Fernando Franco was born in Ronciglione, Viterbo, in 1981 and has been living in Florence since 2001. He received the laurea degree in computer engineering from the University of Florence in 2008, with a thesis on “Local shape extraction using interest point”. He’s currently working as researcher at the Visual Information and Media Lab at the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence. His research interests focus on computer vision, pattern recognition and computer graphics.

Fernando Franco