Siren

Società Italiana Reti Neuroniche

WIRN 2019 - Program

DAY 1 – June 12 2019

8:30 – Registration

 

8:45 – 9:00 Welcome from the Chairs

Professors Francesco Carlo Morabito and Eros Pasero

 

9:00 – 10:00 “Maria Marinaro and Eduardo Caianiello Lecture”

Chair: Francesco Carlo Morabito

Alessandro Vinciarelli, University of Glasgow, UK TBA

 

10:00 – 10:30 Coffee break

 

10:30 – 12:30 Regular Session

Chair: Michele Scarpiniti

  • 10:30 -10:45 Giulio Franzese: Alternative cost function for Kernel Implicit Variational Autoencoding Based on Information Maximization
  • 10:45 -11:00 Bruno Apolloni, Aamna Al Shehhi and Ernesto Damiani: The Simplification Conspiracy
  • 11:00 -11:15 Jacopo Sini, Antonio Costantino Marceddu, Massimo Violante and Riccardo Dessì: Passengers Emotion Recognition to Improve Social Acceptance of Autonomous Driving Vehicles
  • 11:15 -11:30 Giovanni Pepe, Leonardo Gabrielli, Emanuele Principi, Stefano Squartini and Luca Cattani: Road Type Classification using Acoustic Signals: Deep Learning Models and Real-Time Implementation
  • 11:30 – 11:45 Silvia Franchini, Maria Chiara Terranova, Giuseppe Lo Re, Massimo Galia, Sergio Salerno, Massimo Midiri and Salvatore Vitabile: A Novel System for Multi-Level Crohn’s Disease Classification and Grading based on a Multiclass Support Vector Machine
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Stefano Rovetta, Zied Mnasri and Francesco Masulli: Emotional Content Comparison in Speech Signal Using Feature Embedding
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Indro Spinelli, Simone Scardapane, Michele Scarpiniti and Aurelio Uncini: Efficient Data Augmentation Using Graph Imputation Neural Networks
  • 12:15 – 12:30 Eleonora Grassucci, Simone Scardapane, Danilo Comminiello and Aurelio Uncini: Flexible Generative Adversarial Networks with Non-Parametric Activation Functions

 

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00 – 16:30 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems

Dedicated to Anna Costanza Baldry


Organizers: Anna Esposito, Anna Sorrentino, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Maria Ines Torres, Stephan Schlögl, Zoraida Callejas

 

Chair: Gennaro Cordasco

  • 14:00 – 14:15 Anna Sorrentino: Remembering Anna Costanza Baldry
  • 14:15 – 14:30 Mariachiara Rapuano, Filomena Leonela Sbordone, Luigi Oreste Borrelli, Gennaro Ruggiero and Tina Iachini: The Effect of Facial Expressions on the Interpersonal Space: A Gender Study in Immersive Virtual Reality
  • 14:30 – 14:45 Massimiliano Conson, Isa Zappullo, Chiara Baiano, Laura Sagliano, Carmela Finelli, Gennaro Raimo, Roberta Cecere, Maria Vela, Monica Positano and Francesca Pistoia: Signals of Threat in Persons Exposed to Natural Disasters
  • 14:45 – 15:00 Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carla Nasti, Mario Pezzella, Roberto Marcone and Massimiliano Conson: Adults responses to infant faces and cries: consistency between explicit and implicit measures
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Anna Esposito, Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Antonietta M. Esposito, Alda Troncone, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Alessandro Vinciarelli and Gennaro Cordasco: A questionnaire to assess user’s acceptance of autonomous complex interactive systems
  • 15:15 – 15:30 Anna Esposito, Terry Amorese, Marialucia Cuciniello, Antonietta Esposito, Maria Teresa Riviello, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Carl Vogel, Nikolaos Bourbakis and Gennaro Cordasco: Seniors’ ability to decode differently aged facial emotional expressions
  • 15:30 – 15:45 Massimiliano Conson, Chiara Baiano, Isa Zappullo, Monica Positano, Gennaro Raimo, Carmela Finelli, Maria Vela, Roberta Cecere and Vincenzo Paolo Senese: The Influence of Systemizing, Emphatizing and Autistic Traits on Visuospatial Abilities
  • 15:45-16:00 Natascha Mariacher, Stephan Schlögl and Alexander Monz: Investigating Perceptions of Social Intelligence in Simulated Human-Chatbot Interactions
  • 16:00-16:15 Carl Vogel: Linguistic Evidence of Ageing in the Pratchett canon
  • 16:15 – 16:30 Gabriele Calabrò, Andrea Bizzego, Stefano Cainelli, Cesare Furlanello and Paola Venuti: M-MS: A Multi-Modal Synchrony Dataset to Explore Dyadic Interaction in ASD

 

16:30 – 17:00 Coffee break

 

17:00 – 19:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems

Dedicated to Anna Costanza Baldry

 

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Anna Sorrentino, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Maria Ines Torres, Stephan Schlögl, Zoraida Callejas

 

Chair: Betul Tolgay

  • 17:00 – 17:15 Andrea Bizzego, Giulio Gabrieli, Atiqah Azhari, Peipei Setoh and Gianluca Esposito: Computational Methods for the Assessment of Empathic Synchrony
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Alfonso Davide Di Sarno, Teresa Longobardi, Enrico Moretto, Giuseppina Di Leva, Irene Fabbricino, Lucia Luciana Mosca, Valeria Cioffi and Raffaele Sperandeo: The Structuring Of The Self Through Relational Patterns of Movement Using Data From the Microsoft Kinect 2 to Study Baby-Caregiver Interaction
  • 17:30 – 17:45 Serena Dattola, Giuseppina Inuso, Lilla Bonanno, Simona De Salvo, Francesco Carlo Morabito and Fabio La Foresta: eLORETA Active Source Reconstruction applied to HD-EEG in Alzheimer’s Disease
  • 17:45 – 18:00 Kia Dashtipour, Cosimo Ieracitano, Carlo Francesco Morabito and Amir Hussain: An Ensemble based Classification Approach for Persian Sentiment Analysis
  • 18:00 – 18:15 Raffaele Sperandeo, Lucia Luciana Mosca, Anastasiya Galchenko, Enrico Moretto, Alfonso Davide Di Sarno, Teresa Longobardi, Daniela Iennaco, Valeria Cioffi, Anna Esposito and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: The Nodes of Care a Pilot Study of Patient -Therapist Relationship Through the Theory of Complex Systems
  • 18:15 – 18:30 Martina Messina, Rossella De Falco, Genoveffa Amore, Teresa Capparelli, Filomena De Falco, Carmen Giannetti, Daniela Iennaco, Claudia Langella, Benedetta Muzii, Barbara Vitulano, Silvia Dell’Orco and Tilde Annunziato: The Effect of Parental Anxiety and Decision-Making Styles on Childhood Fears Perception: Assumption for a Neural Network
  • 18:30 – 18:45 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Mario Bottone, Silvia Dell’Orco, Benedetta Muzii, Donatella di Corrado, Raffaele Sperandeo, Simone D’Andrea and Anna Esposito: Modal Structure and Altered States of Consciousness
  • 18:45-19:00 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Paolo Valerio, Mario Bottone, Raffaele Sperandeo, Cristiano Scandurra, Ciro Punzo, Silvia Dell’Orco, Benedetta Muzii, Simone D’Andrea and Anna Esposito: The Desiring Algorithm, the Sex Appeal of the Inorganic

DAY 2 – June 13 2019

8:30 – Registration

9:00 – 10:20 Regular Session

Chair: Nadia Mammone

9:00 – 9:20 Luca Barzanti, Silvio Giove and Alessandro Pezzi: An effective fuzzy recommender system for fund raising management

9:20 – 9:40 Gianpaolo Francesco Trotta, Sergio Mazzola, Giuseppe Gelardi, Antonio Brunetti, Nicola Marino and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua: Reconstruction, optimisation and quality check of microsoft HoloLens-acquired 3D points clouds

9:40 – 10:00 Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli and Alberto Cabri: The “Probabilistic Rand Index”: A look from some different perspectives

10:00 – 10:20: Federico Cozza, Paola Galdi, Angela Serra, Gabriele Pasqua, Luigi Pavone and Roberto Tagliaferri: Dimension reduction techniques in a brain computer interface application

 

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40 – 12:40 Special Session on Neural networks and pattern recognition in medicine

 

Organizers: Giansalvo Cirrincione, and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

 

Chairs: Giansalvo Cirrincione and Vitoantonio Bevilacqua

  • 10:40 -11:00 Giulio Gabrieli, Atiqah Azhari and Gianluca Esposito: PySiology: a Python package for physiological feature extraction
  • 11:00 -11:20 Serena Dattola and Fabio La Foresta: Effect of sensor density on eLORETA source localization accuracy
  • 11:20 -11:40 Alfonso Davide Di Sarno, Raffaele Sperandeo, Giuseppina Di Leva, Irene Fabbricino, Enrico Moretto, Silvia Dell’Orco and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: To the roots of the sense of self: Proposals for a study on the emergence of body awareness in early infancy
  • 11:40 -12:00 Andrés Gómez-Rodellar, Agustín Álvarez-Marquina, Jiri Mekyska, Daniel Palacios Alonso, Djamila Meghraoui and Pedro Gómez-Vilda: Performance of articulation kinetic distributions vs MFCC’s in Parkinson’s detection from vowel utterances
  • 12:00 -12:20 Daniela Iennaco, Raffaele Sperandeo, Enrico Moretto, Silvia Dell’Orco, Valeria Cioffi, Lucia Luciana Mosca, Martina Messina and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: From “Mind and Body” to “Mind in Body”: a research approach for a description of personality as a functional unit of thoughts, behaviours and affective states.

 

12:20 – 14:00 Lunch break

 

14:00 – 16:00 Regular Session

 

Chair: Antonino Staiano

  • 14:00 – 14:20 Angelo Ciaramella, Davide Nardone and Antonino Staiano: Blind source separation using dictionary learning in wireless sensor network scenario
  • 14:20 – 14:40 Valerio Morfino, Salvatore Rampone and Emanuel Weitschek: A comparison of Apache Spark supervised machine learning algorithms for DNA splicing sites prediction
  • 14:40 – 15:00 Marco Corazza, Leonardo Nadali, Francesca Parpinel and Claudio Pizzi: Recurrent ANNs for failure predictions on large datasets of Italian SMEs
  • 15:00 – 15:20 Pietro Russo and Massimo Panella: Inverse classification for military decision support systems
  • 15:20 – 15:40 Luca Cermenati, Dario Malchiodi and Anna Maria Zanaboni: Simultaneous learning of fuzzy sets
  • 15:40 – 16:00 Marco Gori and Alessandro Betti: Trees in the real field

 

16:00 – 16:20 Coffee break

 

16:20 – 18:10 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

 

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

 

Chair: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

  • 16:20 – 16:40 Carlos Alonso-Martinez and Marcos Faundez-Zanuy: Online handwriting and signature normalization and fusion in a biometric security application
  • 16:40 – 17:00 Xavi Font, Carles Paul and Eloi Rodriguez: Data insights and classification in multi-sensor database for cervical injury
  • 17:00 – 17:20 Nadia Mammone, Simona De Salvo, Silvia Marino, Cosimo Ieracitano, Serena Dattola, Fabio La Foresta and Francesco Carlo Morabito: Estimating the asymmetry of brain network organization in stroke patients from high-density EEG signals
  • 17:30-17:50 Josep Lopez-Xarbau, Marcos Faundez-Zanuy and Manuel Garnacho-Castaño: Preliminary study on biometric recognition based on drawing tasks
  • 17:50-18:10 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Raffaele Sperandeo, Anna Esposito, Ciro Punzo and Silvia Dell’Orco: Exploring the relationship between attention and awareness. Neurophenomenology of the centroencephalic space of functional integration

 

18:10 – 19:30 REGULAR SIREN MEETING

 

20:00 – SOCIAL DINNER “Ristorante Il Pescatore”

DAY 3 – June 15 2018

 

9:00 – 10:20 REGULAR Session

 

Chair: Francesco Palmieri

  • 9:00 – 9:20 Marco Gori and Alessandro Betti: On the Role of Time in Learning
  • 9:20 – 9:40 Francesco A. N. Palmieri, Mario Baldi, Giovanni Di Gennaro, Amedeo Buonanno and Francesco Ospedale: Probing a deep neural network
  • 9:40 – 10:00: Pietro Barbiero, Giansalvo Cirrincione, Elio Piccolo, Francesco Vaccarino and Maurizio Cirrincione: Neural epistemology in time series learning
  • 10:00 – 10:20 Silvia Franchini, Maria Chiara Terranova, Giuseppe Lo Re, Sergio Salerno, Massimo Midiri and Salvatore Vitabile: Evaluation of a support vector machine based method for Crohn’s disease classification

 

10:20 – 10:40 Coffee break

 

10:40 – 12:00 Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Vincenzo Paolo Senese, Carl Vogel.

 

Chair: Anna Esposito

  • 10:40 -11:00 Silvia Dell’Orco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Raffaele Sperandeo, Mario Bottone, Anna Esposito, Antonietta M. Esposito, Vincenzo Bochicchio and Ciro Punzo: Decision-making styles in an evolutionary perspective
  • 11:00 -11:20 Rytis Maskeliūnas, Robertas Damasevicius and Carlos Chiatti: IDO – fact based serious game for dementia carers
  • 11:20 -11:40: Robertas Damasevicius and Rytis Maskeliunas: Complexity and dynamics of relationships between physiological signals
  • 11:40 – 12:00 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Paolo Valerio, Raffaele Sperandeo, Antonietta M. Esposito, Roberto Vitelli, Cristiano Scandurra and Silvia Dell’Orco: The unaware brain.
The role of the interconnected modal matrices in the centroencephalic space of functional integration
  • 12:00 Conference Closing: Eros Pasero