Gian Luca Marcialis
Scholar

Gian Luca Marcialis

Google Scholar ID: 7pMEyo4AAAAJ
Associate Professor @ University of Cagliari, Italy
pattern recognitioncomputer visionbiometricsdigital forensics
Citations & Impact
All-time
Citations
2,544
 
H-index
25
 
i10-index
62
 
Publications
20
 
Co-authors
46
list available
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • - Authored more than 100 scientific publications, including papers in top-tier journals such as IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, Pattern Recognition, and Image and Vision Computing
  • - Active as Associate Editor for IET Biometrics and Pattern Recognition Letters
  • - Serves as referee for major journals and conferences in biometrics, computer vision, and artificial intelligence
  • - BullyBuster and BullyBuster 2 projects were listed among the TOP100 global initiatives addressing the UN Sustainable Development Goals by IRCAI-UNESCO
Research Experience
  • - Leads the Biometric Unit of the sAIfer Lab
  • - Founder and chair of the International Fingerprint Liveness Detection Competition (LivDet) since 2009
  • - Director of the Interuniversity Research Center “BullyBuster”
  • - Contributed to several European (FP7 Tabula Rasa, Let’s Crowd) and national research projects
  • - Collaborated with leading international experts such as Anil Jain, Sébastien Marcel, Christoph Busch, and Julian Fierrez
  • - Established technology transfer agreements with major companies like Crossmatch, DEDEM, and Thales
Education
  • PhD in Electronic and Computer Engineering; obtained the national scientific qualification for full professorship.
Background
  • Research focuses on biometric recognition systems, with particular emphasis on fingerprint presentation attack detection (PAD), deepfake detection, biometric forensics, and secure AI technologies for identity verification.
Miscellany
  • Senior Member of IEEE