Associate professor at University of Turin, Faculty of Science. He is responsible of the laurea magistrale in Realtà Virtuale e Multimedialità and he teaches fundamental courses.
He has been studying compression techniques, based on the development of Loéve Karhunen expansion, applied to static images and movies.
He has created and applied filters in order to improve and restore images coming from biomedical, pictorial, cultural heritage sources and of remote sensing.
In the virtual reality area he has modelled synthetic environments with the aim of improving the cultural knowledge of children in developing and for disabled people.
Another kind of study is linked to problems for integration of real and virtual. Some new sound rendering techniques has been applied in the simulation of propagation of sounds in small dimensions environment, with primary applications to communication and remote didactic.

Light, Images, Vision: From the Real to the Virtual

The light is essential for the life of the humanity and makes facts and phenomena
usable. The acquisition of the images is due to the human visual system, while their interpretation is done by the brain; both processes suffer of some intrinsic limitations.
This happens in the reality. The light can also be artificially generated and the images synthesized by means of suitable mathematical procedures. On the other hand, the vision can be simulated with electronic devices that analyze real images but also by means of techniques that reproduce photorealistic effects. The two aspects of the same phenomena involve different techniques and disciplines that the lesson wants to deal in depth.