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Dr. Massimiliano Pittore

Helmholtz Centre Potsdam
GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences
Section 2.1, Earthquake Risk and Early Warning

Helmholtzstraße 7, H7 106
D-14467 Potsdam
Phone: +49 331 288 28668
Fax: +49 331 288 1204
Mail: massimiliano.pittore@gfz-potsdam.de

Scientific interests:


Seismic Vulnerability, Seismic Risk, Computer Vision and Image Processing, Remote Sensing, Statistical Learning and Data Mining, Bayesian Networks, Software Design and Implementation.

Projects:

Progress  'Georisiken im Globalen Wandel (Georisk in Global Change)'
Matrix  'New Multi-Hazard and Multi-Risk Assessment Methods for Europe'
GEM  'Global Earthquake Model' / 'Inventory Database Capture Technologies'
EMCA  'Earthquake Model Central Asia'

Career:

1996-2000 Dr. rer. nat. in Informatics and Information Sciences (University of Genova)
1989-1995 Diploma Physics (University of Genova)

Experience:

since 2011 Senior Scientist at GFZ (Potsdam)
2010-2011 Scientist at GFZ (Potsdam) / Cedim
2001-2009 Engineering Manager, R&D Responsible at e-magine IT S.r.L.
2004-2006 Contract Scientist at University of Genova
2000-2001 Contract Scientist at University of Genova
1995-1996 Software Consultant at Marconi S.p.A.

Teaching Experience:
  • Computer Vision and Data Mining,
  • Image Processing
Work Experience:
  • Engineering, R&D, Management,
  • Consultancy, I.P. protection,
  • Software Design and Implementation,
  • Machine Vision and Expert Systems,
  • Industrial Automation, Innovation,
  • Sales and Marketing
Editorial Experience:
  • reviewer of scientific journals

Selected publications:

  1. Parolai S., Strollo A., Bindi D. Milkereit C., Picozzi M., Di Giacomo M., Wieland M., Pittore M., Mayfield M., Liu H., Pilz M., Zschau J.: Seismische Risikoanalysen in Zentralasien. System Erde : GFZ Journal, Deutsches GeoForschungsZentrum, Potsdam (2011)
  2. Bindi D., Parolai S., Wieland M., Pittore M., Mayfield : Toward improved seismic risk analyses in Central Asia. Proceedings of the Seminar on Seismic Risk Reduction for Low Income Rural Areas (2011)
  3. Pittore M., Wieland M., Bindi D., Parolai S. and Zschau J.: Towards a rapid, integrated, multi-scale assessment of earthquake risk: a case study in Central Asia. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-2556, 2011 - EGU General Assembly 2011.
  4. Wieland M., Pittore M., Parolai S. and Zschau J.: Rapid multi-scale assessment of seismic vulnerability: an integrated approach based on multi-source imaging. Geophysical Research Abstracts Vol. 13, EGU2011-4079, 2011 EGU General Assembly 2011.
  5. Pavanello G., Faimali M., Pittore M., Mollica A., Mollica A., Mollica A.: Exploiting a new electrochemical sensor for biofilm monitoring and water treatment optimization. Water Research Volume 45, Issue 4, February 2011, Pages 1651-1658.
  6. Faimali M., Garaventa F., Piazza V., Greco G., Corra C., Magillo F., Pittore M., Giacco E., Gallus L., Falugi C., Tagliafierro G. : Swimming speed alteration of larvae of Balanus amphitrite as a behavioural end-point for laboratory toxicological bioassays . Marine Biology, vol. 149 (2006)
  7. Pittore M., Cappello M., Ancona M., Scagliola N. : Role of image recognition in defining the user's in 3G phone applications: the AGAMEMNON experience. ICIP (2005)
  8. Castellani U. , Fusiello A. , Murino V. , Papaleo L. , Puppo E. , Pittore M. : A complete system for on-line 3D modelling from acoustic images. Signal. Processing: Image Communication (2005)
  9. Hansen R.K. , Castellani U. , Murino V. , Fusiello A. , Puppo E. , Papaleo L. , Pittore M. , Gobbi M. , Bisone L. , Kleppe K. , Hall M. : Mosaicing of 3D sonar data sets - techniques and applications. Oceans MTS/IEEE Conference(2005)
  10. Pittore M. , Campani M. , Verri A. : Learning to Recognize Visual Dynamic Events from Examples. International Journal of Computer Vision (2000)
  11. Pittore M. , Basso C. e Verri A. : Representing and Recognizing Visual Dynamic Events with Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processingn (1999)
  12. Pittore M. and Verri A. : Theory, Implementation and Application of Support Vector Machines. Proceedings of the XI Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (1999)


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