Dr. Luisa Verdoliva is Full Professor at University Federico II of Naples, Italy, where she leads the Multimedia Forensics Lab. In 2018 she has been visiting professor at Friedrich-Alexander-University (FAU) and in 2019-2020 she has been visiting scientist at Google AI in San Francisco. Her scientific interests are in the field of image and video processing, with main contributions in the area of multimedia forensics. She has published over 120 academic publications, including 45 journal papers. She is the PI for University Federico II of Naples in the DISCOVER (a Data-driven Integrated Approach for Semantic Inconsistencies Verification) project funded by DARPA under the SEMAFOR program (2020-2024). She has actively contributed to the academic community through service as general co-Chair of the 2019 ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security, technical Chair of the 2019 IEEE Workshop in Information Forensics and Security and area Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing since 2017. She is on the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Dr. Verdoliva is Chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee. She is the recipient of the 2018 Google Faculty Award for Machine Perception and a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (2020-2023). She has been elected to the grade of IEEE Fellow since January 1, 2021.
Awards
2021: Outstanding Reviewer Award at the Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS).
2021: Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
2020: Outstanding Reviewer Award at the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME).
2019: Best Paper Award to “Extracting camera-based fingerprints for video forensics”, IEEE CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics – Prize: GPU NVIDIA TITAN V.
2018: Google Faculty Research Award (in Machine Perception): US$ 40.000.
2018: Winner of the IEEE Signal Processing Cup - Prize: US$ 5.000.
2018: IEEE Forensic Camera Model Identification Challenge – 3rd place (out of 582) on Kaggle - Prize: US$ 5.000.
2018: Adversarial Attacks on Black Box Face Recognition Contest: 4th place (out of 22) on CodaLab - Prize: RUB 15.000.
2017: Special Mention at Best Paper Awards to “PRNU-based forgery localization in a blind scenario”, International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP).
2013: Winner of the IEEE Image Forensics Challenge - phase 2 (forgery localization) - Prize: US$ 1.750.
2013: Winner of the IEEE Image Forensics Challenge - phase 1 (forgery detection) - Prize: US$ 1.500.
Fellowships
IEEE Fellow, since January 2021.
TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, 2020-2023
IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) Chair, Jan. 2021-Dec. 2022.
EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams (SAT) vice-Chair, March 2021 - present.
IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) vice-Chair, 2020.
IEEE Information Forensics and Security Workshops and Challenges Subcommittee Chair, Mar. 2017 – Dec. 2018.
EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams (SAT) elected member, 2019-2021
IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) elected member, 2016-2018.
Research projects PI
August 2020 - August 2024: DISCOVER (a Data-driven Integrated Approach for Semantic Inconsistencies Verification). The project is coordinated by Purdue University and is funded by DARPA under the SEMAFOR program.
January 2020 - January 2023: PREMIER (PREserving Media trustworthiness in the artificial Intelligence Era). The project is coordinated by University of Siena and is funded by MIUR-PRIN.
May 2016 - May 2020: DISPARITY (Digital, Semantic and Physical Analysis of Media Integrity). The project is coordinated by University of Southern California (USC) and is funded by DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) under the MEDIFOR program. The Research Unit of Federico II takes charge of Task 2: “Developing Digital Integrity Analytics”.
March 2018 - March 2020: Additional task (Scientific Integrity) in the DISPARITY project under the MEDIFOR program.
Professional Activities
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, since 2017.
Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, since March 2020.
Guest Editor for the following Special Issues:
“Data-driven Media Authentication and Forensics” for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, June 2019-present.
“Deep Learning for Remote Sensing” for MDPI Remote Sensing, Oct. 2017-Nov. 2018.
“Recent Advances in Multimedia Security” for Springer Multimedia Tools and Applications, Nov. 2016-June 2017.
Conference/Workshop/School Organizer
Technical Program Co-Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC), Bruxelles (BE), June 2021,
Co-Chair of the IEEE CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics Virtual, June 2021,
Co-Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media-rich Fake News at ICME, London, July 2020,
Co-Chair of the IEEE CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics, Seattle (USA), June 2020,
Technical Program Co-Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Delft (NL), December 2019,
General Co-Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC), Paris (FR), July 2019,
Tutorial Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Rennes (FR), 4-7 December 2017,
Co-Organizer of the 5th edition of the IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P) on the topic “Signal processing meets deep learning”, Capri (IT), 4-8 September 2017,
General Co-Chair of the First International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor), Genoa (IT), 7 September 2015.
Area Chair
2021 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2021 IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
2020 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2020 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2019 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2018 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2017 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
Special Session organizer
Together with Prof. Siwei Lyu: “Forensic Detection of AI Synthesized Media” at the IEEE Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), December 2020.
Together with Prof. Jana Dittmann: “Media Forensics: Fake or Real?” at the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC), July 2019.
Together with Prof. Giulia Boato: “Deep Learning for Multimedia Forensics” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2019.
Technical Program Committees
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2015-2021
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015-2021
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021
International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) 2021
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020
IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) 2020
IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2016-2021
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2014-2020
IEEE Global Conference on Signal and Information Processing (GlobalSIP) 2017-2019
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2017, 2019
ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC) 2017-2020
IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Digital Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW) 2020
IEEE International Workshop on “Fake MultiMedia” (FakeMM) 2018, 2019
2nd International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor) 2019
IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) 2018
International Conference on Digital Signal Processing (DSP) 2013-2017
International Carnahan Conference on Security Technology (ICCST) 2017
Multimedia Verification Workshop (MuVer) in conjunction with ACM Multimedia 2017
2nd Workshop on Multimedia Forensics and Security (MFSec) track in ACM ICMR Workshops 2017
1st International Conference on Landmine: Detection, Clearance and Legislations (LDCL) 2017
1st International Workshop on Web Multimedia Verification (WeMuV) in conjunction with IEEE ICME 2015
