Welcome to the personal website of Francesco Bianconi
I am an Associate Professor with the Department of Engineering at the Università degli Studi di Perugia, Italy, where I teach Engineering Graphics & CAD to undergraduate students in Industrial and Mechanical Engineering. I conduct research in image processing with particular focus on texture and colour analysis. I am a member of the editorial board of Applied Sciences (section Computing & Artificial Intelligence) and serve as academic editor for PLOS One.
Recent activities
- Co-publication chair at the forthcoming 5th International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD '21 - call for paper here)
- Author of the recently published Artificial intelligence techniques support nuclear medicine modalities to improve the diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease and Parkinsonian syndromes in Clinical and Translational Imaging. The paper is open access, feel free to read and share!
- Co-guest editor of the special issue Artificial intelligence in Image-Based Diagnostics of Oncological and Neurological Disorders, Diagnostics
- Speaker at Florence Heri-Tech 2020
- Keynote speaker at the 2020 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD'20)
- Co-organiser of the workshop TAILOR: Texture AnalysIs, cLassificatiOn and Retrieval, in conjuction with ICPR 2020
Research interests (more in Research)
- Colour and texture descriptors for visual recognition
- Computer vision for industrial and biomedical applications
- Machine learning
- Pattern recognition
- Radiomics
External cooperations
- Prof. Antonio Fernández and Prof. Elena González (Universidade de Vigo, Spain) on colour and texture descriptors for visual recognition
- Prof. Fernando J. and Manuel Á. Aguilar (Universidad de Almería, Spain) on remote sensing
- Prof. Richard W. Harvey (University of East Anglia, United Kindom) on image processing
- Prof. Perry Xiao (London South Bank University, United Kingdom) on image processing applied to skin analysis
- Prof. Angela Spanu and Dr. Susanna M. Nuvoli (Università degli Sudi di Sassari, Italy) on applications of machine learning to computer-assisted diagnosis and prognostication (radiomics)
- Dr. Fabrizio Smeraldi (Queen Mary, University of London, United Kingdom) on on colour and texture descriptors for visual recognition
- Dr. Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro (City, University of London, United Kingdom) on biomedical image analysis
- The Imaging and Vision Laboratory group (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy) on colour and texture descriptors for visual recognition
Visiting positions
- Academic Visitor, School of Mathematics, Computer Science and Engineering (City, University of London), Sep.-Dec. 2018
- Academic Visitor, School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (Queen Mary, University of London), Sep.-Dec. 2015
- Visiting Professor, School of Computing Sciences (university of East Anglia, United Kingdom), Oct.-Dec. 2010
- Visiting Researcher, Escuela de Ingeniería Industrial (Universidade de Vigo, Spain), Sep. 2005, Sep. 2006, Sep. 2007 and June-July 2009
Visiting scholars (incoming)
- Prof. Antonio Fernández (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
- Prof. Elena González (Universidade de Vigo, Spain)
- Prof. Manuel Á. Aguilar (Universidad de Almería, Spain)
- Dr. Fabrizio Smeraldi (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)
Professional affiliations
- Senior member IEEE since 2013
- Chartered engineer since 1997
- Court-appinted expert since 1998
Keywords
Colour, Computer vision, Engineering graphics, Image processing, Machine learning, Pattern recognition, Radiomics, Texture