Valeria Garro
Senior Lecturer
Department of Computer Science
Room J3219, Karlskrona
Research domain: Computer Science
I am a senior lecturer [assistant professor (US)] at the Department of Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH). My current research interests are focused on visual and interactive computing in eXtended realities (e.g. virtual or augmented reality), visualization, visual perception. My research background is in computer vision (3D reconstruction, pose estimation), and 3D shape analysis.
I am involved in different courses as course responsible and teacher in data visualization (DV1699, DV1659, DV1474), 3D-programming (DV1692, DV1693, DV1542), as teacher in digital ethics (DV2583), modules on gender and social equality in game development (DV1669), 3D-programming (DV1644), and as supervisor, reviewer, and/or examiner in thesis courses at bachelor or master level (e.g. UD1449,DV2572,TE2502).
I am currently involved in the KKS Synergy research project SPIRIT (Sustainable Product Innovation for Rewarding Transformation) in which I focus on the development of new user-centered solutions in the area of data visualization for the digitalization of Sustainable Product Development (SPD) tools.
I am also involved in the KKS research profile HINTS, Human-Centered Intelligent Realities and I worked also in the research project ViaTecH Synergy, human-centered computing for novel visual and interactive applications.
Previously, I worked as research fellow at the Visual Computing Lab at ISTI-CNR (Italian National Research Council) located in Pisa, Italy. I have also been a research fellow at the VIPS (Vision Image Processing and Sound) Lab at University of Verona, Italy. I obtained my Ph.D. degree in Computer Science in 2013 at the University of Verona and my Master’s Degree in Computer Engineering in 2008 at the University of Padova, Italy.
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Selected publications
- Panoptic Visual Analytics of Eye Tracking Data. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt. In Proc. of the 17th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - IVAPP 2022
- A Review of Current Trends on Visual Perception Studies in Virtual and Augmented Reality. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt, and D. Navarro. In SIGGRAPH Asia 2020 Courses (SA '20).
- Pose and Visual Attention: Exploring the Effects of 3D Shape Near-Isometric Deformations on Gaze. V. Garro, V. Sundstedt. In Proc. of 28th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG 2020).
- Scale space graph representation and kernel matching for non rigid and textured 3D shape retrieval. V. Garro, A. Giachetti. In IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. June 2016, Volume 38, Issue 6, pp 1258-1271.
Latest publications
- Diego Navarro, Valeria Garro, Veronica Sundstedt, "The Electrodermal Activity of Player Experience in Virtual Reality Games", 2025
- Chaoming Wang, Veronica Sundstedt, Valeria Garro, "Generative Artificial Intelligence for Immersive Analytics", Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, ISSN 2184-5921, EISSN 2184-4321, pp. 938-946, SciTePress, 2025
- Valeria Garro, "Integrating Gender and Social Equality into a STEM Course", Blekinge Institute of Technology Best practice, Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, 2024
- Diego Navarro, Valeria Garro, Veronica Sundstedt, "The Electrodermal Activity of Player Experience in Virtual Reality Games", Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISIGRAPP 2022, ISSN 1865-0929, EISSN 1865-0937, pp. 203-221, Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2023
- Veronica Sundstedt, Veselka Boeva, Hans-Juergen Zepernick, Prashant Goswami, Abbas Cheddad, Kurt Tutschku, Håkan Grahn, Emiliano Casalicchio, Markus Fiedler, Emilia Mendes, Shahrooz Abghari, Yan Hu, Valeria Garro, Thi My Chinh Chu, Lars Lundberg, Patrik Arlos, "HINTS", 35th Annual Workshop of the Swedish Artificial Intelligence Society SAIS 2023, ISSN 1650-3686, EISSN 1650-3740, pp. 9-17, Linköping University Electronic Press, 2023