Filippo Vella obtained a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo. He worked at STMi- crolectronics, in the AST division. He completed his Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Palermo. Since 2006, he has been a Staff Researcher at CNR - ICAR Palermo. His current research activities deal with artificial vision, content-based image retrieval, and computational creativity.