Dr. Dario Zanca

2026

• Dirauf R., Wolz F., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Benchmarking Content-Based Puzzle Solvers on Corrupted Jigsaw Puzzles
  International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) (Rom, 15. September 2025 - 19. September 2025)
  In: Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2025, Cham: 2026
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-10185-3_23
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-10185-3_23
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• Li J., Hamann T., Barth J., Kaempf P., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Robust and Efficient Writer-Independent IMU-Based Handwriting Recognition
  iWOAR 2025 - 10th international Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (Drienerlolaan 5, 7522 NB Enschede, NETHERLANDS, 18. September 2025 - 19. September 2025)
  In: Özlem Durmaz Incel, Jingwen Qin, Gerald Bieber, Arjan Kuijper (ed.): International Workshop on Sensor-Based Activity Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, Cham, Switzerland: 2026
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-13312-0_16
  URL: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-032-13312-0_16
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2025

• Löffler C., Lai WC., Zanca D., Schmidt L., Eskofier B., Mutschler C.:
  Don’t get me wrong: How to apply deep visual interpretations to time series
  In: Applied Intelligence 55 (2025), Article No.: 920
  ISSN: 0924-669X
  DOI: 10.1007/s10489-025-06798-3
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• Panda MP., Tiezzi M., Vilas M., Roig G., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  Correction: FovEx: Human-Inspired Explanations for Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks (International Journal of Computer Vision, (2025), 133, 10, (7437-7459), 10.1007/s11263-025-02543-y)
  In: International Journal of Computer Vision 133 (2025), p. 8664
  ISSN: 0920-5691
  DOI: 10.1007/s11263-025-02580-7
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• Panda MP., Tiezzi M., Vilas M., Roig G., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  FovEx: Human-Inspired Explanations for Vision Transformers and Convolutional Neural Networks
  In: International Journal of Computer Vision 133 (2025), p. 7437-7459
  ISSN: 0920-5691
  DOI: 10.1007/s11263-025-02543-y
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• Zanca D., Zugarini A., Dietz S., Altstidl TR., Ndjeuha MA., Chakraborty M., Jami NVSJ., Schwinn L., Eskofier B.:
  Contrastive Language-Image Pretrained Models are Zero-Shot Human Scanpath Predictors
  In: IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2025), p. 1-15
  ISSN: 2691-4581
  DOI: 10.1109/TAI.2025.3612905
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2024

• Albert T., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  From patches to objects: exploiting spatial reasoning for better visual representations
  In: Discover Applied Sciences 6 (2024), Article No.: 232
  ISSN: 3004-9261
  DOI: 10.1007/s42452-024-05894-2
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• Cartella G., Cornia M., Cuculo V., D'Amelio A., Zanca D., Boccignone G., Cucchiara R.:
  Trends, Applications, and Challenges in Human Attention Modelling
  33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024 (Jeju, 3. August 2024 - 9. August 2024)
  In: Kate Larson (ed.): IJCAI International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2024
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• Dietz S., Altstidl TR., Zanca D., Eskofier B., Nguyen A.:
  How Intermodal Interaction Affects the Performance of Deep Multimodal Fusion for Mixed-Type Time Series
  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Yokohama, 30. June 2024 - 5. July 2024)
  DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650421
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=10650421
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• Förstel S., Förstel M., Gallistl M., Zanca D., Eskofier B., Rothgang EM.:
  Data quality in hospital information systems: Lessons learned from analyzing 30 years of patient data in a regional German hospital
  In: International Journal of Medical Informatics 192 (2024), Article No.: 105636
  ISSN: 1386-5056
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2024.105636
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• Klede K., Altstidl TR., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  The Impact of Random Models on Standardized Clustering Similarity
  In: IEEE Access (2024)
  ISSN: 2169-3536
  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3507133
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10769363
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• Roider J., Nguyen A., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Assessing the Performance of Remaining Time Prediction Methods for Business Processes
  In: IEEE Access (2024), p. 1-19
  ISSN: 2169-3536
  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2024.3459648
  URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10679137
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• Roider J., Wang W., Zanca D., Matzner M., Eskofier B.:
  Predictions in Predictive Process Monitoring with Previously Unseen Categorical Values
  6th International Conference on Process Mining (Technical University of Denmark, 14. October 2024 - 18. October 2024)
  In: Andrea Delgado, Tijs Slaats (ed.): Process Mining Workshops 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-82225-4_17
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• Roider J., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Efficient Training of Recurrent Neural Networks for Remaining Time Prediction in Predictive Process Monitoring
  BPM: International Conference on Business Process Management (Krakow, 1. September 2024 - 6. September 2024)
  In: Andrea Marrella, Manuel Resinas, Mieke Jans, Michael Rosemann (ed.): Business Process Management, 22nd International Conference, BPM 2024, Krakow, Poland, September 1–6, 2024, Proceedings, Cham: 2024
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70396-6
  URL: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-70396-6
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• Schlieper P., Dombrowski MN., Nguyen A., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Data-Centric Benchmarking of Neural Network Architectures for the Univariate Time Series Forecasting Task
  In: Forecasting 6 (2024), p. 718-747
  ISSN: 2571-9394
  DOI: 10.3390/forecast6030037
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• Schlieper P., Luft H., Klede K., Strohmeyer C., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  Enhancing unsupervised outlier model selection: A study on ireos algorithms
  In: ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data 18 (2024), Article No.: 178
  ISSN: 1556-4681
  DOI: 10.1145/3653719
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• Zürl M., Stoll P., Brehm I., Sueskind J., Raab R., Petermann J., Zanca D., Simon R., von Fersen L., Eskofier B.:
  Automated long-term monitoring of stereotypical movement in polar bears under human care using machine learning
  In: Ecological Informatics (2024), p. 102840
  ISSN: 1574-9541
  DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2024.102840
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2023

• Altstidl TR., Nguyen A., Schwinn L., Köferl F., Mutschler C., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  Just a Matter of Scale? Reevaluating Scale Equivariance in Convolutional Neural Networks
  2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Gold Coast, Australia, 18. June 2023 - 23. June 2023)
  In: Proc. Intl. Joint Conf. Neural Netw. (IJCNN) 2023
  DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN54540.2023.10191724
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• Faggi L., Betti A., Zanca D., Melacci S., Gori M.:
  Local propagation of visual stimuli in focus of attention
  In: Neurocomputing 560 (2023), Article No.: 126775
  ISSN: 0925-2312
  DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126775
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• Karargyris A., Ahmed S., de Belen RA., Banerjee B., Ibrayev T., Kashyap S., Krupinski E., Kuang C., Madu P., Madu AB., Makowski S., Mathew AM., Rolff T., Shi B., Wu J., Zanca D.:
  Discussion and recommendations from the 2023 ”Gaze Meets ML” workshop breakout session
  2nd Gaze Meets Machine Learning Workshop 2023 (New Orleans, LA, 16. December 2023)
  In: Amarachi Madu Blessing, Joy Wu, Danca Zario, Elizabeth A. Krupinski, Satyananda Kashyap, Alexandros Karargyris (ed.): Proceedings of The 2nd Gaze Meets ML workshop 2023
  URL: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v226/karargyris24a.html
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• Klede K., Altstidl TR., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  p-value Adjustment for Monotonous, Unbiased, and Fast Clustering Comparison
  Thirty-seventh Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (New Orleans, 10. December 2023 - 16. December 2023)
  In: A. Oh and T. Neumann and A. Globerson and K. Saenko and M. Hardt and S. Levine (ed.): Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 36 2023
  Open Access: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/563d94819f68cb73d6a382809e587b54-Paper-Conference.pdf
  URL: https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper_files/paper/2023/file/563d94819f68cb73d6a382809e587b54-Paper-Conference.pdf
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• Klede K., Schwinn L., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  FastAMI - A Monte Carlo Approach to the Adjustment for Chance in Clustering Comparison Metrics
  AAAI 2023 (Washington, D.C., 7. February 2023 - 14. February 2023)
  In: Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 37(7) 2023
  DOI: 10.1609/aaai.v37i7.26003
  URL: https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/26003
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• Köferl F., Jami NVSJ., Li J., Zanca D., Eskofier B., Zürl M.:
  Tracking the visitor: An optical indoor system for visitor research in museums
  In: Sonja Thiel, Johannes C. Bernhardt (ed.): AI in Museums: Reflections, Perspectives and Applications, Transcript-Verlag, 2023, p. 287 - 294 (Edition Museum, Vol.74)
  ISBN: 9783839467107
  DOI: 10.14361/9783839467107
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• Löffler C., Fallah K., Fenu S., Zanca D., Eskofier B., Rozell CJ., Mutschler C.:
  Active Learning of Ordinal Embeddings: A User Study on Football Data
  In: Transactions on Machine Learning Research (2023), p. 1-26
  ISSN: 2835-8856
  Open Access: https://openreview.net/pdf?id=oq3tx5kinu
  URL: https://openreview.net/forum?id=oq3tx5kinu
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• Scholl C., Spiegler M., Ludwig K., Eskofier B., Tobola A., Zanca D.:
  An Integrated Framework for Data Quality Fusion in Embedded Sensor Systems
  In: Sensors 23 (2023)
  ISSN: 1424-8220
  DOI: 10.3390/s23083798
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• Schwinn L., Raab R., Nguyen A., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Exploring misclassifications of robust neural networks to enhance adversarial attacks
  In: Applied Intelligence (2023)
  ISSN: 0924-669X
  DOI: 10.1007/s10489-023-04532-5
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• Zhdanov AE., Dolganov AY., Zanca D., Borisov VI., Luchian E., Dorosinsky LG.:
  Evaluation of the effectiveness of the decision support algorithm for physicians in retinal dystrophy using machine learning methods
  In: Computer Optics 47 (2023), p. 272-277
  ISSN: 0134-2452
  DOI: 10.18287/2412-6179-CO-1124
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• Zugarini A., Röthenbacher T., Klede K., Ernandes M., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  Die Rätselrevolution: Automated German Crossword Solving
  CLiC-it 2023 - Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (Venice, 30. November 2023 - 2. December 2023)
  In: Federico Boschetti, Gianluca E. Lebani, Bernardo Magnini, Nicole Novielli (ed.): Proceedings of the 9th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics 2023
  Open Access: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3596/paper54.pdf
  URL: https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3596/paper54.pdf
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• Zürl M., Dirauf R., Köferl F., Steinlein N., Sueskind J., Zanca D., Brehm I., von Fersen L., Eskofier B.:
  PolarBearVidID: A Video-Based Re-Identification Benchmark Dataset for Polar Bears
  In: Animals 13 (2023), p. 801
  ISSN: 2076-2615
  DOI: 10.3390/ani13050801
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2022

• Ede S., Baghdadlian S., Weber L., Nguyen A., Zanca D., Samek W., Lapuschkin S.:
  Explain to Not Forget: Defending Against Catastrophic Forgetting with XAI
  6th IFIP TC 5, TC 12, WG 8.4, WG 8.9, WG 12.9 International Cross-Domain Conference for Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction, CD-MAKE 2022, held in conjunction with the 17th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security, ARES 2022 (Vienna, 23. August 2022 - 26. August 2022)
  In: Andreas Holzinger, Andreas Holzinger, Andreas Holzinger, Peter Kieseberg, A Min Tjoa, Edgar Weippl, Edgar Weippl (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2022
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-14463-9_1
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• Schwinn L., Bungert L., Nguyen A., Raab R., Pulsmeyer F., Precup D., Eskofier B., Zanca D.:
  Improving Robustness against Real-World and Worst-Case Distribution Shifts through Decision Region Quantification
  Proceedings of the 39th International Conference on Machine Learning (Baltimore, USA, 17. July 2022 - 23. July 2022)
  In: PMLR (ed.): 162 2022
  Open Access: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/schwinn22a.html
  URL: https://proceedings.mlr.press/v162/schwinn22a.html
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• Tolosana R., Vera-Rodriguez R., Gonzalez-Garcia C., Fierrez J., Morales A., Ortega-Garcia J., Carlos Ruiz-Garcia J., Romero-Tapiador S., Rengifo S., Caruana M., Jiang J., Lai S., Jin L., Zhu Y., Galbally J., Diaz M., Angel Ferrer M., Gomez-Barrero M., Hodashinsky I., Sarin K., Slezkin A., Bardamova M., Svetlakov M., Saleem M., Lia Szcs C., Kovari B., Pulsmeyer F., Wehbi M., Zanca D., Ahmad S., Mishra S., Jabin S.:
  SVC-onGoing: Signature verification competition
  In: Pattern Recognition 127 (2022), Article No.: 108609
  ISSN: 0031-3203
  DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2022.108609
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• Wehbi M., Luge D., Hamann T., Barth J., Kaempf P., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Surface-Free Multi-Stroke Trajectory Reconstruction and Word Recognition Using an IMU-Enhanced Digital Pen
  In: Sensors 22 (2022), p. 5347
  ISSN: 1424-8220
  DOI: 10.3390/s22145347
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• Zhdanov A., Dolganov A., Zanca D., Borisov V., Ronkin M.:
  Advanced Analysis of Electroretinograms Based on Wavelet Scalogram Processing
  In: Applied Sciences 12 (2022), Article No.: 12365
  ISSN: 2076-3417
  DOI: 10.3390/app122312365
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• Zürl M., Stoll P., Brehm I., Raab R., Zanca D., Kabri S., Happold J., Nille H., Prechtel K., Wünsch S., Krause M., Seegerer S., von Fersen L., Eskofier B.:
  Automated Video-Based Analysis Framework for Behavior Monitoring of Individual Animals in Zoos Using Deep Learning—A Study on Polar Bears
  In: Animals 12 (2022), p. 692
  ISSN: 2076-2615
  DOI: 10.3390/ani12060692
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2021

• Bargagli A., Rosini F., Zanca D., Serchi V., Rufa A.:
  Ataxia with oculomotor apraxia type 2 (AOA2): an eye movement study of two siblings
  In: Neurological Sciences (2021)
  ISSN: 1590-1874
  DOI: 10.1007/s10072-021-05206-1
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• Nguyen A., Foerstel S., Kittler T., Kurzyukov A., Schwinn L., Zanca D., Hipp T., Jun SD., Schrapp M., Rothgang E., Eskofier B.:
  System Design for a Data-Driven and Explainable Customer Sentiment Monitor Using IoT and Enterprise Data
  In: IEEE Access (2021)
  ISSN: 2169-3536
  DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3106791
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• Rondon MFR., Zanca D., Melacci S., Gori M., Sassatelli L.:
  HeMoG: A White-Box Model to Unveil the Connection Between Saliency Information and Human Head Motion in Virtual Reality
  4th IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Virtual Reality (AIVR)
  In: 2021 4TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND VIRTUAL REALITY (AIVR 2021), LOS ALAMITOS: 2021
  DOI: 10.1109/AIVR52153.2021.00012
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• Scholl C., Tobola A., Ludwig K., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  A smart capacitive sensor skin with embedded data quality indication for enhanced safety in human–robot interaction
  In: Sensors 21 (2021), Article No.: 7210
  ISSN: 1424-8220
  DOI: 10.3390/s21217210
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• Schwinn L., Nguyen A., Raab R., Bungert L., Tenbrinck D., Zanca D., Burger M., Eskofier B.:
  Identifying untrustworthy predictions in neural networks by geometric gradient analysis
  Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI) (Online, 27. July 2021 - 30. July 2021)
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.12196
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• Schwinn L., Nguyen A., Raab R., Zanca D., Eskofier B., Tenbrinck D., Burger M.:
  Dynamically Sampled Nonlocal Gradients for Stronger Adversarial Attacks
  International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) (Online, 18. July 2021 - 22. July 2021)
  DOI: 10.1109/ijcnn52387.2021.9534190
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• Schwinn L., Raab R., Nguyen A., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Exploring Misclassifications of Robust Neural Networks to Enhance Adversarial Attacks
  URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.10304
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• Tolosana R., Vera-Rodriguez R., Gonzalez-Garcia C., Fierrez J., Rengifo S., Morales A., Ortega-Garcia J., Carlos Ruiz-Garcia J., Romero-Tapiador S., Jiang J., Lai S., Jin L., Zhu Y., Galbally J., Diaz M., Ferrer MA., Gomez-Barrero M., Hodashinsky I., Sarin K., Slezkin A., Bardamova M., Svetlakov M., Saleem M., Szücs CL., Kovari B., Pulsmeyer F., Wehbi M., Zanca D., Ahmad S., Mishra S., Jabin S.:
  ICDAR 2021 Competition on On-Line Signature Verification
  16th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, ICDAR 2021 (Lausanne, CHE, 5. September 2021 - 10. September 2021)
  In: Josep Lladós, Daniel Lopresti, Seiichi Uchida (ed.): Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) 2021
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86337-1_48
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• Wehbi M., Hamann T., Barth J., Kaempf P., Zanca D., Eskofier B.:
  Towards an IMU-based Pen Online Handwriting Recognizer
  International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition ICDAR 2021 (Lausanne, 5. September 2021 - 10. September 2021)
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-86334-0_19
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2020

• Bargagli A., Fontanelli E., Zanca D., Castelli I., Rosini F., Maddii S., Di Donato I., Carluccio A., Battisti C., Tosi GM., Dotti MT., Rufa A.:
  Neurophthalmologic and Orthoptic Ambulatory Assessments Reveal Ocular and Visual Changes in Patients With Early Alzheimer and Parkinson's Disease
  In: Frontiers in Neurology (2020)
  ISSN: 1664-2295
  DOI: 10.3389/fneur.2020.577362
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• Zanca D., Melacci S., Gori M.:
  Gravitational Laws of Focus of Attention
  In: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2020, p. 2983-2995
  DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2019.2920636
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• Zanca D., Melacci S., Gori M.:
  Toward Improving the Evaluation of Visual Attention Models: A Crowdsourcing Approach
  2020 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN 2020
  DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN48605.2020.9207438
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• Zanca D., Melacci S., Gori M., Rufa A.:
  Gravitational models explain shifts on human visual attention
  In: Scientific Reports 10 (2020), Article No.: 16335
  ISSN: 2045-2322
  DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-73494-2
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2019

• Marra G., Zanca D., Betti A., Gori M.:
  Learning Activation Functions by Means of Kernel Based Neural Networks
  Springer, 2019
  ISBN: 9783030351656
  DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-35166-3_30
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• Zanca D., Gori M., Rufa A.:
  A unified computational framework for visual attention dynamics
  Elsevier B.V., 2019
  (Progress in Brain Research, Vol.249)
  ISBN: 9780444642547
  DOI: 10.1016/bs.pbr.2019.01.001
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2018

• Zanca D.:
  FixaTons: A collection of Human Fixations Datasets and Metrics for Scanpath Similarity
  (2018)
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  (Techreport)

2017

• Zanca D., Gori M.:
  Variational laws of visual attention for dynamic scenes
  31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2017
  In: 31st Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2017 2017
  URL: https://papers.nips.cc/paper/2017/file/194cf6c2de8e00c05fcf16c498adc7bf-Paper.pdf
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