Projects

BullyBuster – A framework for bullying and cyberbullying action detection by computer vision and artificial intelligence methods and algorithms (August 2019 – August 2023)
Supported by the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) within the PRIN2017, the project has been included in the Global Top 100 list of AI projects addressing the 17 UNS-DGs (United Nations Strategic Development Goals) by the International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence under the auspices of UNESCO.
People involved: Gian Luca Marcialis, Giulia Orrù, Marco Micheletto, Sara Concas, Gianpaolo Perelli
Partners: University of Bari Aldo Moro, University of Foggia, University of Naples Federico II
Budget: 1.056.819,14€

IMMAGINA – IMaging MAnagement Guidelines and Informatics Network for Law Enforcement Agencies (Nov 2020 – December 2022)
Supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) within the ARTES Integrated Applications Promotion Programme
People involved: Fabio Roli, Giorgio Fumera, Lorenzo Putzu, Rita Delussu, Emanuele Ledda
Partners: REGOLA SRL, Digisky, Planetek Italia SRL, Stratobotic SRL, Alfa Bit Omega SRL
Budget:

HistoDSSP – Histopathological Decision Support System for Pathology (October 2018 – September 2020)
Funded by Sardegna Ricerche under the ‘Aid for research and development projects’ program (POR FESR Sardegna 2014-2020).
People involved: Giorgio Fumera, Lorenzo Putzu
Partners: SmartPath
Budget: 570458.40

LETSCROWD EU project (May 2017 – October 2019)
LETSCROWD (Law Enforcement agencies human factor methods and Toolkit for the Security and protection of CROWDs in mass gatherings) is a project funded by the European Commission under the HORIZON 2020 Programme.
People involved: Fabio Roli, Giorgio Fumera, Davide Ariu, Matteo Mauri, Lorenzo Putzu
Partners: ETRA Investigación y Desarrollo S.A. (Spain), Policía Municipal de Madrid – Ayuntamiento de Madrid (LEA-Spain), University of Applied Sciences – Police Affairs (LEA-Germany), Crowd Dynamics International Ltd (UK), Deep Blue (Italy), European Emergency Number Association (Belgium), Expert System Spa (Spain), Local Police Voorkempen – Lokale Politie Voorkempen (Belgium), Ministry of the Interior- Polizia di Stato, Department of Public Security (LEA-Italy), PROPRS Ltd. (UK), Ministerio da Administracao Interna – Polícia de Segurança Pública (LEA-Portugal), RAILSEC Ltd (Israel), Ministry of Internal Affairs – Ministerul Afacerilor Interne (LEA-Romania), Universidad de Cantabria (Spain), Pluribus One (Italy, DIEE’s third party partner).
Budget: 2919307 €

AI-Textiles – Intelligenza Artificiale e Tessuti intelligenti: Tecnologie e Applicazioni (Febbraio 2018 – Novembre 2019)
AI-Textiles (Artificial Intelligence & electronic textiles) is funded by Sardegna Ricerche within the “Top-Down Cluster Programme” (POR FESR Sardegna 2014/2020).
People involved: Fabio Roli, Luca Piras, Luca Didaci, Alberto Dassena, Carla Piras, Matteo Mauri
Partners: Faticoni, Imedia, Infora, Passamonti, Abacons, Kappaten, Nomadyca, Tecnofor, Datasystem, Giunti Psychometrics, Aicof

FORC EU project (October 2016 – October 2019)
FORC (Pathway in Forensic Computing) is a project funded by the European Commission under the ERASMUS+ programme.
People involved: Giorgio Giacinto, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona, Carla Piras
Partners: Middlesex University London, Dublin City University, Al-Quds University, Palestine Technical University – Kadoorie, Jordan University, Princess Sumaya University for Technology, Al Andalus Software Development (ASD).
Budget: 899213 €

PISDAS (June 2016 – March 2019)
PISDAS (Piattaforma Integrata Servizi Digitali Avanzati Sicuri) is a project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Regional Government of Sardinia (POR FESR 2007/2013 – PIA 2013 – industria, artigianato e servizi per la selezione di interventi a sostegno della competitività e dell’innovazione)
People involved: Giorgio Giacinto, Gian Luca Marcialis, Davide Maiorca, Mansour Ahmadi, Alessandro Medda
Partner: Innovery Spa
Budget: 185987 €

A^3I (July 2015 – November 2018)
A^3I (Advanced Analysis of Aerial Images) is a project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Regional Government of Sardinia (POR FESR 2007/2013 – PIA 2013 – industria, artigianato e servizi per la selezione di interventi a sostegno della competitività e dell’innovazione)
People involved: Fabio Roli, Giorgio Fumera
Partners: Aeronike, Kareltecnologie, Passamonti, Bittree
Budget: 607000 €

DOGANA EU project (September 2015 – August 2018)
DOGANA “aDvanced sOcial enGineering And vulNerability Assessment” project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme.
People involved: Fabio Roli, Davide Ariu, Matteo Mauri, Igino Corona, Alessio Mulas, Carla Piras
Partners: Engineering International Belgium, Cefriel, Austrian Institute of Technology, Consorzio nazionale interuniversitario per le telecomunicazioni – CNIT, Inov Inesc Inovacao – Instituto De Novas Tecnologias, National Center For Scientific Research “Demokritos”, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland – SUPSI, KU Leuven, PROPRS Ltd., VisionWare Sistemas de Informação SA, Thales Communications and Security SA, Thales Services S.A.S, Hewlett Packard, ELTA Solutions Ltd, Gabinete Nacional de Segurança, Regia Autonoma de Transport Bucuresti, Ministry Of National Defence – Greece, Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology – DBI
Budget: 4999558 €

BS2R (May 2016 – May 2018)
BS2R (Beyond Social Semantic Recommendation) is industrial R&D project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Regional Government of Sardinia (POR FESR 2007/2013 – PIA 2013 – industria, artigianato e servizi per la selezione di interventi a sostegno della competitività e dell’innovazione).
People involved: Giorgio Giacinto, Luca Piras, Lorenzo Putzu
Budget: 329100 €

Le strutture Computazionali Quantistiche al servizio del Pattern Recognition: modellare l’incertezza (Quantum Computation Structures at the service of Pattern Recognition: modeling uncertainty) – (September 2013 – September 2016)
The SeCVPR project is funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (the regional Government of Sardinia).
People involved: Luca Didaci, Davide Ariu, Luca Piras
Budget: 300000 €

CyberROAD EU project (June 2014- May 2016)
CyberROAD (Development of the Cybercrime and Cyber-terrorism Research Roadmap) is a project funded by the European Commission under the Seventh Framework Programme.
People involved: Fabio Roli, Giorgio Giacinto, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona, Matteo Mauri, Carla Piras
Partners: Technische Universitaet Darmstadt, Indra Sistemas S.A., Poste Italiane SPA, Security Matters BV, Vitrociset spa, Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas, Inov Inesc Inovacao – Instituto De Novas Tecnologias, National Center For Scientific Research “Demokritos”, SBA Research, PROPRS Ltd., Naukowa I Akademicka Siec Komputerowa, Ministério da Justiça, Cefriel, Scuola Universitaria Professionale Della Svizzera Italiana, Centre For Science Society And Citizenship, Cyberdefcon, Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, Ministry Of National Defence – Greece, McAfee S.A.S., Melani
Budget: 1289764 €

ILLBuster EU project (February 2014 – February 2016)
ILLBuster is a project funded by the European Commission (DG-HOME) within the “Prevention of and Fight against Crime” programme.
People involved: Fabio Roli, Giorgio Giacinto, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona, Matteo Mauri, Carla Piras, Matteo Contini, Alessio Mulas
Partners: Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (UNIMIB), NASK, NETCLEAN, Polizia Postale e delle Comunicazioni, University of Georgia (US), Tech & Law Center, Guardia di Finanza, DBI – Danish Institute of Fire and Security Technology, Tiscali
Budget: 364000 €

GIEDION (October 2012 – April 2016)
The GIEDION project (Gestione Intelligente e sicura di sEnsoristica Distribuita e della sua Interazione uOmo-macchiNa: possibili scenari futuri) is funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Regional Government of Sardinia (POR FESR 2007/2013 – PIA 2013 – industria, artigianato e servizi per la selezione di interventi a sostegno della competitività e dell’innovazione).
People involved: Gian Luca Marcialis, Luca Ghiani, Valerio Mura, Giulia Orrù, Simona Tocco, Pierluigi Tuveri
Partner: Akhela s.r.l.
Budget: 476458 €

SIVS 3.0 (December 2012 – December 2015)
SIVS 3.0 – Sistema di Video Sorveglianza basato su VCA e IP – is a project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna – Regional Government of Sardinia (POR FESR 2007/2013 – PIA 2010 – industria, artigianato e servizi per la selezione di interventi a sostegno della competitività e dell’innovazione).
People involved: Gian Luca Marcialis
Budget: 533000 €

MAVEN EU project (October 2013 – October 2015)
MAVEN (Management and Authenticity Verification of multimedia contENts) is a collaborative project among seven European partners, which has been selected by the European Commission as one of the projects funded under the “Research for the benefit of SMEs” programme, in the 7th Framework Programme.
People involved: Fabio Roli, Davide Ariu, Ignazio Pillai, Giorgio Giacinto, Gian Luca Marcialis, Luca Piras, Roberto Tronci, Luca Ghiani, Giorgio Fumera, Matteo Mauri
Partners: Gradiant, CNIT (University of Siena and University of Florence), Amped Software, Playence, Arthaus, Xtream
Budget: 1010000 €

sTATA – secure Technologies Against Targeted-Attacks (January 2014 – September 2015)
The sTATA project is funded by Sardegna Ricerche within the “Top-Down Cluster Programme” (POR Sardegna FESR 2007/2013).
People involved: Giorgio Giacinto, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona, Matteo Mauri, Luigi Meloni, Marco Pinna, Nicola Spaziani
Partners: Abinsula, Abissi, Akhela S.r.l., Arkys, Entando, Experteam, Faticoni, Flosslab, Noviservice, Kareltecnologie, Passamonti, Porcovino, Sardacom, Sinossi software
Budget: 219000 €

GAmI – Game devices and AMbient Intelligence (March 2014 – September 2015)
The GamI project is funded by Sardegna Ricerche within the “Top-Down Cluster Programme” (POR Sardegna FESR 2007/2013)
People involved: Fabio Roli, Roberto Tronci, Alberto Dessena, Matteo Mauri
Partners: Experteam, Faticoni, Flosslab, Imedia, Infora, Logus, Nomadyca, Passamonti, Porcovino, Sa corona arrubia, Saime, Space
Budget: 138670 €

I-Am (May 2013 – July 2015)
I-Am is an industrial R&D project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (the regional Government of Sardinia).
People involved: Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli, Roberto Tronci, Valerio Mura
Partner: Sinossi Software s.r.l.
Budget: 253220 €

Remote VIsualization Technologies for 3D Cloud – 3DCloudViz (June 2013 – May 2015)
3DCloudViz is an industrial R&D project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (POR FESR 2007-2013).
People involved: Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli
Partner: Nice s.r.l.
Budget: 367800 €

SeCVPR – Secure Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (March 2012 – February 2015)
The SeCVPR project is funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (the regional Government of Sardinia).
People involved: Battista Biggio, Giorgio Fumera, Fabio Roli, Francesco Marra, Eyasu Zemene Mequanint, Rita Wong
Partners: Università di Napoli Federico II, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Università di Tubinga, Università del Surrey
Budget: 280000 €

Advanced and secure sharing of multimedia data over social networks in the future Internet (March 2012 – February 2015)
This project is funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (the regional Government of Sardinia)
People involved: Giorgio Giacinto, Luca Piras, Davide Ariu, Igino Corona, Davide Maiorca
Partners: DISI – University of Trento, UPV Universitat Politècnica de València
Budget: 260000 €

Tabula Rasa EU project (October 2011 – March 2014)
TABULA RASA is a project funded by the European Commission, under the Seventh Framework Programme.
People involved: Gian Luca Marcialis, Fabio Roli, Luca Ghiani, Valerio Mura, Matteo Mauri
Partners: Starlab Barcelona S.L., Sagem Sécurité, KeyLemon SA, Biometry.com AG, University of Oulu, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, University of Southampton, Idiap Research Institute, Eurecom, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CASIA), Centre for Science Society and Citizenship – CSSC
Budget: 4000000 €

Secure RVID (June 2011 – May 2013)
Secure RVID (Tecnologie di identificazione a radiofrequenza e visione computerizzata per l’intelligenza d’ambiente e la sicurezza dei luoghi di lavoro) is an industrial R&D project funded by Regione Autonoma della Sardegna (the Regional Government of Sardinia)
People involved: Fabio Roli, Gian Luca Marcialis
Budget: 91630 €