Proposals
Audio
Field | Contact | Title | With Discussant | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Music informatics | Sarti, Mezza, Comanducci | Audio prediction for Networked Music Performance | yes | In recent years, live music performances over the Internet have become a reality. However, the inevitable network packets loss is still affecting the experience in a significant way, causing abrupt interruptions and glitches in the audio stream. In this respect, we aim at developing new deep learning-based techniques that would tackle this issue by predicting the next few milliseconds of audio, while ensuring the high quality and seamlessness of the reconstructed music signal. |
| Musical acoustics | Antonacci, Gonzalez | Effect of arching in the vibrational response of violin top plates (or full violins) | yes | Recently, we have studied how the outline, thickness and material parameters affect the vibrational response of free violin top plates. The objective of this thesis is to study the effect of the arching profile in the vibrational response. For a short thesis it would be to reproduce the results of our last paper including the arching, for a longer thesis we would study the complete violin not only the top plate. |
| Musical acoustics | Antonacci, Gonzalez | Simulating the bridge admittance of complete violins in Comsol | yes | Bridge admittance (the frequency response function measured at the bridge) is one of the easiest and most informatives experiments that are currently done with violins. The objective of this thesis is to simulate this measurement in Comsol for a data set of 2000 virtual violins and study the correlations between the violin parameters and the bridge admittance. |
| Musical acoustics | Antonacci, Gonzalez | Design and production of 3D printed / CNC luthier tools | yes | Luthier tools are exremely specialised and expensive. This project looks into creating open source designs for luthier specific tools that can be 3D printed or carved from solid material with a CNC. |
| Acoustic Scenes and Events | Sarti, Mezza | Detection of anomalous sounds in domestic environments | yes | The objective is the development of intelligent systems capable of monitoring a domestic environment to detect acoustic anomalies. The idea is to learn a suitable "normal state" for the monitored soundscape and to track the deviations thereof with minimal or no supervision. |
| Audio signal processing | Sarti, Bernardini | Virtual Analog Modeling, Audio Circuit Emulation, Physical Modeling Sound Synthesis through Wave Digital Filters | yes | |
| Audio signal processing | Sarti, Giampiccolo, Bernardini | Implementation of Wave Digital scattering matrices absorbing controlled sources | yes | In the Wave Digital domain, topological scattering junctions can absorb certain non-reciprocal elements. The thesis concerns the derivation of formulas for the efficient computation of their scattering matrices, such that they can be exploited for Virtual Analog applications. |
| Audio signal processing | Sarti, Giampiccolo, Bernardini | Modeling Nonlinear Functions with Hysteresis in the Wave Digital Domain | yes | Efficiently modeling hysteretic curves is still today an open field of research. The aim of the thesis is to model such multivariate functions in the Wave Digital domain. Possible applications range from circuit simulation to Virtual Analog modeling (e.g., nonlinear modeling of audio transformers). |
| Musical acoustics | Olivieri, Gonzalez, Antonacci | Towards white-box data-driven methods for Near-field Acoustic Holography | yes | Near-field Acoustic Holography (NAH) is a powerful technique to study the velocity field on vibrating objects in a contactless way (e.g., without accelerometer sensors). Recently, we developed a fully data-driven approach for NAH with Convolutional Neural Networks which can increase the performances of previous state-of-the-art methods. The goal of this thesis is to investigate and understand what the networks learned, in order to transform the current black box methodology towards a white box one. |
Image and Video
Field | Contact | Title | With Discussant | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Image/video forensics | Bestagini, Bonettini | Detect and localize image and video manipulations | yes | Images and videos can be manipulated in many different ways (e.g., object insertion and removal, local retouching, laundering operations, etc.). We are interested in developing methods to detect and localize possible editing operations on images and videos. |
| Image/video forensics | Bestagini, Bonettini | Distinguish original videos from DeepFakes | yes | DeepFake videos can be maliciously spread online. We are interested in developing techniques to detect whether a video is a DeepFake or not, why a detector says a video is fake, and understand which DeepFake generation software has been used to create a video. |
| Image/video forensics | Bestagini, Mandelli | Assess the authenticity of satellite images | yes | Satellites can acquire visual data with different sensors. We are interested in developing techniques that verify whether an overhead image has been edited or not. |
| Image/video forensics | Bestagini, Mandelli | Forensic analysis of scientific images | yes | Scientific publications in the life science area typically contain charcateristic kinds of images to showcase the achieved results (e.g., western blots, microscopy acquisitions, etc.). As these images differ from natural photographs, we are interested in developing novel techniques to detect possible scientific image forgery operations. |
| Image/video processing | Marcon, Bonettini | Analysis of hyperspectral X-ray images for food quality assessment | yes | X-ray acquisitions are beneficial in food contaminant analysis as they can detect both metallic and non-metallic objects. The goal of a thesis in this field is to develop processing techniques that help dealing with X-ray acquisition in food contaminant detection applications (e.g., denoising, detection, segmentation, etc.). |
| Image/video processing | Bestagini | Analysis of badminton match videos | yes | Given a set of videos taken with a fixed camera placed behind a badminton player, extract and analyse salient pieces of information in an automatci fashion (e.g., player position in time, hits, misses, etc.). |
Geophysics
Contact | Title | With Discussant | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tubaro, Lipari, Picetti | Improving Full Waveform Inversion with CNNs | yes | Full Waveform Inversion reconstructs the subsurface velocities from a set of measurements. It is very expensive, time-consuming and prone to a number of tips and tricks for avoiding local minima, numerical instability and optimization errors. |
| Tubaro, Lipari, Picetti | Denoising and Interpolation of seismic data through CNNs | yes | The amount of data is constantly increasing and the areas of interest are more and more complex to analyze. Moreover, they require a subsurface mapping at increasingly higher resolution and higher fidelity. Can CNNs help this process? |
| Tubaro, Lipari, Picetti | Machine Learning guided Seismic Interpretation | yes | Human experts visually inspects seismic images looking for subsurface features. On the other hand, Machine Learning techniques have proven to be effective in image segmentation (i.e., recognizing objects and targets from a set of pixels). Can we merge these two worlds? |
| Tubaro, Lipari, Picetti | Physics-aware Transfer Learning | yes | Can a neural network learn Physics? |
Currently on-going
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Field | Supervisor | Topic | Student(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Perceptual evaluation of sound field reconstruction | Miriam Papagno |
| Video forensics | Bestagini, Bonettini | Deepfake video detection | Bingyang Hu |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini | Audio splicing detection exploiting acquisition traces | Daniele Ugo Leonzio |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini | Microphone identification from speech recordings | Antonio Giganti |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini, Borrelli, Salvi | Synthetic speech detection based on sentiment analysis | Emanuele Conti |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini, Borrelli | Synthetic speech detection in noisy conditions | Eleonora Landini |
| Multimedia forensics | Bestagini, Mandelli | Device source attribution in modern scenarios: from audio to video | Davide Dal Cortivo |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini, Mandelli | Time-scaling detection in audio recordings | Michele Pilia |
| Audio forensics | Bestagini, Borrelli | Speech clarity parameters estimation in reverberant environments | Mattia Papa |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Borra | Parametric Virtual Miking using Distributed Microphone Arrays | Marco Langè |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Borrelli, Borra | Beamforming and Speaker Identification through Deep Neural Networks | Matteo Scerbo |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Pezzoli, Borra, Bernardini | Room Impulse Response Interpolation with Deep Prior | Davide Perini |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Comanducci | 3D audio with irregular microphone setups using deep learning | Davide Mori |
| Music informatics | Zanoni, Comanducci | Music Style transfer based on the analysis of the complexity | Davide Gioiosa |
| Space-time audio | Sarti, Borra | 3D sound field rendering with loudspeaker array. | Francesco Pino |
| Audio Signal Processing | Sarti, Giampiccolo, Bernardini | Multithreaded Implementation of Scattering Iterative Methods | Antonino Natoli |
Past (from 2017)
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Field | Supervisor | Title | Student(s) | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acoustics | Antonacci | Data-driven interpolation of FRF | Matteo Acerbi | |
| Audio forensics | Antonacci | Closed and open set classification of real and AI synthesised speech | Michelangelo Medori | |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Comanducci | Interpreting Deep Neural Networks Models for Acoustic Source Localization using Layer-wise Relevance Propagation | Alessandro Montali | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/169239 |
| Musical Acoustics | Antonacci | Modal analysis and optimization of the top plate of string instruments through a parametric control of their shape | Salvi Davide | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/166557 |
| Musical Acoustics | Antonacci | An approach for Near-field Acoustic Holography based on Convolutional Autoencoders | Olivieri Marco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/167039 |
| Music informatics | Sarti, Borrelli, Comanducci | Cellular music : a novel music-generation platform based on an evolutionary paradigm | Matteo Manzolini | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/167291 |
| Music informatics | Sarti, Borrelli | Music emotion detection. A framework based on electrodermal activities. | Gioele Pozzi | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/152931 |
| Audio Processing | Sarti, Comanducci | Audio frame reconstruction from incomplete observations using Deep Learning techniques | Schils Minh Cédric | https://matheo.uliege.be/handle/2268.2/10138 |
| Audio Forensics | Antonacci | An approach to room volume estimation from single-channel speech signals based on neural networks | Castelnuovo Carlo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/164749 |
| Audio Forensics | Bestagini | Audio Splicing Detection and Localization Based on Acoustic Cues | Capoferri Davide | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/164950 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci, Borra, Bernardini | Analysis of Uniform Linear Arrays of Differential Microphones | Bertuletti Ivan | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/154604 |
| Music Informatics | Sarti, Comanducci | Techniques for mitigating the impact of latency in Networked Music Performance (NMP) through adaptive metronomes | Battello Riccardo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/152923 |
| Audio processing | Sarti, Bernardini | Wave Digital Modeling and Simulation of Nonlinear Electromagnetic Circuits | Giampiccolo Riccardo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/153994 |
| Audio processing | Sarti, Bernardini | Antiderivative Antialiasing in Nonlinear Wave Digital Filters | Albertini Davide | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/152934 |
| Audio processing | Sarti, Bernardini | Wave Digital Implementation of Nonlinear Audio Circuits based on the Scattering Iterative Method | Proverbio Alessandro | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/152323 |
| Audio processing | Antonacci | A system for super resolution vibrometric analysis through convolutional neural networks | Campagnoli Chiara | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/152613 |
| Audio processing | Antonacci | Development of a low-cost platform for acoustic and vibrometric analysis on lutherie products, with a special focus on the estimation of the elastic parameters of the tonewood | Villa Luca | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/150531 |
| Forensics | Bestagini | Convolutional and recurrent neural networks for video tampering detection and localization | Cannas Edoardo Daniele | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/149900 |
| Audio processing | Bestagini | DNN based post-filtering for quality improvement of AMR-WB decoded speech | Gupta Kishan | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/151000 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Musical instrument recognition: a transfer learning approach | Molgora Andrea | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/147383 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Unsupervised domain adaptation for deep learning based acoustic scene classification | Mezza Alessandro Ilic | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/145573 |
| Image and video | Marcon | Upper body postural assessment for common dentistry visual aids | Trotta Emilio | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/145563 |
| Music information retrieval | Antonacci | An investigation of piano transcription algorithm for jazz music | Marzorati Giorgio | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/144745 |
| Image and video | Tubaro | Real-time tracking of electrode during deep-brain surgery | Dilauro Valerio | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/144685 |
| Image and video | Marcon | Analytical estimation of the error on the radius of industrial pipes | Lazzarin Sara | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/144394 |
| Image and video | Marcon | 3D reconstruction from stereo video acquired from odontoiatric microscope | Spatafora Leonardo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/143780 |
| Space-time audio | Sarti | A geometrical method of 3D sound spatialization for virtual reality applications | Iamele Jacopo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/143770 |
| Image and video | Marcon | Denoising and classification of hyperspectral X-ray images for food quality assessment | Re Marco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/142922 |
| Image and video | Marcon | A computer vision approach for assessment of dental bracket removal | Behnami Arezoo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/142362 |
| Geophysics | Bestagini | Landmine detection on GPR data employing convolutional autoencoder | Testa Giuseppe | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/142106 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Automatic playlist generation using recurrent neural network | Irene Rosilde Tatiana | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/142101 |
| Forensics | Bestagini | A study on Bagging-Voronoi algorithm for tampering localization | Cereghetti Corinne Elena | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/141725 |
| Audio processing | Sarti | Studio sull'implementazione degli algoritmi per il musical instruments ed il sound reinforcement basato su un processore multicore | Aretino Michele | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139079 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | A personalized metric for music similarity using Siamese deep neural networks | Sala Federico | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139078 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Convolutional neural networks applied to space-time audio processing applications | Comanducci Luca | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139077 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Learning a personalized similarity metric for musical content | Carloni Luca | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139076 |
| Space-time audio | Canclini | Denoising in the spherical harmonic domain of sound scenes acquired by compact arrays | Borrelli Clara | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139075 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Simulazione di sistemi complessi. Case study : l'altoparlante a tromba | Moscara Francesco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139074 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Beat tracking using recurrent neural network : a transfer learning approach | Fiocchi Davide | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139073 |
| Space-time audio | Sarti, Bernardini | Steerable differential microphone arrays | Lovatello Jacopo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/139072 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Python-based framework for managing a base of complex data for music information retrieval | Avocone Giuseppe | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/138449 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | A plenacoustic approach to sound scene manipulation | Picetti Francesco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/138430 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Individual semantic modeling for music information retrieval | Ansidei Pietro | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/137160 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Chord sequences : evaluating the effect of complexity on preference | Foscarin Francesco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/136448 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Reconstruction of the soundfield in arbitrary locations using the distributed ray space transform | Pezzoli Mirco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/136447 |
| Space-time audio | Sarti | A method for HRTF personalization : weighted sparse representation synthesis of HRTFs | Zhu Mo | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/135952 |
| Image and video | Marcon | Sistema per il rilevamento automatico di contaminanti alimentari basato su immagini iperspettrali | Ramoni Francesco | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/135891 |
| Image and video | Marcon | Postural assessment in dentistry by computer vision | Pignatelli Nicola | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/135030 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Robust parametric spatial audio processing using beamforming techniques | Milano Guendalina | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/134609 |
| Music information retrieval | Sarti | Audio features compensation based on coding bitrate | Tavella Maria Stella | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/134607 |
| Space-time audio | Antonacci | Estimation of singing voice quality through microphone in air and contact microphone | Landini Roberta | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/134604 |
| Forensics | Bestagini | JPEG-based forensics through convolutional neural networks | Bonettini Nicolò | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/133727 |
| Audio processing | Sarti, Bernardini | Modeling nonlinear 3-terminal devices in the wave digital domain | Vergani Alessio Emanuele | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/133184 |
| Forensics | Bestagini | Analysis of different footprints for JPEG compression detection | Chen Ke | https://www.politesi.polimi.it/handle/10589/132721 |