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Professors<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Oswald<\/span> Lanz<\/span><\/div>
Head Professor, PI<\/div>
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Alessandro<\/span> Torcinovich<\/span><\/div>
Assistant Professor<\/div>
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Diaeddin<\/span> Rimawi<\/span><\/div>
Assistant Professor<\/div>
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PhD Students and Interns<\/h2>\n\n\n
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Emanuele<\/span> Caruso<\/span><\/div>
PhD Student in Advanced-Systems Engineering<\/div>
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Artem<\/span> Merinov<\/span><\/div>
PhD Student in Computer Science<\/div>
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Alessandro<\/span> Sottovia<\/span><\/div>
PhD Student in Advanced-Systems Engineering<\/div>
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Vedang<\/span> Nadkarni<\/span><\/div>
PhD Student in Computer Science<\/div>
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Pietro<\/span> Calliari<\/span><\/div>
Intern (Univ. Trento)<\/div>
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Pietro<\/span> Bergozza<\/span><\/div>
Intern (Keene State College)<\/div>
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MSc and BSc Theses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Current thesis topics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  • Contrastive learning for video action anticipation<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Temporal action detection in video streams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Computer vision for workplace safety<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Computer vision for team sports<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    Past theses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Human Temporal Action Detection in Video Streams<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Evaluation of Action Recognition Architectures for a Production Environment by the example of Krone GmbH & Co<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Fine-grained Action Recognition in Egocentric Videos (with 1st place at HoloAssist Challenge, CVPR 2024)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Foundation Models applied to Depth Estimation for SLAM problem (with internship at Covision Lab)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Automated Evaluation and Classification of Fat Bloom on Chocolate Surfaces using Image Processing Algorithms and Machine Learning Techniques (with internship at Loacker)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Retrieval-Augmented Generation Chatbot: A Proof-of-Concept Implementation for Customer Service at Durst Group AG (with internship at Durst)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Improving Semantic Segmentation Models for Vision-Based Anomaly Detection with Synthetic Data from Diffusion Models (with workshop paper at ICLR 2025)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Human Action Recognition from Egocentric Video (with 2nd place at MECCANO Challenge, ICIAP 2023)<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Utilizing Multi-modal Data for Human Action Recognition Tasks<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Performance Disparities and Improvement Strategies in Industrial Anomaly Detection: A Comparative Case Study using MVTech and Real-World Data<\/li>\n\n\n\n
    • Real-Time Human 3D Pose Tracking by Fusing Egocentric and Exocentric Video Streams<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n
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      Alumni<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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      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”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Cynthia Ifeyinwa Ugwu. PhD Thesis title: “Data-centric Defect Detection and Segmentation for Industrial Visual Inspection”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Alex Falcon, PostDoc at University of Udine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Alessio Xompero, PostDoc at Queen Mary University of London<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Swathikiran Sudhakaran, Samsung AI Center Cambridge<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Huawei Helsinki<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Sinan Mutlu, Samsung Research UK<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Dr. Hu Tao, Siemens China<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Professors PhD Students and Interns MSc and BSc Theses Current thesis topics Past theses: 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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":47,"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":293,"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17\/revisions\/293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vision.projects.unibz.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}