Modelling Human Motion: From Human Perception to Robot Design

1. Modelling Human Motion: A Task at the Crossroads of Neuroscience, Computer Vision and Robotics.- 2. The Neurophysiology of Action Perception.- 3. Beyond Automatic Motor Mapping: New Insights into Top-down Modulations on Action Perception.- 4. The Visual Perception of Biological Motion in Adults.- 5. The Development of Action Perception.- 6. The Importance of the Affective Component of Movement in Action Understanding. 7. Optical Flow Estimation in the Deep Learning Age.- 8. Spatio-temporal Action Instance Segmentation and Localisation.- 9. Vision During Action: Extracting Contact and Motion from Manipulation Videos - Towards Parsing Human Activity.

Nicoletta Noceti is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering at the University of Genoa, Italy. She is one of the founders of the Machine Learning Genoa Center.

Alessandra Sciutti is a Tenure-Track Researcher, Head of the Cognitive Architecture for Collaborative Technologies (CONTACT) Unit at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy and Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant wHiSPER (G.A: 804388)

Francesco Rea is a Post-doc at the Department of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences (RBCS) at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy where he is also Head of the Cognitive Robotics and Interaction Lab