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Post-Doc Researcher

University of Trento - Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science

Research on realistic Digital Humans, from high-fidelity appearance reconstruction to motion capture, motion retargeting and real-time animation in interactive environments.

• Parametric human models (SMPL, SMPL-X) for body, face and hands
• Markerless and marker-based motion capture (e.g., OptiTrack)
• Motion retargeting and animation control for real-time applications
• Applications in VR/AR and sports analytics

Visiting PhD Researcher

Tampere University - ESA Rahtu Group

PhD period abroad working with a Volumetric Capture system for creating a synthetic dataset of human characters.

• Automated animation for volumetric scans
• Automatic rigging and skinning of captured characters
• Cloth animation and conversion of scans into virtual characters for virtual environments

University Teaching Assistant

University of Trento

Teaching assistant and tutor for courses and projects in Computer Vision, Sport Technology and related topics.

• Teaching Assistant for Computer Vision Course (A.A. 2021/2022, 2022/2023, 2023/2024)
• Laboratory Tutor for Sport Tech Course (A.A. 2024/2025)
• Supervision of Master theses
• Supervisor for Multisensory Interactions Laboratory
• Supervision of Motion Capture, Computer Vision and Sport Tech projects

Post-degree Research Scholarship

University of Trento

Research at the intersection of human pose estimation and gender recognition.

• Development of a gender recognition algorithm based on pose detection and motion analysis
• Human pose estimation from top-view RGB images

Intern

IMI Remosa

Internship focused on industrial and mechanical engineering tasks.

PhD

University of Trento

Information and Communication Technology (Computer Vision)

Master’s Degree

University of Trento

Mechatronics Engineering (Curriculum: Electronics and Robotics)

• Computer Vision
• Systems and techniques for digital signal processing
• Embedded systems
• Modeling and design with finite elements
• Robotic Perception and Action
• Design and Control of Product and Process
• Distributed systems for measurement and automation

Bachelor’s Degree

University of Cagliari

Mechanical Engineering

High School Diploma

Istituto di Istruzione Superiore "G. Asproni - Iglesias"

Scientific High School Diploma

Breaking the Game: A Low-Cost System for 3D Human and Ball Pose Estimation in Basketball

IEEE International Workshop on Sport Technology and Research (STAR 2025)

Comparing IMU and Optical Motion Capture System for Sport Biomechanics

IEEE International Workshop on Sport Technology and Research (STAR 2025)

Tracking Volleyball Players from a Multi-Camera Top-View Setup

IEEE International Workshop on Sport Technology and Research (STAR 2025)

Learning to Judge Motion: Likelihood-Based Evaluation with Normalizing Flows

European Workshop on Visual Information Processing (EUVIP 2025)

Build-A-Volcap: Automated Synthetic Validation of Real-world Volumetric Capture Quality

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2025)

Skeleton-Aware Motion Retargeting Using Masked Pose Modeling

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

MoMa: Skinned motion retargeting using masked pose modeling

Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Volume 249

EPOCH: Jointly Estimating the 3D Pose of Cameras and Humans

European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

ALL SKELETONS ARE CREATED EQUAL! A DOMAIN ADAPTATION TRANSFORMER TO HANDLE MULTIPLE TOPOLOGIES

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2024)

Ski Pose Estimation

IEEE International Workshop on Sport Technology and Research (STAR)

UNPOSED: an Ultra-wideband Network for Pose Estimation with Deep Learning

IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0 & IoT

Meta-Trainer: An Augmented Reality Trainer for Home Fitness with Real-Time Feedback

IEEE International Workshop on Sport, Technology and Research (STAR)

A Case Study for the Automatic Supervision of Body-Weight Exercises: The Squat

IEEE International Workshop on Sport, Technology and Research (STAR)

Gender Recognition from 3D Shape Parameters

International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)

PanopTOP: a framework for generating viewpoint-invariant human pose estimation datasets

IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)