About me and my work ...
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 Media Integration and Communication Center 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.
Then I've worked on another EU research project (2008-2010): VIDI-Video. The goal was to allow semantic access to video content by means of detection of a large number of concepts. The prototypes that have been developed within the project, capable of regcongizing more than 1000 audio-visual concepts, have succesfully participated to NIST TRECVID. The other project partners were the University of Amsterdam, the University of Surrey, the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Stichting Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid, Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores, Computer Vision Center, Fondazione Rinascimento Digitale.
Following this I've worked on IM3I. IM3I is a SME project whose objectives were the creation of tools for the accessing and presenting media content to users, offering a natural and transparent way to deal with the complexities of interaction, while hiding them from the user.
The tools have been designed according to a SOA paradigm, so that they can be integrated into existing networks, to support organisations and users in developing their content related services.
At present I'm working on two EU research projects: ORUSSI and euTV. euTV is a SME project whose objectives are to connect publicly available multimedia information streams under a unifying framework and toallow publishers of audio-visual content to decide themselves whether the content will be available and for how much, basing the subscription/unsubscription mechanisms to Media RSS feeds that can be fully configured from the content provider. The backend of EUTV and where the research of this project has to be performed, is a scalable audio-visual analysis and indexing that allows detection and tracking of Topics of Interest (TOI) according to a user profile and given search terms. The front-end is a portal that displays the syndicated content and allows all users to perform search, query refinement and faceted presentation of the results. ORUSSI (Optimal Road sUrveillance System based on Scalable vIdeo) is another SME project that focuses on road monitoring through a network of roadside sensors (mainly cameras) that can be dynamically deployed and added to the surveillance systems in an efficient way. The main objective of the project is to develop an optimized platform offering innovative real-time media (video and data) applications for road monitoring in real scenarios.
My teaching experience includes Unix Fundamentals, CISCO CCNA, XML and Video Editing in the Master on Multimedia of the University of Florence - years 2000 through 2012. I've teached "Sistemi di Elaborazione delle informazioni" at the School of Medicine (Fisioterapia) - years 2006 through 2010. 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. I teach "Laboratorio di Tecnologie dell'Informazione" at the School of Engineering in Firenze.
I'm currently involved in the organization of the European Conference on Computer Vision 2012, that will be held in Florence on 7-13 October, and in the organization of ECCV workshops, in particular inthe Workshop on Web-scale Vision and Social Media (VSM 2012) and ARTEMIS 2012.
I've recently worked also for the organization of ACM Multimedia 2010, that was held in Florence on 25-29 October 2010, and for some other conferences and workshops. You can find some info on them below.
I'm currently involved in ScientifiCareers.com, a job board site for the multimedia community.The goal is to promote the connection between the world of research and the industry, and to stimulate the exchange of expertise between different research teams.
ScientifiCareers is a free platform where professionals, industries and academic institutions can post their job requests in order to get in contact with young and talented researchers all over the world.
In addition all the people who are interested in jobs in the field of Multimedia can search the job board and apply to the most interesting opportunities.
Iscrizione al Master in Multimedia XIV edizione 2011-2012
Il Master universitario di primo livello in Multimedia Content Design dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze fornisce le conoscenze e gli strumenti necessari per l'inserimento qualificato nel mondo del lavoro dei media digitali, secondo uno dei seguenti orientamenti specialistici:
Interactive Media: fornisce competenze per la progettazione e realizzazione di ambienti e contenuti per il web e i dispositivi mobili, di applicazioni multimediali interattive e di nuove soluzioni di interazione uomo macchina.
Video Post-production: fornisce competenze per editing e compositing di video digitale, e la modellazione e l'animazione grafica 3D.
Inizio corsi: metà Febbraio 2012 (frequenza full-time obbligatoria)
Inizio stage: Settembre 2012
Durata: 12 mesi
Ammissione: iscrizione via web - Scadenza: 9 Gennaio 2012 ore 13:00
Quota d'iscrizione: € 7.000
Lingua: italiano
Altre informazioni:
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Placement lavorativo
- Borse e finanziamenti
Chi si può iscrivere
Chi è in possesso di uno dei seguenti titoli: Laurea di primo livello, Laurea di secondo livello, Laurea Vecchio Ordinamento, un Diploma rilasciato dall'Accademia delle Belle Arti, Conservatori di Musica, Istituti musicali pareggiati, titoli accademici conseguiti all'estero valutati equivalenti dal Comitato Ordinatore.
Profili professionali
Interactive media: Web & Mobile developer; Web & Mobile designer; Web Content Manager; Information architect; User Experience Designer; Graphic designer; Interaction designer; Search engine optimizer; Web marketing manager; Digital Strategist, Web Project Manager.
Video Post-Production: 3D Modeler/Artist; 3D Animator; Motion Grapher, Motion Editor; Video Editor/Compositor; Producer.
Per ulteriori informazioni si prega di contattare la Segreteria Organizzativa del Master. Sono anche disponibili informazioni sul placement lavorativo degli studenti degli scorsi anni, oltre che vedere a cosa hanno lavorato gli studenti dell'edizione tuttora in corso.
ICSC 2012 - Call for paper
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE ICSC 2012)
Salermo, Italy - September 19th- 21st, 2012
The field of Semantic Computing addresses the derivation of semantic information from content and the connection of semantics to knowledge, where "content" may be anything including video, audio, text, processes, services, hardware, networks, etc.
The Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2012) continues to foster the growth of a new research community. The conference builds on the success of the past ICSC conferences as an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present research that advances the state of the art and practice of Semantic Computing, as well as identifying emerging research topics and defining the future of the field. The event is located in Palermo, Italy on the Piazza Borsa Hotel. The technical program of ICSC 2012 includes workshops, invited keynotes, paper presentations, panel discussions, industrial 'show and tells', demonstrations, and more. Submissions of high-quality papers describing mature results or ongoing work are invited.
SUBMISSIONS
Authors are invited to submit Regular Papers (8-page technical paper), Short Papers (4-page technical paper), Demonstration Papers and Posters (2 page technical paper), and Workshop and Special Session Proposals. More information is available on the ICSC 2012 web page. The Conference Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press. Distinguished quality papers presented at the conference will be selected for publication in internationally renowned journals.
AREAS OF INTEREST INCLUDE (but are not limited to):
Semantics based Analysis
Natural language processing
Image and video analysis
Audio and speech analysis
Data and web mining
Behavior of software, services and networks
Services and networks
Security
Privacy
Analysis of social networks
Semantic Integration
Metadata and other description languages
Database schema integration
Ontology integration
Interoperability and service integration
Semantic programming languages and software engineering
Semantic system design and synthesis
Applications using Semantics
Search engines and question answering
Semantic web services
Content-based multimedia retrieval and editing
Context-aware networks of sensors, devices and applications
Devices and applications
Digital library applications
Machine translation
Music description
Medicine and Biology
GIS systems and architecture
Semantic Interfaces
Natural language interfaces
Multimodal interfaces
Human centered computing
IMPORTANT DATES:
May 18th, 2012: Regular & Short Paper Submission (EXTENDED)
May 18th, 2012: Demo Descriptions & Posters (EXTENDED)
May 18th, 2012: Industry Track Papers (EXTENDED)
June 28th, 2012: Notification Date
July 15th, 2012: Camera-Ready & Registration
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