Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
ISTI – Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologia dell’Informazione
Via G. Moruzzi, 1 – 56124 – Pisa (PI) – Italy
E-mail:
Phone: +39-050-3152906
Fax: +39-050-3152810
Room Nr.:I-22
Check out my book: “Similarity Search – The Metric Space Approach”
Research activity
My research interests are Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia Information Retrieval, Image Retrieval, Large Scale Similarity Search, Smart Cameras.
I lead the the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities (AIMH) laboratory at ISTI.
Publications
Teaching
I am teaching the Multimedia Information Retrieval and Computer Vision at the MSc (laurea magistralis) in Artificial Intelligence and Data Engeneering at the University of Pisa.
Organization of conferences
I was recently program chair of the following conferences:
- 12th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications – SISAP 2019
- 27th Italian Symposium on Advanced Database Systems – SEBD 2019
Technology transfer
I am co-founder of Visual Engines s.r.l. (CNR spin-off pending request), a company developing solutions for visual analysis and searching.
Projects
An overview of the projects carried out by the AIMH laboratory is given here.
Hobbies
I am an hi-fi music enthusiast.