Walter Nunziati

Walter Nunziati

Florence, Tuscany, Italy
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About

I graduated with a degree in software engineering, and later a PhD, from the University of Florence - Italy. My research fields were computer vision and pattern recognition. I had the opportunity to work with two great research groups: the MICC lab at Univ. Florence (led by Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo), and - for a short period - the IVC lab at Boston University (led by Prof. Stan Sclaroff). My thesis presented techniques and algorithms applied to the automatic extraction of analytics from sport and urban videos. Some of these results appeared in well respected peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings (see the detailed list below).

In 2007 I co-founded Magenta (www.magentalab.it), a company that designs and builds software solutions tailored to specific customer requirements. We have specialised in multiple types of applications (enterprise, mobile, embedded) and sectors (transportation, safety, tourism, multimedia).

We are also very active in innovation and R&D. This reflects in my current role, which is to work on grants and research proposals. I have co-written, participated in and coordinated, projects funded by various ICT programmes, such as H2020, FP7, ERA-SME, Manunet, Crosstexnet, and others.

Recently, I've been using my technical skills for data-science projects, working my way through Python, Pandas, Databricks/Spark, and the like. An example is project AiRISE Inflow that is led by Thales with a consistent support of Magenta.

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Experience

  • Magenta srl Graphic

    Magenta srl

    Florence Area, Italy

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    Florence Area, Italy

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    Venice Area, Italy

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    Florence Area, Italy

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    Greater Boston Area

Education

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    I've completed my Phd in 2006 with a thesis on automatic event detection from videos

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Publications

Courses

  • Machine Learning class

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  • Machine Learning, Coursera

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  • Scientific Writing, Coursera

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Projects

  • CHEST/Traffic Flow

    In CHEST/TrafficFlow, we will ask people, to use our technology to set up traffic monitoring points from their windows, balcony or other vantage points to layout a network of sensors of high coverage for this area, effectively setting up an integrated and participatory traffic monitoring initiative.
    Within our campaign, we will integrate our technology with an online platform for smart cities, in order to maximise the impact of the project in terms of affected users. We will also release the…

    In CHEST/TrafficFlow, we will ask people, to use our technology to set up traffic monitoring points from their windows, balcony or other vantage points to layout a network of sensors of high coverage for this area, effectively setting up an integrated and participatory traffic monitoring initiative.
    Within our campaign, we will integrate our technology with an online platform for smart cities, in order to maximise the impact of the project in terms of affected users. We will also release the collected data in order to promote the diffusion of actual information through social media or mobile applications, that will help to steer the public toward better, more sustainable mobility modes.
    Follow our updates on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CHESTTrafficFlow), and twitter (https://twitter.com/ChestTrFlow).

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  • Jordan/Italy Tourism Twinning

    Short-Term Expert for a twinning program on tourism between Jordan and Italy. Joined the Jordan Ministry of Tousrism and Antiquities to bring expertise on the design and development of mobile applications related to tourism, based on the eperience gained with Firenze Turismo mobile app in Florence.

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  • PITAGORA

    PITAGORA: Piattaforma Integrata per la Gestione delle Operazioni Aeroportuali

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  • SOLE-CUT

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    The SOLE-CUT project will provide advanced technical devices (tools and machine tools) and competitive ready-to-market solutions for the stone machining sector. SOLE-CUT will develop shared knowledge, practical know-how and a modern background of simulation methodologies and codes capable of designing and creating new families of high performing stone-cutting-machines. Innovative Shape Memory Alloys and Super-elastic materials will be considered for wire rope (substituting conventional steels)…

    The SOLE-CUT project will provide advanced technical devices (tools and machine tools) and competitive ready-to-market solutions for the stone machining sector. SOLE-CUT will develop shared knowledge, practical know-how and a modern background of simulation methodologies and codes capable of designing and creating new families of high performing stone-cutting-machines. Innovative Shape Memory Alloys and Super-elastic materials will be considered for wire rope (substituting conventional steels) and technical, economic and ecological consistency of materials will be considered, thus producing innovative and green solutions for a more sustainable cutting process. SOLE-CUT proposes an innovative monitoring system, which applies machine vision technology for automatic surface inspection and fault / anomaly prevention in the cutting / carving process. SOLE-CUT groups 4 SMEs, from 3 Regions and 2 countries and integrates scientific and technological expertise with multi-year experience in stone manufacturing.

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  • MUSINT

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    MUSINT is a web exhibition of Archeological collections from ancient Greece that can be found in several Tuscan Museums.

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  • GE Transportation large screen multi-touch application

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    Multi-touch software application made for GE Transportation for InnoTrans 2012 fair.
    It's a product showcase application with large collection of images, video, interactive 3D model and value proposition applications.

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  • WINSPECT - Web Inspection

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    WInspect - Textile Web Inspection Framework, is a project co-financed by the CrossTexNet Project, the Regional Government of Tuscany (Italy), Tubitak – the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and Centrul National de Management Program (Romania).
    Automatic inspection in the textile sector is difficult and costly due to the variety of materials, possible defects in these materials, and finally to the range of cameras and devices that can be used for quality control.
    Aim…

    WInspect - Textile Web Inspection Framework, is a project co-financed by the CrossTexNet Project, the Regional Government of Tuscany (Italy), Tubitak – the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey, and Centrul National de Management Program (Romania).
    Automatic inspection in the textile sector is difficult and costly due to the variety of materials, possible defects in these materials, and finally to the range of cameras and devices that can be used for quality control.
    Aim of WInspect is to develop an inspection system which enables real time defect detection in textile using image processing techniques.

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  • ORUSSI. Optimal Road sUrveillance System based on Scalable vIdeo

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    The growing mobility of people and goods has a very high societal cost in terms of traffic congestion and of fatalities and injured people every year. The management of a road network needs efficient ways for assessment at minimal costs.

    Road monitoring is a relevant part of road management, especially for safety, optimal traffic flow and for investigating new sustainable transport patterns. Current monitoring systems based on video lack of optimal usage of networks and are difficult to…

    The growing mobility of people and goods has a very high societal cost in terms of traffic congestion and of fatalities and injured people every year. The management of a road network needs efficient ways for assessment at minimal costs.

    Road monitoring is a relevant part of road management, especially for safety, optimal traffic flow and for investigating new sustainable transport patterns. Current monitoring systems based on video lack of optimal usage of networks and are difficult to be extended efficiently.

    The ORUSSI project focuses on road monitoring through a network of roadside sensors (mainly cameras) that can be dynamically deployed and added to the surveillance systems in an efficient way.

    The main objective of the project is to develop an optimized platform offering innovative real-time media (video and data) applications for road monitoring in real scenarios. We exploit low-level efficient image features in order to enable our distributed system to extract semantic information from the imagery and to optimize the video compression adaptively.

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Honors & Awards

  • Philips Lighting Challenge

    Philips Lighting (Signify)

    Smart Cities Challenge by Philips Lighting

Languages

  • English

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  • Italian

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