Was born in Gallipoli -Lecce- (Italy) in 1974 and he received an Honors Degree in Computer Science Engineering from the University of Lecce in 2001. Since then, He is a researcher at the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.), Institute of Intelligent Systems for Automation (ISSIA) in Bari (Italy). His main research interests are in the fields of Image Processing, Image Analysis, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Digital Signal Processing, Neural Networks, Graphical Models, Wavelet Transform and Independent Component Analysis.