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Luca Del Pero
PhD student, Computer Science

  • Office: 909A, Gould Simpson building, University of Arizona
  • Email: delpero at email dot arizona dot edu
  • Skype Contact: prusso83
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I'm a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at The University of Arizona. I work in the areas of computer vision and machine learning, under the advisement of Dr. Kobus Barnard. My focus is on statistical inference methods for 3D reconstruction and camera estimation from monocular images. My research interests also include automatic image annotation.

RESEARCH

    • Understanding images of indoor scenes

    Our goal is to understand the geometry and the semantics of indoor scenes, such as bedrooms and kitches. We would like to infer what is where in 3D. Doing this from a single 2D image also involves inferring the parameters of the camera. The image shows a fit for a bedroom, where the red lines denote the inferred room boundaries, the green and the blue box are respectively a correctly identified picture frame and a bed.
    [CVPR 2012 paper] [data]
    [CVPR 2011 paper] [data]
    • Image and text alignment

    Image keywords and captions provide information about what is in the image, but we do not know which words correspond to which image elements. Our goal is to align image caption or key words with visual features (see the main project page). My focus is on how to use specialized object detectors for improving initial estimates of the alignment, as illustrated in the image on the left (click on it to enlarge).
    [ACM MM 2011 paper]

PUBLICATIONS

Luca Del Pero, Joshua Bowdish, Daniel Fried, Bonnie Kermgard, Emily L. Hartley, Kobus Barnard. "Bayesian geometric modeling of indoor scenes," IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), June, 2012. [pdf]

Luca Del Pero, Jinyan Guan, Ernesto Brau, Joseph Schlecht, Kobus Barnard. "Sampling Bedrooms," IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), pp. 2009-2016, June, 2011. [pdf]

Luca del Pero, James Magahern, Philip Lee, Emily Hartley, Ping Wang, Atul Kanaujia, Niels Haering, and Kobus Barnard, "Fusing object detection and region appearance for image-text alignment," ACM Multimedia short paper, 2011. [pdf]

EDUCATION

Aug 2009 - Present

PhD, Computer Science
University of Arizona

Sep 2005 – Feb 2008

Master of Science, Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Torino

Sep 2002 – July 2005

Bachelor of Science, Computer Engineering
Politecnico di Torino

INDUSTRY

Apr 2008 - Aug 2009

GFI Informatique, Sophia Antipolis, France
Software engineer

  • Worked as a consultant at Amadeus on designing and implementing ticket availability systems for major airlines.

May 2005 – Dec 2005

E-Mentor, Turin, Italy
Intern

  • Implementation of Voip (Voice over IP) solutions for managing audio streams in a distance learning environment.
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