Giuseppe Amato

Giuseppe Amato graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1992 and was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2002. Since 1994 he is a member of the research staff at CNR in Pisa, and currently leads the Multimedia Information Retrieval research group of NeMIS laboratory at ISTI-CNR. His main research interests are content based retrieval of multimedia documents, access methods for similarity search of multimedia documents, smart camera networks. He has published in international journals and conferences in the areas of information systems and multimedia information retrieval. He has participated in several EC and national funded research actions in the areas of content based retrieval of multimedia data and AAL. Among these, he was chief scientist at CNR for the Rubicon (Robotic UBIquitous COgnitive Network) FP7 project, he was the project coordinator of the ERDF project VISITO Tuscany, he was technical director of the FP6 project Multimatch, he has been work package leader of the EU CIP EAGLE and EU CIP PSP ASSETS projects. More at http://nemis.isti.cnr.it/person/giuseppe-amato