On October 22, 2026, on the first anniversary of his passing, the Image Processing Laboratory will be dedicated to professor Giovanni L. Sicuranza.
The event may be attended in person or online via Microsoft Teams (please contact
The program is as follows:
3:00 PM CEST, October 22
University of Trieste, C2 Building, 1st Floor, Room A
Opening Remarks
Institutional Greetings
A Brief Overview of Prof. Sicuranza's Career
Colleagues' Tributes and Remembrances
In person / video connections / textual messages
4:30 PM CEST, October 22
University of Trieste, C3 Building, 2nd Floor, IPL Laboratory
Laboratory Dedication Ceremony
Refreshments at the IPL Laboratory
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On the occasion of his 75th birthday, a Special Issue in his honor was published in the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. The following is an excerpt from the editorial of that Special Issue, highlighting his achievements:
"Professor Giovanni L. Sicuranza belongs to a distinguished group of pioneers who understood the potential and the wide domain of applications of nonlinear digital signal processing and was instrumental through his activities in developing the discipline as a mainstream research area. He has also been a strong and consistent supporter of EURASIP activities throughout his career.
Professor Sicuranza was born on September 7, 1940. After completing his education in Electronic Engineering at the University of Padova, he joined the University of Trieste (Italy) as an assistant professor of applied electronics in 1967. He remained with the University till he retired as a professor of signal and image processing in 2011. He has continued his relationship with the University of Trieste since then as a professor emeritus.
He established the Image Processing Laboratory (IPL) at the Electrical, Electronic and Computer Science Department of the University of Trieste in 1980 and was its director till 2005. Through his leadership, IPL grew into a preeminent research center in nonlinear signal and image processing. Many among the IPL alumni are now academic leaders in different European universities or hold leadership positions in research laboratories and industrial R&D centers around the world.
When Professor Sicuranza started working on nonlinear signal processing, many techniques were too complex to be implemented in practical applications. Some of his early contributions aimed at devising efficient architectures for nonlinear filtering. His polynomial filter realizations using logarithmic representation or distributed arithmetic enabled the use of these filters in practical devices in the 1980s.
Professor Sicuranza’s other research contributions span a wide variety of areas including multidimensional digital filters, processing of images and image sequences, image coding, nonlinear filters, polynomial filters and adaptive algorithms for system identification, echo cancellation, and active noise control. Many of the systems and nonlinear techniques he pioneered have found wide use in a number of modern DSP applications. He has published more than 200 papers in international journals and conference proceedings and eight chapters in edited books. He is the author or editor of four books: Multidimensional Processing of Video Signals (co-edited with S. K. Mitra, Kluwer Academic Publisher, 1992), Polynomial Signal Processing (co-authored with V J. Mathews, Wiley, 2000), Nonlinear Image Processing (co-edited with S. K. Mitra, Academic Press, 2001), and Advances in Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, (co-edited with S. Marshall, Hindawi Publishing Corporation, 2006.).
Professor Sicuranza was a member of the technical committees of numerous international conferences, the Chairman of the VIII European Signal Processing Conference, EUSIPCO-96 (Trieste, Italy, 1996) and the Sixth Workshop on Nonlinear Signal and Image Processing, NSIP-03, (Grado, Italy, 2003). He was also the Co-chair of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP-05 (Genova, Italy, 2005) and Honorary Chair of the 6th Int’l Symposium on Signal and Image Processing and Analysis, ISPA 2013 (Trieste, Italy, 2013). He was a member of the editorial board of the EURASIP journal “Signal Processing” and of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. He is presently an Associate Editor of “Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing” and a member of the editorial board of the Springer journal “Signal, Image and Video Processing”. Professor Sicuranza has served as a project manager of ESPRIT and COST research projects funded by the European Commission and as a consultant to several companies. He was a member of the IMDSP Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society and a member of the Administrative Committee and Awards Chairman of EURASIP. Professor Sicuranza received the EURASIP Meritorious Service Award and the EURASIP Certificate of Merit in 2006 and 2015, respectively."