Pasquale Savino graduated in Physics from the University of Pisa in 1980 and completed a master's in Computer Science in 1982. From 1983, he worked with Olivetti at the Pisa Research Laboratory, and in 1996, he moved to the Istituto di Elaborazione della Informazione (I.E.I.) of the Italian National Council of Research (CNR) (now Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione (Institute of Information Science and Technology)), where he holds a senior researcher position at the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities Laboratory. His research interests are focused on multimedia database systems, multimedia modelling, audio/video digital libraries, storage structures for similarity retrieval, XML search, image similarity search, and document image processing and digital restoration.

Anna Tonazzini was a Senior Researcher at CNR-ISTI, the Signals and Images Lab, in Pisa, Italy (currently retired). She obtained a master's degree in Mathematics in 1981 at the University of Pisa. Since joining CNR in 1984, she has coordinated national and international projects on neural networks and learning, computational biology, and document image processing and has been the supervisor of various postdoctoral fellowships. She has published more than 60 research papers in peer-reviewed international journals and more than 80 papers related to international conferences and workshops. Her current research interests are image analysis for cultural heritage and computational methods for structural genomics.