HaMMon Kick-Off meeting

October 19th, 2023

CUBO Unipol - Bologna

Partner:

INAF

F.Vitello, U. Becciani, F. Bufano, C. Gheller, E. Sciacca,

Who we are and what we do

Italian research institute in astronomy and astrophysics operated in twenty separate research facilities, involving scientists, engineers and technical staff. The research covers most areas of astronomy, and technological developments.

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INAF- OACT: involved group on “High Performance Computing for Astrophysics”.

https://www.oact.inaf.it/calcolo-ad-alte-prestazioni-per-astrofisica/

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INAF - IRA BO: High Performance Computing and Machine Learning based data analysis for radio-astronomy

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Involvement in other (related) projects: HE SPACE, ERC ECOGAL , H2020 NEANIAS, and large initiatives: Square Kilometre Array Regional Centers, Italian National Center for HPC, Big Data and Quantum Computing, ERASMUS+ 3DTelC, ERASMUS+ BridGET.

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19 Research institute + 1 in the Canaries

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Technical and theoretical Background

• Research and Development / Academic
• Main expertise related to the HaMMon project:
• Workflow to produce high-resolution 3D tiled model from UAV data;
• Scientific Visualization and Virtual Reality development;
• Machine learning and Deep Learning: object detection, segmentation, classification, generative models.
• Working Tools
• VisIVO, GeaVR
• MaskRCNN, Tiramisu, RADiff

Role and Effort

• People involved:
• Dr. Fabio Roberto Vitello (0.3 FTE) WP0 research Co-PI, WP2, T2.1: Workflow for data acquisition and creation of digital twin, T2.2: Design of web application for remote inspection of areas damaged by natural disasters, T2.3: Development of a web service to expose 3D models to third-party applications
• Dr.ssa Eva Sciacca (0.3 FTE), WP1 T1.1 “Infrastructure for PoC”, WP2 T2.4 "Automatic (or semi-automatic) analysis" e WP4 T4.1 "Building Feature Extraction from aerial and satellite imagery".
• Dr.ssa Filomena Bufano (0.3 FTE) WP2 T2.4 "Automatic (or semi-automatic) analysis" e WP4 T4.1 "Building Feature Extraction from aerial and satellite imagery".
• New hiring
• TD (Spoke 1) WP1 T1.1;
• TD (Spoke 2) WP2 T2.4, WP4, T4.1;
• TD (Spoke 3) T2.1, T2.2, T2.3;
• TD (Spoke 3) WP2 T2.4, WP4 T4.1;
• AdR (1 year) T2.1

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• Other Involved Staff: Ing. Ugo Becciani, Dr. Claudio Gheller, Ing. Francesco Schillirò

Advanced 3D and VR Visualization Techniques Laboratory

Hub Contribution €62,400 �Co-financed by INAF €27,600

Thank you!