I’m working as assistant professor at the Dipartimento Sistemi e Informatica of the University of Florence, and I teach at the Master in Multimedia and at the School of Engineering. My research work is in the field of computer vision and pattern recognition, and i mostly work on automatic video analysis, annotation and semantic transcoding. You can find more about my research browsing the list of my papers. I received the Laurea Degree in electronics engineering (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica) from the University of Florence in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2004.
I’m working in the Visual Information Processing lab of the University of Florence. From 1999 to 2002 I’ve worked in the EU IST ASSAVID Project, that dealt with the automatic annotation of sports videos. The other project partners where the University of Surrey, Sony BPU UK, BBC, ACS and IDIAP. From 2004 to 2007 I’ve worked within the DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries, funded by the EU Sixth Framework Programme. At present I’m working on a new EU research project: VIDI-Video. The goal is to allow semantic access to video content by means of detection of a large number of concepts. The prototypes that will be developed within the project will particpate to NIST TRECVID. My teaching experience includes Unix Fundamentals, Video Editing, CISCO CCNA and XML in the Master in Multimedia of the University of Florence – years 2000 through 2007. I’m currently teaching assistant for Progettazione e Produzione Multimediale (in particular MPEG 1, 2 and 4, XML) and Database Multimediali (in particular MPEG 7) at the School of Engineering.
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