

  • 10:40 -11:00 Giulio Gabrieli, Atiqah Azhari and Gianluca Esposito: PySiology: a Python package for physiological feature extraction
  • 11:00 -11:20 Serena Dattola and Fabio La Foresta: Effect of sensor density on eLORETA source localization accuracy
  • 11:20 -11:40 Alfonso Davide Di Sarno, Raffaele Sperandeo, Giuseppina Di Leva, Irene Fabbricino, Enrico Moretto, Silvia Dell’Orco and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: To the roots of the sense of self: Proposals for a study on the emergence of body awareness in early infancy
  • 11:40 -12:00 Andrés Gómez-Rodellar, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina, Jiri Mekyska, Daniel Palacios Alonso, Djamila Meghraoui and Pedro Gómez-Vilda: Performance of articulation kinetic distributions vs MFCC’s in Parkinson’s detection from vowel utterances
  • 12:00 -12:20 Daniela Iennaco, Raffaele Sperandeo, Enrico Moretto, Silvia Dell’Orco, Valeria Cioffi, Lucia Luciana Mosca, Martina Messina and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: From “Mind and Body” to “Mind in Body”: a research approach for a description of personality as a functional unit of thoughts, behaviours and affective states.

 

12:20 – 14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00 – 16:00 Regular Session

Chair: Antonino Staiano

  • 14:00.14:20 Angelo Ciaramella, Davide Nardone and Antonino Staiano: Blind source separation using dictionary learning in wireless sensor network scenario
  • 14:20 – 14:40 Valerio Morfino, Salvatore Rampone and Emanuel Weitschek: A comparison of Apache Spark supervised machine learning algorithms for DNA splicing sites prediction
  • 14:40 – 15:00 Marco Corazza, Leonardo Nadali, Francesca Parpinel and Claudio Pizzi: Recurrent ANNs for failure predictions on large datasets of Italian SMEs
  • 15:00 – 15:20 Pietro Russo and Massimo Panella: Inverse classification for military decision support systems
  • 15:20 – 15:40 Luca Cermenati, Dario Malchiodi and Anna Maria Zanaboni: Simultaneous learning of fuzzy sets
  • 15:40 – 16:00 Marco Gori and Alessandro Betti: Trees in the real field

 

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

 

16:20 – 18:10 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

Chair: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

  • 16:20 – 16:40 Carlos Alonso-Martinez and Marcos Faundez-Zanuy: Online handwriting and signature normalization and fusion in a biometric security application
  • 16:40 – 17:00 Xavi Font, Carles Paul and Eloi Rodriguez: Data insights and classification in multi-sensor database for cervical injury
  • 17:00 – 17:20 Nadia Mammone, Simona De Salvo, Silvia Marino, Cosimo Ieracitano, Serena Dattola, Fabio La Foresta and Francesco Carlo Morabito: Estimating the asymmetry of brain network organization in stroke patients from high-density EEG signals
  • 17:30-17:50 Josep Lopez-Xarbau, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy and Manuel Garnacho-Castaño: Preliminary study on biometric recognition based on drawing tasks
  • 17:50-18:10 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Raffaele Sperandeo, Anna Esposito, Ciro Punzo and Silvia Dell’Orco: Exploring the relationship between attention and awareness. Neurophenomenology of the centroencephalic space of functional integration

 

18:10 – 19:30 REGULAR SIREN MEETING

20:00 –  SOCIAL DINNER “Ristorante Il Pescatore”

 

DAY 3 – June 15 2018

9:00 – 10:20 REGULAR Session

Chair:  Francesco Palmieri

  • 9:00 -9:20 Alessio Ferone and Antonio Maratea: Graded-possibilistic meta clustering
  • 9:20 -9:40 Francesco A. N. Palmieri, Mario Baldi, Giovanni Di Gennaro, AmedeoBuonanno and Francesco Ospedale: Probing a deep neural network
  • 9:40 -10:00: Pietro Barbiero, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Elio Piccolo, Francesco Vaccarino and Maurizio Cirrincione: Neural epistemology in time series learning
  • 10:00 -10:20 Silvia Franchini, Maria Chiara Terranova, Giuseppe Lo Re, Sergio Salerno, Massimo Midiri and Salvatore Vitabile: Evaluation of a support vector machine based method for Crohn’s disease classification

 

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40 – 12:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

Chair: Anna Esposito

  • 10:40 -11:00 Silvia Dell’Orco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Raffaele Sperandeo, Mario Bottone, Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Vincenzo Bochicchio and Ciro Punzo: Decision-making styles in an evolutionary perspective
  • 11:00 -11:20 Rytis Maskeliūnas, Robertas Damasevicius and Carlos Chiatti: IDO – fact based serious game for dementia carers
  • 11:20 -11:40: Robertas Damasevicius and Rytis Maskeliunas: Complexity and dynamics of relationships between physiological signals
  • 11:40 -12:00 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Paolo Valerio, Raffaele Sperandeo, Antonietta M. Esposito, Roberto Vitelli, Cristiano Scandurra and Silvia Dell’Orco: The unaware brain.
The role of the interconnected modal matrices in the centroencephalic space of functional integration
  • 12:00 Conference Closing: Eros Pasero