Our PREMISE project — PREdictive Multimodal Intelligence with Spatial and Episodic memory — has received funding through the PRIN 2026 call!
Bio: I got my MSc and PhD in Computer Engineering from
the University of Pisa in 2015 and 2019, working on computer vision and
multimedia information retrieval. Since 2015, I have been working at CNR-ISTI in the Artificial Intelligence for Media and Humanities (AIMH) laboratory, with a focus on understanding, representing, and retrieving
visual content.
My research interests include multimodal AI and multimedia information retrieval.
NEWS
Paper accepted at ACM TOMM: Query Suggestion for Text-to-Image Retrieval, an extended version of CroQS. Congrats to Giacomo.
Became an ELLIS member.
Two papers accepted at CVPR 2026: Patch-ioner, FCDM.
Paper accepted at ECIR 2025: CroQS, with a new benchmark for cross-modal query suggestion.
A new version of VISIONE presented at ICMR 2023.
Became a permanent Senior Researcher @ CNR-ISTI.
Paper published in Medical Image Analysis: PNN Counting.
Received the ERCIM Cor Baayen Award for best young researcher in informatics and applied mathematics in Europe.
Became a permanent Researcher @ CNR-ISTI.
Combining GANs and AutoEncoders for Efficient Anomaly Detection presented at ICPR.
Paper published in IEEE TIP: DIQM.
Adversarial Examples Detection in Features Distance Spaces presented at an ECCV workshop.
Large-Scale Image Retrieval with Elasticsearch presented at SIGIR.
Cross-Media Learning for Image Sentiment Analysis in the Wild presented at an ICCV workshop.
Deep Learning for Decentralized Parking Lot Occupancy Detection published in Expert Systems with Applications.
Car Parking Occupancy Detection using Smart Camera Networks and Deep Learning won the Best Local Paper Award at ISCC 2016.