Gloria Zen
Ph.D.


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2016

  • Learning Personalized Models for Facial Expression Analysis and Gesture Recognition [pdf]
    G. Zen, L. Porzi, E. Sangineto, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    Transaction on Multimedia

  • Are Safer Looking Neighborhoods More Lively? A Multimodal Investigation into Urban Life [pdf]
    M. De Nadai, R. L. Vieriu, G. Zen, S. Dragicevic, N. Naik, M. Caraviello, C. A. Hidalgo, N. Sebe, Bruno Lepri
    ACM Multimedia (ACM MM). Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 15-19th, 2016.

  • Mouse Activity as an Indicator of Interestingness in Video [pdf] [data]
    G. Zen, P de Juan, Y. Song, A. Jaimes,
    International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR), New York, NY, 2016

    • 2015

  • Understanding Visual Information: from Unsupervised Discovery to Minimal Effort Domain Adaptation
    PhD Thesis. G. Zen

  • Self-learning object detectors for unlabeled videos using multi-task learning
    A. Gaidon, G. Zen, JAR Serrano
    US Patent 9,158,971

    • 2014

  • We are not All Equal: Personalizing Models for Facial Expression Analysis with Transductive Parameter Transfer [pdf] [slides] [code]
    E. Sangineto, G. Zen, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    ACM Multimedia (ACM MM). Orlando, Florida, November 3-7th, 2014.
    This work has co-won the Best Student Poster Prize sponsored by Google Research at the 4th GNY Area Multimedia and Vision Meeting, October 3rd, 2014, New York.

  • Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Personalized Facial Emotion Recognition [pdf] [poster]
    G. Zen, E. Sangineto, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). Istanbul, Turkey, November 12-16th, 2014.

  • Simultaneous Ground Metric Learning and Matrix Factorization with Earth Mover ' s Distance [pdf]
    G. Zen, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Stockholm, Sweden, August 24-28th, 2014.

  • Self-Learning Camera: Autonomous Adaption of Object Detectors to Unlabeled Video Streams [pdf]
    A. Gaidon, G. Zen, J.A. Rodriguez
    arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.4296

    • 2013

  • A Prototype Learning Framework using EMD: Application to Complex Scenes Analysis [pdf]
    E. Ricci, G. Zen, N. Sebe, S. Messelodi
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2013.

  • Daily Living Activities Recognition via Efficient High and Low Level Cues Combination and Fisher Kernel Representation
    N. Rostamzadeh, G. Zen, I Mironica, J. Uijlings, N. Sebe
    International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Napoli, Italy, September 9-13th, 2013.

  • Nobody Likes Mondays: Foreground Detection and Behavioral Patterns Analysis in Complex Urban Scenes [pdf] [video] [data]
    G. Zen, J. Krumm, N. Sebe, E. Horvitz, A. Kapoor
    ACM MM'13 Workshop on Analysis and Retrieval of Tracked Events and Motion in Imagery Streams (ARTEMIS). Barcelona, Spain, October 21st, 2013.

    • 2012

  • Exploiting Sparse Representations for Robust Analysis of Noisy Complex Video Scenes [pdf] [poster]
    G. Zen, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). Florence, Italy, October 7-13th, 2012.

  • Enhanced Semantic Descriptors for Functional Scene Categorization [pdf]
    G. Zen, N. Rostamzadeh, J. Staiano, E. Ricci, N. Sebe
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Tsukuba, Japan, November 11-15, 2012.

    • 2011

  • Sorting Atomic Activities for Discovering Spatio-temporal Patterns in Dynamic Scenes [pdf]
    G. Zen, E. Ricci, S. Messelodi, N. Sebe
    International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Ravenna, Italy, September 14-16th, 2011.

  • Earth Mover's Prototypes: a Convex Learning Approach for Discovering Activity Patterns in Dynamic Scenes [pdf] [slides] [project page]
    G. Zen, E. Ricci
    Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Colorado Springs, CO, USA, June 21-23rd, 2011.
    Accepted as oral. Acceptance rate: 59/1667 oral (3.5%).

    • 2010

  • Space Speaks - Towards Socially and Personality Aware Visual Surveillance [pdf] [slides]
    G. Zen, B. Lepri, E. Ricci, O. Lanz
    ACM MM'10 Workshop, Multimodal Pervasive Video Analysis Workshop (MPVA). Firenze, Italy, October 29th, 2010.

  • Learning Pedestrian Trajectories with Kernels [pdf]
    E. Ricci, F. Tobia, G. Zen
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26th, 2010.
    Accepted as oral. Acceptance rate: 385/2140 oral (18%).

  • Tracking Multiple People with Illumination Maps [pdf] [poster]
    G. Zen, O. Lanz, S. Messelodi, E. Ricci
    International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Istanbul, Turkey, August 23-26th, 2010.

    • 2006

  • A Split-Based Approach to Unsupervised Change Detection in Large-Size Multitemporal Images: Application to Tsunami Damage Assessment
    Master Thesis, University of Trento.

    • 2003

  • Application of remote sensing techniques, based on SPOT and LANDSAT TM 7.0 images, for the analysis of landscape and woodland fragmentation
    Bachelor Thesis, University of Trento.
    In collaboration with the Experimental Institute for Forest Assessment and Alpine Agriculture (I.S.A.F.A.) of the Institute of Italian Ministry for Agricultural and Forestal Politics, Trento, Italy.