WIRN 2023

The Italian Workshop on Neural Networks

7 – 9 June 2023 – Vietri sul Mare (SA), Italy

WIRN 2023 PROGRAM

DAY 1 – Wednesday June 7, 2023

8:30 Registration

 

9:20 Welcome from the Presidents: Professors Anna Esposito and Eros Pasero

 

9:30 – 10:15 “Maria Marinaro Lecture”, Chair: Salvatore Vitabile
Professor Pietro Lio “Graph representation learning for biomedical data”

 

10:15-10:45 Coffee break

 

10:45 – 12:30 (S1) Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems, part I.

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Zoraida Callejas, Claudia Greco, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Carl Vogel, Chair: Gennaro Cordasco

  • 10:45 – 11:00 Rosario Gaeta and Rosalba Mosca: Mining Knowledge from Data: The Case of Ontology Learning
  • 11:00 – 11:15 Annarosa Cipriano, Marco Scotto Rosato, Rosanna Veneziano, Rosanna Napolano, Paolo Cotrufo and Stefania Cella:   Emotion Regulation and Childhood Obesity: Co-Designing a Mobile App for School-Aged Children
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Dario Ceni, Seraphina Fong, Alessandro Carollo, Anna Castiglione, Ilaria Cataldo, Gianluca Esposito and Andrea Bizzego: Do the Public Green-light the Green Deal? Sentiment Analysis and Topic Modeling of Italian Tweets Concerning the European Green Transition
  • 11:30 – 11:45 Lidia Marassi, Stefano Marrone and Narendra Patwardhan: Trust in NLP Models: Ethical Considerations on the Reckless Use of AI
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Francesco Prinzi, Gennaro Raimo, Pietro Barbiero, Gennaro Cordasco, Pietro Lio, Salvatore Vitabile and Anna Esposito: Explainable Depression Detection Using Handwriting Features
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Francesca Mottola, Augusto Gnisci, Marco Perugini and Ida Sergi: The Role of Emotionality in the Self-Reported and Actual Use of Facebook
  • 12:15 – 12:30 Flavia Morfini, Angela Ammendola, Simona Durante, Enrico Moretto, Valeria Cioffi, Roberta Stanzione, Ottavio Ragozzino, Lucia Luciana Mosca, Natascia De Lucia, Benedetta Muzii, Fabio Carraturo, Nelson Mauro Maldonato and Raffaele Sperandeo: Artificial Intelligence, Domotics and Applied Behavior Analysis: An Integrated Protocol in the Treatment of Autism

 

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30 – 15:15 (S2) Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems, part I.

Organizers: Anna Esposito, Zoraida Callejas, Claudia Greco, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Carl Vogel, Chair: Terry Amorese

  • 14:30 – 14:45 Claudia Greco, Giovanni Di Gennaro, Marialucia Cuciniello, Terry Amorese, Maria Santina Ler, Gennaro Cordasco, Amedeo Buonanno, Francesco A.N. Palmieri and Anna Esposito: Annotated Datasets for Trajectories’ Prediction: A Research Agenda
  • 14:45 – 15:00 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Jaume Teodoro, Enric Barba and Anna Esposito: The Importance of Multidisciplinary Teams in Innovative Research
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Benedetta Muzii, Anna Esposito, Raffaele Sperandeo, Natascia De Lucia, Gianluigi Califano, Cristiano Scandurra, Vincenzo Bochicchio, Francesco Mangiapia, Stefania Sivero and Fabio Carraturo: Can AI Improve Consciousness Disorders Diagnosis?

 

15:15 – 16:00 Keynote Lecture, Chair: Anna Esposito

Prof. Eros Pasero “Medicine 4.0: When New Technologies Work with AI”

 

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30 – 18:00 (S3) REGULAR Session, Chair: Michele Scarpiniti

  • 16:30 – 16:45 Alessio Micheli, Giovanna Maria Dimitri, Luca Pedrelli, Marco Tranchida, Lorenzo Bachi, Lucia Billeci, Maria-Aurora Morales and Federico Vozzi: A Preliminary Evaluation of Machine Learning Models for the Diagnosis of Brugada Syndrome from ECG-Extracted Features
  • 16:45 – 17:00 Silvia Caligari, Vincenzo Randazzo, Carla Giustetto, Fiorenzo Gaita and Eros Pasero: ECG Images Analysis for the Prediction of Fatal Arrhythmic Events in Patients with Brugada Syndrome based on a Vision Transformer Model
  • 17:00 – 17:15 Federico Delrio, Valentina De Vitis, Silvia Caligari, Vincenzo Randazzo, Giansalvo Cirrincione and Eros Pasero: Enhancing ECG Analysis with a Hybrid Deep Learning Approach: Automatic Detection of Significant Features
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Stefano Rovetta, Francesco Masulli, Alberto Cabri and Muhammad Mohsin: Virtual Mines – Component-level recycling of printed circuit boards using deep learning
  • 17:30-17:45 Giorgia Ghione, Vincenzo Randazzo, Eros Pasero and Marco Badami: An LSTM-Based Model for the Day-Ahead Forecasting of Photovoltaic Power Generation
  • 17:45 – 18:00 Michele La Rocca, Cira Perna and Marilena Sibillo: Mortality rate prediction using neural networks within the Lee-Carter framework: a comparison among European countries.

DAY 2 – Thursday June 8, 2023

8:30 Registration

 

9:00 – 9:45 “Eduardo Renato Caianiello Lecture”, Chair: Francesco Carlo Morabito
Prof. Amir Hussain “Towards Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence Enabled Multimodal Hearing Assistive Technologies” 

 

9:45 – 10:15 Coffee break

 

10:15 – 12:00  (S4) REGULAR Session, Chair: Francesco Palmieri

  • 10:15 – 10:30 Alessandro Betti, Michele Casoni and Marco Gori: Forward Approximate Solution for Linear Quadratic Tracking
  • 10:30 – 10:45 Claudio Pizzi and Matteo Munini: Machine learning for a trading system: a case study on bull-flag pattern
  • 10:45 – 11:00 Michele Scarpiniti, Sofia Perticarà, Yong-Cheol Lee and Aurelio Uncini: Deep Echo State Network for Environmental Sound Classification
  • 11:00 – 11:15 Luca Anzilli, Marta Cardin, Ludovico Carrino and Silvio Give: A fuzzy logic approach for pandemic risk assessment and restrictions design
  • 11:15 – 11:30 Marco Martino Rosso, Angelo Aloisio, Andrea Matteo De Leo, Maria Basi, Giansalvo Cirrincione and Giuseppe Carlo Marano: Multi-objective multi-layer perceptron architecture optimization for rapid post-earthquake damage evaluation
  • 11:30 – 11:45 Giovanni Messuti, Ortensia Amoroso, Ferdinando Napolitano, Mariarosaria Falanga, Paolo Capuano and Silvia Scarpetta: Robust Deep Learning model for Seismic traces classification with Dropout layers
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Claudio Pizzi, Federico Farsura, Marco Corazza and Francesca Parpinel: Corporate Financial Distress Prediction with Machine Learning Techniques

 

12:00-12:30 IEEE-SIREN Caianiello Best PhD thesis Awarded to  Marialucia Cuciniello and Gabriele Ciravegna.

12:10 – 12:20: Marialucia Cuciniello: “Psychological Monitoring of Mental Disorders Through Conversation”
12:20 – 12:30: Gabriele Ciravegna: “On the Two-fold Role of Logic Constraints in Deep Learning”

 

12:30 – 14:30 Lunch break

 

14:30 – 16:00 (S5) REGULAR Session, Chair: Angelo Ciaramella

  • 14:30 – 14:45 Francesco Camastra, Angelo Casolaro and Gennaro Iannuzzo: Time Series prediction with missing data by an Iterated Deep Gaussian Process
  • 14:45 – 15:00 Michele Lo Giudice, Nadia Mammone, Umberto Aguglia, Alessandro Salvini and Francesco Carlo Morabito: Multi-head CNN for Interictal EEG Classification of Subjects with Epileptic Seizures, Non-Epileptic Psychogenic Seizures and Control with Temporal and Connectivity Features
  • 15:00 – 15:15 Giovanni Di Gennaro, Amedeo Buonanno, Antonio Nogarotto and Francesco A. N. Palmieri:  Navigation in Unknown Environment using Soft Actor-Critic
  • 15:15 –15:30 Luca Anzilli, Marta Cardin and Silvio Giove: Multi-Criteria Evaluation: An Approach based on Distance Operators
  • 15:30 –15:45 Vincenzo Mariano Scarrica, Angelo Casolaro, Antonino Staiano and Gennaro Iannuzzo: Intelligent Management of Video-Monitored Parking Areas  Using Machine Learning
  • 15:45–16:00 Alessandro Betti, Michele Casoni and Marco Gori: Forward Approximate Solution for Linear Quadratic Tracking

 

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

 

16:30 – 17:45 (S6) REGULAR Session, Chair: Giovanni Di Gennaro

  • 16:30 – 16:45 Vincenzo Silvio, Emanuel Di Nardo and Angelo Ciaramella: Discrete Diffusion Model for Image Captioning by Self-Critical Learning
  • 16:45 – 17:00 Oleksiy Chepyk, Arcangelo Bruna, Valeria Tomaselli, Nadia Mammone, Maurizio Campolo, Giuseppe Ruggeri, Cosimo Ieracitano and Francesco C. Morabito: An Embedded Deep Neural Model for EOG-controlled Brain Computer Interfaces
  • 17:00 – 17:15 Gennaro Mellone, Emanuel Di Nardo, Raffaele Montella, Pietro Patrizio, Ciro Aucelli and Angelo Ciaramella: Exploring the Effectiveness of Slot Attention-based Classifier in Detecting Underwater Marine Litter: A Study
  • 17:15 – 17:30 Bruno Carpentieri, Gianni D’Angelo, Massimo Ficco, Ugo Fiore, Francesco Palmieri: Network Anomaly Detection based on Burrows-Wheeler Transform and Variational Autoencoders  
  • 17:30 – 17:45 Amedeo Buonanno, Giovanni Di Gennaro, Armando Ospedale and Francesco A.N. Palmieri: Gated Graph Neural Networks for classification task

 

17:45 – 18:45 SIREN ANNUAL MEETING

 

20:00 – SOCIAL DINNER “Ristorante Il Pescatore”

DAY 3 – Friday June 9, 2023

8:30 Registration

 

9:00 – 10:00 (S7) REGULAR Session, Chair: Marcos Faundez-Zanuy

  • 9:00 – 9:15 Anerdi Costanza, Jonathan Melchiorre, Vincenzo Randazzo and Giuseppe Carlo Marano: A Machine Learning-Based Approach for Evaluating Concrete Mix Design Properties
  • 9:15 – 9:30 Gabriele Ciravegna, Pietro Barbiero, Pietro Liò and Frédéric Precioso: Shall we stop using E2E learning? A short survey of recent concept-based approaches
  • 9:30 – 9:45 Jonathan Melchiorre, Federico Agostini, Leo D’Amato and Marco Martino Rosso: Onset Time Detection of Acoustic Emission Signals for Structural Monitoring with Deep Learning
  • 9:45 – 10:00 Filippo Villani, Michele Scarpiniti and Aurelio Uncini: Two-Stage Neural Network for Speech Signal Reconstruction from Mel Spectrograms
  • 10:00 – 10:15 Elena Sibilano, Alessandra Algieri, Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, Domenico Buongiorno and Antonio Brunetti: Major Depressive Disorder Classification with 3D CNNs and Grad-CAM Visualization on Structural Magnetic Resonance Images
  • 10:15 – 10:30 Federico Longobardi, Nicole Salvatori, Maurizio Fiasché: Decision Support Systems for Digital agriculture: Realization and Test of Two Predictive Algorithms for Corn Parasites
  • 10:30 – 10:45 Antonietta M. Esposito, Walter De Cesare, Giovanni Macedonio and Flora Giudicepietro: Automatic detection of Short Duration Events (SDEs) in Fumarolic Tremor of Campi Flegrei Caldera: Preliminary Results

 

10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break

 

11:15 – 12:15 (S7) Special Session on Dynamics of Signal Exchanges and Empathic Systems, part III. Organizers: Anna Esposito, Zoraida Callejas, Claudia Greco, Antonietta M. Esposito, Gennaro Cordasco, Nelson Mauro Maldonato, Francesco Carlo Morabito, Carl Vogel Chair: Claudia Grec

  • 11:15 – 11:30 Marcos Faundez-Zanuy, Jiri Mekyska, Manuel Vicente Garnacho and Pilar Sanz: On the Intra-Session Variability in Online Signatures
  • 11:30 – 11:45 Carla Nasti, Sonia La Resta, Stefania Paternoster, Simona De Falco and Vincenzo Paolo Senese: The Association Between Observed Maternal Responsiveness and the Implicit and Explicit Responses to Different Infant Faces
  • 11:45 – 12:00 Paolo Pagliuca and Davide Inglese: The Importance of Functionality over Complexity. A Preliminary Study on Feed-Forward Neural Networks
  • 12:00 – 12:15 Luisa Almerico, Anna Pezzella, Simone Pisano, Gennaro Catone, Marzia Maresca, Antonio Irpino and Vincenzo Paolo Senese: An Application of the Network Analysis to the Study of the Psychometric Properties of the Short Mood and Feeling Questionnaire
  • 12:15 – 12:30 Benedetta Muzii, Francesco Mangiapia, Anna Esposito, Raffaele Sperandeo, Gianluigi Califano, Natascia De Lucia, Cristiano Scandurra, Fabio Carraturo and Nelson Mauro Maldonato: Which Unconscious for Complex Cognitive Systems?

 

12:30  – 12:45 Conference Closing Chair: Anna Esposito

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WIRN 2024 è parzialmente finanziato da EU NextGeneration, PNRR Mission 4 Component 2 Investment 1.1 – D.D. 1409 del 14-09-2022 PRIN 2022 – Project code  “P20222MYKE” – CUP: B53D23025980001, dal titolo “A Pilot analysIs of behavioRal and opeRational data for detEcting Socio-emotional PrEcursors of mild CogniTIVE impairments (MCI) and demEntia” (IRRESPECTIVE)