Image Analysis Processing & Protection Group

Department of Information Engineering (DINFO) of the University of Florence

Alessandro Piva received his Ph.D. degree in "Computer Science and Telecommunications Engineering" from the University of Florence on 1999. From 2002 until 2004 he was Research Scientist at the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT). Since 2005 he's with the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence.
His research interests lie in the areas of Information Forensics and Security, and of Image and Video Processing. In particular, he was interested in digital watermarking techniques for digital images and video sequences; then he studied new methods for signal processing in the encrypted domain. He is now working to the development of multimedia forensic techniques. In the above research topics he has been co-author of more than 35 papers published in international journals and 100 papers published in international conference proceedings.
He is lecturer for the course "Image Processing and Protection" of the Laurea Degree in Telecommunications Engineering of the University of Florence.
He is IEEE Senior Member, and he was IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee Member. He was Technical Co-Chair of IEEE MMSP2004, Program Co-Chair of IH&MMSEC14, Publications Chair of WIFS2013 and ICASSP2014, Co-Organizer of the First IEEE SPS Italy Chapter Summer School on Signal Processing.

The Image Analysis Processing & Protection (IAPP) group (previously Image and Communication Lab - LCI) is a Research Group within the Signal Processing & Communications (SPC) laboratory of the Department of Information Engineering (DINFO) of the University of Florence, located in Via Santa Marta 3, 50139 Florence, Italy.
The research activity carried out by this group involves the analysis, the processing and the protection of multimedia signals, focusing on images and video sequences, in the framework of both Italian regional and national projects, as well as of projects funded by the European Community.
The IAPP group is also involved in the teaching activities of the Faculty of Engineering, with several courses held in the framework of the Laurea degrees on: Informatic Engineering, Electronic and Telecommunications Engineering, Information Engineering.
The IAPP group also belongs to the Research Unit of Florence of the National Inter-university Consortium for Telecommunications (CNIT).

alessandro.piva@unifi.it