Marco Bertini is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Florence, Italy. He is working at the Media Integration and Communication Center, where he serves as Director of the Center. His research interests are focused on computer vision, multimedia, digital libraries, and social media analysis.  On these subjects he has addressed semantic analysis, automatic content indexing, semantic retrieval and video quality improvement, applying these techniques to different domains among which cultural heritage. He is the author of 29 journal papers and more than 130 peer-reviewed conference papers. He has been general co-chair, program co-chair and area chair of several international conferences and workshops (ACM MM, ICMR, CBMI, etc.), and was an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. He has been involved in 10 EU research projects as WP coordinator and researcher, among which include IM3I, euTV, ORUSSI, UMETECH, AI4Media, and ReInHerit.