Paolo Rota

Info

Email

rota@cvl.tuwien.ac.at

Phone

+43 1 58801 - 18372

Room

HE 0414

Office hours

By appointment

Research

Publications

Projects

AutoFLOW

Personal Information

Born: 1982, Trento, Italy
Citizenship: Italian

Short Bio

Paolo Rota received his PhD in Information and Communication Technologies in February 2015 at the University of Trento (Italy) under supervision of prof. Nicola Conci and prof. Nicu Sebe. He gained experience in Computer Vision and Scene Analysis working mostly in modelling Social Interactions in videos. Since 2012 he published papers in important conferences (CVPR, ICIP, ECCV workshop) as well as journals (Ubiquitous Computing). He is now working as postdoctoral fellow at TU Wien (Austria) in a project called AutoFLOW granted by EU with a Marie Curie Fellowship. The project aims to develop a model to assist clinicians in Leukemia diagnosis using flow-cytometry.

Recent News
  • 1 Paper Accepted at VISAPP 2016 in Rome. The Role of Machine Learning in Medical Data Analysis. A Case Study: Flow Cytometry.
  • Paper accepted at ICIP 2015. Real-life violent social interaction detection
  • CVPR 2015: Poster presentation of the paper The S-Hock Dataset: Analyzing Crowds at the Stadium.
    More information about the project can be found here
Education

2010 – Feb 2015 Ph.D., University of Trento, Italy.
I’ve been working at Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento under supervision of prof. Nicu Sebe and prof. Nicola Conci. My  topic focused on Social Interaction Analysis in a real-world scenario. In 2014, for 7 months, I’ve been a visiting student at Georgia Institute of Technology in James Rehg’s lab working on fight detection in urban scenario. My objective is to fill the gap between the cues generated by the visual features and the semantic meaning that humans are giving to those cues. I’ve been focusing on temporal coherence of visual features exploiting causality to detect and localize social interactions.

Jan 2010 M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering, University of Trento, Italy .
Relevant subjects are: Signal Processing, Wireless Communications, Multimedia, Computer Vision, Electronics in TLC, Data hiding

Mar 2006 B.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering, University of Trento, Italy .
Relevant subjects are: Signal Processing, Electromagnetism, General Electronics, Image and Video Processing, Remote Sensing

Jul 2001 Diploma di Perito Aeronautico, Istituto Tecnico Aeronautico, Forlí (FC), Italy .
Relevant subjects are: Meteorology, Aerotechnics, Air Traffic Control, Navigation