Universities and laboratories
The Artificial Vision and Real-Time Systems (AViReS) Lab is an advanced research unit within the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Udine (Italy).
AViReS research is mainly focused on the areas of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Real-Time Systems, with particular attention to:
· Smart Security and Ambient Intelligence
· Multimedia and Mobile Applications
· Sensor Networks
Key AViReS initiatives currently underway include exploring the challenges of big data and cloud computing, analysing the impacts of social media platforms and investigating the potential applications of smart technologies to people security, health monitoring, learning environment and emergency and disaster context.
The group has close links with national and international industries and research laboratories. The main sources of its research funding include the European Defence Agency (EDA), the European Union, the Italian Ministry for the University and Research (MIUR), the Italian Ministry for Defence (MoD) and national and international industries.
The A2VI Lab, founded and leaded by Giuseppe Placidi, is situated in the Coppito 2 building, level 3, room B.4.24. The research is centred on algorithms for numerical modelling, signal acquisition and processing, image reconstruction, enhancement, filtering, compression, analysis, interpretation and visualization for medical applications. In details:
- Numerical modelling covers algorithms for the optimization of structures producing magnetic and electromagnetic fields;
- Signal acquisition covers innovative coding/decoding schemes for functional and open MRI;
- Reconstruction and Enhancement cover algorithms for signal deconvolution, image reconstruction and noise reduction in medical tomography;
- Analysis covers image registration, automatic signal and image interpretation and features extraction for applications such as radiotherapy, tele-rehabilitation, angiography based on virtual 3D/4D models, Brain Computer Interfaces.
- Visualization covers methods and programs for virtual reality applications.
- Techniques of Artificial Intelligence in medicine are also studied, implemented and tested.
The Center was established by Sapienza University of Rome in 2012 as an Interdepartmental Research and Services Center, upon the initiative of seven departments in the humanities area together with the Department of Computer, Automation and Management Engineering “Antonio Ruberti”, the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Communication and Social Research, the Department of Statistical Sciences.
Since August 2017, it has been an Interdepartmental Research Center, recently joined by the Department of Architecture and Design, the Department of History, Design and Restoration of Architecture, and the Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture. More than one hundred of Sapienza’s researchers participate in DigiLab’s activities, in collaboration with companies, business networks, industrial associations, government institutions, local authorities, foundations.
Hospitals
Policlinico Umberto I is a national and highly specialized healthcare company, home to level II DEA – it is a complex structure within which research, training and assistance activities are inextricably intertwined.
1235 beds, 4,700 employees, traffic of 20,000 people per day, 41,000 hospitalizations per year, 24,000 patients welcomed in day hospitals, 1,000,000 services per year including instrumental diagnostics and medical visits, 900,000 laboratory tests, 20,000 investigations of pathological anatomy in one year and as many radiological investigations, 140,000 annual visits to the Emergency and Reception Department. These are the impressive numbers that give the measure of the grandeur and liveliness of Umberto I, the Roman polyclinic par excellence.
The AOU Policlinico Umberto I, built at the end of the 20th century, still remains the largest hospital in Europe and is made up of “pavilion” buildings spread over 300 thousand m2. distributed in 54 buildings, 46 of which are located in the large enclosure, known as the quadrilateral (bounded by V.le Regina Elena, V.le dell’Università, V.le del Policlinico and Via Lancisi) and 8 outside.
The organizational structure of the Polyclinic is currently divided into 11 Integrated Care Departments (DAI), divided into Complex, Simple and Departmental Operational Units.
Foundations
La Fondazione Catalano svolge attività di ricerca e divulgazione sui temi legati all’ambiente, alla tecnologia, alla sicurezza, alla salute e ai beni culturali. Da sempre impegnata nella divulgazione scientifica e nella valorizzazione dei rapporti tra scuole, università, ricerca e istituzioni locali, nazionali ed europee.
Industries
Thales‘s presence in Italy is rooted in a long history of industrial footprint that dates back to the 1950s. Over the years, the Group has continued to develop its industrial and technological base throughout the country and expand to new market sectors. Today, Thales boasts a solid portfolio of solutions in country and is present in all of the Group’s major domains, including Defence and Security, Aerospace and Space, as well as Digital Identity and Security.