Our People
Meet the team behind our research
Faculty
Niculae Sebe
Full Professor
The main research interests relate to the investigation and implementation of new techniques in the fields of computer vision and multimedia. Specifically, in computer vision, I address a large spectrum of themes including human-behavior analysis, action recognition, 2D/3D object detection, large-scale event detection and video analysis, etc. In multimedia, my research focuses on three aspects: multimedia information retrieval, social signals processing and affective computing. The specific research topics include cross media retrieval, multi-modal learning, social media analysis, emotion recognition, multimodal brain-computer interfaces, etc.
Elisa Ricci
Full Professor
Elisa Ricci is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento and a Senior Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). She is the scientific manager of the Joint Laboratory on Vision and Learning between FBK and DISI. Her research interests are mainly in the areas of computer vision, robotics, machine learning, and human behaviour analysis.
Paolo Rota
Assistant Professor (RTD-B)
I am Paolo Rota, a researcher and assistant professor at the University of Trento, working in computer vision, machine learning, and multimodal AI. My research focuses on vision-language models and activity recognition, with applications in video analytics and industrial AI. Recently, I have been exploring topics such as zero-shot action recognition, temporal action localization, and vocabulary-free image classification, contributing to publications at conferences like CVPR, NeurIPS, and ICCV. I enjoy tackling challenges in open-world recognition and multimodal learning, always looking for ways to improve AI’s practical impact. Outside of academia, I co-founded Mountain Maps, a startup that uses AI to enhance outdoor navigation and help people explore mountain environments more safely and enjoyably.
