Luca Guarnera was born in Catania on October 26, 1992. Since Jenuary 1, 2022, he is a research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Catania.
He graduated as Ph.D. in Computer Science (XXXIII cycle, PON number E37H18000330006) on October 14, 2021, discussing the thesis entitled
“Discovering Fingerprints for Deepfake Detection and Multimedia-Enhanced Forensic Investigations” at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania.
Part of the Ph.D. research was carried out at the University of Hertfordshire, College Lane Campus, Hatfield, UK, under the supervision of Prof. Salvatore Livatino,
working on the creation of a VR tool for forensic ballistics analysis and firearms comparison.
He received his MSc (cum laude) in Computer Science from the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania in 2017.
He joined IPLab in 2015.
Since 2022, he has participated in the organisation of various prestigious international events (Technical Programme Committee, challenges, tutorials). He was a speaker at the
International Forensics Summer School (IFOSS) in 2022 and a member of the organisational team for various international summer schools (ICVSS, MISS).
He has published numerous papers in international journals and conferences. He regularly carries out scientific review activities for international journals.
He was Guest Editor for the Special Issue Advancements in Deepfake Technology, Biometry System and Multimedia Forensic in the MDPI Journal of Imaging. His main research interests include Computer Vision,
Machine Learning and Multimedia Forensics, with a main focus on the development of deepfake detection algorithms based on the identification and analysis of intrinsic traces left during the creation process in images, video, audio and, in general, in multimodal data.
Dottore di Ricerca (Industriale) in Informatica (XXXIII ciclo - Internazionale) presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università di Catania (numero PON E37H18000330006), in collaborazione con lo spin-off "iCTLab s.r.l.", società operante nel settore della Digital Forensics, Privacy e Security. Tesi: Discovering Fingerprints for Deepfake Detection and Multimedia-Enhanced Forensic Investigations
Laurea Magistrale in Informatica (cum laude) presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università di Catania, discutendo la tesi dal titolo "Forensics tool per la generazione e ripristino di immagini digitali di targhe di veicoli stradali" (in collaborazione con ICTLab e Image Processing Lab (IPLAB))
Laurea Triennale in Informatica presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell'Università di Catania con votazione 110/110 discutendo la tesi dal titolo "GRAPHJ2.0: Rilievi grafometrici avanzati nell'analisi forense delle manoscritture". (in collaborazione con il Reparto Investigazioni Scientifiche dell'Arma dei Carabinieri (RIS) di Messina e l'Image Processing Lab (IPLAB));
Ricercatore (RTDa) presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica. Azione: IV.4 - Dottorati e contratti di ricerca su tematiche dell'Innovazione. Titolo dell'attività di ricerca: Studio di sistemi di monitoraggio intelligente e mappatura a mezzo droni e sensoristica avanzata di aree urbane e rurali/green per la prevenzione e il supporto all'investigazione in materia ambientale. Dipartimento di afferenza Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica. Settore scientifico disciplinare INF/01 – Informatica . Impresa coinvolta nel progetto iCTLAB srl (CT) www.ictlab.srl. Responsabile scientifico del progetto Prof. Sebastiano Battiato
Assegnista di ricerca con un progetto dal titolo: “Ricerca e Sviluppo di algoritmi di Computer Vision in ambito Automotive, SmartCity e Surveillance”, presso il Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica. Assegno finanziato dal progetto ricerca “Sviluppo di tecnologie e sistemi avanzati per la sicurezza dell'auto mediante piattaforme ADAS – ADAS+”, cod. ARS01_00459, CUP E66C18000410005; responsabile scientifico: prof. Sebastiano Battiato;
CUTGANA (Via Santa Sofia, 98, Catania (CT), Italia). Contratto di ricerca a tempo determinato. Le principali attività riguardavano lo sviluppo di algoritmi di computer vision per il riconoscimento di oggetti per la produzione automatica di video digitali
Mirko Casu, Sergio Triscari, Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera, and Pasquale Caponnetto (2024). Applied Sciences, 14(13), 5889. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/app14135889
Mirko Casu, Luca Guarnera, Pasquale Caponnetto, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation, 50, 301795, ISSN 2666-2817. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsidi.2024.301795
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Applications. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3652027
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Salvatore Livatino, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Angelo Salici, and Sebastiano Battiato (2023). Multimedia Tools and Applications, 1-27. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-022-14037-x
Andrea Maugeri, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Giuliana Favara, Maria Clara La Rosa, Claudia La Mastra, Paolo Marco Riela, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Martina Barchitta, and Antonella Agodi (2022). Nutrients, 14(20), 4418. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14204418
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Francesco Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, Giovanni Puglisi, Antonino Paratore, Linh M. Q. Bui, Marco Fontani, Davide Alessandro Coccomini, Roberto Caldelli, Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro, Nicola Messina, Giuseppe Amato, Gianpaolo Perelli, Sara Concas, Carlo Cuccu, Giulia Orrù, Gian Luca Marcialis, and Sebastiano Battiato (2022). Journal of Imaging, 8(10), 263. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging8100263
Martina Barchitta, Andrea Maugeri, Giuliana Favara, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Paolo Marco Riela, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, and Antonella Agodi (2022). Nutrients, 14(2), 330. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14020330
Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, and Sebastiano Battiato (2021). Journal of Imaging, 7(8), 128. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging7080128
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, and Sebastiano Battiato (2020). IEEE Access, 8, 165085-165098. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3023037
Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Angelo Salici, Claudio Ciampini, Vito Matranga, and Sebastiano Battiato (2018). Journal of Electronic Imaging, 27(5), 051230. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JEI.27.5.051230
Orazio Pontorno, Luca Guarnera, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024. (accepted)
Alessio Barbaro Chisari, Alessandro Ortis, Luca Guarnera, Wladimiro Carlo Patatu, Rosaria Ausilia Giandolfo, Emanuele Spampinato, Sebastiano Battiato, and Mario Valerio Giuffrida (2024). In Proceedings of 2024 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2024. (accepted)
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In Proceedings of SAI Intelligent Systems Conference. Cham: Springer International Publishing
Eleonora Breci, Luca Guarnera, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP). IEEE.
Eleonora Breci, Luca Guarnera, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In Proceedings at Electronic Imaging 2024 (Burlingame, CA (SFO). 21-25 January 2024).
Luca Guarnera, Salvatore Manganello, and Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In Proceedings at Electronic Imaging 2024 (Burlingame, CA (SFO). 21-25 January 2024).
Roberto Leotta, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, and Sebastiano Battiato (2023). In Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 364-375, Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Maria Ausia Napoli Spatafora, Massimo Orazio Spata, Luca Guarnera, Alessandro Ortis, and Sebastiano Battiato (2023). In Proceedings of 2023 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (pp. 376-386). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
Sebastiano Battiato, Luciano Cantelli, Fabio D'Urso, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Luca Guarnera, Dario Calogero Guastella, Rosario Leonardi, Alessia Li Noce, Giovanni Muscato, Alessio Piazza, Francesco Ragusa, Corrado Santoro, Giuseppe Sutera, and Antonio Zappalà (2022). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing.
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, and Sebastiano Battiato (2022). In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (pp. 151-163). Springer, Cham.
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Matthias Nießner, and Sebastiano Battiato (2022). In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (pp. 61-70).
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, and Sebastiano Battiato (2020). In Proceedings of 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2020, pp. 2841-2850. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/CVPRW50498.2020.00341
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Cristina Nastasi, and Sebastiano Battiato (2020). In Proceedings of 2020 AEIT International Annual Conference (AEIT), 2020, pp. 1-6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.23919/AEIT50178.2020.9241108
Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Giovanni Maria Farinella, and Sebastiano Battiato (2019). In Proceedings of 2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019, pp. 4045-4049. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2019.8803619
Francesco Ragusa, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, and Giovanni Maria Farinella (2018). In Proceedings of 2018 International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP), pp. 573-579, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5220/0006886404070413
Sebastiano Battiato, Luciano Cantelli, Fabio D’Urso, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Luca Guarnera, Dario Guastella, Carmelo Donato Melita, Giovanni Muscato, Alessandro Ortis, Francesco Ragusa, and Corrado Santoro (2017). In Proceedings of 2017 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10484, pp. 129-139. Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68560-1_12
Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Angelo Salici, Claudio Ciampini, Vito Matranga, and Sebastiano Battiato (2017). In Proceedings of 2017 International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10485, pp. 591-601, Springer, Cham. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_54
Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato (2024). In Abstract proceedings of 76st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2024 - Denver, CO | February 19-24.
Martina Barchitta, Andrea Maugeri, Giuliana Favara, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Paolo Marco Riela, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Antonella Agodi (2021). In Abstract proceedings of 14th EPH Conference programme Virtual 2021.
Martina Barchitta, Andrea Maugeri, Giuliana Favara, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Paolo Marco Riela, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Antonella Agodi (2021). In Abstract proceedings of 54° Congresso Nazionali delle SItI - SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI IGIENE, MEDICINA PREVENTIVA E SANITA' PUBBLICA, 2021.
Martina Barchitta, Andrea Maugeri, Giuliana Favara, Roberta Magnano San Lio, Paolo Marco Riela, Luca Guarnera, Sebastiano Battiato, Antonella Agodi (2021). In Abstract proceedings of 54° Congresso Nazionali delle SItI - SOCIETÀ ITALIANA DI IGIENE, MEDICINA PREVENTIVA E SANITA' PUBBLICA, 2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera (2021). In Abstract proceedings of 73st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2021 - February 2021.
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Angelo Salici (2020). In Abstract proceedings of 72st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2020 - Anaheim, California (US) - February 2020.
Oliver Giudice, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera (2019). In Abstract proceedings of 71st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2019 - Baltimore (US) - February 2019.
Oliver Giudice, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera (2019). In Abstract proceedings of 71st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2019 - Baltimore (US) - February 2019.
Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Ignazio Zangara (2024). Capitolo in International Information System Forensics Association (IISFA) Memberbook 2023 DIGITAL FORENSICS – Eds. G. Costabile, A. Attanasio, M. Ianulardo – Italy 2024. ISBN: 978-8832189100
Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2022). In Nuove questioni di informatica forense, a cura di Raffaella Brighi. Collana Informatica giuridica, Aracne Editrice. ISBN: 979-12-5994-643-0
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Cristina Nastasi (2021). Capitolo in International Information System Forensics Association (IISFA) Memberbook 2021 DIGITAL FORENSICS – Eds. G. Costabile, A. Attanasio, M. Ianulardo – Italy 2021. ISBN: 978-8832189049
Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore (2018). Capitolo in International Information System Forensics Association (IISFA) Memberbook 2018 DIGITAL FORENSICS – Eds. G. Costabile, A. Attanasio, M. Ianulardo – Italy 2019
Sebastiano Battiato, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera.
Sebastiano Battiato, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera. EP, Patent, 2022. WO2023079395A1. [Google Patent]
M. Barchitta, A. Agodi, S. Battiato, G. Favara, L. Guarnera, R. Magnano San Lio, A. G. Maugeri, P. M. Riela. Deposito diritto autore.
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