Andrea Grifoni was born in Florence, Italy, the 27th of May 1983. He received the MS degree in computer engineering in 2007 at Universita’ degli Studi di Firenze with a thesis on “An Uncalibrated system to acquire biometric imagery at distance”. He’s been working as researcher at the Visual Information and Media Lab at MICC until April 2008 with research interests focused on Computer Vision, Pattern recognition and Visual tracking for automated video surveillance systems.
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Andrea Grifoni
Now he is currently working as an R&D engineer of critical infrastructure protection systems at Thales where he continues to collaborate with MICC under the framework of a Joint Lab on innovative video surveillance solutions.