Prof Andrea Cavallaro
Professor in Multimedia Signal Processing
School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
Queen Mary University of London
Research
Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Audio Processing, Robot Perception, Privacy
Interests
Professor Cavallaro has an established track record in building bridges between disciplines, such as linking signal processing and wireless networks for distributed tracking, machine learning and image processing for scene analysis, and audio-visual sensing and robotics for autonomous, collaborative systems. His research interests include machine learning for multimodal perception, computer vision, machine listening, and information privacy.
Grants

Grants of specific relevance to the Centre for Multimodal AI
Development of Multi-Modal Foundational Models and AI Accelerators for Zero-shot Intelligent Surveillance SystemChangjae Oh and
Andrea Cavallaro£384,699
Korea Institute for Advancement of Technology01-08-2024 - 31-07-2027
Scalable Hybrid Architecture for Wireless Collaborative Federated Learning (SHAFT)Arumugam Nallanathan and
Andrea Cavallaro£445,428
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-04-2023 - 31-03-2027
Smart Solutions Towards Cellular-connected Unmanned Aerial Vehicles System (Autonomy)Arumugam Nallanathan and
Andrea Cavallaro£409,171
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-04-2022 - 30-09-2026
Graph Networks for Explainable Artificial IntelligenceAndrea Cavallaro and
Emmanouil Benetos£293,434
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council01-08-2021 - 31-12-2024
Image PrivacyAndrea Cavallaro£10,734
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council18-04-2021 - 18-01-2022
Techniques for preserving privacy for video analytics, demographics & emotion recognition applicationsAndrea Cavallaro£53,410
Intel01-03-2021 - 31-08-2021
Augmented feedback to enhance motor and artistic learning during social distancingElisabetta Versace, Kristin Hadfield, Steven Buckingham,
Andrea Cavallaro, Manuela Angioi and Dylan Morrissey
£234,297
ESRC Economic and Social Research Council01-01-2021 - 30-04-2022
Collaborative object recognition, shared manipulation and learningAndrea Cavallaro and
Kaspar Althoefer£302,906
EPSRC Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council11-02-2019 - 31-12-2022
PRIMULAAndrea Cavallaro£239,739
Alan Turing Institute, The01-10-2018 - 30-09-2021
Postgraduate Studentship SupportAndrea Cavallaro£221,130
FBK Fondazione Bruno Kessler01-09-2014 - 30-05-2023
Erasmus Mundus - EMJD ICE - Prof A CavallaroAndrea Cavallaro£838,281
EU European Commission - Other01-12-2010 - 31-10-2018
Research Group
PhD Students
- Chenglin Cui
Vision-Language Models For Robot Learning and Manipulation - Luca Forneris
Closing The Loop in Automated Driving: Dataset Design, Scenario Synthesis, and Deployed Perception - Dmitrii Mukhutdinov
Speech Processing in The Presence of Strong Noise With Harmonic Components - Alessandro Pighetti
Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents For Robust Decision Making in Automated Driving - Yuekun Wu
Vision-Based Robot Learning For Human-to-Robot Handover - Chaoran Zhu
Vision Foundation Model For Robot Manipulation