Projects and now-page updates from stefanomasneri.com https://stefanomasneri.com/feed.xml 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z Stefano Masnerihttps://stefanomasneri.com/ https://stefanomasneri.com/now.html#2026-08-17 2026-08-17T00:00:00.000Z

What I’m focused on at the moment — work, reading, hobbies and life in Gipuzkoa.

https://stefanomasneri.com/donostia-dataviz/ 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven data stories about how San Sebastián is changing — housing, barrios, people, climate, and the gap between the tourist city and the lived one. Built from six open sources with a reproducible pipeline; the question that started it turned out to have an uncomfortable answer. Written in Spanish.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/mnist-lenet.html 2026-01-01T00:00:00Z

A LeNet-5 trained on MNIST, running live in the browser. Draw a digit with the mouse and watch every layer's activations light up as the signal propagates to a verdict.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/gaussian-nerf.html 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Capturing real locations as photorealistic assets for LED-volume virtual production. Benchmarked nerfacto, splatfacto and MCMC against RealityCapture and Postshot, and shipped a desktop app that runs COLMAP pose estimation and reconstructs either locally or on Azure.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/brand-stadium.html 2025-01-01T00:00:00Z

Measures how much screen time each brand gets in a football broadcast. A YOLO detector finds the boards, a DenseNet201 sorts them into 52 brands — despite motion blur, a 40× class imbalance, and LED ads that change weekly. In production on Azure.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/aroundtheworld.html 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

ARoundTheWorld is a multiplatform collaborative AR geography application built on the cleAR architecture. It was evaluated with 44 students across three schools and represents the final paper of my PhD, validating that the architecture can produce applications that integrate seamlessly into existing school curricula.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/clear-architecture.html 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

cleAR is a modular, interoperable architecture for building multi-user augmented reality applications in education. Designed from the ground up to bridge the gap between AR's potential and its limited classroom adoption, it was the core contribution of my PhD research.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/rag-document-qa.html 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z

A retrieval-augmented generation system built for a large European bank, replacing manual SharePoint search with a conversational assistant that answers questions and cites the exact document and page where each answer was found.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/mlops-vertex-media.html 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z

An MLOps platform on Google Cloud for one of Spain's largest media groups. Took a portfolio of disconnected models — churn prediction, article recommendation and more — and rebuilt them as Vertex AI pipelines with versioning, monitoring and drift detection.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/traction.html 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

TRACTION was a Horizon 2020 project, coordinated by Vicomtech, that used opera as a vehicle for social inclusion. My work centred on the Co-creation Stage, the real-time distributed performance tool, spanning development, user-requirements gathering, evaluation, and direct engagement with artistic and community partners across Barcelona, Leiria and Ireland.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/audience-engagement.html 2020-01-01T00:00:00Z

A multi-modal system that measures audience engagement at live events by fusing computer vision with WiFi/Bluetooth signal analysis. Designed, implemented, and validated at Vicomtech in 2020, and released as open-source software.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/ufc-fighter-tracking.html 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Real-time analytics for live UFC events: stereo vision in the truss above the octagon, accelerometers in the gloves, GPU inference at the venue. Demoed live during Werner Vogels' keynote at AWS re:Invent 2017.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/mpi-brain-research.html 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two years as a scientific software developer in Gilles Laurent's department at the Max Planck Institute for Brain Research in Frankfurt, building MATLAB analysis pipelines and R/Shiny web apps for electrophysiologists studying sleep in bearded dragons and visual processing in ex-vivo turtle brains.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/inevent.html 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z

An EU FP7 project treating archives of lectures and meetings as interconnected hyper-events. At Fraunhofer HHI I led the video analysis: segmentation, slide-transition detection, and face features for speaker linking. Published at VISAPP, Interspeech and the ACM MM Grand Challenge.

https://stefanomasneri.com/projects/avatech.html 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

AVATecH was a joint Fraunhofer / Max Planck project that brought state-of-the-art audio and video pattern recognition into ELAN, the de-facto annotation tool used by linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists worldwide, turning weeks of manual labelling into minutes of supervised review.