Marcella Cornia
Position at AImageLab:
Assistant Professor (RTD)Department of Education and Humanities, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Email:
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+39-059-2058790Marcella Cornia
Marcella Cornia received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information and Communication Technologies from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 2016 and 2020, respectively. In 2020 she received the Young Researcher Award for the category "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data" from "Gruppo 2003 per la Ricerca Scientifica" and in 2021 and 2022 she was respectively awarded by CVPL, the Italian Association for Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, and by ECVA, the European Computer Vision Association, for the best Italian and European Ph.D. thesis in the Computer Vision field. She is currently a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor at the Department of Education and Humanities of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. She has authored or co-authored more than 80 publications in scientific journals and international conference proceedings. Her research interests include vision-and-language, multimodal learning, and saliency and attentive models. She is an ELLIS member and holds/has held the role of Associate Editor for the journals IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and AI Communications, Area Chair for the ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM 2023) and the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), and Guest Editor for the Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU) journal. Additionally, she co-organized different workshops and tutorials at ECCV 2024, ECCV 2022, ICPR 2022, ICIAP 2023, and ICIAP 2021.
Keywords: Image Captioning, Vision and Language, Saliency and Attentive Models, AI for Fashion, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, Artificial Intelligence.
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PC Memberships, Editorial Boards, and other service activities
- ELLIS Member.
- Member of AIRI and DHMoRe Interdepartmental Research Centers.
- Program Chair of IRCDL 2025.
- Area Chair of ECCV 2024.
- Area Chair of ACM Multimedia 2023.
- Associate Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).
- Associate Editor, AI Communications.
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Eyes on People: Recent Trends on Human Analysis, Perception and Generation", Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2024.
- Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Computer Vision in Human Analysis: From Face and Body to Clothes", Sensors, 2022.
- Organizer of "FashionAI: Exploring the Intersection of Fashion and Artificial Intelligence for Reshaping the Industry" (FashionAI Workshop at ECCV 2024).
- Organizer of "Towards a Complete Analysis of People" (T-CAP Workshop at ICIAP 2021, ICPR 2022, ECCV 2024).
- Organizer of "AI4DH: Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities" (AI4DH Workshop at ICIAP 2021, ICIAP 2023, ECCV 2024).
- Organizer of "AGAVE: Advances in Gaze Analysis, Visual attention and Eye-gaze modelling" (AGAVE Workshop at ICIAP 2023).
- Organizer of "1st International Workshop and Challenge on People Analysis: From Face, Body and Fashion to 3D Virtual Avatars" (WCPA Workshop at ECCV 2022).
- Guest Editor of the Research Topic "Attentive Models in Vision", Computer Vision Section of Frontiers in Computer Science, 2021.
- Invited Tutorial “Vision, Language, and Action: from Captioning to Embodied AI” at International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2019.
- Member of the PC of (among the others): CVPR (2018-2024), ICCV (2019-2023), ECCV (2020-2022), AAAI (2020-2022), ACM Multimedia (2019-2020).
- Regular reviewer for IEEE TPAMI, IEEE TMM, IEEE TIP, CVIU.
Grants and awards
- ECVA PhD Award from the European Computer Vision Association (ECVA), 2022.
- Best PhD Thesis Award from CVPL ("Associazione Italiana per la ricerca in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition e Machine Learning"), 2021.
- Young Researcher Award for the category "Artificial Intelligence and Big Data" from "Gruppo 2003 per la Ricerca Scientifica", 2020.
- Special Mention for the Best PhD Thesis "Marco Cadoli" Award from the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA), 2020.
- Certificate of merit for national and international research from University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2019.
- Travel award for Women in Computer Vision, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Long Beach, United States), 2019.
- Travel award for Women in Computer Vision, European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (Munich, Germany), 2018.
- Runner-up, Best Paper Award at International Summer School on Artificial Intelligence (Udine, Italy), 2018.
- Travel award for Women in Computer Vision, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Salt Lake City, United States), 2018.
- First place at LSUN Saliency Prediction Challenge, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Honolulu, United States), 2017.
- Travel award for Women in Computer Vision, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Las Vegas, United States), 2016.
- NVIDIA Hardware Grant with the donation of one Titan X GPU at Women in Computer Vision, IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (Las Vegas, United States), 2016.
Teaching activities
- Web Environment Design graduate course, at Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2021-2022, 2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025).
- Foundations of Informatics graduate course, at Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2022-2023, 2023-2024, 2024-2025).
- Information Technology ungraduate course, at Department of Education and Humanities, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2020-2021, 2021-2022).
- Teaching assistant for the Computer Architecture undergraduate course, at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2019-2020).
- Laboratory lecturer for the Computer Vision graduate course, at University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (2017-2018, 2018-2019).
Research Projects
- Vision for Augmented Experience
- Cineca SuperComputing Resource Allocation
- CultMEDIA
- AI for Digital Humanities
- IDEHA - Innovation for Data Elaboration in Heritage Areas
- AI4CH - Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage
- NVIDIA AI Technology Center at Unimore
- YNAP Artificial Intelligence Lab@UNIMORE
- CRoss-modal understanding and gEnerATIon of Visual and tExtual content
- European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI
- Italian Strengthening of Esfri RI Resilience (ITSERR)
- Future Artificial Intelligence Research
- High-level specialised application support service in HPC-powered Artificial Intelligence (AI)
- a MUltimedia platform for Content Enrichment and Search in audiovisual archives
Research Activities
- Visual Saliency Prediction
- Video Captioning with Naming
- Face Recognition in News Streams
- Visual-Semantic Domain Adaptation in Digital Humanities
- Art2Real: Translating Artworks to Photo-Realistic Images
- Controllable Captioning
- Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation
- Self-Supervised Navigation and Recounting
- Acquisition of 3D Environments for Robotic Navigation
- Transformer-based Image Captioning
- Handwritten Text Recognition on Historical Documents
- From Show to Tell: A Survey on Image Captioning
- Visualization Techniques for Explainable AI
Publications
1 | Barsellotti, Luca; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Personalized Instance-based Navigation Toward User-Specific Objects in Realistic Environments" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 9-15, 2024, 2024 Conference |
2 | Moratelli, Nicholas; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Fluent and Accurate Image Captioning with a Self-Trained Reward Model" Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024, 2024 Conference |
3 | 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 |
4 | Moratelli, Nicholas; Caffagni, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based Optimization" Proceedings of the 35th British Machine Vision Conference, Glasgow, UK, 25th - 28th November 2024, 2024 Conference |
5 | Bucciarelli, Davide; Moratelli, Nicholas; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Personalizing Multimodal Large Language Models for Image Captioning: An Experimental Analysis" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference |
6 | Poppi, Samuele; Poppi, Tobia; Cocchi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Safe-CLIP: Removing NSFW Concepts from Vision-and-Language Models" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference |
7 | 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 |
8 | Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "BRIDGE: Bridging Gaps in Image Captioning Evaluation with Stronger Visual Cues" Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision, Milan, Sep 29th - Oct 4th, 2024 Conference |
9 | Cucchiara, Rita; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Sarto, Sara "Video Surveillance and Privacy: A Solvable Paradox?" COMPUTER, vol. 57, pp. 91 -100 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/MC.2023.3316696 Journal |
10 | 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, August 11–16, 2024, 2024 Conference |
11 | Poppi, Samuele; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Multi-Class Unlearning for Image Classification via Weight Filtering" IEEE INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, pp. 1 -8 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/MIS.2024.3412742 Journal |
12 | Caffagni, Davide; Cocchi, Federico; Moratelli, Nicholas; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Wiki-LLaVA: Hierarchical Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Multimodal LLMs" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Seattle, Jun 17-21, 2024 Conference |
13 | Barsellotti, Luca; Amoroso, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Offline Diffusion-Augmented Prototype Generation" Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, 17th-21st June, 2024 Conference |
14 | Amoroso, Roberto; Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Del Bimbo, Alberto; Cucchiara, Rita "Parents and Children: Distinguishing Multimodal DeepFakes from Natural Images" ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, pp. 1 -22 , 2024 Journal |
15 | Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Nicolosi, Alessandro; Cucchiara, Rita "Towards Retrieval-Augmented Architectures for Image Captioning" ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, pp. 1 -22 , 2024 Journal |
16 | 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 |
17 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Fiameni, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Generating More Pertinent Captions by Leveraging Semantics and Style on Multi-Source Datasets" INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER VISION, vol. 132, pp. 1701 -1720 , 2024 | DOI: 10.1007/s11263-023-01949-w Journal |
18 | 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 |
19 | Poppi, Samuele; Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Unlearning Vision Transformers without Retaining Data via Low-Rank Decompositions" Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Kolkata, India, December 01-05, 2024, 2024 Conference |
20 | 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 |
21 | 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 |
22 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Ayellet, Tal; Cucchiara, Rita "Fully-Attentive Iterative Networks for Region-based Controllable Image and Video Captioning" COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, vol. 237, pp. 1 -10 , 2023 | DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2023.103857 Journal |
23 | 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 |
24 | 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 |
25 | 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 |
26 | 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 |
27 | 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 |
28 | 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 |
29 | 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 |
30 | 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 |
31 | Daoudi, Mohamed; Vezzani, Roberto; Borghi, Guido; Ferrari, Claudio; Cornia, Marcella; Becattini, Federico; Pilzer, Andrea "Computer Vision in Human Analysis: From Face and Body to Clothes" SENSORS, vol. 23, pp. 0 -2 , 2023 | DOI: 10.3390/s23125378 Journal |
32 | Cartella, Giuseppe; Baldrati, Alberto; Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Bertini, Marco; Cucchiara, Rita "OpenFashionCLIP: Vision-and-Language Contrastive Learning with Open-Source Fashion Data" Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 14233, Udine, Italy, pp. 245 -256 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_21 Conference |
33 | Baldrati, Alberto; Morelli, Davide; Cartella, Giuseppe; Cornia, Marcella; Bertini, Marco; Cucchiara, Rita "Multimodal Garment Designer: Human-Centric Latent Diffusion Models for Fashion Image Editing" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV 2023), Paris, France, pp. 23336 -23345 , October 2-6, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/ICCV51070.2023.02138 Conference |
34 | Morelli, Davide; Baldrati, Alberto; Cartella, Giuseppe; Cornia, Marcella; Bertini, Marco; Cucchiara, Rita "LaDI-VTON: Latent Diffusion Textual-Inversion Enhanced Virtual Try-On" MM 2023 - Proceedings of the 31st ACM International Conference on Multimedia, Ottawa, Canada, pp. 8580 -8589 , October 29-November 3, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1145/3581783.3612137 Conference |
35 | Sarto, Sara; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Retrieval-Augmented Transformer for Image Captioning" Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, CBMI 2022, Graz, Austria, pp. 1 -7 , SEP 14-16, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1145/3549555.3549585 Conference |
36 | Messina, Nicola; Stefanini, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Falchi, Fabrizio; Amato, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "ALADIN: Distilling Fine-grained Alignment Scores for Efficient Image-Text Matching and Retrieval" Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Graz, Austria, pp. 64 -70 , Sept. 14-16, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1145/3549555.3549576 Conference |
37 | 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 |
38 | 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 |
39 | 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 |
40 | 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 |
41 | 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 |
42 | 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 |
43 | 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 |
44 | 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 |
45 | Morelli, Davide; Fincato, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Landi, Federico; Cesari, Fabio; Cucchiara, Rita "Dress Code: High-Resolution Multi-Category Virtual Try-On" Proceeding of the European Conference on Computer Vision (Lecture Notes in Computer Science), vol. 13668, Tel Aviv, pp. 345 -362 , October 23-27, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20074-8_20 Conference |
46 | Fenocchi, Emanuele; Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cesari, Fabio; Cucchiara, Rita "Dual-Branch Collaborative Transformer for Virtual Try-On" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, vol. 2022-, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 2246 -2250 , June 19-24, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00246 Conference |
47 | Morelli, Davide; Fincato, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Landi, Federico; Cesari, Fabio; Cucchiara, Rita "Dress Code: High-Resolution Multi-Category Virtual Try-On" Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, vol. 2022-, New Orleans, Louisiana, pp. 2230 -2234 , June 19-24, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW56347.2022.00243 Conference |
48 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Explaining Transformer-based Image Captioning Models: An Empirical Analysis" AI COMMUNICATIONS, vol. 35, pp. 111 -129 , 2022 | DOI: 10.3233/AIC-210172 Journal |
49 | Cornia, Marcella; Tomei, Matteo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Matching Faces and Attributes Between the Artistic and the Real Domain: the PersonArt Approach" ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 18, pp. 1 -23 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1145/3490033 Journal |
50 | Fincato, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Landi, Federico; Cesari, Fabio; Cucchiara, Rita "Transform, Warp, and Dress: A New Transformation-Guided Model for Virtual Try-On" ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 18, pp. 1 -23 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1145/3491226 Journal |
51 | 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 |
52 | Stefanini, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "A Novel Attention-based Aggregation Function to Combine Vision and Language" Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, pp. 1212 -1219 , 10-15 January 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9413269 Conference |
53 | Landi, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Working Memory Connections for LSTM" NEURAL NETWORKS, vol. 144, pp. 334 -341 , 2021 | DOI: 10.1016/j.neunet.2021.08.030 Journal |
54 | 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 |
55 | 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 |
56 | Landi, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Corsini, Massimiliano; Cucchiara, Rita "Multimodal Attention Networks for Low-Level Vision-and-Language Navigation" COMPUTER VISION AND IMAGE UNDERSTANDING, vol. 210, pp. 1 -10 , 2021 | DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2021.103255 Journal |
57 | Cagrandi, Marco; Cornia, Marcella; Stefanini, Matteo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Learning to Select: A Fully Attentive Approach for Novel Object Captioning" Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, Taipei, Taiwan, pp. 437 -441 , August 21-24, 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1145/3460426.3463587 Conference |
58 | Poppi, Samuele; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Revisiting The Evaluation of Class Activation Mapping for Explainability: A Novel Metric and Experimental Analysis" 2021 IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Virtual, pp. 2299 -2304 , June 19-25, 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW53098.2021.00260 Conference |
59 | Morelli, Davide; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "FashionSearch++: Improving Consumer-to-Shop Clothes Retrieval with Hard Negatives" Proceedings of the 11th Italian Information Retrieval Workshop, IIR 2021, vol. 2947, Bari, Italy, September 13-15, 2021, 2021 Conference |
60 | Fincato, Matteo; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cesari, Fabio; Cucchiara, Rita "VITON-GT: An Image-based Virtual Try-On Model with Geometric Transformations" Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, pp. 7669 -7676 , 10-15 January 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412052 Conference |
61 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Tavakoli, Hamed R.; Cucchiara, Rita "A Unified Cycle-Consistent Neural Model for Text and Image Retrieval" MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 79, pp. 25697 -25721 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1007/s11042-020-09251-4 Journal |
62 | Cornia, Marcella; Stefanini, Matteo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Meshed-Memory Transformer for Image Captioning" 2020 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Seattle, WA, USA, pp. 10575 -10584 , June 14-19, 2020 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPR42600.2020.01059 Conference |
63 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "SMArT: Training Shallow Memory-aware Transformers for Robotic Explainability" International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Paris, France, pp. 1128 -1134 , May, 31 - June, 4, 2020 Conference |
64 | Cornia, Marcella; Stefanini, Matteo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Corsini, Massimiliano; Cucchiara, Rita "Explaining Digital Humanities by Aligning Images and Textual Descriptions" PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS, vol. 129, pp. 166 -172 , 2020 | DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2019.11.018 Journal |
65 | Cornia, Marcella "Imparare a descrivere gli oggetti salienti presenti nelle immagini tramite la visione e il linguaggio" 2020 Other |
66 | Pini, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Bolelli, Federico; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "M-VAD Names: a Dataset for Video Captioning with Naming" MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 78, pp. 14007 -14027 , 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/s11042-018-7040-z Journal |
67 | Tomei, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Image-to-Image Translation to Unfold the Reality of Artworks: an Empirical Analysis" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019, Trento, Italy, pp. 741 -752 , 9-13 September, 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30645-8_67 Conference |
68 | Stefanini, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Corsini, Massimiliano; Cucchiara, Rita "Artpedia: A New Visual-Semantic Dataset with Visual and Contextual Sentences in the Artistic Domain" Image Analysis and Processing – ICIAP 2019, Trento, Italy, pp. 729 -740 , 9-13 September, 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-30645-8_66 Conference |
69 | Tomei, Matteo; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "What was Monet seeing while painting? Translating artworks to photo-realistic images" Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Munich, Germany, 8-14 September 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11012-3_46 Conference |
70 | Carraggi, Angelo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Visual-Semantic Alignment Across Domains Using a Semi-Supervised Approach" Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, vol. 11134, Munich, Germany, pp. 625 -640 , 8-14 September 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11024-6_47 Conference |
71 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Rezazadegan Tavakoli, Hamed; Cucchiara, Rita "Towards Cycle-Consistent Models for Text and Image Retrieval" Computer Vision – ECCV 2018 Workshops, Munich, Germany, 8-14 September 2018, 2019 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-11018-5_58 Conference |
72 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Show, Control and Tell: A Framework for Generating Controllable and Grounded Captions" 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2019-, Long Beach, CA, USA, pp. 8299 -8308 , June 16-20 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00850 Conference |
73 | Tomei, Matteo; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Art2Real: Unfolding the Reality of Artworks via Semantically-Aware Image-to-Image Translation" 2019 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, vol. 2019-, Long Beach, CA, USA, pp. 5842 -5852 , June 16-20 2019, 2019 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPR.2019.00600 Conference |
74 | Alletto, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Recognizing social relationships from an egocentric vision perspective" MULTIMODAL BEHAVIOR ANALYSIS IN THE WILD: ADVANCES AND CHALLENGES, pp. 199 -224 , 2019 | DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-814601-9.00015-8 Chapter in Book |
75 | Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Grana, Costantino; Cucchiara, Rita "Aligning Text and Document Illustrations: towards Visually Explainable Digital Humanities" Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Beijing, China, pp. 1097 -1102 , August 20th-24th, 2018, 2018 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2018.8545064 Conference |
76 | Cornia, Marcella; Abati, Davide; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Palazzi, Andrea; Calderara, Simone; Cucchiara, Rita "Attentive Models in Vision: Computing Saliency Maps in the Deep Learning Era" INTELLIGENZA ARTIFICIALE, vol. 12, y, pp. 161 -175 , z, 2018 | DOI: 10.3233/IA-170033 Journal |
77 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Predicting Human Eye Fixations via an LSTM-based Saliency Attentive Model" IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON IMAGE PROCESSING, vol. 27, pp. 5142 -5154 , 2018 | DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2018.2851672 Journal |
78 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "SAM: Pushing the Limits of Saliency Prediction Models" 2018 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, Salt Lake City, pp. 1971 -1973 , June 18-22 2018, 2018 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW.2018.00250 Conference |
79 | Cornia, Marcella; Pini, Stefano; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Automatic Image Cropping and Selection using Saliency: an Application to Historical Manuscripts" Digital Libraries and Multimedia Archives, vol. 806, Udine, pp. 169 -179 , January 25-26, 2018, 2018 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-73165-0_17 Conference |
80 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Paying More Attention to Saliency: Image Captioning with Saliency and Context Attention" ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 14, pp. 1 -21 , 2018 | DOI: 10.1145/3177745 Journal |
81 | Pini, Stefano; Ben Ahmed, Olfa; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita; Huet, Benoit "Modeling Multimodal Cues in a Deep Learning-based Framework for Emotion Recognition in the Wild" Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, Glasgow, Scotland, pp. 536 -543 , November 13-17th, 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1145/3136755.3143006 Conference |
82 | Cornia, Marcella; Abati, Davide; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Palazzi, Andrea; Calderara, Simone; Cucchiara, Rita "Attentive Models in Vision: Computing Saliency Maps in the Deep Learning Era" AI*IA 2017 Advances in Artificial Intelligence, vol. 10640, Bari, Italy, pp. 387 -399 , November 14-17, 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70169-1_29 Conference |
83 | Pini, Stefano; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Towards Video Captioning with Naming: a Novel Dataset and a Multi-Modal Approach" Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2017, vol. 10485, Catania, Italy, pp. 384 -395 , 11-15 September 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_36 Conference |
84 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Visual Saliency for Image Captioning in New Multimedia Services" Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW), 2017 IEEE International Conference on, Hong Kong, pp. 309 -314 , July 10-14, 2017, 2017 | DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2017.8026277 Conference |
85 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "A Deep Multi-Level Network for Saliency Prediction" Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2016 23rd International Conference on, Cancun, Mexico, pp. 3488 -3493 , 4-8 Dec 2016, 2016 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR.2016.7900174 Conference |
86 | Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Serra, Giuseppe; Cucchiara, Rita "Multi-Level Net: a Visual Saliency Prediction Model" Computer Vision – ECCV 2016 Workshops, vol. 9914, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 302 -315 , October 9th, 2016, 2016 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48881-3_21 Conference |