Alessandro Bissacco's Curriculum Vitae

Alessandro Bissacco

3811C Boelter Hall	Phone: (310) 206 4137
UCLA Computer Science Department	Fax: (310) 825 2273
405 Hilgard Ave	Email: bissacco@cs.ucla.edu
Los Angeles - CA 90095-1596	Web: http://www.cs.ucla.edu/~bissacco

EDUCATION

	Ph.D. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 11/2006 (Expected).
	M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of California, Los Angeles, 12/2001, GPA 3.96.
	Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering, Universitá di Padova, Padua, 12/1998, Summa Cum Laude.

PROFESSIONAL AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

	Research Assistant, UCLA Vision Lab, Los Angeles, CA ( 09/2000 - present ) Human Motion Tracking, Gait Classification and Recognition. Identification, Classification and Recognition of Stochastic Processes. Estimation and Classification of Hybrid Models. Kernel Methods for Dynamical Systems. Visual Feature Selection and Tracking in Reconfigurable Hardware.. Kalman Filtering and Data Association.
	Research Intern, Honda Research Institute, Mountain View, CA ( 07/2005-10/2005 ) Human Detection and Pose Estimation. Regression on High Dimensional Spaces. Bayesian Models for Features in Human Detection.
	Research Intern, Rhythm & Hues Studios, Los Angeles, CA ( 06/2003 - 09/2003 ) Structure from Motion (3D pose and focal estimation via trifocal tensor and bundle adjustment). Feature Tracking (Lucas-Kanade) and Wide Baseline Matching (SIFT).
	Teaching Assistant, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles (2002-2003) CS174 Introduction to Computer Graphics, UCLA upper level undergraduate course, Spring 2003. 3D Modelling and Reconstruction from Video, UCLA extension short course, Summer 2002.
	Software Engineer, 4P Mobile Data Processing, ( 03/2000-06/2000 ). Linux port to the DAT500 (386-based PDA).
	Undergraduate Research Assistant, Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, University of Padua, Italy ( 1997 ) Development of Autonomous Agents for the international A.I. competition "Robocup". Participation to International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Nagoya, Japan,1997.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Programming Languages: C/C++, STL, Java, Matlab, OpenGL, Assembly x86/680xx, SQL/DB2, Perl, Bash, Win32, MFC.

Operating Systems: Linux, Unix (Solaris), Windows, DOS.

Motion Capture: Extensive experience in the motion capture process - collecting 3D marker positions with optical motion capture ( SMART from eMotion ), data post-processing and cleanup, skeleton estimation, motion retargeting and conversion between human motion formats.

Computer Graphics: Experience with the character animation and figure design tool Poser.

PUBLICATIONS

International Conferences and Journals

[1]	A. Bissacco and S. Soatto On The Blind Classification of Time Series Submitted to Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), June 2006.
[2]	A. Bissacco, M. H. Yang and S. Soatto Detecting Humans via Their Pose Submitted to Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS), June 2006.
[3]	A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso and S. Soatto Classification and Recognition of Dynamical Models: The Role of Phase, Independent Components, Kernels and Optimal Transport Submitted to IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), May 2006.
[4]	A. Bissacco and S. Soatto Classifying Human Dynamics Without Contact Forces In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), New York, June 2006.
[5]	A. Bissacco and S. Ghiasi Fast Visual Feature Selection and Tracking in a Hybrid Reconfigurable Architecture In Proc. ECCV Workshop on Applications of Computer Vision, Gratz, May 2006.
[6]	A. Bissacco Modeling and Learning Contact Dynamics in Human Motion Oral presentation at CVPR (acceptance rate 6.5%), San Diego, June 2005.
[7]	A. Bissacco, P. Saisan and S. Soatto Gait Recognition using Dynamic Affine Invariants In Proc. Of Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems (MTNS), Leuven, Belgium, July 2004.
[8]	P. Saisan, A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso and S. Soatto Synthesis of Facial Motion Driven by Speech In Proc. of European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Prague, May, 2004.
[9]	A. Bissacco, P. Saisan and S. Soatto Modeling Human Gaits with Subtleties In Proc. of IFAC Symposium on System Identification (SYSID), Rotterdam, August 2003.
[10]	F. Cuzzolin, A. Bissacco, R. Frezza and S. Soatto Towards Unsupervised Detection of Actions in Clutter In Proc. of Annual Conference on Signals, Systems and Computers (ASILOMAR), November 2002.
[11]	P. Saisan and A. Bissacco Image-based modeling of human gaits with higher-order statistics In Proc. of ECCV Workshop on Dynamic Scene Analysis, Kopenhagen, June 2002.
[12]	C. Mazzaro, M. Sznaier, O. Camps, S. Soatto and A. Bissacco A Model (In)validation approach to gait recognition In Proc. of the Symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission (3DPTV), June 2002.
[13]	A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso, Y. Ma and S. Soatto Recognition of Human Gaits In Proc. of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), pages 401-417, December 2001

Technical Reports

[1]

A. Bissacco, M. H. Yang and S. Soatto
Fast Human Pose Estimation using Appearance and Motion via Multi-Dimensional Boosting Regression
UCLA CS Technical Report #050046, Los Angeles, November 2005

[2]

A. Bissacco and P. Saisan
Dynamical Models for Human Gait Synthesis
UCLA CS Technical Report #030015, Los Angeles, March 2003.

[3]

A. Bissacco
Visual Tracking of Human Body with Deforming Motion and Shape Average
UCLA CS Technical Report #020046, Los Angeles, November 2002.

ACADEMIC HONORS, AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

3rd prize poster presentation award at the UCLA CSD annual Research Review (2004)

Graduate Fellowship "Borsa di studio per studenti all'estero", Universitá di Padova, Padua, Italy (2003)

Graduate Fellowship, "A. Gini" Foundation, Padua, Italy (2002)

UCLA Fellowship for International Graduate students, University of California, Los Angeles (2001-2002)

AFFILIATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Reviewer for:

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)
International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

IEEE student member since 1997

REFERENCES

Stefano Soatto
University of California, Los Angeles
Boelter Hall 3531D, 405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles - CA 90095-1596

Professor of Computer Science
Email: soatto@cs.ucla.edu
Phone: (310) 825-4840

Ming-Hsuan Yang
Honda Research Institute
800 California Street, Mountain View, CA 94041

Senior Researcher
Email: mhyang@ieee.org
Phone: (650) 314-0400

Eugene Vendrovsky
Rhythm & Hues Studios
5404 Jandy Place, Los Angeles, CA 90066

Principal Graphics Scientist
Email: eugene@rhythm.com
Phone: (310) 448-7500

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