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CV, Work & Papers

I am probably a little bit eclectic when it comes to work, so the best way to keep up to date is having a look at my LinkedIn profile.

To make a long story short, I am interested in media applications, semantic web, mobile applications (mainly android), social network analysis, real-time web, interactive environments and project management of all the above. I try to be always on the edge between research and market products hence posts on this blog are published in both the fields, trying to label them with the appropriate tags.

I have also a record of scientific publications which are not mentioned on my LinkedIn profile, while are reported here.

  • 10/2010 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Ferracani, Dalla parte degli informatici. Arneb-TEI: annotazione e consultazione di video annotato, chapter in L'italiano televisivo 1976-2006, Firenze, presso l'Accademia, 2010 ISBN 978-88-89369-27-2
  • 10/2010 Alisi, D'Amico, Ferracani, Landucci, Torpei, Natural Interaction for Cultural Heritage: the archaeological site of Shawbak, ACM Multimedia 2010 – Firenze, Italia
  • 9/2010 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Ferracani, Uricchio, Hoxha, Bregasi, LIT: transcription, annotation, search and visualization tools for the Lexicon of the Italian Television, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer – Special Issue on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing CBMI’2010
  • 10/2009 Alisi, Bertini, D’Amico, Del Bimbo, Ferracani, Serra, Arneb: a Rich Internet Application for Ground Truth Annotation of Videos, ACM Multimedia 2009 – Beijing, China
  • 10/2009 Alisi, Bertini, D’Amico, Del Bimbo, Ferracani, Serra, Sirio: an Ontology-based Web Search Engine for Videos, ACM Multimedia 2009 – Beijing, China
  • 4/2009 Alisi, D’Amico, Del Bimbo, Ferracani, Landucci, Torpei, Natural Interaction at work, Electronic Imaging & Visual Arts 2009 - Florence, Italy
  • 11/2008 Autori Vari, Mezzi di comunicazione e riservatezza. Ordinamento comunitario e ordinamento interno, Ed. Jovene
  • 2/2008 Autori Vari, Struttura #3 Organica. Il vivente nel mare digitale, Ed. CLUEB
  • 2/2007 Autori Vari, Struttura 2006, Studi e visioni sul mare digitale, Ed. Polistampa
  • 10/2006 Autori Vari, Territorio dell’impresa, territorio della rete, territori digitali. Industrial design per comunità virtuali, Ed. Aida
  • 4/06 Alisi, Becchi, Becchi, Biffi, D’Amico, Evangelisti, Fanfani, Maraschio, Advanced search facilities for accessing the Crusca Academy of Italian Language, Electronic Imaging & Visual Arts 2006 - Florence, Italy
  • 7/2005 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Valli, Natural Interfaces to Enhance Visitors’ Experiences, IEEE MultiMedia, Vol. 12, No. 3, July 2005
  • 8/2004 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Pucci, Valli, Motion Capture Based on Color Error Maps in a Distributed Collaborative Environment, 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - Cambridge, UK
  • 4/2004 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Pucci, Valli, Natural interfaces for cultural heritage and public spaces, 1st Workshop on Natural Interaction - SIGCHI Italy, Media Integration and Communication Center - Florence, Italy
  • 1/2004 Alisi, Del Bimbo, Pucci, Valli, Distributed collaborative environment with real-time tracking of 3D body postures, 16th Annual SPIE Symposium - Electronic Imaging - Internet Imaging V - San Jose, California, USA

And below you can find further details for the most relevant publications.

Multimedia Tools and Applications – LIT

LIT: transcription, annotation, search and visualization tools for the Lexicon of the Italian Television LIT (Lexicon of the Italian Television) is a project conceived by the Accademia della Crusca, the leading research institution on the Italian language, in collaboration with CLIEO (Center for theoretical and historical Linguistics: Italian, European and Oriental languages), with the aim [...]

ACM Multimedia 2010 – Shawbak

Full title: Natural Interaction for Cultural Heritage: the archaeological site of Shawbak Abstract: One of the most interesting issues in the field of cultural heritage is the adoption of multimedia systems for the visualization and organization of information. In this paper we present a natural interaction based system designed to represent multimedia contents related to [...]

ACM Multimedia 2009 – Sirio

In this technical demonstration we show a web video search engine based on ontologies, the Sirio system, that has been developed within the EU VidiVideo project. The goal of the system is to provide a search engine for videos for both technical and non-technical users. In fact, the system has different interfaces that permit different [...]

ACM Multimedia 2009 – Arneb

In this technical demonstration we show the current version of Arneb, a web-based system for manual annotation of videos, developed within the EU VidiVideo project. This tool has been developed with the aim of creating ground truth annotations, that can be used for training and evalu- ating automatic video annotation systems. Annotations can be exported [...]

EVA 2009 – Natural Interaction

This paper presents the media interaction systems implemented at the Mont’Alfonso Fortress, close to Castelnuovo Garfagnana (Lucca). The stronghold was built at the end of the 16th century and after being abandoned for decades it was recently submitted to a complete restoration. A multimedia environment, made of large projections, was developed in one of the [...]

EVA 2006 – Cruscle search engine

This paper presents the advanced search tecniques implemented for the Accademia della Crusca on-line vocabularies. The five vocabularies represent the origin and evolution of the Italian language during the last centuries. They have been completely transcripted and annotated in a standard XML/TEI format. The transcription has been indexed with a complex structure that allows advanced [...]

IEEE Multimedia 2005 – Natural Interfaces

The authors present a multimedia system that really works in a cultural public space. Indeed, if you go to Florence and visit the museum of Palazzo Medici Riccardi, you might see a queue of worldwidetourists waiting for their turn to play with a digital version of the famous fresco The Journey of the Magi, appearing [...]

ICPR 2004 – Motion capture

In this paper a composite framework for collaborative working is presented. The framework includes real-time motion tracking based on computer vision from standard webcams situated at different locations, data transmission and real-time animation of 3D avatars in a virtual world. Motion tracking is obtained without using markers, with weak constraints on users’ clothes and environment [...]