Research
HUMAN-INSPIRED COMPUTER VISION
Selected papers:
2022 \ TMLR \ Behind the Machine’s Gaze: Neural Networks with Biologically-inspired Constraints Exhibit Human-like Visual Attention
Leo Schwinn, Doina Precup, Bjoern Eskofier, Dario Zanca
PDF at openreview.org | PDF at arxiv.org | GitHub repository2020 \ Scientific Reports \ Gravitational models explain shifts on human visual attention
Dario Zanca, Marco Gori, Stefano Melacci, Alessandra Rufa
PDF at nature.com2019 \ TPAMI \ Gravitational Laws of Focus of Attention
Dario Zanca, Stefano Melacci, Marco Gori
PDF at ieee.org | GitHub Repository2017 \ NuerIPS \ Variational laws of visual attention for dynamic scenes
Dario Zanca, Marco Gori
PDF at neurips.cc | GitHub Repository
ROBUSTNESS TO REAL-WORLD AND WORST-CASE DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS
Selected papers:
2023 \ IJCNN \ Just a Matter of Scale? Reevaluating Scale Equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks
Thomas Altstidl, An Nguyen, Leo Schwinn, Franz Köferl, Christopher Mutschler, Björn Eskofier, Dario Zanca
PDF at arxiv.org2023 \ Applied Intelligence \ Exploring misclassifications of robust neural networks to enhance adversarial attacks
Leo Schwinn, René Raab, An Nguyen, Dario Zanca, Bjoern Eskofier
PDF at springer.com2022 \ ICML \ Improving Robustness against Real-World and Worst-Case Distribution Shifts through Decision Region Quantification
Leo Schwinn, Leon Bungert, An Nguyen, René Raab, Falk Pulsmeyer, Doina Precup, Björn Eskofier, Dario Zanca
PDF at mlr.press | Code2021 \ UAI \ Identifying untrustworthy predictions in neural networks by geometric gradient analysis
Leo Schwinn, An Nguyen, René Raab, Leon Bungert, Daniel Tenbrinck, Dario Zanca, Martin Burger, Bjoern Eskofier
PDF at mlr.press
APPLIED MACHINE LEARNING
Selected papers:
2023 \ Sensors \ An Integrated Framework for Data Quality Fusion in Embedded Sensor Systems
Christoph Scholl, Maximilian Spiegler, Klaus Ludwig, Bjoern Eskofier, Andreas Tobola, Dario Zanca
PDF at mdpi.com2022 \ Pattern Recognition \ SVC-onGoing: Signature verification competition
Rubén Tolosana Moranchel, Rubén Vera Rodríguez, Carlos Gonzalez-Garcia, Julián Fiérrez Aguilar, Aythami Morales Moreno, Javier Ortega García, Juan Carlos Ruiz-Garcia, Sergio Romero-Tapiador, Santiago Rengifo, Miguel Caruana, Jiajia Jiang, Songxuan Lai, Lianwen Jin, Yecheng Zhu, Javier Galbally, Moises Diaz, Miguel Angel Ferrer, Marta Gomez-Barrero, Ilya Hodashinsky, Konstantin Sarin, Artem Slezkin, Marina Bardamova, Mikhail Svetlakov, Mohammad Saleem, Cintia Lia Szcs, Bence Kovari, Falk Pulsmeyer, Mohamad Wehbi, Dario Zanca, Sumaiya Ahmad, Sarthak Mishra, Suraiya Jabin
PDF at sciencedirect.com2022 \ Sensors \ Surface-Free Multi-Stroke Trajectory Reconstruction and Word Recognition Using an IMU-Enhanced Digital Pen
Mohamad Wehbi, Daniel Luge, Tim Hamann, Jens Barth, Peter Kaempf, Dario Zanca, Bjoern M Eskofier
PDF at mdpi.com2022 \ Animals \ Automated video-based analysis framework for behavior monitoring of individual animals in zoos using deep learning—A study on polar bears
Matthias Zuerl, Philip Stoll, Ingrid Brehm, René Raab, Dario Zanca, Samira Kabri, Johanna Happold, Heiko Nille, Katharina Prechtel, Sophie Wuensch, Marie Krause, Stefan Seegerer, Lorenzo von Fersen, Bjoern Eskofier
PDF at mdpi.com
EYE-TRACKING FOR NEUROLOGY AND HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
Selected papers:
2022 \ Frontiers in Human Neuroscience \ A machine learning approach for detecting cognitive interference based on eye-tracking data
Antonio Rizzo, Sara Ermini, Dario Zanca, Dario Bernabini, Alessandro Rossi
PDF at frontiersin.org2021 \ Neurological Sciences \ Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2): an eye movement study of two siblings
Alessia Bargagli, Francesca Rosini, Dario Zanca, Valeria Serchi, Alessandra Rufa
PDF at springer.com2020 \ Frontiers in Neurology \ Neurophthalmologic and Orthoptic Ambulatory Assessments Reveal Ocular and Visual Changes in Patients With Early Alzheimer and Parkinson's Disease
Alessia Bargagli, Enrica Fontanelli, Dario Zanca, Ilaria Castelli, Francesca Rosini, Silvia Maddii, Ilaria Di Donato, Alessandra Carluccio, Carla Battisti, Gian Marco Tosi, Maria Teresa Dotti, Alessandra Rufa
PDF at frontiersin.org
OTHER TOPICS
Selected papers:
2023 \ AAAI \ FastAMI--a Monte Carlo Approach to the Adjustment for Chance in Clustering Comparison Metrics
Kai Klede, Leo Schwinn, Dario Zanca, Björn Eskofier
PDF at arxiv.org2023 \ TMLR \ Active Learning of Ordinal Embeddings: A User Study on Football Data
Christoffer Loeffler, Kion Fallah, Stefano Fenu, Dario Zanca, Bjoern Eskofier, Christopher John Rozell, Christopher Mutschler
PDF at openreview.net2022 \ CD-MAKE \ Explain to not forget: Defending against catastrophic forgetting with xai
Sami Ede, Serop Baghdadlian, Leander Weber, An Nguyen, Dario Zanca, Wojciech Samek, Sebastian Lapuschkin
PDF at springer.com2019 \ AI*IA \ Learning Activation Functions by Means of Kernel Based Neural Networks
Giuseppe Marra, Dario Zanca, Alessandro Betti, Marco Gori
PDF at springer.com