Rocco Pietrini

Role: 
Assistant Professor
E-mail: 
r.pietrini@univpm.it
Research Areas: 
  • Computer Vision
  • Human Behaviour Analysis
  • Deep Learning
  • Retail Intelligence
Teaching: 

2023 Object Oriented Programming and Data Structures (Videogame and Virtual Reality Engineering) - Lecturer

2018-2022 Computer Vision - Lab assistant

2017 Multimedia Systems - Lab assistant

Capsule Bio: 

In 2013, he receives the B.Sc. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from Polytechnic University of Marche with a thesis entitled "Portale per la gestione delle attività di un gruppo di ricerca gestito tramite CMS" (supervisor Prof. Donato Iacobucci). During this period spent 5 months at Université Paris XIII in Paris, as Erasmus student.

In 2016, he receives the M.Sc. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from Polytechnic University of Marche with a thesis entitled "Design and development of a Human Machine Interface in interactive multimedia environments" (supervisor Prof. Emanuele Frontoni).

He was a speaker at the Embedded Vision Summit held in Santa Clara, 21-24 May 2018 with a talk: "Deep Understanding of Shopper Behaviors and Interactions Using Computer Vision".

In 2019 he spent 3 months at the Center for Research in Computer Vision, University of Central Florida under the supervision of prof. Mubarak Shah with a research focus on human action detection in retail context.

He received the doctoral degree in information engineering from the Marche Polytechnic University, Italy, in 2020 with a thesis entitled "Deep Understanding of Shopper Behaviors in Intelligent Retail Environment" with the supervision of prof. Frontoni. The thesis was also awarded with the "Maurizio Panti" 2020 Prize from the Marche Polytechnic University as the best PhD thesis in the IT field.

From 2020 to 2022 he was a Deep Learning Engineer in Grottini Lab.

He was an invited speaker at the RetailVision workshop held in CVPR 2022.

Since August 2022 he is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Marche.

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