DIBE Department University of Genoa
 
IPRS - Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing

 
Dr. Gabriele Moser

University of Genoa
Dept. of Biophysical and Electronic Eng. (DIBE)
Via Opera Pia 11a, I-16145, Genoa (ITALY)
Via Cadorna 7, I-17100, Savona (ITALY; DIBE site in the Savona University Campus)
Phone: + 39 010 353 2190, + 39 019 219 45135
Fax: +39 010 353 2134
E-mail: gabriele.moser@unige.it

The Master of Science program in Multimedia Signal Processing and Telecommunication Networks has been active at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genoa since the current academic year 2011/2012. Foreign students, who possess a B.Sc. degree (or equivalent) and are interested in pursuing their studies in the ICT field, are very welcome. For more information please visit the website of the M.Sc. program.

Gabriele Moser was born in Genoa, Italy, on May 26, 1977. He received "summa cum laude" the "laurea" degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2001, discussing the thesis "Development of unsupervised change detection methods for remote sensing images." He received the Ph.D. degree in Space Sciences and Engineering at the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) of the University of Genoa in 2005, defending the thesis "Advanced pattern recognition methods for remote-sensing data analysis."
Between January and March 2004 he spent a 3-month period working in the Ariana research group, headed by Prof. Josiane Zerubia, at INRIA ("Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique"), Sophia Antipolis (France) in the context of the EU project IMAVIS and of the “Marie Curie fellowship”.
From 2005 to 2010 he was a post-doctoral fellow within the IPRS team in the Signal Processing & Telecommunication Group at DIBE. He has been cooperating with the Interuniversity Center of Research in Environmental Monitoring (CIMA) since 2004 and with the Department of Earth Sciences of the University of Florence from 2007 to 2008.
He is currently Assistant Professor of Telecommunications at the University of Genoa.
His main research activity is in the area of remote-sensing image processing and analysis, specifically focusing on:
  • contextual classification of remote-sensing images;
  • support vector machines and kernel-based methods for image classification and bio/geophysical parameter estimation from remote-sensing data;
  • synthetic aperture radar data analysis;
  • multitemporal classification and change-detection techniques for remotely sensed images;
  • hyperspectral image classification and feature reduction.
He is an Associate Editor of "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters" and a reviewer for several international journals including "IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing," "IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters," and "Pattern Recongnition Letters." He is an IEEE, GRSS, and AEIT member.
He currently teaches the 
"Vector-space transformation techniques for multivariate statistical analysis" course for the Ph.D. programs in "Electronic, Computer Science, Robotics, and Telecommunications Engineering" and "System Monitoring and Environmental Risk Management."


Publications
  • Books:
    • G. Moser, "Analisi di immagini telerilevate per osservazione della Terra," ECIG, September 2007.
  • Journal papers:
    • F. Melgani, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection methods for remote sensing images”, Optical Engineering, 41(12):3288-3297, 2002.
    • P. Mantero, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Partially supervised classification of remote-sensing images through SVM-based probability density estimation”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 43(3):559-570, 2005.
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “Dictionary-based stochastic expectation-maximization for SAR amplitude probability density function estimation”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44(1):188-200, 2006.
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “SAR amplitude probability density function estimation based on a generalized Gaussian model”, IEEE Trans. Image Process., 15(6):1429-1442, 2006.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Generalized minimum-error thresholding for unsupervised change detection from SAR amplitude imagery”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44(10):2972-2982, 2006.
    • S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, “Weight parameter optimization by the Ho-Kashyap algorithm in MRF models for supervised image classification”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 44(12):3695-3705, 2006.
    • S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, “Extraction of spectral channels from hyperspectral images for classification purposes”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 45(2):484-495, 2007.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, G. Vernazza, “Unsupervised change detection from multichannel SAR images”, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letters, 4(2):278-282, 2007.
    • F. Causa, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “A novel MRF model for the detection of urban areas in optical high spatial resolution images”, Rivista Italiana di Telerilevamento, vol. 38, 2007.
    • G. Mercier, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Conditional copula for change detection on heterogeneous data”, accettato per pubblicazione in IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 46(5):1428-1441.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Automatic parameter optimization for support vector regression for land and sea surface temperature estimation from remote-sensing data”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 47(3):909-921, 2009.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection from multichannel SAR data by Markovian data fusion”, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, 47(7):2114-2128, 2009.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Modeling the error statistics in support vector regression of surface temperature from infrared data”, IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letters, 6(3):448-452, 2009.
    • G. Forzieri, G. Moser, E. R. Vivoni, F. Castelli, F. Canovaro, “Riparian vegetation mapping for hydraulic roughness estimation using very high resolution remote sensing data fusion”, ASCE Journal of Hydraulic Engineering, 136(11): 855-867, 2010.
    • V. A. Krylov, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, J. Zerubia, "Enhanced dictionary-based SAR amplitude distribution estimation and its validation with very high-resolution data," IEEE Geosci. Remote Sensing Letters, 2010 (in print).
  • Book chapter contributions:
    • G. Moser, F. Melgani, S. B. Serpico, “Advances in unsupervised change detection”, in Frontiers of remote sensing information processing, ed.: C. H. Chen, World Scientific Publishing, 2003, pp. 405-426.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, M. De Martino, “Feature reduction and supervised classification methodologies for hyperspectral image analysis”, in Analysis and classification of remotely sensed hyperspectral Images, ed.: G. Corsini, ETS, 2004, pp. 47-56.
    • S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, “MRF-based remote-sensing image classification with automatic model-parameter estimation” in Signal and image processing for remote sensing, ed.: C. H. Chen, Taylor & Francis, CRC Press, 2006, pp. 305-326.
    • S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, A. F. Cattoni, “Feature reduction for classification purpose” in Hyperspectral data exploitation: theory and applications, ed.: C.-I Chang, John Wiley & Sons, 2006, pp. 245-274.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection from multichannel SAR data by Markov random fields”, in Computational intelligence for remote sensing, ed.: M. Graña, R. Duro, Springer-Verlag, 2008, pp. 363-388.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Land and sea surface temperature estimation by support vector regression,” in Kernel methods for remote sensing data analysis, ed.: G. Camps-Valls, L. Bruzzone, John Wiley & Sons., 2009 (in print).
    • G. Moser, R. Gaetano, G. Poggi, G. Scarpa, S. B. Serpico, “Contextual classification of multisensor optical-SAR remote sensing images,” in Handbook of pattern recognition and computer vision, 4th ed., ed.: C.-H. Chen, 2009 (in print).

  • Research reports:
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “SAR amplitude probability density function estimation based on a generalized Gaussian scattering model”, INRIA Research Report no. 5153, March 2004, url: www.inria.fr/rrrt/rr-5153.html.
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “Dictionary-based stochastic expectation-maximization for SAR amplitude probability density function estimation”, INRIA Research Report no. 5154, March 2004, url: www.inria.fr/rrrt/rr-5154.html.
    • G. Mercier, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Conditional copula for change detection on heterogeneous data,” GET/ENST Bretagne Research Report RR-2006004-ITI, August 2006.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, "Unsupervised change detection from multichannel SAR data by Markov random fields”, GTTI National Meeting, Rome, Italy, 18-20 June 2007, url: www.gtti.it/GTTI07/papers/MoserSerpico_GTTI-2007_Telerilevamento.pdf.
    • V. Krylov, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, J. Zerubia, “Modeling the statistics of high-resolution SAR images”, INRIA Research Report no. 6722, November 2008, url: hal.inria.fr/docs/00/35/76/27/PDF/RR-6722.pdf.
    • G. Moser, E. Angiati, S. B. Serpico, “Multiscale unsupervised change detection on optical images based on Markov random fields and wavelets,” GTTI National Meeting, Parma, Italy, 23-25 June 2009, url: www.gtti.it/GTTI09/files/papers/Telerilevamento/Telerilevamento_10.40_Moser.pdf.
  • Conference papers:
    • F. Melgani, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection methods for remote sensing images”, Proceedings of SPIE – Conference on Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing (ISPRS) VII, Toulouse, France, 17-21 September 2001, pp. 211-222.
    • G. Moser, F. Melgani, S. B. Serpico, A. Caruso, “Partially supervised detection of changes from remote sensing images”, Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS-2002), Toronto, Canada, 24-28 June 2002, vol. 1, pp. 299-301.
    • A. Guerrero Curieses, A. Biasiotto, S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, “Supervised classification of remote sensing images with unknown classes”, Proc. of IGARSS-2002, Toronto, Canada, 24-28 June 2002, vol. 6, pp. 3486-3488.
    • S. B. Serpico, M. D’Incà, F. Melgani, G. Moser, “A Comparison of feature reduction techniques for classification of hyperspectral remote-sensing data”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS VIII, Crete, Greece, 22-27 settembre 2002, pp. 347-358.
    • M. De Martino, G. Macchiavello, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Partially supervised contextual classification of multitemporal remotely sensed images”, Proc. of IGARSS-2003, Toulouse, France, 21-25 July 2003, vol. 2, pp. 1377-1379 (invited paper).
    • P. Mantero, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “SVM-based density estimation for supervised classification of remotely sensed images with unknown classes”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS IX, Barcelona, Spain, 8-12 September 2003, vol. 386-397.
    • S. B. Serpico, M. Datcu, G. Moser, S. Mansi, P. Pecciarini, “Hybrid supervised/unsupervised multisensor fusion of remote sensing images based on hierarchical clustering”, Proceedings of the 2003 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Remote Sensing, 15-18 September 2003, Isola d’Elba, Italy, pp. 17-30 (invited paper).
    • P. Mantero, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Partially supervised classification of remote sensing images using SVM-based probability density estimation”, Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE workshop on Advances in Techniques for Analysis of Remotely Sensed Data (a honorary workshop for Prof. D. A. Landgrebe), 27-28 October 2003, NASA Goddard Visitor Center, Greenbelt MD, USA, pp. 327-336.
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “SAR amplitude probability density function estimation based on a generalized Gaussian scattering model”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS X, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 13-17 September 2004, pp. 307-318.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, M. De Martino, D. Coppolino, “Automatic partially supervised classification of multitemporal remotely sensed images”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS X, Maspalomas, Gran Canaria, Spain, 13-17 September 2004, pp. 126-137.
    • G. Moser, J. Zerubia, S. B. Serpico, “Finite mixture models and stochastic expectation-maximization for SAR amplitude probability density function estimation based on a dictionary of parametric families”, Proc. of IGARSS-2004, Anchorage (USA), 20-24 September 2004, vol. 2, pp. 1510-1513.
    • S. B. Serpico, M. D’Incà, G. Moser, “Design of spectral channels for remote sensing image classification”, Proc. of IGARSS-2004, Anchorage (USA), 20-24 September 2004, vol. 2, pp. 956-959.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Generalized minimum-error thresholding for unsupervised change detection from SAR amplitude imagery”, Proc. of IGARSS-2005, Seoul, South Korea, 25-29 July 2005, vol. 3, pp. 2121-2124.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, F. Causa, “MRF model parameter estimation for contextual supervised classification of remote-sensing images”, Proc. of IGARSS-2005, Seoul, South Korea, 25-29 July 2005, vol. 8, pp. 308-311 (articolo finalista per IGARSS 2005 Student Prize Paper Competition).
    • F. Causa, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “A novel MRF model for the classification of optical high-resolution images in urban environment,” Proceedings of the AIT-SIFET joint workshop on urban remote sensing, Mantova, Italy, 1-2 December 2005.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection from multichannel SAR data”, Proceedings of the 2006 Nordic Signal Processing Symposium (NORSIG-2006), Reykjavík, Iceland, 7-9 June 2006, pp. 246-249.
    • A. Nappo, J. A. Benediktsson, S. B. Serpico, S. R. Joelsson, G. Moser, R. A. Karlsson, G. H. Halldorsson, S. H. Hardarson, E. Stefansson, “Unsupervised change detection in color fundus images of the human retina”, Proc. of NORSIG-2006, Reykjavík, Iceland, 7-9 June 2006, pp. 134-137.
    • M. Zortea, M. De Martino, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Land surface temperature estimation from infrared satellite data using support vector machines,” Proc. of IGARSS-2006, Denver, USA, 31 July - 4 August 2006, pp. 2109-2112.
    • F. Causa, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “A spatio-spectral data fusion method for the detection of urban areas in optical high resolution Images by a novel MRF model,” Proc. of IGARSS-2006, Denver, USA, 31 July - 4 August 2006, pp. 2502-2505.
    • L. Cannavacciuolo, W. Emery, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “A contextual change detection method for high-resolution optical images of urban areas”, Proceedings of the 2007 Urban Remote Sensing Joint Event, 11-13 April 2007, Paris, France.
    • G. Macchiavello, G. Boni, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised identification of snow covered areas by decision tree classifier”, EGU General Assembly 2007, 15-20 April 2007, Vien, Austria, Geophysical Research Abstracts, vol. 9, 06955, 2007.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Unsupervised change detection by multichannel SAR data fusion”, Proc. of IGARSS-2007, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 July 2007, pp. 4854-4857.
    • G. Mercier, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Conditional copula for change detection on heterogeneous SAR data”, Proc. of IGARSS-2007, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 July 2007, pp. 2394-2397.
    • P. Li, T. Cheng, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, D. Ma, “Multitemporal change detection by spectral and multivariate texture information”, Proc. of IGARSS-2007, Barcelona, Spain, 23-27 July 2007, pp. 1922-1925.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Automatic land and sea surface temperature estimation from remote sensing data”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS XIII, Florence, Italy, 17-20 September 2007.
    • E. Angiati, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Multiscale unsupervised change detection by Markov random fields and wavelet transforms”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS XIII, Florence, Italy, 17-20 September 2007.
    • M. Zortea, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Investigation of an ensemble framework for classification of hyperspectral remote sensing data with nearly equal spectral response classes”, Proc. of SPIE-ISPRS XIII, Florence, Italy, 17-20 September 2007.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Modelling the error statistics in support vector regression of surface temperature from infrared data,” Proc. of IGARSS-2008, 6-11 July 2008, Boston, (MA, USA), pp. III.1115-III.1118.
    • R. Gaetano, G. Moser, G. Poggi, G. Scarpa, S. B. Serpico, "Region-based classification of multisensor optical-SAR images," Proc. of IGARSS-2008, 6-11 July 2008, Boston, (MA, USA), pp. IV.81-IV.84.
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, "Classification of high-resolution images based on MRF fusion and multiscale segmentation," Proc. of IGARSS-2008, 6-11 July 2008, Boston, (MA, USA), pp. II.277-II.280.
    • M. Aragone, A. Caridi, S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, D. Cerra, M. Datcu, “Study of information content of SAR images”, Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE Radar Conference (RadarCon-2008), 26-30 May 2008, Rome, Italy, pp. 1-6.
    • G. Troglio, J. A. Benediktsson, S. B. Serpico, G. Moser, R. A. Karlsson, G. H. Halldorsson, E. Stefansson, “Automatic registration of retina images based on genetic techniques”, Proceedings of the 30th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS-2008), 20-24 August 2008, Vancouver, Canada, pp. 5419-5424.
    • G. Troglio, J. Le Moigne, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, J. A. Benediktsson, “Automatic extraction of planetary image features”, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology (SMC-IT), 19-23 July 2009, Pasadena (CA, USA; in print).
    • V. Krylov, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, J. Zerubia, “Dictionary-based probability density function estimation for high-resolution SAR data”, Proceedings of SPIE – Computational Imaging VII at the SPIE Electronic Imaging 2009 (EI09) Symposium, 18-22 January 2009, San Josè (CA, USA).
    • G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “Edge-preserving classification of high-resolution remote-sensing images by Markovian data fusion,” Proc. of IGARSS-2009, 12-17 July 2009, Cape Town, South Africa (in print).
    • G. Macchiavello, G. Moser, G. Boni, S. B. Serpico, “Automatic unsupervised classification of snow-covered areas by decision-tree classification and minimum-error thresholding,” Proc. of IGARSS-2009, 12-17 July 2009, Cape Town, South Africa (in print).
    • A. Robin, G. Mercier, G. Moser, S. B. Serpico, “An a-contrario approach for unsupervised change detection in radar images,” Proc. of IGARSS-2009, 12-17 July 2009, Cape Town, South Africa (in print).
    • G. Moser, V. Krylov, S. B. Serpico, J. Zerubia, “High-resolution SAR-image classification by Markov random fields and finite mixtures”, Proceedings of SPIE – Computational Imaging VIII at the SPIE Electronic Imaging 2010 (EI10) Symposium, 18-19 January 2010, San Josè (CA, USA; in print).
  • Theses:
    • G. Moser, “Development of unsupervised change detection methods for remote sensing images”, “laurea” thesis in Telecommunications Engineering, tutor: Prof. S. B. Serpico, cotutor: Dr. F. Melgani, 2001.
    • G. Moser, “Advanced pattern-recognition methods for remote-sensing data analysis”, Ph.D. thesis in Space Science and Engineering, tutor: Prof. S. B. Serpico, Ph.D. program coordinator: Prof. S. Cincotti, 2005, url: cucciolo.dibe.unige.it/IPRS/phd/MoserPhD.pdf.
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