Raffaele Cappelli is an associate professor at the Department
of Computer Science of the University of Bologna; he is in charge
of the “Computer Vision” course at the Laurea
degree in Computer Science and Engineering.
His research activity focuses on biometric systems, and he
mainly works in the fingerprint recognition field, where he is well
known for his contributions to fingerprint classification,
recognition, synthetic generation, and performance evaluation.
He is coauthor of various scientific papers and chapters in
books; he is one of the organizers of the four international
fingerprint verification competitions (FVC) and of the recent
performance evaluation initiative named “FVC-onGoing”. He has
served the program committees of important conferences on biometric
systems and he works as a reviewer for the main journals in the
field. Raffaele Cappelli served as the “Sample
Synthesis” area editor of “Encyclopedia of Biometrics” (Springer)
and the “Fingerprint” area editor of the “IEEE Biometrics
Compendium”.
He received the Laurea degree cum laude in Computer Science in
1998, his PhD in 2002, and he is an associate professor since
2015.
