Co-author of more than 150 scientific publications in refereed journals and international conferences. Member of the technical committees of important computer vision conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC, etc.). Serves as an associate editor of the IEEE Transaction on Image Processing journal.
Research Experience
Previously, he was a researcher at the Institute for Systems and Robotics at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, Portugal.
Education
Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London from 2002 to 2006, under the supervision of Dr. Lourdes Agapito.
Background
A tenured senior researcher leading the PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision) research line at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genova, Italy. His current research interests are related to 3D scene understanding from multi-modal input (images, depth, audio) to support the development of assistive Artificial Intelligence systems.