Projects

IPLab is currently involved in the following granted public and private research projects:

  • NeAIxt: Next Generation of edge AI crossing technology fields. HORIZON-JU-Chips-2024-1-IA-T1.
  • AFPVN - Arrowhead FPVN, Key Digital Technologies Joint Undertaking - 2022 Next Generation EU HORIZON-KDT-JU-2022-1-IA.
  • Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR SE SERICS) FF4ALL: Detection of Deep Fake Media and Life-Long Media Authentication and related tasks.
  • Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) - Centro Nazionale High Power Computing, Big Data e Quantum Computing Spoke 9: Digital Society and Smart Cities.
  • Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza (PNRR) - Ecosistema dell’innovazione SAMOTHRACE (SiciliAn Micro and NanO TecHnology Research and InnovAtion Center).
  • HiCONNECTS (Heterogeneous Integration for Connectivity and Sustainability) - Call 2021 KDT JU - HORIZON-KDT-JU-2021-1-IA.
  • ARTES 5.0 Advanced Robotics and enabling digital TEchnologies and systems 5.0 - RESTART ITALY - EU Call DIGITAL-2021-EDIH-01.
  • “Giustizia Smart: Strumenti e modelli per ottimizzare il lavoro dei giudici - JustSmart” - PON “Governance e Capacita Istituzionale 2014-2020”. CUP B25F22000000001.
  • EPIRADIOCLINF - Impatto di caratteristiche epidemiologiche, radiologiche, cliniche e molecolari nella diagnosi e nel management delle polmoniti COVID-19 - EPIRADIOCLINF: un approccio di studio integrato.
  • MAMI-MED - La coorte Mamma&Bambino: un approccio Multisettoriale Alla salute Materno-Infantile Mediante valutazione dell’Esposoma nelle Donne - Piano di incentivi per la ricerca di Ateneo 2020/2022 (Pia.ce.ri.).
  • “In Silico World: Lowering barriers to ubiquitous adoption of In Silico Trials - ISW” - HORIZON2020, Topic SC1-DTH-06-2020, Grant agreement n. 101016503, CUP E65F21000170005.
  • SATURN - Smart mAnufacTURiNg - Progetto MISE PON Fabbrica Intelligente. Partners: STMicroelectronics (leading), Mediterranea Impianti, UNICT.
  • DL4HEALTH - Deep Learning for Health - PO FESR SICILIA 2014-2020, Azione 1.1.5. Partners: Quipo (leading), Net Service, Delisa, Aucta Cognitio, Nextra Consulting, UNICT Poli, UNICT DMI, Cerid.
  • FoodREC - Food Recognition Technology - CoEHAR project founded by the Foundation for a Smoke-Free World (FSFW COE1-05). Partners: UNICT, Eclat SRL.
  • SALIRE - Sound Algorithms for Low-latency Intelligent Recognition of Event - PO FESR SICILIA 2014-2020, Azione 1.1.5. Partners: Trilogic srl (leading), Noviacom soc.coop., Medilink srl, UNICT.
  • VIPS - Visual Indoor Positioning: System - Studio e design di algoritmi per la localizzazione a partire da sequenze di immagini acquisite con dispositivi di First Person (Egocentric) Vision. Xenia Network Solutions, Febbraio 2019 - Dicembre 2019.
  • Studio e design di algoritmi di Computer Vision e Machine Learning per Anticipazione delle Azioni e delle Interazioni fra Utente e Oggetti - Xenia Network Solutions, Giugno 2018 - Dicembre 2018.
  • IoT Crowd Sensing: Algoritmi di apprendimento e comprensione di scenari densamente affollati per applicazioni in ambito Smart Digital City - Telecom Italia S.p.A., 2018.
  • ALADIN - Advanced Library for Automatic Discovery of Interrelated News - DNI (Digital News Innovation) Fund, Google News Initiative, San Filippo Editore, 2018.
  • ADAS+ Sviluppo di Tecnologie e Sistemi Avanzati per la Sicurezza dell’Auto mediante piattaforme Advanced Driver Assistance System - PON 2018 Mobilita sostenibile.
  • PHILHUMANS - Personal Health Interfaces Leveraging HUman-MAchine Natural interactionS - Marie Sklodowska-Curie, MSCA-ITN-2018: Innovative Training Networks.
  • First Person (Egocentric) Vision for Scene Understanding - Piano della Ricerca 2016-2018, linea di intervento 2, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Universita degli studi di Catania.
  • Video Analysis for Forensics and Investigation Purposes in Urban Contexts - In collaboration with iCTLab (Catania, IT), PON MIUR Ph.D. Grant (XXXIV Ciclo), November 2018 - November 2021.
  • Egocentric Vision and Wearable Computing for Learning through Imitation - In collaboration with OrangeDev (Misterbianco, IT), PON MIUR Ph.D. Grant (XXXIV Ciclo), November 2018 - November 2021.
  • Comprensione automatica di video endoscopici - Linkverse (Roma, IT) Ph.D. Grant (XXXIV Ciclo), November 2018 - November 2021.
  • Active Vision for Robot Localization - OrangeDEV (Misterbianco, IT) Ph.D. Grant (XXXIV Ciclo), November 2018 - November 2021.
  • Sistemi di visione artificiale per la localizzazione - DWORD/XENIA (Aci Castello, IT) Ph.D. Grant (XXXIII Ciclo), November 2017 - November 2020.
  • Correlazione tra parametri di processo, parametri macchina e risultati elettrici dei dispositivi - STMicroelectronics (Catania, IT) Ph.D. Grant (XXXIII Ciclo), November 2017 - November 2020.
  • Multimedia Forensics in the Wild - In collaboration with iCTLab (Catania, IT), PON Ricerca e Innovazione Ph.D. Grant (XXXIII Ciclo), November 2017 - November 2020.
  • Understanding Environments, Objects and Persons from Egocentric Images and Videos - In collaboration with DWord (Acicastello, IT), PON Ricerca e Innovazione Ph.D. Grant (XXXIII Ciclo), November 2017 - November 2020.
  • Learning Architectures for Multimedia Representation and Understanding - STMicroelectronics Ph.D. Grant (XXXII Ciclo), November 2016 - November 2019.

IPLab has been involved in different granted public and private research projects. Among the others:

  • Sviluppo e realizzazione di algoritmi per analisi comportamentali predittive mediante algoritmi di Computer Vision orientate a scenari di servizi smart city - Telecom Italia S.p.A., 2017.
  • MultiSensor Data Fusion: Algoritmi di apprendimento e comprensione di dati multimodali - Telecom Italia S.p.A., 2017.
  • Ambient Assisted Living with focus on Fall Detection - OSRAM (Munich, DE) Ph.D. Grant (XXXII Ciclo), November 2016 - October 2017.
  • Learning Architectures for Visual Sentiment Analysis - Telecom Italia S.p.A. Ph.D. Grant (XXXI Ciclo), November 2015 - November 2018.
  • VEDI - Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation (PON MISE Horizon 2020) - Partners: University of Catania (CUTGANA), Xenia Gestione Documentale srl, IMC Service. 1 January 2017 - 31 December 2018.
  • Computer vision assisted DOOH and Interactive Systems behavioral analysis in a sales point (1) - Centro Studi S.r.l. Ph.D. Grant (XXXI Ciclo), November 2015 - November 2018.
  • Computer vision assisted DOOH and Interactive Systems behavioral analysis in a sales point (2) - Centro Studi S.r.l. Ph.D. Grant (XXXI Ciclo), November 2015 - November 2018.
  • Algoritmi avanzati di Computer Vision per l’analisi dei flussi di traffico - Park Smart S.r.L. Ph.D. Grant (XXXI Ciclo), November 2015 - November 2018.
  • MedNETHA - Mediterranean Network for emerging nanomaterials (PO/FESR 2007-2013 Misura 4.1.2 - Regione Sicilia - CUP: E61J12000100006), September-December 2015.
  • Multi Device Video Analysis and Summarization for High Bandwidth Connected Environments - Telecom Italia S.p.A. Ph.D. Grant (XXX Ciclo), November 2014 - November 2017.
  • Visual Data Mining - DMI, University of Catania and Telecom Italia S.p.A. (September 2014 - December 2015).
  • Study, definition and development of a Mobile Ultra-Broadband Multi-Device Ecosystem for Multimedia Services - DMI, University of Catania and Telecom Italia S.p.A. September 2013 - December 2015.
  • Sviluppo e Implementazione di una metodologia di smoke detection per imaging smart sensor - DMI, University of Catania and AST Catania Lab di STMicroelectronics. August 2013 - February 2014.
  • Compressed Descriptors for Deformable Objects - DMI, University of Catania and AST Catania Lab di STMicroelectronics. May 2013 - May 2014.
  • Development di Direct Focus Algorithm - DMI, University of Catania and Imaging Division-Grenoble di STMicroelectronics. May 2013 - November 2013.
  • PANORAMA - Ultrawide Context Aware Imaging (ENIAC Programme) - Partners: Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica, STMicroelectronics, Philips, Bosch, QFree, Cmosis. April 2012 - December 2015.
  • DIGINTEGRA (PO/FESR Misura 4.1.1.1 - Regione Sicilia) - Partners: Consorzio Catania Ricerche, EdisonWeb, A-Tono, GlobalProject Finance, APOMercato. January 2012 - June 2014.
  • EMOCUBE (PO/FESR Misura 4.1.1.2 - Regione Sicilia) - Partner: EdisonWeb. January 2012 - January 2014.
  • IT@CHA - DMI, University of Catania and TECHLABWorks. April 2012 - March 2013.
  • FARM.PRO (PO/FESR Misura 4.1.1.1) - In partnership with FarmaciaServizi spa. January 2012 - January 2014.
  • CET - Fruizione Sostenibile di Circuiti Ecoturistici (PO/FESR 2007-2013 Misura 4.1.1.1 - Regione Sicilia - CUP: G25C13000580007).
  • Image Content Analysis - DMI, University of Catania and AST Catania Lab di STMicroelectronics. May 2010 - May 2011.
  • Diagnostica per Immagini-Dimago - Inform/Infracom Italia S.p.A., supported by PIA Innovazione, prog. N. E01/0570/P 02. January 2007 - December 2007.
  • Sviluppo di materiali e tecnologie per una nuova gamma di Artroprotesi di ginocchio ad elevata flessibilita applicativa - FAR - L.297 - LIMA (Ud), Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e Meccanica, Dipartimento di Matematica ed Informatica (University of Catania), Fraunhofer Institut fur Techno- und Wirtschaftsmathematik (Kaiserslautern).
  • Image Noise Removal for Embedded Devices - STMicroelectronics Ph.D. Grant (XXIII Ciclo).
  • Feature Extraction and Randomized Learning for Image Analysis and Classification - STMicroelectronics Ph.D. Grant (XXIII Ciclo).
  • True Scene Understanding: Classification, Semantic Segmentation and Retrieval - STMicroelectronics Ph.D. Grant (XXVI Ciclo).
  • Image Representation Using Consensus Vocabulary and Food Image Classification - STMicroelectronics Ph.D. Grant (XXVIII Ciclo).

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