Projects and collaborations

Running projects

• PRA 2013 , "Paradigmi multisensoriali per l'acquisizione di competenze spaziali peripersonali: modelli e tecnologie interattive", 2013-2015.
  • Role: Principal investigator.
  • Funding agency: University of Genoa
• "SAFEMAP" , Sistema sensoriale Automatico per il monitoraggio di Fenomeni ed Eventi e loro MAPping in presenza di calamita' Naturali e rischio ambientale, 2013-2015.
  • Funding agency: Regione Liguria

Major completed projects

• "EYESHOTS", Heterogeneous 3-D Perception Across Visual Fragments (FP7-ICT-217077), 2008-2011.
  • Role: Project promoter, Project Coordinator, Principal Investigator.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.
• "SEARISE", Smart Eyes: Attending and Recognizing Instances of Salient Events (FP7-ICT-215866), 2008-2011.
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.
• "DRIVSCO", Learning to act: Emulation of Perception-Action Cycles in Human-Machine Systems, (FP6–IST-FET-2002-16276), 2006-2009.
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.
• "MCCOOP", Multi-channel cooperativity in visual processing, (FP6-NEST-2003-1 ADVENTURE 12963), 2005-2008.
  • Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.
• "ECOVISION", Artificial Vision Systems Based on Early-cognitive Cortical Processing, (FP5-IST-FET-2001-32114), 2002-2004.
  • Role: Project promoter. Principal Investigator.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.
• "CORMORANT", Cortical Maps of Resistive Anisotropic Networks, (EC-ESPRIT3-8503), 1994-1997.
  • Role: Participation in project promotion and coordination.
  • Funding agency: European Commission.

On-going collaborations

- University of Bologna (Patrizia Fattori, Claudio Galletti)
- Westfaeliche Wilhems-University Muenster (Markus Lappe)
- Chemnitz University of Technology (Fred Hamker)
- King's College London (Michael Spratling)
- Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Marc Van Hulle)
- University of Ulm (Heiko Neumann)
- University of Tuebingen (Martin Giese)
- University of Granada (Eduardo Ros)
- University Jaume I, Castellon (Angel del Pobil)
- Italian Institute of Technology (Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Natale)