Prof Mauro Barni
University of Siena, Italy

Mauro Barni is a full professor at the University of Siena, where he founded the Visual Information Processing and Protection Group (VIPP) In the last two decades, he has been studying the application of image and signal processing for security applications. His current research interests include multimedia forensics, adversarial machine learning, and DNN watermarking. He has published about 350 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He has been the Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security for the years 2015-2017. He was the founding editor of the EURASIP Journal on Information Security. He has been the chairman of the IEEE Information Forensic and Security Technical Committee (IFS-TC. He was the technical program chair of ICASSP 2014. He was appointed DL of the IEEE SPS for the years 2013-2014. He is the recipient of the Individual Technical Achievement Award of EURASIP for 2016. He is a fellow member of the IEEE and the AAIA, and a member of EURASIP.

Prof Vitomir Štruc
University of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Vitomir Štruc is a Full Professor at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. His research interests include problems related to biometrics, computer vision, image processing, and machine learning. He (co-)authored more than 150 research papers for leading international peer-reviewed journals and conferences in these and related areas. Vitomir is a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, a Subject Editor for Elsevier’s Signal Processing and an Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition and IET Biometrics. He regularly serves on the organizing committees of visible international conferences, including IJCB, FG, WACV and CVPR. He was a General Co-Chair for IJCB 2023, and currently acts as a Program Chair for IEEE WIFS 2024, WACV 2025, and IJCB 2025. Dr. Struc is a Senior member of the IEEE, a member of IAPR, EURASIP, Slovenia’s ambassador for the European Association for Biometrics (EAB) and the former president and current executive committee member of the Slovenian Pattern Recognition Society, the Slovenian member of IAPR. Vitomir is also the current VP Technical Activities for the IEEE Biometrics Council, the secretary of the IAPR Technical Committee on Biometrics (TC4), and a member of the Supervisory Board of the EAB