Gian Luca Foresti | AVIRES Lab | DIMI | University of Udine

Director of the

ARTIFICIAL VISION

and REAL-TIME SYSTEM Lab

Education
* Laurea Degree cum laude, 1990, Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, Italy.
* Ph.D., 1994, Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Departement of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE), University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy.

Biographical Sketch
Gian Luca Foresti was born in Savona, Italy, in 1965. He received the Laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering in 1990 and the Ph.D degree in Computer Science in 1994 from University of Genoa. In 1994 he was visiting Professor at Trento University in an Electronic Engineering course. Currently, he is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics (DMIF) of the University of Udine. Immediately after the Laurea degree, he worked with the Departement of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) of University of Genoa in the area of Computer Vision, Image Processing and Image Understanding. His Ph.D thesis dealt with distributed systems for analysis and interpretation of real video sequences. He worked at several National and International projects founded by the European Commission, especially in the fields of autonomous vehicle driving and active surveillance systems for outdoor environments. Prof. Foresti is author or co-author of more than 200 papers published in International Journals, Book Chapters and Refereed Conference Proceedings. Prof. Foresti serves as reviewer for several International Journals and he is IEEE Senior Member, IAPR Fellow Member and member of GRIN. He has been also involved as evaluator of project proposals in several Research Programs founded by the European Union.

Director of the ARTIFICIAL VISION and REAL-TIME SYSTEM Lab (AVIRES)

Director of DEPARTMENT of MATHEMATICS, COMPUTER SCIENCE and PHYSICS (DMIF)