Hi! 👋

Portrait by Mattia Nardon on December 4th, 2024

I am a tenure-track research scientist at the Technologies of Vision Lab of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy. My research interests are in 3D perception and understanding, with a focus on object 6D pose estimation and 3D functionality segmentation. I have been a pioneer of Geometric deep learning.

If you want to know more about me, you can have a look at my cv or at my LinkedIn page.

Hi! 👋

I am a tenure-track research scientist at the Technologies of Vision Lab of the Bruno Kessler Foundation in Trento, Italy. My research interests are in 3D perception and understanding, with a focus on object 6D pose estimation and 3D functionality segmentation. I have been a pioneer of Geometric deep learning.

If you want to know more about me, you can have a look at my cv or at my LinkedIn page.

News

Feb. 24, 2025

📣 A new technical report is out! Check out Flose, the first Rectified Point Flow model for object 6D pose estimation.

Dec. 18, 2025

🧑🏻‍🏫 I gave a talk on "Object 6D pose estimation with vision and language" at the University of Catania, Italy. Thanks to Francesco Ragusa and Giovanni Maria Farinella for the invitation.

Nov. 13, 2025

🎉 Happy to share that I've obtained the Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor in Informatics (01/B1).

Oct., 2025

📖 Our paper Horyon has been accepted for publication in IEEE TPAMI.

Sep. 15-19, 2025

🇮🇹 I had a great experience attending ICIAP 2025 in Rome, Italy. It was inspiring to connect with experts and learn about the latest advances in computer vision.

Aug., 2025

🤓 I serve as Reviewer for WACV 2026.

Jul. 29, 2025

🧑🏻‍🏫 I gave a talk on "3D object understanding on the shoulders of 2D foundation models" at Shandong University, China. Thanks to Fabio Poiesi for the invitation.

Jul. 25, 2025

🎉 CHIP got accepted at BMVC 2025! Are you working on object 6D pose estimation in industrial environments? Don't miss our new dataset, specifically designed for challenging real-world settings.

Jun. 16, 2025

📣 Two papers accepted on the same day! dGeDi will be presented at IROS 2025 and ViMAT at ICIAP 2025.

Jun. 11, 2025

📣 Two brand-new technical reports are out! Check out CHIP and FreeZeV2.

Jun. 10, 2025

🥈 Fun3DU is the "second best method" in task-driven affordance grounding at the SceneFun3D Challenge 2025.

Jun., 2025

🤓 I serve as Area Chair for BMVC 2025.

May 12th, 2025

🙏 Honored to be recognized as Outstanding Reviewer at CVPR 2025.

Apr. 5th, 2025

🎉 Fun3DU has been selected as an highlight poster at CVPR 2025.

Dec., 2024

🥇 FreeZeV2.1 is the "overall best method" in both 6D localization and 6D detection tasks at the BOP Challenge 2024.

Nov. 22, 2024

📣 I gave a talk on "Object 6D pose estimation in the foundation models era" at the University of Trento. Thanks to Massimiliano Mancini for inviting me.

Nov. 2024

🎉 One paper accepted at WACV 2025! In this work, we segment 3D object's parts using 2D vision foundation models without requiring any training. Check out the project page.

Oct. 2024

🥇 FreeZeV2 is the "early-bird winner" in both 6D localization and 6D detection tasks at the BOP Challenge 2024.

Contacts

Bruno Kessler Foundation
Technologies of Vision Lab
Via Sommarive 18
38123 Povo, Trento, Italy
Phone: (+39) 0461 314525
Mail: FBK mail