I have (been) actively work (ing/ed) on the following projects:
Hyperspectral Images for inspection Applications (H2I): The main goal of the research activities carried out in the context of the Hyper-Spectral Images for Inspection Applications (H2I) project was to advance the state-of-the-art in hyperspectral image classification domain, in general, and in the agricultural domain, in particular, with the aim to design a systematic-level classification framework. Additionally, the activities also include the design of a data augmentation framework, based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), to generate annotated hyperspectral images, in particular for woods and fruits. The generator model generates new examples and the discriminator model tried to classify these examples into ``similar to real” or ``not similar to real”.
EIT Digital Mobile Shield Project: The aim of the project was to detect the fraudulent activity on the smartphone in real time. We were able to prototype a proof-of-the-concept application for detecting malicous activity in a near real time. Additionally, we proposed, developed, and tested a novel motion-assisted multimodal behavioral-biometric-based user authentication scheme for smartphone called ITSME.
NATO Communication and Information Agency (NATO-NIAS): We actively participated to this pilot project, namely, NATO Cybersecurity incubator, launched by NATO Communications and Information Agency, during the period of January to September 2015, and contributed to their behavioral biometric-based authentication stream. We participated as the mentors in this stream and delivered lectures and developed proof-of-the-concept Android applications
NeCS: European Network for Cyber Security: The project aimed at producing highly qualified experts able to cope with all the aspects of the European cybersecurity strategy, and the challenges posed by cybersecurity and/or enhancing the human expertise in the field. We explored human factors for their use in cybersecurity.
EIT Digital SecurePhone: The aim of the project was to secure the smartphones of the public, in general, and the top management, in particular. The market could not offer any solution which had to combine high security and usability. We researched, prototyped, and tested several innovative biometric-based solutions that were both highly secure and usable. In easy terms, the solutions exploited users interactions with the handset as behavioral biometrics.
10th International Summer School on Biometrics, University of Sassari, ALghero, Italy, 2013.
12th International Summer School on Biometrics, Alghero, Italy, 2015
[2018] SNAPAUTH: A Gesture-based Unobtrusive Smartwatch User Authentication Scheme, 1st International Workshop on Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication (Co-Located with ESORICS 2018), Barcellona, Spain.
[2017] Mobile Biometrics: Towards A Comprehensive Evaluation Methodology, The 51st International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST-2017), Madrid, Spain.
[2017] Behavioral Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication, PhD Dissertation Defence, University of Trento, Italy.
[2016] Age, Gender, and Operating-hand Estimation on Smart Mobile Devices, 15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Germany.
[2015] Behavioral Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication, The Data Economy in Privacy, Security & Trust, organized by EIT Digital, at Milan Expo 2015, Italy.
[2015] Touchstroke:Touch-typing Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication, International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics, Genova, Italy.
[2015] (i) Introduction to Behavioral Biometrics, (ii) User Authentication Schemes on Smartphones, and (iii) Security Evaluation of Behavioral Biometrics, International Cyber Security Summer School, organized by NATO Communications and Information Agency (NCIA), The Hague, Netherlands.
[2013] Arm Movement Biometrics for Smartphone User Authentication, 10th International Summer School for Advance Studies on Biometrics for Secure Authentication, Alghero, Italy.
Journals
IEEE Access (July 2016 - present)
Neural Computing and Applications (NCAA) (Dec. 2016 - present)
Journal of Engineering & Technology (JAES) (Jan. 2018 - present)
IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing (IEEE TMC) (Jan. 2018 - present)
Computer Standards & Interfaces (Jul. 2018 - present)
IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (IEEE TBIOM) (Oct. 2018 - present)
Mehran University Research Journal of Engineering & Technology (Dec. 2018 - present)
Conferences
ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Aug. 2019 - present)
IEEE IAPR International Conference on Biometrics (April. 2018 - present)
Zorzi Rene, "Gesture Recognition using Smartwatch Sensors", Faculty of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano, Bolzano, BSc. Thesis (Mar. 2021 - Sep. 2021)
Getachew De. Abebe*, "Implementation and experimental validation of a multi-modal behavioral biometrics for smartphone authentication", DISI, University of Trento, Italy, M.Sc Thesis (Jul. 2016 - Mar. 2017)
Rutger Van Acker*, "Authentication for Wearable devices", Department of Computer Science, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, M.Sc Thesis (Mar. 2017 - July. 2017)