DISIT lab and research group has been founded by prof. Paolo Nesi. DISIT research group and LAB works mainly on: massive content processing, business intelligence, semantic computing, software engineering, signal analysis (video and audio processing), protection models, models and media for digital content distribution, distributed architecture systems, formal models, artificial vision, music recognition, artificial intelligence, cultural heritage, knowledge representation, semantic models, digital rights management (DRM), CAS, automated formatting, component systems, multimedia middleware, distribution systems, GRID, P2P, mobile solutions, user profiling, etc.
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4 different Innovations of DISIT Lab have been selected by the Italian Ministery Agency for the diffusion of Innovation Tecnologiesin the competition Italy of Innovators:
- Cross Media Learning Management System at MIUR..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.to get more, it is currently in use on:
- Flyer of XLMS in PDF
- ECLAP portal and EC CIP PsP project
ECLAP Best Practice Network and e-learning support in connection with Europeana. - Idraulica.fupress.com, a portal for e-learning and distance learning in Idraulic Engineering
- Mobile Medicine, see below, a portal for medical distance learning and social networking.
- MyStooryPlayer semantic audiovisual annotation tool.
- Mobile Medicine on MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI..to get more please see
Mobile Medicine Social Network and iPad/iPhone and windows PDA tools
- Mobile Emergency at MIUR -..INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI... to get more on
Mobile Emergency, an Apple App for iPhone. A tool to manage emergency in the hospital area. Developed in collaboration with the Maxi Emergency group on Mobile Medicine. The solution also implies the connection with a server to manage the emergencies and the help the people involved in getting the exit and the collecting centers according to model of interventions.
- Content Processing Media Grid, AXCP on MIUR.INNOVAZIONE SELEZIONATA DA ITALIA DEGLI INNOVATORI.. to get more it is the core technology for semantic computing and media grid the so called AXCP Media Grid computing tools. It is going to appear on IEEE Multimedia in the 2011 and it has been developed starting from one of the results of AXMEDIS project
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Cercasi Personale per progetti di ricerca, inquadramento come assegnista e/o contrattista. Necessaria la Laurea in Ingegneria area dell'informazione (informatica, elettronica e/o telecomunicazioni).
If you are interested in performing a stage, thesis or a doctoral study at DISIT please contact his director P. Nesi and visit the related web pages for thesis, projects and didaptical activities on: distributed systems, software engineering and project planning/management.
The main recent activities of DISIT are related to:
- ECLAP (as coordinator)): EUROPEAN COLLECTED LIBRARY OF ARTISTIC PERFORMANCE, European Commissione Project ICT PSP, focussed on the study, implementation and set up of a Best Practice Networkon cultural heritage content on performing art.
- Joined lab industry-university INEA LAB, "Laboratorio per l'Ingegneria Elettroacustica".
- Idraulica.fupress.com, http://idraulica.fupress.com, experiment with innovative ebook for pc and iPad, content organizer.
- Palamede e-Journal.press project for Florence University Press, FUP. Web page accessible only from the University Buildings.
- MyStoryPlayer model and tools to operform and execute personal experiences as non-linear stories by following temporal and logical relationships formalized via semantic annotations. (DISIT page of MyStoryPlayer)
- MIREX 2009 competition: DISIT partecipated to MIREX competition for the 2009, about the polyphonic music transcoding algorithms and tools. Multiple Fundamental Frequency Estimation & Tracking Results. DISIT resulted to be the winner for the Tukey-Kramer HSD Multi-Comparison for Task2B (Piano). Conference 2009.
- Mobile Medicine Social Network: A multichannel best practice network for medical personnel, best practice network analysis for medical collectivities and activities, social network, definition and implementation of a best practice network and portal to support mobile content distribution on medical area;
- International and national projects. scientific responsible of international research projects such as: IMAESTRO, MUPAAC, WEDELMUSIC, MUSICNETWORK, ICCOC, MOODS, IMEASY, VISICON, VARIAZIONI, OFCOMP, OPTAMS, AXMEDIS and so forth. For further reference on each and every project. He has played the role of Project Coordinator for MOODS, MUSICNETWORK, WEDELMUSIC and AXMEDIS.
- DMS 2010: conference CALL for PAPER: The Sixteenth International Conference on Distributed Multimedia Systems Hyatt Lodge at McDonald's Campus, Oak Brook, Illinois, USA, October 14 - October 16, 2010
- current and past/recorded activities on conferences and fairs such as: IEEE ICECCS, DMS, AXMEDIS, WEDELMUSIC, CSMR, etc.
- Prof. Paolo Nesi research group chair, personal web page and activities
- Publications at DISIT
- DISIT Peopleand activities
- standardisation group in the MPEG ISO (International Standard Organization), for the MPEG SMR, for MPEG M3W (middleware for software component distribution), MPEG-21 (distribution and DRM models, protection models). Many of DISIT contributions have been taken into account and are integrated part of world-wide standards, like MPEG ISO. DISIT people have been editor in standards such as MPEG-4 SMR and MPEG M3W.
other past and most relevant:
- AXMEDIS FP6 IST research and development project: considered as one of the most succesfull IP projects of the FP6 in the area of content and tools. Social Network and content demonstration: XMF
- WEDELMUSIC project has been selected as one of the best top 20 projects in the area of “Cross media content and publishing” for the FP 5 of the European Commission. On such grounds it has been granted with the support of the ADOPT-IT project, even after the WEDELMUSIC project reached its end.
- Discovery technology award: DISIT reached the final in the area of Information Technology, among several submitted papers, with his research work for the MOODS project, where Prof. P. Nesi was coordinator. The project itself has been proposed for candidacy by the Disney Company in 2001.
- Pirelli Internet Technology Award 2002, DISIT reached the final in the area of Information Technology among more than 1200 submitted papers, with his research work for the project WEDELMUSIC IST FP 5.
- Winner of the Best Paper Award of IEEE ICECCS2001 for: P. Bellini, P. Nesi, ``Communicating TILCO: a model for Real-Time System Specification", Best Paper Award, Proc. of the 7th ``IEEE International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems'', ICECCS'01, IEEE Press, Sweden, June 2001.