The European Community’s aim, through the ERC Advanced Grant, is to promote particularly innovative research streams with high scientific and strategic interest on themes proposed by the researchers themselves, who must have 10+ years of leadership in their research area.
The European Research Council received more than 2100 project proposals and, after a peer review handled by experts in the field, selected only a few projects that will be 100% founded by the European Community. In the field of computer engineering, only 3 Italian researchers have been selected.
Prof.Alberto Broggi chaired the session focused on pedestrian detection at VISION congress 2008.