MultiMedia DataBase Group

Our scientific activity is focused on finding, within very large data bases, those objects and data that are better suited to fulfill the information needs of non-expert users. This leads us to consider both effectiveness (i.e. "quality" of results) and efficiency aspects of the search process, in order to scale it to large data volumes. Moreover, we also take into account the need to provide the user with simple but powerful tools, able to smooth the processes of query creation/customization and of result interpretation.

Until now, we applied our techniques to a plethora of different media types (images, videos, text documents, time series, etc.), to genetic data and to patterns obtained through Data Mining processes (associative rules, clusters, etc.).

People Paolo Ciaccia, full professor, co-founder Marco Patella, full professor, co-founder Ilaria Bartolini, full professor, co-founder Andrea Di Luzio, fellow Francesco Urbinelli, fellow Former members Paolo Capitani Alessandro Linari Corrado Romani Guido Stromei Piero Montanari, fellow Emanuele Dall'Ospedale, fellow Michele Furini, fellow Francesco Calabria, fellow Some Research Topics Indexing of metric spaces: The M-tree Project Content-Based Image Retrieval: The WindSurf Framework with new software library! Smart Management of Large Video Collections: The Shiatsu Framework Similarity Search in Genomic Databases Learning User Preferences: FeedbackBypass Adaptive Browsing of Image Databases: The PIBE System Theses and Projects Possible topics for thesis and project activities Laboratories Datalab Publications Proceedings and Journals Technical Reports Ph.D. Theses Restricted-Access Area On-going work Address DISI Viale Risorgimento, 2 40136, Bologna - ITALY Fax: +39 051 20 94510

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