Rita Cucchiara:

Prof. Rita Cucchiara was born in Modena on the 13th of March 1965. She is married and has two children, Federico and Vittoria. She received her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering at University of Bologna in October 1992, was Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ferrara (1993-1998) and then Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Modena. Since January 2005 she is Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Rita Cucchiara is currently vice-dean of the Faculty of Engineering of Modena. She is coordinator of the Phd Curricula in Computer engineering and Science of the Phd School of ICT of Modena. She is Director of the Centre Softech (software technology for enterprise) and coordinates the ImageLab of Modena. Her current interests include pattern recognition and computer vision for video surveillance, medical imaging, machine vision and multimedia. Video surveillance activity is devoted to algorithms and systems for of object segmentation, shadow detection, tracking, and people behavior analysis in indoor and outdoor applications. Eventually, these models are applied in intelligent transportation systems and in forensics. In multimedia she work in annotation and content based retrieval in image and video database for broadcast and cultural heritage applications of document analysis. Research in machine vision covers the area of quality inspection and robot picking with 3D vision. Medical imaging research is oriented towards colour analysis for skin lesion and melanoma classification. Rita Cucchiara is responsible for many Italian and International projects. Currently, she is coordinator of the This European Project, and collaborates in the EU Project, Vidivideo for video surveillance, with the platform VISOR; she is responsible of a Nato project Besafe in the Science for Peace program; she is national responsible of the PRIN project Freesurf. Finally she coordinates several projects with companies, funded by private and public grants. Rita Cucchiara is author of more than 150 papers in national and international journals, and conference proceedings. She currently serves as reviewer for many international journals (e.g. IEEE Trans. on PAMI, IEEE Trans. on Circuit and Systems, Trans. on SMC, Trans. on Vehicular Technology, Trans. on Medical Imaging, Image and Vision Computing,..). She participated at scientific committees of international conferences (CVPR, ICME, ICPR, ...) and symposia and organized special tracks in image processing and multimedia. She is member of GIRPR (Italy- associated with IAPR), AixIA (Ital. Assoc. Of Artificial Intelligence), ACM and IEEE Computer Society. In 2000 she organized the bi-annual School on Machine Vision of IAPR-IC. In 2005 she co-organized the 3rd Workshop of VSSN05 jointed with ACM Multimedia Conference and is currently editor of a special issue on Multimedia System Journal of ACM. In 2006 she is co-chair of the European School of Multimedia Digital Library. In 2007 she was general chair of the 14th International Conference of Image Analysis and Processing, sponsored by IAPRand in 2009 general chair of the Italian Conference in Artificial intelligence and of the ACM Workshop in Multimedia in Forensics.
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