Massimo Minervini
Curriculum Vitæ
Piazza San Ponziano, 6
55100 Lucca, Italy
H +39 320 1570860
B massimo.minervini@imtlucca.it
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I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at IMT Institute for Advanced
Studies, Lucca, Italy. My research activity is focused on the design and implementation of a low cost
sensor for image-based high-throughput plant phenotyping, and the development of a context-aware
compression algorithm on resource-constrained devices.
My main interests are in data compression, computer vision, machine learning, computational
intelligence, cloud computing and life science applications.
My work has spanned a diverse set of topics, at the intersection of different fields. Topics in which
I have produced original contributions include: image compression, colour space transformations,
image segmentation, cloud resource allocation, fuzzy recommender systems, and nonnegative matrix
factorizations.
Personal Information
Date of birth April 16, 1984
Nationality Italian
Education
since 2011 Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science and Engineering, IMT Institute for
Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
2014 Basic German Course, Istituto Culturale Italo-Tedesco (ICIT), Pisa.
2013 RegML Summer School, University of Genova, Genova, Italy.
Regularization Methods for High Dimensional Learning.
2011 4-week English Course, Callan School of English, London, UK.
2010 M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Advisor: Prof. Corrado Mencar
Thesis: Iniezione di Serendipità in un Sistema di Raccomandazione Fuzzy
Mark: 110/110 cum laude
2008 B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Bari, Bari, Italy.
Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Semeraro
Thesis: Modellazione di sorgenti informative testuali: il caso dei proverbi e dei modi di dire
Mark: 110/110 cum laude
2008 Advanced English Course, Centro Studi Levante, Bari, Italy.
2007 Intermediate English Course, Centro Studi Levante, Bari, Italy.
2007 Python and Django Programming Business Course, SistemData S.r.l., Bari,
Italy.
2002 Course in Memory Techniques and Speed Reading, High Consulting, Bari,
Italy.
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2002 Scientific High School Diploma, Liceo Scientifico Statale “A. Scacchi”, Bari, Italy.
Mark: 100/100
2002 European Computer Driving Licence (ECDL), Euroaccademia S.a.s., Bari, Italy.
Publications
[1] M. Minervini, C. Rusu, S. A. Tsaftaris, Unsupervised and Supervised Approaches to
Color Space Transformation for Image Coding, in 21st International Conference on
Image Processing (ICIP), Oct. 2014. [PDF]
[2] M. Minervini, M. A. Abdelsamea, S. A. Tsaftaris, Image-based plant phenotyping with
incremental learning and active contours, Ecological Informatics, vol. 23, pp. 35–48,
Sep. 2014, Special Issue on Multimedia in Ecology and Environment. [PDF]
[3] H. Scharr, M. Minervini, A. Fischbach, S. A. Tsaftaris, Annotated Image Datasets of
Rosette Plants, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany, Technical Report
FZJ-2014-03837, Jul. 2014. [PDF]
[4] M. Minervini, C. Rusu, M. Damiano, V. Tucci, A. Bifone, A. Gozzi, S. A. Tsaftaris,
Large-Scale Analysis of Neuroimaging Data on Commercial Clouds with Content-Aware
Resource Allocation Strategies, International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications, 2014. [PDF]
[5] M. Minervini, C. Rusu, S. A. Tsaftaris, Learning Computationally Efficient Approximations of Complex Image Segmentation Metrics, in 8th International Symposium on
Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), Sep. 2013, pp. 60–65. [PDF]
[6] M. Minervini, S. A. Tsaftaris, Application-Aware Image Compression for Low Cost
and Distributed Plant Phenotyping, in 18th International Conference on Digital Signal
Processing (DSP), Jul. 2013, pp 1–6. [PDF]
[7] M. Minervini, M. Damiano, V. Tucci, A. Bifone, A. Gozzi, S. A. Tsaftaris, Mouse
Neuroimaging Phenotyping in the Cloud, in 3rd International Conference on Image
Processing Theory, Tools and Applications (IPTA), Oct. 2012, pp. 55–60. [PDF]
[8] G. Casalino, N. Del Buono, M. Minervini, Nonnegative Matrix Factorizations Performing Object Detection and Localization, Applied Computational Intelligence and
Soft Computing, vol. 2012, Jan. 2012. [PDF]
[9] D. Dell’Agnello, A.M. Fanelli, C. Mencar, M. Minervini, Serendipitous Fuzzy Item
Recommendation with ProfileMatcher, in Fuzzy Logic and Applications, vol. 6857, pp.
220–227, Aug. 2011. [PDF]
[10] M. Minervini, Serendipity Injection in a Fuzzy Recommender System, in Abstract
Booklet of the First AI*IA Doctoral Consortium, Brescia, Italy, Dec. 2010.
[11] N. Del Buono, M. Minervini, Nonnegative matrix factorizations performing object
detection, Technical Report 14/10, Department of Mathematics, University of Bari,
Bari, Italy, Jul. 2010.
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Work Experience
since 2011 Doctoral Researcher, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy.
Research Advisor: Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris.
{ Member of the research unit PRIAn (Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis).
{ Thesis proposal on Application-Aware Image Compression and Sensing Platform for Plant
Phenotyping.
{ Research activity within the EU FP7 funded project PHIDIAS (Phenotyping with a Highthroughput, Intelligent, Distributed, and Interactive Analysis System).
{ Oral presentations at the 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and
Analysis (ISPA 2013), Trieste, Italy.
{ Poster presentation at the 21st International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2014),
Paris, France.
Nov. 2013 – Research Intern, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany.
Feb. 2014 Research Advisor: Dr. Hanno Scharr.
{ Visiting at the Institute of Plant Sciences (IBG-2).
{ Investigated state-of-the-art image and video compression standards for plant phenotyping
applications.
2010 Graduate Student, Computational Intelligence Lab (CILab), University of Bari,
Italy.
Research Advisor: Prof. Corrado Mencar.
{ Developed an algorithm to incorporate the concept of serendipity in the film recommender
system ProfileMatcher, based on fuzzy user profiling and inference methods.
{ Poster presentation at the 11th AI*IA Symposium on Artificial Intelligence, Brescia, Italy.
2009 Network Administrator, Department of Geophysics, University of Bari, Italy.
Reference: Prof. Luigi Pennetta.
{ Maintained Linux and Windows NT server and computer network of the geomorphology
laboratory.
2008 Undergraduate Student, Semantic Web Access and Personalization (SWAP) research group, University of Bari, Italy.
Research Advisor: Prof. Giovanni Semeraro.
{ Modelling textual knowledge sources, such as proverbs and common sayings, in a system
(OTTHO – On the Tip of my THOught) that solves a language game, using text mining
and natural language processing techniques.
2005 Call Centre Operator, Fastweb, Bari, Italy.
{ Employed in the technical help line of the customer service, after an 80-hour training course.
Professional Service
Referee for journals (IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, Journal of Multimedia) and conferences (European Conference on Computer Vision).
Awards
2013 Recipient of the Academic Research Program Grant from PiCloud.
Areas of Expertise
{ Lossy image compression;
{ Computer vision;
{ Machine learning and pattern recognition.
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Languages
Italian Native language
English Proficient
German Beginner (A1)
Good writing, understanding, and speaking skills.
Goethe-Zertifikat A1: Start Deutsch 1.
Computer Skills
Operating GNU/Linux, Windows
Systems
Programming Matlab, Python, C/C++, Java, ProLanguages log
Markup LATEX, HTML, CSS, XML
Languages
Embedded Raspberry Pi, Canon CHDK
Systems
Database MySQL, Microsoft Access, SQL
Web Joomla, Django
Frameworks
Graphics and Inkscape, GIMP, ImageJ, Adobe Pre- Compression JPEG, JPEG 2000, WebP, JPEG-LS,
Video miere
Standards PNG, H.264, HEVC, VP9
References
{ Sotirios A. Tsaftaris
Professor at IMT Lucca & Northwestern University
IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
Tel: +39 0583 4326740
E-mail: sotirios.tsaftaris@imtlucca.it
{ Hanno Scharr
Senior Scientist, Head Quantitative Image Analysis
Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany
Tel: +49 2461 615701
E-mail: h.scharr@fz-juelich.de
{ Corrado Mencar
Professor at Department of Computer Science
University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Tel: +39 080 5442476
E-mail: mencar@di.uniba.it
{ Nicoletta Del Buono
Professor at Department of Mathematics
University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Tel: +39 080 5442204
E-mail: delbuono@dm.uniba.it
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