automatic classification of contents, analysis of information, decision support for to stakeholders and citizens related to content directly on site using different kind of sensors and cameras, providing on the edge and also remote solutions.

The National Research Council of Italy (CNR) is the largest public research institution in Italy and is organized in departments and institutes. ISTI (Institute of Information Science and Technologies "Alessandro Faedo") is affiliated to the CNR Dept. of Engineering, Information, Communication, Energy and Transportation Technologies (DIITET). ISTI-CNR is the largest CNR institute for Computer Science (with a staff of around 230 plus a fluctuating number of students) and is located in Pisa (Tuscany). The Institute was founded in 2000 by merging the CNUCE and IEI institutes of CNR. A collection of documents on the history of ISTI and its ancestors is available at: http://story.isti.cnr.it/ (but most of those documents are in Italian).

Specifically Signals and Images laboratory is an inter-disciplinary research laboratory in computer vision, signal analysis, smart vision systems and multimedia data understanding. Researchers and technologists in computer science, mathematics, engineering and physics work together to produce original and effective research in computer vision and signal analysis, and to transfer knowledge and innovative solutions to society and industrial production and services, from cultural heritage to tourism, from mobility to entertainment, from security to environment, as well as healthcare and wellness.
To foster innovation by considering that sensorial information is increasing its importance in both our daily life and the most advanced technological and scientific contexts.
To boost the understanding of visual and audio information which is becoming the most significant part of the global data to be processed, understood and manipulated.