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Media Integration and Communication Centre researchers

Enrico Bondi

Enrico Bondi was born in Arezzo on January 18th, 1988. He received a master degree in computer engineering from the University of Florence in 2014, with a thesis on “Crowd counting and analysis system via depth sensor”. Currently he’s working at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence. His main research interests focus on 3D face reconstruction from low resolution scanner.

Enrico Bondi

Enrico Bondi

Claudio Baecchi

Claudio Baecchi

Claudio Baecchi

Claudio Baecchi was born on December 14th, 1984 in Florence. He received a laurea degree in computer engineering from University of Florence, with a thesis on Fisher Feature Fusion Forests for visual object recognition. Currently he’s working at the Visual Information and Media Lab at Media Integration and Communication Centre, University of Florence.

Francesco Turchini

Francesco Turchini was born in Florence on December 25th, 1984. I received a master degree in computer engineering from the University of Florence in 2013, with a thesis on “Fisher Feature Fusion Forests for visual object recognition”. Currently, he is PhD Candidate at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence. His main interests focus on image and video analysis for machine learning.

Francesco Turchini

Francesco Turchini

 

Daniele Pezzatini

Daniele Pezzatini was born in Florence, Italy, in 21st of June 1985. He gradueted in computer engineering at University of Florence in April 2010. His thesis was on “Multi-touch environment for semantic search of multimedia contents”.

Daniele Pezzatini

Daniele Pezzatini

Currently he’s working at the Visual Information and Media Lab at Media Integration and Communication Center. His main research interests focus on natural interfaces and environments, web languages and usability.

Lorenzo Seidenari

Lorenzo Seidenari was born on 31 March 1980 in Fiesole (Florence), he received a laurea degree in computer engineering from the University of Florence, with a thesis on “Human action recognition using spatio-temporal interest points” in 2008. He’s currently a PhD student at Visual Information and Media Lab at Media Integration and Communication Centre, University of Florence. His main research interests are focused on application of pattern recognition and machine learning to computer vision and specifically in the field of human activity recognition.

Lorenzo Seidenari

Lorenzo Seidenari

Giuseppe Lisanti

Giuseppe Lisanti was born in Venosa in 1982 and has been living in Florence since 2001. He received the PhD degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Florence in 2012 with a thesis on “Wide area surveillance with rotating and zooming cameras”, under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo. He is currently a postdoc at the Media Integration and Communication Center of the University of Florence and his research interests focus on computer vision, pattern recognition and machine learning for person detection and tracking, person re-identification and face recognition. He works in tight collaboration with industrial partners, and with particular emphasis on technology and knowledge transfer.

Giuseppe Lisanti

Giuseppe Lisanti

Lea Landucci

Lea Landucci was born in Florence, Italy, in 5th of November 1977. She received her master laurea in computer engineering at University of Florence in July 2004. Her thesis was on “Multiuser Natural Interaction environments”. She received her phd degree in 2008. Now she’s a postdoc researcher working at Media Integration and Communication Centre. Her main interests are on computer vision, interaction design and cognitive psycology and their influence on natural HCI systems, especially in the field of Cultural Heritage.

Lea Landucci

Lea Landucci

Andrea Ferracani

Andrea Ferracani postgraduated from the Master in Multimedia Content Design of the University of Florence in 2004. He’s currently working as PhD Student in the Visual Information and Media Lab at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence. His research interests focus on multimedia, urban computing, social network analysis, machine learning and collective intelligence, intelligent web applications, human computer interaction, natural interfaces.

Andrea Ferracani

Andrea Ferracani

Federico Pernici

Federico Pernici received the MS degree in computer engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 2002, and received the PhD degree on informatics and telecommunications at the University of Florence in 2006. His research interests are computer vision, pattern recognition, and computer graphics. He is currently a postdoc working at the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica at the University of Florence and is affiliated with the Media Integration and Communication Center.

Federico Pernici

Federico Pernici