Silvia Cascianelli

Silvia Cascianelli received the M.Sc. degree in Information and Automation Engineering and the Ph.D. degree cum laude in Information and Industrial Engineering from the University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy, in 2015 and 2019, respectively. She is currently an Assistant Professor with the Department of Engineering "Enzo Ferrari'', University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She was a Visitor Researcher at the Queen Mary University of London between 2017 and 2018. She has authored or coauthored more than 30 publications in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. Her research interests include embodied AI, handwritten text recognition, and image captioning. She regularly serves as a Reviewer for international conferences and journals.

Research Projects

• AI for Digital Humanities
• Italian Strengthening of Esfri RI Resilience (ITSERR)
• High-level specialised application support service in HPC-powered Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Research Activities

• Self-Supervised Navigation and Recounting
• Handwritten Text Recognition on Historical Documents
• From Show to Tell: A Survey on Image Captioning

Publications

1	Vanherle, B.; Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Michiels, N.; Van Reeth, F.; Cucchiara, R. "VATr++: Choose Your Words Wisely for Handwritten Text Generation" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 47, pp. 934 -948 , 2025 | DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2024.3481154 Journal
2	Quattrini, F.; Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Cucchiara, R. "Merging and Splitting Diffusion Paths for Semantically Coherent Panoramas" COMPUTER VISION - ECCV 2024, PT LXXIX, vol. 15137, ita, pp. 234 -251 , SEP 29-OCT 04, 2024, 2025 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-72986-7_14 Conference
3	Quattrini, F.; Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Cucchiara, R. "Binarizing Documents by Leveraging both Space and Frequency" DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION-ICDAR 2024, PT III, vol. 14806, Athens, GREECE, pp. 3 -22 , AUG 30-SEP 04, 2024, 2024 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-70543-4_1 Conference
4	Poppi, Samuele; Rawal, Niyati; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Towards Explainable Navigation and Recounting" IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, ICIAP 2023, PT I, vol. 14233, Udine, Italy, pp. 171 -183 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_15 Conference
5	Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Embodied Agents for Efficient Exploration and Smart Scene Description" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol. 2023-May, London, pp. 6057 -6064 , 29 May - 2 June 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160668 Conference
6	Stefanini, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cascianelli, Silvia; Fiameni, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "From Show to Tell: A Survey on Deep Learning-based Image Captioning" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 45, pp. 539 -559 , 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/TPAMI.2022.3148210 Journal
7	Quattrini, F.; Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Cucchiara, R. "Volumetric Fast Fourier Convolution for Detecting Ink on the Carbonized Herculaneum Papyri" Proceedings - 2023 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVW 2023, fra, pp. 1718 -1726 , 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW60793.2023.00188 Conference
8	Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Kermorvant, C.; Cucchiara, R. "How to Choose Pretrained Handwriting Recognition Models for Single Writer Fine-Tuning" DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION - ICDAR 2023, PT II, vol. 14188, San Jose, CA, pp. 330 -347 , AUG 21-26, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-41679-8_19 Conference
9	Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Cucchiara, R. "Handwritten Text Generation from Visual Archetypes" Proceedings of the IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2023-, can, pp. 22458 -22467 , 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.02151 Conference
10	Pippi, V.; Cascianelli, S.; Baraldi, L.; Cucchiara, R. "Evaluating synthetic pre-Training for handwriting processing tasks" PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, vol. 172, pp. 44 -50 , 2023 | DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2023.06.003 Journal
11	Cascianelli, Silvia; Pippi, Vittorio; Maarand, Martin; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Kermorvant, Christopher; Cucchiara, Rita "The LAM Dataset: A Novel Benchmark for Line-Level Handwritten Text Recognition" Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2022-, Montréal Québec, pp. 1506 -1513 , August 21-25, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956189 Conference
12	Landi, Federico; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Spot the Difference: A Novel Task for Embodied Agents in Changing Environments" Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2022-, Montréal Québec, pp. 4182 -4188 , August 21-25, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956538 Conference
13	Barraco, Manuele; Stefanini, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "CaMEL: Mean Teacher Learning for Image Captioning" Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2022-, Montréal Québec, pp. 4087 -4094 , August 21-25, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9955644 Conference
14	Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of CLIP features for Image Captioning: an Experimental Analysis" IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, vol. 2022-, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 4661 -4669 , June 19-24, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00512 Conference
15	Bruno, Paolo; Amoroso, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Investigating Bidimensional Downsampling in Vision Transformer Models" Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 13232, Lecce, Italy, pp. 287 -299 , 23 - 27 May 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06430-2_24 Conference
16	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cascianelli, Silvia; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Embodied Navigation at the Art Gallery" Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 13231, Lecce, Italy, pp. 739 -750 , May 23-27, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06427-2_61 Conference
17	Cascianelli, Silvia; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Boosting Modern and Historical Handwritten Text Recognition with Deformable Convolutions" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON DOCUMENT ANALYSIS AND RECOGNITION, vol. 25, pp. 207 -217 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/s10032-022-00401-y Journal
18	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Focus on Impact: Indoor Exploration with Intrinsic Motivation" IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, vol. 7, pp. 2985 -2992 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3145971 Journal
19	Nuvoli, S.; Bianconi, F.; Rondini, M.; Lazzarato, A.; Marongiu, A.; Fravolini, M. L.; Cascianelli, S.; Amici, S.; Filippi, L.; Spanu, A.; Palumbo, B. "Differential Diagnosis of Alzheimer Disease vs. Mild Cognitive Impairment Based on Left Temporal Lateral Lobe Hypomethabolism on 18F-FDG PET/CT and Automated Classifiers" DIAGNOSTICS, vol. 12, 2022 | DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12102425 Abstract in Journal
20	Cascianelli, S.; Astolfi, D.; Castellani, F.; Cucchiara, R.; Fravolini, M. L. "Wind Turbine Power Curve Monitoring Based on Environmental and Operational Data" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON INDUSTRIAL INFORMATICS, vol. 18, pp. 5209 -5218 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/TII.2021.3128205 Journal
21	Cojocaru, Iulian; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Corsini, Massimiliano; Cucchiara, Rita "Watch Your Strokes: Improving Handwritten Text Recognition with Deformable Convolutions" Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, pp. 6096 -6103 , 10-15 January 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412392 Conference
22	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Explore and Explain: Self-supervised Navigation and Recounting" Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, pp. 1152 -1159 , 10-15 January 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412628 Conference
23	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Out of the Box: Embodied Navigation in the Real World" Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, vol. 13052, Virtual, pp. 47 -57 , 27 September - 01 October 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89128-2_5 Conference
24	Cascianelli, Silvia; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Piazzi, Maria Ludovica; Schiuma, Rosiana; Cucchiara, Rita "Learning to Read L'Infinito: Handwritten Text Recognition with Synthetic Training Data" Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, vol. 13053, Virtual, pp. 340 -350 , 27 September - 01 October 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89131-2_31 Conference
25	Cascianelli, Silvia; Costante, Gabriele; Crocetti, Francesco; Ricci, Elisa; Valigi, Paolo; Luca Fravolini, Mario "Data-based design of robust fault detection and isolation residuals via LASSO optimization and Bayesian filtering" ASIAN JOURNAL OF CONTROL, vol. 23, pp. 57 -71 , 2021 | DOI: 10.1002/asjc.2392 Journal
26	Nuvoli, Susanna; Spanu, Angela; Fravolini Mario, Luca; Bianconi, Francesco; Cascianelli, Silvia; Madeddu, Giuseppe; Palumbo, Barbara "[123 I] Metaiodobenzylguanidine (MIBG) Cardiac Scintigraphy and Automated Classification Techniques in Parkinsonian Disorders" MOLECULAR IMAGING AND BIOLOGY, vol. 22, pp. 703 -710 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/s11307-019-01406-6 Journal
27	Cascianelli, Silvia; Costante, Gabriele; Devo, Alessandro; Ciarfuglia, Thomas A; Valigi, Paolo; Fravolini, Mario L "The Role of the Input in Natural Language Video Description" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA, vol. 22, pp. 271 -283 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1109/TMM.2019.2924598 Journal
28	Bellocchio, E.; Costante, G.; Cascianelli, S.; Fravolini, M. L.; Valigi, P. "Combining Domain Adaptation and Spatial Consistency for Unseen Fruits Counting: A Quasi-Unsupervised Approach" IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, vol. 5, pp. 1079 -1086 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2020.2966398 Journal
29	Palumbo, B.; Capozzi, R.; Bianconi, F.; Fravolini, M. L.; Cascianelli, S.; Messina, S. G.; Bellezza, G.; Sidoni, A.; Puma, F.; Ragusa, M. "Classification model to estimate MIB-1 (Ki 67) proliferation index in NSCLC patients evaluated with 18F-FDG-PET/CT" ANTICANCER RESEARCH, vol. 40, pp. 3355 -3360 , 2020 | DOI: 10.2196/10.21873/anticanres.14318 Journal
30	Astolfi, D.; Castellani, F.; Fravolini, M. L.; Cascianelli, S.; Terzi, L. "Precision computation of wind turbine power upgrades: An aerodynamic and control optimization test case" JOURNAL OF ENERGY RESOURCES TECHNOLOGY, vol. 141, pp. 1 -9 , 2019 | DOI: 10.1115/1.4042450 Journal
31	Cascianelli, Silvia; Astolfi, Davide; Costante, Gabriele; Castellani, Francesco; Fravolini, Mario Luca "Experimental Prediction Intervals for Monitoring Wind Turbines: an Ensemble Approach" 2019 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Grenoble, pp. 1 -6 , 2-4/07/2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD46983.2019.9037920 Conference
32	Cascianelli, Silvia; Crocetti, Francesco; Costante, Gabriele; Valigi, Paolo; Fravolini, Mario Luca "Data-Based Design of Robust Fault Isolation Residuals Using LASSO optimization" 2019 International Conference on Control, Automation and Diagnosis (ICCAD), Grenoble, pp. 1 -6 , 2-4/07/2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1109/ICCAD46983.2019.9037959 Conference
33	Astolfi, D; Castellani, F; Fravolini, Ml; Cascianelli, S; Terzi, L "A SCADA-Based Method for Estimating the Energy Improvement from Wind Turbine Retrofitting" Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering, vol. 27, Naples, Italy, pp. 63 -72 , 9-12/09/2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12815-9_5 Conference
34	Abdollahyan, Maryam; Cascianelli, Silvia; Bellocchio, Enrico; Costante, Gabriele; Ciarfuglia, Thomas A; Bianconi, Francesco; Smeraldi, Fabrizio; Fravolini, Mario L "Visual Localization in the Presence of Appearance Changes Using the Partial Order Kernel" 2018 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Rome, Italy, pp. 697 -701 , 3-7/09/2018, 2018 Conference
35	Bello-Cerezo, Raquel; Bianconi, Francesco; Cascianelli, Silvia; Fravolini, Mario Luca; Di Maria, Francesco; Smeraldi, Fabrizio "Hand-designed local image descriptors vs. off-the-shelf CNN-based features for texture classification: an experimental comparison" International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Vilamoura, Portugal, pp. 1 -10 , 21-32/06/2017, 2018 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_1 Conference
36	Cascianelli, Silvia; Costante, Gabriele; Ciarfuglia, Thomas Alessandro; Valigi, Paolo; Fravolini, Mario Luca "Full-GRU Natural Language Video Description for Service Robotics Applications" IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, pp. 841 -848 , 2018 | DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2018.2793345 Journal
37	Cascianelli, Silvia; Bello-Cerezo, Raquel; Bianconi, Francesco; Fravolini, Mario L; Belal, Mehdi; Palumbo, Barbara; Kather, Jakob N "Dimensionality reduction strategies for cnn-based classification of histopathological images" International Conference on Intelligent Interactive Multimedia Systems and Services, Vilamoura, Portugal, pp. 21 -30 , 21-32/06/2017, 2018 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59480-4_3 Conference
38	Cascianelli, Silvia; Scialpi, Michele; Amici, Serena; Forini, Nevio; Minestrini, Matteo; Luca Fravolini, Mario; Sinzinger, Helmut; Schillaci, Orazio; Palumbo, Barbara "Role of artificial intelligence techniques (automatic classifiers) in molecular imaging modalities in neurodegenerative diseases" CURRENT ALZHEIMER RESEARCH, vol. 14, pp. 198 -207 , 2017 | DOI: 10.2174/1567205013666160620122926 Journal
39	Palumbo, B; Santonicola, A; Cascianelli, S; Nuvoli, S; Fravolini, Ml; Minestrini, M; Scialpi, M; Tambasco, N; Spanu, A; Madeddu, G "Role of an artificial neural network classifier, a classification tree (ClT), to diagnose Parkinson's disease in early phase by using 123I-FP-CIT brain SPECT data" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, vol. 44, pp. S191 -S191 , 2017 Abstract in Journal
40	Cascianelli, Silvia; Costante, Gabriele; Bellocchio, Enrico; Valigi, Paolo; Fravolini, Mario L; Ciarfuglia, Thomas A "Robust visual semi-semantic loop closure detection by a covisibility graph and CNN features" ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS, vol. 92, pp. 53 -65 , 2017 | DOI: 10.1016/j.robot.2017.03.004 Journal
41	Cascianelli, S; Tranfaglia, C; Fravolini, Ml; Bianconi, F; Minestrini, M; Nuvoli, S; Tambasco, N; Dottorini, Me; Palumbo, B "Right putamen and age are the most discriminant features to diagnose Parkinson's disease by using 123I-FP-CIT brain SPET data by using an artificial neural network classifier, a classification tree (ClT)" HELLENIC JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, vol. 20, pp. 165 -165 , 2017 Abstract in Journal
42	Bellocchio, Enrico; Costante, Gabriele; Cascianelli, Silvia; Valigi, Paolo; Ciarfuglia, Thomas A "SmartSEAL: A ROS based home automation framework for heterogeneous devices interconnection in smart buildings" 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Trento, Italy, pp. 1 -6 , 12-15/09/2016, 2016 Conference
43	Palumbo, B; Cascianelli, S; Santonicola, A; Minestrini, M; Buresta, T; Fravolini, Ml; Tambasco, N; Scialpi, M; Nuvoli, S; Spanu, A; Madeddu, G "I-123-FP-CIT brain SPECT: tracer uptake values of right putamen are the most discriminant to diagnose Parkinson's disease" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, vol. 43, pp. S631 -S631 , 2016 Abstract in Journal
44	Palumbo, B; Nuvoli, S; Cascianelli, S; Santonicola, A; Fravolini, Ml; Tambasco, N; Scialpi, M; Spanu, A; Madeddu, G "Comparison of the diagnostic performance of two methods of semi-quantitative analysis of 123I-FP-CIT brain SPECT images in mild Parkinson's disease" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, vol. 43, pp. S630 -S631 , 2016 Abstract in Journal
45	Cascianelli, Silvia; Costante, Gabriele; Bellocchio, Enrico; Valigi, Paolo; Fravolini, Mario L; Ciarfuglia, Thomas A "A robust semi-semantic approach for visual localization in urban environment" 2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), Trento, Italy, pp. 384 -389 , 12-15/09/2016, 2016 | DOI: 10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580899 Conference
46	Nuvoli, S; Palumbo, B; Fravolini, Ml; Piras, B; Dachena, G; Cascianelli, S; Spanu, A; Madeddu, G "123-I-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy quantitative analysis in Parkinson's disease (PD) and Parkinsonism (P) differential diagnosis: a classification tree (CIT) classifier additional contribute" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, vol. 42, pp. S564 -S564 , 2015 Abstract in Journal
47	Nuvoli, Susanna; Palumbo, Barbara; Fravolini, Mario; Piras, Bastiana; Dachena, Graziana; Buresta, Tommaso; Cascianelli, Silvia; Spanu, Angela; Madeddu, Giuseppe "The classification tree (CIT) classifier applied to 123I-MIBG cardiac scintigraphy in differentiating parkinson's disease (PD) from parkinsonisms (P)" THE JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE, vol. 56, pp. 1582 -1582 , 2015 Abstract in Journal
48	Palumbo, B; Cascianelli, S; Sabalich, I; Santonicola, A; Buresta, T; Fravolini, Ml; Tambasco, N; Nuvoli, S; Spanu, A; Madeddu, G "Cut-off values to diagnose Parkinson's disease by means of 123I-FP-CIT brain SPECT semiquantitave data as evaluated by Classification Tree algorithm" EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE AND MOLECULAR IMAGING, vol. 42, pp. S568 -S568 , 2015 Abstract in Journal
49	Fravolini Mario, Luca; Cascianelli, Silvia; Fabietti Pier, Giorgio "A Learning Strategy for the Autonomous Control of Type 1 Diabetes" APPLIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, vol. 29, pp. 531 -562 , 2015 | DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2015.1038431 Journal
50	Fravolini, M. L.; Rhudy, M.; Gururajan, S.; Cascianelli, S.; Napolitano, M. "Experimental Evaluation of Two Pitot Free Analytical Redundancy Techniques for the Estimation of the Airspeed of an UAV" SAE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AEROSPACE, vol. 7, pp. 109 -116 , 2014 | DOI: 10.4271/2014-01-2163 Journal