Summary
Niki Martinel is an Associate Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning with over a decade of experience translating cutting-edge research into practical solutions across object detection, tracking, re-identification and inverse vision tasks like super-resolution and colorization. Based in Udine, Italy, he has led projects that secured over €1.5M in funding (including ONR and EU grants), authored 50+ top-tier publications and received best-paper and reviewer recognitions at venues such as ECCV and CVPR. He combines strong teaching and mentorship—guiding 10+ PhD students and ranking in the top 5% of course instructors—with industry engagement as an advisor and collaborator to deploy research in real-world contexts. Notably, his work on active learning for person re-identification demonstrated an ~80% reduction in manual labeling effort while matching state-of-the-art performance, highlighting a practical bent for efficiency as well as accuracy.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
ITIS Kennedy
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at Università degli Studi di Udine
Italian, English