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Overview

Marco Leo is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy, contributing extensively to research in computer science and engineering. Their work primarily intersects with computer vision and pattern recognition, artificial intelligence, and biomedical engineering among other fields.

Their main fields of study include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Within these domains, their subfields of focus include:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Aerospace Engineering

Marco Leo's research encompasses topics such as:

  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Gait Recognition and Analysis
  • Radiomics and Machine Learning in Medical Imaging
  • AI in Cancer Detection
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques

The scientist has coauthored works with several frequent collaborators including Pierluigi Carcagnì, Cosimo Distante, Abu Sufian, Paramartha Dutta, and Ekram Alam.

Marco Leo's recent published papers include:

  • "Analysis of Facial Information for Healthcare Applications: A Survey on Computer Vision-Based Approaches," 2020, Information
  • "Convolution Neural Networks and Self-Attention Learners for Alzheimer Dementia Diagnosis from Brain MRI," 2023, Sensors
  • "Vision-based human fall detection systems using deep learning: A review," 2022, Computers in Biology and Medicine
  • "A Survey of Computer Vision Methods for 2D Object Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles," 2020, Journal of Imaging
  • "When I Look into Your Eyes: A Survey on Computer Vision Contributions for Human Gaze Estimation and Tracking," 2020, Sensors

Among the venues where Marco Leo regularly publishes are:

  • Sensors
  • Information
  • 2020 5th International Conference on Smart and Sustainable Technologies (SpliTech)
  • International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
  • Computers in Biology and Medicine

The researcher has contributed chapters to books published by Springer Science+Business Media, including:

  • "Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2022," 2022
  • "Computational Intelligence in Communications and Business Analytics," 2023

Best Publications

  • Strategies for reducing speckle noise in digital holography

    Vittorio Bianco;Pasquale Memmolo;Marco Leo;Silvio Montresor

  • Computer vision for assistive technologies

    M. Leo;G. Medioni;M. Trivedi;T. Kanade

  • Moving object segmentation by background subtraction and temporal analysis

    P. Spagnolo;T.D' Orazio;M. Leo;A. Distante

  • A visual approach for driver inattention detection

    T. D'Orazio;M. Leo;C. Guaragnella;A. Distante

  • A review of vision-based systems for soccer video analysis

    T. D'Orazio;M. Leo

  • On the study of feature extraction methods for an electronic nose

    Cosimo Distante;Marco Leo;Pietro Siciliano;Krishna C. Persaud

  • Facial expression recognition and histograms of oriented gradients: a comprehensive study.

    Pierluigi Carcagnì;Marco Del Coco;Marco Leo;Cosimo Distante

  • A new algorithm for ball recognition using circle Hough transform and neural classifier

    Tiziana D'Orazio;Cataldo Guaragnella;Marco Leo;Arcangelo Distante

  • Automatic ultrasonic inspection for internal defect detection in composite materials

    T. D’Orazio;M. Leo;A. Distante;C. Guaragnella

  • Vision-based Human Fall Detection Systems using Deep Learning: A Review

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  • A Semi-automatic System for Ground Truth Generation of Soccer Video Sequences

    T. D'Orazio;M. Leo;N. Mosca;P. Spagnolo

  • An algorithm for real time eye detection in face images

    T. D'Orazio;M. Leo;G. Cicirelli;A. Distante

  • A Survey of Computer Vision Methods for 2D Object Detection from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Dario Cazzato;Claudio Cimarelli;Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez;Holger Voos

  • Method and system for the detection and the classification of events during motion actions

    Arcangelo Distante;Massimiliano Nitti;Tiziana Rita D'Orazio;Marco Leo

  • An Investigation Into the Feasibility of Real-Time Soccer Offside Detection From a Multiple Camera System

    T. D'Orazio;M. Leo;P. Spagnolo;P.L. Mazzeo

  • Defect detection in aircraft composites by using a neural approach in the analysis of thermographic images

    T. D'Orazio;C. Guaragnella;M. Leo;P. Spagnolo

  • An Abandoned/Removed Objects Detection Algorithm and Its Evaluation on PETS Datasets

    Paolo Spagnolo;Andrea Caroppo;Marco Leo;Tommaso Martiriggiano

  • Randomized circle detection with isophotes curvature analysis

    Tommaso De Marco;Dario Cazzato;Marco Leo;Cosimo Distante

  • When I Look into Your Eyes: A Survey on Computer Vision Contributions for Human Gaze Estimation and Tracking

    Dario Cazzato;Marco Leo;Cosimo Distante;Holger Voos

  • Classification of Skin Lesions by Combining Multilevel Learnings in a DenseNet Architecture.

    Pierluigi Carcagnì;Marco Leo;Andrea Cuna;Pier Luigi Mazzeo

  • Unsupervised eye pupil localization through differential geometry and local self-similarity matching.

    Marco Leo;Dario Cazzato;Dario Cazzato;Tommaso De Marco;Cosimo Distante

  • Automatic Emotion Recognition in Robot-Children Interaction for ASD Treatment

    Marco Leo;Marco Del Coco;Pierluigi Carcagni;Cosimo Distante

Frequent Co-Authors

Giovanni Maria Farinella
Giovanni Maria Farinella University of Catania
Mohan M. Trivedi
Mohan M. Trivedi University of California, San Diego
Gerard Medioni
Gerard Medioni Amazon (United States)
Pasquale Memmolo
Pasquale Memmolo National Research Council (CNR)
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University
Danilo P. Mandic
Danilo P. Mandic Imperial College London
Sebastiano Battiato
Sebastiano Battiato University of Catania
Luigi Patrono
Luigi Patrono University of Salento
Bahram Javidi
Bahram Javidi University of Connecticut
Pietro Siciliano
Pietro Siciliano National Research Council (CNR)

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