Valeria Garro

Senior lecturer

Department of Computer Science, Room J3219

Biography

I am a senior lecturer [assistant professor (US)] at the Department of Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). My current research interests are focused on visual and interactive computing in eXtended realities (e.g. virtual or augmented reality), visualization, visual perception. My research background is in computer vision (3D reconstruction, pose estimation), and 3D shape analysis.

I am involved in different courses as teacher, e.g. visualization (DV1659-DV1474), 3D-programming (DV1542), digital ethics (DV2583), and as supervision, reviewer, and/or examiner in thesis courses at bachelor or master level (e.g. UD1449,DV2572,TE2502).

Here at BTH, I am involved in the KKS research profile HINTS, Human-Centered Intelligent Realities (https://a.bth.se/hints/) and I worked also in the research project ViaTecH Synergy, human-centered computing for novel visual and interactive applications (https://a.bth.se/viatech-synergy/). Previously, I worked as research fellow at the Visual Computing Lab at ISTI-CNR (Italian National Research Council) located in Pisa, Italy. I have also been a research fellow at the VIPS (Vision Image Processing and Sound) Lab at University of Verona, Italy. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2013 at the University of Verona and my Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering in 2008 at the University of Padova, Italy.

Projects & Publications

Selected publications
Panoptic Visual Analytics of Eye Tracking Data. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt. In Proc. of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - IVAPP 2022
A Review of Current Trends on Visual Perception Studies in Virtual and Augmented Reality. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt, and D. Navarro. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Courses (SA '20).
Pose and Visual Attention: Exploring the Effects of 3D Shape Near-Isometric Deformations on Gaze. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt. In Proc. of 28th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2020).
Scale space graph representation and kernel matching for non rigid and textured 3D shape retrieval. V. Garro, A. Giachetti. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. June 2016, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp 1258-1271.

Recent publications
Valeria Garro, "Integrating Gender and Social Equality into a STEM Course", Blekinge Institute of Technology Best practice, EISSN 19000, EISSN 55, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2024
Veronica Sundstedt, Veselka Boeva, Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Prashant Goswami, Abbas Cheddad, Kurt Tutschku, Håkan Grahn, Emiliano Casalicchio, Markus Fiedler, Emilia Mendes, Shahrooz Abghari, Yan Hu, Valeria Garro, Thi My Chinh Chu, Lars Lundberg, Patrik Arlos, "HINTS", Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings, ISSN 1650-3686, EISSN 1650-3740, EISSN 199, 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023
Diego Navarro, Valeria Garro, Veronica Sundstedt, "The Electrodermal Activity of Player Experience in Virtual Reality Games", Communications in Computer and Information Science (CCIS), ISSN 1865-0929, EISSN 1865-0937, EISSN 1815, Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2022, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023
Veronica Sundstedt, Valeria Garro, "A Systematic Review of Visualization Techniques and Analysis Tools for Eye-Tracking in 3D Environments", FRONTIERS IN NEUROERGONOMICS, ISSN 2673-6195, Vol. 3, Frontiers Media S.A., 2022
Valeria Garro, Veronica Sundstedt, "Augmented Reality and 3D Printing for Archaeological Heritage", Lecture Notes in Computer Science, ISSN 03029743, EISSN 16113349, Extended Reality, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2022