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Alessandro Piva è professore associato presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione dell'Università di Firenze. È anche responsabile del FORLAB - Multimedia Forensics Laboratory dell'Università di Firenze. I suoi interessi di ricerca riguardano le aree dell'Information Forensics and Security e dell'Image and Video Processing. Nel primo argomento, si è interessato al data hiding, all'elaborazione del segnale nel dominio crittografato, alle tecniche forensi di immagini e video. Nel secondo ambito, si è interessato alla progettazione di tecniche di elaborazione e analisi di immagini e video per i Beni Culturali, applicazioni mediche e industriali. Negli argomenti di ricerca sopra menzionati è stato coautore di oltre 60 articoli pubblicati su riviste internazionali e 120 articoli pubblicati in atti di conferenze internazionali, con h-index 42 secondo Scopus. È IEEE Fellow.

Professore Associato presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione;

IEEE Fellow

Responsabile Scientifico del FORLAB - Laboratorio di Multimedia Forensics, Polo Universitario Città di Prato (Università di Firenze).

Formazione

Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica conseguita presso l'Università degli Studi di Firenze con la votazione di 110/110 e Lode (1995).

Abilitazione all'esercizio della professione di Ingegnere conseguita nella II sessione dell'anno 1995.

Titolo di Dottore di Ricerca in Ingegneria Informatica e delle Telecomunicazioni, conseguito presso l'Università degli Studi di Firenze (1999).

Soggiorno di studio di 4 mesi presso i Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven, Olanda per partecipare al progetto di ricerca “Analysis of Digital Watermarking Schemes” (1998).

Attività lavorativa

Vincitore di un Assegno di ricerca nel campo “Marchiatura di immagini digitali per la distribuzione sicura su rete telematica”, presso il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze (2000-2002).

Ha svolto incarichi di collaborazione coordinata e continuativa nell’ambito dell’attività di ricerca del Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettronica, del Dipartimento di Chimica e del Centro di Eccellenza per la Comunicazione e l’Integrazione dei Media dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze.

Assunto con contratto di lavoro a tempo determinato presso il Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Telecomunicazioni (CNIT) come Ricercatore (Area Ricerca IV livello) (2002-2004).

Dal 2005 al 2014 è stato Ricercatore a tempo indeterminato presso il Dipartimento di Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, ora Dip. di Ingegneria dell’Informazione dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze.

Dal novembre 2014 è Professore Associato presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze.

Principali attività didattiche

Docente di Insegnamenti nell’ambito di Corsi di laurea triennale, specialistica o magistrale dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze (UNIFI):

E’ attualmente docente dei corsi

• “Fondamenti di Segnali e Trasmissioni”, CdL Ingegneria Informatica, dall’ a.a. 2017/18 (9 CFU)
• “Image Processing & Security”nformatica, mutuato in “Elaborazione e Protezione delle Immagini” per CdL Magistrale in Ingegneria dei Sistemi Elettronici, dall’a.a. 2010/11 (9 CFU a.a. 2010/11-2012/13, poi passato a 6 CFU dal 2013/14).

E’ stato docente dei corsi

•  “Fondamenti di Internet”, CdL Ingegneria Elettronica e delle Telecomunicazioni, per gli  a.a. 2015/16 e 2016/17 (3CFU)
• “Sicurezza dei Contenuti Multimediali”, CdL in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni e in Ingegneria Informatica, 2008/09 e  2009/10 (5 CFU).
• “Terminali Multimediali”, CdL in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni, dall’a. a. 2003/04 all’a.a. 2007/08 (5 CFU).
•  “Comunicazioni Elettriche”, CdL in Ingegneria dell’Informazione, nell’a. a. 2008/09 (5 CFU).
• “Elaborazione delle Immagini”, CdL in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni, a.a. 2005/06.
• “Informatica Applicata”, CdL in Ingegneria dei Trasporti, dall’a. a. 2002/03 all’a.a.  2005/06.
• “Telecomunicazioni”, CdL in Media e Giornalismo, a. a. 2001/02.
• “Information and Communication Technology”, CdL in Tecnica Vivaistica, a. a. 2002/03 e 2003/04.

Attività di ricerca

L’attività di ricerca si è inserita nell’ambito di progetti di ricerca regionali, nazionali ed internazionali:

Principali aree di ricerca:

1. Protezione e sicurezza dei contenuti multimediali

Ha iniziato a lavorare nel campo della marchiatura digitale per la protezione di immagini a partire dagli anni novanta. Per più di 15 anni, ha contribuito a costruire un solido quadro teorico per il watermarking e ha sviluppato una vasta gamma di metodi pratici. Più specificamente, ha contribuito allo sviluppo di tecniche di marchiatura robusta per immagini digitali e sequenze video; in seguito, ha sviluppato alcuni metodi sicuri di watermarking per la protezione dei contenuti multimediali attraverso l'adozione di soluzioni crittografiche innovative. Per quanto riguarda il multimedia forensics, ha contribuito allo studio di modelli statistici per la rilevazione e la localizzazione delle tracce lasciate dalla doppia compressione in immagini, video e file audio digitali; inoltre, ha lavorato sulla affidabilità e l'efficienza degli strumenti di image forensics in applicazioni pratiche, principalmente attraverso lo sfruttamento dei metodi di fusione della decisione. Ha anche sviluppato una serie di tecniche di image forensics sfruttando le tracce lasciate dai dispositivi di acquisizione, così come le incongruenze geometriche spesso associate alle manomissioni introdotte in un'immagine

2. Elaborazione di Immagini Video per applicazioni in campo industriale, medico e dei Beni Culturali

In questo settore si è occupato della possibilità di applicazione delle tecniche di elaborazione delle immagini al restauro virtuale di dipinti. Ha studiato l’applicazione di tecniche di multispectral imaging al settore Beni Culturali  per l'identificazione e localizzazione di pigmenti sulla superficie di dipinti, e al settore medico per la diagnosi precoce del melanoma. In questo ambito, ha poi contribuito allo sviluppo di algoritmi di analisi automatica delle immagini per applicazioni industriali e applicazioni biomediche (angiografie).

Oltre a questo, nel passato si è occupato dello sviluppo di un software di codifica video per la rete TETRA, e un sistema per la rivelazione degli errori di trasmissione in sequenze H.263 tramite un algoritmo di data hiding. Si è interessato delle tecniche di stima del cosiddetto flusso ottico (optic flow) per mezzo di algoritmi di tipo globale. Ha poi partecipato al progetto e sviluppo di sistemi per la fruizione, accessibilità e conservazione di contenuti multimediali relativi ai Beni Culturali.

Competenze organizzative

Responsabile Scientifico del Laboratorio di Multimedia Forensics - FORLAB – istituito presso il Polo Universitario "Città di Prato".

Principal Investigator dei Progetti di Ricerca

• FENCE (Forensic modulEs for the automated aNalysis of physiCal integrity in imagEs), finanziato dalla Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) nell'ambito del programma di ricerca Media Forensics (MediFor)  (2016 –2020),
• UNCHAINED (UNcovering media manipulation CHains through contAINer and contEnt Detectable traces), finanziato dalla Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) nell’ambito del Reverse Engineering of Deceptions (RED) programme (2020-2024).

Responsabile Scientifico per conto dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze nei seguenti progetti:

• Progetto europeo GJU CUSPIS (Cultural Heritage Space Management System), 2005-2006
• Progetto europeo FP6 SPEED, 2006-2009.
• Progetto europeo FP7 REWIND, 2011-2014.
• PRIN2007 “Privacy aware processing of encrypted signals for treating sensitive information - Priv-Ware”, 2008-2010.
• PRIN2017  “PREMIER: PREserving Media trustworthiness in the artificial Intelligence ERa”, 2020-2023.
• Progetto regionale ST@rT - Scienze e Tecnologie per il patrimonio Artistico architettonico ed archeologico Toscano, 2007-2010.

Principali attività tecniche

Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Member (2021- Present)

IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee Member, (2011- 2013 e 2020 - 2022), e Associate Member (2015-2016);

EURASIP Special Area Team on “Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security” Member (2016-2018)

Senior Area Editor del Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2016-2023);

Specialty Chief Editor for Imaging Applications, Section of Frontiers in Imaging (2022-Present);

Associate Editor delle riviste internazionali:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, (2009 -2013; 2020-2021);
• IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (2013-2016);
• IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, (2012-2013);
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine e-Newsletter (2007-2009);
•  Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2016-2017);
• EURASIP Journal on Information Security, (2006-2020);
• Journal of Imaging,(2020- Present)

•  IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2015-2019);

Awards

• IEEE Fellow, dal 1 Gennaio 2019, “for contributions to multimedia security”.
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), Maggio 2022
• 2012 Best Associate Editor (BAE) Award for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
• APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award per l'articolo "An overview on video forensics" (S. Milani, M. Fontani, P. Bestagini, M. Barni, A. Piva, M. Tagliasacchi, and S. Tubaro), pubblicato in APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing (Volume 1, 2012).
• 2022 SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honourable Mention in the category of Multimedia Security and Privacy for the paper “Privacy-preserving fingercode authentication”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, MM&Sec '10, pages 231-240, 2010.

Alessandro Piva is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence. He is also head of FORLAB – Multimedia Forensics Laboratory of the University of Florence. His research interests lie in the areas of Information Forensics and Security, and of Image and Video Processing. In the first topic, he was interested in data hiding, signal processing in the encrypted domain, image and video forensic techniques. In the second area, he was interested in the design of image and video processing and analysis techniques for Cultural Heritage, medical and industrial applications. In the above research topics he has been co-author of more than 60 papers published in international journals and 120 papers published in international conference proceedings, with h-index 42 according to Scopus. He is IEEE Fellow.

Studies

February 1995: degree in Electronics Engineering (Telecommunication branch) obtained from the University of Florence, got 110 marks out of 110 Summa cum Laude.

February 1999: Ph. D. in "Information and Telecommunications Engineering" obtained from the University of Florence, discussing the thesis “A DCT-Domain Watermarking System for Copyright Protection of Digital Images”.

Working Activities

2000-2002: Research Grant on “Watermarking of digital images for secure distribution over telematic networks” obtained from the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, University of Florence.

2002-2004: Research Scientist at the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).

2005-2014:  Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Electronics and Telecommunications, now Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence.

Since November  2014:  Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Florence.

Teaching activity

He has been tutor of several Laurea Degree thesis in Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering and Computer Engineering of students of the University of Florence, in the field of image and video processing ans security.

Lecturer for the following courses of the University of Florence:

• “Image Processing and Security”, Laurea Degree in Computer Engineering, since year 2010/2011.
• “Fundamentals of Signals and Transmissions”, 3-year First Level Degree on Computer Engineering, since 2017/18.
•  “Telecommunications”, Laurea Degree in Media and Journalism, year 2001/2002.
• “Information and Communication Technology”, Laurea Degree Nursery, years 2002/2003 and 2003/2004.
• “Applied Informatics”, Laurea Degree in Transport Engineering, since year 2002/2003 until 2005/2006.
• “Image Processing”, Laurea Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, year 2005/2006.
•  “Multimedia Terminals”, Laurea Degree in Telecommunications Engineering, since year 2003/2004, then titled “Security of Multimedia Content” until 2009/2010.
•  “Fundamentals of Internet”, 3-year First Level Degree on Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering, years 2015/16- 2016/17.

Lecturer for the following courses of the University of Siena:

• “Telecommunications Systems”, Laurea Diploma in Telecommunications Engineering, years 99/2000 and 2000/01.
• “Electrical Communications”, Laurea Diploma in Computer, year 99/00.

Research activity

The research activity has been developed in the framework of both Italian national projects, as well as Projects funded by the European Community and by DARPA. The Italian Projects were:

•  “Progetto Finalizzato Beni Culturali“ (Cultural Heritage Project) supported by the National Research Council;
•  “Image sequences analysis and processing techniques for indexed video watermarking and quality evaluation” co-supported by Italian Ministry for University and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), 1999-2001;
• ADIPP (Integrated Digital Archives for Pistoia Province) supported by Italian University and Research Ministry, 2000-2002;
•  “Tecniche di marchiatura elettronica per la protezione e l’autenticazione di immagini da telerilevamento accessibili mediante reti telematiche pubbliche e private” supported by ASI, 2001-03.
• VICOM (Virtual Immersive COMmunications), in the framework of the FIRB Projects, supported by MIUR (Ministry for Instruction, University and Research), 2002-2005.
•  “A knowledge based model for digital restoration and enhancement of images concerning archaeological and monumental heritage of Mediterranean coast” , in the framework of FIRB Projects, supported by MIUR, 2005-2008.
•  “ WAtermarking for Video and imagEs COpyright Protection - WAVECOP” co-supported by MIUR, 2003-2005.
• ST@rT - Scienze e Tecnologie per il patrimonio Artistico architettonico ed archeologico Toscano, funded by the Tuscany Region, Dec. 2007- Dec 2010
•  “Privacy aware processing of encrypted signals for treating sensitive information Priv-Ware” co-funded by MIUR, 2008-2010.
• “PREMIER: PREserving Media trustworthiness in the artificial Intelligence ERa”, co-funded by MIUR, 2020-2023.

The EC funded Projects were:

• ESPRIT project IMPRIMATUR (Intellectual Multimedia Property RIghts Model And Terminology for Universal Reference) - 1995–1998: The Imprimatur project was concerned with methods of buying and selling creative works on networks.
• IST Project TRADEX (TRial Action for Digital object EXchange) 2000 –2002: it focused on the on-line multimedia object transfer, considering copyright marking technologies for solving the illegal copying and proof of ownership problems.
• IST Project RIGHTS WATCH - 2001-2002: it is a research project aiming to develop self-regulatory procedures that facilitate the prompt removal of copyright-infringing material from the Internet (known as Notice and Take Down action).
• IST Project EVAN (Electronic Imaging & The Visual Arts Networking) 2001 - 2002: EVAN aims to help achieve European leadership in the growing 'Culture x Technology' field.
• IST Project MINERVA (MInisterial NEtwoRk for Valorising Activities in digitisation)– 2002-2005: network to harmonise activities carried out in digitisation of cultural and scientific content.
• IST Project ORION (Object Rich InformatiOn Network), 2002 - 2003: a Network of experts of electronic representation of museums' physical resources.
• COST Action 276 (Information and Knowledge Management for Integrated Media Communication), 2001 - 2005.
• IST Project BRICKS (Building Resources for Intelligent Cultural Knowledge Services): an Integrated Project aiming at integrating the existing digital resources into a common and shared Digital Library.
• FP6 IST Project ECRYPT (European Network of Excellence for Cryptology), Its objective was to intensify the collaboration of European researchers in cryptology and watermarking, 2004- 2008.
• CUSPIS (Cultural Heritage Space Management System), an R&D project funded by the GJU (GALILEO Joint Undertaking), in the FP6 of the EC.
• SPEED (Signal Processing in the EncryptEd Domain), FET IST Project of FP6, 2006-2009, studying the processing of encrypted multimedia content without removing the encryption.
• LivingKnowledge (LivingKnowledge - Facts Opinions and Bias in Time), FET project of FP7, 2009 - 2012.
• REWIND (REVerse engineering of audio-VIsual coNtent Data), FET project of FP7, 2011 - 2014.
• MAVEN (Management and Authenticity Verification of multimedia contENts), under the “Research for the benefit of SMEs” programme, in the 7th Framework Programme. (2013 - 2015).
• COST Action CA16101 "MULTI-modal Imaging of FOREnsic SciEnce Evidence - tools for Forensic Science"

In addition, two projects funded by Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA):

• FENCE (Forensic modulEs for the automated aNalysis of physiCal integrity in imagEs), (2016 –2020), under the Media Forensics (MediFor) programme.
• UNCHAINED: UNcovering media manipulation CHains through contAINer and contEnt Detectable traces (2020-2024), under the Reverse Engineering of Deceptions (RED) programme

Current research interests:

1. Multimedia security and protection: with particular reference to digital watermarking and multimedia forensics. He started working on the use of digital watermarking for image protection since the late nineties. For more than 15 years, he contributed to build a solid theoretical framework for watermarking and developed a wide set of practical methods bridging the gap between theory and practice. More specifically, he has contributed to the development of robust digital watermarking techniques for digital images and video sequences; later on, he has developed some secure watermarking methods for multimedia content protection through the adoption of innovative cryptographic solutions. Regarding multimedia forensics, he contributed to the design of statistical models for the detection and localization of traces left by double compression in images, video and audio files; moreover, he worked on the reliability and efficiency of image forensic tools in practical applications, mainly through the exploitation of decision fusion methods. He also developed a number of forensic techniques exploiting the traces left by the acquisition devices, as well as geometric inconsistencies often associated to image tampering.
2. Image processing techniques for on Cultural Heritage, medical and industrial applications: in this field he contributed to the development of image processing algorithms that can help the restorers in the analysis during the restoration phases; on the other hand, by means of image processing it is possible to carry out a sort of virtual restoration. The developed tools have been integrated into a package named ArtShop. Multispectral imaging techniques were applied on the CH field to achieve material localization and identification on painting surfaces, and on medical field for early diagnosis of melanoma. Analysis of angiographies for the automatic measuring of diameter and temporal pulsatility in blood vessels was studied; parameter estimation for the automatic recognition of textile (cheratinic) fibres was also studied.

Other research interests:

1. Video processing techniques: in this field a video coding software for low bit-rate video transmission over wireless networks has been developed, and a system for correcting errors in H.263 and H.264 video based on watermarking has been designed. Moreover he has studied techniques for the optic flow estimation by means of global algorithms.
2. Multimedia applications in the Cultural Heritage field: he has worked in the development of systems for the fruition, accessibility and preservation of Cultural Heritage related multimedia content.

Technical activity

Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), (2022-Present)

Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA) Member (2021- Present)

IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee Member (2011-2013, and 2020 - 2022), and Associate Member (2015-2016).

EURASIP Special Area Team on “Biometrics, Data Forensics, and Security” Member (2016-2018)

Senior Area Editor of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2016-Present);

Specialty Chief Editor for Imaging Applications, Section of Frontiers in Imaging (2022-Present);

Associate Editor of the following Journals:

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security (2009-2013, 2020-2021)
• IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing (2015-2019);
• Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation (2016-Present);
• IEEE Trans. on Multimedia ( 2013-2016)
• IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology ( 2012-2014)
• IEEE Signal Processing Magazine e-Newsletter (2007-2009)
• EURASIP Journal on Information Security  (2006- 2020)
• Journal of Imaging,(2020- Present)

• Co Guest Editor for Special Issue of IEEE Trans. on Image Processing on “Image Processing for Cultural Heritage”, March 2004.
• Co Guest Editor for Special Issue of EURASIP Journal on Information Security on “Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain”, 2007.
• Co Guest Editor for a Special Issue of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Visual Cultural Heritage”, July 2008.
• Co Guest Editor for a Special Issue of Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation on “Data-driven multimedia forensics and security”, August  2018.

• Co-Organizer of the First IEEE SPS Italy Chapter Summer School on Signal Processing, Riotorto, Livorno (Italy), September 1-6, 2013.
• General Chair of the 2018 IEEE Summer School on Signal Processing (S3p-2018), San Vincenzo, Livorno (Italy), September 10-14, 2018.

• Co-Organizer of the First IEEE IFS-TC Image Forensics Challenge.

• General Co-Chair of 13th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2021), December 7 – 10, 2021, Montpellier, France
• General Co-Chair of 2017 Tyrrhenian International Workshop on Digital Communications, September 18-20, 2017, Palermo, Italy.
• Program Co-Chair of 17^th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2018), Oct. 22-24, 2018, Jeju, Korea.
• Program Co-Chair of 18^th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2019), Nov. 2-4, 2019, Chengdu, China.
• Program Co-Chair of 19^th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2020), Nov. 25-27, 2020, Melbourne, Australia.
• Program Co-Chair of 20^th International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2021), Nov. 20-22, 2021, Beijing, China.
• Program Co-Chair of 21st International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2022), Nov. 18-19, 2022, Guilin, China.
• Program Co-Chair of 22nd International Workshop on Digital-forensics and Watermarking (IWDW2023), Nov. 25-26, 2023, Jinan, China.

• Program Co-Chair of 2^nd ACM Workshop on Information Hiding & Multimedia Security, June 11-13, 2014, Salzburg, Austria.
• Technical Co-Chair of 2004 International Workshop On Multimedia Signal Processing, Sept. 29 – Oct. 1, 2004, Siena, Italy.
• Conference Chair of First Int. Workshop on Signal Processing in EncryptEd Domain (SPEED2009) , Lausanne, Sept. 10, 2009.
• Publications Chair of Fifth IEEE Int. Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS 2013), Guangzhou, Nov. 18-21, 2013.
• Publications Co-Chair of 2014 IEEE Int. Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP2014), Firenze, Italy, May 4-9, 2014.
• Publications Chair of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2018, San Diego, USA, July 23-27, 2018.
• Invited Session Chair of IIHMSP07, November 26-28, 2007, Taiwan.
• Local Organization Chair for 2015 IEEE Conference on Communications and Network Security (CNS), Firenze Italy
• Area Chair
• for the subject area: "Multimedia Security and Forensics" of IEEE ICME'15.
• for the subject area: "Multimedia Security " of IEEE ISM2015.

• co-Chair of a Special Session on "Media Security", at 6th International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services (WIAMIS2005) - 13-15 April 2005, Montreux, Switzerland.
• co-Chair of a Special Session on “Cultural Heritage”, 14^th European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2006, Firenze, Italy, September 4-8, 2006.
• co-Chair of a Special Session on “Signal Processing in the Encrypted Domain”, 16^th European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland, August 25-29, 2008.
• co-Chair of a Special Session on “Uncovering the processing history of multimedia objects”, 20^th European Signal Processing Conf. EUSIPCO 2012, Bucharest, Romania, August 27-31, 2012.
• co-Chair of a Special Session on “Video and Image Forensics”, 2013 IEEE 15^th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP2013), Pula (Sardinia), Italy, September 30 -October 2, 2013.

 Awards

• IEEE Fellow, effective 1 January 2019, for contributions to multimedia security.
• Fellow of Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA), May 2022
• In 2010 elected to the grade of Senior Member of the IEEE
• 2012 Best Associate Editor (BAE) Award for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.

• Top-10% paper award at 2013 IEEE 15^th International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP2013) for the work  “Localization of Forgeries in MPEG-2 Video through GOP Size and DQ Analysis”.
• APSIPA Sadaoki Furui Prize Paper Award for "An overview on video forensics" (by S. Milani, M. Fontani, P. Bestagini, M. Barni, A. Piva, M. Tagliasacchi, and S. Tubaro) published on APSIPA Trans. on Signal and Information Processing (Vol 1, 2012).
• 2022 SIGMM Test of Time Paper Honourable Mention in the category of Multimedia Security and Privacy for the paper “Privacy-preserving fingercode authentication”. In Proceedings of the 12th ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, MM&Sec '10, pages 231-240, 2010.