Paolo Rota
Assistant Professor (RTD-B)
About
Contact & Online Profiles
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.
Papers
CVPR 2025
Multi-focal Conditioned Latent Diffusion for Person Image Synthesis
Authors: Jiaqi Liu, Jichao Zhang, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe
CVPR 2024
Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
Authors: Benedetta Liberatori, Alessandro Conti, Paolo Rota, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci
ICPR 2024
Text-Enhanced Zero-Shot Action Recognition: A training-free approach
Authors: Massimo Bosetti, Shibingfeng Zhang, Bendetta Liberatori, Giacomo Zara, Elisa Ricci, Paolo Rota
CVPR 2023
AutoLabel: CLIP-based framework for Open-set Video Domain Adaptation
Authors: Giacomo Zara, Subhankar Roy, Paolo Rota, Elisa Ricci
ICCV 2023
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large Language-Vision Models for Source-free Video Domain Adaptation
Authors: Giacomo Zara, Alessandro Conti, Subhankar Roy, Stéphane Lathuilière, Paolo Rota, Elisa Ricci
BMVC 2022
Cluster-level pseudo-labelling for source-free cross-domain facial expression recognition
Authors: Alessandro Conti, Paolo Rota, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci
CVIU 2022
Low-budget label query through domain alignment enforcement
Authors: Jurandy Almeida, Cristiano Saltori, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe
ICPR 2022
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video Transformers in Action Recognition
Authors: Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Niculae Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci
IEEE Trans. Image Process. 2022
Variational Structured Attention Networks for Deep Visual Representation Learning
Authors: Guanglei Yang, Paolo Rota, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Dan Xu, Mingli Ding, Elisa Ricci
IEEE Trans. Multimedia 2022
Continual Attentive Fusion for Incremental Learning in Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Guanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu, Paolo Rota, Mingli Ding, Hao Tang, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci
IJCV 2022
Curriculum Learning: A Survey
Authors: Petru Soviany, Radu Tudor Ionescu, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe
TPAMI 2022
Uncertainty-aware Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Semantic Segmentation
Authors: Guanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu, Paolo Rota, Mingli Ding, Moin Nabi, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci
WACV 2022
Dual-Head Contrastive Domain Adaptation for Video Action Recognition
Authors: Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Niculae Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci
CVIU 2021
Curriculum self-paced learning for cross-domain object detection
Authors: Petru Soviany, Radu Ionescu, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe
ACM Multimedia 2020
Class-Aware Modality Mix and Center-Guided Metric Learning for Visible-Thermal Person Re-Identification
Authors: Yongguo Ling, Zhun Zhong, Zhiming Luo, Paolo Rota, Shaozi Li, Niculae Sebe
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 2020
Deep learning for classification and localization of COVID-19 markers in point-of-care lung ultrasound
Authors: Subhankar Roy, Willi Menapace, Sebastiaan Oei, Ben Luijten, Enrico Fini, Cristiano Saltori, Iris Huijben, Nishith Chennakeshava, Federico Mento, Alessandro Sentelli, Emanuele Peschiera, Riccardo Trevisan, Giovanni Maschietto, Elena Torri, Riccardo Inchingolo, Andrea Smargiassi, Gino Soldati, Paolo Rota, Andrea Passerini, Ruud J G van Sloun, Elisa Ricci, Libertario Demi
arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.00238 2020
Low-Budget Unsupervised Label Query through Domain Alignment Enforcement
Authors: Jurandy Almeida, Cristiano Saltori, Paolo Rota, Niculae Sebe
CVPR Workshop 2019
Cut Quality Estimation in Industrial Laser Cutting Machines: A Machine Learning Approach
Authors: Giorgio Santolini, Paolo Rota, Davide Gandolfi, Paolo Bosetti