Lorenzo Baraldi

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Research Projects

• European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI
• European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability

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Research Activities

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Publications

1	Baraldi, Lorenzo; Amoroso, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Pilzer, Andrea; Cucchiara, Rita "Learning to Mask and Permute Visual Tokens for Vision Transformer Pre-Training" COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, vol. 252, pp. 1 -10 , 2025 | DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2025.104294 Journal
2	Baraldi, Lorenzo; Bucciarelli, Davide; Zeng, Zifan; Zhang, Chongzhe; Zhang, Qunli; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Liu, Feng; Hu, Zheng; Cucchiara, Rita "Verifier Matters: Enhancing Inference-Time Scaling for Video Diffusion Models" Proceedings of the 36th British Machine Vision Conference, Sheffield, UK, 24th - 27th November 2025, 2025 Conference
3	Baraldi, Lorenzo; Bucciarelli, Davide; Betti, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Sebe, Nicu; Cucchiara, Rita "What Changed? Detecting and Evaluating Instruction-Guided Image Edits with Multimodal Large Language Models" Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 19 – 23th, 2025, 2025 Conference
4	Cappelletti, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Adapt to Scarcity: Few-Shot Deepfake Detection via Low-Rank Adaptation" Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024, 2024 Conference
5	Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Nicolosi, Alessandro; Cucchiara, Rita "Contrasting Deepfakes Diffusion via Contrastive Learning and Global-Local Similarities" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference
6	Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Barsellotti, Luca; Moratelli, Nicholas; Sarto, Sara; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "The Revolution of Multimodal Large Language Models: A Survey" FINDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS: ACL 2024, Bangkok, Thailand, pp. 13590 -13618 , August 11–16, 2024, 2024 Conference
7	Betti, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita; Sebe, Nicu "Optimizing Resource Consumption in Diffusion Models through Hallucination Early Detection" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference
8	Cocchi, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Poppi, Samuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Unveiling the Impact of Image Transformations on Deepfake Detection: An Experimental Analysis" IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, ICIAP 2023, PT II, vol. 14234, Udine, Italy, pp. 345 -356 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43153-1_29 Conference

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