Luca Guarnera
 Ph.D. Student
luca.guarnera@unict.it







MULTIMEDIA FORENSICS

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Catania
Viale A. Doria 6 - 95125, Catania, Italy
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About me

Luca Guarnera is a PhD student in computer science at the University of Catania in collaboration with the spin-off ICTLab. He received his master’s degree in computer science (cum laude) from the University of Catania in 2017. He joined IPLAB in 2015. His research interests are Multimedia Forensics and related fields under the supervision of Prof. Sebastiano Battiato.


THESIS:
  • Master's degree in computer science, 29 September 2017: "Forensics tool per la generazione e ripristino di immagini digitali di targhe di veicoli stradali"
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, 9 March 2016: "GRAPHJ2.0: Rilievi grafometrici avanzati nell'analisi forense delle manoscritture"





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MBZIRC 2017, MBZIRC 2020








Publications








Year Type Publication
2021 Misc Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Cristina Nastasi (2021). Analisi Forense di Immagini Deepfake di Volti di Persone. Chapter in IISFA Memberbook 2021 DIGITAL FORENSICS – Eds. G. Costabile, A. Attanasio, M. Ianulardo – Italy 2021.
2021 Misc Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera (2021). Houston we have a problem: Deepfake is the word!. In Abstract proceedings of 73st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2021 - February 2021.
2020 Conference Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). Fighting Deepfake by Exposing the Convolutional Traces on Images. IEEE Access 8 (2020): 165085-165098.
2020 Conference Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). Deepfake Detection by Analyzing Convolutional Traces. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW). 15th June 2020 - Seattle, USA.
2020 Conference Luca Guarnera, Oliver Giudice, Cristina Nastasi, Sebastiano Battiato (2020). Preliminary Forensics Analysis of DeepFake Image. In Proceedings of IEEE AEIT Annual Conference, 2020.
2020 Conference S. Battiato, L. Cantelli, F. D'Urso, G. M. Farinella, L. Guarnera, D. C. Guastella, R. Leonardi, A. Li Noce, G. Muscato, A. Piazza, F. Ragusa, C. Santoro, G. Sutera, A. Zappalà (2020). The UNICT-TEAM vision modules for the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020. Mohammad Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition Symposium (MBZIRC).
2020 Misc Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Angelo Salici (2020). 2D/3D Imaging for Forensic Ballistics Comparison Assessment. In Abstract proceedings of 72st Annual Meeting of American Academy of Forensic Sciences, AAFS 2020 - Anaheim, California (US) - February 2020
2019 Conference Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Sebastiano Battiato (2019). Siamese Ballistics Neural Network. 26th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2019
2019 Misc Oliver Giudice, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera (2019). Social Network Image Ballistics through Automatic Reverse-Engineering. In American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
2019 Misc Oliver Giudice, Antonino Barbaro Paratore, Sebastiano Battiato, Luca Guarnera (2019). Hands on Digital Image Authentication Techniques. In American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
2019 Misc Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore (2019). Simulazioni informatiche per le indagini scientifiche forensi. l’utilizzo di SUMO: tool avanzato per la simulazione del traffico urbano. International Information System Forensics Association.
2018 Journal Luca Guarnera, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Angelo Salici, Claudio Ciampini, Vito Matranga, Sebastiano Battiato (2018). Forensic Analisys of Handwritten Documents with GRAPHJ. Journal of Electronic Imaging, 24.
2018 Conference F. Ragusa, L. Guarnera, A. Furnari, S. Battiato, G. Signorello, G. M. Farinella (2018). Localization of Visitors for Cultural Sites Management. In International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP).
2018 Misc Sebastiano Battiato, Oliver Giudice, Luca Guarnera, Antonino Barbaro Paratore (2018). Simulazioni informatiche per le indagini scientifiche forensi. l’utilizzo di SUMO: tool avanzato per la simulazione del traffico urbano. Chapter in IISFA Memberbook 2018 DIGITAL FORENSICS – Eds. G. Costabile, A. Attanasio, M. Ianulardo – Italy 2019;
2017 Conference L. Guarnera, G. M. Farinella, A. Furnari, A. Salici, C. Ciampini, V. Matranga, S. Battiato (2017). GRAPHJ: A Forensics Tool for Handwriting Analysis. In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Catania, Italy, September 11-15.
2017 Conference Battiato, S., Cantelli, L., D’Urso, F., Farinella, G. M., Guarnera, L., Guastella, D., ... & Santoro, C. (2017, September). A System for Autonomous Landing of a UAV on a Moving Vehicle. In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (pp. 129-139). Springer, Cham.








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2021
Multimedia Forensics (Seminar)
Corso di laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI), Università di Catania.

Computer Vision (Seminar)
Corso di laurea Magistrale in Informatica. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (DMI), Università di Catania

2018
Multimedia Forensics (Seminar)
Corso di laurea Magistrale in Ingegneria delle Telecomunicazioni. Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica Elettronica e Informatica (DIEEI), Università di Catania. 05/12/2018
Computer Vision (Seminar)
Corso di laurea Magistrale in Informatica. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (DMI), Università di Catania


2017
Computer Vision (Seminar)
Corso di laurea Magistrale in Informatica. Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica (DMI), Università di Catania






Conferences

2021 - Houston we have a problem: Deepfake is the word!. Abstract paper presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) Virtual Conference.
2020 - 2D/3D Imaging for Forensic Ballistics Comparison Assessment. Abstract paper presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) conference.
2019 - Siamese Ballistics Neural Network. Paper presented at the MULTI-modal Imaging of FOREnsic SciEnce Evidence tools for Forensic Science (MULTIFORESEE) conference, Catania, Italy.
2019 - Social Network Image Ballistics through Automatic Reverse-Engineering. Abstract paper presented at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences (AAFS) conference.
2018 - Localization of Visitors for Cultural Sites Management. Paper presented at the Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP) conference.
2017 - GRAPHJ: A Forensics Tool for Handwriting Analysis. Paper presented in 19th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2017), Catania (CT), Italy.