Liviu-Daniel ȘTEFAN

Liviu-Daniel ȘTEFAN

Research Scientist @AIMultimedia Lab, CAMPUS Research Institute.

National Research Projects

  1. 2024-2026: Engineer, project "Building Collections of Data for Advanced Training of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in National Security Applications", owner National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, partners Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, Softrust Vision Analytics SRL, public beneficiary Protection and Guard Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant SOL4/2024 (budget ~1.8M Eur);
  2. 2024-2026: Engineer, project "Linguistic Analysis and Processing Toolkit for Romanian Language RoNLP", owner National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, partners Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, ZA CLOUD SRL, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant SOL10/2024 (budget ~840k Eur);
  3. 2024-2026: Researcher, project "Artificial Intelligence Enabled Advanced Integrated System for Vehicle Identification", owner National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, partners Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, Softrust Vision Analytics SRL, public beneficiary Ministry of Internal Affairs, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant SOL5/2024 (budget ~750k Eur);
  4. 2024-2026: Researcher, project "Detecting Relationships between Entities in Unstructured and Structured Data DeteRel", owner National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, partners Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, Romanian Ministry of National Defence — Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, Softrust Vision Analytics SRL, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant SOL12/2024 (budget ~970k Eur);
  5. 2023-2026: Researcher, project "ADER 6.3.13: Smart Viticulture Based on IoT Techniques - Premise for Climate Change Management", owner SCDVV Blaj, partners National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest, SCDVV Miniș, funded by Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, grant ADER 6.3.13/27.07.2023 (budget ~250k Eur);
  6. 2021-2023: Researcher, project "IDENEO: Identifying the Unusual Behavior of People in Video Streams", owner Ovidius University of Constanța, partners University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, Softrust Vision Analytics, Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 29SOL/2021 (budget ~550k Eur);
  7. 2021-2023: Researcher, project "DeepVisionRomania: Identifying People in Video Streams using Silhouette Biometrics", owner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, partners Softrust Vision Analytics, Romanian Ministry of National Defence — Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, public beneficiary Romanian Intelligence Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 28SOL/2021 (budget ~550k Eur);
  8. 2021-2023: Researcher, project "PIMS-IAT: Platform Specialized in Identifying and Evaluating Early Warning Indices for Crisis Management", owner Ferdinand I Military Technical Academy, partners University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, Soft Galaxy International, Marctel S.I.T., public beneficiary Protection and Guard Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 27SOL/2021 (budget ~2M Eur);
  9. 2020-2022: Researcher, project "Virtual Guardian: Artificial Intelligence Powered Multi-Sensor System for Automatic Securing of Areas of Interest", owner Softrust Vision Analytics, partner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, funded by UEFISCDI, Industry Transfer Axis, grant PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0570 (budget ~350k Eur);
  10. 2020-2022: Researcher, project "SMARTRetail: Enhancing and Improving Customer Experience and Services in Supermarkets via SMART Artificial Intelligence Powered Systems", owner Softrust Vision Analytics, partner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, funded by UEFISCDI, Industry Transfer Axis, grant PN-III-P2-2.1-PTE-2019-0055 (budget ~340k Eur);
  11. 2017-2020: Researcher, project "SPIA-VA: Technologies and Innovative Video Systems for Person Re-Identification and Analysis of Dissimulated Behavior", owner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, partners UTI Grup, Romanian Ministry of National Defence — Military Equipment and Technologies Research Agency, public beneficiary Protection and Guard Service, funded by UEFISCDI, Solutions Axis, grant 2SOL/2017 (budget ~2.2M Eur);
  12. 2017-2018: Researcher, project "SPOTTER: Real-time IP Camera-based Intelligent Video Surveillance Security System with DROP Retrieval", owner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, partner UTI Grup, funded by UEFISCDI, PED Axis, grant 30PED/2017 (budget ~140k Eur).

International Research Projects

  1. 2020-2024: Researcher, project "H2020 AI4Media: A European Excellence Centre for Media, Society and Democracy", owner CERTH, Greece, partner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, funded by H2020, axis ICT-48-2020 / Towards a vibrant European network of AI excellence centres, grant 951911 (budget ~12M Eur);
  2. 2017-2019: Researcher, project "UMETECH: University & Media Technology for Cultural Heritage", owner University of Florence, Italy, partner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, funded by European Commission, axis Erasmus+ CBHE, grant 574105-EPP-1-2016-1-IT-EPPKA2-CBHE-JP (budget ~550k Eur).

Industry Projects

  1. 2024 January–2025 January: Researcher, project "Keysight 2: AI for Hardware-Software Co-design", owner National University of Science and Technology Politehnica Bucharest (led by AI Multimedia Lab), beneficiary Keysight Technologies Romania (budget ~90k Euro);
  2. 2020 April–2020 July: Researcher, project "Hana 2: Financial Data Augmentation and Forecasting Using Advanced AI Techniques", owner Polytechnic Research, Development and Innovation Institute (led by AI Multimedia Lab), beneficiary Hana Institute of Technology, Republic of Korea
  3. 2020 March–2020 October: Researcher, project "Keysight 1: Machine Learning Techniques for Generating Network Traffic Data", owner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, CAMPUS Research Institute (led by AI Multimedia Lab), beneficiary Keysight Technologies Romania (budget ~59k Eur);
  4. 2019 May–2019 December: Researcher, project "NXP 1: RISC V-based Hardware-Software System for Machine Learning Applications", owner University 'Politehnica' of Bucharest, CAMPUS Research Institute (led by AI Multimedia Lab), beneficiary NXP Semiconductors Romania (budget ~136k Eur).