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
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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

2021

• Learn class hierarchy using convolutional neural networks
  Riccardo La Grassa, Ignazio Gallo and Nicola Landro
  Applied Intelligence (2021), 2021.
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• Visual Word Embedding for Text Classification
  Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz, Nicola Landro and Riccardo La Grassa
  Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges (ICPR2021), Milan, Italy, 2021.
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2020

• Improving the Efficient Neural Architecture Search via Rewarding Modifications
  Ignazio Gallo, Gabriele Magistrali, Nicola Landro and Riccardo La Grassa
  International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2020), Wellington, New Zealand, 2020.
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• Dynamic Decision Boundary for One-class Classifiers applied to non-uniformly Sampled Data
  Riccardo La Grassa, Ignazio Gallo and Nicola Landro
  International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA 2020), Online, 2020.
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• Image and Text fusion for UPMC Food-101 using BERT and CNNs
  Ignazio Gallo, Gianmarco Ria, Nicola Landro and Riccardo La Grassa
  International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2020), Wellington, New Zealand, 2020.
  [pdf][bibtex][dataset] [code]
  
  

2019

• Binary Classification using Pairs of Minimum Spanning Trees or N-ary Trees
  Riccardo La Grassa, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Calefati and Dimitri Ognibene
  Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 2019, Salerno, Italy, 2019.
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• Aiding Intra-Text Representations with Visual Context for Multimodal Named Entity Recognition
  Omer Arshad, Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz and Alessandro Calefati
  2019 15th IAPR International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR2019), Sydney, Australia, 2019.
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• Do Cross Modal Systems Leverage Semantic Relationships?
  Shah Nawaz, M. Kamran Janjua, Ignazio Gallo, Arif Mahmood, Alessandro Calefati and Faisal Shafait
  ICCV 2019 Workshop on Cross-Modal Learning in Real World, Seoul, Korea, 2019.
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• Are These Birds Similar: Learning Branched Networks for Fine-grained Representations
  Shah Nawaz, Alessandro Calefati, Moreno Caraffini, Nicola Landro and Ignazio Gallo
  2019 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2019), Dunedin, New Zealand, 2019.
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• Deep Latent Space Learning for Cross-modal Mapping of Audio and Visual Signals
  Shah Nawaz, Muhammad Kamran Janjua, Ignazio Gallo, Arif Mahmood and Alessandro Calefati
  2019 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Perth, Australia, 2019.
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• Picture What you Read
  Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz, Alessandro Calefati, Riccardo La Grassa and Nicola Landro
  2019 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Perth, Australia, 2019.
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• Reading Meter Numbers in the Wild
  Alessandro Calefati, Ignazio Gallo and Shah Nawaz
  2019 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Perth, Australia, 2019.
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• A Classification Methodology based on Subspace Graphs Learning
  Riccardo La Grassa, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Calefati and Dimitri Ognibene
  2019 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Perth, Australia, 2019.
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2018

• e-Fairs: a Cyber-Physical System for Aggregation and Economy of Scale in e-Commerce
  Pierluigi Gallo and Ignazio Gallo
  4th International Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry (RTSI), Palermo, Italy, 2018.
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• 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.
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• Git Loss for Deep Face Recognition
  Alessandro Calefati, Muhammad Kamran Janjua, Shah Nawaz and Ignazio Gallo
  British Machine Vision Conference, 2018 (BMVC), Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, 2018.
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• Learning Fused Representations for Large Scale Multi-modal Classification
  Shah Nawaz, Alessandro Calefati, Muhammad Kamran Janjua, M. U. Anwaar and Ignazio Gallo
  IEEE Sensors Letters, 2018.
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• A Pipeline to Improve Face Recognition Datasets and Applications
  Ignazio Gallo, Shah Nawaz, Alessandro Calefati and Gabriele Piccoli
  2018 International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ 2018), Auckland, New Zealand, 2018.
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• Image and Encoded Text Fusion for Multi-Modal Classification
  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Calefati, Shah Nawaz and Muhammad Kamran Janjua
  2018 International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA), Canberra, Australia, 2018.
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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.
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• 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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• Fairs for e-commerce: the benefits of aggregating buyers and sellers
  Pierluigi Gallo, Francesco Randazzo and Ignazio Gallo
  ArXiv e-prints, 2016.
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2015

• 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.
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• 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]
  
  
• 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]
  
  
• 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]
  
  
• 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.
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2014

• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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2013

• GAS Meter Reading from Real World Images using a Multi-net System
  Marco Vanetti, Ignazio Gallo and Angelo Nodari
  Pattern Recognition Letters, 2013.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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]
  
  
• 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.
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• 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.
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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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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2011

• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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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.
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• 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.
  
  
  

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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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• 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.
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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.
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