Emanuele Frontoni è professore ordinario di Informatica all’Università di Macerata e co-director del VRAI Vision Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Lab.

È Affiliated Researcher presso l'Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) di Genova (https://inbot.iit.it/).

Dal 2022 è il Direttore Scientifico del Centro per la Ricerca Scientifica e l'Innovazione Tecnologica in Campo Neurologico NemoLab, presso l'Ospedale Niguarda di Milano (https://nemolab.it/).

Svolge la sua attività di ricerca nel settore dell’intelligenza artificiale e della visione artificiale, dell’analisi del comportamento umano, della realtà aumentata e degli spazi sensibili, delle digital humanities.

È autore di oltre 300 articoli internazionali e collabora con numerose aziende nazionali e internazionali in attività di trasferimento tecnologico e di innovazione.

Dal 2021 è stato inserito nella annuale lista "World's Top 2% Scientists" curata dalla Stanford University e dalla Elsevier che elenca il 2% degli scienziati più citati al mondo, all'interno della categoria "Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing".

È stato Program Chair o General Chair di varie conferenze e summer school internazionali (e.g. IEEE/ASME MESA Mechatronic Embedded System & Applications 2016 e 2017, IEEE ECMR European Conference on Mobile Robotics 2017, BigDat 2020, DeepLearn 2021) e co-organizzatore di numerosi workshop internazionali (e.g. DeepRetail @ ICPR 2020, D2CH @ CVPR 2021, AI4DH @ ICIAP 2022).

È un esperto per la Commissione Europea nelle valutazioni di progetti H2020, Horizon Europe, IPCEI CIS e MSCA ed è attualmente coinvolto in vari progetti EU in corso (e.g. H2020 – DWC, INCREASE, ULTIMATE e sub-call ROSIN; MSCA - TRUST).

È membro della European Association for Artificial Intelligence, della European AI Alliance e della International Association for Pattern Recognition.

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Emanuele Frontoni is a Full Professor of computer science with the University of Macerata and the Co-Director of the VRAI Vision Robotics & Artificial Intelligence Lab.

He is Affiliated Researcher at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Genoa, Italy (https://inbot.iit.it/).

Since 2022, he has been the Scientific Director of the Center for Scientific Research and Technological Innovation in the Neurological Field, NemoLab, at Niguarda Hospital in Milan, Italy (https://nemolab.it/).

His research interests include computer vision and artificial intelligence with applications in robotics, video analysis, human behavior analysis, extended reality and digital humanities.

He is the author of over 300 international articles and collaborates with numerous national and international companies in technology transfer and innovation activities.

Since 2021, he has been included in the annual "World's Top 2% Scientists" list curated by Stanford University and Elsevier, which lists the top 2% of the world's most cited scientists within the "Artificial Intelligence & Image Processing" category.

He has been Program Chair or General Chair of various international conferences and summer schools (e.g. IEEE / ASME MESA Mechatronic Embedded System & Applications 2016 and 2017, IEEE ECMR European Conference on Mobile Robotics 2017, BigDat 2020, DeepLearn 2021) and co-organizer of many international workshops (eg DeepRetail @ ICPR 2020, D2CH @ CVPR 2021, AI4DH @ ICIAP 2022).

He is also involved in several national and international technology transfer projects in the fields of AI, Deep Learning, data interoperability, cloud-based technologies, and big multimedia data analysis, extended reality and digital humanities.

He is a member of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence, the European AI Alliance, and the International Association for Pattern Recognition. He served as expert for the EU Commission in the AI H2020 and Horizon Europe Calls and as co-speaker of the European IPEI CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest - Cloud Infrastructure and Services) for the Data Exchange & AI services of the next generation of European Cloud & Edge Services.

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Google Scholar Profile: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Vgi8nAcAAAAJ

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2239-283X

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emanuelefrontoni/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/prof.emanuele.frontoni/

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INVITED TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC EVENTS

• Invited Speaker - Image & Research Conference - A Picture of the Future: Generative AI's impact on photography, archives and authenticity – Girona, Spain, Nov 2024 (https://www.girona.cat/sgdap/cat/jornades_inici_2024_ENG.php)
• Keynote Speaker - International Conference on Extended Reality 2024 - XR in the era of GenAI: creativity in human-AI content creation environments, Lecce, Sept 2024
• Invited Speaker – European Commission Bruxelles – ICPEI CIS Kickoff – Round Table: Reshaping the future of Cloud Edge Continuum for the next gen of European AI applications  – Bruxelles, Jan 2024 (https://competition-policy.ec.europa.eu/state-aid/ipcei/approved-ipceis/cloud_en)
• Co-Organizer & Speaker – European Conference on Computer Vision, FashionAI Workshop Exploring the Intersection of Fashion and Artificial Intelligence for Reshaping the Industry, Milan, Sept 2024 (https://sites.google.com/view/fashionai2024)

• Keynote Speaker - International conference on Digital Humanities (CIHN’24), Feb 2024, Geneva Switzerland: "Unlocking the Past: Digital Transitions and AI in GLAM Institutions" (https://cihn24.sciencesconf.org)
• Keynote Speaker - IEEE Big Data 2023 Workshop "Computational Archival Science (CAS): digital records in the age of big data", Sorrento, Italy, Dec 2023: "The InterPARES Trust AI Project’s PergaNet Case Study: Is Appearance-Based AI in the Future of Archival Science?" (https://ai-collaboratory.net/cas/cas-workshops/2023-8th-cas-workshop/)
• Invited Speaker - Retail Vision Workshop @ CVPR 2023, Revolutionizing the World of Retail. New Computer Vision Challenges, Vancouver, Canada, Jun 2023: "The Power of Deep Learning and Generative AI in Enhancing Omnichannel Retailing Experiences" (https://retailvisionworkshop.github.io/cvpr2023/)
• Invited Speaker - International Symposium held by InterPARES, Lanzarote, Spain, Oct 2022: “I Trust AI PERGA-NET study: appearance based approaches”
• Invited Speaker - EXPO Dubai “Blockchain technology for agri-food supply chain traceability” Workshop of the European Project Horizon 2020 “TRUST“ digital TuRn in EUrope: Strengthening relational reliance through Technology, Jun 2022, Dubai, EAU: "AI and Blockchain technology convergence"
• Invited Speaker - European Robotic Forum ERF2021, virtual edition:  “Computer Vision for inspection and maintenance of the Genova bridge” (https://www.eu-robotics.net/robotics_forum/)
• Invited Speaker - International Workshop on Industrial Machine Learning at ICPR 2020, Jan 2021, con il talk “From Predictive Maintenance to Design Support Systems: how ML is supporting Industrial processes”. (https://sites.google.com/view/iml2020/)
• Invited Speaker International Symposium Exchange of experiences between specialists from Mexico and the European Union: Strategies for preservation of Cultural Heritage in Health Emergency situations, Nov 2020: “SIGNIFICANCE project – Stop Illicit heritaGe traffickiNg wIth artiFICiAl iNtelligenCE” (https://creativesunite.eu/strategies-for-the-preservation-of-cultural-heritage-in-health-emergency-situations/)
• Invited Speaker - IEEE RO-MAN 2020 Workshop Integrating Sensor Fusion and Perception for Human-robot Interaction, Sept 2020: "Making sense: perception and comprehension in human robot interaction" (https://sites.google.com/view/romanhri/)
• Keynote Speaker - 7th International Conference on Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality and Computer Graphics (AVR 2020), Sept 2020, Salento, Italy: “Artificial Intelligence for Augmented and Virtual Reality content creation”. (http://www.salentoavr.it/keynote-speakers-2020/)
• Invited lecturer - AI DLDA Summer School – 3rd edition, Jul 2020, Udine, Italy: “Deep Understanding of Shopper Behaviors and Interactions Using Computer Vision” (https://www.ip4fvg.it/summer-school/past-years/)
• Invited speaker - Embedded Vision Summit 2018, Santa Clara, California, US: "Deep Understanding of Shopper Behaviors and Interactions Using Computer Vision". (https://www.edge-ai-vision.com/2018/06/deep-understanding-of-shopper-behaviors-and-interactions-using-computer-vision-a-presentation-from-the-universita-politecnica-delle-marche/).
• Invited Speaker - European Robotic Forum ERF2018, Tampere, Finland: “Multispectral data in robotics vision for precision farming”
• Keynote Speaker - MCMS 2017 International Conference, Jun 2017, Venice, Italy: “The future of AI & Multimedia”
• Invited Lecturer - Virtual Reality Summer School 2017, Salento, Italy: “Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality for Digital Cultural Heritage: a review”.
• Invited Speaker - EFPC 2016 Riga Conference, Latvia: “Sharing health data among general practitioners: the Netmedica Italia case history”
• Keynote Speaker - EUSAIR NEXT Meeting, Albania, Oct, 2013: “Marche Innovation Platform, features and perspectives”
• Invited Speaker - REAS 2013, Monticchiari, Italy, Oct 2013: “Smart Shoes: a real-life application”
• Keynote Speaker - Asia Retail Conference, Hong Kong, Jun 2013: “Intelligent Retail Environments”
• Invited Speaker - Institute of Applied Informatics, Cracow University of Economics, Krakow, Poland, Dec 2011: “Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) in multimedia applications”
• Invited Speaker - Bayesian Cognition Winter school, Chamonix, France, January 2008 con il talk “Vision Based Mobile Robotics; Mobile Robot Localization using vision and active probabilistic approaches”
• Invited Lecturer - Autonomous System Lab ETHZ, Zurich, Switzerland, Sep 2007: “Feature based robotics: novel ideas and approaches”
• Invited Lecturer - EURON PSFMR 2006 Summer School, Fermo, Italy, Sep 2006: “Feature extraction using SIFT: tutorial and exercises”
• Invited Lecturer - Autonomous System Lab EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland, Feb 2006: “The ability to sense and make sense”
• Invited Lecturer - EURON PSFMR 2005 Summer School, Ancona, Italy, Sep 2005: “Tutorial and exercises on mobile robot localization”