Projects & Activities.
Personal Projects
CNN Dashcam Speed Detector for Cars
Jan 2019 – Feb 2019Inspired by George Hotz's comma.ai Speed Challenge. Trained a CNN model to predict vehicle speeds from dashcam videos using optical flow and computer vision techniques. Implemented color thresholding, Canny edge detection, and Farneback optical flow algorithm.
SUMMY - Text Summarizer
Sep 2016 – Aug 2018Android application that summarizes both web pages and user-entered text using a custom PageRank-inspired algorithm. Works offline for improved portability. Reached 12,000+ downloads on Google Play Store.
Quolly - Online Quote & Wallpaper Editor
Mar 2018 – May 2018Daily generator of quotes and wallpapers for Android with photo editing capabilities. Features community system for rating and sharing, automated daily content generation, and Firebase backend.
Academic Projects
3D Environment Reconstruction from Stereo Images
Oct 2018 – Dec 2018Team project for 3D reconstruction from pairs of 2D stereo images. Implemented camera calibration, stereo rectification, custom SAD disparity algorithm, and .ply point cloud generation. Associated with University of Illinois at Chicago.
Supervised Characters Relationship Extraction from Stories
Oct 2018 – Dec 2018Team project using supervised ML to extract character relationships from literary books. Implemented NER, POS tagging, anaphora resolution, and Multinomial Naive Bayes classification. Achieved 79% precision (10% above state-of-the-art).
Genetic Algorithm for University Class Scheduling
Jan 2018 – Mar 2018Metaheuristic genetic algorithm for university class scheduling optimization. Used steepest descent for initial solution and optimized mutation ratios, selection methods, and crossover algorithms.
Hackathons & Competitions
Droidcon Italy 2017 - AAL Theme👑
Apr 2017Built Shory, an Android social network for elderly people with a "living historical map" of cities using old photos and memories. Won first place among competing teams.
Make It Wearable 2016👑
Nov 2016Developed Ping|U, an Android Wear OS smartwatch social network with ping system for meeting friends. Presented at WTT Wearable Tech Turin 2016 event.
Agos Ducato S.p.A. Hackathon
Nov 2017Built AgosTo, a complete client-server system for financial loan authentication using Android (user) and web (employee) interfaces with voice/face recognition via Microsoft Azure APIs.
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