About
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.
Research Interests
Computer Vision
Supervisees
Federico Bartsch
Ph.D.
Davide Berasi
Ph.D.
Simone Caldarella
Ph.D.
Deepayan Das
Ph.D.
Maurizio De Marchi
Ph.D.
Thomas De Min
Ph.D.
Matteo Farina
Ph.D.
Davide Gardenal
Ph.D.
Marco Garosi
Ph.D.
FG
Francesco Gentile
Ph.D.
Gloria Isotton
Ph.D.
Francesco Laiti
Ph.D.
Benedetta Liberatori
Ph.D.
Mingxuan Liu
Ph.D.
Mainak Singha
Ph.D.
Francesco Tonini
Ph.D.
Luca Zanella
Ph.D.
Long Zhou
Ph.D.
Milica Škipina
Ph.D.
Papers (77)
2026
CVPR 2026
From Weights to Concepts: Data-Free Interpretability of CLIP via Singular Vector Decomposition
CVPR 2026
How to Take a Memorable Picture? Empowering Users with Actionable Feedback
CVPR 2026
Specificity-aware reinforcement learning for fine-grained open-world classification
CVPR Findings 2026
Large Multimodal Models as General In-Context Classifiers
CVPR Findings 2026
Organizing Unstructured Image Collections using Natural Language
CVPR Findings 2026
SEM: Sparse Embedding Modulation for Post-Hoc Debiasing of Vision-Language Models
Quentin Guimard, Federico Bartsch, Simone Caldarella, Rahaf Aljundi, Elisa Ricci, Massimiliano Mancini
FG 2026
Towards Unconstrained Human-Object Interaction
FG 2026
Training-Free Semantic Multi-Object Tracking with Vision-Language Models
2025
NeurIPS 2025
ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts
ACM Multimedia 2025
Dynamic Scoring with Enhanced Semantics for Training-Free Human-Object Interaction Detection
ICCV 2025
FedMVP: Federated Multimodal Visual Prompt Tuning for Vision-Language Models
Mainak Singha, Subhankar Roy, Sarthak Mehrotra, Ankit Jha, Moloud Abdar, Biplap Banerjee, Elisa Ricci
ICCV 2025
On Large Multimodal Models as Open-World Image Classifiers
ICCV 2025
Superpowering Open-Vocabulary Object Detectors for X-ray Vision
Pablo García Fernández, Lorenzo Vaquero, Mingxuan Liu, Feng Xue, Daniel Cores, Nicu Sebe, Manuel Mucientes, Elisa Ricci
ICCV 2025
Training-Free Personalization via Retrieval and Reasoning on Fingerprints
ICIAP 2025
Automatic benchmarking of large multimodal models via iterative experiment programming
ICIAP 2025
Diversified in-domain synthesis with efficient fine-tuning for few-shot classification
CVPR 2025
Classifier-to-Bias: Toward Unsupervised Automatic Bias Detection for Visual Classifiers
CVPR 2025
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Compositional Caching for Training-free Open-vocabulary Attribute Detection
CVPR 2025
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Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models
WACV 2025
One vlm to keep it learning: Generation and balancing for data-free continual visual question answering
CVIU 2025
Collaborative Neural Painting
TMLR 2025
Group-robust Machine Unlearning
TMLR 2025
Unlearning Personal Data from a Single Image
2024
EMNLP 2024
Retrieval-enriched zero-shot image classification in low-resource domains
ACM Multimedia 2024
AL-GTD: Deep Active Learning for Gaze Target Detection
CVIU 2024
Delving into CLIP latent space for Video Anomaly Recognition
CVPR 2024
Harnessing Large Language Models for Training-free Video Anomaly Detection
CVPR 2024
MULTIFLOW: Shifting Towards Task-Agnostic Vision-Language Pruning
CVPR 2024
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SHiNe: Semantic Hierarchy Nexus for Open-vocabulary Object Detection
Mingxuan Liu, Tyler L. Hayes, Gabriela Csurka, Elisa Ricci, Riccardo Volpi
CVPR 2024
Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
CoLLAs 2024
Less is more: Summarizing Patch Tokens for efficient Multi-Label Class-Incremental Learning
ICLR 2024
Democratizing Fine-grained Visual Recognition with Large Language Models
ICPR 2024
Conditioned Prompt-Optimization for Continual Deepfake Detection
ICPR 2024
Text-Enhanced Zero-Shot Action Recognition: A training-free approach
NeurIPS 2024
Frustratingly Easy Test-Time Adaptation of Vision-Language Models
2023
CVPR 2023
AutoLabel: CLIP-based framework for Open-set Video Domain Adaptation
CVPR 2023
Novel Class Discovery for 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation
Luigi Riz, Cristiano Saltori, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi
CVPR 2023
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Quantum Multi-Model Fitting
ICCV 2023
Oral
A soft nearest-neighbor framework for continual semi-supervised learning
Zhiqi Kang, Enrico Fini, Moin Nabi, Elisa Ricci, Karteek Alahari
ICCV 2023
Object-aware Gaze Target Detection
ICCV 2023
On the Effectiveness of LayerNorm Tuning for Continual Learning in Vision Transformers
ICCV 2023
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Large Language-Vision Models for Source-free Video Domain Adaptation
ICCV 2023
Walking Your LiDOG: A Journey Through Multiple Domains for LiDAR Semantic Segmentation
Cristiano Saltori, Aljoša Ošep, Elisa Ricci, Laura Leal-Taixé
ICIAP 2023
Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Models Conditioned on Compact Motion Representations
ICIP 2023
Exploring Diffusion Models for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection
IEEE TPAMI 2023
Compositional Semantic Mix for Domain Adaptation in Point Cloud Segmentation
NeurIPS 2023
Vocabulary-free Image Classification
WACV 2023
ConfMix: Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Object Detection via Confidence-based Mixing
WACV 2023
Overlap-guided Gaussian Mixture Model for Point Cloud Registration
2022
ICIAP 2022
Graph-based generative face anonymisation with pose preservation
BMVC 2022
Cluster-level pseudo-labelling for source-free cross-domain facial expression recognition
BMVC 2022
Data Augmentation-free Unsupervised Learning for 3D Point Cloud Understanding
CVPR 2022
Playable Environments: Video Manipulation in Space and Time
Willi Menapace, Stéphane Lathuilière, Aliaksandr Siarohin, Christian Theobalt, Sergey Tulyakov, Vladislav Golyanik, Elisa Ricci
CVPR 2022
Self-Supervised Models are Continual Learners
Enrico Fini, Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci, Karteek Alahari, Julien Mairal
ECCV 2022
Class-incremental Novel Class Discovery
ECCV 2022
CoSMix: Compositional Semantic Mix for Domain Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Segmentation
ECCV 2022
GIPSO: Geometrically Informed Propagation for Online Adaptation in 3D LiDAR Segmentation
Cristiano Saltori, Evgeny Krivosheev, Stéphane Lathuilière, Nicu Sebe, Fabio Galasso, Giuseppe Fiameni, Elisa Ricci, Fabio Poiesi
ECCV 2022
Quantum Motion Segmentation
Federica Arrigoni, Willi Menapace, Marcel Seelbach Benkner, Elisa Ricci, Vladislav Golyanik
ICMI 2022
Multimodal Across Domains Gaze Target Detection
ICPR 2022
Multimodal Emotion Recognition with Modality-Pairwise Unsupervised Contrastive Loss
ICPR 2022
Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for Video Transformers in Action Recognition
Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Nicu Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci
IEEE TPAMI 2022
Revisiting Viewing Graph Solvability: an Effective Approach Based on Cycle Consistency
Federica Arrigoni, Andrea Fusiello, Romeo Rizzi, Elisa Ricci, Tomas Pajdla
IEEE Trans. Image Process. 2022
Variational Structured Attention Networks for Deep Visual Representation Learning
IEEE Trans. Multimedia 2022
Continual Attentive Fusion for Incremental Learning in Semantic Segmentation
Guanglei Yang, Enrico Fini, Dan Xu, Paolo Rota, Mingli Ding, Hao Tang, Xavier Alameda-Pineda, Elisa Ricci
IJCV 2022
Multi-frame motion segmentation by combining two-frame results
Federica Arrigoni, Elisa Ricci, Tomas Pajdla
TPAMI 2022
Uncertainty-aware Contrastive Distillation for Incremental Semantic Segmentation
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
Victor G. Turrisi da Costa, Giacomo Zara, Paolo Rota, Thiago Oliveira-Santos, Nicu Sebe, Vittorio Murino, Elisa Ricci
2021
ICPR 2021
Semantic-Guided Inpainting Network for Complex Urban Scenes Manipulation
Pierfrancesco Ardino, Yahui Liu, Elisa Ricci, Bruno Lepri, Marco De Nadai
2020
3DV 2020
SF-UDA3D: Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-Based 3D Object Detection
ECCV 2020
Online Continual Learning under Extreme Memory Constraints
ECCV 2020
Towards Generalization Across Depth for Monocular 3D Object Detection
Andrea Simonelli, Samuel Rota Bulò, Lorenzo Porzi, Elisa Ricci, Peter Kontschieder
IEEE Trans. Med. Imaging 2020
Deep learning for classification and localization of COVID-19 markers in point-of-care lung ultrasound
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
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM) 2020
Learning How to Smile: Expression Video Generation with Conditional Adversarial Recurrent Nets
arXiv 2020
Demystifying Pseudo-LiDAR for Monocular 3D Object Detection
Andrea Simonelli, Samuel Rota Bulò, Lorenzo Porzi, Peter Kontschieder, Elisa Ricci
2019
CVPR 2019
Unsupervised domain adaptation using feature-whitening and consensus loss
2018
CVPR 2018