Mauro Barni graduated in electronic engineering at the University of Florence in
1991. He received the PhD in Informatics and Telecommunications in October 1995.
He has carried out his research activity for more than 20 years, first at the
Department of Electronics and Telecommunication of the University of Florence,
then at the Department of Information Engineering and Mathematics of the
University of Siena where he works as full Professor. His activity focuses on
digital image processing and information security, with particular reference to
the application of image processing techniques to copyright protection (digital
watermarking) and authentication of multimedia (multimedia forensics). He has
been studying the possibility of processing signals that has been previously
encrypted without decrypting them (signal processing in the encrypted domain –
s.p.e.d.). Lately he has been working on theoretical and practical aspects of
adversarial signal processing and adversarial machine learning.
He is author/co-author of about 350 papers published in international journals
and conference proceedings, he holds four patents in the field of digital
watermarking and one patent dealing with anticounterfeiting technology. His
papers on digital watermarking have significantly contributed to the development
of such a theory in the last decade as it is demonstrated by the large number of
citations some of these papers have received. The overall citation record of M.
Barni amounts to an h-number of 63 according to Scholar Google search engine. He
is co-author of the book “Watermarking Systems Engineering: Enabling Digital
Assets Security and other Applications”, published by Dekker Inc. in February
2004. He is editor of the book “Document and Image Compression” published by
CRC-Press in 2006.
He has been the chairman of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing Workshop held
in Siena in 2004, and the chairman of the IV edition of the International
Workshop on Digital Watermarking. He was the technical program co-chair of
ICASSP 2014 and the technical program chairman of the 2005 edition of the
Information Hiding Workshop, the VIII edition of the International Workshop on
Digital Watermarking and the V edition of the IEEE Workshop on Information
Forensics and Security (WIFS 2013). In 2008, he was the recipient of the IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine best column award. In 2010 he was awarded the IEEE
Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing best paper award. He was the
recipient of the Individual Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP EURASIP for
2016.
He was the Editor in chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and
Security from 2015 to 2017. He was the founding editor in chief of the EURASIP
Journal on Information Security. He has been a member of the editorial board of
several journals including, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, IEEE Trans. on
Circuits and system for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE
Signal Processing Letters, IEEE Transactions on dependable and Secure Computing,
IEEE Open Journal on Signal Processing.
From 2010 to 2011, Prof. Barni has been the chairman of the IEEE Information
Forensic and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing
Society. He has been a member of the IEEE Multimedia Signal Processing technical
committee and of the conference board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
Mauro Barni is a fellow member of the IEEE and senior member of EURASIP. He was
appointed distinguished lecturer by the IEEE Signal Processing Society for the
years 2013-2014.
He participated in several national and international research projects on
diverse topics, including digital watermarking, information security, signal
processing in the encrypted domain and multimedia forensics. He is leading the
VIPP (Visual Information Processing and Protection) group of the
Telecommunication Laboratory of the Information Engineering Department at the
University of Siena . The group consists of 12 members including faculty
members, graduate and undergraduate students..