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Fabrizio Smeraldi, Ph.D.

I am a lecturer at the Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary College, London. I joined Queen Mary in September 2002; before that I was associate professor at the School of Information Science, Computer and Electrical Engineering  (IDE) of the University of Halmstad, Sweden. I am currently on sabbatical leave at Rothamsted Research. In July 2009 I was visiting scientist at the Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences laboratory of the Italian Institute of Technology. In Autumn 2005 I was visiting scientist at the Okutomi Laboratory of Tokyo Institute of Technology. Back in 2001/2002 I was part-time visiting professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Genova (Italy), where I am a member of the SlipGURU research group.

I earned my Ph.D. in the year 2000 from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne (EPFL). My thesis on "Attention-driven pattern recognition " has been awarded the Fritz Kutter prize by the other Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH Zurich. I obtained my MSc in Physics from the University of Genova (DIFI) in 1996; the title of my MSc thesis translates to "Quantum Computation and Cryptography". 

Research interests

I am mainly interested in Pattern Recognition and  Learning Theory. I am investigating multiscale image representations based on rank statistics (see the section on ranklets), feature selection criteria based on statistical concepts and other applications.

I am currently on sabbatical leave at Rothamsted Research, where I am working on Protein-Protein interaction together with Dr Mansoor Saqi and his group.

I worked extensively with attention driven pattern recognition inspired by the human saccadic system, non-linear (log-polar) sampling, the Gabor decomposition and Support Vector Machines (SVMs).

Biometrics et cetera

Most of the applications I developed are related to Biometric Person Authentication; a few pages on Facial Features Detection,  Face Authentication and Face Detection are available online. I co-chaired the Third International Conference on Audio- and Video- Based Biometric Person Authentication (AVBPA 2001) together with Prof. J. Bigün. I have also worked on Active Vision applications,  Structure from Motion and bio-inspired Robot Navigation. 

Teaching

I am involved in teaching Procedural Programming for the BSc in Computer Science, Techniques in Computer Vision for the MSc in Intelligent Imaging Systems and Computational Genomics for the MSc in Bioinformatics.

Together with Dr. Andrea Cavallaro of the Department of Electronic Engineering, I am co-supervising the PhD thesis of Mr Emilio Maggio.

I am the PhD training programme coordinator and the course organiser for the MSc programme in Intelligent Imaging Systems (UCAS code G4S8)

Keywords:

Ranklets, Rank statistics, Orientation, Gabor decomposition, Active vision, Retinotopic sampling, Saccadic eye movements, Head tracking, Biometric authentication, Face authentication, Face recognition, Support vector machines (SVM)

Last (partly) updated by F. Smeraldi,  Oct 2009