Ignazio Infantino

 

ICAR-CNR, Viale delle Scienze

edif. 11, 90128, Palermo (PA)

Italy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

phone: +39 091 23894262

fax: +39 091 484072

e-mail: ignazio.infantino@cnr.it

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

-                     robotics

-                     cognitive architecture,

-                     artificial vision

-                     human-robot interaction

-                     human-computer interaction

-                     image processing and analysis

-                     3D object/scene recognition and reconstruction

 

 

 

 

Education

 

University of Palermo: Ph.D. (2000), M.S.E.E. (1997)

 

 

 

 

Professional Appointments

 

From 2009 Coordinator of CNR's research area "Grid Computing & HPC" (45 researchers)

 

2004-2009 Responsible of research group F.A.C.I.L.E. (Framework based on Cognitive Agent for Processing and Managing Sensorial Data), composed by 10 researchers, and 2 technicians.

 

From 2001- research scientist at ICAR (Istituto di Calcolo e Reti ad Alte Prestazioni Institute of High Performance Networking and Computing), CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche National Research Council)

 

1999-2000 Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge (UK), visiting researcher.

 

Professional Services and Societies

 

Member of ACM, IEEE, Artificial Intelligence Italian Association,.

 

Research networks

 

-                     EUCogII, 2nd European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics, since 2010,

-                     EURON, European Robotics Research Network), since 2002,

-                     Agentcities.NET project, since 2002.

 

 

Teaching at University of Palermo

 

Fundamental of Computer Science (2001,2002, 2004, 2006)

 

Digital Image Processing (2003, 2004, 2005).

 

Publications

 

International Journals

 

-                     I. Infantino, G. Pilato, R. Rizzo, F. Vella, "Humanoid Introspection: a practical approach", Intl. Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems: Human Machine Interaction, InTech, 2013 (in printing)

-                     A. Chella, H.Dindo, I. Infantino, "Cognitive approach to goal-level imitation", Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, vol. 9, n. 2, pp. 301-318, 2008.

-                     I. Infantino, R. Rizzo, S. Gaglio, "A framework for sign language sentence recognition by common sense context", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, vol. 37, issue 5, pp. 1034-1039, 2007.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "Imitation Learning and Anchoring through Conceptual Spaces", Applied Artificial Intelligence, vol. 21, issue 4 &5, pp. 343-359, 2007.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "A Cognitive Framework for Imitation Learning", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, special issue on "Robot Programming by Demonstration", vol. 54, n.5, pp. 403-408, 2006.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Chella, H. Dindo, "A Cognitive Architecture for Robotic Hand Posture Learning", IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Part C, vol. 35, n.1, pp. 42-52, 2005.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, I. Macaluso, "A Posture Sequence Learning System for an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand", Robotics and Autonomous Systems, special issue on "Robot Learning by Demonstration", vol. 47, n. 2-3 pp. 143-152, 2004.

-                     I. Infantino, R. Cipolla, A. Chella, "Reconstruction of architectural scenes from uncalibrated photos and maps", IEICE - Transaction on Information and System, special issue on "Machine Vision Applications", vol. E84-D, n.12 pp.1620-1625, 2001.

-                     R. Pirrone, I. Infantino, D. Guarino, A. Chella, "A Vision System for Symbolic Interpretation of Dynamic Scenes Using ARSOM", Applied Artificial Intelligence, special issue on "Machine Learning in Computer Vision", vol.15, n.8, pp. 723-734, 2001.

 

Book Chapters and other ISI journals

 

-                     I. Infantino, "Affective human-humanoid interaction through cognitive architecture", The Future of Humanoid Robots: Research and Applications, Riadh Zaier (Ed.), ISBN: 978-953-307-951-6, InTech, 2012.

-                     H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "Representation, Recognition and Generation of Actions in the context of Imitation Learning",Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, The 2006 European Robotics Symposium (EUROS 2006), vol. 22, p. 65-77, 2006.

-                     I. Macaluso, E. Ardizzone, A. Chella, M. Cossentino, A. Gentile, R. Gradino, I. Infantino, M. Liotta, R. Rizzo, G. Scardino, "Experiences with CiceRobot, a museum guide cognitive robot",Stefania Bandini, Sara Manzoni (eds.), "AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence", LNCS 3673, pp. 474-482, 2005.

-                     H. Dindo, A. Chella, I. Infantino, "Anchoring by Imitation Learning in Conceptual Spaces", Stefania Bandini, Sara Manzoni (eds.), "AI*IA 2005: Advances in Artificial Intelligence", LNAI 3673, pp. 495-506, 2005.

-                     I. Infantino and A. Chella, "Architectural scenes reconstruction from uncalibrated photos and map based model knowledge", AI*IA 2001: Advances in AI, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 2175, pp. 356-361, 2001.

-                     V. Di Gesu', A. Chella, I. Infantino, D. Intravaia, C. Valenti, "A cooperating strategy for object recognition", Shape, Contour and Grouping in Computer Vision, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 1681, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 264-274, 1999.

 

International Conference Proceedings

 

-                     G. Scardino, I. Infantino, F. Vella, "Recognition of human identity by detection of user activity", 15th Intl. Conf. on Human-Computer Interaction (HCI International 2013), Las Vegas, USA, 21-26 july 2013.

-                     F. Vella, I. Infantino, G. Vetrano, S. Gaglio, "Image segmentation through a hiearchy of minimum spanning trees", IEEE The 8th Intl. Conf. on Signal-Image Tecnology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS 2012), Sorrento (Italy), 25-29 November 2012.

-                     I. Infantino, G. Pilato, R. Rizzo and F. Vella, "I Feel Blue: Robots and Humans Sharing Color Representation for Emotional Cognitive Interaction", proc. of the Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society. Palermo, Italy, 31 October - 3 Novemmber, 2012. (Springer's Series: Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol. 196, 2013, ISNN: 2194-5357, ISBN 978-3-642-34273-8)

-                     I. Infantino, G. Pilato, R. Rizzo, F. Vella, "Using a cognitive model to include human emotions and intentions in Human-Machine Interaction", EUROMEDIA'2012 Conference, Bucharest, Romania, April 18-20, 2012.

-                     G. Pilato, R. Rizzo, F. Vella, I. Infantino, "Human-Robot interaction based on introspective capability", 5th Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction (IIHCI 2012), The Sixth Intl. Conf. on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, Palermo, Italy, July 4th to July 6th, 2012.

-                     S. Gaglio, I. Infantino, G. Pilato, R. Rizzo, F. Vella ,"Vision and emotional flow in a cognitive architecture for human-machine interaction", Intl. Conf. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) 2011, Washington, USA, November 3-5 2011 (Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, vol. 233, 2011, ISNN 0922-6389 ISBN 978-1-60750-958-5)

-                     I. Infantino, G. Pilato, R. Rizzo, F. Vella, "A Cyc-based Web System for Semantic Organization, Search and Browsing of Knowledge Items", Fifth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2011), 4th International Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction (IIHCI-2011), Seoul, Korea June 30th- July 2nd, 2011.

-                     I. Infantino, G. Spoto, F. Vella, S. Gaglio, "Composition of SIFT features for robust image representation", IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010, San Jose, California, USA, 17-21 January 2010.

-                     I. Infantino, G. Spoto, F. Vella, S. Gaglio, "Image Representation with bag-of-biSIFT", IEEE-ACM The 5th Intl. Conf. on Signal-Image Tecnology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS'09), Marrakesh (Morocco), 29 November - 4 December 2009.

-                     I. Infantino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, "Microarray data and image simulation", ESM 2009 European Simulation and Modelling Conference, Leicester, UK, October 26-28, 2009.

-                     I. Infantino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, F. Vella, "Human-Humanoid Interaction by an Intentional System", 2008 8th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Daejeon, Korea, 1-3 December, 2008.

-                     I. Infantino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, "Testing and evaluation of microarray image analysis software", 2nd Intl. Conf. on Complex, Intelligent and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS 2008), Intl. Workshop on Intelligent Informatics in Biology and Medicine (IIBM 2008), Barcelona, Spain, March 4-7, 2008

-                     I. Infantino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, F. Vella, "Implementation of a Intentional Vision System to support Cognitive Architectures", International Workshop on Robotic Perception (VISAPP-RoboPerc08), 3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP'08, Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, 22-25 January, 2008.

-                     G. Scardino, I. Infantino, S. Gaglio, "Automated Object Shape Modelling by Clustering of Web Images",3rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications VISAPP'08, Funchal, Madeira - Portugal, 22-25 January, 2008.

-                     A. Chella, D. Haris, I. Infantino, "Learning high-level assembly tasks through imitation", in proc. of The 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2006), Beijing, China, October 9-15, 2006.

-                     A. Chella, D. Haris, I. Infantino, "Learning high-level manipulative tasks through imitation", Learning through imitation - Special session at IEEE Ro-Man 2006, 6-8 September 2006, Hatfield, United Kingdom.

-                     I. Infantino, R. Rizzo, S. Gaglio, "A Software System for Automatic Signed Italian Recognition", 2nd Workshop on the Representation and Processing of Sign Languages, in conjunction with The 5th international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2006, 28 May, Genoa, Italy.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "People Tracking and Posture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction", International Workshop on Vision Based Human-Robot Interaction, in conjunction with EUROS-2006, 18 March,2006, Palermo, Italy.

-                     I. Infantino, R. Rizzo, S. Gaglio "A System for Sign Language Sentence Recognition Based on Common Sense Context", IEEE EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a tool", November 21-24, 2005, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "A System for Simultaneous People Tracking and Posture Recognition in the context of Human-Computer Interaction", IEEE EUROCON 2005 - The International Conference on "Computer as a tool", November 21-24, 2005, Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro.

-                     A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Infantino, "A Cognitive Framework for Learning by Imitation", IEEE ICRA'05, workshop on the Social Mechanisms of Robot Programming by Demonstration, April 18-22, 2005, Barcelona, Spain.

-                     B. Caci, M. Cardaci, A. Chella, A. D'Amico, I. Infantino, I. Macaluso, "Personality and Learning in Robots. The Role of Individual Motivations/Expectations/ Emotions in Robot Adaptive Behaviours", Agents that want and like: motivational and emotional roots of cognition and action, EPSRC-AISB'05, University of Hertfordshire, April 14-15, 2005, Hatfield, UK.

-                     A. Chella, I. Infantino, "Conceptual Spaces and Robotic Emotions", IEEE SMC 2004, International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 10-13, 2004, The Hague, The Netherlands.

-                     A. Chella, I. Infantino, "Emotions in a Cognitive Architecture for Human Robot Interactions", the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium Series, March 22-24, 2004, Stanford, California.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Macaluso, "A Posture Sequence Learning System for an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand", in proc. of the IEEE/RSJ IROS-2003 Workshop on Robot Learning by Demonstration, Las Vegas, USA, October 31, 2003.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Macaluso, "Human Hand Posture Reconstruction for a Visual Control of an Anthropomorphic Robotic Hand", in proc. of the Third IEEE International Conference on Humanoid Robots, TU Munchen and U Karlsruhe, Germany, October 1-3, 2003.

-                     A. Chella, I. Infantino, H. Dindo, I. Macaluso, "Visual Control of a Robotic Hand", in proc. of The 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003), Las Vegas , USA, October 27-31, 2003.

-                     I. Infantino, M. Cossentino, A. Chella, "An agent based architecture for robotic vision systems", Agentcities iD3, Barcelona, Spain, 6-8 February 2003.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Gentile, A. Chella, "A SIMD embedded architecture implementing a vision agent for space applications", 7th ESA Workshop on Advanced Space Technologies for Robotics and Automation, 'ASTRA 2002', 19-21 November 2002, ESTEC, Noordwijk, The Netherlands.

-                     A. Ruisi, M. Cossentino, I. Infantino, A. Chella, R. Pirrone  "An Agent Based Architecture for Cooperative Robotics in Vision Tasks", IEEE IROS-2002 Workshop on Cooperative Robotics, Lausanne, Switzerland, October, 2002.

-                     I. Infantino, M. Cossentino, A. Chella, "An Agent Based Multilevel Architecture for robotics vision systems", The 2002 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IC-AI'02), Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, June 2002

-                     I. Infantino, A. Gentile, A. Chella, "Implementing a robotic arm supervising agent for space applications on a SIMD embedded architecture", MPCS 2002, Fourth Int'l Conference on Massively Parallel Computing Systems, Ischia, Italy, April 2002.

-                     A. Chella, I. Infantino, M. D. Guarino, "Localisation and description of the movements of a robotic arm for space applications by active contour techniques on image sequence", Proc. of International Symposium on Artificial Inteligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, iSAIRAS 2001, Montreal, Canada, June 2001.

-                     I. Infantino, R. Cipolla, A. Chella, "Reconstruction of architectural scenes from uncalibrated photos and maps", IAPR Conference on Machine Vision Applications, Tokyo, 2000.

-                     A.Chella, M. D.Guarino , I. Infantino, R. Pirrone, "An High-Level Vision System for the Symbolic Interpretation of Dynamic Scenes by the ARSOM Neural Networks", ECAI 2000- Workshop on "Machine Learning in Computer Vision", Berlin, Germany, August 2000.

-                     A. Chella, S. Gaglio, M.D. Guarino, I. Infantino, "An artificial high-level vision agent for the interpretation of the operations of a robotic arm", Proc. Fifth International Symposium on Artificial Inteligence, Robotics and Automation in Space, iSAIRAS '99, Noordiwijk, Netherland, 1999.

-                     A. Chella, V. Di Gesu', I. Infantino, et al. "DAISY: a Distribuited Architecture for Intelligent SYstem", IEEE Fourth International Workshop on Computer Architecture for Machine Perception, IEEE-CAMP 97, Boston, Massachusetts, USA 1997.

 

National Journals and Books

 

-                     A. Chella, M. Cossentino, D. Guarino, I. Infantino, R. Pirrone, R. Sorbello, "L'interazione tra uomo e robot attraverso la rete: tecnologie innovative, applicazioni e risorse", Immagini della emergente societa' in rete, collana editoriale "Comunicazione, Istituzioni e Mutamento sociale", Franco Angeli Editore, Milano, 2003.

-                     A.Chella, M.Cossentino, I. Infantino, R. Pirrone, "A Vision Agent in a Distributed Architecture for Mobile Robotics", AI*IA"Artificial Intelligence, Vision and Pattern Recognition", vol.1, Marzo 2002.

 

National Conferenca Proceedings

 

-                     I. Infantino, C. Lodato, S. Lopes, F. Vella, "An Intentional System based on a Knowledge Base of Visual Perception", AI*IA'08, Workshop Verso la Robotica Intenzionale, Calgiari 11-13 sett. 2008.

-                     I. Infantino, S. Lattuca, A. Scianna, "Automatic rectification of aerial images in GRASS GIS", VIII Meeting degli utenti italiani di GRASS & GFOSS, Palermo, 14-16 Febbraio, 2007.

-                     H. Dindo, A. Chella, I. Infantino, Aldo Maniaci, "A System for simultaneous People Tracking and Posture Recognition in the context of Human-Robot Interaction", in proc. of 2nd RoboCare Workshop, Roma, 2005.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Chella, H. Dindo, I. Macaluso, "A Cognitive System for Human Interaction with a Robotic Hand", workshop RoboCare, Roma, ottobre 2003.

-                     M. Cossentino, I. Infantino, A. Chella, "A Distributed Agent Based Architecture for Robotics Vision Systems", Workshop annuale del gruppo di lavoro Robotica, VIII Convegno della AI*IA, Siena,10-13 Settembre 2002.

-                     I. Infantino, A. Gentile, A. Chella, "A Vision Agent for Robotics: Implementation on a SIMD Machine" ,Workshop su percezione e visione delle macchine, VIII Convegno della AI*IA, Siena,10-13 Settembre 2002.

-                     A. Chella, M. Cossentino, I. Infantino, R. Pirrone, "A Vision Agent in a Distributed Architecture for Mobile Robotics", AI*IA 2001- Workshop su "Intelligenza Artificiale, Visione e Pattern Recognition", Bari, Settembre 2001.

-                     A. Chella, M. Cossentino, I. Infantino, R. Pirrone, "An Agent Based Design Process for Cognitive Architectures in Robotics", proc. of WOA 2001,Modena 4-5 Sett. 2001.

-                     A. Chella, D. Guarino, I. Infantino, R. Pirrone. "A System for Symbolic Interpretation of Moving Scene", Atti della Conferenza dell'AI*IA, Padova, 1999.

-                     A. Chella, G. Di Fatta, S. Gaglio, M. D. Guarino, I. Infantino, G. Lo Re, G. Sajeva, "A Distribuited Architecture for Cognitive Teleautonomy", Atti del Sesto Convegno AI*IA'98, Padova, 1998.

 

 

 

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