Recent Posts

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I was acknowledged by the CVPR’21 organizers for my outstanding reviewing activity for the CVPR’21 conference. I reviewed 6 papers.

Organized a 2-days hybrid conference on AI gathering 100 in-person and 1000 remote attendees. More info on https://ai.kaust.edu.sa/aii-conf-2021

3 papers accepted at CVSports (acceptance ratio: 12 / 25)

I was invited as part of the external jury for the Phd Defense of Anthony Cioppa
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Selected Publications

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Toward the goal of automatic production for sports broadcasts, a paramount task consists in understanding the high-level semantic …
PDF Code Dataset

Understanding broadcast videos is a challenging task in computer vision, as it requires generic reasoning capabilities to appreciate …
Preprint PDF Code Dataset Project: Sports Video Understanding

Point cloud architecture design has become a crucial problem for 3D deep learning. Several efforts exist to manually design …
Preprint Project: 3D Understanding

In autonomous driving pipelines, perception modules provide a visual understanding of the surrounding road scene. Among the perception …
Preprint Project: Autonomous Navigation Project: 3D Understanding

Tracking vehicles in LIDAR point clouds is a challenging task due to the sparsity of the data and the dense search space. The lack of …
Preprint Project: Autonomous Navigation Project: Generic Object Tracking Project: 3D Understanding

Preprint PDF Project: 3D Sensors Source Document

Recent & Upcoming Talks

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May 6, 2021 4:00 PM — 5:00 PM Zoom

Code Slides Video
Apr 8, 2021 9:40 AM — 10:05 AM Zoom

CloudLabeling as an online platform that aims to deliver object detection as a service.
Slides
Feb 9, 2021 4:00 PM — 6:00 PM Zoom

In this talk, I went over the theoretical fundaments of NetVLAD and its applciation in Video and 3D understanding.
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Projects

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All Video 3D Vision Robotics Measurements

Deep Learning

Fundamentals in Deep Learning

Generic Object Tracking

Object Tracking in Images and Point Cloud

3D Understanding

3D Shape and Scene Understanding

Autonomous Navigation

Perception Modules for Autonomous Navigation

Sports Video Understanding

Holistic Understanding of Broadcast Videos

Gait Analysis

Human pose tracking to assess gait performances

Structure Health Monitoring

3D Reconstruction for Structure Health Monitoring

Forensic Applications

Collaborative effort to bring computer vision to forensic application

3D Sensors

Metrological Characterisation of 3D cameras (Kinect, Intel, Orbbec), both as depth sensors and human body trackers

Industrial Robotics

Development of Robotics Solutions for Industrail Applications

Mechatronics

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Research Scientist

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Apr 2020 – Present Thuwal, KSA
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)

Apr 2017 – Mar 2020 Thuwal, KSA
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellow

Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi)

Jan 2014 – Mar 2017 Milano, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Embedded Software Engineer

Innovative Security Solutions (ISS)

Oct 2012 – Dec 2013 Milano Area, Italy

Accomplish­ments

Deep Learning Nanodegree Foundation

Udacity May 2017 – Sep 2017
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Stanford University Machine Learning

Stanford University Apr 2017 – May 2017
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Managing Essentials for PhDs - Managing Conflicts

Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business Nov 2016 – Nov 2016
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Managing Essentials for PhDs - Working in Multidisciplinary Teams

Politecnico di Milano Graduate School of Business Nov 2016 – Nov 2016
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Program Committee / Reviewing

  • IEEE/CVF - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR).
  • IEEE/CVF - International Conference for Computer Vision (ICCV).
  • CVF - European Conference for Computer Vision (ECCV).
  • CVF - UAVision Workshop.
  • CVF - CVSports Workshop.
  • IEEE - Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
  • IEEE - Transactions on Image Processing (TIP).
  • IEEE - Transactions on Multimedia (TMM).
  • IEEE - Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement (TIM).
  • AAAI - Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).
  • Elsevier - Image and Vision Computing (IVC).
  • Elsevier - Neurocomputing.
  • Elsevier - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (EAAI).
  • Elsevier - Robotics and Autonomous Systems (RAS).
  • Elsevier - Forensic Science International (FSI).

  • ACM/SIGAPP - Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC).

  • Walloon Region - Scientific Committee Reviewer.

Contact

  • King Abduallah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
    Building 1, Level 2, Cubicle 2106-WS03
    23955-6900 Thuwal, KSA