Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION

• March 2014 – Ph.D. with European Label in Information Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy (score: Excellent/Excellent)

• February 2011 - M.Sc. degree in Information Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy (score: 110/110 summa cum laude · Gpa: 29.94/30)

• September 2008 - B.Sc. degree in Information Engineering, University of Salerno, Italy (score: 110/110 summa cum laude · Gpa: 29.8/30)

CURRENT POSITION

• November 2019 – Present - Researcher - National Research Council (Italy)

PREVIOUS POSITIONS

• February 2020 – February 2021 - Adjunct Professor - University of Salerno (Italy)

• April 2019 – November 2019 - Assistant Professor - University of Salerno (Italy)

• July 2017 – March 2019 - Research Fellow - University of Salerno (Italy)

• June 2017 – July 2017 - Consultant - University of Salerno (Italy)

• April 2017 - May 2017 - Consultant - University of Florance (Italy)

• January 2015 – December 2016 - Scientist - NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), Italy

• April 2014 – December 2014 - Research Fellow - NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), Italy

• March 2013 – October 2013 - Visiting Researcher - Grenoble Institute of Technology, France

• January 2012 – March 2012 - Visiting Researcher - NATO Undersea Research Centre (NURC), Italy

• October 2008 – March 2009 - C.I.N.I. Researcher - University of Salerno, Italy

AWARDS

• Top 2% World's Scientists on the basis of single-year 2022 and the entire career [https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/6, files: Table_1_Authors_singleyr_2022_pubs_since_1788_wopp_extracted_202310.xlsx, Table_1_Authors_career_2022_pubs_since_1788_wopp_extracted_202310.xlsx]

• Top 2% World's Scientists on the basis of single-year 2021 and the entire career [https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/4, files: Table_1_Authors_singleyr_2021_pubs_since_1788_wopp_extracted_202209.xlsx, Table_1_Authors_career_2021_pubs_since_1788_wopp_extracted_202209.xlsx]

• Top 2% World's Scientists on the basis of single-year 2020 

[https://elsevier.digitalcommonsdata.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/3, file: Table_1_Authors_singleyr_2020_wopp_extracted_202108.xlsx]

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Early Career Award 2021

• 2017 Best Reviewer Award for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society Symposium Prize Paper Award 2015

• IEEE Senior Member Grade Elevation

• Top 2% World's Scientists on the basis of single-year 2019 

[https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/btchxktzyw/2, file: Table-S7-singleyr-2019.xlsx]

• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society 2023 Certificate of Appreciation for a significant contribution to the field of endeavor of the IEEE GRSS and participation as a serving member of the 2023 Administrative Committee and Image Analysis and Data Fusion (IADF) Technical Committee

• “Highly cited papers” awarded by ISI Web of Knowledge:

  • G. Vivone, L. Alparone, J. Chanussot, M. Dalla Mura, A. Garzelli, G. Licciardi, R. Restaino, and L. Wald, “A Critical Comparison Among Pansharpening Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 2565-2586, May 2015.

  • G. Vivone, R. Restaino, M. Dalla Mura, G.A. Licciardi, and J. Chanussot, “Contrast and Error-based Fusion Schemes for Multispectral Image Pansharpening”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 930-934, May 2014.

  • L. Loncan, L.B. Almeida, J.M. Bioucas-Dias, … , G. Vivone, Q. Wei, and N. Yokoya, “Hyperspectral Pansharpening: A Review”, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 27-46, September 2015.

  • G. Vivone, M. Dalla Mura, A. Garzelli, R. Restaino, G. Scarpa, M. O. Ulfarsson, L. Alparone, and J. Chanussot, "A New Benchmark Based on Recent Advances in Multispectral Pansharpening: Revisiting Pansharpening With Classical and Emerging Pansharpening Methods", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 53 - 81, March 2021.

  • L. Deng, G. Vivone, C. Jin, and J. Chanussot, "Detail Injection-based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Pansharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 6995-7010, August 2021.

  • G. Vivone, "Robust Band-dependent Spatial-detail Approaches for Panchromatic Sharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 57, no. 9, pp. 6421 - 6433, September 2019.

  • Z.-C. Wu, T.-Z. Huang, L.-J. Deng, J.-F. Hu, and G. Vivone, "VO+Net: An Adaptive Approach Using Variational Optimization and Deep Learning for Panchromatic Sharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 60, pp. 1-16, 2022.

  • G. Vivone, "Multispectral and Hyperspectral Image Fusion in Remote Sensing: A Survey", ELSEVIER Information Fusion, vol. 89, pp. 405-417, January 2023.

  • R. Ran, L.-J. Deng, T.-X. Jiang, J.-F. Hu, J. Chanussot, and G. Vivone, "GuidedNet: A General CNN Fusion Framework via Highresolution Guidance for Hyperspectral Image Super-resolution", IEEE Transactions on Cybernetics, vol. 53, no. 7, pp. 4148-4161, July 2023.

  • L.-J. Deng, G. Vivone, M. E. Paoletti, G. Scarpa, J. He, Y. Zhang, J. Chanussot, and A. Plaza, "Machine Learning in Pansharpening: A Benchmark, from Shallow to Deep Networks", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 10, no. 3, pp. 279-315, September 2022.

  • S.-Q. Deng, L.-J. Deng, X. Wu, R. Ran, D. Hong, and G. Vivone, "PSRT: Pyramid Shuffle-and-Reshuffle Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Fusion", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 61, 2023.

• “Hot paper” awarded by ISI Web of Knowledge:

  • G. Vivone, L. Alparone, J. Chanussot, M. Dalla Mura, A. Garzelli, G. Licciardi, R. Restaino, and L. Wald, “A Critical Comparison Among Pansharpening Algorithms”, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 53, no. 5, pp. 2565-2586, May 2015.

  • G. Vivone, M. Dalla Mura, A. Garzelli, R. Restaino, G. Scarpa, M. O. Ulfarsson, L. Alparone, and J. Chanussot, "A New Benchmark Based on Recent Advances in Multispectral Pansharpening: Revisiting Pansharpening With Classical and Emerging Pansharpening Methods", IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Magazine, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 53 - 81, March 2021.

  • L. Deng, G. Vivone, C. Jin, and J. Chanussot, "Detail Injection-based Deep Convolutional Neural Networks for Pansharpening", IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 6995-7010, August 2021.

• November 2008 - University of Salerno, Italy -  Attestation of merit for the B.Sc. degree track

QUALIFICATIONS

• November 2020 - Dr. Gemine Vivone has been awarded with the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) to function of full professor.

• March 2018 - Dr. Gemine Vivone has been awarded with the National Scientific Qualification (Abilitazione Scientifica Nazionale) to function of associate professor.

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

• November 2019 - ERASMUS+ staff mobility for teaching - University of Grenoble (France) 

• April 2019 - February 2021 - University of Salerno, Italy

  • Professor course of Remote Sensing (6 CFU)

• Tutorial at International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2019 

  • M. Dalla Mura, A. Garzelli, and G. Vivone, "HD-2 - Pansharpening: from classical techniques to recent advances"

• March 2018 -  June 2018 - University of Salerno, Italy

  • Help Teaching course of Teoria dei segnali (12 CFU)

• March 2011 – March 2014, March 2017 - March 2019 - University of Salerno, Italy

  • Teaching support for the courses of Telerilevamento (6 CFU) and Elaborazione Numerica dei Segnali (9 CFU)

COMMISSIONS OF TRUST

• IEEE GRSS IADF Technical Committee Co-Chair

• Ex-officio member of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Society (GRSS) AdCom

• Leader of Image and Signal Processing Working Group of IEEE Image Analysis and Data Fusion Committee (2020-2021)

• Member of IEEE Task Force on “Deep Vision in Space”

• IEEE GRSS IADF School on Computer Vision for Earth Observation 2022

• IEEE GRSS IADF School on Computer Vision for Earth Observation 2023

• IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest at IGARSS 2023

• Hyperspectral Pansharpening Challenge at IEEE WHISPERS 2022

• Cross-city Multimodal Semantic Segmentation Challenge at IEEE WHISPERS 2023

• IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest at IGARSS 2022

• Plenary Lecture at IEEE WHISPERS 2022

• Lecture at GRSS Short Course with IEEE.TV and IEEE Learning Network (Lesson: Data Fusion of Remotely Sensed and Geospatial Data)

• Editor in Chief for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing eNewsletter

• Area Editor for Elsevier Information Fusion

• Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)

• Associate Editor for IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)

• Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)

• Advisory Board Member for ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

• Editorial Board Member for Nature Scientific Reports

• Editorial Board Member for MDPI Remote Sensing

• Editorial Board Member for MDPI Sensors (2020 - 2023)

• Editorial Board Member for MDPI Encyclopedia (2020 - 2023)

• Associate Editor & Review Editor for Frontiers in Remote Sensing (2022 - 2023)

• Guest Edited Collection for Nature Scientific Reports on Multimodal Learning and Applications

• Guest Associate Editor for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing for the special issues "Multi-resolution and Multi-platform Remote Sensing Image Fusion" and "Advances in Satellite Image Quality Enhancement with Deep Learning Techniques"

• Guest Associate Editor for MDPI Remote Sensing for the special issues “Remote Sensing of Target Object Detection and Identification” (2018 - 2019), "Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing", "Pattern Recognition in Hyperspectral Remote Sensing", "Multimodality Fusion in Remote Sensing: Data, Algorithms, and Applications", "Machine Vision and Advanced Image Processing in Remote Sensing II", "Deep Learning for the Analysis of Multi-/Hyperspectral Images II"

• Guest Associate Editor for MDPI Sensors for the special issue "Recent Advances of Deep Learning Technology in Remote Sensing Image Fusion"

• Co-Guest Editor for International Journal of Image and Data Fusion for the special issue "Resolution and Radiometric Quality Improvement for Remote Sensing Images by Data Fusion"

• Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Special Stream “Fusion of Multimodal Remote Sensing Data for Analysis and Interpretation"

• Lead Guest Associate Editor of the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters Special Stream “Advances in image processing for very high resolution optical remote sensing images”

• Guest Associate Editor of the Research Topic in Frontiers in Remote Sensing "Multisource Remote Sensing Data Fusion and Application"

• Technical Program Committee member at EarthVision 2020, EarthVision 2021, EarthVision 2022

• Technical Program Committee member at IGARSS 2021 (Session Organizer), IGARSS 2022

• Program Committee Member at 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2023)

• Program Committee Member at SPIE Remote Sensing of Clouds and the Atmosphere XXIX

• Technical Program Committee member at WHISPERS 2023

• Invited session organization

  • Multi-resolution and Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Processing and Interpretation at IGARSS 2021

  • Monitoring the Atmosphere: Ground-based and Satellite Remote Sensing Observations at IGARSS 2021

  • IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest at IGARSS 2022

  • IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest at IGARSS 2023

• Session Chair at: 

  • MTS/IEEE Oceans 2015

  • IGARSS 2015

  • IGARSS 2018 (2 sessions)

  • IGARSS 2021 (5 sessions)

  • IGARSS 2022 (3 sessions)

  • WHISPERS 2022 (1 session)

• Reviewer Master thesis “Perceptual Quality Assessment of Pan-sharpened Images”, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana Cali, Bogotà, Colombia. 

• Reviewer for grant research proposals in the funding scheme of 

  • Research Foundation - Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek - Vlaanderen, FWO)

  • Belgian Remote Sensing Research Programme - STEREO III (Support to the Exploitation and Research in Earth Observation) Program

CAPABILITIES AND KNOWLEDGE

• Multi-sensor Data Fusion (e.g. Pansharpening)

• Multi-Target Tracking, Extended Target Tracking

• Classification, Detection and Estimation

• Programming languages: MATLAB, IDL, C, C++, Python, LATEX, Prolog, Erlang, Haskell, Java, Assembly 8086, MIPS, BASH, PERL