Research Area

Active Research fields

Main research interests (see also my personal webpage):

• Computer Vision: video analytics, affective computing, social interaction analysis, human action modeling and classification, face processing and tracking, emotion recognition, tracking algorithms, camera network and camera handoff, concurrent stream analysis and organization
• Machine Learning: algorithms for prediction and classification, time series analysis and modeling, dynamic Bayesian network, deep learning techniques

Research projects of the last 5 years

2019 - 2022: PRIN 2017, I-MALL, improving the customer experience in stores by intelligent computer vision (co-PI)

2018 - 2019: FFABR 2017, funding to Italian researchers awarded by MIUR (Italian Research Agency)

Collaborations

Collaborating with:

• ICAR - CNR, Palermo (Italy);
• Università degli Studi di Catania, (Italy);
• Computer Science Department, Boston University, Boston (USA);
• Electrical & Computer Engineering Department, Northeastern University, Boston (USA)
• University of Sousse, Tunisia

Active research

Liliana Lo Presti belongs to the Computer Vision and Image Processing Group of the Engineering Department at UNIPA

Services delivered under the right of third parties

Design and development of systems, algorithms and tools for:

• video analtics;
• information retrieval;
• video-surveillance systems;
• classification and prediction systems.