Enhancing character posing by a sketch-based interaction
Barbieri, Simone, et al. "Enhancing character posing by a sketch-based interaction." ACM SIGGRAPH 2016 Posters. ACM, 2016.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Vision, University of Trento, Italy, 2022
- M.S. in Computer Science, University of Trento, Italy, 2018
- B.S. in Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy, 2016
Work experience
- Summer 2022 - Winter 2022: Computer Vision Research Intern
- Epic Games - Pittsburgh
- Duties included: Researching unsupervised 3D human pose estimation.
- Supervisor: Iain Matthews
- Winter 2018 - Summer 2022: Computer Vision Engineer
- AUSILIA Project - Presidio Ospedaliero VillaRosa
- Duties included: Leading the development of an autonomous distributed computer vision system for ambient assisted living in hospital contexts.
- Supervisor: Professor Nicola Conci
- Spring 2018 - Spring 2019: Computer Vision Engineer
- Xtensa S.r.l, SICS S.r.l
- Duties included: Development of a GPU-powered, high-performing pipeline for real-time, high-resolution video stitching and automatical tactical camera for football teams
- Supervisor: Professor Nicola Conci
- Spring 2018 - Ongoing: Co-organizer
- Unity User Group Trento
- Duties included: Local co-organizer for the official Unity User Group in the Trento, TN (IT) area
- Winter 2017 - Ongoing: Co-organizer
- Global Game Jam Trento
- Duties included: Local co-organizer (Trento, TN, IT) for several Global Game Jam jams
- Summer 2017 - Fall 2017: Trainee
- Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Perceptual Computing Lab
- Duties included: Python porting of the C++ library OpenPose for human pose estimation
- Supervisor: Professors Yaser Sheikh, Ginés Hidalgo
- Summer 2016: Trainee
- Bournemouth University
- Duties included: Development of a pipeline for sketch-based character posing using Python for Autodesk Maya
- Supervisor: Professors Xiaosong Yang and Zhidong Xiao
- Fall 2015 - Winter 2016: Software Developer
- Athlos S.r.l.
- Duties included: Development of an italian digital assistant using natural language processing and sentiment analysis
Skills
- Computer Vision
- Deep Learning for Computer Vision
- Human Pose Estimation (HPE)
- Autimatic Camera Calibration
- Computer Graphics and Animation
- Unity 3D, Unreal Engine 5
- Autodesk Maya
- Blender
- Deep Learning
- Unsupervised/self-supervised Learning
- Transformers
- Capsule Networks
Publications
Technological Infrastructure supports new paradigm of care for healthy aging: The Living Lab Ausilia
Grisenti, Andrea, et al. "Technological Infrastructure supports new paradigm of care for healthy aging: The Living Lab Ausilia." 10 Forum Italiano Ambient Assisted Living, 19-21 Giugno 2019, Ancona, Italia
Virtual Crowds: An LSTM-Based Framework for Crowd Simulation.
Bisagno, Niccolo, et al. "Virtual Crowds: An LSTM-Based Framework for Crowd Simulation." International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing. Springer, Cham, 2019.
Unsupervised continuous camera network pose estimation through human mesh recovery
Garau, Nicola, and Nicola Conci. "Unsupervised continuous camera network pose estimation through human mesh recovery." Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. ACM, 2019.
Joint Trajectory and Fatigue Analysis in Wheelchair Users
Sebastiani, Maddalena, et al. "Joint Trajectory and Fatigue Analysis in Wheelchair Users." Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops. 2019.
Fast automatic camera network calibration through human mesh recovery
Garau, Nicola, Francesco G. B. De Natale and Nicola Conci. "Fast automatic camera network calibration through human mesh recovery" J Real-Time Image Proc 17 (2020).
Gender Recognition from 3D Shape Parameters
Martinelli, Giulia, Nicola Garau, and Nicola Conci. "Gender Recognition from 3D Shape Parameters." International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing. Springer, Cham, 2022.
DECA: Deep viewpoint-Equivariant human pose estimation using Capsule Autoencoders
Garau, Nicola, et al. "DECA: Deep viewpoint-Equivariant human pose estimation using Capsule Autoencoders." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2021.
Panoptop: a framework for generating viewpoint-invariant human pose estimation datasets
Garau, Nicola, et al. "Panoptop: a framework for generating viewpoint-invariant human pose estimation datasets." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision. 2021.
Interpretable part-whole hierarchies and conceptual-semantic relationships in neural networks
Garau, Nicola, et al. "Interpretable part-whole hierarchies and conceptual-semantic relationships in neural networks." Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. 2022.
Networked Musical XR: where s the limit? A preliminary investigation on the joint use of point clouds and low-latency audio communication
Turchet, Luca, Nicola Garau, and Nicola Conci. "Networked Musical XR: where s the limit? A preliminary investigation on the joint use of point clouds and low-latency audio communication." AudioMostly 2022. 2022. 226-230.
A multimodal framework for the evaluation of patients weaknesses, supporting the design of customised AAL solutions
Garau, Nicola, et al. "A multimodal framework for the evaluation of patients weaknesses, supporting the design of customised AAL solutions." Expert Systems with Applications 202 (2022): 117172.
Talks
ICCV 2019 (ACVR Workshop) (ORAL: Joint Trajectory and Fatigue Analysis in Wheelchair Users)
Talk at Seoul, Korea, COEX Convention Center, Seoul, Korea
ICCV 2021 (DECA: Deep viewpoint-Equivariant human pose estimation using Capsule Autoencoders)
Talk at Montreal, Canada, Virtual, Montreal, Canada
CVPR 2022 (ORAL: Interpretable part-whole hierarchies and conceptual-semantic relationships in neural networks)
Talk at New Orleans, USA, Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, USA