Roberto Rinaldo obtained the "Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica" degree in 1987 from the University of Padova, Padova, Italy. From 1990 to 1992, he was with the University of California at Berkeley, where he received the MS degree in 1992. He received the Doctorate degree in "Ingegneria Elettronica e dell'Informazione" from the University of Padova in 1992. In 1992 he joined the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica of the University of Padova as a "ricercatore". Starting from November 1st 1998, he was associate professor in Communications and Signal Processing in the same Department.

Since November 2001, he has been an associate professor in the "Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica" of the University of Udine. Starting December 2003, he is now a professor in the same department. His interests are in the field of multidimensional signal processing, video signal coding, fractal theory and image coding.
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Riccardo Bernardini was born in Genova (Italy) in 1964. He received the "Laurea in Ingegneria Elettronica" degree from the University of Padova in 1990. Since then he has been with the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica of the University of Padova with a scholarship of the Consorzio Padova Ricerche, and, from November 1992 to November 1995, as a Ph.D. student. He spent the last year of his Ph.D. at formerly AT&T Bell Labs (Murray Hill). From April 1996 to April 1997 he was in EPFL (Lausanne) as a Postdoctoral Fellow. Now he is working as researcher in the Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Gestionale e Meccanica of the University of Unide. His main interests are in the area of multidimensional signal processing, wavelets, filter banks and robust transmission.
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