Description of the research group

The interests of the group span all aspects of digital signal and image processing (from the design of algorithms to their realization using suitable electronic systems), and electronic instrumentation. Applications and tools include audio processing (acoustic echo control, room response measurement and equalization), active noise control, adaptive and nonlinear filter theory, with applications e.g. in Li-ion battery chemical impedance spectroscopy.

Related to images/video, they include enhancement and feature extraction, visualization, image quality evaluation, and deep learning, with applications e.g. in forensics. Newly devised algorithms are validated in Matlab or Python, and implemented in physical systems using DSPs, FPGAs, microcontrollers, or dedicated fixed- or floating-point processors. In cooperation with Elettra Sincrotrone Trieste and with the ICTP Mlab laboratory, electronic instrumentation is developed for applied physics experiments, mainly with synchrotrons and at CERN.

Keyword 1: Image and Video processing

Keyword 2: Audio and Signal processing

Keyword 3: Electronic instrumentation

Keyword 4: Embedded systems

Keyword 5: Firmware and software

Head of the research group

Gianni Ramponi

List of members in the research group

- Alberto Carini - PA - Ing-Inf/01
- Sergio Carrato - PA - Ing-Inf/01
- Stefano Marsi - RU - Ing-Inf/01
- Gianni Ramponi - PO - Ing-Inf/01

Research projects

- Morphological study of cryopreserved spermatozoa through a novel 3D Ptychography method, Elettra/TWINMIC , 2021
- I sistemi di controllo e acquisizione per rivelatori di fotoni X in un ampio intervallo spettrale, Elettra, 2020

Nome of the laboratories

- Image Processing Lab (IPL), devoted to image processing, audio processing, and signal processing in general
- PC and WS, instrumentation for video acquisition and display; loudspeakers, microphones, professional DACs.
- Electronics Lab - Standard bench electronic instrumentation, several DSP and MCU development systems, an HP 16500C logic analyzer system and an HP 16505A prototype analyzer.