Raffaele Cappelli

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
53 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Raffaele Cappelli is a scholar working on Signal Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and Information Systems. According to data from OpenAlex, Raffaele Cappelli has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Signal Processing, 27 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and 18 papers in Information Systems. Recurrent topics in Raffaele Cappelli's work include Biometric Identification and Security (46 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (18 papers) and Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods (16 papers). Raffaele Cappelli is often cited by papers focused on Biometric Identification and Security (46 papers), User Authentication and Security Systems (18 papers) and Forensic Fingerprint Detection Methods (16 papers). Raffaele Cappelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Spain and United States. Raffaele Cappelli's co-authors include Davide Maltoni, Dario Maio, Matteo Ferrara, James L. Wayman, Anil K. Jain, Alessandra Lumini, Annalisa Franco, Loris Nanni, Julián Fiérrez and Javier Galbally and has published in prestigious journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Expert Systems with Applications and IEEE Access.

In The Last Decade

Raffaele Cappelli

51 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

FVC2000: fingerprint verification competition

2002 519 citations Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →
FVC2002: Second Fingerprint Verification Competition

2003 486 citations Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni et al. profile →
Minutia Cylinder-Code: A New Representation and Matching Technique for Fingerprint Recognition

2010 449 citations Raffaele Cappelli, Matteo Ferrara et al. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Raffaele Cappelli Italy	24	3.3k	2.3k	1.4k	939	386	53	3.5k
James L. Wayman United States	13	1.6k 0.5×	1.2k 0.5×	799 0.6×	374 0.4×	145 0.4×	30	2.0k
Sabih H. Gerez Netherlands	14	854 0.3×	638 0.3×	281 0.2×	330 0.4×	90 0.2×	43	1.3k
Abhishek Nagar United States	13	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.5×	1.1k 0.8×	126 0.1×	82 0.2×	22	1.6k
Umut Uludağ Türkiye	13	1.7k 0.5×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	101 0.1×	53 0.1×	25	2.0k
Raúl Sánchez-Reillo Spain	18	1.1k 0.4×	758 0.3×	713 0.5×	115 0.1×	160 0.4×	109	1.5k
Claus Vielhauer Germany	15	569 0.2×	613 0.3×	392 0.3×	201 0.2×	115 0.3×	131	964
Miguel Angel Medina‐Pérez Mexico	17	322 0.1×	175 0.1×	224 0.2×	92 0.1×	68 0.2×	52	872
T.A.M. Kevenaar Netherlands	17	601 0.2×	456 0.2×	421 0.3×	59 0.1×	25 0.1×	30	804
Feng Xue China	15	193 0.1×	486 0.2×	376 0.3×	11 0.0×	27 0.1×	55	1.0k
Yuanning Liu China	13	278 0.1×	281 0.1×	132 0.1×	45 0.0×	38 0.1×	42	724

Countries citing papers authored by Raffaele Cappelli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Raffaele Cappelli

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Cappelli, Raffaele. (2024). No Feature Left Behind: Filling the Gap in Fingerprint Frequency Estimation. IEEE Access. 12. 153605–153617.

Cappelli, Raffaele. (2024). Exploring the Power of Simplicity: A New State-of-the-Art in Fingerprint Orientation Field Estimation. IEEE Access. 12. 55998–56018. 3 indexed citations

Ferrara, Matteo, Raffaele Cappelli, & Davide Maltoni. (2016). On the Feasibility of Creating Double-Identity Fingerprints. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. 12(4). 892–900. 26 indexed citations

Ferrara, Matteo, Davide Maltoni, & Raffaele Cappelli. (2014). A two-factor protection scheme for MCC fingerprint templates. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–8. 45 indexed citations

Cappelli, Raffaele & Matteo Ferrara. (2012). A fingerprint retrieval system based on level-1 and level-2 features. Expert Systems with Applications. 39(12). 10465–10478. 30 indexed citations

Nanni, Loris, Alessandra Lumini, Matteo Ferrara, & Raffaele Cappelli. (2011). Learning for combining fingerprint matchers: a case study FVC-OnGoing. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 1 indexed citations

Cappelli, Raffaele, Matteo Ferrara, & Davide Maltoni. (2010). Minutia Cylinder-Code: A New Representation and Matching Technique for Fingerprint Recognition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 32(12). 2128–2141. 449 indexed citations breakdown →

Cappelli, Raffaele & Davide Maltoni. (2010). FVC-onGoing: On-line Evaluation of Fingerprint Recognition Algorithms. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1–4. 8 indexed citations

Cappelli, Raffaele, et al.. (2010). Benchmarking Local Orientation Extraction in Fingerprint Recognition. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 1144–1147. 6 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Matteo Ferrara, & Davide Maltoni. (2010). Fingerprint Indexing Based on Minutia Cylinder-Code. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 33(5). 1051–1057. 120 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Matteo Ferrara, Davide Maltoni, & Mássimo Tistarelli. (2010). MCC: A baseline algorithm for fingerprint verification in FVC-onGoing. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 19–23. 35 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele & Davide Maltoni. (2008). On the Spatial Distribution of Fingerprint Singularities. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 31(4). 742–748. 16 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Annalisa Franco, & Dario Maio. (2007). Gabor Saliency Map for Face Recognition. 443–447. 3 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Dario Maio, Alessandra Lumini, & Davide Maltoni. (2007). Fingerprint Image Reconstruction from Standard Templates. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 29(9). 1489–1503. 211 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele. (2007). Use of Synthetic Data for Evaluating the Quality of Minutia Extraction Algorithms. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 7-1–7-19. 2 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Dario Maio, Davide Maltoni, James L. Wayman, & Anil K. Jain. (2006). Performance evaluation of fingerprint verification systems. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 28(1). 3–18. 240 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Dario Maio, & Davide Maltoni. (2004). SFinGe (Synthetic Fingerprint Generator). Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 12 indexed citations

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Maio, Dario, Davide Maltoni, Raffaele Cappelli, James L. Wayman, & Anil K. Jain. (2002). FVC2000: fingerprint verification competition. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 24(3). 402–412. 519 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cappelli, Raffaele, Alessandra Lumini, & Dario Maio. (2001). MKL-tree: una struttura gerarchica per l'indicizzazione di dati multidimensionali.. SEBD. 63–77. 1 indexed citations

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Cappelli, Raffaele & Davide Maltoni. (2001). Multispace KL for pattern representation and classification. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 23(9). 977–996. 49 indexed citations

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