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PhD Student Rocco Pietrini attented the ICVSS International Computer Vision Summer School, held in Punta Sampieri - Scicli (Italy) on July 8-14, 2018. More than 150 participants attended this school.

The courses have been delivered by world renowned experts in the field, from both academia and industry, and covered both theoretical and practical aspects of real Computer Vision problems as well as examples of their successful commercialisation.

Organized by the Image Processing Laboratory of the Università di Catania. The school represented a great opportunity to meet world experts in the field such as Josh Tenenbaum, Hugo Larochelle, Antonio Torralba and many others.

Rocco Pietrini also presented recent developments of the VRAI research activities about human behavior analysis using computer vision in a dedicated poster session and took part to the reading group competition lead by prof. Stefano Soatto (Amazon and University of California Los Angeles, USA).

Dr. Roberto Pierdicca and Dr. Marina Paolanti attended at ISPRS 2018. They have presented the following papers:

• Pierdicca, R., Malinverni, E. S., Piccinini, F., Paolanti, M., Felicetti, A., & Zingaretti, P. (2018). DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK FOR AUTOMATIC DETECTION OF DAMAGED PHOTOVOLTAIC CELLS. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 42(2).​
• Fangi, G., Pierdicca, R., Sturari, M., & Malinverni, E. S. (2018). IMPROVING SPHERICAL PHOTOGRAMMETRY USING 360° OMNI-CAMERAS: USE CASES AND NEW APPLICATIONS. International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing & Spatial Information Sciences, 42(2).​

ISPRS Technical Commission II "Photogrammetry" focuses, at various scales, on geometric, radiometric and multi-temporal aspects of image- and range-based 3D surveying and modeling. Specifically Commission II deals with image orientation, point cloud generation and processing, 3D feature extraction, scene understanding, sensor and data fusion, sensor characterization, machine learning for geospatial data analysis and big data techniques for massive data processing. Applications in the fields of mapping, industry, heritage, space, underwater and environment are considered.​

Prof. Emanuele Frontoni and PhD student Rocco Pietrini attended the Embedded Vision Summit 2018, held on May 21-24, 2018 in Santa Clara, California .

They presented recent developments in Human Behavior Analysis in retail context in a talk entitiled "Deep Understanding of Shopper Behaviors and Interactions Using Computer Vision". In this summit they also had the chance to meet Takeo Kanade, one of the world's foremost researchers in computer vision, best known for the Lucas-Kanade method.

Il Prof. Frontoni è stato impegnato in una interessante settimana di viaggio e incontri nel mondo retail e logistica di LUXOTTICA.

Tanti giovani manager italiani gestiscono la enorme complessità del colosso degli occhiali. Oltre 12.000 persone lavorano in una fabbrica e in un centro logistico che affrontano anche qui i passaggi dell’Industry 4.0.