Journals (selection)

International:

  1. Racoviteanu, A., C. Florea , Florea, L. and Vertan, C., 2024. Normalized margin loss for action unit detection. Machine Vision and Applications, 35(1), p.9. , [official link ].

  2. M. Badea, C. Florea , A. Racoviteanu, L. FLorea, C. Vertan ''Timid Semi--supervised Learning for Face Expression Analysis '' Pattern Recognition 2023 , [official link]. [preprint].

  3. C. Florea , C. Vertan, L. FLorea ''SoftClusterMix: learning soft boundaries for empirical risk minimization'' Neural Computing and Applications 2023 , [official link]. [preprint].

  4. C. Vertan, C. Florea , L. Florea ''Directed color transfer for low-light image enhancement'' Sensors 2021, 21(14), 4857 , [official link].

  5. L. Florea C. Florea ''Directed color transfer for low-light image enhancement'' Digital Signal Processing, Volume 93, 2019, pages 1-12 , [official link].

  6. C. Florea , F. Gieseke ''Artistic Movement Recognition by Consensus of Boosted SVM Based Experts'' Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , [preprint] [official link].

  7. M. Badea, C. Florea , L. Florea, C. Vertan ''Can We Teach Computers to Understand Art? Domain Adaptation for Enhancing Deep Networks Capacity to De-Abstract Art'' Image and Vision Computing Journal, Volume 77, September 2018, Pages 21-32 [preprint] [official link].

  8. C. Florea , L.Florea, R. Boia, A. Bandrabur, C. Vertan, "Pain Intensity Estimation by a Self-Taught Selection of Histograms of Topographical Features" Image and Vision Computing Journal, Vol. 56, 2016, Pages 13-27, [preprint] [official link]

  9. L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Recognition of the Gaze Direction: Anchoring with the Eyebrows", in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , Vol. 35, Feb. 2016, Pp. 67-77 Feb. 2016 [preprint] [official link]

  10. R. Boia, C. Florea , L. Florea, R. Dogaru "Logo Localization and Recognition in Natural Images Using Homographic Class Graphs", accepted in Machine Vision and Applications , Vol. 27(2), pp. 287-301, 2016 [preprint] [official link].

  11. C. Florea , L. Florea, C. Vertan "High Dynamic Range Imaging by Perceptual Logarithmic Exposure Merging", in International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 943-954, 2015 [preprint - arXiv] [official link].

  12. L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Robust Eye Centers Localization with Zero-Crossing Encoded Image Projections", on Pattern Analysis and Applications February 2017, Volume 20, Issue 1, pp 127-143 [preprint - arXiv] . [official link]

  13. R. Vranceanu, C. Florea , L. Florea, C. Vertan, "Gaze Direction Estimation by Component Separation for Recognition of Eye Accessing Cues", in Machine Vision Application Vol. 26(2-3), pp 267-278, 2015, [preprint] [official link]

  14. R. Condorovici, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Automatically Classifying Paintings with Perceptual Inspired Descriptors", in Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , Vol. 26, pp. 222-230, 2015 , [preprint] [official link]

  15. C. Florea , L. Florea, "Logarithmic Type Image Processing Framework for Enhancing Photographs Acquired in Extreme Lighting", Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Vol. 13, No. 2, pp. 97-104, 2013, [preprint]

  16. C. Florea , L. Florea, "Parametric Logarithmic Type Image Processing for Contrast Based Auto-Focus in Extreme Lighting Conditions", in International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Vol. 23 No. 3, 2013, pp. 637 - 648 [pdf]

  17. L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, A. Sultana, "Automatic Tools for Diagnosis Support of Total Hip Replacement Follow-up", in Advances in Electrical and Computer Engineering, No. 4, 2011, Pp. 55 - 62 [pdf]

National:

  1. R. Vranceanu, L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "A Computer vision approach for the eye accesing cue model used in Neuro-Linguistic Programming", in ScBul UPB series C, Vol 75, Iss. 4, 2013, pp. 79-90

  2. C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Piecewise linear approximation of logarithmic image processing models for dynamic range enhancement", in SciBul UPB, series C, Vol. 71, Iss. 2, 2009, pp. 3-15. [pdf]

Conference (selection)

  1. C. Florea, M. Badea, L. Florea, A. Racoviteanu, C. Vertan "Margin-Mix: Semi–Supervised Learning for Face Expression Recognition", ECCV 2020, Glasgow, UK, [paper] [supplementary] [slides]

  2. C. Florea, L. Florea, C. Vertan, M. Badea, A. Racoviteanu "Annealed Label Transfer for Face Expression Recognition", BMVC 2019, Cardiff, UK, [preprint] Anxiety Images [Archive]

  3. A. Racoviteanu, M. Badea, C. Florea, L. Florea, C. Vertan, "Large Margin Loss for Learning Facial Movements from Pseudo-Emotions", BMVC 2019, Cardiff, UK, [preprint]; romanian detailed presentation [pdf]

  4. A. Racoviteanu, I. Felea, L. Florea, M. Badea, and C. Florea "Clustering Based Reference Normal Pose for Improved Expression Recognition" ACIVS 2018, Poitiers, France, LNCS 11182, pp. 1-11, 2018.

  5. C. Florea, M.S. Badea, L. Florea, C. Vertan, "Painting genre recognition by deep neural networks and domain transfer" 12 pg., SCIA 2017, Tromso, Norway, 2017, published as chapter 28, LNCS, Vol. 10269 [preprint], [project]

  6. C. Florea, C. Toca, F. Gieske," Artistic Movement Recognition by Boosted Fusion of Color Structure and Topographic Description", WACV 2017, Santa Rosa, USA, pp. 569-577 [preprint], [project], [database]

  7. M. Badea, C. Vertan, C. Florea, L. Florea, S. Badoiu, "Severe Burns Assessment by Joint Color-Thermal Imagery and Ensemble Methods", IEEE HealthCom 2016, Munich Germany

  8. C. Florea, R. Condorovici, C. Vertan, R. Boia, L. Florea, R. Vranceanu, "Pandora: Description of a Painting Database for Art Movement Recognition with Baselines and Perspectives", EUSIPCO 2016, Budapest, Hungary, [preprint], [project]

  9. L. Florea, C. Florea, C. Ionascu, "Avoiding the Deconvolution: Framework Oriented Color Transfer for Enhancing Low-Light Images", CVPR workshop on CCD 2016, Las Vegas U.S, [preprint]

  10. R. Boia C. Florea, L. Florea "Elliptical ASIFT Agglomeration in Class Prototype for Logo Detection", BMVC, Swansea, UK 2015 [preprint]

  11. R. Boia C. Florea, "Homographic class template for logo localization and recognition" In IbPRIA 2015, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. [preprint] [project]

  12. C. Florea, L. Florea, C. Vertan "Learning Pain from Emotion: Transferred HoT Data Representation for Pain Intensity Estimation" In ECCV workshop on ACVR 2014, Zurich, Switzerland. [pdf]

  13. R. Condorovici, C. Florea, C. Vertan "Painting Scene Recognition Using Homogenous Shapes" In Proc ACIVS 2013, Poznan Poland, pp. 262-273. [pdf]

  14. L. Florea, C. Florea, R. Vranceanu, C. Vertan "Can Your Eyes Tell Me How You Think? A Gaze Directed Estimation of the Mental Activity" In Proc BMVC 2013, United Kingdom. [pdf]. Some additional info: [pdf] [code] [database]

  15. R. Vranceanu, C. Florea, L. Florea, C. Vertan "NLP EAC Recognition by Component Separation in the Eye Region", In Proc CAIP 2013, United Kingdom [pdf]

  16. R. Condorovici, C. Florea, R.Vranceanu, C. Vertan "Perceptually-Inspired Artistic Genre Identification System in Digitized Painting Collections", In Proc SCIA 2013, Finland, pp 687-696 [pdf]

  17. L. Florea, C. Florea, R.Vranceanu, C. Vertan "Zero-crossing Based Image Projections Encoding for Eye Localization", In Proc EUSIPCO 2012, pp. 150-154, 27-31 .[poster]

  18. R. Vranceanu, C. Vertan, R. Condorovici, L. Florea, C. Florea, "A Fast Method for Detecting Eye Accessing Cues used in Neuro-Linguistic Programming" in Proc. of ICCP 2011, 2011, pp. 225-229.

  19. C. Florea, L. Florea, "A Parametric Non-Linear Algorithm for Contrast Based Auto-Focus", in Proc. of ICCP 2011, Cluj, Romania, August, 2011, pp. 267-271.

  20. L. Florea, C. Florea, C. Vertan, B. Ionescu, "Upper Face Description by Comparative Analysis of Grey-scale Image Pairs", in Proc. of ISSCS 2011, Romania, 2011, pp. 205-208.

  21. C. Florea, A. Capata, M. Ciuc, P. Corcoran, "Facial Enhancement and Beautification for HD Video Cameras" in Proc. of ICCE 2011, USA, pp. 762-763,

  22. F. Albu, C. Florea, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, "Adaptive recovery of motion blur point spread function from differently exposed images", in Proc. of IS&T/SPIE EI 2010, U.S.A, Paper 7537-25 of Conf. 7537.

  23. M. Ciuc, A. Capata, C. Florea, "Objective measures for quality assessment of automatic skin enhancement algorithms", in Proc. of IS&T/SPIE EI 2010, U.S.A, Paper 7529-23 of Conference 7529.

  24. F. Albu, C. Vertan, C. Florea, A. Drimbarean, "One Scan Shadow Compensation and Visual Enhancement of Color Images", in Proc. of ICIP 2009, Egypt, pp. 3133-3136.

  25. C. Vertan, A. Oprea, C. Florea, L. Florea,"A Pseudo-Logarithmic Image Processing Framework for Edge Detection", in Proc. of ACIVS 2008, France, vol. 5259, LNCS, pp. 637-644. [pdf]

  26. C. Florea, C. Vertan, L. Florea, A. Oprea "On the Use of Logarithmic Image Processing Models in Total Hip Prostheses X-ray Visualization and Analysis”, in Proc. of (MIUA) 2008, United Kingdom, July 2008, pp. 127-131. [pdf]

  27. F. Albu, C. Florea, A. Zamfir, A. Drimbarean "Low Complexity Global Motion Estimation Techniques for Image Stabilization" in Proc. of ICCE 2008, pp. 465-467

  28. L. Florea, C. Vertan, C. Florea, A. Oprea "Digital Acquisition and Remote Investigation of Film Radiographies of Total Hip Prostheses", in Proc. of EUSIPCO 2007, Poland, vol. 1, pp. 1103-1106. [pdf]

  29. C. Florea, C. Vertan, L. Florea "Logarithmic Model-based Dynamic Range Enhancement of Hip X-ray Images" in Proc. of ACIVS 2007, 2007, vol. 4678, LNCS, pp. 587-596. [pdf]

  30. L. Sirbu, J. Thijssen, C. Florea, V. Buzuloiu, C. deKorte "Automatic Segmentation of the Heart Muscle from Echocardiographic Images" in Proc. of ISSCS 2005, July 2005, vol. 1, pp. 39-42.

Reports

  1. O. Miu, A. Zamfir, C. Florea, "Person Identification Based on Hand Tremor Characteristics", arXiv:1606.06840, [preprint]

Patents

Granted:

  1. C. Florea , F. Albu, A. Zamfir, A. Drimbarean "Handheld Article with Movement Discrimination" US Patent, No. US 7,773,118 Aug. 2010

  2. F. Albu, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , “Image processing method and apparatus", US Patent, No. US 7,995,855, Aug 2011

  3. F. Albu, E. Steinberg, C. Florea , A. Zamfir, P. Corcoran, V. Poenaru, "Image Processing Method and Apparatus" US Patent, No. 8,155,468, Apr. 2012

  4. P. Corcoran, E. Steinberg, P. Bigioi, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , "Image Processing Method and Apparatus", US Patent, No. US 8,169,486, May 2012

  5. A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, F. Albu, V. Poenaru, C. Florea , P. Bigioi, E. Steinberg, P. Corcoran, "Low Light Video Frame Enhancement", US Patent, No. 8,199,222, Jun, 2012.

  6. F. Albu, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, "Adaptive PSF estimation technique using a sharp preview and a blurred image" US Patent, No. US 8,204,330. Jun. 2012

  7. A. Drimbarean, E. Steinberg, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, F. Albu, A. Zamfir, V. Poenaru, "Adaptive PSF Estimation Technique Using a Sharp Preview and a Blurred Image" US Patent, No. US 8,208,746. Jun. 2012.

  8. C. Florea , F. Albu, A. Zamfir, A. Drimbarean ,"Handheld Article with Movement Discrimination" US Patent, No. US 8,212,882, Jul. 2013

  9. M.Ciuc, A. Capata, V. Mocanu, A. Pososin, C. Florea , P.Corcoran, "Automatic Face and Skin Beautification Using Face Detection" US Patent, No. 8,345,114, Jan, 2013.

  10. F. Albu, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, "Adaptive PSF Estimation Technique Using a Sharp Preview and a Blurred Image" US Patent, No. 8,351,726, Jan. 2013

  11. M.Ciuc, A. Capata, V. Mocanu, A. Pososin, C. Florea , P.Corcoran, "Automatic Face and Skin Beautification Using Face Detection" US Patent, 8,384,793, Feb, 2013

  12. F.Albu, E. Steinberg, A. Drimbarean, C. Florea , A.Zamfir, P. Corcoran, V. Poenaru, "Image Processing Method and Apparatus" US Patent, No.8,417,055, Apr, 2013.

  13. P. Corcoran, E. Steinberg, P. Bigioi, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , "Image Processing Method and Apparatus", US Patent, No. US 8,520,082, Aug 2013

  14. M.Ciuc, A. Capata, C. Florea „Eye Beautification" US Patent No. US 8,520,089 Aug. 2013

  15. F. Albu, E. Steinberg, P. Corcoran, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , V. Poenaru „Image processing method and apparatus", US Patent, No. US 8,649,627, Feb 2014

  16. F. Albu, A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea , P. Corcoran," Adaptive PSF estimation technique using a sharp preview and a blurred image", US Patent, No. US 8,649,628, Feb 2014

  17. M. Ciuc, A. Capata, V. Mocanu, A. Pososin, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, "Automatic face and skin beautification using face detection" US Patent, No. US 8,681,241, Mar 2014,

  18. A. Drimbarean, A. Zamfir, F. Albu, V. Poenaru, C. Florea , P. Bigioi, E. Steinberg, P. Corcoran, "Tone mapping for low-light video frame enhancement", US Patent, No. US 8,698,924, Apr 2014

  19. F. Albu, E. Steinberg, A. Drimbarean, C. Florea , A. Zamfir, P. Corcoran, V. Poenaru "Image processing method and apparatus" US Patent, No. US 8,737,766 May. 2014

  20. M. Ciuc, A. Capata, V. Mocanu, A. Pososin, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, "Automatic face and skin beautification using face detection" US Patent, No. US 8,902,326, Dec. 2014,

  21. M. Ciuc, A. Capata, V. Mocanu, A. Pososin, C. Florea , P. Corcoran, "Automatic face and skin beautification using face detection" US Patent, No. US 9,007,480, Apr. 2015,

  22. R. Vranceanu. R. Condorovici, F. Coleca, C. Florea , "Dyanmic range extension by combining differently exposed hand-held device acquired images",US No. . US. 9,019,402 April 2015

  23. C. Florea , C. Stan, M. Ciuc, A. Capata “Eye Beautification Under Inaccurate Localization" U.S.No. 9,053,524, June 2015

  24. F. Albu, C. Florea , A. Zamfir, A Drimbarean, P. Corcoran, "Fast Motion Estimation Method" US Patent, No. US 9,160,897, Oct. 2015

Pending:

  1. P. Bigioi, A. Pososin, M. Gangea, S. Petrescu, P. Corcoran, A. Drimabarean, A. Zamfir, C. Florea "Digital Camera with an Image Processor", US No. 201213442721.

  2. F. Albu, C. Florea , A. Zamfir, A Drimbarean, P. Corcoran, "Fast Motion Estimation Method " US Patent, No. US2008309769, December, 2008.

Books / Chapters

International :

  1. C. Florea , L. Florea, ''Inteligenta artificiala'' ,236 pag, 2023 [download], Editura Universitatii Transilvania din Brasov,ISBN 978-606-19-1653-5 . .

  2. L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan ''Automatic analysis and synthesis of digital artistic paintings: a review'' ,2024 [preprint], published as:
    L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Are computers able to understand art?", chapter 4 in E. Coca "Digital Transformation - Technology, Tools and Study", Springer 2024     , [official link - TBA]. .

  3. C. Florea , L. Florea, C. Vertan "Computer Vision for Cognition - An Eye Focused Perspective" in "Computer Vision for Assistive Healtcare, eds. Leo Marco, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Elsevier Academic Press 2018, april 2018, cap. 2 pag 51-73 (24 pag)

  4. L. Florea, C. Florea , C. Vertan, "Extended eye landmarks detection for emerging applications" in "Advances in Face Detection and Facial Image Analysis", in M. Kawulok et al. (eds.), Springer april 2016, chapter 23, Springer 2016, pg 397-434 (38 pag ).

National (romanian):

  1. C. Florea , M. Ciuc, "Interfatare vizuala om-masina", Editura Politehnica Press, Bucuresti 2013, ISBN 978-606-515-477-3

  2. C. Vertan, C. Florea , L.Florea, "Achizitia si prelucrarea imaginilor color", Editura Politehnica Press, Bucuresti 2013, ISBN 978-606-515-476-6

  3. L. Florea, C. Florea , "Sisteme software pentru prelucrarea imaginilor", Editura Politehnica Press, Bucuresti 2013, ISBN 978-606-515-474-2 [OpenCv-part]

  4. C. Florea , B. Ionescu, C. Vertan: "Computer Vision - Tehnici de calibrare a camerei digitale si analizei informatiei vizuale", Editura MatrixRom, Bucuresti, Romania, 2013. ISBN978-973-755-942-5

  5. C. Vertan, M. Ciuc, M. Zamfir, C. Florea , L. Florea, A. Sultana, T. Radulescu: "Prelucrarea si analiza imaginilor digitale - elemente fundamentale si aplicatii avansate", Editura MatrixRom, Bucuresti, Romania, 2013. ISBN978-973-755-367-6

  6. C. Florea , L.Florea, "Prelucrarea statistica a informatiei. Indrumar de laborator", Editura MatrixRom, Bucuresti, 2008 , ISBN 978-973-755-367-6