Perceiving Systems Talk Biography
11 September 2025 at 14:00 - 15:00

Advancing Animal Shape and Pose Reconstruction from Video: Challenges and Optimization Strategies

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The reconstruction of animal shape and pose from video is a challenging problem in computer vision, with many approaches utilizing the SMAL as a prior. A promising refinement in this field involves applying Gaussian Splatting on top of those approaches to enhance the accuracy of these reconstructions. However, our observations show that directly applying Gaussian Splatting to each frame independently does not yield optimal results due to the limited precision of the backbone models. In this talk we will highlight the need for an additional optimization step, potentially using temporal constraints between frames, and present our strategies to achieve more consistent and accurate results.

Speaker Biography

Francesco Palandra (CNR-IMATI)

Researcher

Francesco Palandra is a researcher at CNR-IMATI in Milan, working with Silvia Zuffi on the MARTA project (Model-based ARTificial Intelligence for Animals). He recently graduated with a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome, where he collaborated with the GLADIA Lab on geometry computing and object reconstruction. His research interests include computer graphics and computer vision, with a particular focus on 3D reconstruction of objects and animals.