Paul Chippendale
Dr Paul Chippendale
Senior Researcher / Project Manager
At FBK, I’ve taken on significant leadership roles, managing and coordinating many European Framework and Horizon 2020 projects such as CHIL, Netcarity, and My-e-Director. A key element of my success is securing strategic funding: I coordinated the winning proposal for the €3.6M VENTURI AR project in 2011, followed by securing the H2020 REPLICATE project, which explored the transforming of real-world objects into digital content for AR/VR.
My current focus is generating new funding and leading their execution across several strategic, forward-looking EU projects. I coordinate the Horizon Europe FEROX project, which exploits autonomous below-canopy drones and AI to map berry harvesting locations in forests. Furthermore, I serve as the Principal Investigator for multiple key initiatives: AGRIMATE in the agrifood domain; AI-PRISM in smart manufacturing and robotics; AGILEHAND, which exploits machine vision and robotics to grade and handle delicate foods and fruits; and FORTIS, which explores advanced human-robot interactions in harsh environments. My principal role within the Vision Technology Research Unit at FBK remains the strategic acquisition of new EU funding and ensuring the successful execution of these high-impact programmes.
Phone: +39 0461 314512
Web: http://tev.fbk.eu/
Personal page: https://tev.fbk.eu/people/profile/chippendale
Spotlight's articles
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November 13, 2025From Madrid metro to industrial manufacturing, FORTIS advances with new collaborative technologiesFBK is a partner in the European project that develops advanced solutions for monitoring, safety and efficiency of processes on construction sites and in factories -
June 18, 2025Artificial vision applied to the food industry: RaspGrade is hereResearchers at FBK, in collaboration with the berries company Sant’Orsola di Pergine in Trentino, have developed a system that can automatically classify—non-invasively and in real time—the ripeness level of raspberries. The project was officially presented on June 18 in Valencia. -
February 5, 2025AgRimate: the future of technological and innovative agricultural pruningFBK participates in the new European project for a more digital and sustainable agriculture -
December 28, 2023INTO THE W-AI-LDThe FEROX project presents "The Tech + Wild Journey", a docufilm produced by FBK and directed by Andrea Franceschini which tells the story of the development of an advanced technological solution to support pickers of small wild berries in Finland. -
December 20, 2022FBK will coordinate the FEROX European Project to support the work of wild berry pickersIt will be based on AI, data and robotics technologies and will be tested in Finnish forests. -
July 2, 2018From books to augmented reality: artificial intelligence for art history teaching 2.0The students of the Maffei High School in Riva del Garda have virtualized sites and objects that are artistically relevant to the town. To do this they used REPLICATE, an app developed by Fondazione Bruno Kessler that allows the creation of 3D models of objects and buildings, thanks to photographs taken with just a smartphone
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March 8, 2018RELIGION TO GO! Religion in the virtual worldFrom the discovery of fire to the printing of the Bible, technology has never stopped involving religion. FBK's ICT and Humanities Centers work in synergy on the implications of an app that can virtualize objects and places of worship. -
November 16, 2017Replicate: 3D rendering and augmented reality with a smartphoneThe project, which makes 3D rendering of objects and environments easy through a simple smartphone, is undergoing experimentation in a number of local settings, including Muse and the Buonconsiglio Castle -
April 4, 2017Augmented reality: the “Replicate” and “Spark” projects at FBKWhat if we could simply pick up our cell phones, capture the interesting stuff around us and bring take it into our future 3D virtual lives? To find out more about it, we interviewed two experts in this kind of technology: Paul Chippendale, from FBK, and Gaetano Cascini, from the Polytechnic University of Milan.