CVIP Group

	Edoardo Ardizzone is Full Professor of Computer Systems at the Department of Engineering (DI) of University of Palermo. Currently, he teaches Image Processing at the graduate course of Computer Engineering of the University of Palermo. His current research interests include image processing and analysis, medical imaging, image restoration and content-based image and video retrieval.
	Marco La Cascia is Full Professor at the Department of Engineering (DI) of University of Palermo (UNIPA). Before joining UNIPA in 2000, he was Research Associate in the Image and Video Computing Research Group at Boston University. His research interests include low and mid-level computer vision, multimedia processing, and video-surveillance.
	Liliana Lo Presti is Assistant Professor at the Department of Engineering (DI) of University of Palermo (UNIPA). She currently teaches Object-Oriented Programming and Algorithms and Data Structures to undergrad students. In 2013-2015, she was post-doc in the CVIP group. In 2011–2013, she worked as post-doc in the CS Department of Boston University. She got her Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from UNIPA in 2010. She is interested in video-surveillance, multimedia stream alignment, action recognition and behavior understanding, affective computing.
	Giuseppe Mazzola received his PhD in Computer Engineering from University of Palermo in 2008. Since 2009 he is post-doc in the CVIP group. His main research interests are in computer vision, including: multimedia processing, image and video retrieval, visual saliency, image and video forensics, image restoration.
	Giorgio Cruciata is a second year PhD student in Technological Innovation Engineering at University of Palermo. His main research interests are in deep learning and reinforcement learning for visual tracking applications and action modeling.
	Guido Averna is post-doc in the group since July 2021. He got his PhD in Computer Science from University of Catania in 2019. His main research interests are in multi-object tracking and deep learning.

Alumni and Collaborators

	Aldo Maria Bracco research fellow in 2019-2021 working on deep learning for video analysis and time series modeling. Currently, he is research fellow at INGV.
	Martina Mamone research fellow in 2019-2020 working on deep reinforcement learning and correlation filters for visual tracking applications.
	Vito Monteleone PhD student in 2017-2019 working on time-series processing for human activity understanding.
	Francesco Gugliuzza PhD student in 2015-2018 working on image processing and visual saliency.
	Alessandro Bruno PhD student in 2009-2011 and post-doc in 2012-2016 working on visual saliency, image & video forensics, object recognition and modeling using images and video; biomedical imaging.
	Luca Greco PhD student in 2011-2013 and post-doc in 2014-2016 working on image organization, clustering and retrieval; object recognition and modeling using images and video; visual saliency and image processing.
	Marco Morana, PhD student in Computer Engineering in 2008-2010 working on content-based image retrieval.
	Roberto Gallea,  PhD student in Computer Engineering in 2008-2010 working on medical image registration.