Dr. Vittorio Ferrari

Vittorio Ferrari is a Principal Research Scientist at Meta, working on realistic avatars for next-gen communication on wearable devices. In 2023-2025 he was the Director of Science at Synthesia, where he led R&D groups developing cutting-edge generative AI technology. Previously he built and led multiple research groups on computer vision and machine learning at Google (Principal Scientist), the University of Edinburgh (Full Professor), and ETH Zurich (Assistant Professor). He has co-authored over 160 scientific papers and won the best paper award at the European Conference in Computer Vision in 2012 for his work on large-scale segmentation. He received the prestigious ERC Starting Grant, also in 2012. He led the creation of Open Images, one of the most widely adopted computer vision datasets worldwide. While at Google his groups contributed technology to several major products (with launches e.g. on the Pixel phone, Google Photos, Google Lens). He was a Program Chair for ECCV 2018 and a General Chair for ECCV 2020. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, and formerly of the International Journal of Computer Vision. His recent research interests are in Generative Video, 3D Deep Learning, and Vision+Language models.