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2025

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Computer Science

D-Index
69
Citations
18948
World Ranking
1978
National Ranking
27

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Computer Science in Italy Leader Award
  • 2012 - IEEE Fellow For contributions to signal and image processing for multimedia security

Overview

Mauro Barni is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy, with a research focus in the field of Computer Science. Their main subfields of study include Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks and Communications, Signal Processing, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Throughout their career, they have contributed extensively to topics such as Digital Media Forensic Detection, Advanced Steganography and Watermarking Techniques, Adversarial Robustness in Machine Learning, Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis, Face Recognition and Analysis, Advanced Malware Detection Techniques, and Biometric Identification and Security.

Barni's publication record includes frequent contributions to notable venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • IEEE Access

Among their recent papers are:

  • "Copy Move Source-Target Disambiguation through Multi-Branch CNNs" (2021) published with University of Siena
  • "An Automatic Cost Learning Framework for Image Steganography Using Deep Reinforcement Learning" (2020) published in IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security
  • "A survey of Deep Neural Network watermarking techniques" (2021) published in Neurocomputing
  • "An Overview of Backdoor Attacks Against Deep Neural Networks and Possible Defences" (2022) published in IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing
  • "Adversarial examples for replay attacks against CNN-based face recognition with anti-spoofing capability" (2020) published in Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Frequent collaborators include Benedetta Tondi, Lydia Abady, Kassem Kallas, Anselmo Ferreira, and Andrea Abrardo, indicating a network of coauthorship reflecting collaborative research efforts.

Barni has also contributed to book publications, notably publishing with Springer Vienna. One such work is titled "Information Fusion in Distributed Sensor Networks with Byzantines" (2020).

Recognition for their contributions includes the IEEE Fellow award received in 2012, citing their impact in signal and image processing for multimedia security.

Best Publications

  • Improved wavelet-based watermarking through pixel-wise masking

    M. Barni;F. Bartolini;A. Piva

  • A DCT-domain system for robust image watermarking

    Mauro Barni;Franco Bartolini;Vito Cappellini;Alessandro Piva

  • DCT-based watermark recovering without resorting to the uncorrupted original image

    A. Piva;M. Barni;F. Bartolini;V. Cappellini

  • Watermarking Systems Engineering : Enabling Digital Assets Security and Other Applications

    Mauro Barni;Franco Bartolini

  • Encrypted signal processing for privacy protection: Conveying the utility of homomorphic encryption and multiparty computation

    R. L. Lagendijk;M. Barni

  • Comments on "A possibilistic approach to clustering"

    M. Barni;V. Cappellini;A. Mecocci

  • An overview on video forensics

    P. Bestagini;K. M. Fontani;S. Milani;M. Barni

  • A New Backdoor Attack in CNNS by Training Set Corruption Without Label Poisoning

    M. Barni;K. Kallas;B. Tondi

  • On the Implementation of the Discrete Fourier Transform in the Encrypted Domain

    T. Bianchi;A. Piva;M. Barni

  • A new decoder for the optimum recovery of nonadditive watermarks

    M. Barni;F. Bartolini;A. De Rosa;A. Piva

  • Privacy-preserving fingercode authentication

    Mauro Barni;Tiziano Bianchi;Dario Catalano;Mario Di Raimondo

  • Privacy-Preserving ECG Classification With Branching Programs and Neural Networks

    Mauro Barni;Pierluigi Failla;Riccardo Lazzeretti;Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi

  • CNN-Based Adversarial Embedding for Image Steganography

    Weixuan Tang;Bin Li;Shunquan Tan;Mauro Barni

  • Aligned and non-aligned double JPEG detection using convolutional neural networks

    Mauro Barni;Luca Bondi;Nicolò Bonettini;Paolo Bestagini

  • CNN Based Adversarial Embedding with Minimum Alteration for Image Steganography.

    Weixuan Tang;Bin Li;Shunquan Tan;Mauro Barni

  • DWT-based technique for spatio-frequency masking of digital signatures

    Mauro Barni;Franco Bartolini;Vito Cappellini;Alessandro Lippi

  • Protection and retrieval of encrypted multimedia content: when cryptography meets signal processing

    Zekeriya Erkin;Alessandro Piva;Stefan Katzenbeisser;R. L. Lagendijk

  • Composite Signal Representation for Fast and Storage-Efficient Processing of Encrypted Signals

    T. Bianchi;A. Piva;M. Barni

  • Multichannel watermarking of color images

    M. Barni;F. Bartolini;A. Piva

  • Rational dither modulation: a high-rate data-hiding method invariant to gain attacks

    F. Perez-Gonzalez;C. Mosquera;M. Barni;A. Abrardo

  • Image authentication techniques for surveillance applications

    F. Bartolini;A. Tefas;M. Barni;I. Pitas

  • Adaptively weighted vector-median filters for motion-fields smoothing

    L. Alparone;M. Barni;F. Bartolini;V. Cappellini

Frequent Co-Authors

Alessandro Piva
Alessandro Piva University of Florence
Franco Bartolini
Franco Bartolini University of Florence
Enrico Magli
Enrico Magli Polytechnic University of Turin
Tiziano Bianchi
Tiziano Bianchi Polytechnic University of Turin
Andrea Garzelli
Andrea Garzelli University of Siena
Ingemar J. Cox
Ingemar J. Cox University College London
Neri Merhav
Neri Merhav Technion – Israel Institute of Technology
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi
Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi Technical University of Darmstadt
Luciano Alparone
Luciano Alparone University of Florence
Hong Z. Tan
Hong Z. Tan Purdue University West Lafayette

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