During his academic career he focused on studying the application of pattern recognition and Machine learning to analyze and study people tracking and behavior in visual surveillance contexts. He worked on several national and international projects on this topic, such as the PRIN 2009 FreeSurf project and the EU project CIPS-JLS THIS on the analysis of people behavior in public hubs. He participated actively to the NATO Science for Peace Project BeSafe where he started an active collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI).
His main research interests embrace structured learning, deep learning, computer vision and people tracking, applied to human behavior understanding and automotive.