Alessandro Simoni, Ph.D.
Deep Learning & Computer Vision Engineer @ Covision Lab


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About me

My name is Alessandro Simoni. I am a dedicated Deep Learning and Computer Vision Engineer. I got my Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in April 2024. With experience in 3D Human-Centric Scene Understanding and 3D Object Reconstruction, I have a strong passion for research and advancing the field of Deep Learning.

Education
  • Ph.D. in Deep Learning and Computer Vision, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, April 2024
  • MSc, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, February 2020
  • BSc, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, February 2017
    • Working experience
  • Research Fellow / PhD Student, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia - (May 2020 - April 2024)
  • Deep Learning & Computer Vision Engineer, Covision Lab - (April 2024 - Now)
    • Research activities

    Authored publications:

    3D Pose Nowcasting: Forecast the future to improve the present

    Alessandro Simoni, Francesco Marchetti, Guido Borghi, Federico Beccattini, Lorenzo Seidenari, Roberto Vezzani, Alberto Del Bimbo

    Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2024

    paper  |  bibtex

    D-SPDH: Improving 3D Robot Pose Estimation in Sim2Real scenario via Depth Data

    Alessandro Simoni, Guido Borghi, Lorenzo Garattoni, Gianpiero Francesca, Roberto Vezzani

    IEEE Access, 2024

    paper  |  bibtex

    Depth-based Privileged Information for Boosting 3D Human Pose Estimation on RGB

    Alessandro Simoni, Francesco Marchetti, Guido Borghi, Federico Beccattini, Davide Davoli, Lorenzo Garattoni, Gianpiero Francesca, Lorenzo Seidenari, Roberto Vezzani

    ECCV Workshops 2024 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex

    Semi-Perspective Decoupled Heatmaps for 3D Robot Pose Estimation from Depth Maps

    Alessandro Simoni, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Roberto Vezzani

    IROS 2022 + IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters - Oral

    paper  |  bibtex  |  webpage  |  dataset  |  code  |  slides

    Multi-Category Mesh Reconstruction From Image Collections

    Alessandro Simoni, Stefano Pini, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    3DV 2021 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex  |  code  |  poster  |  slides  |  presentation (video)

    Improving Car Model Classification through Vehicle Keypoint Localization

    Alessandro Simoni, Andrea D'Eusanio, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Roberto Vezzani

    VISAPP 2021 - Oral

    paper  |  bibtex  |  slides  |  presentation (video)

    Future Urban Scenes Generation Through Vehicles Synthesis

    Alessandro Simoni, Luca Bergamini, Andrea Palazzi, Simone Calderara, Rita Cucchiara

    ICPR 2020 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex  |  code  |  poster  |  slides  |  presentation (video)

    Co-authored publications:

    Dynamic Label Injection for Imbalanced Industrial Defect Segmentation

    Emanuele Caruso, Francesco Pelosin, Alessandro Simoni, Marco Boschetti

    ECCV Workshops 2024 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex  |  code

    KRONC: Keypoint-based Robust Camera Optimization for 3D Car Reconstruction

    Davide Di Nucci, Alessandro Simoni, Matteo Tomei, Luca Ciuffreda, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    ECCV Workshops 2024 - Oral

    paper  |  bibtex

    CarPatch: A Synthetic Benchmark for Radiance Field Evaluation on Vehicle Components

    Davide Di Nucci, Alessandro Simoni, Matteo Tomei, Luca Ciuffreda, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    ICIAP 2023 - Oral

    paper  |  dataset

    Depth-based 3D human pose refinement: Evaluating the refinet framework

    Andrea D'Eusanio, Alessandro Simoni, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 2023

    paper  |  bibtex

    Unsupervised Detection of Dynamic Hand Gestures from Leap Motion Data

    Andrea D'Eusanio, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Alessandro Simoni, Roberto Vezzani

    ICIAP 2021 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex

    SHREC 2021: Skeleton-based hand gesture recognition in the wild

    Ariel Caputo, Andrea Giacchetti, Simone Soso, Deborah Pintani, Andrea D'Eusanio, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Alessandro Simoni, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara, et al.

    Computers & Graphics, 2021

    paper  |  bibtex

    Extracting Accurate Long-term Behavior Changes from a Large Pig Dataset

    Luca Bergamini, Stefano Pini, Alessandro Simoni, Roberto Vezzani, Simone Calderara, Rick D'Eath, Robert B. Fisher

    VISAPP 2021 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex  |  dataset

    A Transformer-Based Network for Dynamic Hand Gesture Recognition

    Andrea D'Eusanio, Alessandro Simoni, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    3DV 2020 - Poster

    paper  |  bibtex

    Multimodal Hand Gesture Classification for the Human-Car Interaction

    Andrea D'Eusanio, Alessandro Simoni, Stefano Pini, Guido Borghi, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara

    Informatics, 2020

    paper  |  bibtex

    Reviewing activities
    Conferences:

    • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)

    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)

    • IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

    • IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)

    Journals:

    • Pattern Recognition (PR)

    • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

    Workshops:

    • Towards a Complete Analysis of People: From Face and Body to Clothes (T-CAP)

    • International Workshop and Challenge on People Analysis (WCPA)

    Courses and Summer Schools

    • Advanced Course on Data Science and Machine Learning - ACDL 2021, Certosa di Pontignano (SI), Italy (certificate)

    • International Computer Vision Summer School - ICVSS 2022, Scicli (RG), Italy (certificate)

    • ELLIS Summer School on Large-Scale AI for Research and Industry - 2023, Modena (MO), Italy (certificate)


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