Iacopo Masi was born on September 6, 1983 in Florence. He received a Master’s Degree cum laude in computer Iacopo Masi was born on September 6, 1983 in Florence. He received a Master’s Degree cum laude in computer engineering from the University of Florence in 2009 with his thesis “Feature-based Localization and Mapping of Wide Areas with a PTZ Camera”.

Iacopo Masi

He is currently a PhD Candidate at the Visual Information and Media Lab under the supervison of Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, working with Federico Pernici, PhD and Andrew D. Bagdanov, PhD in the Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence.

His main research interests are focused on the application of pattern recognition and computer vision specifically in the field of video-surveillance with PTZ cameras, local pose estimation and 2D/3D face modeling.