Marco San Biagio Postdoc in Computer Vision/Machine Learning at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia "I myself am by inclination an inquirer. I feel in its entirety a thirst for knowledge and yearning restlessness to advance along this way along with satisfaction with each forward step". - Kant, I. - 1762 Current Position Apr2014 now Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, PostDoc. Postdoc at the PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision) department: { Topics: object classification and detection in images and videos, kernel methods, deep learning; { Advisor: Prof. V. Murino Previous Experience Apr Sept INRIA, Sophia Antipolis. 2013 Research Intern at the STARS team: { Topics: person detection and re-identification; { Advisor: Prof. F. Brémond Education 2011 2014 Univerity of Genova and Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia. Ph.D. in Computer Science: { Thesis title: Statistical Data Fusion Techniques for Multi-Cue Image Classification; { Topics: person and object detection and classification, statistics, data fusion; { Advisors: Prof. V. Murino, Prof. M. Cristani 2005 2010 Univerity of Palermo. MS in Informatics Engineering for intelligent systems: { Thesis topics: robotics, neural networks, hardware and software redundancy; { Advisor: Prof. A. Chella 2000 2005 Univerity of Palermo. BS in Informatics Engineering: { Thesis topics: flash memory, robotics, neural networks; { Advisor: Prof. A. Chella H (+39) 393-3653839 T (+39) 010-71781279 u (+39) 010-71781234 B marco.sanbiagio@iit.it Í www.marcosanbiagio.info iit.it/people/marco-san-biagio 1/5
Apr 2010 Jan 2011 Sept 2009 Dec 2009 June 2009 March 2010 May July 2009 July 2008 Oct Dec 2007 Apr 2004 Apr 2005 Dec 2014 Dec 2013 Apr 2010 May 2015 Nov 2013 Oct 2012 Professional Experiences GARR "Orio Carlini" Scholarship, Palermo-Rome, National Research Council (CNR) Area della ricerca di Palermo. Upgrade of VOIP services at the Area della Ricerca - CNR Palermo. Topics: VOIP, Internet, php; Advisor: Dr. V. Martorana; Topics: Microsoft Office; ST Microelectronics, Palermo. MS Thesis. Thesis topics: flash memory, robotics, neural networks; Advisor: Prof. A. Chella, Eng. B. Calandrino, Eng. G. Compagno C.N.R. Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - I.B.F. Istituto di Biofisica, Palermo. Undergraduate researcher. Thesis topics: light-scattering, microscopy, parallel tools; Advisor: Prof. V. Martorana Topics: Microsoft Office and Access; Topics: Microsoft Office; ST Microelectronics, Palermo. MS Thesis. Thesis topics: flash memory, robotics, neural networks; Advisor: Prof. A. Chella, Eng. G. Compagno Awards Travel grant to attend Neural Information Processing Systems, Montreal, Canada, 2014 Travel grant to attend International Conference on computer Vision, Sydney, Australia, 2013 GARR "Orio Carlini" Scholarship Qualifications Machine Learning Course, Istituto Italiano di Tecnoloiga, Genova, Italy Computer Vision and Machine Learning Course, Istituto Italiano di Tecnoloiga, Genova, Italy 3rd PAVIS School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Image Processing "Component Analysis methods for Human Sensing" - Sestri Levante, Genova, Italy www.marcosanbiagio.info iit.it/people/marco-san-biagio 2/5
July 2011 March 2011 Oct 2010 Sept Oct 2010 June 2010 June 2010 ENS/INRIA Visual Recognition and Machine Learning Summer School - Paris, France 2nd PLUS Advanced School on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Image Processing "2D AND 3D VISUAL RECOGNITION: APPROACHES AND METH- ODS" at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, Italy TOEFL Certification, New York, USA TOEFL Course at the "International House New York" - USA Digium Official dcap Certification Digium Official Course Asterisk Advanced www.marcosanbiagio.info iit.it/people/marco-san-biagio 3/5
Publications S. Martelli, M. San Biagio and V. Murino - Latent Subcategory Models for Pedestrian Detection with Partial Occlusion Handling. IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS), Karlsruhe (Germany), 2015; L. Dodero, M. Há Quang, M. San Biagio, V. Murino and D. Sona - Kernel-based Classification For Brain Connectivity Graphs On The Riemannian Manifold Of Positive Definite Matrices. International Symposium on BIOMEDICAL IMAGING: From Nano to Macro (ISBI), New York (USA), 2015; M. Há Quang, M. San Biagio and V. Murino - Log-Hilbert-Schmidt metric between positive definite operators on Hilbert spaces.. Neural Information Processing System Foundation (NIPS), Montreal (Canada), 2014; M. San Biagio, L. Bazzani, M. Cristani and V. Murino - Weighted Bag Of Visual Words For Object Recognition. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Paris (France), 2014; M. San Biagio, S. Martelli, M. Crocco, M. Cristani and V. Murino - Encoding Structural Similarity By Cross-covariance Tensors For Image Classification. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence (IJPRAI), 2014; M. San Biagio, M. Crocco, M. Cristani, S. Martelli and V. Murino - Heterogeneous Auto-Similarities of Characteristics (HASC): Exploiting Relational Information for Classification. International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Sydney (Australia), 2013; M. San Biagio, S. Martelli, M. Crocco, M. Cristani and V. Murino - Encoding Classes of Unaligned Objects Using Structural Similarity Cross-Covariance Tensors. Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP), Havana (Cuba), 2013; M. San Biagio, A. Ulas, M. Crocco, M. Cristani, U. Castellani and V. Murino - A Multiple Kernel Learning Approach to Multi-Modal Pedestrian Classification. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Tsukuba Science City (Japan), 2012; M. San Biagio, M. Crocco, M. Cristani, S. Martelli and V. Murino - Lowlevel Multimodal Integration on Riemannian Manifolds for Automatic Pedestrian Detection. International Conference on Information Fusion, Singapore (Singapore), 2012; M. San Biagio, M. Crocco and M. Cristani - Recursive Segmentation Based on Higher Order Statistics in Thermal Imaging Pedestrian Detection. International Symposium on Communications, Control, and Signal Processing (ISCCSP), Rome (Italy), 2012; Areas Scientific Interests Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Data Fusion. www.marcosanbiagio.info iit.it/people/marco-san-biagio 4/5
CV Interests Machine Learning Person Detection and Classification, Data Fusion, Object Recognition. Learning Classifiers, Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces. Programming Tools Skills C, C++, C-sharp, JAVA, JAVASCRIPT, TCL-TK, HTML, MATLAB, PHP, LISP, PROLOG, MYSQL. Linux, emacs, git, LATeX, bash scripting, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, MS Office. Internet LAN, Wireless Security, TCP protocol, UDP protocol, RTP, RTCP, SIP, H323. Web-sites developed: www.pa.ibf.cnr.it; www.pa.ibf.cnr.it/web; www.bbpalermo.it; www.marcosanbiagio.it; www.marcosanbiagio.info; Interests Playing soccer, squash, ultimate frisbee. Photography, watching syfy series and movies. Selected Talks Oct 2014 Nov 2013 Sept 2013 Apr 2013 July 2012 Oral Presentation at ICIP 2014, Paris, France - "Weighted Bag Of Visual Words For Object Recognition" Oral Presentation at CIARP 2013, Havana, Cuba - "Encoding Classes of Unaligned Objects Using Structural Similarity Cross-Covariance Tensors" Oral Presentation at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France - "Pedestrian Detection with statistical descriptors" Oral Presentation at INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France - "Data Fusion: from Features to Classifiers" Oral Presentation at FUSION 2012, Singapore, Singapore - "Low-level Multimodal Integration on Riemannian Manifolds for Automatic Pedestrian Detection" Reviewing Activity Journals Conferences CVIU, IJPRAI, Patter Recognition. ICCV, BMVC, CVPR, ECCV, ICPR. Languages Italian Mothertongue English Intermediate Conversationally fluent French Basic Basic words and phrases only www.marcosanbiagio.info iit.it/people/marco-san-biagio 5/5