Research

My research activity takes place within the MultiMedia DataBase Group at DEIS - University of Bologna. My research interests primarily focus on multimedia databases.

Research Topics

• Similarity search in multimedia databases
• Access methods
• Query processing
• Approximate searching
• Content-based image retrieval
• Region fragmentation
• Query processing
• Access methods

Publications

• Up-to-date publication list (thanks to Michael Ley)
• Citation index according to CiteSeer and to Google scholar
• Recent refereed papers

Projects

• CoOPERARE (COntent Organization, Propagation, Evaluation and Reuse through Active REpositories) - Italian PRIN Project

Past Projects

• WISDOM (Web Intelligent Search based on DOMain ontologies) - Italian MIUR Project
• PANDA (Patterns for Next-Generation Database Systems) - Thematic Network funded by the IST/FET Programme of European Community
• D2I (Integration, Warehousing, and Mining of Heterogeneous Data Sources) - Italian MURST Project
• InterData (Methodologies and Technologies for Managing Data and Processes on Internet and Intranet Networks) - Italian MURST Project
• MIDA (Modeling and Querying Multimedia Databases) - Coordinated CNR Project
• HERMES (Foundations of High Performance Multimedia Information Management Systems) - ESPRIT Long Term Research, N. 9141 (see also the local HERMES page)

Events

• SISAP 2010 (Program Co-Chair)
• SPIRE 2010 (Publicity/Organization Committee member)
• ACM SAC'11 Symposium (Program Committee member, Multimedia and Visualization track)