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Dr.
Andrea Cavallaro received the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne,
Switzerland, in 2002,
and the Laurea (Summa cum Laude) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Trieste in 1996. In 1996 and 1998,
he served as a research consultant at the Image Processing Laboratory, University of Trieste, Italy, working on compression
algorithms for very low bitrate video coding and on digital image
sequence de-interlacing. In 1997 he served the Italian Army as lieutenant
at the 33rd Electronic Warfare Battalion in Treviso, Italy.
From June 1998 to February 2002 he was a research assistant at the Signal
Processing Laboratory of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(EPFL). From March 2002 to April 2003, he was a senior researcher at EPFL.
Since May 2003 he has been with Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK, where he is now Professor of
Multimedia Signal Processing, Director of UG Studies at the School of Electronic Engineering and
Computer Science, and counselor for the local IEEE Student Branch.
Dr.
Cavallaro was awarded a Research Fellowship with British
Telecommunications (BT) in 2004/2005; the prestigious Royal Academy of
Engineering teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target
tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007
and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. Dr. Cavallaro is
Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, the IEEE
Transactions on Multimedia, the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
and for the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He is an elected
member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, Multimedia Signal
Processing Technical Committee (term expires Dec 2009), and has acted as
Guest Editor for several journals including Computer Vision and Image
Understanding (Elsevier) the International Journal of Computer Vision and
the IEEE SPM. He has served as General Chair for IEEE/ACM ICDSC 2009,
BMVC 2009, M2SFA2 2008, SSPE 2007, and IEEE AVSS 2007. Dr. Cavallaro was
Technical Program chair of the European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO 2008), of WIAMIS 2010 and has been a member of the
organizing/technical committee of several conferences, including IEEE
ICME, IEEE ICIP, SPIE VCIP, ACM Multimedia, IEEE AVSS, ACM/IEEE
ICDSCECCV-VS, PETS; and act as reviewer for several international IEEE
conferences and IEEE journals. He has authored more than 100 papers,
including 10 book chapters.
Professional
activities
Conference
organisation
General
chair
- ACM/IEEE
International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC 2009)
- British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC 2009)
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2007)
Chair
- ECCV workshop on Multi-camera and multi-modal sensor fusion: algorithms
and applications (M2SFA2 2008)
- BMVA symposium on Security and Surveillance: Performance
Evaluation (SSPE 2007)
Technical Program chair
- IEEE International
Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance (AVSS 2011)
- WIAMIS 2010
- European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2008)
Workshops chair,
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2010)
- IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras
(ICDSC 2008)
Special sessions chair,
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2009)
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Analysis and
Processing (IMAP 2008)
Publications chair, International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia
Interactive Services (WIAMIS 2009)
Local arrangements chair, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia
and Expo (ICME 2002)
Technical Program Committee member
- IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP
2007, MMSP 2008, MMSP 2009)
- ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras (ICDSC
2007, ICDSC 2008)
- ACM Multimedia 2008, Multimedia tools, end-systems, and applications
track
- ACM Multimedia 2007, Applications Track
- International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications
(VISAPP 2007)
- International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2007)
- Visual Information Engineering Conference (VIE 2007)
- European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2007)
- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance (VS 2006, VS 2007)
- International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
(SAMT 2006, SAMT 2007)
- International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2006, ISVC 2007)
- IEEE International Symposium on Signal Processing and Information
Technology (ISSPIT 2006)
- International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive
Services (WIAMIS 2006, WIAMIS 2007)
- ACM Multimedia 2005, Content Track
- IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS 2005, AVSS 2006)
- IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of
Tracking and Surveillance (PETS 2005)
- European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and
Digital Media Technologies (EWIMT 2005)
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004, ICIP
2005)
- IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME 2004,
ICME 2005, ICME 2007)
- ACM Multimedia, short papers (MM 2003, MM 2005, MM 2006)
Scientific Committee member, IEEE-SPIE Visual Communication and
Image Processing (VCIP 2003)
Technical Staff member, European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO 1996)
Steering Committee member, IEEE AVSS (2005 - )
Board member, IEEE AVSS (2007 - )
Panel
of experts
PhD
Forum Panel member, ICDSC 2007
Selection
committee, best student paper award (IEEE ICME 2006, IEEE ICASSP 2006,
IEEE ICASSP 2007, IEEE MMSP 2006)
Panel of
experts, Challenge for Real-Time Event Detection Solutions (CREDS)
for Enhanced Security and Safety in Public Transportation (2005)
Committee
member, ACM Multimedia TPC meeting (2005)
Selection
committee, Young Investigator Award for Visual Communication and
Image Processing (2003)
Panel
discussions
Panel member, "Multimedia: a World of
Possibilities or just a Buzzword?"
with Anthony Vetro (Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, USA); Tsuhan Chen
(Carnegie Mellon Univ., USA);
Alan Hanjalic (Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands); Juergen
Herre (Fraunhofer Institute, Germany);
Picture Coding Symposium, Lisbon, November 2007
Panel
member, "Distributed Smart Cameras: Research Toys or Practical
Tools?"
with Wayne Wolf (Princeton University, USA); Richard Kleihorst (NXP
Research, The Netherlands); Andreas Savvides (Yale University, USA);
Richard Radke (RPI, USA); Demetri Terzopoulos (University of California
Los Angeles, USA)
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras, Vienna,
September 2007
Panel
chair, "Intelligent Scene Analysis and Detection of IED
Delivery"
with Dave Humphrey (Virage Security & Surveillance, UK), Fernando de
La Torre (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
Kevin Kearney (Geospatial Systems Inc., USA), Peter Tu (GE Research, USA)
NATO Counter IED Detection Conference, Madrid, November 2006
Expert
for
French
National Research Agency (ANR)
Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), United Kingdom
European
Commission
Swiss National
Science Foundation
Microsoft Research
PhD Scholarship Programme
Technical
societies
elected
member, IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Technical Committee
(term: 2006-2009)
counsellor,
IEEE student branch at QMUL
member,
IEEE (IEEE Signal Processing Society, IEEE Computer Society)
member, IET
(the Institution of Engineering and Technology)
member,
BMVA (British Machine Vision Association)
Tutorials
and short courses
tutorial , "Smart Cameras: Algorithms, Evaluation and
Applications", 2007 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Distributed
Smart Cameras, Austria, September 2007
short course, "Video
object detection and tracking", University of Brescia, Italy,
November 2007
short course, "Semantic
Video Analysis for Automatic Content Description, Evaluation and
Delivery", Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Spain, May 2006
Editorial
activities
Guest editor, Springer Journal on Signal, Image and Video
Processing, Special Issue on 'Multi-sensor object detection and
tracking'
Guest
editor, Journal of Image and Video Processing, Special issue on 'Video Tracking in
Complex Scenes for Surveillance Applications'
(with C. Regazzoni and F. Porikli)
Special
session organization
Multimodal Data
Understanding and Visualization for Industrial Applications
(with Fatih Porikli), 2nd International Symposium on Visual
Computing (ISVC 2006)
Real-time
object tracking: algorithms and evaluation, 6th International
Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS
2005)
Object-based
video: extraction tools, evaluation metrics and applications, SPIE Visual Communications
and Image Processing Conference (VCIP 2003)
Chair
at the following conference sessions
Behaviour
analysis (ICDSC 07)
Activity
monitoring (AVSS 2005)
Active
Contours and Statistical Methods for Segmentation (ICIP 2005)
Media
conversion (ICME 2005)
Motion
Detection and Estimation (ICASSP 2005)
Real-time
object tracking (WIAMIS 2005)
Image
Segmentation: Clustering and Statistical Methods (ICIP 2004)
Object-based
video (VCIP 2003)
Media
Processing (ICME 2002)
Invited
talks
University
College London, London, UK, 31 January 2007
University of Surrey, Guildford, UK, 11 October 2006
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA, USA, 9 December 2005
Microsoft Research Asia, Beijing, China, 24 July 2005
King's College London, London, UK, 27 April 2005
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories (MERL), Cambridge, MA, USA,
24 March 2005
Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 4 March 2005
BT Research and Venturing, Ipswich, UK, 14 February 2005
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 28 October 2004
BT Exact, Ipswich, UK, 4 August 2004
IBM Watson Research, New York, USA, 27 September 2002
University of Trieste, IEEE seminar series, 11 December 1996
PhD
examiner
Q. Li, "Using perceptual models to improve quantization index
modulation based watermarking schemes",
Advisor: Prof. I. Cox, University College London, December 2007
M. Sugrue,
"Development of a motion distillation algorithm for visual
surveillance",
Advisor: Prof. R. Davies, Royal Holloway, University of London, November
2007
D. Marimon
Sanjuan, "Advances in top-down and bottom-up approaches to
video-based camera tracking",
Advisor: Prof. T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
October 2007
N. Gehrig,
"Distributed source coding in sensor networks",
Advisor: Dr. P. Dragotti, Imperial College, October 2007
P. Besson,
"A multimodal pattern recognition framework for speaker
detection",
Advisor: Prof. M. Kunt, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), May
2007
G. Ciocca,
"Dynamic visual summaries for video retrieval",
Advisor: Prof. R. Schettini, University of Milan-Bicocca, January 2006
G. Antonini,
"A discrete choice modeling framework for pedestrian walking
behavior with application to human tracking in video sequences",
Advisor: Prof. J.P. Thiran, EPFL, Nov 2005
A. Petrovic,
"Unsupervised multiscale image segmentation",
Advisor: Prof. P. Vanderghynst, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
(EPFL), November 2005
O. Steiger,
"Adaptive video delivery using semantics",
Advisor: Prof. T. Ebrahimi, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL),
April 2005
Other activities
at QMUL
Board
member, Faculty of Engineering and Mathematical Science
Academic committee member, Dual-Master Degree Program UESTC-QMUL
Deputy chairman, Undergraduate exam board, Dept. of Electronic
Engineering
External speaker, Dept. of Electronic Engineering
University owner, Multimedia Applications, Module 15, BT MSc in Telecom
Engineering
Programme organiser, MSc in Multimedia Systems Technology
Reviewer
for the following journals
IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence; IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing;
IEEE Signal Processing Letters; IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems
for Video Technology Transactions of the IEEE; IEEE Transactions on
Multimedia; IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing; IEEE
Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part B; EURASIP Signal
Processing; EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing; EURASIP Journal
on Image and Video Processing; IEICE Transactions; International Journal
of Modelling and Simulation; Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer
Engineering (IJECE); Real-Time Imaging Journal; Journal of Information
Fusion, Fuzzy Sets and Systems; SPIE Optical Engineering; Signal
Processing; IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing; Image and
Vision Computing; Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Machine Vision
and Applications Journal; ACM Transactions of Multimedia Computing,
Communications and Applications; Signal Image and Video Processing; Pattern
Analysis and Applications Journal; Elsevier Journal of Visual
Communication and Image Representation; Signal Processing Image
Communication
Reviewer
for the following international conferences
IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
(ICASSP), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE
International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), IEEE and EURASIP
Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing (NSIP), SPIE Visual
Communication and Image Processing (VCIP), International Workshop on
Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS), IEEE
International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal based
Surveillance (AVSS), Globecom Wireless Communications, Advanced
Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS), European Workshop on the
Integration of Knowledge, Semantic and Digital Media Technologies
(EWIMT), IEEE Workshop on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation
of Tracking and Surveillance (PETS), ACM Multimedia, British Machine
Vision Conference (BMVC), IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia
Signal Processing (MMSP), ACM Video Surveillance and Sensor Networks
(VSSN), International Conference on ITS Telecommunications; Picture
Coding Symposium
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