Vittorio Cuculo

Vittorio Cuculo is an Assistant Professor at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, in Italy. Currently member of the AImage Lab, directed by Prof. Rita Cucchiara.

Previously, Postdoc at the Computer Science department of Università degli Studi di Milano, in Italy, where he was member of PHuSe Lab, directed by Prof. Giuseppe Boccignone. He was also the supervisor of his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences, where he worked on ”A probabilistic approach to the construction of a multimodal affect space”.

Prior to this, he worked as interaction developer at the design studio dotdotdot, in Milan, where he developed several permanent and temporary interactive installations mixing architecture, design and digital technologies.

His current research topics include human visual attention, remote physiological measurement and affective computing.

Research Projects

• Italian Strengthening of Esfri RI Resilience (ITSERR)

Research Activities

Publications

1	Cartella, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; Cornia, Marcella; Papasidero, Marco; Ruozzi, Federico; Cucchiara, Rita "Pixels of Faith: Exploiting Visual Saliency to Detect Religious Image Manipulation" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Milan, Italy, September 29 - October 4, 2024 Conference
2	Cartella, Giuseppe; Cornia, Marcella; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Zanca, Dario; Boccignone, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Trends, Applications, and Challenges in Human Attention Modelling" Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jeju, South Korea, August 3-9, 2024 Conference
3	Patania, Sabrina; D’Amelio, Alessandro; Cuculo, Vittorio; Limoncini, Matteo; Ghezzi, Marco; Conversano, Vincenzo; Boccignone, Giuseppe "Pain and Fear in the Eyes: Gaze Dynamics Predicts Social Anxiety from Fear Generalisation" IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING - ICIAP 2023 WORKSHOPS, PT I, vol. 14365, Udine, Italy, pp. 133 -144 , SEP 11-15, 2023, 2024 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-51023-6_12 Conference
4	Cartella, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Unveiling the Truth: Exploring Human Gaze Patterns in Fake Images" IEEE SIGNAL PROCESSING LETTERS, vol. 31, pp. 1 -5 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2024.3375288 Journal
5	D’Amelio, Alessandro; Patania, Sabrina; Bursic, Sathya; Cuculo, Vittorio; Boccignone, Giuseppe "Using Gaze for Behavioural Biometrics" SENSORS, vol. 23, pp. 1 -28 , 2023 | DOI: 10.3390/s23031262 Journal
6	D’Amelio, Alessandro; Lanzarotti, Raffaella; Patania, Sabrina; Grossi, Giuliano; Cuculo, Vittorio; Valota, Andrea; Boccignone, Giuseppe "On Using rPPG Signals for DeepFake Detection: A Cautionary Note" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2023, vol. 14234, Udine, Italy, pp. 235 -246 , 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43153-1_20 Conference
7	D'Amelio, Alessandro; Patania, Sabrina; Buršic, Sathya; Cuculo, Vittorio; Boccignone, Giuseppe "Inferring Causal Factors of Core Affect Dynamics on Social Participation through the Lens of the Observer" SENSORS, vol. 23, pp. 1 -32 , 2023 | DOI: 10.3390/s23062885 Journal
8	Boccignone, G.; Conte, Donatello; Cuculo, V.; D’Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, R.; Mortara, Edoardo "pyVHR: a Python framework for remote photoplethysmography" PEERJ. COMPUTER SCIENCE., vol. 8, pp. 1 -37 , 2022 | DOI: 10.7717/peerj-cs.929 Journal
9	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Bursic, Sathya; Cuculo, Vittorio; D’Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella; Patania, Sabrina "DeepFakes Have No Heart: A Simple rPPG-Based Method to Reveal Fake Videos" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2022, vol. 13232, Lecce, pp. 186 -195 , 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06430-2_16 Conference
10	Boccignone, G.; Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A.; Grossi, G.; Lanzarotti, R. "On Gaze Deployment to Audio-Visual Cues of Social Interactions" IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 161630 -161654 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3021211 Journal
11	Boccignone, G.; Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A. "How to look next? A data-driven approach for scanpath prediction" Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops, vol. 12232, Porto, pp. 131 -145 , 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_10 Conference
12	D'Amelio, A.; Cuculo, V.; Bursic, S. "Gender recognition in the wild with small sample size : A dictionary learning approach" Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops, vol. 12232, Porto, pp. 162 -169 , 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_12 Conference
13	Bursic, S.; Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A. "Anomaly detection from log files using unsupervised deep learning" Formal Methods. FM 2019 International Workshops, vol. 12232, Porto, pp. 200 -207 , 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_15 Conference
14	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Conte, Donatello; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "An Open Framework for Remote-PPG Methods and Their Assessment" IEEE ACCESS, vol. 8, pp. 216083 -216103 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3040936 Journal
15	Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A.; Grossi, G.; Lanzarotti, R. "Worldly eyes on video: Learnt vs. reactive deployment of attention to dynamic stimuli" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019, vol. 11751, Trento, pp. 128 -138 , 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30642-7_12 Conference
16	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "Social traits from stochastic paths in the core affect space" PervasiveHealth'19 : Proceedings, Trento, pp. 314 -319 , 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1145/3329189.3329220 Conference
17	Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella; Lin, Jianyi "Robust single-sample face recognition by sparsity-driven sub-dictionary learning using deep features" SENSORS, vol. 19, pp. 1 -19 , 2019 | DOI: 10.3390/s19010146 Journal
18	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; D’Amelio, Alessandro "Problems with Saliency Maps" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019, vol. 11752, ita, pp. 35 -46 , 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30645-8_4 Conference
19	Boccignone, G.; Bodini, M.; Cuculo, V.; Grossi, G. "Predictive Sampling of Facial Expression Dynamics Driven by a Latent Action Space" 2018 14th International Conference on Signal-Image Technology & Internet-Based Systems (SITIS), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, pp. 143 -150 , 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1109/SITIS.2018.00031 Conference
20	Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A. "OpenFACS: An Open Source FACS-Based 3D Face Animation System" Image and Graphics, vol. 11902, Beijing, pp. 232 -242 , 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-34110-7_20 Conference
21	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; D’Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "Give Ear to My Face: Modelling Multimodal Attention to Social Interactions" Computer Vision : ECCV 2018 Workshops, vol. 11130, Munich, pp. 331 -345 , 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11012-3_27 Conference
22	Cuculo, Vittorio; D’Amelio, Alessandro; Lanzarotti, Raffaella; Boccignone, Giuseppe "Personality Gaze Patterns Unveiled via Automatic Relevance Determination" Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, vol. 11176, Toulouse, pp. 171 -184 , 2018, 2018 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-04771-9_14 Conference
23	Boccignone, Giuseppe; Conte, Donatello; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "Deep construction of an affective latent space via multimodal enactment" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS, vol. 10, pp. 865 -880 , 2018 | DOI: 10.1109/TCDS.2017.2788820 Journal
24	Boccignone, G.; Cuculo, V.; Grossi, G.; Lanzarotti, R.; Migliaccio, R. "Virtual EMG via Facial Video Analysis" Image Analysis and Processing : ICIAP 2017, vol. 10484, Catania, pp. 197 -207 , 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68560-1_18 Conference
25	Ceruti, C.; Cuculo, V.; D’Amelio, A.; Grossi, G.; Lanzarotti, R. "Taking the Hidden Route: Deep Mapping of Affect via 3D Neural Networks" New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing : ICIAP 2017, vol. 10590, Catania, pp. 189 -196 , 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70742-6_18 Conference
26	Boccignone, G.; Donatello, Conte; Cuculo, V.; Lanzarotti, R. "AMHUSE: A Multimodal dataset for HUmour SEnsing" ICMI 2017 : Proceedings, vol. 2017-, Glasgow, pp. 438 -445 , 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1145/3136755.3136806 Conference
27	Alessandro, D'Amelio; Cuculo, V.; Grossi, G.; Lanzarotti, R.; Lin, J. "A Note on Modelling a Somatic Motor Space for Affective Facial Expressions" New Trends in Image Analysis and Processing : ICIAP 2017, vol. 10590, Catania, pp. 181 -188 , 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70742-6_17 Conference
28	Cuculo, V.; Lanzarotti, R.; Boccignone, G. "The Color of Smiling : Computational Synaesthesia of Facial Expressions" Image Analysis and Processing : ICIAP, vol. 9279, Genova, pp. 203 -214 , 2015, 2015 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23231-7_19 Conference
29	Cuculo, V.; Lanzarotti, R.; Boccignone, G. "Using sparse coding for landmark localization in facial expressions" 5. European workshop on visual information processing (EUVIP 2014) : December 10-12, 2014, Paris, France, Parigi, pp. 1 -6 , 2014, 2014 | DOI: 10.1109/EUVIP.2014.7018369 Conference