Marco Carli received the Laurea degree in telecommunication engineering from the Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza, ”Rome, Italy, and the Ph.D. degree from the Tampere University of Technology, Tampere, Finland. He is an Associate Professor with the Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering, Università degli Studi Roma TRE. He was a Visiting Researcher with the Image Processing Laboratory, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, from 2000 to 2004. His research interests are in the area of digital signal and image processing with applications to multimedia communications, digital watermarking, multimedia quality evaluation, and information security.