Raffaele Cappelli

Raffaele Cappelli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Bologna. His research focuses on fingerprint biometrics, emphasizing anti-spoofing, segmentation, and synthetic data generation. He contributes to the Fingerprint Verification Competition (FVC) and has pioneered tools like SFinGe for synthetic fingerprint databases. His work addresses security vulnerabilities in biometric systems and forensic applications.

Education and affiliations include roles at the University of Bologna, with expertise in computer science and engineering. His research integrates machine learning, pattern recognition, and hardware acceleration to enhance biometric system performance and reliability.

Key areas of study include presentation attack detection, fingerprint orientation estimation, and large-scale database management. He has authored over 70 publications, with notable contributions to forensic science and secure authentication protocols.