Boards & Committes
Editorial Board member of international journals
Associate Editor of the Pattern Recognition Letters journal (Elsevier)
Associate Editor of the Heritage journal (MDPI)
Steering Committee Member of the SITIS conference (IEEE, ACM-in-cooperation)
Up to 2020, Associate Editor of the International Journal of Creative Interfaces and Computer Graphics (IGI Global)
Guest Editor of international journals
- 2021, Lead Guest Editor of the topical issue “Advances on Signal Image Technology and Internet based Systems” of the SN Computer Science journal, Spinger. Co-editors: Albert Dipanda, Kokou Yetongnon. ISSN: 2662-995X (Print) 2661-8907 (Online). direct link
- 2020, Guest Editor of the special issue “Semantic Multimedia Data” of the Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. Co-editors: Francesco Piccialli, Richard Chbeir, Albert Dipanda. ISSN: 0167-739X. direct link
- 2018, Guest Editor of the special issue “Role of Big Data Analytics in a Sustainable Smart City” of the Sustainable Cities and Society, Elsevier. Co-editors: Awais Ahmad, Benjamin C. M. Fung, Yong Fang, Gwanggil Jeon. ISSN: 2210-6707. direct link
Chair of international conferences and workshops
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2023, the 17th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, November 8-10, 2023.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2022, the 16th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Dijon, France, October 19-21, 2022.
- Local Committee member of IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022, the 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering, Rome, Italy, October 26-28, 2022.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2019, the 15th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Sorrento, Italy, November 26-29, 2019.
- International Advisory Board member of CVIP 2019, the 4th International Conference on Computer Vision & Image Processing , Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, India, September 27-29, 2019.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2018, the 14th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, November 26-29, 2018.
- General Chair of IIMSS 2018, the 11th International KES Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, Gold Coast, Surfers Paradise, Australia, June 20-22, 2018.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2017, the 13th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Jaipur, India, December 4-7, 2017.
- General Chair of IIMSS 2017, the 10th International KES Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2016, the 12th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Napoli, Italy, November 27 – December 1, 2016.
- General Chair of IIMSS 2016, the 9th International KES Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, Puerto de la Cruz, Tenerife, Spain, June 15-17, 2016.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2015, the 11th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Bangkok, Thailand, November 23-27, 2015.
- Publicity Chair of IIMSS 2015, the 8th International KES Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia: Systems and Services, Sorrento, Italy, June 17-19, 2015.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2014, the 10th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Marrakech, Morocco, November 23-27, 2014.
- Workshop Program Chair of SITIS 2013, the 9th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Kyoto, Japan, December 2-5, 2013.
- Local Organizing Chair and Publicity Co-chair of SITIS 2012, the 8th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems, Sorrento, Italy, November 25-29, 2012.
- Co-chair of the Workshop INTERPRET 2012, “Multimedia Techniques for Augmented Reality: Presence and Emotion in Virtual Environment” at the 8th International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet based Systems (SITIS 2012), Sorrento, Italy, November 25 – 29, 2012.
- Co-chair of the Workshop IIHCI 2012, the 5th International Workshop on Intelligent Interfaces for Human-Computer Interaction, Palermo, Italy, July 4 – 6, 2012.
- Co-chair of the Workshop EICS4Med 2011, “Engineering Interactive Computing Systems for Medicine and Health Care” at ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (ACM EICS 2011), Pisa, Italy, June 13, 2011.
- Program Area Chair of the Invited Session PSH 2010, “Pervasive Systems for Healthcare” of the 3nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS 2010), Baltimore, USA, July 28-30, 2010.
- Co-chair of the Invited Session ISH ’09, “Intelligent Systems for Healthcare” of the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services (KES-IIMSS 2009), Mogliano Veneto, Italy, July 15-16, 2009.
Program Committee member of international conferences and workshops
- IEEE MetroXRAINE 2022, 2022 IEEE International Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence, and Neural Engineering, Rome, Italy, October 26-28, 2022.
- XR SALENTO 2022, the 1st International Conference on eXtended Reality, Lecce, Italy, July 6-8, 2022.
- CIVIA @ ACM SAC 2022, Computational Intelligence and Video & Image Analysis track of the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, April 25-29, 2022.
- PRIP 2021, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Information Processing, Minsk, Belarus, September 21-23, 2021.
- SALENTO AVR 2021, 7th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Otranto, Lecce, Italy, September 7-10, 2021.
- InMed 2021, 9th International KES Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare, Virtual, June 14-16, 2021.
- HealthInf 2021, 14th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies, Virtual, February 11-13, 2021.
- SALENTO AVR 2020, 6th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Lecce, Italy, September 7-10, 2020.
- ATSIP 2020, 5th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing, Sfax, Tunisia, September 2-5, 2020.
- IEEE Services 2019, Workshop on Big Data for Public Health Policy Making, Milano, Italy, July 8-13, 2019.
- SALENTO AVR 2019, 6th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Santa Maria al Bagno, Lecce, Italy, June 24-27, 2019.
- WIVACE 2019, XIV International Workshop on Artificial Life and Evolutionary Computation, Rende, Italy, September 18-20, 2019.
- SALENTO AVR 2018, 5th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Otranto, Italy, June 24-27, 2018.
- ATSIP 2018, 5th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing, Port El Kantaoui, Tunisia, March 21-24, 2018.
- HCist 2018, International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies: “aligning business, technology and people for better healthcare services”, Parque das Nações, Lisbon, November 21-23, 2018.
- InMed 2018, 6th International KES Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare, Goal Coast, Australia, June 20-22, 2018.
- ICIT 2017, 16th International Conference on Information Technology, Bhubaneswar, India, December 21-23, 2017.
- SALENTO AVR 2017, 4th International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Ugento, Italy, June 12-15, 2017.
- ASL4GUP 2017, First International Workshop on Adaptive Shot Learning for Gesture Understanding and Production, held in conjunction with IEEE FG 2017, Washington DC, USA, May 30, 2017.
- HSP 2017, Healthy and Secure People @ 3rd International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health – ICT4AWE 2017, Porto, Portugal, April 28-29, 2017.
- ATSIP 2017, 4th International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Signal and Image Processing, Fez, Morocco, May 22-24, 2017.
- HCist 2017, International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies: “aligning business, technology and people for better healthcare services”, Barcelona, Spain, November 8-10, 2017.
- InMed 2017, 5th International KES Conference on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, June 21-23, 2017.
- HSP 2016, Healthy and Secure People @ HCist – International Conference on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies, Porto, Portugal, October 5-7, 2016.
- CADSA 2016, 4th International Workshop on Cloud and Distributed System Applications @ 3PGCIC – the 11th International Conference on P2P, Parallel, Grid, Cloud and Internet Computing, Soonchunhyang University, Asan, Korea, November 5-7, 2016.
- SALENTO AVR 2016, 3rd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Otranto, Italy, June 15-18, 2016.
- VICTA 2015, the 2nd International Workshop on Visions on Internet of Cultural Things and Applications (VICTA) @ SITIS 2015, Bangkok, Thailand, November 23-27, 2015.
- HSP 2015, Healthy and Secure People (HSP) @ HCist 2015, Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, October 7-9, 2015.
- SALENTO AVR 2015, 2nd International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Lecce, Italy, August 31 – September 3, 2015.
- IEEE ICSC 2015, Ninth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Anaheim, California, USA, February 9-11, 2015.
- SALENTO AVR 2014, 1st International Conference on Augmented and Virtual Reality, Lecce, Italy, September 17-20, 2014.
- IEB 2014, Workshop on Insight on Eye Biometrics , Marrakech, Morocco, November 23-27, 2014.
- CITIMA 2014, Workshop on Computational Intelligence Techniques for Industrial and Medical Applications, Marrakech, Morocco, November 23-27, 2014.
- IEEE ICSC 2014, the Eighth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing , Newport Beach, California, USA, June 16-18, 2014.
- SMART 2014, the Third International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies, Paris, France, July 20 – 24, 2014.
- INTERACT 2013: the 14th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction , Cape Town, South Africa, September 2-6, 2013.
- IEEE ICSC 2013, the Seventh IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing , Irvine, California, USA, September 16-18, 2013.
- SMART 2013, the Second International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies, Rome, Italy, June 23 – 28, 2013.
- AI*HCI 2013: Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Human Computer Interaction at the XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, Turin, Italy, December 4-6, 2013.
- MIMOS 2012, Movimento Italiano Modellazione e Simulazione, Session “Medicine and Surgery”, Roma, Italy, October 9 – 11, 2012.
- IEEE ICSC 2012, the Sixth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Palermo, Italy, September 19 – 21, 2012.
- SMART 2012, the First International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies, Stuttgart, Germany, May 27 – June 1, 2012.
- INTERPRET 2011, Multimedia Techniques for Augmented Reality: Presence and Emotion in Virtual Environment, Dijon, France, November 28 – December 1, 2011.
- CTIT 2011, the 2011 International Conference and Workshop on Current Trends in Information Technology, Dubai Women’s College, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 26-27, 2011.
- KES-IIMSS 2011, the 4th International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, University of Piraeus, Greece, July 20-22, 2011.
- ICEI 2011, the 2nd International Conference on Engineering and Industries, Jeju island, Korea, November 29 – December 1, 2011.
- KES-IIMSS 2010, the 3nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Baltimore, MD, USA, July 28-30, 2010.
- INTERACT 2009: the 12th IFIP TC13 Conference in Human-Computer Interaction, Uppsala, Sweden, August 24-28, 2009.
- KES-IIMSS 2009, the 2nd International Symposium on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Mogliano Veneto, Italy, July 15-16, 2009.
Reviewer for international journals or conferences
Journals
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, The Visual Computer, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Computer Communications, International Journal for Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery, ETRI Journal, Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments, IEEE/OSA Journal of Display Technology, International Journal of Computational Science and Engineering, International Journal of Smart Home, Microprocessors and Microsystems, Mobile Networks and Applications, SPIE Optical Engineering.
Conferences
CHI, VECIMS, EUSIPCO, APSCC, DSN-DCCS, EDCC, EUROPAR, HASE, LADC, MOBILIGHT, MUE, PERCOM, PERSYS, SAC-DADS, SafeComp, SCN, SRDS, UCI.