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 International Journals Papers

  1. Marc Tanti, Camille Berruyer, Paul Tafforeau, Adrian Muscat, Reuben Farrugia, Kenneth Scerri, Gianluca Valentino, V. Armando Solé, Johann A. Briffa, "Automated segmentation of microtomography imaging of Egyptian mummies" in PLOS ONE, accepted for publication.
  2. M. Aquilina, C. Galea, J. Abela, K. P. Camilleri, R.A.Farrugia, “Improving Super-Resolution Performance usingMeta-Attention Layers” in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 28, pp. 2082-2086, 2021.
  3. D. T. Lloyd, A. Abela, R.A. Farrugia, A. Galea and Gianluca Valentino, "Optically-enhanced super-resolution of sea surface temperature using deep learning," in IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, accepted for publication. github
  4. R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "A Simple Framework to Leverage State-Of-The-Art Single-Image Super-Resolution Methods to Restore Light Fields," in Elsevier Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 80, February 2020.
  5. R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "Light Field Super-Resolution using a Low-Rank Prior and Deep Convolutional Neural Networks," in IEEE Trans. on Patter Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 1162-1175, 1 May 2020.
  6. F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, Josef Bigun, J. Fierrez, E. Gonzales-Sosa, "A Survey of Super-Resolution in Iris Biometrics with Evaluation of Dictionary Learning," in IEEE Access, vol. 7, pp. 6519-6544, 2019.
  7. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "Matching Software-Generated Sketches to Face Photos with a Very Deep CNN," in IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 1421-1431, Jun. 2018. code
  8. R.A. Farrugia, C. Galea, C. Guillemot, "Super Resolution of Light Field Images using Linear Subspace Projection of Patch-Volumes," in IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1058-1071, Oct. 2017. github
  9. X. Jiang, M. Le Pendu, R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "Light Field Compression with Homography-based Low Rank Approximation," in IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1132-1145, Oct. 2017.
  10. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "Forensic Face Photo-Sketch Recognition using a Deep Learning-based Architecture," in IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 24, no. 11, pp. 1586-1590, Nov. 2017.
  11. R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "Face Hallucination using Linear Models of Coupled Sparse Support," in IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, vol. 26, no. 9, pg. 4562-4577, Sep. 2017. github
  12. C. Guillemot, R.A. Farrugia, "Light Field image processing: overview and research issues," in IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers, vol. 12, no. 4, Jul. 2017.
  13. B.W. Micallef, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Reducting 3D Video Coding Complexity through more Efficient Disparity Estimation," IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, vol. 60, no. 3, Feb. 2014.
  14. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, Correlation Noise based Unequal Error Protected Rate-Adaptive Codes for Distributed Video Coding," in IEEE Trans. Circuits and Systems for Video Technol., vol. 24, no. 1, Jan. 2014.
  15. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, B.W. Micallef, LDPCA Code Construction for Slepian-Wolf Coding," in IEEE Commun. Letters, vol. 15, no. 10, Oct. 2011.
  16. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Robust Decoder-Based Error Control Strategy for Recovery of H.264/AVC Video Content," in IET Communications, vol. 5, no. 13, pp. 1928-1938, Sep. 2011.
  17. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "A Hybrid Error Control and Artefact Detection Mechanism for Robust Decoding of H.264/AVC Video Sequences," in IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems for Video Technol., vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 756-762, May 2010.
  18. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "A Support Vector Machine Approach for Detection and Localization of Transmission Errors within Standard H.263++ Decoders," IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 11, no. 7, pp. 1323-1330, Nov. 2009.
  19. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Accurate Modelling of Ka-band Videoconferencing Systems Based on the Quality of Experience," IET Communications, vol. 3, issue 1, pp. 67 - 74, January 2009.
  20. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "A Robust Error Detection Mechanism for H.264/AVC Coded Video Sequences Based on Support Vector Machines," IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, vol. 18, no. 12, pp. 1766 - 1770, December 2008.

 International Conference Papers 

  1. M. Chen, J. A. Briffa, G. Valentino, and R. A. Farrugia, "Stereo Matching Of Remote Sensing Images Using Deep Stereo Matching," in Proc. SPIE Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXVII, Sep. 2021. github
  2. A. Tabone, K. Camilleri, A. Bonnici, S. Cristina and R. A. Farrugia"Pornographic content classification using deep-learning," 21st ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng 2021), accepted fr publication.
  3. C. Attard, A. Naudi, S. Mallia, D. Gauci, R.A. Farrugia, "Assisting Motorists Using Parking Prediction through a Car App" in 43rd IEEE Int. Conf. on Information, Communication and Electronics Technology (MIPRO), pp. 277-282, 2020.
  4. D. Lloyd, M. Boualib, A. Abelaa, R.A. Farrugia, Gianluca Valentino, "Efficient destriping of remote sensing images using an oriented super-Gaussian filter," in Proc. SPIE 11533, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXVI, 1153306 (20 September 2020); github
  5. A. Tabone, S. Cristina, K. Camilleri, R.A. Farrugia, A. Bonnici, "Private Body Part Detection using Deep Learning," in ICPRAM - 9th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, Feb. 2020.
  6. A. Gatt, M. Tanti, A. Muscat, P. Paggio, R.A. Farrugia, C. Borg, K.P. Camilleri, M. Rosner, L. van der Plas, "Face2Text: Collecting an Annotated Image Description Corpus for the Generation of Rich Text Descriptions," in Int. Conf. on Language Resources and Evaluation, Miyazaki, Japan, May 2018.
  7. F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, J. Bigun, "Learning-Based Local Patch Resolution Reconstruction of Iris Smart-Phone images", in IARPA Int. Joint Conf. on Biometrics, Denver Colorado USA, Oct. 2017.
  8. E. Ribeiro, A. Uhl, F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, "Exploiting Deep Learning Image Super-Resolution for Iris Recognition," in  European Signal Processing Conf EUSIPCO, Kos Island, Greece, Sep. 2017
  9. F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, J. Bigun, "Iris Super-Resolution using Iterative Neighbor Embedding", in IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshop - Biometrics (CVPR-W), Honolulu, Hawaii, Jul. 2017.
  10. B. Birmingham, R.A. Farrugia, M. Vella, "Using Thumbnail Affinity for Fragmentation Point Detection of JPEG Files," in IEEE Proc. EUROCON, Jul. 2017, Ohrid, Macedonia, Jul. 2017. (Best Student Paper Award)
  11. X. Jiang, M. Le Pendu, R A. Farrugia, Sheila S. Hemami, Christine Guillemot,"Homography-bases Low-Rank Approximation of Light Fields for Compression," IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar. 2017.
  12. R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "Model and Dictionary guided Face Inpainting in the Wild," in Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV) Workshop - New Trends in Image Restoration and Enhancement, Taipei, Taiwan, Nov. 2016. (github)
  13. C.  Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "A Large-Scale Software Generated Face Composite Sketch Database," in IEEE Int. Conf. of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt, Germany, Sep. 2016.(Dataset)
  14. C. Colombo, G. Pace, L. Camilleri, C. Dimech, R.A. Farrugia, J.P. Grech, A. Magro, A.C. Sammut, C. Zarb Adami, "Runtime Verification for Stream Processing Applications," in Int. Symp. on Leveraging Applications of Formal Methods, Verification and Validation, Corfu, Greece, Sep. 2016. 
  15. R.A. Farrugia, C. Guillemot, "Robust Face Hallucination using Quantization-Adaptive Dictionaries," IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP), Arizona, USA, Sep. 2016. (demo), (supplementary material)
  16. F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, J.Bigun, "Very Low-Resolution Iris Recognition via Eigen-Patch Super-Resolution and Matcher Fusion, IEEE Int. Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems, Sep. 2016.
  17. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "Face Photo-Sketch Recognition with log-Gabor Filters and Statistical Correlation Coefficients," in European Signal Processing Conf EUSIPCO, Budapest, Hungary, Sep. 2016 (demo).
  18. F. Alonso Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, J.Bigun, "Reconstruction of Smartphone Images for Low Resolution Iris Recognition," IEEE Int. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security,Rome, Italy, Nov. 2015 
  19. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "A No-Reference Video Quality Metric using a Natural Video Statistical Model" iIEEE Proc. EUROCON, Sept. 2015,
  20. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, "Fusion of intra- and inter- modality algorithms for face-sketch recognition," Int. Conf. Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP 2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Valletta, Malta, Sept. 2015 
  21. F. Alonso FernandezR.A. Farrugia, J.Bigun, "Eigen-Patches Iris Super-Resolution for Iris Recognition Improvement," EUSIPCO 2015, Sept. 2015, Nice, France.
  22. R.A. Farrugia, M. Hili, "Depth Coding using Depth Discontinuity Prediction and in-loop Boundary Reconstruction Filtering," in IEEE Int. Conf. Visual Commun. and Image Proc., Dec. 2014, Valletta, Malta.
  23. R.A. Farrugia, "Reversible De-Identification for Lossless Image Compression using Reversible Watermarking," International Convention on Information and Communications Technology, Electronics and Microelectronics, May 2014, Opatia, Croatia 
  24. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Modified Distribution of Correlation Noise for Improved Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Performance," in IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Sep. 2013, Pula, Italy.
  25. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Adaptive Rounding Operator for Efficient Wyner-Ziv Video Coding," in IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing, Nov. 2013, Kuching, Malasia.
  26. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Improving Decoding Speed for Parallel Distributed Video Coding Architectures," in European Signal Processing Conference, Sep. 2013, Marrakech, Morocco.
  27. R.A. Farrugia, I. Gambin, "Exploiting Color-Depth Image Correlation to improve Depth Map Compression," in IEEE Proc. EUROCON, Jul. 2013, Zagreb, Croatia.
  28. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, "Selective Reconstruction of Low Motion Regions in Distributed Video Coding,"in IEEE Proc. EUROCON, Jul. 2013, Zagreb, Croatia.
  29. R.A. Farrugia, C. Galea, S. Zammit, A. Muscat, "Objective video quality metrics for HDTV services: A survey," in IEEE Proc. EUROCON, Jul. 2013, Zagreb, Croatia.
  30. B.W. Micallef, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Low complexity disparity estimation for Immersive 3D Video Transmission," in IEEE Proc. Int. Conf. in Communications, Jun. 2013, Budapest, Hungary.
  31. R.A. Farrugia, "Resilient Video Coding using Difference Expansion and Histogram Modification," IEEE Int. Conf. on Networks, Dec. 2012, Singapore
  32. R.A. Farrugia, "Efficient Depth Image Compression Using Accurate Depth Discontinuity Detection and Prediction," IEEE Int. Conf. Signal Image Technology and Internet based Systems, Dec. 2012, Sorrento, Italy.
  33. C. De Raffaele, K.P. Camilleri, R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Performance Improvement of Segmentation Based Depth Representation in 3D Imagery by Region Merging," IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Technologies for Communications, Oct. 2012, Vietnam.
  34. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Reducing Correlation Noise in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding," in European Signal Processing Conference, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.
  35. B.W. Micallef, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Improved Depth Maps Coding Efficiency of 3D Video," n European Signal Processing Conference, Bucharest, Romania, Aug. 2012.
  36. C. De Raffaele, K. Camilleri, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Efficient multiview Depth Representation Based on Image Segmentation," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Krakow, Poland, May 2012.
  37. B.W. Micallef, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Fast Inter-Mode Decision in Multi-View Video Plus Depth Coding," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Krakow, Poland, May 2012. 
  38. B.W. Micallef, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, "Fast Multi-View Video plus Depth Coding with Hierarchical Bi-Prediction," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, May 2012.
  39. M. Sacco, R.A. Farrugia, "Driver Fatigue Monitoring System using Support Vector Machines," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, May 2012.
  40. R.A. Farrugia, "Improving Motion Vector Prediction using Linear Regression," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Communications, Control and Signal Processing, Rome, Italy, May 2012.
  41. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Improved Rate-Adaptive Codes for Distributed Video Coding,"in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 2011.
  42. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Fast Disparity Estimation for Multi-view Plus Depth Video Coding," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. on Visual Communications and Image Processing, Tainan, Taiwan, Nov. 2011.
  43. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Improved Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Efficiency using Bit Plane Prediction," in IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Brussels, Belgium, Sep. 2011.
  44. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Exploiting Depth Information for Efficient Multi-view Video Coding," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. Multimedia and Expo, Barcellona, Spain, Jul. 2011. - Top 15% paper 
  45. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Performance of Enhanced Error Concealment Techniques in Multi-view Video Coding Systems," in IEEE Int. Conf. on Systems, Signals and Image Processing, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Jun. 2011.
  46. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Exploiting Depth Information for Fast Motion and Disparity Estimation in Multi-view Video Coding ," in IEEE Proc. of 3DTV-Con, Antalya, Turkey, May 2011.
  47. R. Farrugia, "Reversible Visible Watermarking for H.264/AVC Encoded Video," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 2011.
  48. L. Attard and R. Farrugia, "Vision bassed Surveillance System," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, Lisbon, Portugal, Apr. 2011.
  49. R. Farrugia and L. Cutajar, "Scalable Video Coding Transmission over Heterogeneous Networks," in Third International Conference on Advances in Multimedia (MMEDIA2011), Budapest, Hungary, Apr. 2011.
  50. J.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Low-Density Parity-Check Codes for Asymmetric Distributed Source Coding,"in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. on Information Theory and Information Security, Beijing, China, Dec. 2010.
  51. R. Facciol and R.A. Farrugia, "Robust Video Transmission using Reversible Watermarking Techniques," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Symp. on Multimedia, Taichung, Taiwan, Dec. 2010. 
  52. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Exploiting Depth Information for Fast Multi-view Video Coding," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Nagoya, Japan, Dec. 2010. 
  53. B. W. Micallef, C.J. Debono and R.A. Farrugia, "Error Concealment Techniques for H.264/MVC Encoded Sequences," in Proc. of Int. Conf. of Electrotechnical and Computer Science (ERK), Portoroz, Slovenia, Sep. 2010 - Invited Paper
  54. R.A. Farrugia, "A Reversible Visible Watermarking Scheme for Compressed Images," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. MELECON, Valletta, Malta, Apr. 2010.
  55. C. Saliba and R.A. Farrugia, "Quality of Service Aware Ant Colony Optimization Routing Algorithm," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. MELECON, Valletta, Malta, Apr. 2010.
  56. R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Decoding H.264/AVC using Prior Information and Source Constraints," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Chicago, USA, May 2009. 
  57. K. Chetcuti, C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia and S. Bruillot, "Wireless Propagation Modelling Inside a Buisiness Jet,"in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, St. Petersbourgh, Russia, May 2009.
  58. R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Improved Quality of Experience of Reconstructed H.264/AVC Encoded Video Sequences through Robust Pixel Domain Error Detection," in IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Cairns, Australia, Oct. 2008.
  59. R.A. Farrugia and C.J. Debono, "Robust Transmission of H.264/AVC sequences using List Decoding and Source Constraints," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. MELECON, Ajacio, France, May 2008.
  60. R.A. Farrugia, and C.J. Debono, "Resilient Transmission of H.264/AVC Video Sequences using Probabilistic Neural Networks," in IEEE Int. Symp. on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing, Malta, Mar. 2008.
  61. C. J. Debono, and R.A. Farrugia, "Optimization of the UMTS Network Radio Coverage On-board an Aircraft," in IEEE Proc. AEROSPACE Conf., Big Sky, Montana, USA, Mar. 2008.
  62. R.A. Farrugia, and C.J. Debono, "Enhancing Error Resilience in Wireless Transmitted Compressed Video Sequences through a Probabilistic Neural Network Core," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Picture Coding Symposium (PCS), Lisbon, Portugal, Nov. 2007.
  63. R.A. Farrugia, and C.J. Debono, "Enhancing the Error Detection Capabilities of the Standard Video Decoder using Pixel Domain Dissimilarity Metrics," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 2007. 
  64. R.A. Farrugia, and C.J. Debono, "Enhancing the Error Detection Capabilities of DCT based Codecs using Compressed Domain Dissimilarity Metrics," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, Warsaw, Poland, Sept. 2007. 
  65. R.A. Farrugia, and C.J. Debono, "A Statistical Bit Error Generator for Emulation of Complex Forward Error Correction Schemes," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. on Communications (ICC), Glasgow, Scotland, Jun. 2007. 
  66. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, and P. Micallef, "Modeling the End-to-End Quality of a Practical Videoconferencing System," in Proc. of Int. Conf. of OPNETWORK, Washington, D.C., USA, Aug. 2006. 
  67. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, and P. Micallef, "Channel Modeling and Simulation of a Ka-Band Videoconferencing System," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. MELECON, Malaga, Spain, May. 2006. 
  68. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono and P. Micallef, "Propagation Impairments Modeling and QoS Parameter Characterization in a Ka-Band Videoconferencing System," in IEEE Proc. of Int. Conf. EUROCON, Belgrade, Serbia, Nov. 2005.

Edited Books and Book Chapters

  1. F. Alonso-Fernandez, R.A. Farrugia, J. Fierrez, J. Bigun, (2019), "Super-resolution for Selfie Biometrics: Introduction and Application to Face and Iris", Selfie Biometrics Advances and Challenges, Springer, pp. 105-128.,  
  2. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, Multimedia Networking and Coding, IGI Global Dissemination of Knowledge, Dec. 2012. (Link)
  3. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono,Resilient Digital Video Transmission over Wireless Channels using Pixel-Level Artefact Detection Mechanisms, Digital Video, Floriano De Rango (Editor), ISBN 978 953 7619 70 1, Intech, pp. 71-96, February 2010 (Link)
  4. C.J. Debono, R.A. Farrugia, K. Chetcuti, Modelling of the Wireless Propagation Characterisitics inside Aircraft, Aerospace Technologoes Advancements, Thawar T. Arif (Editor), ISBN: 978-953-7619-96-1, Intech, pp. 361 - 378, January 2010 (Link) 

Technical Reports

  1. C. Galea, R.A. Farrugia, A. Muscat, S. Zammit, "Objective Quality of Experience Metrics for Television Services," Technical Report MCA-2012-04, Malta Communications Authority, Valletta, Malta, Oct. 2012

Local Conferences  

  1. N. De Gabriele, R.A. Farrugia, "Implementation of Facial Recognition on Smartphones," in Proc. Workshop on Information and Communications Technology, Kalkara, Malta, Apr. 2013 (Link).
  2. L. Schembri, R.A. Farrugia, "Autonomous Action Detection using Support Vector Machines and Hidden Markov Models," in Proc. Workshop on Information and Communications Technology, Kalkara, Malta, Apr. 2013 (Link)
  3. A. Borg, P.J. Micallef, R.A. Farrugia, "Speaker Identification," in Proc. Workshop on Information and Communications Technology, Kalkara, Malta, Apr. 2013.
  4. R.A. Farrugia, M. Hili and L. Schembri, "Real-Time Vision based Human Tracking using Support Vector Machines," in Proc. Workshop on Information and Communications Technology, Sliema, Malta, Mar. 2012. (Link) .
  5. L. Busuttil, R. Farrugia, "Implementation of an Interactive IPTV System," in Proc. Workshop on Information and Communications Technology, Valletta, Malta, Nov. 2010. (Link)

Thesis 

  1. R.A. Farrugia, Resilient Wireless Transmission of H.264/AVC Through Error Localization and Control Mechanisms, Dissertation for the Degree of Doctor of Phylosophy in Communications Engineering, Faculty of Information and Communications Technology, University of Malta, May 2009.
  2. R.A. Farrugia, A Multimedia Database System for Presentations, Final Year First Degree Dissertation, University of Malta, Faculty of Engineering, Jun. 2004. 

    Presentations 

    1. D. Lloyd, A. Abela, R. Farrugia, G. Valentino, "Investigating the use of deep learning for sea surface temperature super-resolution," Earth Observation Phi-Week, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, Sep. 2019.
    2. D. Lloyd, A. Abela, R. Farrugia, G. Valentino, “Noise and Striping Suppression in Landsat 8 Thermal Infrared Sea Images”, accepted as a poster presentation at GHRSST XX, ESA-ESRIN, Frascati, Italy, June 2019.
    3. R.A. Farrugia, "Can we automatically match facial composites against suspect databases? The E2ID project ," Conference and Training Programme, Developments in facial identification from eyewitness testimony, London, UK, May 2019. 

    Others

     

    1. R.A. Farrugia, "A matter of Resolution," in Times of Malta, 20th October 2018 (pdf)
    2. R.A. Farrugia, "If you want to drive a nail into the wall, you do not use a sledgehammer", in The Malta Independent, 22nd October 2018 (pdf)
    3. R.A. Farrugia, Seminar Talk, "Face Restoration from Low-Quality CCTV Video, " INRIA Rennes Bretagne, Mar. 2016.
    4. J. Farrugia, Do you recognize me, THINK Magazine (link)
    5. R.A. Farrugia, C. Galea, Interview on Gadgets programme (clip)
    6. R.A. Farrugia, A. Muscat, S. Zammit, "Objective Quality of Experience for Metrics Television Services (O-QoE4TV)," Malta Communications Authorigy, Feb. 2013.
    7. R.A. Farrugia, Future Trends in Multimedia Communications, The Economic Update, Jan. 2012.
    8. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, P.J. Micallef, "Presentation on the Maltese participation in the TWISTER project," START Project Event and Consortium Meeting, Kalkara, Malta, 2005.
    9. R.A. Farrugia, C.J. Debono, P.J. Micallef, "Development of a Ka-Band Videoconferencing System Model using OPNET Modeler," XV Annual Engineering Conference, Chamber of Engineers, 2005.

     

     

     

       
       
       
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