News

Presentation
Feb. 2018 --- We participated in a workshop within the event Facciamoci vedere organized in Genoa, Italy, for the presentation of the National institute for the evaluation of technologies for disabilities, INVAT.

Presentation
Oct. 2017 --- Our project was presented at the meeting Informatici Senza Frontiere in Festival (Rovereto, Italy, 13-15 Oct.2017.

Conference
Sept. 2017 --- New results on neural network training for face identification were presented at ApplePies 2017.

Conference
March 2017 --- A paper describing some first results in face recognition obtained using two different Deep Neural Network models was accepted for presentation at Mipro 2017.

Visiting researcher
December 2016 - June 2017 --- Dr. Jhilik Bhattacharya, from Thapar University, Punjab, India, cooperates with the project as a PostDoc researcher in our Lab.

Conference presentation
Nov.-Dec. 2016 --- An invited paper showing the proficuous interactions between ICT and the Universal Design approach was presented at GoodTechs 2016.

Conference presentation
Nov.-Dec. 2016 --- A comparison of the performances of face detection techniques on video data acquired by blind users was presented at GoodTechs 2016.

Conference presentation
May-June 2016 --- The dataset of the (partially) annotated video sequences was presented at Mipro 2016.

Workshop
May 2016 --- Our project was presented at the CNUDD conference on UNIversal Inclusion Rights and Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities in the AcademicContext.

Visiting professor
March-July 2016 --- Prof. Herbert Frey, from Hochschule Ulm, is spending a sabbatical term visiting our laboratory and kindly cooperates with the project.

Workshop
3 December 2015 --- Our project was presented at the University of Trieste event for the International Day of People with Disability.

Test video sequences
November 2015 --- Several video sequences have been acquired by blind people belonging to our Users' Group. Portions of the sequences have been annotated for the presence of faces and will be used to test available face detection algorithms.

Workshop
October 2015 --- A representative of our group has participated in the workshop Technology for blind: from prototype to product, organized by the Andrea Bocelli Foundation and the MIT.

Two accepted papers
August 2015 --- Two reports analysing the state of the art in the field have been accepted for presentation at ISPA 2015 and ACIVS 2015.

First Users' Group meeting
June 2015 --- The Users' Group was formed and has met the project's research group on June 11.

Approval by the Committee for Ethics of the University of Trieste
February 2015 --- The Committee for Ethics of the University of Trieste has approved the project, and has given suggestions about the interviews which will be done within the users' group.

Visitors from India
2014, 2015 --- Two students from India worked at the project during their two-month internship at IPL.

Funds from the University of Trieste
January 2015 --- The project has received a grant from the University of Trieste ("FRA" funds). The activity related to this funding has started on January 1st 2015 and is expected to last two years.