Pietro Zanuttigh was born in 1978. He graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Padova in 2003 and got the PhD from same university in 2007. In 2007 he got the assistant professor position at the University of Padova. He has also been a visiting researcher at the University of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia) in 2006 and in 2010. Now he works in the multimedia technology and telecommunications group and his research activity is focused on 3D data processing. His research interest includes the transmission and remote visualization of scalably compressed 3D scenes, the acquisition of 3D scenes with a particular focus on the fusion of data coming from different sensors (e.g. cameras and Time-Of-Flight sensors), the compression of depth maps and multi-view videos and gesture recognition. He has been a guest editor of IEEE Multimedia and of the International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting and a technical program committee member of various workshop and conferences. He has also organized the First IEEE International Workshop on Vision and Graphics Computing for Multimedia Communications (held in association with the ICME conference). Finally he holds a patent on the visualization of interactive representations on mobile devices.

• Transmission and interactive remote visualization of 3D scenes

• Fusion of multiple sensors for 3D data acquisition (cameras and Time-Of-Flight sensors)

• Hand gesture recognition with depth data

• Scalable compression of multi-view plus depth representations

• Compression of depth maps

• Multi-view plus depth video compression

• Joint color and depth segmentation

• Content-based retrieval of three dimensional models

• Handheld scanning with depth cameras

Publications:

See http://lttm.dei.unipd.it/nuovo/staff/zanuttigh.htm