The winner of the 2024 edition of the award for the best Master’s thesis on signal processing topics discussed in Italian Universities is:

  • Viola Negroni, Politecnico di Milano, “Audio Deepfake Splicing Detection and Localization based on Forensic Similarity”, [video]

The Scientific Committee congratulates the winner and thanks all participants for their excellent contributions. Here are the runners-up:

  • Giuseppe Catalano, Università di Napoli Federico II, “Radar detection of hypervelocity targets in the presence of plasma sheath”, [video]
  • Alessio Chiovelli, Università di Siena, “Multibit Watermarking of a Colorization GAN”, [video]
  • Roberto Leone Cicognani, Politecnico di Milano, “Nesterov Acceleration of the Griffin-Lim Algorithm for Phase Recovery”, [video]
  • Marco Lanzetti, Università di Pavia, “Design and optimization of a spaceborne radar operating as a joint Terahertz communication and sensing system”, [video]
  • Francesco Pigato, Politecnico di Milano, “Autonomous Vehicle Positioning with LIDAR-only Sensing: an example on the Indy Autonomous Challenge Dataset”, [video]