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Assistant professor
Imaging and Vision Laboratory (IVL)
Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication
University of Milano-Bicocca
Milano, Italy
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication (DISCo) at the University of Milano-Bicocca, Milano, Italy. I am a member of the Imaging and Vision Laboratory headed by prof. Raimondo Schettini. I am currently serving as Associate Editor for Elsevier Neurocompunting, IET Electronics Letters and Springer Image, Signal and Video Processing journals.
I received an BSc in Computer Science from the University of Messina and both my MSc and PhD (supervised by prof. Raimondo Schettini and prof. Paolo Napoletano) degrees in Computer Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca.
Recent News
The preprint of our work on real-world dehazing is now available on Research Square https://dx.doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3917740/v1. (02/02/2024)
I will present our work on image complexity estimation with VisionTransformers at VISAPP 2024. Join us at the conference!!! (30/01/2024)
I am thrilled to announce that I serve as Associate Editor for the Elsevier Neurocompunting journal. (30/12/2023)
I am happy to invite you to the Technical Talks of CTSoc series for which I am a speaker with the webinar titled "Exploring Image Quality and Aesthetics in Consumer Photography" to be held December 21, 2023 - 4pm-5pm CET on Zoom. (14/12/2023)
Old news
04/09/2023
The pre-proof version of our article titled "Semi-supervised cross-lingual speech emotion recognition" of Expert Systems with Applications is now online. Check it out at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2023.121368.
20/06/2023
The preprint of our work to improve the descriptiveness of image captions is now available https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11593.
15/05/2023
Assistant professor at UNIMIB
05/05/2023
I am one of the organizers of the the 3rd Automatic Affect Analysis and Synthesis Workshop will be held at ICIAP2013. Submit a contribution!!!
The article "Understanding Aesthetics with Language: A Photo Critique Dataset for Aesthetic Assessment" with Daniel Vera Nieto and Clara Fernandez-Labrador from MTC at ETH Zurich has been accepted for publication by NeurIPS2022 dataset and a benchmark track. For more information visit the link.
On Thursday 2nd November at 10:20-10:40 (GMT+1), I will present our work in collaboration with the Moscow Research Center, Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd, Russia titled "ArabCeleb: Speaker Recognition in Arabic" at the 20th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
On Wednesday 3rd November at 11:30-13:00 (GMT+1), my colleague and co-author prof. Simone Bianco will present the work "An Analysis of Spectral Similarity Measures" at the interactive poster session of the Color & Imaging Conference
Tuesday 21 September at 13:20-14:30 (GMT+1), my colleague and co-author Mirko Agarla will present the work "On the Semantic Dependency of Video Quality Assessment Methods" at the interactive poster session of the London Imaging Meeting
The final version of our article titled "A Grid Anchor based Cropping Approach Exploiting Image Aesthetics, Geometric Composition, and Semantics" of Expert Systems with Applications is now online. Check it out at the following link: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115852
On March 10, 2021 at 9:30, I will give a lesson about "Image dehazing" for the Advanced Color Image Processing course held at the Universidad de Granada
On February 11, 2021 at 10:20, I will give the seminar titled “Image understanding, selection and manipulation leveraging multiple perceptual properties”, about my research activity conducted in the last two years (link)
I have been honored as the recipient of the 3rd place in the Young Talent Award 2023 announced by the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca and sponsored by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. The award consists of a €1000 grant to support my research activities. (29/09/2023)
Research interests
I mainly focus on signal, image and video analysis and understanding. Image and video analysis studies focus primarily on defining perceptual metrics for assessing quality, aesthetics, and memorability. Some of the previous metrics were, among other things, used for image enhancement works. Visual understanding research is about facial analysis and monitoring. My work on audio signal understanding concerns the recognition of the speaker and the emotional state of the speaker.
Research interests (more on Research)
Computer Vision
Machine/Deep learning
Image processing
Visual quality assessment
Face analysis
Image enhancement
Keywords
Computer vision, Image processing, Machine learning, Deep learning, Pattern recognition, Image quality, Aesthetics, Face analysis, Image dehazing