I am a Senior Researcher at Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA, USI-SUPSI) in Lugano (Switzerland), working on Robotics, Machine Learning applications, Human-Robot interaction, Biomedical Image Processing, Data Visualization.
On this site you can find my ongoing and past projects, software I created, publications, and teaching-related materials.
Notable news & awards (reverse chronological order):
- Jul, 2018: Recent results & videos on using pointing gestures for landing drones and localizing mobile robots (patent pending), from PhD student Boris Gromov. The latter work was accepted at IROS 2018 in the paper “Robot Identification and Localization with Pointing Gestures”.
- Jan, 2018: Have a look at the preprint of our recent article on “Learning Ground Traversability from Simulations”, to appear on IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters.
- Apr, 2016: Our work on the visual perception of forest trails was showcased to a huge audience in the GTC 2016 Opening Keynote speech by NVIDIA, time 1:27 and 1:35.
- Feb, 2016: Additional material (including videos) for our work on the visual perception of forest trails is available here. Press coverage by The Washington Times, Wired, NBC, Popular Mechanics, Daily Mail. A few insightful and flattering comments also in this nice piece @ IEEE Spectrum.
- Jul, 2015: The preprint for the Medical Image Analysis paper summarizing the results of the MICCAI 2013 Grand Challenge is available here.
- Sept, 2014: Supplementary material to our four IROS 2014 papers is here.
- Sept, 2013: With Dan Ciresan, we won the MICCAI 2013 Grand Challenge ”Assessment of Mitosis Detection Algorithms“, with a significant advantage over the closest competitor (results).
- Oct, 2012: With Dan Ciresan, we won the ICPR 2012 challenge on mitosis detection in breast cancer histology images. The paper describing the approach was published at MICCAI 2013.
- Mar, 2012: With Dan Ciresan, we won (by a large margin) the ISBI 2012 challenge on segmentation of neuronal structures in electron microscopy stacks. Our entry outperforms all the 16 competing methods on each of the three considered metrics. In addition, we are the only entry outperforming humans in the pixel error metric. We published our approach at NIPS 2012.
- Oct, 2011: Our paper ”Artificial Defocus for Displaying Markers in Microscopy Z-Stacks“ received an Honorable Mention award at IEEE VIS 2011 (oral presentation) and is now published on the IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics.
- Oct, 2009: Our paper ”Drawing Motion without Understanding It“ received the Best Paper Award sponsored by Microsoft at ISVC 2009.
Address: Alessandro Giusti, IDSIA, USI-SUPSI. Galleria 2 6928 Manno-Lugano. Switzerland
Contact me at: alessandrog [at] idsia [dot] ch