Publications

International Journals

Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud. "Boosting k-NN for categorization of natural scenes". In International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). Springer, 2012 (to appear).
Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud. "Leveraging k-NN for Generic Classification Boosting". In Neurocomputing (Special Issue on Machine Learning for Signal Processing), Vol. 80: 3-9. Elsevier, March 2012.
Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Combining spatial and temporal patches for scalable video indexing". In Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 48 (1): 89-104. Springer, May 2010.

Book Chapters

Paolo Piro, Michel Barlaud, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen. "k-NN Boosting Prototype Learning for Object Classification".
In "Analysis, Retrieval and Delivery of Multimedia Contents". Springer, 2011 (to appear).
Jenny Benois-Pineau, Sandrine Anthoine, Claire Morand, Jean-Philippe Domenger, Eric Debreuve, Wafa Bel Haj Ali, Paolo Piro. "Scalable Indexing of HD Video".
In "High-quality visual experience". Springer, 2010.
Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Sparse Multiscale Patches for Image Processing".
In ETCV, volume 5416 of LNCS. Springer, 2009.

Conference Papers


Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud. "Multi-Class Leveraged k-NN for Image Classification". In ACCV '10, Queenstown, New Zealand, November 2010.
 
Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud. "Leveraging k-NN for Generic Classification Boosting". In MLSP '10, Kittilä, Finland, August 2010.
 
Paolo Piro, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen, Michel Barlaud. "Boosting Bayesian MAP Classification". In ICPR '10, Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
 
Wafa Bel Haj Ali, Paolo Piro, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "From Descriptor to Boosting: Optimizing the k-NN Classification Rule". In CBMI '10, Grenoble, France, June 2010.
 
Paolo Piro, Michel Barlaud, Richard Nock, Frank Nielsen. "k-NN Boosting Prototype Learning for Object Classification". In WIAMIS '10, Desenzano del Garda, Italy, April 2010.
 
Frank Nielsen, Paolo Piro, Michel Barlaud. "Bregman Vantage Point Trees for Efficient Nearest Neighbor Queries". In ICME '09, New York City, US, July 2009.
 
Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Scalable Spatio-temporal Video Indexing Using Sparse Multiscale Patches". In CBMI '09, Chania, Greece, June 2009.
 
Frank Nielsen, Paolo Piro, Michel Barlaud. "Tailored Bregman Ball Trees for Effective Nearest Neighbors". In EuroCG '09, Bruxelles, Belgium, March 2009.
 
Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Sparse Multiscale Patches (SMP) for Image Categorization". In Advances in Multimedia Modeling (MMM) '09, Sophia-Antipolis, France, January 2009.
 
Paolo Piro, Sandrine Anthoine, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Image retrieval via Kullback-Leibler divergence of patches of multiscale coefficients in the k-NN framework". In CBMI, London, UK, June 2008.
 
Sandrine Anthoine, Paolo Piro, Eric Debreuve, Michel Barlaud. "Using neighborhood distributions of wavelet coefficients for on-the-fly, multiscale-based image retrieval. In WIAMIS, Klagenfurt, Austria, May 2008.


Ph.D. thesis


Paolo Piro. "Learning prototype-based classification rules in a boosting framework: application to real-world and medical image categorization".
University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, January 2011.