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CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Plant, R., Gkatzia, D., & Giuffrida, V. (2021). CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (7970-7978)

Neural language models have contributed to state-of-the-art results in a number of downstream applications including sentiment analysis, intent classification and others. However, obtaining text representations or embeddings using these models risks... Read More about CAPE: Context-Aware Private Embeddings for Private Language Learning.

Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap (2021)
Journal Article
Litrico, M., Battiato, S., Tsaftaris, S. A., & Giuffrida, M. V. (2021). Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap. Journal of Imaging, 7(10), Article 198. https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7100198

This paper proposes a novel approach for semi-supervised domain adaptation for holistic regression tasks, where a DNN predicts a continuous value y∈R given an input image x. The current literature generally lacks specific domain adaptation approaches... Read More about Semi-Supervised Domain Adaptation for Holistic Counting under Label Gap.

Plant phenotyping on-demand: an integrative web-based framework using drones and participatory sensing in greenhouses (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Frangulea, M., Pantos, C., Giuffrida, V., & Valente, J. (2021). Plant phenotyping on-demand: an integrative web-based framework using drones and participatory sensing in greenhouses. In Precision agriculture ’21 (493-500). https://doi.org/10.3920/978-90-8686-916-9_59

A tool for plant phenotyping is proposed to aid users in analyzing data on-demand. This tool is web-based and runs deep learning models. The current study focuses on the development of this tool, as well as obtaining a plant dataset to train a neural... Read More about Plant phenotyping on-demand: an integrative web-based framework using drones and participatory sensing in greenhouses.

Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Aaby, P., Giuffrida, M. V., Buchanan, W. J., & Tan, Z. (2020). Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour. In 2020 IEEE Intl Conf on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, Intl Conf on Pervasive Intelligence and Computing, Intl Conf on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Intl Conf on Cyber Science and Technology Congress (DASC/PiCom/CBDCom/CyberSciTech). https://doi.org/10.1109/DASC-PICom-CBDCom-CyberSciTech49142.2020.00023

In this paper, we present an empirical evaluation of 30 features used in touch-based continuous authentication. It is essential to identify the most significant features for each user, as behaviour is different amongst humans. Thus, a fixed feature s... Read More about Towards Continuous User Authentication Using Personalised Touch-Based Behaviour.

Affordable and robust phenotyping framework to analyse root system architecture of soil-grown plants (2020)
Journal Article
Bontpart, T., Concha, C., Giuffrida, V., Robertson, I., Admkie, K., Degefu, T., …Doerner, P. (2020). Affordable and robust phenotyping framework to analyse root system architecture of soil-grown plants. Plant Journal, 103(6), 2330-2343. https://doi.org/10.1111/tpj.14877

The phenotypic analysis of root system growth is important to inform efforts to enhance plant resource acquisition from soils. However, root phenotyping still remains challenging due to soil opacity, requiring systems that facilitate root system visi... Read More about Affordable and robust phenotyping framework to analyse root system architecture of soil-grown plants.

Understanding Deep Neural Networks For Regression In Leaf Counting (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Dobrescu, A., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2020). Understanding Deep Neural Networks For Regression In Leaf Counting. In 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW) (4321-4329). https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW.2019.00316

Deep learning methods are constantly increasing in popularity and success across a wide range of computer vision applications. However, they are perceived as 'black boxes', due to the lack of an intuitive interpretation of their decision processes. W... Read More about Understanding Deep Neural Networks For Regression In Leaf Counting.

Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping (2020)
Journal Article
Dobrescu, A., Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2020). Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping. Frontiers in Plant Science, 11, Article 141. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpls.2020.00141

Image-based plant phenotyping has been steadily growing and this has steeply increased the need for more efficient image analysis techniques capable of evaluating multiple plant traits. Deep learning has shown its potential in a multitude of visual t... Read More about Doing More With Less: A Multitask Deep Learning Approach in Plant Phenotyping.

Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines (2019)
Journal Article
Giuffrida, M. V., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2020). Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 29(1), 2166-2175. https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2019.2946455

Finding suitable image representations for the task at hand is critical in computer vision. Different approaches extending the original Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM) model have recently been proposed to offer rotation-invariant feature learning.... Read More about Unsupervised Rotation Factorization in Restricted Boltzmann Machines.

Leaf Counting Without Annotations Using Adversarial Unsupervised Domain Adaptation (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Giuffrida, M. V., Dobrescu, A., Doerner, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2019). Leaf Counting Without Annotations Using Adversarial Unsupervised Domain Adaptation.

Deep learning is making strides in plant phenotyping and agriculture. But pretrained models require significant adaptation to work on new target datasets originating from a different experiment even on the same species. The current solution is to ret... Read More about Leaf Counting Without Annotations Using Adversarial Unsupervised Domain Adaptation.

Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Chen, H., Giuffrida, M. V., Doerner, P., & Tsaftaris, S. A. (2019). Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting.

Root imaging of a growing plant in a non-invasive, affordable , and effective way remains challenging. One approach is to image roots by growing them in a rhizobox, a soil-filled transparent container, imaging them with digital cameras, and segmentin... Read More about Adversarial Large-scale Root Gap Inpainting.