Samuele Salti - Associate Professor

Samuele Salti

Associate Professor

Tuscany, Italy

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Samuele Salti is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Bologna with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and industry R&D in 3D computer vision and machine learning. His work spans invariant local features, RGB-D and point-cloud representations, adaptive online tracking, and practical applications from augmented reality to dashcam telematics, and has accrued over 4,000 citations and an h-index of 19. Before returning to academia he led Data Science squads at Fleetmatics/Verizon Connect, turning massive vehicle telemetry into product features and services. He contributes to prominent open-source projects such as the Point Cloud Library (fixing and extending SHOT descriptors), reflecting a hands-on approach to robust, efficient algorithm engineering. Awarded and recognized as an outstanding reviewer at top vision and ML conferences, he also co-founded the university spin-off EyeCan to commercialize research impact.

14 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

University of Bologna

Italian, English

Github Skills (10)

pcl10

computer-vision10

eigen10

cpp10

point-cloud10

cplus10

data-structure9

algorithm9

data-structures9

algorithms9

Programming languages (2)

C++Jupyter Notebook

Github contributions (4)

PointCloudLibrary/pcl

Jul 2011 - Sep 2012

Point Cloud Library (PCL)

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:9 commits in 1 year 2 months

Contributions summary:Samuele primarily contributed to the Point Cloud Library (PCL) by fixing bugs and implementing features related to the SHOT descriptor. The user addressed issues with NaN outputs, enabled SHOT tests, and created a variable-length SHOT descriptor. Further work involved solving a problem with ambiguous signs in the SHOT local RF and handling various configurations within the library. The user also fixed some bugs in the 3DSC, USC and SHOT algorithms.

cpppoint-cloud-libraryc-plus-pluscomputer-visionpcl-library

fedassa/SHOT

Oct 2017 - Sep 2020

C++ implementation of the SHOT 3D descriptor

Contributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 3 years

structure-from-motioncpphomographydescriptorcomputer-graphics

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