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most citedExploiting Recurrent Neural Networks and Leap Motion Controller for Sign Language and Semaphoric Gesture Recognition

180 citations · 485 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2025

WhoFi: Deep Person Re-Identification via Wi-Fi Channel Signal Encoding

Danilo Avola, Emad Emam, Dario Montagnini +2

Person Re-Identification is a key and challenging task in video surveillance. While traditional methods rely on visual data, issues like poor lighting, occlusion, and suboptimal an…

cs.CV2025

Augmented Reality in Cultural Heritage: A Dual-Model Pipeline for 3D Artwork Reconstruction

Daniele Pannone, Alessia Castronovo, Maurizio Mancini +5

This paper presents an innovative augmented reality pipeline tailored for museum environments, aimed at recognizing artworks and generating accurate 3D models from single images. B…

cs.LG2025

Bi-GRU Based Deception Detection using EEG Signals

Danilo Avola, Muhammad Yasir Bilal, Emad Emam +3

Deception detection is a significant challenge in fields such as security, psychology, and forensics. This study presents a deep learning approach for classifying deceptive and tru…

cs.LG2025

Benchmarking of EEG Analysis Techniques for Parkinson's Disease Diagnosis: A Comparison between Traditional ML Methods and Foundation DL Methods

Danilo Avola, Andrea Bernardini, Giancarlo Crocetti +5

Parkinson's Disease PD is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that affects motor and cognitive functions with early diagnosis being critical for effective clinical interventio…

cs.LG2025

An Investigation of Ear-EEG Signals for a Novel Biometric Authentication System

Danilo Avola, Giancarlo Crocetti, Gian Luca Foresti +3

This work explores the feasibility of biometric authentication using EEG signals acquired through in-ear devices, commonly referred to as ear-EEG. Traditional EEG-based biometric s…

cs.LG2025

Transformer-Based Person Identification via Wi-Fi CSI Amplitude and Phase Perturbations

Danilo Avola, Andrea Bernardini, Francesco Danese +4

Wi-Fi sensing is gaining momentum as a non-intrusive and privacy-preserving alternative to vision-based systems for human identification. However, person identification through wir…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Digital Shielding for Cross-Domain Wi-Fi Signal Adaptation using Relativistic Average Generative Adversarial Network

Danilo Avola, Federica Bruni, Gian Luca Foresti +2

Wi-Fi sensing uses radio-frequency signals from Wi-Fi devices to analyze environments, enabling tasks such as tracking people, detecting intrusions, and recognizing gestures. The r…

cs.CV2025

Autoencoder Models for Point Cloud Environmental Synthesis from WiFi Channel State Information: A Preliminary Study

Daniele Pannone, Danilo Avola

This paper introduces a deep learning framework for generating point clouds from WiFi Channel State Information data. We employ a two-stage autoencoder approach: a PointNet autoenc…

cs.CV2024★ 6 cited

Semantically Guided Representation Learning For Action Anticipation

Anxhelo Diko, Danilo Avola, Bardh Prenkaj +2

Action anticipation is the task of forecasting future activity from a partially observed sequence of events. However, this task is exposed to intrinsic future uncertainty and the d…

cs.CV2024★ 4 cited

ReViT: Enhancing Vision Transformers Feature Diversity with Attention Residual Connections

Anxhelo Diko, Danilo Avola, Marco Cascio +1

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such feat…

cs.CV2022

Medicinal Boxes Recognition on a Deep Transfer Learning Augmented Reality Mobile Application

Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli +4

Taking medicines is a fundamental aspect to cure illnesses. However, studies have shown that it can be hard for patients to remember the correct posology. More aggravating, a wrong…

cs.LG2022

Analyzing EEG Data with Machine and Deep Learning: A Benchmark

Danilo Avola, Marco Cascio, Luigi Cinque +4

Nowadays, machine and deep learning techniques are widely used in different areas, ranging from economics to biology. In general, these techniques can be used in two ways: trying t…

cs.CV2022★ 14 cited

Human Silhouette and Skeleton Video Synthesis through Wi-Fi signals

Danilo Avola, Marco Cascio, Luigi Cinque +2

The increasing availability of wireless access points (APs) is leading towards human sensing applications based on Wi-Fi signals as support or alternative tools to the widespread v…

eess.IV2021★ 57 cited

Study on Transfer Learning Capabilities for Pneumonia Classification in Chest-X-Rays Image

Danilo Avola, Andrea Bacciu, Luigi Cinque +3

Over the last year, the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) and its variants have highlighted the importance of screening tools with high diagnostic accura…

cs.CV2021★ 9 cited

SIRe-Networks: Convolutional Neural Networks Architectural Extension for Information Preservation via Skip/Residual Connections and Interlaced Auto-Encoders

Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli +1

Improving existing neural network architectures can involve several design choices such as manipulating the loss functions, employing a diverse learning strategy, exploiting gradie…

cs.CV2021★ 57 cited

3D Hand Pose and Shape Estimation from RGB Images for Keypoint-Based Hand Gesture Recognition

Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli +3

Estimating the 3D pose of a hand from a 2D image is a well-studied problem and a requirement for several real-life applications such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and hand…

eess.IV2020★ 58 cited

Multimodal Feature Fusion and Knowledge-Driven Learning via Experts Consult for Thyroid Nodule Classification

Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli +3

Computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) is becoming a prominent approach to assist clinicians spanning across multiple fields. These automated systems take advantage of various computer vis…

eess.SP2019★ 1 cited

Wi-Fi Passive Person Re-Identification based on Channel State Information

Danilo Avola, Marco Cascio, Luigi Cinque +1

With the increasing need for wireless data transfer, Wi-Fi networks have rapidly grown in recent years providing high throughput and easy deployment. Nowadays, Access Points (APs)…

cs.CV2019★ 31 cited

Deep Temporal Analysis for Non-Acted Body Affect Recognition

Danilo Avola, Luigi Cinque, Alessio Fagioli +2

Affective computing is a field of great interest in many computer vision applications, including video surveillance, behaviour analysis, and human-robot interaction. Most of the ex…

cs.CV2018★ 180 cited

Exploiting Recurrent Neural Networks and Leap Motion Controller for Sign Language and Semaphoric Gesture Recognition

Danilo Avola, Marco Bernardi, Luigi Cinque +2

In human interactions, hands are a powerful way of expressing information that, in some cases, can be used as a valid substitute for voice, as it happens in Sign Language. Hand ges…

cs.CV2017★ 65 cited

The UMCD Dataset

Danilo Avola, Gian Luca Foresti, Niki Martinel +2

In recent years, the technological improvements of low-cost small-scale Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are promoting an ever-increasing use of them in different tasks. In particul…