Silvia Zuffi

Phd in Computer Science, Brown University, May 2015 PhD Thesis: Shape Models of the Human Body for Distributed Inference. Advisor: Prof. Michael J. Black Master degree in Computer Science, Brown University, May 2010 Master degree in Electronic Engineering at the Faculty of Electronic Engineering of the University of Bologna, March 1995. Thesis (in Italian): Applicazione di un benchmark di elaborazione delle immagini ad una macchina parallela floating point e analisi delle prestazioni (Application of the DARPA Image Understanding Benchmark to a parallel computer with SIMD floating point architecture and performance analysis). Supervisor: Prof. Tullio Salmon Cinotti, 100/100 magna cum laude.

Research Activity

My current research interest is in animal and human shape and pose estimation from images and videos. My main contribution to the field is the exploration of realistic 2D and 3D models of body shape for estimating pose and articulated motion in unconstrained images, videos, and from 3D data. In the past I have worked on color imaging and reproduction, in particular on the readability of colored text on colored background and on multispectral print.

News

New paper at CVPR 2023 "BITE: Beyond Priors for Improved Three-D Dog Pose Estimation" Project page

BARC: Breed-Augmented Regression Using Classification for 3D Dog Reconstruction from Images published on IJCV PDF

CV4animals workshop at CVPR 2023 Website

New paper at CVPR 2022 on modeling and inferring the human body skeleton: "OSSO: Obtaining Skeletal Shape from Outside" Project page

New paper at CVPR 2022 on estimating 3D dogs from images: "BARC: Learning to Regress 3D Dog Shape from Images by Exploiting Breed Information" Project page

Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation Nature Communications

New work on sound separation applied to fish vocalizations https://arxiv.org/abs/2201.05013v2

New paper on Biodiversity Monitoring accepted at Nature Communications, preprint available https://arxiv.org/pdf/2110.12951.pdf

I will speak at the CV4Ecology summer school at Caltech https://cv4ecology.caltech.edu/

Recordings of the Invited Talks at CV4Animals are available https://www.cv4animals.com/

New "work in progress" publication: Ci Li, Nima Ghorbani, Sofia Broome, Maheen Rashid, Michael J. Black, Elin Hernlund, Hedvig Kjellström, Silvia Zuffi, "hSMAL: Detailed Horse Shape and Pose Reconstruction for Motion Pattern Recognition", CVPR 2021, CV4Animals Workshop (oral), https://arxiv.org/abs/2106.10102

I will be Program Chair at 3DV2021 https://3dv2021.surrey.ac.uk

List of publications including those not associated with CNR projects: https://ps.is.tuebingen.mpg.de/person/szuffi

Focus

Blog post on animal models

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