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 145 academic publications, including 52 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) and in the HORIZON Europe vera.ai project (2022-2025). She has actively contributed to the academic community through service as general co-Chair of WACV 2024 and ACM IH&MMSec 2019, technical Chair of IJCB 2023 and WIFS 2019, workshop Chair of CVPR 2024. She has been area Chair for ICASSP 2024, FG 2024, ICIP (2017-2023), IJCB 2022, EUSIPCO (2020-2022). She is Deputy Editor-in Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security and Senior AE for IEEE Signal Processing Letters. Dr. Verdoliva has been Chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (2021-2022) and is currently Chair of the Eurasip Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams. She is the recipient of the 2018 Google Faculty Award for Machine Perception and a TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship (2020-2024). She is IEEE Fellow.
Fellowships
IEEE Fellow (from the IEEE Signal Processing Society) – since January 2021 (for contribution to multimedia forensics)
TUM-IAS Hans Fischer Senior Fellow, 2020-2024
Chair/Vice-Chair positions
Chair of the EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams (SAT), 2024-present
Chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC), 2021-2022
vice-Chair of the IEEE SPS Italy Chapter, Nov. 2021-present
vice-Chair of the EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams (SAT), 2021-2023
vice-Chair of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC), 2020
TC member
IEEE SPS Ethics Guidelines ad hoc Committee Member, 2022-2023
EURASIP Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning Special Area Teams (SAT) elected member, 2019-2020
IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC) elected member, 2016-2018
Awards
2024: Outstanding Reviewer award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2024: Best Paper Award to “Did You Note My Palette? Unveiling Synthetic Images Through Color Statistics” at ACM IH&MMSec Workshop
2023: Google Unrestricted Gift (GenAI detection and media forensics): US$ 250.000
2023: top 3% paper recognition to “On the detection of synthetic images generated by diffusion models” at IEEE ICASSP
2022: Top 2% World Scientist. Univ. of Stanford and Plos Biology
2022: IEEE Certificate of Merit for Outstanding Service to the activities of the IEEE Information Forensics and Security Technical Committee (in the role of Chair)
2022: Google Unrestricted Gift (Large scale evaluation of cheapfake detectors): US$ 30.000
2021: Top 2% World Scientist. Univ. of Stanford and Plos Biology
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” at 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
Research projects local PI
September 2022 - September 2025: HORIZON Europe vera.ai project. The project is coordinated by CERTH (The Centre for Research and Technology, Hellas) and involves a total of 14 partners.
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 2024: 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.
Editorial Board
Deputy Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Feb. 2023 - present.
IEEE SPS Representative of the IEEE Security and Privacy Magazine, Jan. 2022 - present.
Senior Associate Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Letters, March 2020 – Feb. 2024.
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Oct. 2018 – Sep. 2022.
Guest Editor for the following Special Issues:
“Data-driven Media Authentication and Forensics” for IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, June 2019-June 2020.
“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.
Conferences
Workshop Chair of the IEEE Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Conference, Seattle (USA), June 2024,
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG), Istanbul (Turkey), May 2024,
General Chair of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), Waikoloa (Hawaii), January 2024,
Technical Program Chair of the IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), Ljubljana (Slovenia), September 2023,
Expo Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Taiwan, July 2022,
Workshops
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference, Seattle (USA), June 2024,
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference, Vancouver (USA), June 2023,
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference, New Orleans (USA), June 2022,
Technical Program Chair of the ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC), Bruxelles (BE), June 2021,
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference, Nashville (USA), June 2021,
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media-rich Fake News at ICME (International Conference on Multimedia and Expo), London (UK), July 2020,
Chair of the IEEE Workshop on Media Forensics at CVPR (Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition) Conference, Seattle (USA), June 2020,
Technical Program Chair of the IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS), Delft (NL), December 2019,
General 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,
Chair of the First International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics (BioFor) in conjunction with ICIAP, Genoa (IT), 7 September 2015.
School/Challenge Organizer
Organizer of the 10th edition of the IEEE-EURASIP Summer School on Signal Processing (S3P), Capri (IT), 22-27 September 2024
IEEE Video and Image Processing (VIP) Cup on “Synthetic Image Detection” organized together with Dr. Davide Cozzolino (University Federico II of Naples) and Koki Nagano (NVIDIA) at IEEE ICIP, Bourdeaux (FR), October 2022.
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
TC Area Chair
2024 European Conference Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2022 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2021 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Area Chair
2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2024 IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG)
2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
2023 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
2022 IEEE/IAPR International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB)
2022 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
2022 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
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 Dr. Christian Riess (University of Erlangen, DE): “Semantic and Interpretable Analysis in Multimedia Forensics” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Singapore, May 2022
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 (selected)
IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024
International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) 2021, 2022, 2023
IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) 2021, 2023
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) 2021, 2022
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2022,
European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022
International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) 2017, 2019, 2022
IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security (WIFS) 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023
IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF) 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023
ACM Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSEC) 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021
International Workshop on Digital-Forensics and Watermarking (IWDW) 2020, 2021, 2022
Tutorials
“DeepFake detection: Overview, Recent Works and Current Challenges” at IEEE ICIP, 16 October 2022, Bordeaux (FR).
“Deepfake generation and detection” together with Prof. Matthias Niessner (TUM) at EUSIPCO, 23 August 2021, Dublin (IE).
“Deepfake generation and detection” together with Prof. Matthias Niessner (TUM) at IEEE ICPR, 10 January 2021, Milan (I).
“Deepfake generation and detection” together with Prof. Matthias Niessner (TUM) at IEEE WIFS, 6 December 2020, New York (USA).
“Multimedia Forensics” together with Dr. Paolo Bestagini (Politecnico di Milano) at ACM MM, 21 October 2019, Nice (F).
“Deep Learning for Multimedia Forensics” at EUSIPCO, 3 September 2018, Rome (I).
Keynotes (selected)
“Towards generalization in Deepfake detection”, IAPR/IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics (IWBF), Barcelona (Spain), 20 April 2023.
“Deepfake detection: state-of-the-art and future directions”, International Conference of the Biometrics Special Interest Group (BIOSIG), Darmstadt (DE), 16 September 2022.
“Towards generalization in Deepfake detection”, ACM International Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), Santa Barbara (CA), 27 June 2022.
“Deepfake detection: state-of-the-art and future directions”, Workshop on the Security implications of Deepfakes and Cheapfakes (WDC) at ACM ASIA CCS, Nagasaki (J), 30 May 2022.
“Deepfake detection: state-of-the-art and future directions”, IEEE WACV Workshop on Manipulation, Adversarial, and Presentation Attacks in Biometrics, Hawaii (USA), 4 January 2022.
“Recent advances in Multimedia Forensics” IEEE CVPR Workshop on Media Forensics, Long Beach (USA), 17 June 2019.
“Recent advances in Multimedia Forensics” ICML Workshop on Synthetic Realities: Deep Learning for Detecting AudioVisual Fakes, Long Beach (USA), 15 June 2019.
“Recent advances in Multimedia Forensics” IEEE WACV Workshop on Image and Video Forensics, Hawaii (USA), 11 January 2019.
“Recent advances in Multimedia Forensics” ECCV Workshop on Objectionable Content and Misinformation, Monaco (D), 8 September 2018.
“Recent advances in Multimedia Forensics” SIGGRAPH Workshop on Truth in Images, Videos and Graphics, Vancouver (Canada), 12 August 2018.
“Deep Learning in Multimedia Forensics” ACM International Workshop on Information Hiding and Multimedia Security (IH&MMSec), Innsbruck (A), 21 June 2018.
Teaching activities - University Federico II of Naples
M.Sc. Courses
Image and Video Processing for Autonomous Driving (6 CFU) Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - 2023-2024
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2023/2024
Image and Video Processing for Autonomous Driving (6 CFU) Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - 2022-2023
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2022/2023
Image and Video Processing for Autonomous Driving (6 CFU) Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - 2021-2022
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU out of 9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2021/2022
Image and Video Processing for Autonomous Driving (6 CFU) Autonomous Vehicle Engineering - 2020-2021
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU out of 9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2020/2021
Vision for Robotic Systems (6 CFU out of 9 CFU) Biomedical Engineering - 2019/2020
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU out of 9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2019/2020
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2018/2019
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU out of 9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2017/2018
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2016/2017
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2014/2015
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2013/2014
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2012/2013
Multimedia Signal Processing (9 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2011/2012
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2009/2010
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2008/2009
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2007/2008
Multimedia Signal Processing (6 CFU) Telecom. Engineering - 2004/2005
B.Sc. Courses
Signal Theory (9 CFU) Computer/Electronic/Automatic/Telecom./Biomedical Engineering - 2021/2022
Signal Theory (9 CFU) Computer/Electronic/Automatic/Telecom. Engineering - 2020/2021
Signal Theory (9 CFU) Computer Engineering - 2019/2020
Signal Theory (9 CFU) Computer Engineering - 2018/2019
Signal Theory (9 CFU) Biomedical Engineering - 2014/2015
