User profiles for Paola Barra

Paola Barra

PhD, Università di Napoli Parthenope
Verified email at uniparthenope.it
Cited by 590

Web-shaped model for head pose estimation: An approach for best exemplar selection

P Barra, S Barra, C Bisogni… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Head pose estimation is a sensitive topic in video surveillance/smart ambient scenarios since
head rotations can hide/distort discriminative features of the face. Face recognition would …

An end-to-end curriculum learning approach for autonomous driving scenarios

L Anzalone, P Barra, S Barra… - IEEE Transactions …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this work, we combine Curriculum Learning with Deep Reinforcement Learning to learn
without any prior domain knowledge, an end-to-end competitive driving policy for the CARLA …

Inflated 3D ConvNet context analysis for violence detection

D Freire-Obregón, P Barra… - Machine Vision and …, 2022 - Springer
According to the Wall Street Journal, one billion surveillance cameras will be deployed around
the world by 2021. This amount of information can be hardly managed by humans. Using …

Believe in artificial intelligence? A user study on the ChatGPT's fake information impact

I Amaro, P Barra, A Della Greca… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Technological evolution has enabled the development of new artificial intelligence (AI) models
with generative capabilities. Among them, one of the most discussed is the virtual agent …

Near real-time three axis head pose estimation without training

AF Abate, P Barra, C Bisogni, M Nappi… - IEEE Access, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Head pose estimation methods evaluate the amount of head rotation according to two or three
axes, aiming at optimizing the face acquisition process, or extracting neutral-pose frames …

Hypertensive nephropathy: unveiling the possible involvement of hemichannels and pannexons

…, J Balmazabal, TF Alvear, M Vega, P Barra… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hypertension is one of the most common risk factors for developing chronic cardiovascular
diseases, including hypertensive nephropathy. Within the glomerulus, hypertension causes …

Refactoring and performance analysis of the main CNN architectures: using false negative rate minimization to solve the clinical images melanoma detection problem

…, M Castrillón-Santana, P Barra… - BMC …, 2023 - Springer
Background Melanoma is one of the deadliest tumors in the world. Early detection is critical
for first-line therapy in this tumor pathology and it remains challenging due to the need for …

Intelligent query optimization and course recommendation during online lectures in E-learning system

MS Rafiq, X Jianshe, M Arif, P Barra - Journal of Ambient Intelligence and …, 2021 - Springer
This article explores the possibility of disaggregating query/question information in e-learning
system online lectures or course recommendations. Information arrangement includes …

Gender classification on 2D human skeleton

P Barra, C Bisogni, M Nappi… - … Conference on Bio …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft bimetrics has become a trending research topic over the past decade. In last years, the
increase of new technologies such as the wearable camera devices has introduced a new …

Multimodal emotion recognition from voice and video signals

P Barra, Z Mnasri, D Greco - IEEE EUROCON 2023-20th …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A promising area of research and development that can significantly increase the efficacy and
accuracy of mental health assessments is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine …