R. Iglio, S. Mariani, L.M. Strambini and G. Barillaro. Macroporous PDMS foam decorated with carbon nanotubes for conductometric pressure and strain sensors. Conference Paper IEEE Sensors 2017

Abstract: In this work a novel top-down approach for the preparation of macroporous polydimethylsiloxane (mpPDMS) foam decorated with pristine multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is reported. mpPDMS-MWCNTs foam is subjected to different...

A. Motroni, A. Buffi, P. Nepa: "Localization of a mobile device equipped with an RFID reader", 2017 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Application (RFID-TA)

This paper presents a new technique to locate a device moving along a known trajectory, when it is equipped with an UHF RFID reader. The proposed technique exploits the phase of consecutive readings of a single stationary tag positioned near the device...

F. Righetti, C. Vallati, G. Anastasi, S. K. Das: "Performance Evaluation of the 6top Protocol and Analysis of its Interplay with Routing," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Hong Kong, 2017, pp. 1-6.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) will represent a crucial enabling technology to interconnect sensors and actuators in future smart cities. Since many applications will demand for reliable and low-latency communication, current standardization efforts...

P. Perazzo, C. Vallati, A. Arena, G. Anastasi, G. Dini: "An Implementation and Evaluation of the Security Features of RPL", ADHOC-NOW 2017: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, pp. 63-76, Sept 2017

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) will represent a key building block for the future Internet of Things, as a cheap and easily-deployable technology to connect smart devices on a large scale. In WSAN implementation, the Routing Protocol for...

P. Perazzo, C. Vallati, A. Arena, G. Anastasi, G. Dini: "An Implementation and Evaluation of the Security Features of RPL", ADHOC-NOW 2017: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, pp. 63-76, Sept 2017

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) will represent a key building block for the future Internet of Things, as a cheap and easily-deployable technology to connect smart devices on a large scale. In WSAN implementation, the Routing Protocol for...

J. Dunning, F. Mourad, A. Zingoni et al., "Cavitation Sounds during Cervicothoracic Spinal Manipulation", The International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, Vol. 12, N. 4, pp. 642-654, 2017

D. Brizi, A. Monorchio, N. Fontana, "A novel coil for highly focused magnetic hyperthermia with nanoparticles", Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on, IEEE, 2017.

Design, control and validation of the variable stiffness exoskeleton FLExo

Fabio Carrara, Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Falchi, Alejandro Moreo Fernández: "Picture It In Your Mind: Generating High Level Visual Representations From Textual Descriptions". Information Retrieval Journal, Springer. October 2017

In this paper we tackle the problem of image search when the query is a short textual description of the image the user is looking for. We choose to implement the actual search process as a similarity search in a visual feature space, by learning to...

Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Alejandro Moreo Fernandez: "JaTeCS, an open-source JAva TExt Categorization System". ArXiv e-prints:1706.06802, June 2017.

JaTeCS is an open source Java library that supports research on automatic text categorization and other related problems, such as ordinal regression and quantification, which are of special interest in opinion mining applications. It covers all the...

Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni: "SparkBOOST, an Apache Spark-based boosting library". Technical report ISTI-CNR, cnr.isti/2016-TR-016, March 2016.

SparkBOOST is a Java library built over Apache Spark that provides a distributed implementation of AdaBoost.MH and MP-Boost machine learning algorithms. These boosting algorithms are known to be very effective and robust to overfitting in many...

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"Self-monitoring the Breath for the Prevention of Cardio-metabolic Risk", Proc. of SENSORDEVICES2017,The 8th Int. Conf. on Sensor Device Techn. and Appl., Rome, Italy, 10-14Sept. 2017, pp.96-101

Breath analysis techniques offer a potential revolution in health care diagnostics because of their un-obtrusiveness and their inherent safety. However, while standard instrumentation such as mass spectrometers use laboratory settings to provide a...

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"Cardio-metabolic Diseases Prevention by Self-monitoring the Breath", Sensors and Transducers Journal, 2017, vol.215, pp. 19-26

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, M.Magrini, M.Righi, O.Salvetti:"A low cost technology-based device for breath analysis and self-monitoring".In: SIGNAL 2017-The 2nd Int. Conf. on Adv. in Signal,Image and Video Processing(Barcelona,Spain,21-25May 2016)pp.8-13

Here, we describe the development of a portable device, based on low cost technology, able to collect and analyze in real time the composition of the breath. Despite its great potential, breath analysis is not widely used in clinical practice: high...

P.Henriquez,[...], D.Germanese,[...]:"Mirror mirror on the wall... an unobtrusive intelligent multisensory mirror for well-being status self-assessment and visualization", IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Vol. 19, Issue: 7, July 2017, pp. 1467 - 1481

A person's well-being status is reflected by their face through a combination of facial expressions and physical signs. The SEMEOTICONS project translates the semeiotic code of the human face into measurements and computational descriptors that are...

D.Germanese,[...]:"A low cost,portable device for breath analysis and self-monitoring,the wize sniffer". In: Appl. in Electronics Pervading Industry, Environment and Society. APPLEPIES2015. pp.51-57.,A.De Gloria ed.,Lect. Notes in Electr. Eng. vol409

Here we describe the implementation of the first prototype of the  Wize Sniffer 1.x  (WS 1.x), a low cost, portable electronic device for breath analysis. The device is being developed in the framework of the Collaborative European Project SEMEOTICONS...

D.Germanese, M.D'Acunto, O.Salvetti: "Design of a breath analysis device for self-monitoring and remote health-care". Proc. of BIOSTEC 2016-9th Int. Joint Conf. on Biomedical Eng. Sys. and Techn.-Doctoral Consortium (Rome,Italy, 21-23Feb.2016)pp.9-14

D.Germanese, M.Righi, M. Magrini, M.Guidi, M.D'Acunto, O.Salvetti: "A device for self-monitoring breath analysis". Proceeding of SENSORDEVICES 2016 - The Seventh Int. Conf. on Sensor Device Techn. and App. (Nice, France, 24-28 July 2016), pp.77-82

Let’s think about the numerous diagnostic screening methods. How many of them are invasive? How many of them present side effects? How many of them are expensive? We can affirm that the majority of the regular prophylactic checkups are sufficiently...

S.Colantonio, G.Coppini, D.Germanese, [...]:"A smart mirror to promote a healthy lifestyle", Biosystems Engineering, vol. 138 (October 2015) pp. 33 - 43. Special Issue: Innovations in Medicine and Healthcare. Elsevier, 2015.

ICT solutions to foster behavioural change have been shown to be effective in implementing  primary prevention in terms of a healthy lifestyle. Primary prevention is the most viable  approach to reduce the socio-economic burden of chronic and widespread...

S.Colantonio, D.Germanese, [...]:"Semeoticons-reading the face code of cardio-metabolic risk", Proceeding of IWCIM 2015 - International Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding (Prague, Czech Republic, 29-30 October 2015)

What if you could discover your health status by looking at yourself in the mirror? Since November 2013, the EU FP7 Project SEMEOTICONS is working to make this possible. The Project is building a multi-sensory device, having the form of a conventional...