"According to M. McLuhan, media are the technological extensions of human senses. ICT technologies for multimedia enable a smart management of contents and knowledge, as well as the design of advanced services beyond physical capacity, by adding intelligence to systems."

The Multimedia Signal Processing and Understanding Lab (MM-Lab) deals with most relevant aspects of multimedia data processing, focusing onto both theoretical and application-driven research issues. Since media can be considered as the technological extensions of human capabilities, particular attention is paid to smart multimedia data management, analysis, transmission and protection, and to those applications where ambient intelligence can provide advanced services beyond human limitations.