I received my PhD in Computer Science Engineering on February the 3rd, 2010 from the Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica, Sapienza University of Rome.

The title of my PhD thesis is "Visual Tracking and Data Fusion for Automatic Video Surveillance" and my advisor was Professor Luca Iocchi.

My research areas are automatic video surveillance, stereo vision and steganography.

I received the Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering on May the 26th, 2006 from Sapienza University of Rome (pics).

The title of my Master's thesis is "Steganografia e crittografia tramite stereo visione", it was written in italian and it was awarded as the best Computer Science Engineering thesis presented during the Academic Year 2004-2005 at Sapienza University of Rome. The thesis is published on www.pubblitesi.it which collects the best thesis presented in Italy.

I received the Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering on February the 19th, 2004 from Sapienza University of Rome (pics).

The title of my Bachelor's thesis is "Tecniche di correlazione per la stereo visione", it was written in italian.

From June 2006 to May 2008, I was involved in the ARGOS project (Automatic Remote Grand canal Observation System), whose objective is to monitor naval traffic in the Gran Canal in Venice with a vision-based system (see the RAI-Tg1 video, La Repubblica article, RAI-Tgr Neapolis).

From October 2007, I help in the teaching activities at Faculty of Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome (see didattica).

I have published 2 papers in international journals (“ARGOS - A Video Surveillance System for Boat Trafic Monitoring in Venice”, “Background Subtraction for Automated Multisensor Surveillance: A Comprehensive Review”) and 7 papers in proceedings of international conferences (“Image based steganography and cryptography”,  “A Distributed Vision System for Boat Traffic Monitoring in the Venice Grand Canal”, “Rek-means: A k-means based clustering algorithm” *, “A Novel Segmentation Method for Crowded Scenes”, "A Comparison of Multi Hypothesis Kalman Filter and Particle Filter for Multi-Target Tracking", "An Adaptive Tracker for Assisted Living", “Automatic Maritime Surveillance with Visual Target Detection”).

I participated in DHSS 2011, AVSS 2009, VISAPP 2009 (session chair), ICVS 2008, VISAPP 2007, Rescue Robotics Camp 2007, Vision Video and Graphics (VVG) EPSRC Summer School 2007, Rescue Robotics Camp 2006, IBM EMEA Best Student Recognition Event 2006.

From February the 1st, 2008 to September the 15th, 2008 I was a visiting scholar at Digital Imaging Research Centre (DIRC), Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics (CISM), Kingston University, London. My supervisor at Kingston University was Dr Paolo Remagnino.

From April the 1st, 2009 to March the 31st I was an associate researcher with the VIPS lab, University of Verona.

From April the 1st, 2010 I am a post-doc at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica Automatica e Gestionale, Sapienza University of Rome and I teach as contract professor in different courses (see teaching).

I am a reviewer for Pattern Recognition and Expert Systems The Journal of Knowledge Engineering.

You can download my detailed curriculum vitae in english (PDF) and in italian (PDF).

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