Pierangelo Migliorati received the degree in Electronic Engineering (cum laude) from Politecnico di Milano in 1988, and the Master in Information Technology from CEFRIEL-Politecnico di Milano Research Centre, Milan, in 1989, respectively. He joined CEFRIEL Research Center in 1990. From 1990 to 1993 he was active in the area of image processing and coding. He was also involved in research activities in the areas of multimedia communications and medical image processing. From 1993 to 1995 he considered the problems related to transmission and recording of digital signals. From 1995 to 2004 he was Assistant Professor at University of Brescia. From 2005 he has been Associate Professor at University of Brescia. His teaching activities focus mainly on Digital Signal Processing and Digital Communications. His main research interests cover the field of Digital Signal Processing applications, with a specific expertise on visual communications, and content-based analysis of audio-visual information. He has published more than 50 papers on these topics. He has been an active reviewer of several journal and conferences in this research filed. He participated to several international research programmes in audio-visual communications, funded by the European Commission (ESPRIT project AVIR, IST project SPATION, IST project SCHEMA, IST project DISCOVER, IST project RUSHES, COST-292), the Italian National Center for Research (CNR), the Italian Ministry of Education and Research (MIUR).
