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Stefano Berretti is Associate Professor at the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica of the University of Firenze, Italy, and at the Media Integration and Communication Center of the same University. He received the laurea degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. in Informatics Engineering and Telecommunications from the University of Firenze, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. In 2000, he received the post-laurea degree in "Multimedia Content Design" from the Master in Multimedia of the University of Firenze. In 2001 and 2002 he worked as post-Ph.D. researcher at the Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica of the University of Firenze, where he has been Assistant Professor from 2002 to 2011.
Stefano Berretti teaches "Operating Systems" at the course of Informatics Engineering, and "Foundations of Computer Programming" at the course of Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Firenze. He also teaches "Database Systems" at the Master in Multimedia of the University of Firenze.
His current research interests are mainly focused on content modeling, retrieval, and indexing of image and 3D object databases. Recent researches have addressed 3D object retrieval and partitioning, 3D face recognition, 3D facial expression recognition. 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.
Stefano Berretti is member of the Group of Italian Researchers on Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), affiliated to the IAPR, and member of the IEEE.
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Prof. Stefano Berretti, Ph.D.
Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica
Università degli Studi di Firenze
via S. Marta 3,
50139, Firenze - Italy
email: stefano.berretti 'at' unifi.it
phone: +39 055 4796415
fax: +39 055 4796493