
ABOUT US
The MultiMedia Signal Processing (MMSP) Laboratory is a research group of the Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication at the University of Milano-Bicocca, established in 2007.
The MMSP lab is active in research and teaching activities alike covering topics mainly related to human-machine interaction, health and social informatics, computational neuroscience, and multimedia data processing.
The laboratory research activity is strongly characterized by collaboration with colleagues from other disciplines, particularly psychology, social sciences, medicine, law and ethics.
Particularly, Francesca Gasparini and Aurora Saibene are co-founders of the Interdepartmental laboratory TecSEDU on emerging technologies, society, ethics, and human rights.
Moreover, all the MMSP members are co-founders and belong to the executive board of MINDFUL, a working group on Computational Models for Mental Health and Well-Being.
The MMSP laboratory organizes and actively participates in dissemination events addressed especially to high school students and to the population on topics related to human machine interaction, and ethics and human rights in the era of AI and new technologies, with a particular focus on neurotechnologies.
The MMSP members also belong to several research centers:
OUR MEMBERS
Francesca Gasparini
Laboratory head
Aurora Saibene
Postdoc Research Fellow
Giulia Rizzi
Research Fellow
Sara Nocco
Research Fellow
Alessandra Grossi
Research Fellow
Claudia Rabaioli
PhD Student
RESEARCH AREAS

We know just a little about our brains. In this research area we try to approach brain-related information considering both traditional neural data, such as electroencephalographic signals, and data that allow a better understanding on brain conditions, such as speech.
We are also very attentive to treating novel technologies not only from the perspective of computer scientists and as tools ameliorating people's lives, but also as potential threats to fundamental human rights.

Health informatics regards the application of computational techniques to medical data of patients, such as electronic health records (EHRs).
Through social informatics, we aim at analyzing social and demographic data to better understand poverty and participation of elderly in the society.

The multidisciplinary field of Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) mainly pertains the biridirectional interaction of human and machines in different application contexts.
We mainly focus on motor imagery and inner speech based brain-computer interfaces, mood and emotion detection and monitoring, and speech emotion recognition (SER).

Multimedia content has become pervasive. In this research area we mainly focus on the detection of hateful content, especially misogynistic, in viral contents such as memes. Moreover, we work towards the understanding of novel learning approaches by analyzing video lectures and provide a better insight on the user perceived interest in visual contents.

During the years, we have been involved in many projects such as Longevicity, Ampel, Age-IT and more recently PREDICTOR project.

To nurture our ideas and having dear the possibility of looking at different research topics with a multidisciplinary eyes, we are always open to new collaborations.
We have close collaborations with computer scientists, psychologists, clinicians, mathematicians, engineers, law and ethics experts.
RECENT NEWS
Recent news
- MMSP Autumn Events
- Claudia Rabaioli @M2L
- MMSP lab @CIBB 2025
- Deadline extension of our Special Issue “AI-Based Biomedical Signal Processing – 2nd Edition”
- CfP – Special Session on Computational Methods for Mental Health and Well-Being @CIBB2025
- MMSP lab @AIxIA 2024
- Welcome to Mariana!
- Aurora Saibene @CBMI
- Congratulations to Sofia Cazzaniga!
- “Deep learning in motor imagery EEG signal decoding: A Systematic Review” is out now!