Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024 · 11/23/2023

I will serve as Area Chair for ACM Multimedia 2024. The deadline for paper submission is 12th April 2023.

Paper accepted at IJCV · 10/31/2023

Our paper "Generating More Pertinent Captions by Leveraging Semantics and Style on Multi-Source Datasets" (with M. Cornia, G. Fiameni, R. Cucchiara) has been accepted to IJCV!

Two papers accepted to WACV 2024 · 10/24/2023

Two papers accepted on semantic (and open-vocabulary) segmentation at WACV 2024. Thanks to R. Amoroso, L. Barsellotti, R. Cucchiara, M. Bernhard, Y. Kindermann, M. Schubert and V. Tresp!

PRIN 2022 PNRR project accepted · 07/30/2023

Our PRIN 2022 project "MUCES - a MUltimedia platform for Content Enrichment and Search in audiovisual archives" (with F. Carrara) has been accepted!

Paper accepted at ICCV 2023 · 07/14/2023

We are glad to announce that our paper "With a Little Help from your own Past: Prototypical Memory Networks for Image Captioning" has been accepted to ICCV 2023.

PRIN 2022 project accepted · 06/18/2023

Our PRIN 2022 project "MUSMA: Multimedia Understanding meets Social Media Analysis" (with G. Serra and W. Quattrociocchi) has been accepted!

Paper accepted as highlight at CVPR 2023 · 03/02/2023

We are glad to announce that our paper "Positive-Augmented Constrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation" has been accepted to CVPR 2023 as highlight paper (top 2.5% of submissions). Arxiv and Github.

ELLIS Scholar · 07/29/2021

I have been elected as an ELLIS Scholar in the ELLIS society, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems.

Interview with La Repubblica · 09/23/2020

I have been interviewed by Jaime D'Alessandro on Rep: Scienze, about Gpt-3 and Transformed-based language models. You can read the article here.

LAMV is being used at Facebook to detect harmful content · 08/05/2019

Our solution for matching and detecting copied videos, published in CVPR 2018, is now being used in production scale at Facebook to detect harmful content.

See the official announcement on the Facebook newsroom website, and the Github repository with the source code.

What’s Outside the Intersection? Fine-grained Error Analysis for Semantic Segmentation Beyond IoU
Maximilian Bernhard, Yannic Kindermann, Roberto Amoroso, Matthias Schubert, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Volker Tresp
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

FOSSIL: Free Open-Vocabulary Semantic Segmentation through Synthetic References Retrieval
Luca Barsellotti, Roberto Amoroso, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)

Generating More Pertinent Captions by Leveraging Semantics and Style on Multi-Source Datasets
M. Cornia, L. Baraldi, G. Fiameni, R. Cucchiara
International Journal of Computer Vision

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Fully-Attentive Iterative Networks for Region-based Controllable Image and Video Captioning
M. Cornia, L. Baraldi, A. Tal, R. Cucchiara
Computer Vision and Image Understanding

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With a Little Help from your own Past: Prototypical Memory Networks for Image Captioning
Manuele Barraco, Sara Sarto, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision

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Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox?
Rita Cucchiara, Lorenzo Baraldi, Marcella Cornia, Sara Sarto
IEEE Computer

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Superpixel Positional Encoding to Improve ViT-based Semantic Segmentation Models
Roberto Amoroso, Matteo Tomei, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference 2023

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Positive-Augmented Constrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation
Sara Sarto, Manuele Barraco, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Let's ViCE! Mimicking Human Cognitive Behavior in Image Generation Evaluation
Federico Betti, Jacopo Staiano, Lorenzo Baraldi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara, Nicu Sebe
Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Multimedia 2023

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From Show to Tell: A Survey on Image Captioning
M. Stefanini, M. Cornia, L. Baraldi, S. Cascianelli, G. Fiameni, R. Cucchiara
IEEE TPAMI

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Video action detection by learning graph-based spatio-temporal interactions
Matteo Tomei, Lorenzo Baraldi, Simone Calderara, Simone Bronzin, Rita Cucchiara
Computer Vision and Image Understanding

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SMArT: Training Shallow Memory-aware Transformers for Robotic Explainability
Marcella Cornia, LORENZO BARALDI, Rita Cucchiara
International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Meshed-Memory Transformer for Image Captioning
MARCELLA CORNIA, MATTEO STEFANINI, LORENZO BARALDI, Rita CUCCHIARA
2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation with Dynamic Convolutional Filters
Federico Landi, Lorenzo Baraldi, Massimiliano Corsini, Rita Cucchiara
BMVC 2019

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Show, Control and Tell: A Framework for Generating Controllable and Grounded Captions
Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
CVPR 2019

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Art2Real: Unfolding the Reality of Artworks via Semantically-Aware Image-to-Image Translation
Matteo Tomei, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
CVPR 2019

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Predicting Human Eye Fixations via an LSTM-based Saliency Attentive Model
Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Giuseppe Serra, Rita Cucchiara
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING

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LAMV: Learning to align and match videos with kernelized temporal layers
Lorenzo Baraldi, Matthijs Douze, Rita Cucchiara, Hervé Jégou
CVPR 2018

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Hierarchical Boundary-Aware Neural Encoder for Video Captioning
Lorenzo Baraldi, Costantino Grana, Rita Cucchiara
CVPR 2017

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