PRATI Andrea

Andrea Prati graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1998. He got his PhD in Information Engineering in 2002 from the same University. After some post-doc positions at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering of Reggio Emilia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) from 2005 to 2011, and then as Associate Professor at the Department of Design and Planning in Complex Environments of the University IUAV of Venice, Italy. In 2013 he has been promoted to full professorship, waiting for official hiring in the new position. In December 2015 he moved to the Department of Information Engineering (now Department of Engineering and Architecture) of the University of Parma.

His research interests belong to different themes, from embedded devices for sensor networks in computer vision applications, to robotic vision, to multimedia, to performance analysis for multimedia computers. However, his main research activity is on video-surveillance topics: object tracking in distributed, multi-camera environments; analysis and removal of the shadows; behavior analysis through trajectory classification. He recently started to research on mobile vision, ie. the application of sophisticated computer vision techniques on mobile phones. He collaborated on research projects at regional, national, European and international levels.

He is author of 7 book chapters, 32 papers in international referred journals (including 10 papers published in IEEE Transactions) and more than 100 papers in proceedings of international conferences and workshops. List of publications can be found here: http://scholar.google.it/citations?user=PJAxU3QAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao - Total Citations (Google Scholar): 6701 H-Index: 34, at February 2018).

He have been invited speaker, and reviewer for many international journals. He’s also Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT), Area Editor on Video Surveillance of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), of the Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing (JIVP), of the SPIE Journal of Optical Engineering and of IOS Press Journal on Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments. He is a senior member of IEEE, and a member of ACM and GIRPR. In 2014, He has been nominated IAPR (International Association on Pattern Recognition) fellow for contributions to low- and high-level algorithms for video surveillance.