Francesca Odone

• Action-based multi-camera synchronization, Luca Zini, Andrea Cavallaro, Francesca Odone, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 2013
• A set of full-body movement features for emotion recognition to help children affected by autism spectrum condition, Stefano Piana, Alessandra Staglianò, Antonio Camurri, Francesca Odone, IDGEI International Workshop, 2013
• A compositional approach for 3D Arm-Hand Action Recognition, Ilaria Gori, Sean Ryan Fanello, Francesca Odone, Giorgio Metta, IEEE Workshop on Robot Vision (WoRV), 2013
• Multi-class image classification: sparsity does it better, Sean Ryan Fanello, Nicoletta Noceti, Giorgio Metta, Francesca Odone, VISAPP: International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications., 2013
• Combining retrieval and classification for real-time face recognition, Giovanni Fusco, Nicoletta Noceti, Francesca Odone, Proc. of AVSS 2012, 2012

• Action understanding
• 3D object recognition for robotics
• 3D modeling and location
• Face retrieval and validation
• Behavior analysis

• SAFEPOST
• POR IMAVIS - OnAIR
• POR GIGAVISION
• Actions representations and their impairement
• Study and development of low cost video-based systems to support visually impaired users

My interests are in the fields of Computer Vision and Statistical Learning. In particular my research activity includes

1. theory and algorithms for classification, feature selection and unlabeled data analysis.

2. study and development of methods for object detection and recognition in images and image sequences and modeling of complex dynamic events

3. analysis and development of applications in the fields of video-surveillance, biometrics and computer vision for Entry Descent and Landing (EDL).

Currently I am research coordinator of two funded technology transfer programs, with Thales Alenia Space spa and Gigavision srl.

I teach Computer Vision for the First Degree and Master Degree courses in Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Genova. Recently I held two PhD courses on theory and applications of Statistical Learning: Dottorato Europeo in Tecnologie dell’Informazione, ARCES, Università di Bologna (2007) and Dottorato in ''Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Informazione e la Conoscenza" Università degli Studi di Genova (2008, 2009,2010), the latter with Lorenzo Rosasco.

At present I am supervising two PhD students:  Giovanni Fusco and Luca Zini, both sponsored by a Regione Liguria research grant.

Research keywords: computer vision, learning algorithms, object detection, behavior understanding, feature selection, video-surveillance.