Marco Altini
I am a Design Engineer at imec, and a Visiting Researcher at TU/e in the ACTLab group. My supervisors are Julien Penders and Oliver Amft.
I obtained my M.Sc. degree summa cum laude in Computer Science Engineering in 2010 from the University of Bologna. I specialized in Embedded Systems, working with Luca Benini and his team. Since then, I worked as part of the Human++ program, developing hardware, firmware, software and algorithms for Body Area Networks applications.
My research at the ACTLab focuses on the causal relationship between habitual physical activities and health, applying machine learning techniques to develop tools and methods able to derive individualized guidelines for lifestyle and behavioral change based on objective measures, obtained with wearable sensors.
A part from my work, I am interested in self-tracking, art & technology, photography. I love running.
I obtained my M.Sc. degree summa cum laude in Computer Science Engineering in 2010 from the University of Bologna. I specialized in Embedded Systems, working with Luca Benini and his team. Since then, I worked as part of the Human++ program, developing hardware, firmware, software and algorithms for Body Area Networks applications.
My research at the ACTLab focuses on the causal relationship between habitual physical activities and health, applying machine learning techniques to develop tools and methods able to derive individualized guidelines for lifestyle and behavioral change based on objective measures, obtained with wearable sensors.
A part from my work, I am interested in self-tracking, art & technology, photography. I love running.
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12/05/2013 - Talked about quantifying fitness at the Quantified Self Europe conference, in Amsterdam (NL). Slides available on slideshare.
06/05/2013 - Presented my work on Personalized Energy Expenditure Estimation at Pervasive Health, in Venice (IT). Paper and slides are available online.
13/04/2013 - During the partner days at Holst Centre, we demoed our new iPhone real-time activity recognition and energy expenditure estimation algorithms (bottom of this page) and showed the ActiBot, an activity lamp that changes color based on your activity level.
05/04/2013 - Paper "Body Weight-Normalized Energy Expenditure Estimation Using Combined Activity and Allometric Scaling Clustering" accepted for EMBC.
27/03/2013 - Paper "Personalizing Energy Expenditure Estimation Using a Cardiorespiratory Fitness Predicate" accepted for Pervasive Health.
20/03/2013 - Released Run PRO on the Apple app store.
19/03/2013 - Paper "Unsupervised Activity Clustering to Estimate Energy Expenditure with a Single Body Sensor" accepted for BSN.
01/03/2013 - the STRP project was successful. DJs wore the necklace during the live performance, pics and vids coming soon.
25/01/2013 - First version of Footsteps available on the Apple app store. Updated Life Balance and Workaholic as well
19/12/2012 - Patent application submitted: "Device and method for calculating cardiorespiratory fitness level and energy expenditure of a human being"
23/10/2012 - Nominated for Best Paper Award at Wireless Health 2012. You can find my presentation here, and my paper here.
27/07/2012 - Started a collaboration with Shanshan Chen (PhD student at University of Virginia) on signal processing for physical activity recognition and energy expenditure estimation.
02/07/2012 - Started working as Visiting Researcher in the ACTLab group at TU/e.
06/06/2012 - Paper submitted to Wireless Health 2012 accepted.
02/05/2012 - I took part in an Art & Science workshop organized in Holst Centre. Danielle Roberts was the artist running the workshop, which was organized jointly by Baltan Laboratories and Holst Centre. You can read Danielle's thoughts here. Alessandra Saviotti wrote a nice overview of the collaborations between Holst Centre and Baltan, discussing other Art & Science workshops and this one in particular. You can read it on Digicult.
06/05/2013 - Presented my work on Personalized Energy Expenditure Estimation at Pervasive Health, in Venice (IT). Paper and slides are available online.
13/04/2013 - During the partner days at Holst Centre, we demoed our new iPhone real-time activity recognition and energy expenditure estimation algorithms (bottom of this page) and showed the ActiBot, an activity lamp that changes color based on your activity level.
05/04/2013 - Paper "Body Weight-Normalized Energy Expenditure Estimation Using Combined Activity and Allometric Scaling Clustering" accepted for EMBC.
27/03/2013 - Paper "Personalizing Energy Expenditure Estimation Using a Cardiorespiratory Fitness Predicate" accepted for Pervasive Health.
20/03/2013 - Released Run PRO on the Apple app store.
19/03/2013 - Paper "Unsupervised Activity Clustering to Estimate Energy Expenditure with a Single Body Sensor" accepted for BSN.
01/03/2013 - the STRP project was successful. DJs wore the necklace during the live performance, pics and vids coming soon.
25/01/2013 - First version of Footsteps available on the Apple app store. Updated Life Balance and Workaholic as well
19/12/2012 - Patent application submitted: "Device and method for calculating cardiorespiratory fitness level and energy expenditure of a human being"
23/10/2012 - Nominated for Best Paper Award at Wireless Health 2012. You can find my presentation here, and my paper here.
27/07/2012 - Started a collaboration with Shanshan Chen (PhD student at University of Virginia) on signal processing for physical activity recognition and energy expenditure estimation.
02/07/2012 - Started working as Visiting Researcher in the ACTLab group at TU/e.
06/06/2012 - Paper submitted to Wireless Health 2012 accepted.
02/05/2012 - I took part in an Art & Science workshop organized in Holst Centre. Danielle Roberts was the artist running the workshop, which was organized jointly by Baltan Laboratories and Holst Centre. You can read Danielle's thoughts here. Alessandra Saviotti wrote a nice overview of the collaborations between Holst Centre and Baltan, discussing other Art & Science workshops and this one in particular. You can read it on Digicult.
