Organization

Organizing Committee

Gennaro Vessio (University of Bari, Italy)

Gennaro Vessio received the M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the Computer Science Department, University of Bari, Italy, in 2013 and 2017, respectively, where he is currently an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include pattern recognition, machine and deep learning, and computer vision. He has coauthored articles in these fields, appeared in both international journals and conferences, such as Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE Access and Cognitive Computation. He served as a reviewer for many international journals, including Information Sciences and Multimedia Tools and Applications, and has been a part of the Program Committee of many international conferences, such as IJCAI and SEKE. He is currently member of the INdAM-GNCS society, the IAPR Technical Committee 19, AIxIA, GRIN and CINI-AIIS.

Giovanna Castellano (University of Bari, Italy)

Giovanna Castellano is Associate Professor in Computer Science and Coordinator of the CILab (Computational Intelligence Lab) at the Computer Science Department, University of Bari, Italy. Her research interests are in the area of computational intelligence and include fuzzy image processing and computer vision, fuzzy systems, fuzzy clustering, image processing, image retrieval, neural networks, neuro-fuzzy modeling, granular computing, recommender systems. She is the co-author of more than 200 papers in peer-reviewed books, conference proceedings and international journals covering the above topics. She is co-author of the Springer book "Fuzzy Logic for Image Processing: a Gentle Introduction using Java" published in 2017, and co-editor of the Springer book "Web Personalization in Intelligent Environments" published in 2009. She is Associate Editor of Information Sciences and International Journal of Systems, Control and Communications. She is in the Program Committee of several refereed conferences, the more recent being IJCAI2019, KES-IDT2019, WILF2018, ICANN2018, ICANN2017, IJCCI2017, WILF2016, FCTA2016. She acts as a reviewer for several international scientific journals published by high-rank publishers (Elsevier, IEEE, Springer) and for international conferences. Giovanna Castellano is currently member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence society, the EUSFLAT society and the INDAM-GNCS society. She is also member of the Machine Intelligence Research Labs.

Fabio Bellavia (University of Palermo, Italy)

Fabio Bellavia received his PhD degree in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Palermo, Italy, in 2011. His research interests include computer vision and image processing, and in particular local image detectors and descriptors, image matching, 3D reconstruction, image mosaicing and color correction. From 2012 to 2019 he joined the CVG Lab of the University of Florence, Italy, where he worked on computer vision methods for AUV, forensic science and cultural heritage. Since 2019 he is a research associate at the University of Palermo, working on new computer vision methods for cultural heritage. He has co-authored several articles appeared in both international journals and conferences, such as IEEE TPAMI, IJCV and IEEE TIP. He serves as reviewer for many international journals and is part of the program committee of several international conferences. He was among the organizers of the WISW contest held at CAIP2019 and he is currently guest co-editor of the special issue on "Local Image Descriptors in Computer Vision" of IET Computer Vision. Fabio Bellavia is currently member of CVPL (associated to IAPR) and GRIN.

Program Committee