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Andrea Maria LINGUA Born in Cuneo (CN), Italy at 20 april 1969, male. Since 2017, he is full professor in Geomatics, at the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) at the Politecnico di Torino. He was researcher in surveying at same department since 1999 and associate professor since 2004. He graduated in Civil Engineering in 1994 at the Faculty of Engineering at the Politecnico di Torino and, in 1998, he obtained the Ph.D. in Geodetic and Topographic Sciences at the Politecnico di Milano. In 2017, he was founder member of the PIC4SeR, the Polito Interdepartmental center of Service Robotics. He is author of more than 250 papers in national and international journals, books and conference proceedings. He was the President of the Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Surveying (SIFET, 2019-2023), from the 2019 to today he is component of the Board of Director of the Italian Scientific Society for Land and Environment (ASITA) and co-chairman of Working Group I/6 of International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS). His main research topics are related to research and innovation in photogrammetry, computer vision, unmanned aerial systems, laser scanning, outdoor/indoor positioning, robust model estimation, data fusion and integration using rigorous statistical approach, visual odometry/navigation in structured environment, geomatics for archeology.
Stefania Manca is a Building Engineer who graduated from the Polytechnic of Turin, in 2015. Afterwards, she gained international experience focusing on GIS systems. She is currently a research fellow at DIATI (Department of Environmental, Land, and Infrastructure Engineering – Polytechnic of Turin), specializing in classification using deep learning algorithms and processing images from drone surveys. In parallel, she collaborates on the development, setup, and testing of UAVs equipped with echosounder, contributing to the optimization of survey techniques and data analysis.
Francesca Matrone is an assistant professor within the PNRR FAIR (Future Artificial Intelligence Resesrch) project. Her main research topics fall within the GeoAI with the study of machine and deep learning algorithms for the semantic segmentation of point clouds, for the application of explainability techniques and for the classification of multi and hyperspectral images. Further topics concern the scan-to-BIM/HBIM process with the consequent integration in a GIS environment.
During her PhD she was a visiting researcher at the INSA (National Institute of Applied Sciences) of Strasbourg and at the CSAIL (Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab) of the MIT.
She is secretary of the WGII/2 – Point cloud generation and processing of the ISPRS and member of SIFET (Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Surveying).
Filiberto Chiabrando is an associate professor in Geomatics at the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) and adjunct assistant professor at the School of Technology at the Michigan Technological University (USA). His main research interests are related to photogrammetry, unmanned aerial systems, laser scanning, 3D reconstruction, 3D modelling, Virtual Reality/Augmented reality and sensor integration often connected to Cultural Heritage documentation in architectural and archaeological contexts. He is author of more than 150 papers in national and international journals, books and conference proceedings. Actually he is member of the PhD program in Architectural and Landscape Heritage, of the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Photogrammetry and Surveying (SIFET), of the Geotechnical Extreme Events Reconnaissance association (GEER), secretary of the Intercommision Working Group I/II- UAS & Small Multi-sensor Platforms: Concepts & Applications- of the International Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS) and part of the management board of PIC4SER (PoliTO-Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics).
Sono Valeria Longhi, studentessa di dottorato al Politecnico di Torino. Il mio ambito di ricerca e studio è quello della geomatica, applicata al mondo sottomarino per il monitoraggio di ecosistemi del Mediterraneo, in particolare quello della Posidonia Oceanica. Per affrontare questa sfida, utilizziamo avanzate tecniche geomatiche, tra cui un innovativo sistema di imaging iperspettrale subacqueo. A differenza delle normali fotocamere, questa tecnologia cattura immagini non solo nei colori visibili, ma anche in bande dell’infrarosso, rivelando dettagli che sfuggono all’occhio umano.