Marco CristaniAssociate Professor at the University of Verona, External Collaborator at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genova, Italy and Associate Member at the National Research Council. After the Master Degree (with thesis developed partially at the Institto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa under the supervision of Prof Mario Figueiredo), he took the PhD in Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona in 2006. During the period 2004-2005 he has been Research Scholar at the University of Southern California, under the guidance of Prof. Ram Nevatia. He has been and is currently scientific collaborator of a number of national and European projects. His research interests include statistical pattern recognition, and especially generative modelling, applied to video surveillance, social signalling and multimedia in general. Read More Read Less