Prof. Roberto Cipolla

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Professor of Information Engineering

Background

Roberto Cipolla is a Professor of Information Engineering with research interests in computer vision and robotics.

Research Interests

Professor Cipolla's research interests include:

3D Shape from Uncalibrated Images

• Structure and Motion from outlines
• Multiview stereo with volumetric graph-cuts
• Multiview photometric stereo
• Realtime non-rigid photometric stereo from video
• Single View Reconstruction

Object Detection and Recognition

• Contour-based learning for realtime object detection
• Object category detection and segmentation
• Face recognition from image sets

Video Segmentation

• Video segmentation and label propagation
• Action recognition with canonical correlations
• Detection of people in crowds

Computer Vision for Human-Computer Interaction

• Hand detection and tracking
• Human pose detection and tracking
• Realtime gesture recognition

Visually Guided Robotics

• Visual localisation
• Target recognition in UAVs
• Realtime visual tracking

Applications of Computer Vision

• Computer vision and AR on mobile phones
• Content-based image and video retrieval
• Visual inspection in ageing infrastructure