Luciano Alparone

Information Engineering Department
University of Florence
Via di S. Marta, 3 - 50139 Firenze Italia
Telefono +39 0552758614
e-mail: luciano.alparone(at)unifi.it

• Biografia

Luciano Alparone received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in electronic engineering and the Ph.D. degree from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1985 and 1990, respectively.
Since 2002, he has been an Associate Professor of electrical communications with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, University of Florence. During the spring of 2000 and summer of 2001, he was a Visiting Researcher with the Tampere International Centre for Signal Processing, Tampere, Finland. His research interests are data compression for remote sensing and medical applications, multiresolution image analysis and processing, multisensor data fusion, and processing and analysis of SAR images. He authored or coauthored over 60 papers on peer-reviewed journals and a total of 300 publications.
Dr. Alparone was a recipient of the 2004 Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Prize Paper Award for his study on "A global quality measurement of Pan-sharpened multispectral imagery".

• Pubblicazioni

1. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, "Quality Issues for Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery Through Spectrally Adaptive DPCM",  in Satellite Data Compression, 2011, pp. 115-147,     
2. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, M.Selva, "Multispectral pansharpening based on pixel modulation: state of the art and new results ",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8180, vol. 8180, Oct. 2011, pp. 818002,     
3. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, F.Argenti, S.Baronti, T.Bianchi, A.Lapini, "An unsupervised method for quality assessment of despeckling: an evaluation on COSMO-SkyMed data",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 8179, vol. 8179, Oct. 2011, pp. 81790D,     
4. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, A.Lapini, L.Alparone, "Simplified MAP Despeckling Based on Laplacian-Gaussian Modeling of Undecimated Wavelet Coefficients",  Proceedings of EUSIPCO 2011, Aug.-Sept. 2011,  Barcelona, Spain     
5. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, A.Lapini, L.Alparone, "Fast MAP Despeckling Based on Laplacian-Gaussian Modeling of Wavelet Coefficients",  IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 9, no. 1, Jan. 2012 (published online July 2011), pp. 13-17,     
6. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, R.Carla, A.Garzelli, L.Santurri, M.Selva, "Effects of multitemporal scene changes on pansharpening fusion ",  Proceedings of 2011 6th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images (Multi-Temp), July 2011, pp. 73-76, Trento, Italy     
7. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, C.Zoppetti, "A robust change detection feature for Cosmo-SkyMed detected SAR images ",  Proceedings of 2011 6th International Workshop on the Analysis of Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Images (Multi-Temp), July 2012, pp. 125-128, Trento, Italy     
8. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, F.Butera, L.Chiarantini, M.Selva, "Benefits of signal-dependent noise reduction for spectral analysis of data from advanced imaging spectrometers ",  Proceedings of 2011 3rd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS), June 2011, pp. 1-4, Lisbon, Portugal     
9. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, A.Lapini, L.Alparone, "Bayesian Despeckling of SAR Images Based on Laplacian-Gaussian Modeling of Undecimated Wavelet Ceofficients",  Proceedings of ICASSP 2011, May 2011,  Prague, Czech Republic     
10. S.Baronti, B.Aiazzi, M.Selva, A.Garzelli, L.Alparone, "A Theoretical Analysis of the Effects of Aliasing and Misregistration on Pansharpened Imagery",  IEEE Transactions on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 5, no. 3, June 2011, pp. 446-453 ,     
11. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, M.Selva, "A theoretical evaluation of aliasing and misregistration effects on pansharpening methods ",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7830, Oct. 2010, pp. 783002,     
12. L.Alparone, F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, A.Lapini, "An evaluation of Bayesian estimators and PDF models for despeckling in the undecimated wavelet domain",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7829, SAR Image Analysis, Modeling, and Techniques X, Oct. 2010,      
13. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, "Recent achievements in lossless compression of hyperspectral data",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7799, Sept. 2010, pp. 77990G,     
14. L.Alparone, F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, "Multiresolution despeckling of VHR SAR images based on MRF segmentation",  Proceedings of IGARSS 2010, July 2010, pp. 288-291, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA     
15. A.Garzelli, L.Capobianco, L.Alparone, B.Aiazzi, S.Baronti, M.Selva, "Hyperspectral pansharpening based on modulation of pixel spectra ",  Proceedings of 2010 2nd Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing (WHISPERS) , June 2010,  Reykjavik, Iceland     
16. M.M.Khan, J.Chanussot, L.Alparone, "Pansharpening of Hyperspectral images using spatial distortion optimization",  Proceedings of 2009 16th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Nov. 2009, pp. 2853-2856, Cairo, Egypt     
17. M.M.Khan, L.Alparone, J.Chanussot, "Pansharpening Quality Assessment Using the Modulation Transfer Functions of Instruments",  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 47, no. 11, Nov. 2009, pp. 3880-3891 ,     
18. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, G.Martucci di Scarfizzi, L.Alparone, "LMMSE and MAP Estimators for Reduction of Multiplicative Noise in the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Domain",  Signal Processing, vol. 89, no. 10, Oct. 2009, pp. 1891-1901,     
19. A.Garzelli, L.Alparone, L.Capobianco, F.Nencini, "Fast weighted least squares pan-sharpening ",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7477, Sept. 2009, pp. 747706,     
20. L.Alparone, M.Selva, B.Aiazzi, S.Baronti, F.Butera, L.Chiarantini, "Signal-dependent noise modelling and estimation of new-generation imaging spectrometers",  Proceedings of First Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, 2009 (WHISPERS '09) , Aug. 2009,  Grenoble, France     
21. M.M.Khan, J.Chanussot, L.Alparone, "Hyperspectral pansharpening using QNR optimization constraint ",  Proceedings of First Workshop on Hyperspectral Image and Signal Processing: Evolution in Remote Sensing, 2009 (WHISPERS '09), Aug. 2009,  Grenoble, France     
22. L.Alparone, M.Selva, L.Capobianco, S.Moretti, L.Chiarantini, F.Butera, "Quality assessment of data products from a new generation airborne imaging spectrometer ",  Proceedings of 2009 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS 2009), July 2009, pp. IV-422-IV-425 , Cape Town, South Africa     
23. B.Aiazzi, S.Baronti, L.Alparone, "Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Images Using Multiband Lookup Tables",  IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 6, June 2009, pp. 481-484,     
24. R.Lasaponara, N.Masini, B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, "Satellite-based enhancement of archaeological marks through data fusion techniques ",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7110, Oct. 2008, pp. 711024,     
25. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, F.Nencini, "Information-theoretic multitemporal features for change analysis from SAR images ",  Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 7109, Oct. 2008, pp. 71090S,     
26. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, R.Lasaponara, N.Masini, "Data fusion techniques for supporting and improving satellite based archaeological research",  Proceedings of International EARSeL Workshop "Advances in Remote Sensing for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage Management", Sep.-Oct. 2008,  Rome, Italy     
27. T.Bianchi, F.Argenti, L.Alparone, "Segmentation-Based MAP Despeckling of SAR Images in the Undecimated Wavelet Domain",  IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 46, no. 9, Sept. 2008, pp. 2728-2742,     
28. M.M.Khan, L.Alparone, J.Chanussot, "Pansharpening Quality Assessment using Modulation Transfer Function Filters ",  Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008 (IGARSS 2008), July 2008, pp. V-61-V-64 , Boston, MA, USA     
29. M.M.Khan, L.Alparone, J.Chanussot, "QNR Optimization based Pansharpening",  Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008 (IGARSS 2008), July 2008, pp. V-73-V-76 , Boston, MA, USA     
30. B.Aiazzi, S.Baronti, L.Alparone, "Lossless Compression of Hyperspectral Imagery Via Lookup Tables and Classified Linear Spectral Prediction ",  Proceedings of IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2008 (IGARSS 2008), July 2008, pp. II-978-II-981, Boston, MA, USA     
31. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, G.Martucci di Scarfizzi, L.Alparone, "SAR Image Despeckling in the Undecimated Contourlet Domain: A Comparison of LMMSE and MAP Approaches",  Proceedings of IGARSS 2008, July 2008,  Boston, MA, USA     
32. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, G.Martucci di Scarfizzi, L.Alparone, "Restoration of Images Corrupted by Multiplicative Noise in the Nonsubsampled Contourlet Domain",  Proceedings of ICASSP 2008, Mar.-Apr. 2008,  Las Vegas, NV, USA     
33. L.Alparone, B.Aiazzi, S.Baronti, A.Garzelli, F.Nencini, M.Selva, "Multispectral and Panchromatic Data Fusion Assessment Without Reference",  Photogrammetric Engineering & Remote Sensing , vol. 74, no. 2, Feb. 2008, pp. 193-200,     
34. B.Aiazzi, L.Alparone, S.Baronti, M.Selva, "Quality Assessment of Remote-Sensing Multi-Band Optical Images",  in Image processing for remote sensing, 2008, pp. 355-375,     
35. L.Alparone, F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, "Multiresolution Analysis for Image Compression",  in Document and Image Compression, 2006, pp. 3-34,     
36. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, L.Alparone, "Multiresolution MAP Despeckling of SAR Images Based on Locally Adaptive Generalized Gaussian PDF Modeling",  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 15, no. 11, Nov. 2006, pp. 3385-3399,     
37. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, L.Alparone, "Map Despeckling of SAR Images Based on Local PDF Modeling in the Undecimated Wavelet Domain",  Proceedings of SMMSP '06, Sept. 2006,  Firenze, Italy     
38. L.Alparone, F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, "A New Multiresolution Approach to MAP Despeckling of SAR Imagery",  Proceedings of IGARSS 2006, July-Aug. 2006,  Denver, CO, USA     
39. F.Argenti, T.Bianchi, L.Alparone, "A Spatially-Adaptive MAP Estimation Approach to Multiresolution Despeckling of SAR Images",  Proceedings of WavE 2006, July 2006,  Lausanne, Switzerland     
40. R.Caldelli, L.Alparone, M.Bianchini , "Vector filtering of single-look complex SAR data based on adaptively weighted local order statistics",  Proceedings of IGARSS 2000, vol. 4, July 24-28, 2000, pp. 1669-1671, Honolulu Hawaii     
41. L.Alparone, F.Bartolini, M.Bianchini , R.Caldelli, "Performance Comparison of Adaptively Weighted Scalar and Vector Median Filtering for Postprocessing of Optical Flow Fields",  Nonlinear Image Processing XI, vol. 3961, January 24-25, 2000, pp. 81-90, San Jose, CA     
42. L.Alparone, M.Barni, F.Bartolini, R.Caldelli, "Regularization of Optic Flow Estimates by means of Weighted Vector Median Filtering",  IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, vol. 8, no. 10, 10/1999, pp. 1462-1467,