Professors

Oswald Lanz
Head Professor, PI
Alessandro Torcinovich
Assistant Professor
Diaeddin Rimawi
Assistant Professor

PhD Students and Interns

Emanuele Caruso
PhD Student in Advanced-Systems Engineering
Artem Merinov
PhD Student in Computer Science
Alessandro Sottovia
PhD Student in Advanced-Systems Engineering
Vedang Nadkarni
PhD Student in Computer Science
Pietro Calliari
Intern (Univ. Trento)
Pietro Bergozza
Intern (Keene State College)

MSc and BSc Theses

Current thesis topics

  • Contrastive learning for video action anticipation
  • Temporal action detection in video streams
  • Computer vision for workplace safety
  • Computer vision for team sports

Past theses:

  • Human Temporal Action Detection in Video Streams
  • Evaluation of Action Recognition Architectures for a Production Environment by the example of Krone GmbH & Co
  • Fine-grained Action Recognition in Egocentric Videos (with 1st place at HoloAssist Challenge, CVPR 2024)
  • Foundation Models applied to Depth Estimation for SLAM problem (with internship at Covision Lab)
  • Automated Evaluation and Classification of Fat Bloom on Chocolate Surfaces using Image Processing Algorithms and Machine Learning Techniques (with internship at Loacker)
  • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Chatbot: A Proof-of-Concept Implementation for Customer Service at Durst Group AG (with internship at Durst)
  • Improving Semantic Segmentation Models for Vision-Based Anomaly Detection with Synthetic Data from Diffusion Models (with workshop paper at ICLR 2025)
  • Human Action Recognition from Egocentric Video (with 2nd place at MECCANO Challenge, ICIAP 2023)
  • Utilizing Multi-modal Data for Human Action Recognition Tasks
  • Performance Disparities and Improvement Strategies in Industrial Anomaly Detection: A Comparative Case Study using MVTech and Real-World Data
  • Real-Time Human 3D Pose Tracking by Fusing Egocentric and Exocentric Video Streams

Alumni

Dr. Sofia Casarin. PhD Thesis title: “Designing Task-Aware and Domain Adaptive Neural Architectures: from Neural Architecture Search to Structural Modeling across Shifts, Constrains, and Modalities”.

Dr. Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu. PhD Thesis title: “Data-centric Defect Detection and Segmentation for Industrial Visual Inspection”.

Dr. Alex Falcon, PostDoc at University of Udine

Dr. Alessio Xompero, PostDoc at Queen Mary University of London

Dr. Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Samsung AI Center Cambridge

Dr. Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Huawei Helsinki

Dr. Sinan Mutlu, Samsung Research UK

Dr. Hu Tao, Siemens China