PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Davide Maltoni

Davide Maltoni is a University of Bologna researcher whose work spans fingerprint recognition, continual learning, and language models. He co-founded BioLab in 1994, and its team developed SFinGe and organized four FVC competitions for fingerprint verification. He proposed the Minutiae Cylinder Code in 2009, and his collaborators introduced the CORe50 continual-learning benchmark in 2017. He co-authored the third edition of Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition in 2022, received IAPR's Senior Biometrics Investigator Award in 2024, and became an IEEE Fellow in 2025. As of October 2026, he is a full professor at Bologna and vice director of its Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Works
234
Citations
17,165
h-index
49
Badges

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1994–2006

    BioLab and fingerprint tools

    He and Dario Maio establish BioLab at the University of Bologna's Cesena campus in 1994. BioLab develops SFinGe in 2000 for synthetic fingerprint databases. From 2000 through 2006, it organizes four fingerprint-verification competitions: FVC2000, FVC2002, FVC2004, and FVC2006.

  2. 2009

    The Minutiae Cylinder Code

    He proposes Minutiae Cylinder Code (MCC) in 2009, a fingerprint matcher that performs more than 150 million comparisons per second on a single PC.

  3. 2010–2012

    Fellow and associate professor

    IAPR elects him a Fellow in 2010 for contributions to biometrics and fingerprint recognition. By 2012, he is an associate professor at the University of Bologna's Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems.

  4. 2017

    The CORe50 benchmark

    He and his collaborators introduce CORe50 in 2017 as a benchmark for continual learning in robotic vision.

  5. 2022

    A fingerprint handbook

    He co-authors the third edition of Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition, published by Springer in 2022.

  6. 2024–2025

    An award and IEEE Fellowship

    IAPR gives him its Senior Biometrics Investigator Award in 2024. IEEE elevates him to Fellow in 2025.

  7. As of October 2026

    Professor at Bologna

    He is a full professor at the University of Bologna and vice director of its Research Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. His 2026 research examines deductive logic in language models.

Most-cited works

  1. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition2003 · Springer eBooks · 2,922 citationsWith Salil Prabhakar
  2. FVC2000: fingerprint verification competition2002 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 807 citationsWith Anil K. Jain
  3. FVC2002: Second Fingerprint Verification Competition2003 · 703 citationsWith Anil K. Jain
  4. Minutia Cylinder-Code: A New Representation and Matching Technique for Fingerprint Recognition2010 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 637 citations
  5. Direct gray-scale minutiae detection in fingerprints1997 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 617 citations

From OpenAlex, as of 19 October 2026.

  1. More people shaping AI studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology than at any other institutionIncludes University of Bologna. Our estimates of where the people shaping AI studied and where their careers led, from education records in cited biographies.
  2. The company share of AI researchers’ top papers rose from 2% to 32%Includes University of Bologna. We estimate where leading AI researchers worked when their most-cited papers appeared. The company share rose from 2% in 1975–1979 to 32% in 2020–2024.
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Sources and credits

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  1. Scheda Laboratorio – Cvpl cvpl.it. Checked 19 October 2026.
  2. Davide Maltoni — University of Bologna — Curriculum vitae unibo.it. Checked 19 October 2026.
  3. Chronological List of IAPR Fellows – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  4. The 5th IAPR International Conference on Biometrics iapr.org. Checked 19 October 2026.
  5. Handbook of Fingerprint Recognition — Google Books books.google.com. Checked 19 October 2026.
  6. Senior Biometrics Investigator – International Association for Pattern Recognition iapr.org. Checked 19 October 2026.