Università degli Studi di Firenze (http://www.unifi.it/)
  
Department of Information Systems (http://www.dsi.unifi.it/)
 
Visual Information Processing Lab (VIPLab) (http://viplab.dsi.unifi.it/)
  
Media Integration and Communication Center (http://www.micc.unifi.it/)
  
Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo
  

  
The Università degli Studi di Firenze is an academic institution engaged in higher level education and research. The Dept. of "Sistemi e Informatica" (www.dsi.unifi.it) carries out research in the fields of Information Engineering, Computer Engineering, Automation and Control, Applied Mathematics. The main research activities carried out at the Visual Information Systems Laboratory of the Dept. of Sistemi e Informatica are related to Image Technologies and, in particular, Multimedia Information Processing, Annotation of and Retrieval from Image and Video Databases, Data Visualization, Advanced Human-Machine Interaction and Interfaces, and Software Engineering for Multimedia Applications. Systems have been designed and developed for: content based retrieval of images and videos, semantic annotation of images and videos, advanced human-machine interfaces based on virtual reality, advanced human-machine interaction based on computer vision, acquisition of realistic 3D models based on computer vision