Publications

Patent

• Emanuela Marasco et al., "Complex User Authentication Factor Integrating a Sequence of Fingerprints and a Personal Identification Number", US Patent #11,997,085 - Issued on 5/28/2024. 

2025

• Javad Khodadoust, Raúl Monroy, Emanuela Marasco, Ali Mohammad Khodadoust, “PFPINet: An End-to-End Network for Partial Finger Photo Identification”, IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), pp. 1-10. [IF: 5]

• Prommy Sultana Hossain, Chahat Raj, Ziwei Zhu, Jessica Lin, Emanuela Marasco, "Toward Inclusive Language Models: Sparsity-Driven Calibration for Systematic and Interpretable Mitigation of Social Biases in LLMs",  Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP). [iCORE Rank = A*] [Findings] [AR: 22.16%].

• Emanuela Marasco and Luismar Barbosa da Cruz Junior, "Pigment-Aware: Understanding Skin Tone Variations in Digital Image Analysis", IEEE Access, pp. 1-9. [IF: 3.6] 

• Javad Khodadoust, Raul Monroy, Emanuela Marasco, “A Unified Framework for Segmentation, Scaling, and Indexing of Contactless Fingerprints”,  IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science (T-BIOM), pp. 1-10. [IF: 5]

• Prommy Sultana Hossain, Emanuela Marasco, Jessica Lin, Michael King, "I Forgot About You!": Exploring Multi-Label Unlearning for Responsible Facial Systems", European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD) 2025. [iCORE Rank A] [AR: 24%].

• Emanuela Marasco and Thirimachos Bourlai, "Enhancing Trust in Large Language Models for Streamlined Decision-Making in Military Operations", Image and Vision Computing: 105489, Elsevier, pp. 1-7, 2025. [IF: 4.2]

• Anudeep Vurity, Emanuela Marasco, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Jongwoo Park, "ColFigPhotoAttnNet: Reliable Finger Photo Presentation Attack Detection Leveraging Window-Attention on Color Spaces", IEEE Winter Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025, pp 1-10.  [iCORE Rank A] [AR: 37.8%].

• Emanuela Marasco, Karl Ricanek, "Hyperspectral Biometrics: Towards Sensing and Monitoring of Biochemical Characteristics." Book Chapter in Computational Intelligence Based Hyperspectral Image Analysis and Applications: Volume 2 (2025): 209-228, Springer.

2024

• Sulabh Shrestha, Emanuela Marasco, and Babek Norouzlou, "Real-Time Video Analysis for Accurate Biometric Identity Verification in Mobile Devices", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pp. 1-10, December 2024. [iCORE Rank B] [Regular] [AR: 18.8%].

• Emanuela Marasco, Nora McDonald, and Vivian Genaro Motti, "Vision Paper: Are Identity Verification Systems Adequately Tailored for Neurodiverse Individuals?", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pp. 1-5, December 2024. [iCORE Rank B] [Short] [AR: 19.7%].

• Anudeep Vurity, Emanuela Marasco, Raghavendra Ramachandra, Duoduo Liao, "Interpreting the Fraudulence Level of Different Finger Photo Presentation Attack Instruments", IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pp. 1-7, 2024.   [iCORE Rank B]

2023

• Emanuela Marasco, "Vision Paper: Hyperspectral Analysis of Finger Skin Reflectance for Inherently Resilient Biometric Systems", IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pp.1-5, December 2023.  

• Anudeep Vurity and Emanuela Marasco, "Enhancing Smartphone Security: New Finger Photo Databases with Presentation Attacks and Demographics", IEEE Big Data Workshop on Multimodal AI - In the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Big Data, pp. 1-8, December 2023.

• Emanuela Marasco, Karl Ricanek, Huy Le, "We Are Also Metabolites: Towards Understanding the Composition of Sweat on Human Fingers via Hyperspectral Imaging", MDPI Digital 2023, 3(2), 137-145; https://doi.org/10.3390/digital3020010 

2022

• Emanuela Marasco and Anudeep Vurity,  "Late Deep Fusion of Color Spaces to Enhance Finger Photo Presentation Attack Detection in Smartphones", Applied Sciences, MDPI, pp. 1-15,12(15), November 2022. 

• Emanuela Marasco and Yuanting Tao, "Mitigating the Impact of Hand Sanitizer on the Spectral Signature of Finger Hypercubes", International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), pp. 1-7, 2022. 

• Sumanth Sriram and Emanuela Marasco, “A Novel Demographic-based Time-Series Database of Finger Hypercubes before and after Hand Sanitization”, Understanding and Mitigating Demographic Bias in Biometric Systems (UMDBB) Workshop, ICPR 2022. 

• Emanuela Marasco, Massimiliano Albanese, Venkata Patibandla, Anudeep Vurity, Sumanth Sriram, "Biometric Multi-factor Authentication: On the Usability of the FingerPIN Scheme", Security and Privacy, pp. 1-14, Wiley, November 2022.  

• Emanuela Marasco, Mengling He, Larry Tang and Yuanting Tao, "Demographic Effects in Latent Fingerprint Matching and their Relation to Image Quality", ACM International Conference on Machine Learning Technologies (ICMLT), pp. 1-14, 2022. 

• Emanuela Marasco, Mengling He, Larry Tang, and Sumanth Sriram, "Demographic-Adapted ROC Curve for Assessing Automated Matching of Latent Fingerprints", SN Computer Science, 3, 1–21. (SNCS-D-21-01022R1) Springer Nature, 2022. 

2021

• Emanuela Marasco, Anudeep Vurity, "Fingerphoto Presentation Attack Detection: Generalization in Smartphones", IEEE Big Data Workshop for Multimodal AI (MMBD), 2021.

• Emanuela Marasco, Anudeep Vurity, Asem Otham, "Deep Color Spaces for Fingerphoto Presentation Attack Detection in Mobile Devices, IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), pp. 1-12, 2021. 

• Emanuela Marasco, Maria Pia Morelli, James Gulley, Charalampos Floudas, Eytan Ruppin, Steven Nathan, "COVID-19 Real-time Detection via Hyperspectral Analysis of Sweat Metabolite Biometrics", Division of Biochemical Technology, American Chemical Society (ACS) Meeting - Fall 2021, Atlanta GA.

2020

• Emanuela Marasco, Mengling He, Larry Tang and Sumanth Sriram, "Accounting for Demographic Differentials in Error rate Assessment of Automated Latent Prints Matching via Covariate-Specific ROC Regression", IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), pp. 1-12, 2020  [Best Paper Award].

• Emanuela Marasco and Massimiliano Albanese, "FingerPIN: An Authentication Mechanism Integrating Fingerprints and Personal Identification Numbers", IAPR International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing (CVIP), pp. 1-12, 2020.

2019

• Chatterjee, R., Riazi, M.S., Chowdhury, T., Emanuela Marasco, Koushanfar, F. & Juels, A. "Multisketches: Practical Secure Sketches Using Off-the-Shelf Biometric Matching Algorithms". In ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, 2019.

• Emanuela Marasco, "Biases in Fingerprint Recognition Systems: Where Are We At?", IEEE Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - Special Session on Generalizability and Adaptability in Biometrics (BTAS-SS GAPinB) 2019, pp 1-5.  

• Emanuela Marasco, Stefany Cando, Larry Tang, "Can We Automatically Predict Liveness From Latent Fingerprints?“, IEEE Image and Video Forensics (IVF) Workshop in Conjunction with WACV 2019, pp.1-7.

• Emanuela Marasco, Stefany Cando, Larry Tang, Elham Tabassi, "Cross-Sensor Evaluation of Textural Descriptors for Gender Prediction from Fingerprints“, IEEE Cross-Domain Biometric Recognition (CDBR) Workshop in Conjunction with WACV 2019, pp.1-8.

2018

• Emanuela Marasco, Stefany Cando, Larry Tang, Luca Ghiani, Gian Luca Marcialis, “A Look At Non-Cooperative Presentation Attacks in Fingerprint Systems“, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA) 2018, pp.1-6.

• Emanuela Marasco, Alexander Feldman, Keleigh Romine, “Enhancing Optical Cross-Sensor Fingerprint Matching Using Local Textural Features “, IEEE Cross-Domain Biometric Recognition (CDBR) Workshop in conjunction with WACV 2018, pp.1-7.

2017

• Emanuela Marasco, Bojan Cukic, Mohamed Shehab, Usman Rauf, “Attack Trees for System Protection against Evolving Biometric Presentation Attacks“, IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) 2017, pp.1-6, Waltham MA.

• Emanuela Marasco, Emanuele Plebani, Bojan Cukic, “Towards Enhanced Gender Estimation from Fingerprints“, IEEE International Workshop on The Bright and Dark Sides of Computer Vision: Challenges and Opportunities for Privacy and Security (CV-COPS ) in conjunction with CVPR 2017, Hawaii Convention Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, pp.1-2.

2016

• Emanuela Marasco, Zach Chapman, Bojan Cukic, “Improving Fingerprint Interoperability by Integrating Wavelet Entropy and Binarized Statistical Image Features“, IEEE The 15th International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG) 2016, pp.1-12.

• Emanuela Marasco, Mohamed Shehab, Bojan Cukic, “A Methodology for Prevention of Biometric Presentation Attacks“, IEEE Seventh Latin-American Symposium on Dependable Computing (LADC) 2016, pp.1-6.

• Emanuela Marasco, Peter Wild, Bojan Cukic, “Robust and Interoperable Fingerprint Spoof Detection via Convolutional Neural Networks“, IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security 2016, pp.1-6.

2015

• Emanuela Marasco, Ayman Abaza, Bojan Cukic, “Why Rank-Level Fusion? And What is the Impact of Image Quality?“, International Journal of Big Data Intelligence (IJBDI), pp.1-12, Vo. 2, No. 2, 2015.

• Emanuela Marasco, Bojan Cukic, “Privacy Protection Schemes for Fingerprint Recognition Systems“, "Biometric and Surveillance Technology for Human and Activity Identification XII", SPIE Defense and Security, Baltimore 2015.

• Emanuela Marasco, “ Recognising imaging's fingerprints“, Imaging and Machine Vision Europe, April 2015.

2014

• Emanuela Marasco and Arun Ross, “A Survey on Anti-Spoofing Schemes for Fingerprint Recognition Systems“, ACM Computing Surveys, pp.1-36, Volume 47, Issue 2, November 2014. [IF: 23.8]

• Carsten Gottschlich, Emanuela Marasco, Allen Yang, Bojan Cukic, “Fingerprint Liveness Detection based on Histograms of Invariant Gradients“, IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), September 29 - October 2nd, 2014, Clearwater, Florida (USA).

• Stephen Mason, Ilir Gashi, Emanuela Marasco, Luca Lugini, Bojan Cukic, “Deployment Strategies for Diverse Fingerprint Biometric Systems”, IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN), June 23 - 26, 2014, Atlanta, Georgia (USA).

• Emanuela Marasco, Luca Lugini, Bojan Cukic, “Automatic Enhancement of Interoperability between Fingerprint Optical Sensors”, NIST International Biometric Performance Testing Conference (IBPC), April 1-3 2014, Gaithersburg USA.

• Emanuela Marasco, Luca Lugini and Bojan Cukic, “Exploiting Quality and Texture Features to Estimate Age and Gender through Fingerprint Images“, Biometrics and Surveillance Technology for Human and Activity Identification , SPIE Defense and Security, Baltimore (USA), May 2014.

• Luca Lugini, Emanuela Marasco, Bojan Cukic, Jeremy Dawson, "Removing Gender Signature from Fingerprints“, Biometrics & Forensics & De-identification and Privacy Protection (BiForD) May 2014, Croatia.

2013

• Emanuela Marasco, A. Abaza, L. Lugini, B. Cukic, "Impact of Biometric Data Quality on Rank-Level Fusion", IEEE International Workshop on Trusted Information in Big Data (TIBiDa) 2013 , pp.1-13, Sorrento (Italy).

• Emanuela Marasco, L. Lugini, B. Cukic, T. Bourlai, "Minimizing the Impact of Low Interoperability between Optical Fingerprint Sensors“, IEEE Sixth International Conference on Biometrics (BTAS) 2013 , pp.1-8, Washington D.C. (USA).

• Emanuela Marasco and C. Sansone, "Exploiting Cohorts Information in Multibiometric Identification Systems via Graph-based Fusion", IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications (BIOMS), pp. 1-5, Naples (Italy), September 2013.

• Emanuela Marasco and A. Abaza, “On the Stability of Ranks to Low Image Quality in Biometric Identification Systems“, The 17th International Conference on Image Analysis and Applications (ICIAP), pp. 1-10, September 11-13 2013, Naples, Italy.

• L. Lugini, Emanuela Marasco, B. Cukic, I. Gashi, “Interoperability in Fingerprint Recognition: a Large Scale Study”, the 43rd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks (DSN 2013), pp. 1-6, 24 - 27 June 2013, Budapest, Hungary.

• M. Srungarapu, A. Kadiyala, T. Davis, B. Durney, Emanuela Marasco, A. Ross, L. Holland, and J. Dawson, "Enabling Technologies for Rapid DNA Analysis", 29th International Symposium on MicroScale Bioseparations, Newcomb Hall, University of Virginia (USA), March 10-14, 2013.

2012

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “Combining perspiration- and morphology-based static features for fingerprint liveness detection“, Pattern Recognition Letters, Volume 33, Issue 9, 1 July 2012, 1148–1156.

• Emanuela Marasco, Arun Ross, Jeremy Dawson, Tina Moroose and Tanya Ambrose, “Detecting STR peaks in degraded DNA samples“, 4th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICoB) 2012, pp. 1-8, Las Vegas (USA), March 2012.

• Peter Johnson, Richard Lazarick, Emanuela Marasco, Elaine Newton, Arun Ross and Stephanie Schuckers, “Biometric Liveness Detection: Framework and Metrics”, International Biometric Performance Testing Conference (NIST) 2012, March 2012.

• Luca Marfella, Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “Liveness-based Fusion Approaches in Multibiometrics”, IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications (BIOMS), pp. 1-5, Salerno (Italy), September 2012.

• Emanuela Marasco, Yaohui Ding and Arun Ross, “Combining Match Scores with Liveness Values in a Fingerprint Verification System“, IEEE Fifth International Conference on Biometrics (BTAS) 2012 , pp.1-8, Washington D.C. (USA). 

• Peter Johnson, Richard Lazarick, Emanuela Marasco, Elaine Newton, Arun Ross and Stephanie Schuckers, “Emerging Performance Metrics for Liveness Detection in Biometric Systems“, Biometrics Metrics Report v3.0 - West Point, December 2012.

2011

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, "On the robustness of fingerprint liveness detection algorithms against new materials used for spoofing“, Biosignals 2011 International Conference on Bio-Inspired Systems and Signal Processing, pp. 553-558, Rome (Italy), January 2011.

• Emanuela Marasco, Peter Johnson, Carlo Sansone and Stephanie Schuckers, “Increase the security of multibiometric systems by incorporating a spoofing detection algorithm in the fusion mechanism”, The 10th International Workshop on Multiple Classifer Systems (MCS) , pp. 1-10, Naples (Italy), June 2011.

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “An experimental comparison of different methods for combining biometric identification systems”, The 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), pp. 1-10, Ravenna (Italy), September 2011.

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “On the security evaluation of a multibiometric system based on a voting strategy involving likelihood ratio statistic tests”, IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications (BIOMS), pp. 1-4, Milan (Italy), September 2011. 

2010

• Emanuela Marasco, Arun Ross and Carlo Sansone, “Predicting Identification Errors in a Multibiometric System based on Ranks and Scores“, IEEE Third International Conference on Biometrics (BTAS) 2010, pp.1-6 Washington D.C. (USA).

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “An anti-spoofing technique using multiple textural features in fingerprint scanners”, IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications, pp.8-14, September 2010, Taranto (Italy).

• Francesco Gargiulo, Emanuela Marasco, Claudio Mazzariello, and Carlo Sansone, “Pattern Recognition in Adversarial Environments”, pp.1-12, GIRPR 2010, Salerno (Italy), June 2010.

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “Static features for detecting fake fingerprints”, Image and Video Forensics, pp.170-172, SIMAI 2010, Cagliari (Italy), June 2010. 

2009

• Emanuela Marasco and Carlo Sansone, “Improving the Accuracy of a Score Fusion approach based on Likelihood Ratio in Multimodal Biometric Systems”, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. No 5716, pp. 509-518, Springer, 2009.

PhD Dissertation 

• Emanuela Marasco, "Secure Multibiometric Systems", submitted to University of Naples Federico II (Italy), December 2010.

Master Dissertation 

• Emanuela Marasco, "Classification of Microcalcifications in Mamograms", University of Naples Federico II (Italy), March 2006.