Vittorio Cuculo

Vittorio Cuculo is an Assistant Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, and is member of the AImageLab research laboratory within the Engineering Department "Enzo Ferrari". From 2018 to 2020, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in Computer Science at the University of Milan, where he was a founding member of the PHuSe Lab research group. In 2017, he obtained his Ph.D. in Mathematical Sciences at the same institution. Since 2019, he has been actively engaged in teaching Bachelor's and Master's level courses in statistics, cognitive science, computer vision and artificial intelligence. He regularly serves as a reviewer for several journals in the field as well as being an Associate Editor for Springer Applied Intelligence journal, and Editorial Board Member for Elsevier Biomedical Signal Processing and Control, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He serves as Area Chair and Workshop Organiser for major international conferences.
He is member of CVPL, the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning.

Research Projects

• Italian Strengthening of Esfri RI Resilience (ITSERR)

Research Activities

Publications

1	Burger, Jacopo; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Grossi, Giuliano; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "ECoGNet: an EEG-based Effective Connectivity Graph Neural Network for Brain Disorder Detection" Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, IJCNN, Rome, Italy, Jun 30 - Jul 5th, 2025, 2025 Conference
2	Cartella, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Cucchiara, Rita; Boccignone, Giuseppe "Unravelling Neurodivergent Gaze Behaviour through Visual Attention Causal Graphs" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2025, Rome, Italy, Sep 15 - 19th 2025, 2025 Conference
3	Del Gaudio, Livia; Cuculo, Vittorio; Cucchiara, Rita "Decoding Facial Expressions in Video: A Multiple Instance Learning Perspective on Action Units" Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2025 Workshops, Rome, Italy, 20/09/2025, 2025 Conference
4	Cartella, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Cornia, Marcella; Boccignone, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Modeling Human Gaze Behavior with Diffusion Models for Unified Scanpath Prediction" Proceedings of the 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision, Honolulu, Hawaii, Oct 19 – 23th, 2025, 2025 Conference
5	Cartella, G.; Cuculo, V.; Cornia, M.; Papasidero, M.; Ruozzi, F.; Cucchiara, R. "Pixels of Faith: Exploiting Visual Saliency to Detect Religious Image Manipulation" Computer Vision – ECCV 2024 Workshops. ECCV 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15628, vol. 15628 LNCS, Milano, pp. 229 -245 , 29/09/2024, 2025 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-91572-7_14 Conference
6	Grossi, Giuliano; Boccignone, Giuseppe; Conte, Donatello; Cuculo, Vittorio; D'Amelio, Alessandro; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "Enhancing rPPG Pulse-Signal Recovery by Facial Sampling and PSD Clustering" BIOMEDICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL, vol. 101, pp. 1 -18 , 2025 | DOI: 10.1016/j.bspc.2024.107158 Journal
7	D'Amelio, Alessandro; Cartella, Giuseppe; Cuculo, Vittorio; Lucchi, Manuele; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita; Boccignone, Giuseppe "TPP-Gaze: Modelling Gaze Dynamics in Space and Time with Neural Temporal Point Processes" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision, Tucson, Arizona, pp. 8786 -8795 , February 28 - March 4, 2025 | DOI: 10.1109/WACV61041.2025.00851 Conference
8	Noceti, Nicoletta; Campisi, Simone; Chirico, Alice; Cuculo, Vittorio; Grossi, Giuliano; Michelotto, Monica; Odone, Francesca; Gaggioli, Andrea; Lanzarotti, Raffaella "Predicting engagement of older people’s virtual teams from video call analysis" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION, pp. 1 -12 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1080/10447318.2024.2423107 Journal
9	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
10	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 Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI 2024, IJCAI, Jeju, South Korea, pp. 7971 -7979 , AUG 03-09, 2024, 2024 | DOI: 10.24963/ijcai.2024/882 Conference
11	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
12	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. 820 -824 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/LSP.2024.3375288 Journal
13	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
14	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
15	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
16	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
17	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
18	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
19	Boccignone, G.; Cuculo, V.; D'Amelio, A. "How to look next? A data-driven approach for scanpath prediction" FORMAL METHODS. FM 2019 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS, PT I, vol. 12232, Porto, PORTUGAL, pp. 131 -145 , OCT 07-11, 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_10 Conference
20	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, PORTUGAL, pp. 162 -169 , OCT 07-11, 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_12 Conference
21	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, Portugal, pp. 200 -207 , OCT 07-11, 2019, 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-54994-7_15 Conference
22	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
23	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
24	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
25	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
26	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
27	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
28	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
29	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, Germany, pp. 331 -345 , 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11012-3_27 Conference
30	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
31	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
32	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
33	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
34	Boccignone, G.; Donatello, Conte; Cuculo, V.; Lanzarotti, R. "AMHUSE: A Multimodal dataset for HUmour SEnsing" ICMI '17: Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, vol. 2017, Glasgow, UK, pp. 438 -445 , 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1145/3136755.3136806 Conference
35	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
36	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
37	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