Eng. Furferi Rocco Ph.D.
Born in Figline V.no (Firenze), 1974
Phone. +39 055960884
mobile. +39 3286031977
e-mail: rocco.furferi@unifi.it

Rocco Furferi was born in Florence, Italy, in 1974. He received the Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florence, Italy, in March 2001. In January 2002 he started the Ph.D. course in “Machine Design and Manufacturing” at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Technologies” of the University of Florence. In March 2005 he received a Ph.D Degree in Machine design and Construction from the University of Florence. He is now lecturer and assistant Professor for the courses “Computational Graphics”, “Technical Computational Graphics”. He is Professor for the course “Environmental Image Processing”. His main interests (and publications) are: Machine Vision Design, Image Processing based systems applied to textile field; development of methodologies based on the Artificial Neural Networks; design of quality control systems for textile processes, Reverse Engineering and Rapid Prototyping. Dr. Furferi is a member of MDA (Machine Design Association).

Career

- February 2008 - now: Post PhD Researcher and official Professor of the Courses “Environmental Image Processing” and “Digital Image Processing” at the Engineering faculty of Florence (Italy).
- From January 2007: Assistant Professor of the Course Industrial Technical Drafting at the Engineering faculty of Florence. - From September 2006: Coordinator of the Course of International Logistics financed by Savino Del Bene S.p.a.
- From April 2006: Contract Professor for the courses “Environmental Image Processing” and “Digital Image Processing” at the Engineering faculty of Florence (Italy).
- March 2006 – Genuary 2007 : Researcher for the Tuscany Region in the Project “Development of a Artificial Neural Network based colour predictive software for textile materials” POR Ob. 3 FSE a valere sulla misura D4.
- From September 2005: lecturer and assistant Professor for the courses “Computational Graphics” and “Technical Computational Graphics” at the Engineering faculty of Florence (Italy).
- March 2005- April 2006: Researcher for the University of Florence in the Project “Development of a non intrusive AV system for measuring camber and toe of terrestrial vehicles. (Financed by FASEP s.r.l., Florence, Italy).
- March 2005: PhD Degree in Machine design and Construction from the University of Florence. His Ph.D. course was focused on the development of AVI systems in textile field.
Genuary 2005 – march 2006: Researcher for University of Florence for the project “ Development of a no-contact system for the measurement of camper and toe angles in terrestrial vehicles” financed by FASEP s.r.l. of Ronta (Florence, Italy).
- Maj 2001: Professional Engineer (PE) Degree D.P.R. 328/2001 Ordine degli Ingegneri della Provincia di Firenze 4477.
- March 2001: Master Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Florence. Thesis financed by ATA (Associazione Tecnica dell’Automobile) of FIAT Research Center (Turin, Italy).

Research sectors

➢ Image processing.
➢ Development of Artificial Vision Systems
➢ Artificial Neural Networks
➢ Reverse Engineering
➢ No contact measurement
➢ Internazional Logistics

Pubblicazions

1. Carfagni M., Furferi R., Governi L., “A non-intrusive procedure for measuring height and density of the fibers emerging from a raised cloth”, XIII ADM - XV INGEGRAF, International Conference on TOOLS AND METHODS EVOLUTION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN (June 2003).
2. Furferi R., Governi L., “Colour classification tool devising using Neural Networks”, XIII ADM - XV INGEGRAF, International Conference on TOOLS AND METHODS EVOLUTION IN ENGINEERING DESIGN (June 2003).
3. Carfagni M.; Furferi R.; Miniati F., “Implementation of an approach for reducing the sound power of a generating set” 5TH European Conference on Noise Control, Naples, Italy - Supplement 1 of Acta Acustica united with Acustica Vol.89 n.3 May/June (2003) 136 pp.
4. Carfagni M., Furferi R., Governi L., "Controllo dei prodotti industriali e simulazione di processo mediante applicazione di tecniche basate su processamento digitale delle immagini e su Reti Neurali" – Notiziario dell'Ordine degli Ingegneri di Firenze, N° 1 Gen-Feb 2004.
5. Furferi R. Governi L. “Controllo delle difettosità su tubolari di maglia mediante tecniche di image processing”. XIV ADM XXXIII AIAS - Innovazione nella progettazione industriale. Bari. 31 Agosto - 2 Settembre 2004.
6. Furferi, R. Galasso, A. “Misurare in tempo reale l'altezza del pelo” Tinctoria Volume 102, Issue 3, March 2005, Pages 40-46. 7. Furferi R. , “Artificial Intelligence Methods for Virtual Restoration of Ancient Textiles”, New Materials and Eco-sustainable Technologies for the Conservation and Restoration of Textiles Conference, Firenze, 9 Maggio 2005.
8. Carfagni M. Furferi R. “Machine vision system for real-time defect detection and classification on circular knitting machines”. Invited lecture at “The Fiber Society” - Spring 2005 Conference, may 25-27, St. Gallen Switzerland.
9. Furferi R. Governi L. “A Neural Network based system for woollen clothes colour classification”. Invited lecture at “The Fiber Society” - Spring 2005 Conference, may 25-27, St. Gallen Switzerland.
10. Furferi R. Governi L. “An Image Processing based method for monitoring the raising process”. Invited lecture at “The Fiber Society” - Spring 2005 Conference, may 25-27, St. Gallen Switzerland.
11. Carfagni M. Furferi R. Miniati F. “Design and optimization of a new range of low sound emission generating set”. Electronic Journal «Technical Acoustics» http://webcenter.ru/~eeaa/ejta/.
12. Carfagni, M., Furferi, R., Governi, L. “A real-time machine-vision system for monitoring the textile raising process” Computers in Industry, Special Issue on Machine Vision, Elsevier Volume/Issue 56/8-9 pp. 831-842.
13. Rocco Furferi, Lapo Governi, “Development of an Artificial Vision Inspection System for Real-Time Defect Detection and Classification on Circular Knitting Machines” WSEAS TRANSACTIONS on COMPUTERS Issue 6, Volume 5, June 2006 pp. 1186-1194.
14. Furferi R., Governi L. “Machine vision tool for real-time detection of defects on textile raw fabrics”, to be published in the Journal of the Textile Institute, Woodhead Publishing Limited.
15. Carfagni M., Daou M., Furferi R., “Artificial Neural Network software for real-time estimation of olive oil qualitative parameters during continuous extraction”. To be published in Computers and electronics in agriculture. Elsevier.

Tools
- Windows, Mac
- Matlab, Pascal, Basic
- Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Corel Draw, Corel Photo-Paint, Access, Frontpage, Publisher, Photoshop, Jasc Paintshop Pro, Rapidform.
- Solidworks, Mechanical Desktop, AutoCad, Solid Edge