Giovanni Pintore is a senior researcher at CRS4, Italy. His research, widely published in major journals and conferences, spans many areas of computer graphics and vision. He regularly serves the scientific community through participation in conference committees and executive boards. His primary research focus is now on 3D reconstruction and immersive exploration of structured indoor scenes from omnidirectional images, on whose topic he has recently published papers at SIGGRAPH/TOG, TVCG, ECCV, CVPR, and CGF, and given courses at CVPR, SIGGRAPH, SIGGRAPH Asia, and 3DV in recent years.