Gaetano Scarano

Gaetano Scarano was born in Campobasso, Italy. He received the “Laurea” degree in electronic engineering from the Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” Rome, Italy, in 1982. In 1982, he joined the Istituto di Acustica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome, as an Associate Researcher. Since 1988, he has been teaching digital signal processing at the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, where he became an Associate Professor of signal theory, in 1991. In 1992, he joined the Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnica dell’Informazione e della Comunicazione, now Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione, Elettronica e Telecomunicazioni, Università di Roma “La Sapienza,” first as an Associate Professor of image processing, then as a Professor of signal theory. His research interests include signal and image processing, communications, estimation and detection theory, and include channel equalization and estimation, image restoration, and texture synthesis and classification. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters.