Biography

I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Uk. My current research is on improving the realism of 3D humans reconstructed from images. I am working on the AI4ME in collaboration with the BBC R&D under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Hilton, Dr. Armin Mustafa and Dr. Marco Volino.

I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Vision and Graphic in January 2024 at the Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing, University of Surrey, Uk. The Ph.D. thesis was on shape and appearance super-resolution of 3D humans under the supervision of Prof. Adrian Hilton and Dr. Marco Volino and explore novel deep learning approaches to reconstruct highly realistic 3D humans from a minimal number of images. During my Ph.D. I worked as a Research Scientist intern at Meta Reality Labs in San Francisco, US from June 2022 until November 2022 on 3D human reconstruction from RGB-D images.

Prior to this experience, I obtained my M.Sc. and B.Sc. degrees from the Information Engineering Department, DEI, at the University of Padova, Italy. In 2017, I was awarded with Erasmus+ scholarship that allowed me to complete the M.Sc. at the Department of Informatic, IFI of University of Oslo during which I collaborated with Simula Research Laboratory for my master dissertation.

Research

I have particular interest in applying computer vision and machine learning to reconstruct, edit and render static and dynamic humans for application in film, broadcast and gaming. I am investigating novel representations that exploit deep learning to learn representations of people for highly realistic rendering. My research objective is to develop novel methods that reconstruct highly realistic digital humans from a minimum number of cameras to improve the content production for both traditional media film/games/TV and new forms of immersive augmented and virtual reality experience.


ANIM: Accurate Neural Implicit Model for Human Reconstruction from a single RGB-D image
M. Pesavento, Y. Xu, N. Sarafianos, R. Maier, Z. Wang, C. Yao, M. Volino, E. Boyer, A. Hilton and T. Tung
Proceedings in the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024)
Paper Project Page
Super-resolution 3D Human Shape from a Single Low-Resolution Image
M. Pesavento, M. Volino and A. Hilton
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022)
Paper Project Page
Image Super-Resolution via Hierarchical Attention-Based Multi-References Sampling
M. Pesavento, M. Volino and A. Hilton
The 18th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2021, Short)
Paper (Best Short Paper Award)
Attention-based Multi-Reference Learning for Image Super-Resolution
M. Pesavento, M. Volino and A. Hilton
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2021)
Paper
Super-Resolution Appearance Transfer for 4D Human Performances
M. Pesavento, M. Volino and A. Hilton
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Dynavis workshop (CVPRW 2021)
Paper
Effectiveness of VR immersive applications for public speaking enhancemen
A. Notaro, F. Capraro, M. Pesavento, S. Milani and M.G. Busà
Electronic Imaging 2021 (EI 2021)
Paper
Super-Resolution Appearance Transfer for 4D Human Performance Capture
M. Pesavento, M. Volino and A. Hilton
The 17th ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP 2020, Short)
Paper
XR-Cockpit: a comparison of VR and AR solutions on an interactive training station
A Caputo, S Jacota, S Krayevskyy, M Pesavento, F Pellacini and A Giachetti
25th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2020)
Paper

CV


Postdoctoral Research Fellow in 3D Computer Vision
CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK
March 2024 - present
Research Scientist internship
Meta Research Lab, Sausalito, CA, US
June 2022 - November 2022
Teaching Assistant
CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK
October 2019 - May 2022
Research Internship
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
June 2019 - July 2019
Research Student
Simula Research Laboratory, Oslo, Norway
August 2017 - July 2018

PhD degree in Computer Vision & Graphics
CVSSP, University of Surrey, UK
October 2019 - January 2024
M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
September 2016 - December 2018
Erasmus+ in Computer Science
University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway
August 2017 - July 2018
B.Sc. in Information Engineering
University of Padova, Padova, Italy
September 2013 - September 2016

I have been involved in the organisation of the following conferences/meetings/workshops:

International Conference on 3D Vision 2021 (3DV 2021)
Online
Virtual/Local chair

I have served as a reviewer for the following conferences/journals/workshops:

  • International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
  • European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • ACM SIGGRAPH European Conference on Visual Media Production (CVMP)