Media Management for Audiovisual Digital Archiving

Giulia Ferrari graduated in electronic engineering from Politecnico of Milano in 1993. Since 1995 she has been a software engineer at SHS Multimedia. She has been involved in interactive CD-ROM applications and in MPEG projects, focusing on system layer aspects and developed the software of transport stream multiplexing for the first Italian NVOD project and libraries for the transcoding of MPEG streams. Ferrarri has also been responsible for SHS participation in ESPRIT projects. Following graduation, Adriano Bertini focused his attention on the logic analyzer environment. Early in his career, he worked mostly in the field of realtime graphics on dedicated machines, developing architectural reconstruction applications. From 1997 to 1999, he codeveloped a magnetic-field compensation algorithm for realtime data sampling and realtime motion capture applications. Bertini has worked at SHS Multimedia since 1999, designing and developing the i-DHSM project, with special attention to SMP and cluster implementation.

Filippo Ciferri earned a degree in physics in 1993, with a thesis regarding optimization algorithms on parallel machines. From 1993 to 1997, he worked mostly in the field of realtime graphics on dedicated machines developing architectural reconstruction applications. With his colleague, Adriano Bertini, he co-developed a magnetic-field compensation algorithm for realtime data sampling and realtime motion capture applications. The design and development of the i-DHSM is a project Ciferri has been working on at SHS Multimedia since 1999. The focus of his attention is SMP and cluster implementation.