Giancarlo Paoletti, PhD

AI Research Fellow @ Leonardo Labs

Hello world! I am an AI Research Fellow at Leonardo Labs based in Genova, Italy.
Before joining Leonardo Labs, I obtained my PhD in Computer Vision and worked as a Research Fellow at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) as part of the Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision (PAVIS) research line led by Dr. Alessio Del Bue.
Prior studies involved BS and MS degrees in Psychology at the University of Urbino (in 2016) and the University of Turin (in 2019).
I firmly believe in the intersection of Human and Artificial cognition, devoting my research to finding solutions for the benefit of humankind.
I am interested in analyzing human bodies and their behavior without supervision while keeping important and relevant aspects like privacy. That is why I am using 3D skeleton data as the main source of data for my research, which focuses on computer vision, specifically on unsupervised representation learning and classification, skeleton action recognition, subspace clustering, and more.
Currently, I am focusing on Large-Scale Computing, developing Deep Learning algorithms for HPC usage.


Education

2019 - 2023 Ph.D. student in Computer Vision
Italian Institute of Technology | Genova, IT
Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision research line

Advisor: Dr. Alessio Del Bue

Thesis title: Unsupervised Human Action Recognition using 3D Skeleton Poses
2016 - 2019 M.S. in Psychology
Università degli studi di Torino | Turin, IT
Master degree in Scienze del Corpo e della Mente (Body and Mind Sciences)

Thesis title: Deep Learning and Neuroscience: an integration
2013 - 2016 B.S. in Psychology
Università degli studi di Urbino Carlo Bo | Urbino, IT
Bachelor degree in Scienze e Tecniche Psicologiche (Psychology Sciences and Techniques)

Thesis title: Intelligenza Artificiale: Definizione, Evoluzione ed Utilizzo in Ambito Psicologico
(transl. Artificial Intelligence: Definition, Evolution and Applications in Psychology)

Research Work Experience

2023 - Present AI Research Fellow
Leonardo Labs | Genova, IT
2022 - 2023 Research Fellow
Italian Institute of Technology | Genova, IT
Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision research line

Advisor: Dr. Alessio Del Bue

Selected Publications

Paoletti, G. and Beyan, C. and Del Bue, A.
SKELTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Action Denoising and Recognition using Transformers
Frontiers in Computer Science, 2023

Paoletti, G. and Beyan, C. and Del Bue, A.
Graph Laplacian-Improved Convolutional Residual Autoencoder for Unsupervised Human Action and Emotion Recognition
IEEE Access, 2022

Paoletti, G. and Cavazza, J. and Beyan, C. and Del Bue, A.
Unsupervised Human Action Recognition with Skeletal Graph Laplacian and Self-Supervised Viewpoints Invariance
BMVC 2021, Oral presentation

Paoletti, G. and Cavazza, J. and Beyan, C. and Del Bue, A.
Subspace Clustering for Action Recognition with Covariance Representations and Temporal Pruning
ICPR 2020, Oral presentation