Work Experience

• Software Engineer - 7Pixel Srl (part of MutuiOnline)

  2016 - PRESENT

  Development of high-performance data processing services for trovaprezzi.it, the leading Italian price comparison engine

• R&D Scientist - 7Pixel Srl (part of Naspers)

  2013 - 2016 (3 years)

  Participated in most of the company's Computer Vision and Information Retrieval projects.
  

• Software Developer - 7Pixel Srl (part of Ricardo.ch)

  2012 - 2013 (1 year)

  Together with my Agile team, I worked on improving the reliability and scalability of trovaprezzi.it backend infrastructure to manage the continuously growing user traffic.
  

Education

• PhD Computer Science and Mathematics - University of Insubria

  2013 - 2016 (3 years)

  Dissertation: “Text localisation and recognition in natural images”

• MSCompSc - University of Insubria

  2009 - 2012 (2 years)

  Thesis: “High entropy ensembles for segmented object classification”
  Score: 110/110 cum laude

• BCompSc - University of Insubria

  2006 - 2009 (3 years)

  Thesis: “Neural image restoration for decoding 1-D barcodes using common camera phones”
  Score: 110/110 cum laude

2016

• Using Convolutional Neural Networks for Content Extraction from Online Flyers

  Alessandro Calefati, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce

  ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng)

• Query and Product Suggestion for Price Comparison Search Engines Based on Query-product Click-through Bipartite Graphs

  Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo and Alessandro Zamberletti

  International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies (WEBIST)

• Embedded Textual Content for Document Image Classification with Convolutional Neural Networks

  Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Alessandro Calefati

  ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng)

• Deep Neural Networks for Page Stream Segmentation and Classification

  Ignazio Gallo, Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti and Alessandro Calefati

  International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)

2015

• Neural 1D Barcode Detection Using the Hough Transform

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Simone Albertini and Lucia Noce

  IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications

• Combining Textual and Visual Features to Identify Anomalous User-generated Content

  Lucia Noce, Ignazio Gallo and Alessandro Zamberletti

  International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics (CICLing)

• Augmented Text Character Proposals and Convolutional Neural Networks for Text Spotting from Scene Images

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo and Lucia Noce

  Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR)

• Robust Angle Invariant GAS meter reading

  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce

  International Conference on Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications (DICTA)

• Content Extraction from Marketing Flyers

  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce

  Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP)

2014

• Text Localization based on Fast Feature Pyramids and Multi-resolution Maximally Stable Extremal Regions

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Lucia Noce and Ignazio Gallo

  1st International Workshop on Robust Reading (IWRR, in conjunction with ACCV)

• High Entropy Ensembles for Holistic Figure-ground Segmentation

  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini and Lucia Noce

  Proocedings of the 25th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)

• Automatic Prediction of Future Business Conditions

  Lucia Noce, Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Gabriele Piccoli and Joaquin Alfredo Rodriguez

  Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (PolTAL)

• Unsupervised feature learning for sentiment classification of short documents

  Simone Albertini, Alessandro Zamberletti and Ignazio Gallo

  Journal for Language Technology and Computational Linguistics (JLCL)

• Interactive Object Class Segmentation for Mobile Devices

  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti and Lucia Noce

  Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI)

2013

• Robust Angle Invariant 1D Barcode Detection

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo and Simone Albertini

  Proceedings of the 2nd Asian Conference on Pattern Recognition (ACPR)

• Sparse unsupervised feature learning for sentiment classification of short documents

  Simone Albertini, Alessandro Zamberletti and Ignazio Gallo

  The 2nd workshop on Practice and Theory of Opinion mining and Sentiment analysis (PATHOS)

2012

• A mobile visual search application for content based image retrieval in the fashion domain

  Angelo Nodari, Matteo Ghiringhelli, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini, Marco Vanetti and Ignazio Gallo

  The International Workshop on Content-based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI)

• Classification of Segmented Objects through a Multi-Net Approach

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Simone Albertini, Marco Vanetti and Angelo Nodari

  The 5th INNS IAPR TC3 GIRPR International Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition (ANNPR)

• Fast Tree Leaf Images Retrieval using a Probabilistic Multi-class Support Vector Machine

  Ignazio Gallo, Alessandro Zamberletti, Simone Albertini, Angelo Nodari and Marco Vanetti

  Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation (CLEF)

2011

• Neural Image Restoration For Decoding 1-D Barcodes Using Common Camera Phones

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Moreno Carullo and Elisabetta Binaghi

  Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics. Theory and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg

2010

• Neural Image Restoration For Decoding 1-D Barcodes Using Common Camera Phones

  Alessandro Zamberletti, Ignazio Gallo, Moreno Carullo and Elisabetta Binaghi

  Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)