Biography

Stefano Berretti received the Doctoral Degree in Electronics Engineering cum laude (Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica), and the Ph.D. in Computer and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2000, he received the post-Doctoral degree in “Multimedia Content Design,” from the University of Florence. From 2000 to 2002 he has been a Research Assistant at  the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, and from 2002 to 20011 Assistant Professor in the same Institution. Since 2011 he is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering,  of the University of Florence, where he currently teaches “Operating Systems” and “Fundamentals of Computer Programming” at the Engineering School. Since 2001 he also teaches “Database Systems”  at  the  post- Doctoral school in “Multimedia Content Design” of the University of Florence.

Stefano Berretti has participated as researcher at several national and international research projects. He is author of about 100 publications appeared in international journals and conferences. His current research interests mainly focus on pattern recognition, image, video and 3D objects databases, multimedia information retrieval, 3D objects partitioning, 3D face and expression recognition, 4D video analysis for biometric applica- tions. On this latter subject, in October-November 2009, Stefano Berretti has been visiting Professor at the Institute TELECOM, TELECOM Lille 1, in Lille, France. On themes related to image content description and retrieval, during spring 2000, he has been also visiting researcher at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), in Mumbai, India. In June 2013 he has been also visiting Professor at the University of Science Technology & Research, Sharjah campus, United Arab Emirates. The paper on 3D face recognition at MIR’06 co-authored by Stefano Berretti was ranked as the best paper among all submitted works. The 3D face recognition approach based on this paper resulted the best competitor at the SHREC’08 contest on 3D face recognition.

Stefano Berretti was among the local organizers of the 9th IAPR International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing ICIAP’97 (Florence, Italy, September 1997), the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems ICMCS’99 (Florence, Italy, June 1999), and the ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM MM’10 (Florence, Italy, November 2010). He also served as Local Arrangement Chair of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia ACM MM’10, as Visa Chair of the European Conference on Computer Vision ECCV’12 (Florence, Italy, October 2012), and also as Workshop Co-chair of the Fifth Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment NORDIA’12 held in conjunction with ECCV 2012. His service as a Program Committee member includes, among the others, the International Workshop on Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval AMR (from 2006, to 2012), the 2007 IAPR Computational Color Imaging Workshop CCIW, the ACM SIGMM International Workshop on Multimedia Information Retrieval, MIR07, the International ACM SIGIR Conference, the ACM SIGMM International Conference on Multimedia Information Retrieval (MIR’10), the 3rd Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (3DOR’10), the ACM Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval and the International ACM Workshop on Multimedia access to 3D Human Objects (MA3HO’11). Stefano Berretti also serves as Associate Editor of the ”The Open Artificial Intelligence Journal,” Bentham publisher, and the ”Journal of Convergence,” published by the Future Technology Research Association International, and he is a frequent reviewer of many conferences and journals in the area of 3D biometrics, pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and multimedia. He is a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) and of the IEEE.

 

Stefano Berretti

Associate Professor

 

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  • DEPARTMENTDepartment of Information Engineering & Media Integration and Communication
    Center University of Florence
  • COUNTRYItaly