Claudio Fontanari

Claudio Fontanari is an Associate Professor of Geometry at the Department of Mathematics, University of Trento, Italy. His research spans algebraic geometry, birational geometry, and the history/philosophy of mathematics, with interdisciplinary applications in multimedia engineering.

• Research Focus: Algebraic curves and moduli spaces, geometric modeling, shape matching, and digital forensics.
• Teaching: Offers courses in Linear Algebra, Analytic Geometry, and Geometry for Industrial Engineering and Philosophy programs.
• Interdisciplinary Work: Exploits algebro-geometric tools like linear algebra, commutative algebra, and conformal geometry for multimedia engineering tasks such as asymmetric watermarking and digital fingerprinting.

Publications highlight his contributions to multimedia security, including hierarchical watermarking schemes and genetic algorithm-based robustness evaluation. He also organizes the Multimedia Geometry Seminar, fostering academic exchange in geometry and its applications.