Matteo Ciotola

About Me

I received my B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Automation Engineering, earning the latter cum laude, and completed my Ph.D. in Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) in 2024 at the University of Naples Federico II, Italy. I am currently an Assistant Professor at the same university and a member of the Group of Research on Image Processing (GRIP). In 2020, I carried out a research traineeship at the Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD) in Montpellier, France, conducting my work at the Maison de la Télédétection, an interdisciplinary center dedicated to remote sensing for environmental and agricultural applications. From 2022 to 2023, I was a Visiting Scholar at the Université Bretagne Sud in Vannes, France, collaborating with the Environment Observation With Complex Imagery (OBELIX) research team. My primary research interests focus on remote sensing image analysis, particularly multi-source image fusion, including super-resolution, pansharpening, and co-registration of multispectral, hyperspectral, and panchromatic data. My work leverages deep learning techniques to develop advanced methodologies for image processing in remote sensing. Since 2025, I have been serving as Chair of the Young Professionals Affinity Group of the IEEE Italy Section.

Research Interests

• Remote Sensing: multispectral pansharpening, hyperspectral pansharpening, super-resolution, feature extraction, image reconstruction
• Machine Learning: deep learning, convolutional neural networks, attention mechanism
• Computer Vision: super-resolution, image enhancement, image reconstruction, image generation

News

• [Aug. 2025] I have presented the work “Pixel-wise Coregistration-at-loss For Enhanced CNN-Based Pansharpening” at IGARSS 2025 in Brisbane, Australia.
• [Jun. 2025] We have presented the work “A Spectral-Preserving Zero-Shot Technique for Hyperspectral Pansharpening” at SCIA 2025 in Reykjavik, Iceland.
• [Jun. 2025] Our paper “Zero-Shot Hyperspectral Pansharpening Using Hysteresis-Based Tuning for Spectral Quality Control” has been accepted to MDPI Remote Sensing.
• [Jun. 2025] Our paper “A Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Sentinel-2 Sharpening: Methods, Dataset, and Evaluation Metrics has been accepted to MDPI Remote Sensing.
• [Jan. 2025] I have been appointed Chair of the Young Professionals Affinity Group of the IEEE Italy Section.

Publications

Proceedings

Professional Experience

Awards

• (2024) IEEE TechDefense - Best Paper Presented by a Young Researcher
• (2023) CNIT-GTTI Prof. Francesco Carassa Award (Radar and Remote Sensing)

Qualifications

• (2021) Government exam and Licensed as a Professional Engineer

Teaching Activities

• 2020 - ... Teaching support, "Image Processing for Computer Vision" course at University Federico II
• 2024 - ... Teaching support, "Statistical Learning e Intelligenza Artificiale" course at University Parthenope
• 2023   Tutorship, "Fundamental of Physics", course at University Federico II
• 2023   Tutorial, "HD-03: Pansharpening by convolutional neural networks” at International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)
• 2022   Tutorial, "Image Fusion - Pansharpening by Convolutional Neural Network” at IEEE GRSS IADF School on Computer Vision for Earth Observation

Journal Reviewer

• IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (TGRS)
• IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS)
• IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters (GRSL)
• Information Fusion (Inf. Fus.)
• ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (Ph&RS)
• MDPI Remote Sensing (MDPI RS)
• MDPI Sensors (MDPI Sens.)
• International Journal of Digital Earth (TJDE)
• Geo-spatial Information Science (TGSI)

Conference Reviewer

• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2021-2024

Community Contributed Session Organizer

• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2024 - CCS.109: Super-resolution and pansharpening

Session Chair

• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2024 - WE1.R3: Super-resolution and Pansharpening I, WE1.R3: Super-resolution and Pansharpening II, WE1.R3: Super-resolution and Pansharpening III
• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2023 - THP.P13: Different Approaches with SAR, Multispectral Hyperspectral Data
• IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS) 2022 - TH6.V11 - Super-Resolution

Last Update: 19 November 2025