Presenter

Sean Fanello is a Research Scientist and Manager at Google where he is leading the effort on volumetric performance capture. His research interests include: digital humans, volumetric reconstruction, high quality depth sensing and non rigid tracking. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist and a Founding Team Member at perceptiveIO, Inc. where he developed computer vision and machine learning algorithms for 3D sensing, visual recognition and human-computer interaction. Prior to that, he was a Post-Doc Researcher in the Interactive 3D Technologies (I3D) group at Microsoft Research Redmond where he substantially contributed to the Hololens 3D sensing capabilities. He was also one of the leading members of the Holoportation project. He obtained his PhD in Robotics, Cognition and Interaction Technologies at the Italian Institute of Technology in collaboration with the University of Genoa in 2013.