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EDUCATION
- Ph.D. (Theoretical) Physics, UC Los Angeles 1974
- Laurea in Physics, Universita' di Firenze, Italy 1970
RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Swarm Intelligence
- Iterative methods of self organization
- Synchronous/Asynchronous transitions
- 3D animation
- Communicative gestures
- Semantic Intensity/Semantroids
- Financial Engineering
- Intrinsic Randomness
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Swarm Intelligence
[1] Beni, G. (2004), "From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics", Proc. of Workshop on Swarm Robotics, 8th Int'l Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB '04), July 13-17, Los Angeles, USA. To be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
[2] Beni, G. (2004), "Order by Disordered Action in Swarms", Proc. of Workshop on Swarm Robotics, 8th Int'l Conf. on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB '04), July 13-17, Los Angeles, USA. To be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer-Verlag.
Multimedia/ Computer Animation
[1] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2004). "Automated Fingerspelling by Highly Realistic 3D Animation". British Journal of Educational Technology, Volume 35, No. 3, pp. 345-362
[2] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2003). �Keyboard Encoding of Hand Gestures�. Proceedings of HCI International - 10th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, Crete. Vol. 2, pp. 571-575
[3]Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2004). "A new method of hand gesture configuration and animation". Journal of Information, Vol.7, No.3
[3] Adamo-Villani, N. and G. Beni (2003). �Design and benchmarking of Human-Computer Interface for keyboard encoding of hand gestures�. Proceedings of EPFL, IST, IEEE First International Workshop on Interactive Rich Media Content, Switzerland, pp. 149-159
[5] Adamo-Villani, N.and G. Beni, G. (2004). Grasp and Release using Keyboard User Interface. Proceedings of IMG04 � International Conference on Intelligent Manipulation and Grasping, Genova, Italy
[6] Adamo-Villani, N.and G. Beni, G. (2004). Keyboard Encoding of Facial Expressions. IEEE Proceedings of IV04 � 8th International Conference on Information Visualization-HCI Symposium, London.
[7] Adamo-Villani, N.and G. Beni, G. (2004), "Keyboard Controlled Signing Semantroid", submitted to the 8th Int'l Conf. on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision, (6-9 December), Kunming, China.