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Analysis of traces left by the JPEG compression
Document authentication and identification through the patterns analysis
Objects classification and segmentation of clinical images
Francesco Guarnera was born in Catania on 20 October 1985. He obtained a Master's degree (110/110 cum laude) in Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania in 2018 with the thesis entitled Estrazione automatica ed analisi di fingerprint su materiale cartaceo retroilluminato. In 2009, he obtained a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (110/110 cum laude) with the thesis entitled Analisi di sicurezza del protocollo OpenID.
He holds the title Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Computer Science in collaboration with ICTLab s.r.l. and the University Of Hertfordshire with a thesis entitled Advanced Methods for Image Forensics: First Quantization Estimation and Document Authentication at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Università degli Studies of Catania.
From 1 April 2022 he is research fellow at the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of the University of
Catania studies with the grant entitled Modeling using Agent Based Modeling (ABM) methodologies by In
Silico Trials for drug evaluation.
Since 2017 he has been a member of the IPLab research group of the University of Catania. He participated at the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) in the 2019 edition. In 2022 he was part of the organization committee of the International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS).
The topics of his research concern Computer Vision, Machine / Deep Learning and Multimedia Forensics. In
particular his research has focused on the reconstruction of the history of JPEG images with reference to
“Double Quantization Detection” (DQD) and “First Quantization Estimation” (FQE).
Lately he move on Medical Imaging research projects focused on the analysis of magnetic resonances of the brain and the analysis of CT scans in subjects with hip prostheses.
Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the University of Catania on a data collection and analysis project
TOPIC: Data Analysis
Contact person: Prof. Antonella Paola Agodi
Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute of Bologna, iCTLab srl and University of Messina for medical
TOPIC: Medical Imaging
Contact person: Prof. Francesco Traina
The COMBINE Group (https://www.combinegroup.org) and the Neurology unit of the Garibaldi hospital in Catania. Resonance analysis magnetic fields of patients suffering from multiple sclerosis as part of the "In Silico World: Lowering barriers to ubiquitous adoption of In Silico Trials - ISW "HORIZON2020 - Topic SC1-DTH-06-2020 - "RIA-Research and Innovation action" - call H2020-SC1-DTH2018-2020 / H2020-SC1-DTH-2020-1 (Digital ransformation in Health and Care), Grant agreement n. 101016503 - Project no. 101016503 - CUP E65F21000170005ment of Medical and Surgical Sciences of the University of Catania on a data collection and analysis project
TOPIC: Medical Imaging
Contact person: Prof. Francesco Pappalardo
R&D of iCTLab (spin-off of the University of Catania)
TOPIC: Digital Forensics / Computer Vision
Department of Economics of the University of Catania on Big Data analysis project of Italian hospitals for quality assessment
TOPIC: Data Analysis
Contact person: Prof. Giacomo Pignataro
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Cagliari
TOPIC: Digital Forensics
Contact person: Prof. Giovanni Puglisi
Center of Excellence for the acceleration of HArm Reduction - CoEHAR directed by prof. Riccardo Polosa, for research activities on devices wearable able to recognize the smoking activity
TOPIC: Artificial Intelligence
Contact person: Prof. Sebastiano Battiato
Polytechnic of Turin and the Ferrero R&D department s.p.a for research activities on the automation of counting and classification of pollen in plantations
TOPIC: Artificial Intelligence
Contact person: Prof. Sebastiano Battiato
6 months visiting at University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
TOPIC: Computer Vision
Contact person: Prof. Dr. Salvatore Livatino
Carabinieri Grouping of Scientific Investigations, RIS of Messina
TOPIC: Digital Forensics / Computer Vision
Contact person: Dr. Angelo Salici
Member of the IPLab Research Group
TOPIC: Computer Vision
Contact person: Prof. Sebastiano Battiato