Fiorella Sgallari

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Address: Department of Mathematics – University of Bologna,

Piazza di Porta S. Donato, 5- 40127 Bologna, Italy

Phone: + 39 051 2094443

(AM)^2 Research Center, University of Bologna

Via Saragozza 8, 40123 Bologna, Italy.

Phone: + 39 051 2093982

E-mail: fiorella.sgallari@unibo.it

Home page: http://www.dm.unibo.it/~sgallari/

SCIENTIFIC PRODUCTION:

• 84 publications on referred International Journals
• 56 on special Volumes and Conference proceedings (with referees)
• 4 Didactical publications
• 8 Books, Chaptersand Special Journal Volumes Edited
• 1 patent
• h-ind.21, 1471 Scopus citations, h-ind. 282403 Citations Google Scholar
• My Google Profile: https://scholar.google.it/citations?user=8x4cmYEAAAAJ&hl=it

EMPLOYMENT and EDUCATION:

Since 2002 Full Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Bologna.

1987-2002 Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis, University of Bologna.

1980-1987 Researcher at University of Bologna.

1977-1980 Researcher at University of Bologna of CNR.

1977 Diploma di Perfezionamento in "Teoria e applicazione delle macchine calcolatrici" cum laude at the University of Bologna.

1976 Dottore in Matematica cum laude at the University of Bologna.

AWARDS AND HONORS:

2018 “Ambasciatori di Bologna” Award.

2016 Leonardo Da Vinci Award 2016 – Awarded by a Scientific Committee from Datalogic S.p.A. for the best applied research in the year. Results obtained inside the project “Study and development of innovative methods for robust and efficient barcode decoding” under patents (USA n. US9361503B2 and Europe n. EP3016028A1)

PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES AND ACTIVITIES (since 2010):

• Vice-Chair SIAM Group on Imaging Science. (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics), 2018-2019.

• Member ofAcademy of Sciences of Bologna Institute, 2018- present.
• Member of Excellence Center ARCES-UNIBO, Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies E. De Castro , 2018-present
• Committee Member for permanent positions and promotions (Associate and Full professors in Numerical Analysis), Ministry of Research and Education, 2012-2013.
• Member of the Committee for PhD programs in Mathematics, University of Bologna. 2003-present.
• Committee Member for extra-institutional task authorizations, University of Bologna, 2016-present
• Member of the International PhD Examination Committee for PhD Program in Mathematics, at University ofHong Kong, July 2012;
• Director of Reasearch Center CIRAM (Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Applicazioni dellaMatematica), University of Bologna, 2006–2013.
• Scientific Coordinator Alma Mater Research Center on Applied Mathematics (AM^2), University of Bologna, 2020-present.

PATENTS

“SYSTEMS, METHODS AND ARTICLES FOR READING HIGHLY BLURRED MACHINE-READABLE SYMBOLS”

Inventors: F. Deppieri, M. Aldo De Girolami, A. Lanza, F. Sgallari

Publication date: 2016/5/5 - Patent number: 20160125218 - Application number: 14/528697

Patent n. EP3016028, Patent n. US9361503

RESEARCH GRANTS AS PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR (since 2010)

2012-2014 Industrial project Datalogic IPTech Srl, “Development of methods for correct classification of barcode signals in the presence of noise and high levels of blur”.

2014-2017 Industrial project Datalogic IPTech Srl, “Study and development of innovative methods for robust and efficient barcode decoding .

2017-2018 Industrial project IMAL SRL Modena, “Algorithms and mathematical solutions for a research project related to RF technology in industrial applications”.

2019 Industrial project Skanray Europe S.r.l., “Study and develop reconstruction algorithms for cone-beam computed tomography for soft-tissues”

PROJECT EVALUATOR FOR INTERNATIONAL FUNDING AGENCIES

• Ministry of Research and Education , Italy.
• Swiss National Science Foundation.
• HPC Europa - High Performance Computing.
• Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Research Grants Council, Hong Kong.
• Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), Belgium.
• University of Macau (UM) Research Committee for the 2012 Multi-Year Research Grant (MYRG)
• Czech Science Foundation.
• External reviewer for the tenure track assistant professorship on "Mathematical Foundations and Applicationsof Image Analysis", Saarland University,Saarbruecken, Germany
• External reviewer for the tenure track in the Kate Gleason College of Engineering (KGCOE) at Rochester Institute of Technology.
• HPC-Europa3 (EC H2020 programme):Scientific Users Selection Panel

MEMBERSHIPS TO EDITORIAL BOARD OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS:

Since 2007 Editor, Numerical Mathematics:Theory, Methods and Applications

Since 2008 Editor, International Journal of Imaging and Robotics

Since 2009 Editor, ETNA - Electronic transactions on Numerical Analysis

Since 2012 Editor, Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering: Imaging & Visualization

Since 2020 Editor, Journal of Imaging

SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE OF CONFERENCES and WORKSHOPS since 2015

2015 Scientific Committee 5th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VipIMAGE 2015), Tenerife island, Canary Islands, Spain.

2015 Scientific Committee 10th Intl. Conf. on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Hong Kong.

2015 Scientific Committee VISAPP 2015, 10th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. Berlin, Germany.

2015 Scientific Committee Conference “New Trends in Numerical Analysis - Theory, Methods, Algorithms and Applications” NETNA 2015, Falerna (CZ), Italy.

2015 Scientific Committee “International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics” - NEUROTECHNIX 2015. Lisbon, Portugal.

2015 Scientific Committee 2nd MICCAI workshop on Bio-Imaging Visualization for Patient-Customized Simulations, MICCAI 2015 - the 18th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, Munich, Germany.

2015 Scientific Committee Fifth International Conference on Scale-Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM 2015), France.

2016 Scientific Committee CompIMAGE 2016, 5^th edition, Niagara falls, NY , USA .

2016 Scientific Committee “International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics” - NEUROTECHNIX 2016. Porto, Portugal.

2016 Scientific Committee VISAPP 2016, 11th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. Rome, Italy.

2017 Scientific Committee 6th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing (VipIMAGE 2017), Porto, Portugal.

2017 Scientific Committee Sixth International Conference on Scale-Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM 2017), Denmark.

2017 Programme Committee 11th International Conference on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (EMMCVPR), Venice, Italy, 30 October - 1 November 2017.

2018 Scientific Committee VISAPP 2018, 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. Madeira, Portugal.

2018 Scientific Committee “International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics” - NEUROTECHNIX 2018. Seville, Spain.

2018 Scientific Committee CMBBE 2018. 5th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and 3rd Conference on Imaging and Visualization. March 2018, Lisbon, Portugal.

2018 Siam Conference on Imaging Science, Bologna, Italy. (International and, Organizing Committee Co-Chair). https://www.siam-is18.dm.unibo.it/

2019 Scientific and Organizing Committee Workshop on “Efficient Operator Splitting Techniques for Complex Systems and Large Scale Data Analysis”, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) January 14-18, 2019.

2019 Scientific Committee VISAPP 2019, 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications. Prague, Czech. Republic.

2019 Minisymposium Organization, ICIAM 2019 Valencia, Spain July 15-19, Minisimposium on Computational Methods for Inverse Problems (4 parts) : R.Chan-F.Sgallari

2020 Scientific and Organizing Committee Workshop on “Efficient Algorithms in Data Science, Learning and Computational Physics” at the Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) in Sanya, China, January 12- 16, 2020.

2020 Scientific Committee 21st ALGORITMY Conference, September 10-15, 2020, Slovakia.

2021 Program Committee of International VISAPP (“16th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications”), Online 8-10 February 2021.

2021 Scientific Committee International Conference on Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision (SSVM), Cabourg, France, May 16-20 2021.

2021 Scientific Committee CMBBE 2021 Symposium (17th International Symposium on Computer Methods on Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, and 5th Conference on Imaging and Visualization) Bonn, Germany, 7 – 9 September 2021.

INVITED TALKS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES (SINCE 2015)

Legend: invited talk (i.t.), contributed talk (c.t.), and plenary lecture (p.l.).

1. SSVM 2015, Scale Space and Variational Methods in Computer Vision, 31May-4June , 2015 Lège Cap Ferret, France, “Convex image denoising via Non-Convex Regularization”. (c.t.)
2. Netna 2015, New Trends in Numerical Analysis Theory, Methods, Algorithms and Applications, Falerna (CZ), Calabria, 18-21 June 2015. “A generalized Krylov subspace method for l_p -l_q minimization”. (i.t.)
3. ICIAM 2015, 10-15 August, Bejing, “Constrained TVp -L2 model for image restoration”. (i.t.)
4. International Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Scientific Computing, August 16 - 19, 2015, Nanjing, China, “Convex image denoising via Non-Convex Regularization”. (i.t)
5. VIPIMAGE 2015 19-21 Octobe 2015, Tenerife,“Image Restoration: A Survey and Recent Advances”. (p.l.)
6. SIAM Conference on IMAGING SCIENCE, 23-26 May 2016, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, MS8 Non-Gaussian Noise: New Trends and Challenges, organizers: Federica Sciacchitano, Yiqiu Dong. “A Majorization-Minimization Generalized Krylov Subspace Methods for Lp-Lq Image Restoration”, (i.t.).
7. Workshop on Optimization in Image Processing, 27-30 June 2016, Harvard University, Boston, USA. “Majorization-Minimization for Nonconvex Optimization”. (p.l.)
8. Workshop on Computational Inverse Problems - Insight and Algorithms,
   Copenhagen, Denmark, August 23–25, 2017. “A Unified Framework for the Restoration of Images Corrupted by Additive White Noise” (c.t.)
9. CMBBE 2018. 5th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineeringand3rd Conference on Imaging and Visualization. March 2018, Lisbon, Portugal. “Enhancing sparsity beyond convexity: applications to the restoration and segmentation of medical images and surfaces”. (p.l.).
10. International Workshop on Image Processing and Invese Problems,Beijing, April 21-24, 2018, “Image segmentation based on a convex non-convex variational model”. (i.t)
11. Workshop in Image Science and Optimization, Hong Kong , January 11, 2019.“Whiteness Constraints in a Unified Variational Frameworkfor Image Restoration” (invited)
12. Workshop on Scientific Computing and Optimization with Applications to Image and Data Analysis,Hong Kong Baptist University, 12 January 2019. “Whiteness Constraints in a Unified Variational Frameworkfor Image Restoration” (i.t.)
13. International Workshop on “Efficient Operator Splitting Techniques for Complex Systems and Large Scale Data Analysis”, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) January 14-18, 2019, “Whiteness Constraints in a Unified Variational Frameworkfor Image Restoration” (i.t.)
14. ETNA Conf. on Recent Advances in Scientific Computation Santa Margherita di Pula, Italy, May 27-29, 2019,“Space-variant regularization for image restoration problems” (p.l.)
15. Osa Imaging and Applied Optics Congress, June 22-26, 2019 Munich, Germany. “Flexible space-variant directional regularization for image restoration problems”. (i.t.)
16. ICIAM 2019 Valencia, Spain July 15-19, Minisimposium on Computational Methods for Inverse Problems, “Adaptive parameter selection for weighted-TV image reconstruction problems” (i.t.)
17. The Fourth International Workshop on Image Processing Techniques and Applications 22-23 July 2019 CMIT. “Sparse Regularization via Convex Analysis” (p.l.)
18. International Workshop on “Efficient Algorithms in Data Science, Learning and Computational Physics”, Tsinghua Sanya International Mathematics Forum (TSIMF) January 12-16, 2020, “Space-adaptive anisotropic bivariate Laplacian regularization for image restoration” (i.t.).

PHD STUDENTS

• Monica Pragliola, PhD in Mathematics, University of Bologna, Italy, 2016-2019.
• Francesca Bevilacqua, PhD in Mathematics, University of Bologna, Italy, 2020-2023.

  POST-DOC. STUDENTS

• Elena Franchini, Title: Metodi numerici a PDE paraboliche non lineari per l’eliminazione del rumore e la segmentazione di immagini 2D–3D. CIRAM, Univ. Bologna, Jan-Dec. 2008.
• Alessandro Lanza, Title:“Algoritmi Efficienti ed Accurati per la Restoration di Immagini 2D/3D per la Digital Image Correlation”. CIRI Edilizia e Costruzioni – Aug. 2012 -July 2013.
• Alessandro Lanza, Title: “Sviluppo di metodi di classificazione corretta di segnali relativi ai codici a barre, in presenza di rumore ed elevati livelli di sfocatura”. CIRAM-Aug. 2013- Sept.2014.
• Roberto Mecca, Title: “Analysis of new models and algorithms fro innovative 3D scanning technologies”. Dip. MatematicaJan-Dec. 2015.
• Roberto Mecca, Title: “Analysis of new models and algorithms fro innovative 3D scanning technologies”. 2016-17. Marie Curie INDAM Cofund : Cambridge-Univ. Bologna.
• Monica Pragliola, Title: “Statistical space-invariant regularizing techniques for image processing”, 2019-2020.
• Monica Pragliola, Title: “Statistical space-invariant regularizing techniques for image processing”, 2020-2021.