My research interest is animal and human pose estimation from images and videos. My main contribution to the field is the exploration of realistic 2D and 3D models of human body shape and 3D models of animals for estimating pose and articulated motion in unconstrained images, videos, and from 3D data.
I graduated in Electronic Engineering at the University of Bologna. After graduation I worked for some time in the industry, where I contributed to realize a system for the forecast of the tide in Venice (tide forecast). Then, I joined for a short time the Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, a orthopaedic hospital in Bologna (Italy), where I worked on a method for the estimation of knee prostheses kinematics. Before starting my PhD in 2009 I worked as research scientist at ITC-CNR (Milan, Italy), where my research interest was colour imaging, specifically multispectral imaging and reproduction, and readability of coloured text on Web pages. I am currently a research scientist at IMATI-CNR.
My homepage at IMATI-CNR.
Curriculum Vitae