Gianluca Monaci

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From December 1st 2008 I work as a researcher at Philips in the Video and Image Processing group

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Contents 1 Short bio 2 Research Interests 3 Awards and Grants 4 Publications 4.1 Journal Papers 4.2 Conference Papers 4.3 Talks and Posters 4.4 Technical Reports 4.5 Ph.D. Thesis

Short bio

I was born near Siena, in Italy, several years ago. I received my degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Siena in 2002.
In 2007 I received the Ph.D. degree in Signal and Image processing form the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland, where I was working within the Signal Processing Institute (ITS) in the group of Prof. Pierre Vandergheynst. During my Ph.D. I have also worked as visiting researcher with the Multimedia & Vision Research Group at Queen Mary, University of London (UK), and with the METISS project team at IRISA-INRIA, Rennes (France).
In 2007 I joined the the Redwood Center for Theoretical Neuroscience at the University of California Berkeley, where I worked until October 2008. Since December 2008 I work with the Video and Image Processing group at Philips Research.

Research Interests

My fields of interest are mainly image, video and multi-modal signal representation and processing, and learning algorithms design. During my Ph.D. thesis I have developed several algorithms for audiovisual source localization, blind audiovisual source separation, tracking of visual structures, learning of multi-modal dictionaries. My current research project is about the learning of sparse representations of audiovisual data.

Awards and Grants

• Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Advanced Researcher November 2008.
• Swiss National Science Foundation Fellowship for Prospective Researcher May 2007.
• IBM Best Student Paper Award of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP ‘05).
• UCLA Grant to attend the graduate summer school: “Intelligent Extraction of Information from Graphs and High Dimensional Data” at IPAM, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, July 2005.

Publications

Journal Papers

• T. Gritti, G. Monaci, Automatic light scene setting through image-based sparse light effect approximation, to appear on IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 2012

• A. Llagostera Casanovas, G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst and R. Gribonval, Blind Audio-Visual Source Separation based on Sparse Redundant Representations, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 12, Nr. 5, pp. 358-371, 2010

• G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst and F. T. Sommer, Learning Bimodal Structure in Audio-Visual Data, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 20, Nr. 12, pp. 1898-1910, 2009

• O. Divorra Escoda, G. Monaci, R. Figueras i Ventura, P. Vandergheynst and M. Bierlaire, Geometric video approximation using Weighted Matching Pursuit, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 18, Nr. 8, pp. 1703-1716, 2009

• G. Monaci, P. Jost, P. Vandergheynst, B. Mailhe, S. Lesage and R. Gribonval, Learning Multi-Modal Dictionaries, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 16, Nr. 9, pp. 2272-2283, 2007

• G. Monaci, O. Divorra Escoda and P. Vandergheynst, Analysis of Multimodal Sequences Using Geometric Video Representations, Signal Processing, Vol. 86, Nr. 12, pp. 3534-3548, 2006

• G. Monaci, G. Menegaz, S. Susstrunk and K. Knoblauch, Chromatic contrast detection in spatial chromatic noise, Visual Neuroscience, Vol. 21, Nr. 3, pp. 291-294, 2004

Conference Papers

• G. Monaci, T. Gritti, F. Vignoli, W. Walmink and M. Hendriks, Flower Power, Proc. of ACM Multimedia, 2011

• T. Gritti and G. Monaci, ImagiLight: an intuitive, scalable framework for lighting scene setting, Proc. of ACM Multimedia, 2011

• G. Monaci, Towards Real-Time Audiovisual Speaker Localization, Proc. of European Conf. on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO11), 2011

• G. Monaci and M. Woolridge, Ultrasound Video Analysis for Understanding Infant Breastfeeding, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP11), 2011

• G. Monaci, F. T. Sommer and P. Vandergheynst, Learning Sparse Generative Models of Audiovisual Signals, Proc. of European Conf. on Signal Processing (EUSIPCO08), 2008

• A. Llagostera Casanovas, G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst and R. Gribonval, Blind Audiovisual Source Separation Using Overcomplete Dictionaries, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP08), 2008

• A. Llagostera Casanovas, G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Blind Audiovisual Source Separation Using Sparse Representations, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP07), 2007

• G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst, E. Maggio and A. Cavallaro, Tracking Atoms with Particles for Audio-visual Source Localization, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. Acoustics, Speech, Signal Processing (ICASSP07), 2007

• G. Monaci, P. Jost, P. Vandergheynst, B. Mailhe, S. Lesage and R. Gribonval, Learning Multi-Modal Dictionaries: Application to Audiovisual Data, Proc. of Int. Workshop on Multimedia Content Representation, Classification and Security, in Springer-Verlag LNCS series, Vol. 4105, pp. 538-545, 2006

• G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Audiovisual Gestalts, CVPR Workshop on Perceptual Organization in Computer Vision, 2006

• G. Monaci, O. Divorra Escoda and P. Vandergheynst, Analysis of Multimodal Signals Using Redundant Representations (Winner of IBM Student Paper Award), Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP05), 2005

• G. Monaci, P. Jost and P. Vandergheynst, Image compression with learnt tree-structured dictionaries, Proc. of IEEE Int. Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP04), pp. 35-38, 2004

• G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Learning structured dictionaries for image representation, Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP04), pp. 2351-2354, 2004

• G. Monaci, G. Menegaz, S. Susstrunk and K. Knoblauch, Spectral Bandwidths for the Detection of Colour within Random Colour Textures, Perception (supplement: 26th European Conference on Visual Perception), Vol. 32, pp. 146, 2003

Talks and Posters

• G. Monaci and F. T. Sommer, Learning Sparse Representations for Audiovisual Signals, Computational and Systems Neuroscience 2008 (COSYNE08), 2008

• G. Monaci, G. Menegaz, S. Susstrunk and K. Knoblauch, Color Contrast Detection in Spatial Chromatic Noise, 17th Symposium of the International Color Vision Society (ICVS03), 2003

Technical Reports

• G. Monaci, Pixel Based Skin Detection: A Survey and Suggestions for Implementation, Philips Research Technical Report 2009/00727, 2009

• G. Monaci, R.A.C Braspenning, B.W. Meerbeek, P. Bingley, R. Rajagopalan and M. Triki, Experiencing Control, Philips Research Technical Report 2009/00637, 2009

• G. Monaci, M. Triki and B.E. Sarroukh, Device-less Interaction, Philips Research Technical Report 2009/00672, 2009

• A. Llagostera Casanovas, G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Blind Audiovisual Source Separation Using Sparse Redundant Representations, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2007.01, 2007

• G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst, E. Maggio and A. Cavallaro, Tracking Atoms with Particles, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2006.11, 2006

• P. Besson, G. Monaci, P. Vandergheynst and M. Kunt, Experimental evaluation framework for speaker detection on the CUAVE database, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2006.03, 2006

• G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Detection of Synchronous Audiovisual Events, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2005.36, 2005

• G. Monaci, O. Divorra Escoda and P. Vandergheynst, Analysis of Multimodal Sequences Using Geometric Video Representations, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2005.17, 2005

• G. Monaci, O. Divorra Escoda and P. Vandergheynst, Multimodal Analysis Using Redundant Parametric Decompositions, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2004.24, 2004

• G. Monaci and P. Vandergheynst, Learning Structured Dictionaries for Image Representation, ITS Technical Report TR-ITS-2004.10, 2004

Ph.D. Thesis

• G. Monaci, On the modeling of multi-modal data using redundant representations, March 2007, Signal Processing Institute, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland