Francesco Renna

Former IT academic position:	Researcher
Joining/Leaving IT dates:	15-01-2012 / 15-02-2022
Roles held in IT:
Former IT thematic line:	Networks and Services
Group:	Networked Systems – Po

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Università di Padova, 14-04-2011
MSc, Università di Padova, 18-12-2006
Licenciatura, Università di Padova, 29-09-2004

Expertise Topics

Physical layer security, MIMO communications, compressive sensing, signal processing

Affiliations

IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 27-07-2019,
IEEE, 01-01-2008,

Academic Activities

Supervision of theses

6MSc Student

Deep learning para desenvolvimento de um sistema capaz de detectar a presença de Parkinson, MSc Student, Lígia Lindo de Sousa, Concluded 12-2021
Deep learning to automate the assessment of cultural ecosystem services from social media data, MSc Student, Ana Sofia Cabral Cardoso, Concluded 11-2020
Criação de algoritmos de deep learning para identificação de tecidos nas histeroscopias, MSc Student, Ana Sofia Ferreira Martins, Concluded 11-2020
Hardware optimization for portable deep learning devices, MSc Student, Cléber Quintanilha Ramos, Concluded 12-2019
Using Deep Learning to Identify Modern Art, MSc Student, Carlos Miguel Fernando, Concluded 09-2019
Analise de Imagens Médicas usando Deep Learning, MSc Student, José Querubim Rocha Reisinho, Concluded 09-2019

Publications

1Books Chapters

M. Rodrigues, F. Renna, M. Nokleby, A. R. C. Calderbank, Compressive Classification: Where Wireless Communications Meets Machine Learning, Chapter in, Compressed Sensing and its Applications, Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg, 2015

12Papers in Journals

J. Oliveira, F. Renna, P. Costa, D. Nogueira, C.O Oliveira, C.F. Ferreira, A. Jorge, S. Mattos, T. Hatem, T. Tavares, A. Elola, A. Rad, R. Sameni, G. Clifford, M. Coimbra, The CirCor DigiScope Dataset: From Murmur Detection to Murmur Classification, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. X, No. X, pp. 1 - 1, December, 2021 | BibTex
J. Arribas, G. Antonelli, L. Frazzoni, L. Fuccio, A. Ebigbo, F. Sommen, N. Ghatwary, C. Palm, M. Coimbra, F. Renna, J. Bergman, P. Sharma, H. Messmann, C. Hassan, M. Dinis-Ribeiro Ribeiro, Standalone performance of artificial intelligence for upper GI neoplasia: a meta-analysis, Gut, Vol. XX, No. XX, pp. XX - XX, October, 2020 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
A. Ferreira, L. Silva, F. Renna, H. Brandl, J. Renoult, D. Farine, R. Covas, C. Doutrelant, Deep learning‐based methods for individual recognition in small birds, Methods in Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 00, No. 00, pp. 1 - 14, July, 2020 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
Z. S. Sabetsarvestani, F. Renna, F. Kiraly, M. Rodrigues, Source Separation with Side Information Based on Gaussian Mixture Models With Application in Art Investigation, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. X, No. X, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2020 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, A Subject-Driven Unsupervised Hidden Semi-Markov Model and Gaussian Mixture Model for Heart Sound Segmentation, IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 3, March, 2019 | Full text (PDF 336 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, J. Oliveira, M. Coimbra, Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Heart Sound Segmentation, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. xx, No. xx, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2019 | Full text (PDF 435 KBs) | BibTex
M. Gataric, G. S. D. Gordon, F. Renna, A. R. Ramos, M. P. Alcolea, S. Bohndiek, Reconstruction of optical vector-fields with applications in endoscopic imaging, IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging, Vol. X, No. X, pp. X - X, October, 2018 | Full text (PDF 6 MBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, T.M Mantadelis, M. Coimbra, Adaptive Sojourn Time HSMM for Heart Sound Segmentation, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 2, June, 2018,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 342 KBs) | BibTex
MR Baldi, F. Chiaraluce, N. Laurenti Laurenti, S. T. Tomasin, F. Renna, Secrecy transmission on parallel channels: Theoretical limits and performance of practical codes, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 9, No. 11, pp. 1765 - 1779, November, 2014 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
F. Renna, A. R. C. Calderbank, L. Carin, M. Rodrigues, Reconstruction of Signals Drawn from a Gaussian Mixture via Noisy Compressive Measurements, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 62, No. 9, pp. 2265 - 2277, May, 2014 | Full text (PDF 4 MBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, M.Bloch Bloch, N. Laurenti Laurenti, Semi-Blind Key-Agreement over MIMO Fading Channels, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 61, No. 2, pp. 620 - 627, February, 2013 | BibTex
F. Renna, N. Laurenti Laurenti, H. V. Poor Poor, Physical layer secrecy for OFDM transmissions over fading channels, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1354 - 1367, August, 2012,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex

18Papers in Conferences

F. Renna, M. D. Plumbley, M. Coimbra, Source separation of the second heart sound via alternating optimization, Computing in Cardiology - CinC, Brno, Czech Republic, September, 2021 | Full text (PDF 174 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, M. Martins, M. Coimbra, Joint Training of Hidden Markov Model and Neural Network for Heart Sound Segmentation, Computing in Cardiology - CinC, Brno, Czech Republic, September, 2021 | Full text (PDF 228 KBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, T.M Mantadelis, P. Gomes, M. Coimbra, Measuring the reliability of a HSMM heart sound segmentation algorithm, Portuguese Conf. on Pattern Recognition - RecPad, Porto, Portugal, October, 2019,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 282 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, M. Coimbra, Source Separation of the Second Heart Sound Using Gaussian Mixture Models, Computing in Cardiology - CinC, Singapore, Singapore, September, 2019 | Full text (PDF 191 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, A. Illanes, J. Oliveira, N. Esmaeili, M. Friebe, M. Coimbra, Assessment of Sound Features for Needle Perforation Event Detection, IEEE IEEE International Engineering in Medicine and Biology Conference IEEE EMBS, Berlin, Germany, July, 2019 | Full text (PDF 499 KBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, Using Soft Attention Mechanisms to Classify Heart Sounds, International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society - EMBC, Berlin, Germany, July, 2019 | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
F. Renna, J. Oliveira, M. Coimbra, Convolutional neural networks for heart sound segmentation, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Rome, Italy, September, 2018 | Full text (PDF 274 KBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, T.M Mantadelis, F. Renna, P. G. Gomes, M. Coimbra, On modifying the temporal modeling of HSMMs for pediatric heart sound segmentation, IEEE International Workshop on Signal Processing Systems - SiPS, Lorient, France, October, 2017 | Full text (PDF 462 KBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, A Data-Driven Feature Extraction Method for Enhanced Phonocardiogram Segmentation, Computing in Cardiology - CinC, Rennes, France, September, 2017 | Full text (PDF 192 KBs) | BibTex
N. Laurenti Laurenti, S. Tomasin, F. Renna, Resource allocation for secret transmissions on parallel Rayleigh channels, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Sydney, Australia, Vol. xx, pp. 2209 - 2214, June, 2014 | BibTex
F. Renna, N. Laurenti Laurenti, S. Tomasin, Achievable secrecy rates over MIMOME Gaussian channels with GMM signals in low-noise regime, International Conference on Wireless Communications, Vehicular Technology, Information Theory and Aerospace & Electronic Systems, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. xx, pp. 1 - 5, May, 2014 | BibTex
F. Renna, A. R. C. Calderbank, L. Carin, M. Rodrigues, Reconstruction of Gaussian mixture models from compressive measurements: A phase transition view, IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP, Austin, Texas, United States, Vol. xx, pp. 628 - 628, December, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 223 KBs) | BibTex
H. Reboredo, F. Renna, A. R. C. Calderbank, M. Rodrigues, Projections Designs for Compressive Classification, IEEE Global Conf. on Signal and Information Processing - Global SIP, Austin, United States, Vol. xx, pp. 1029 - 1032, December, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 233 KBs) | BibTex
H. Reboredo, F. Renna, A. R. C. Calderbank, M. Rodrigues, Compressive Classification, IEEE International Symp. on Information Theory - ISIT, Istanbul, Turkey, Vol. xx, pp. 674 - 678, July, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 280 KBs) | BibTex
M. Ara, H. Reboredo, F. Renna, M. Rodrigues, Power Allocation Strategies For OFDM Gaussian Wiretap Channels With a Friendly Jammer, IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. xx, pp. 3413 - 3417, June, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 206 KBs) | BibTex
M. Ara, H. Reboredo, F. Renna, M. Rodrigues, Power Allocation Strategies For OFDM Gaussian Wiretap Channels With a Friendly Jammer: The Degraded case, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. xx, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2013,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 196 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, M. Rodrigues, M. Chen, A. R. C. Calderbank, L. Carin, Compressive sensing for incoherent imaging systems with optical constraints, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. xx, pp. 5484 - 5488, May, 2013 | Full text (PDF 385 KBs) | BibTex
F. Renna, N. Laurenti Laurenti, S. Tomasin, MR Baldi, N. Maturo, M. Bianchi, F. Chiaraluce, M. Bloch, Low-power secret-key agreement over OFDM, ACM Workshop on Hot Topics on Wireless Network Security and Privacy, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. xx, pp. 43 - 48, April, 2013 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects3

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DigiScope2	Digitally Enhanced Stethoscope for Clinical Usage	FCT/POCI	01-07-2018	30-06-2021
NanoSTIMA	NanoSTIMA – Macro-to-Nano Human Sensing: Towards Integrated Multimodal Health Monitoring and Analytics	Norte2020 - Programa Operacional Regional do Norte	01-07-2015	01-12-2018
SmartHeart	Smarter Cardiac Sensing via Integrated Signal Processing	IT	01-01-2017	01-03-2018

Other Scientific Achievements

2Awards

F. Renna, IEEE Communications Letters: Exemplary Reviewer Award, Awarded by the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Communications Letters for review activity of 2017, 01-01-2018
F. Renna, IEEE Communications Letters: Exemplary Reviewer Award, Awarded to less than 3% of all reviewers in 2014 of the IEEE Communication Letters., 01-01-2015

13Short Courses and Seminars

A. Martins, F. Renna, M. Gotseva, H. Ferreira, M. Coimbra, Deep Learning Algorithms for Tissue Identification in Hysteroscopies, Portugal, 10-2020
A. Cardoso, A. Vaz, F. Renna, Deep learning to automate the assessment of cultural ecosystem services from social media data, Portugal, 10-2020
J. Resisinho, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, F. Vicente, Benchmarking of deep learning strategies for use in a skin cancer screening system, Portugal, 10-2019
F. Renna, M. Coimbra, Separation of the aortic and pulmonary components of the second heart sound using Gaussian mixture models, Portugal, Porto, 10-2019
F. Renna, M. Coimbra, DATA-DRIVEN SOURCE SEPARATION OF THE SECOND HEART SOUND, Portugal, Lisboa, 02-2019
C. Ramos, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, HEALTHCARE TRANSFORMED: DIAGNOSTICS ANYWHERE WITH LOW-COST, LOW-ENERGY, AND HIGH-PERFORMANCE DEEP LEARNING EMBEDDED SYSTEMS, Portugal, Lisboa, 02-2019
J. Reisinho, F. Renna, F. Vicente, Medical image analysis using deep learning - a skin lesion malignancy classification system, Portugal, Lisboa, 02-2019
F. Renna, J. Oliveira, M. Coimbra, Generalization performance of convolutional neural networks for heart sound segmentation, Portugal, Coimbra, 10-2018
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, T.M Mantadelis, P. G. Gomes, M. Coimbra, On modifying the temporal modeling of HSMMs for pediatric heart sound segmentation, Portugal, 10-2018
F. Renna, J. Oliveira, M. Coimbra, Information Discriminant Analysis for Improved Feature Extraction in Heat Sound Segmentation, Portugal, Amadora, 10-2017
J. Oliveira, T.M Mantadelis, F. Renna, P. G. Gomes, On modifying the temporal modeling of HSMMs for pediatric heart sound segmentation, France, 10-2017
J. Oliveira, F. Renna, M. Coimbra, Using semi-hidden Markov models and Gaussian mixtures for heart sound segmentation, Portugal, Lisboa, 10-2017
F. Renna, J. Oliveira, M. Coimbra, A Data-Driven Feature Extraction Method for Enhanced Phonocardiogram Segmentation, France, Rennes, 09-2017

Other Contributions

5Conference Committees

IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
IEEE Global Communications Conference - GLOBECOM, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
ACM International Conference on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Wireless and Mobile Systems MSWiN, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
IEEE International conference on Telecommunications ICT, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
IEEE International Conference on Communications - ICC, Technical Programme Committee, 2014

IT Former Collaborator

Francesco Renna

Scientific Achievements

Supervision of theses

Closed Projects3