CV

Education

• B.S. in Computer Engineering, University of Florence, 2011
• M.S. in Computer Engineering, cum laude, University of Florence, 2014. Thesis: Pose invariant face recognition
• Ph.D in Information Engineering, Unversity of Florence, 2018. Thesis: Representing Faces: local and holistic approaches with application to recognition.

Work experience

• 09/21 - today: Assistant Professor (RTD/A)
  • Department of Engineering and Architecture, University of Parma.
• 02/18 - 09/21: PostDoc Researcher
  • MICC Lab at the Deparment of Information Engineering, University of Florence.
  • Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo

Publications

Effective 3D based Frontalization for Unconstrained Face Recognition

A Dictionary Learning-based 3D Morphable Shape Model

Investigating Nuisances in DCNN-based Face Recognition

Deep 3D Morphable Model Refinement via Progressive Growing of Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks

A sparse and locally coherent morphable face model for dense semantic correspondence across heterogeneous 3D faces

Sparse to dense dynamic 3d facial expression generation

Learning Streamed Attention Network from Descriptor Images for Cross-Resolution 3D Face Recognition

(Compress and Restore): a Robust Defense Against Adversarial Attacks on Image Classification

What makes you, you? Analyzing Recognition by Swapping Face Parts

Teaching

Programming Laboratory

Algorithms and Data Structures

Academic Service

• Organizer and co-chair of the following workshops:
  • 3DOR, Eurographics workshop on 3D Object Retrieval, Florence 2022
  • T-CAP: Towards a complete analysis of people, in conjunction with ICIAP2021, ICPR2022, ECCV2022
  • 3DHU: 3D Human Understanding, in conjunction with ICPR2020
• Organizer of the following tutorials:
  • 3D Face Modeling and Reconstruction, CVPR 2020
  • Statistical 3D face reconstruction with 3D Morphable Models, 3DV 2018
• Guest editor of the following special issues;
  • 3DOR 2022, Elsevier Computer and Graphics
  • Computer Vision in Human Analysis: From Face and Body to Clothes, MDPI Sensors
  • Image and Video Analysis and Understanding, MDPI Electronics
  • 3D Human Understanding, MDPI Journal of Imaging
• Reviewer service for the following journals and conferences (selection):
  • Journals
    • IEEE TPAMI, TIP, TMM, TAFFC
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems
    • ACM TOMM
    • Multimedia Tools and Applications
    • The Visual Computer
    • Computers and Graphics
  • Conferences
    • CVPR 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
    • ICCV 2020, 2021, 2022
    • ICPR 2018, 2020, 2022
    • ACMM 2022
    • ICIAP 2021
    • AVSS 2017
    • WACV 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
    • NeurIPS 2023

Awards

• Outstanding Reviewer award at ICCV 2021
• Awarded a NVIDIA Titan-XP GPU for the academic NVIDIA-GPU grant program
• Best paper award: Investigating Nuisance Factors in Face Recognition with DCNN representation, CVPR 2017 - IEEE Workshop on Biometrics paper