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Giulio Sandini
University of Genova
Membership Number: 10
Address: Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica (DIST), via Opera Pia, Genova 16145, Italy
Email: sandini@dist.unige.it
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Biographical Sketch
Giulio Sandini is a Full Professor at DIST University of Genova, where he teaches the course of "Natural and Artificial Intelligent Systems" for the biomedical, electronic, and informatics curricula offered by the Faculty of Engineering. He spent many years in neurophysiology labs in Italy and the USA where he conducted experiments on different aspects of visual perception. Since 1980 Giulio Sandini has been with the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Genova where he established one of the first Computer Vision groups in Italy and currently coordinates the activity of researchers at LIRA Laboratory. Giulio Sandini has been a member of programme committees and chairman and co-chairman of international conferences and workshops. He is/was principal investigator of EU-funded projects since 1985. Among them: projects: P419, P2502 (VOILA) SVAVISCA, BRA project P3274 (FIRST) and VAP-II, TIDE project IBIDEM, TMR projects VIRGO and SMART.

University of Genova – Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica (DIST)
The Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Telematica (DIST) of the University of Genova is composed of approximately 47 persons including 32 persons with permanent teaching position and research position, and 15 persons providing administrative and technical support. The participation to the network will be through the LIRA-Lab (Laboratory for Integrated Advanced Robotics). LIRA-Lab main research themes are in the field of artificial vision with particular emphasis on aspects of learning and sensori-motor coordination from the engineering as well as the computational neuroscience perspective. Ongoing projects are related, specifically, to the exploitation of visual information for gaze control, and in the learning of visually guided manipulation. The experimental experimental set-ups currently available include: 1) 3 binocular robot heads one of which with 5 d.o.f.; 2) Retina-like cameras with wide Field of View optics (140 deg); 3) 2 anthropomorphic robot arms. 4) Hardware and software controllers. LIRA-Lab expertise results from past participation to national and EU-supported projects (ESPRIT and FET projects P419-IMU, VOILA, VAP2, SVAVISCA, NARVAL, CVS, OMNIVIEWS), TIDE project IBIDEM and the participation in TMR networks SMART and VIRGO. DIST has been prime contractor of many EU-supported projects.


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