Alessio is an independent researcher with 10 years experience and expertise in computer vision and deep learning. Alessio contributed computer vision and deep learning methods and audio-visual datasets for human-robot collaborations, decentralised vision methods for collaborative 3D reconstruction and navigation, and benchmarks of graph neural networks for visual privacy and explainability. Alessio’s goal is to design robust perception models, accounting for explainable-by-design and simpler learning architectures, towards responsible AI and with a benefit for the society.

Previously, Alessio was a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Assistant with the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and the School of Electronic Engineerging and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK, from October 2019 until December 2024. He researched machine learning models based on Graph Neural Networks for explainable AI, specifically for the use-case of privacy protection in multimedia data (images, videos, and audio-visual data), under the project GraphNEx from January 2023 until December 2024. He also researched novel, robust, deployable multi-modal models for human-to-robot handovers of unknown containers with unknown contents under the project "Collaborative Object Recognition, Shared Manipulation and Learning" (CORSMAL) from October 2019 until December 2022. Alessio obtained the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering with a research focus on Computer Vision from Queen Mary University of London, UK, in September 2020. Alessio obtained the Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering and the Bachelor Degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Trento in March 2015 and February 2012, respectively.

Alessio is an IEEE Member, a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, and a member of the Computer Vision Foundation and the British Machine Vision Foundation. Alessio served as a reviewer for international conferences and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Sensors Journal, IET Computer Vision, International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), and ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Alessio received the Outstanding Reviewer award at 5 international conferences: ECCV 2024, CVPR 2024, IEEE ICASSP 2022-2023, and IEEE ICIP 2020.

Research interests

Perception for robotics | Visual privacy | Computer Vision | Machine and deep learning | Image and video processing | Multi-modal fusion

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Outstanding Reviewer at ECCV 2024

GraphNEx
CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2024

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Workshop at Idiap

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Outstanding Reviewer ECCV 2024 (top 3% of 7,293 reviewers)	Outstanding Reviewer IEEE/CVF CVPR 2024 (top 2% of 9,872 reviewers)	Outstanding Reviewer IEEE ICASSP 2023	Outstanding Reviewer IEEE ICASSP 2022 (31 reviewers selected)	Top Reviewer IEEE ICIP 2020 (top 3% - 22 reviewers selected)