The paper “Learning skeleton representations for human action recognition”, that I co-authored with Alessia Saggese, Nicolai Petkov and Mario Vento has been published by the journal Pattern Recognition Letters. Here the link:
Paper accepted at CAIP 2017 conference
The paper “Detection of curved lines in images using B-COSFIRE filters: A case study on crack delineation” by Nicola Strisciuglio, George Azzopardi and Nicolai Petkov has been accepted for publication in Computer Analysis of Image and Patterns (CAIP) Conference 2017.
Paper accepted at IWOBI 2017 conference
Our paper Nicola Strisciuglio, Nicolai Petkov, “Delineation of line patterns in images using B-COSFIRE filters” has been accepted for oral presentation at IWOBI conference 2017. Find more information about IWOBI conference here.
Highly-cited paper on Web Of Science
The paper “Trainable COSFIRE filters for vessel delineation with application to retinal fundus images” is in the TOP-1% of highly cited papers in Computer Science. The vessel selective COSFIRE filters, called B-COSFIRE, that we proposed in this paper are applicable
Ph.D. degree obtained from University of Salerno
On February 27th 2017, I received the Ph.D. degree with excellent grade from the University of Salerno (Italy) in the framework of a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Groningen (Netherlands). My supervisors were Prof. Nicolai Petkov (University of
Paper accepted at IBPRIA2017
The paper Estefania Talavera, Nicola Strisicuglio, Nicolai Petkov, Petia Radeva, “Sentiment Recognition in Egocentric Photostreams”, LNCS 2017 has been accepted for publication at the IBPRIA conference 2017.
Member of the organizing committee of COCOMED workshop
I joined the Organizing Committee of Computer Aided Medical Diagnostics (CAMED) workshop that will be held in Gran Canaria on 9-13 January 2017. For more information, please visit the website.
Young Investigator Training Program Award received
I received a grant for young investigators and I will spend a research period of one month at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, where I will work in the group of Prof. Anna Carbone. For more details, please visit
Talk at Challenges in Data Science 2016
I gave a talk at the International Conference on Challenges in Data Science, in Matera (Italy) on July 10th. The title of the talk was “Towards bio-inspired algorithms for audio analysis”.
Ph.D. degree obtained from University of Groningen
On June 10th 2016, I received the Ph.D. degree with distinctions (cum laude) from the University of Groningen (The Netherlands) in the framework of a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Salerno (Italy). My supervisors were Prof. Nicolai Petkov