Lab Director
Luigi Cinque
Luigi Cinque received his laurea degree in Physics from the University of Napoli, in 1983. From 1984 to 1990 he was with the Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence (Alenia S.p.A), working on the development of expert systems and knowledge-based vision systems. In 1990, he joined the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome, where he is currently, a Full Professor. His first scientific interests cover Image Processing, Shape and Object Recognition, Analysis and Interpretation of Images and their Applications, with particular emphasis at Content-Based Retrieval in Visual Digital Archives, and Advanced Man-Machine Interaction, assisted by Computer Vision. Actually, his main interests involve Distributed Systems for Analysis and Interpretation of Video Sequences, Target Tracking, Multisensor Data and Information Fusion. Some of techniques he has proposed have found applications in field of Video-Based Surveillance Systems, Autonomous Vehicle, Road Traffic Control, Human Behaviour Understanding, and visual inspection. He is author of more than 200 papers in National and International Journals, and Conference Proceedings. He currently serves as reviewer for many International Journals (e.g., IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems, IEEE Trans. on SMC, IEEE Trans. on Vehicular Technology, IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging, Image and Vision Computing). He served an scientific committees of International Conferences (e.g., CVPR, ICME, ICPR) and symposia. He serve as a reviewer for the European Union in different research program. He is Senior Member of IEEE, Member of ACM and Member of IAPR.
Professors and Post-Doc Researchers
Danilo Avola
Danilo Avola received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Science from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in Molecular and Ultrastructural Imaging from University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy, in 2014. Since 2015 he is postdoc researcher at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (DMIF), University of Udine, Udine, Italy, and member of the AVIRES Lab at the same University. Previously, he was research engineer at the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University, at the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology, Rome, Italy, and at the Multimodal & Multimedia Lab of the National Research Council, Rome, Italy. His research interests include Human Computer Interaction, Computer Vision, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, Image and Video Processing, Multimodal Systems, and Pattern Recognition. He serves on the Steering Committee of selected International Conferences and is an Editorial Board member of different International Journals. Danilo Avola is author or co-author of more than 60 papers in International Journals, refereed International Conferences and International Book Chapters. Since 2011, Danilo Avola is member of IAPR and member of IEEE.
Daniele Pannone
Daniele Pannone received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from the Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2015 and 2018 respectively. Since 2015, he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory (VisionLab) at the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome, and since 2020 he is Assistant Professor at the same Department. His current research interests include scene analysis, pattern recognition, machine learning, deep learning, event recognition, object tracking, people reidentification, active vision in surveillance systems, signal analysis and processing, and human-computer interaction.
Daniele is a member of IAPR, CVPL and IEEE.
Marco Raoul Marini
Marco Raoul Marini received the B.Sc and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University, Rome, Italy, in 2013 and 2015. In 2019 he obtained the PhD in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the same University. His research interests include Human Behavior Analysis, 3D Modelling, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Multimodal Interaction, Natural Interaction, Machine Learning and Deep Learning. All these interests are focused to the development of systems applied to the problem of behavior understanding. He is recently focusing on Redirection in VR Locomotion and Brain Computer Interface (BCI) applications. He is a member of IEEE and CVPL.
Alessio Mecca
Alessio Mecca received the M. Sc. degree (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome in 2015. He took the Ph.D. at Sapienza University of Rome in 2019. He worked on topics related to pattern recognition, signal comparison, and biometrics, especially focusing on wearable sensor-based gait recognition.
Marco Cascio
Marco Cascio received the B.Sc. in Computer Science from University of Messina, Messina, Italy, in 2015 and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2018. Since 2018, he is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome. His current research interests include scene analysis, pattern recognition, machine/deep learning, event recognition, object tracking, people re-identification, Wi-Fi signal processing, active vision in surveillance systems, signal processing and human-computer interaction.
Ph.D Students
Alessio Fagioli
Alessio Fagioli received the B.Sc and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2016 and 2019, respectively. He is currently a Ph.D. fellow and a member of the VisionLab of the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome. His current research interests include Medical Image Analysis, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Affect Recognition, Event Recognition, Object Tracking, and Human Computer Interaction.
Anxhelo Diko
Anxhelo Diko received the B.Sc. in Business Informatics from University of Tirana, Tirana, Albania, in 2018 and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2020. Since 2021, he is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome. His current research interests include scene analysis, pattern recognition, machine and deep learning, people re-identification, human-computer interaction, medical imaging, graph analysis and video understanding.
Romeo Lanzino
Romeo Lanzino received B.Sc. and M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2019 and 2021 respectively.
Since 2021 he is enrolled in the National Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence program and also a member of the VisionLab in the Department of Computer Science in Sapienza.
His current research interests include Brain Computer Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Deep Learning, Optical Flow Estimation, Few-shot Learning, Text/Image Generation.
Angelo Di Mambro
Angelo Di Mambro received the B.Sc. in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2018 and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2021. Since 2021, he is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome. His current research interests include Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCI), Emotion recognition, signal processing, Human-Computer interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality, Machine learning and Deep learning.
Irene Cannistraci
Irene Cannistraci received a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, in 2017. From 2017 to 2019, she worked as a Software Developer Engineer for an IT company, where she designed and implemented solutions for different companies such as Enel and Telecom. In 2020 she obtained an M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. Irene is currently a Ph.D. fellow and a member of the VisionLab of the Department of Computer Science, Sapienza University of Rome. She is also involved in educational activities to disseminate coding and digital skills to students, particularly to young women. Her research interests include Deep Learning, Geometric Deep Learning, and Medical Image Analysis.
External Collaborators
Cristiano Massaroni
Cristiano Massaroni received the B.Sc and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2013 and 2016, respectively. Since 2016 he is a Ph.D. in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the same University. His research interests include Scene Analysis, Pattern Recognition, Background Modeling, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Event Recognition, Object Tracking, People Re-Identification, Human Computer Interaction.
Marco Bernardi
Marco Bernardi received the B.Sc and the M.Sc. (cum laude) in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy, in 2012 and 2016, respectively.
Since 2016 he is a Ph.D. Student in Computer Science and he is a member of the Computer Vision Laboratory in the Department of Computer Science at the same University.
His research interests include Data Fusion, Human Activity Recognition, Pattern Recognition, Machine Learning, Human Computer Interaction.