Ignazio Gallo, Assistant Professor - Home Page

DiSTA - Dipartimento di Scienze Teoriche e Applicate - University of Insubria
5, Via Mazzini
21100, Varese
Phone: +39-0332-218988
Fax: +39-0332-218919
ignazio dot gallo at uninsubria dot it, Google Scholar, Academic, ResearchGate

Current Position

Ignazio Gallo is Assistant Professor at DiSTA, University of Insubria.
Member of the ArTe-Lab Research Laboratory.

Research Interests

Image Processing, Pattern Recognition, Neural Computing, Computer Vision
Information Extraction and Text Mining

Teaching experience

Language Laboratory
Software Design Laboratory
Software Design Techniques
Intelligent Systems 2

Publications

2018

Hand Written Characters Recognition via Deep Metric Learning
Shah Nawaz, Alessandro Calefati, Nisar Ahmed and Ignazio Gallo
13th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems, Vienna, Austria, 2018.
[pdf][bibtex]

2017

Semantic Text Encoding for Text Classification using Convolutional Neural Networks
Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz and Alessandro Calefati
2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2017), Kyoto, Japan, 2017.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset] [demo]
Multimodal Classification Fusion in Real-World Scenarios
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Calefati and Shah Nawaz
2017 14th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2017), Kyoto, Japan, 2017.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset]

2016

Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Content Extraction from Online Flyers
Alessandro Calefati, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2016), Wien, Austria, 2016.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset]
Query and Product Suggestion for Price Comparison Search Engines Based on Query-product Click-through Bipartite Graphs
Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo and Alessandro Zamberletti
International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST 2015), Rome, Italy, 2016.
[pdf][bibtex]
Embedded Textual Content for Document Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks
Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Alessandro Calefati
Proceedings of the 16th ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2016), Wien, Austria, 2016.
[pdf][bibtex]
Fairs for e-commerce: the benefits of aggregating buyers and sellers
Pierluigi Gallo, Francesco Randazzo and Ignazio Gallo
ArXiv e-prints, 2016.
[pdf][bibtex]
Deep Neural Networks for Page Stream Segmentation and Classification
Ignazio Gallo, Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti and Alessandro Calefati
Proceedings of the International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Gold Coast, Australia, 2016.
[pdf][bibtex]

2015

Neural 1D Barcode Detection Using the Hough Transform
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Simone Albertini and Lucia Noce
IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications, 2015.
[pdf][bibtex]
Combining Textual and Visual Features to Identify Anomalous User-generated Content
Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo and Alessandro Zamberletti
16th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing 2015), Cairo, Egypt, 2015.
[pdf][bibtex] [poster]
Augmented Text Character Proposals and Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Spotting from Scene Images
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo and Lucia Noce
Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR 2015), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2015.
[pdf][bibtex] [poster]
Robust Angle Invariant GAS meter reading
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce
International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2015), Adelaide, Australia , 2015.
[pdf][bibtex] [poster] [demo]
Content Extraction from Marketing Flyers
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce
Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2015), Valetta, Malta, 2015.
[pdf][bibtex] [poster]

2014

Text Localization based on Fast Feature Pyramids and Multi-resolution Maximally Stable Extremal Regions
Alessandro Zamberletti, Lucia Noce and Ignazio Gallo
1st International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR 2014, in conjunction with ACCV 2014), Singapore, 2014.
[pdf][bibtex]
Unsupervised feature learning for sentiment classification of short documents
Simone Albertini, Alessandro Zamberletti and Ignazio Gallo
Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL), 2014.
[pdf][bibtex]
Automatic Prediction of Future Business Conditions
Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Gabriele Piccoli and Joaquin Alfredo Rodriguez
9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (PolTAL 2014), Warsaw, Poland, 2014.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset]
Interactive Object Class Segmentation for Mobile Devices
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce
27th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI 2014), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2014.
[pdf][bibtex]
High Entropy Ensembles for Holistic Figure-ground Segmentation
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini and Lucia Noce
25th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2014), Nottingham, UK, 2014.
[pdf][bibtex] [poster]

2013

GAS Meter Reading from Real World Images using a Multi-net System
Marco Vanetti, Ignazio Gallo and Angelo Nodari
Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013.
[doi]
Unsupervised Feature Learning using Self-Organizing Maps
Marco Vanetti, Ignazio Gallo and Angelo Nodari
Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2013), pages 209-218, Barcelona, Spain, 2013.
[bibtex]
Sparse unsupervised feature learning for sentiment classification of short documents
Simone Albertini, Alessandro Zamberletti and Ignazio Gallo
The 2nd workshop on Practice and Theory of Opinion mining and Sentiment analysis (PATHOS2013), in GSCL, Darmstadt, Germany, 2013.
[pdf] [slides]
Multi-net System Configuration for Visual Object Segmentation by Error Backpropagation
Ignazio Gallo, Marco Vanetti, Simone Albertini and Angelo Nodari
Proceedings of the 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA2013), Madeira, Portugal, 2013.
[pdf][doi][bibtex]
Robust Angle Invariant 1D Barcode Detection
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo and Simone Albertini
Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR2013), Okinawa, Japan, 2013.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset] [poster] [demo] [code]
Visual Attribute Extraction Using Human Pose Estimation
Angelo Nodari, Marco Vanetti and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the 6th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA2013), Madeira, Portugal, 2013.
[pdf][doi][bibtex]

2012

A mobile visual search application for content based image retrieval in the fashion domain
Angelo Nodari, Matteo Ghiringhelli, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini, Marco Vanetti and Ignazio Gallo
The International Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI2012), Annency, France, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex]
Color and Texture Indexing using an Object Segmentation Approach
Angelo Nodari, Ignazio Gallo, Marco Vanetti and Simone Albertini
EANN/AIAI Special Issue of the Engineering Intelligent Systems Journal, 2012.
[pdf]
Automatic Visual Attributes Extraction from Web Offers Images
Angelo Nodari, Ignazio Gallo and Marco Vanetti
Proceedings of Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications (CompIMAGE2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex]
Learning Object Segmentation using a Multi Network Segment Classification Approach
Simone Albertini, Ignazio Gallo, Marco Vanetti and Angelo Nodari
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex][dataset] [slides]
Classification of Segmented Objects through a Multi-Net Approach
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Simone Albertini, Marco Vanetti and Angelo Nodari
The 5th INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (ANNPR2012), Trento, Italy, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex]
Unsupervised Self-Organizing Texture Descriptor
Marco Vanetti, Ignazio Gallo and Angelo Nodari
Proceedings of Computational Modeling of Objects Presented in Images: Fundamentals, Methods and Applications (CompIMAGE2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
[pdf]
A new query suggestion algorithm for taxonomy-based search engines
Roberto Zanon, Simone Albertini, Moreno Carullo and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and information Retrieval (KDIR2012), Barcelona, Spain, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex] [slides]
Fast Tree Leaf Images Retrieval using a Probabilistic Multi-class Support Vector Machine
Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini, Angelo Nodari and Marco Vanetti
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF2012), Rome, Italy, 2012.
[pdf][bibtex]
Digital Privacy Replacing Pedestrians from Google Street View Images
Angelo Nodari, Marco Vanetti and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2012), Tsukuba, Japan, 2012.
[pdf]

2011

Neural Image Restoration For Decoding 1-D Barcodes Using Common Camera Phones
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Moreno Carullo and Elisabetta Binaghi
Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
[pdf][bibtex][project][dataset] [demo]
Learning Object Detection using Multiple Neural Netwoks
Ignazio Gallo and Angelo Nodari
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2011), Algarve, Portugal, 2011.
[pdf]
Object Segmentation using Multiple Neural Networks for Commercial Offers Visual Search
Ignazio Gallo, Angelo Nodari and Marco Vanetti
Proceedings of the Engineering Applications of Neural Networks Conference (EANN2011), pages 209-218, Corfu, Greece, 2011.
[pdf][doi][bibtex][dataset]
A Multi-Neural Network Approach to Image Detection and Segmentation of Gas Meter Counter
Angelo Nodari and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the Conference on Machine Vision Applications (MVA2011), 2011.
[pdf][dataset]

2010

An Improvement of Shape Context Algorithm in Image Retrieval: Key Sample Point Selection
Angelo Nodari, Elisabetta Binaghi, Moreno Carullo and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the Signal Procesing, Pattern Recognition and Applications (SPPRA2010), Innsbruck, Austria, 2010.
Neural Image Restoration For Decoding 1-D Barcodes Using Common Camera Phones
Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Moreno Carullo and Elisabetta Binaghi
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2010), Angers, France, 2010.
[pdf][project][dataset] [demo]

2009

Soft Categorization and Annotation of Images With Radial Basis Function Networks
Moreno Carullo, Elisabetta Binaghi and Ignazio Gallo
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP2009), Lisboa, Portugal, 2009.
[pdf]
An Online Document Clustering Technique for Short Web Contents
Moreno Carullo, Elisabetta Binaghi and Ignazio Gallo
Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 30, Issue 10, pages 870-876, 2009.

2008

Text categorization of commercial web pages
Elisabetta Binaghi, Moreno Carullo, Ignazio Gallo and Massimiliano Madaio
Proceedings of the IASTED Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AIA2008), pages 7-11, Innsbruck, Austria, 2008.
[pdf]
Clustering of Short Commercial Documents for the Web
Moreno Carullo, Elisabetta Binaghi, Ignazio Gallo and Nicola Lamberti
Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2008), Tampa, Florida, 2008.
[pdf]
Named Entity Recognition by Neural Sliding Window
Ignazio Gallo, Elisabetta Binaghi, Moreno Carullo and Nicola Lamberti
The 8th IAPR Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS2008), pages 567-573, Nara, Japan, 2008.
[pdf]

2007

Information Extraction and Classification from Free Text Using a Neural Approach
Ignazio Gallo and Elisabetta Binaghi
Proceedings of the 12th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP2007), pages 911-929, Vina del Mar - Valparaiso, Chile, 2007.
[pdf]