Starting 05/2012 I have moved to the University of Tokyo, please refer to the new page for updates.

PhD in Computer Science, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia
BS/MS Summa Cum Laude in Computer System Engineering, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"

Visiting student at Tel Aviv University under the supervision of Prof. Alex Bronstein (May-June 2011).

Program Committee member for: ECCV 2012, CVPR 2012, ICCV 2011, CVPR 2011.

News 23/04/2012: Published dataset for 3D Object Recognition and Segmentation in cluttered scenes

News 21/01/2012: Awarded JSPS Post-doctoral Fellowship! Starting mid-2012 I'll be working at the University of Tokyo

News 30/11/2011: Award for Best Research Work in the Scientific Area, Ca' Foscari University of Venice

News 25/10/2011: Demo code available for multiview registration via dual quaternions

News 23/08/2011: RUNE-Tag is being included in OpenCV! Watch the video here, the paper is here

News 24/05/2011: Evolutionary dynamics for Matlab! Go to the software page

Research Interests: 3D Reconstruction, Shape Description, Surface Registration and Matching.

Current Research:

• Full and partial non-rigid matching
• Fine (and fast) rigid registration methods without initial motion estimation
• Robust selection of multi-view correspondences
• Hi-res, accurate and fast 3D scanning for the Manufacturing Industry

My Thesis Advisor: Andrea Torsello

My Graduate School: Università di Roma Tor Vergata

Other Schools:

• Machine Vision School - VISMAC 2008 (Università degli studi di Pavia)
• 8th Summer School on Scientific Visualization and Interactive 3D Graphics (CINECA)

Teaching, invited talks and other:

12 March 2012
Defense talk at PhD Day, Venice: "Sparse and Robust Matching Problem for 3D Shape Analysis".

28 February 2012
Invited talk at University of Rome "La Sapienza", Dept. of Mathematics: "A Game-Theoretic Approach to Deformable Shape Matching".

30 November 2011
Poster and demo presentation at Ca' Foscari Doctoral School Opening Day (Venice): "Metodi e Tecnologie Innovative per la Visione Artificiale". The poster is available here (in Italian).

13 April 2011
Seminar: "A Game-Theoretic Perspective on Registration and Recognition of 3D Shapes". The slides are available here.

11 May 2010
Seminar within the Computer Vision course (Computer Science graduate): "Structured Light 3D Reconstruction - Reconstruction pipeline and industrial applications". The slides are available here. The main course is held by Samuel Rota Bulò.

22 October 2009
Poster presentation at Eurographics Italian Chapter (Verona): "Fast 3D Surface Reconstruction by Unambiguous Compound Phase Coding".

2009 - 1st semester
TA classes for the Discrete Mathematics course (Computer Science undergraduate), under the guidance of Prof. Giorgio Busetto.

Other Interests:

I'm currently interested in the videogame and entertainment industry. I've been an electronic musician (Purusha), ran a netlabel for 10 years (Ogredung), wrote music and games reviews, held a radio program focused on electronic music.