Research interests

My current research interests span in general image analysis and understanding, more specifically, three-dimensional computer vision and pattern recognition.

Object recognition and scene reconstruction (also from multisensory data) are issues I am interested in, so as methodologies integrating computer vision and computer graphics. Human-Computer Interaction issues, especially concerning intelligent multimodal interfaces, have been also addressed in my lab.
Clearly, my research is oriented towards real-world applications, like video surveillance, biomedical imaging, quality control and industrial automation in general.

My research, while maintaining a strong contact with real applications, is gradually evolving from being mainly focused on application problem solving to methodological centered, addressing in particular powerful probabilistic and statistical models able to deal with a variety of actual problems in several areas, ranging from computer vision, biomedical image processing, data mining to bioinformatics.

Finally, I am also involved in the design and development of computer vision algorithms in embedded architectures. This activity is in rapid expansion and gave rise to the first spin off of the University of Verona, eVS embedded Vision Systems.

Expertise

• Image and signal processing, computer vision and pattern recognition, probabilistic techniques (Hidden Markov Models, Markov Random Fields, Bayesian networks, Neural networks), and integration of image analysis and synthesis techniques, with applications on surveillance, autonomous driving, visual inspection, robotics.

• Underwater vision (acoustical and optical), data fusion and sensory integration with applications on object detection/recognition, sea floor classification, and bathymetry.

• Author/co-author of more than 280 papers in image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, and underwater acoustic imaging published in refereed international scientific journals or presented at the major conferences (see Publications).

Laboratories

• I founded the Vision, Image Processing, and Sound (VIPS) laboratory in 1999.
• I collaborate with the Acoustics, and Underwater Signal laboratory of the Department of Biophysiscal and Electronic Engineering of the University of Genova, Italy, supervised by Prof. Andrea Trucco.

Team management

• Supervision and management of activities (research and project activities) of a small academic team inside the Signal Processing and Understanding group (SPUG) of DIBE with several engagements.

Technical and project management

• Technical coordination, management and preparation of several research projects in the context of different National and European programmes (see Projects ).

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Last revision: 27 January 2013