Stefano Soatto


Stefano Soatto is Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles, in Los Angeles, CA, where he is also Professor of Electrical Engineering and Founding Director of the . He was named Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2013 for contributions to dynamic visual processes. He received the David Marr Prize in Computer Vision in 1999.

Academic biography

Soatto obtained his D. Eng. in Electrical Engineering Cum Laude from the University of Padova in 1992, was an EAP Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley in 1990-91, and received his Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems from the California institute of Technology in 1996 with dissertation “A Geometric Approach to Dynamic Vision”. In 1996-97 he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Harvard University, and subsequently held positions as Assistant and Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering at Washington University, St. Louis, and of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Udine, Italy. He has been at UCLA since 2000.

Research

Soatto’s research focuses on Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Robotics. He co-developed optimal algorithms for Structure From Motion, characterized its ambiguities, also characterized the identifiability and observability of visual-inertial sensor fusion. His research focus is the development of representations, that are functions of the data that capture their informative content and discard irrelevant variability in the data.
Soatto’s lab first to demonstrate real-time SFM and Augmented Reality on commodity hardware in at CVPR 2000, , and ECCV 2002. He also co-led the UCLA-Golem Team in the second DARPA Grand Challenge for autonomous vehicles, with Emilio Frazzoli, and Amnon Shashua.