Manuele Barraco

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Research Projects

• CRoss-modal understanding and gEnerATIon of Visual and tExtual content

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Research Activities

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Publications

1	Moratelli, Nicholas; Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Are Learnable Prompts the Right Way of Prompting? Adapting Vision-and-Language Models with Memory Optimization" IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, vol. 39, pp. 26 -34 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2024.3386099 Journal
2	Barraco, Manuele; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "With a Little Help from your own Past: Prototypical Memory Networks for Image Captioning" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2023, Paris, France, pp. 3009 -3019 , October 2-6, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.00282 Conference
3	Caffagni, Davide; Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "SynthCap: Augmenting Transformers with Synthetic Data for Image Captioning" Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 14233, Udine, Italy, pp. 112 -123 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_10 Conference
4	Sarto, Sara; Barraco, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Positive-Augmented Contrastive Learning for Image and Video Captioning Evaluation" Proceedings of the 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2023, Vancouver, can, pp. 6914 -6924 , Jun 18-22 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPR52729.2023.00668 Conference
5	Moratelli, Nicholas; Barraco, Manuele; Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Fashion-Oriented Image Captioning with External Knowledge Retrieval and Fully Attentive Gates" SENSORS, vol. 23, pp. 1 -16 , 2023 | DOI: 10.3390/s23031286 Journal
6	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
7	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
8	Barraco, M.; Bicocchi, N.; Mamei, M.; Zambonelli, F. "Forecasting Parking Lots Availability: Analysis from a Real-World Deployment" 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021, Kassel, DE, pp. 299 -304 , 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9430942 Conference

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