Giuseppe Amato

Summary

I am research director at CNR-ISTI, where I lead the "Artificial Intelligence fo Media and Humanities" (AIMH) laboratory (http://aimh.isti.cnr.it/).

I graduated in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 1992 and was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Dortmund, Germany, in 2002.

I have participated in several EC funded and national research actions in the areas of Multimedia Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Libraries. The most recent:
- I coordinate the Social and hUman ceNtered XR (SUN) project (https://www.sun-xr-project.eu/) funded by the Horizon Europe Research & Innovation Programme
- I am currently involved in the Horizon 2020 AI4Media project (https://www.ai4media.eu/) aiming at building a centre of excellence on AI and Media
- I was involved in the Horizon 2020 AI4EU project aiming at building the European platform for Artificial Intelligence (https://www.ai4europe.eu/), funded by the EC
- I was CNR scientific coordinator in the ADA project (http://www.progetto-ada.it/), co-funded by the EC and the Tuscany Region, under the ERDF program
- I was Work Package leader in the EAGLE project (http://www.eagle-network.eu/), funded by the EC.
- I was CNR Scientific Coordinator in the RUBICON project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/269914), funded by the EC under the FP7 program
- I was Work Package leader in the BPN ASSETS project (https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/250527) funded by the EC under the CIP programm
- I was coordinator of the VISITO Tuscany project , co-funded by the EC and the Tuscany Region, under the ERDF program
- I was Technical director of the Multimatch project, funded by the EC in the IST program

Specialties: Multimedia Information Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence, Deep learning, Similarity Search.

Computer Vision Data Mining & Machine Learning Databases Digital Libraries Mobile & Ubiquitous Computing Multimedia