Università  degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (http://www.unimore.it/)
  
Department of Information Engineering (http://www.dii.unimo.it)
   
Image Processing Laboratory (ImageLab) (http://imagelab.ing.unimo.it/)
  
Prof. Rita Cucchiara
  

  
The University of Modena and Reggio Emilia is a very old academic institution with more than 16.000 students. Since 1990 it has two Faculties of Engineering, one in Modena and one in Reggio Emilia, mainly focused on information technology and mechanics. The Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione (DII) of Modena and Reggio Emilia is the research institution grouping research activities in computer engineering, electronics and telecommunications. The most important research fields covered in DII are microelectronics, control for automotive, wireless communication, computer architecture (multimedia and web server), computer vision, databases, information systems, middleware and agent-based software. Within DII, the Imagelab (http://imagelab.ing.unimo.it) and the WebLab (http://weblab.ing.unimo.it) are devoted to research activities related to Digital Libraries. Imagelab is involved in researches in image analysis, computer vision and multimedia with much collaboration with public and private institutions. In medical imaging, Imagelab collaborates with medical Departments for melanoma skin analysis and telemedicine, and with the Burnham Institute (CA- USA) for echocardiography analysis. In motion analysis and surveillance is involved in several projects for Formula-1 car telemetry, urban traffic control and domotics (home automation). The current main activity (in the context of National FIRB project) focuses on smart video server and high performance remote video access exploiting computer vision and semantic transcoding techniques. WebLab is involved in research on Web server and network workload analysis, quality of service and cluster of server performance analysis.