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About MICC People

The Media Integration and Communication Center is headed by Prof. Marco Bertini

Marco Bertini is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Florence, Italy. He is working at the Media Integration and Communication Center of the University of Florence. He received the Laurea Degree in Electronics Engineering (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica) from the University of Florence in 1999, and Ph.D. in 2004. His interests are focused on digital libraries, multimedia databases and social media analysis. On these subjects he has addressed semantic analysis, content indexing and annotation, semantic retrieval and semantic video transcoding, applying these techniques to different domains among which cultural heritage.

He is author of 29 journal papers and 100 peer-reviewed conference papers. His Google Scholar H-Index is 23. He has been general co-chair, program co-chair and area chair of several international conferences and workshops (ACM MM, ICMR, CBMI, etc.), and was associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. . He has been involved in 10 EU research projects as WP coordinator and researcher, among which IM3I, euTV, ORUSSI, UMETECH, AI4Media and ReInHerit.