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20th May 2026
20th May 2026
9.00
Welcome + IT4LIA AI Factory project
Welcome + IT4LIA AI Factory project
Fabio Poiesi & Luigi Riz
9.15
Keynote: The making of Blender
Keynote: The making of Blender
Francesco Siddi, CEO of Blender
Francesco Siddi will walk us through his own experience coming up through the Blender community and will share how the Blender was built into a public, community-centric project.
10.15
Session 1: Generative AI
Session 1: Generative AI
Wentao Qu, Guofeng Mei, Yang Wu, Yongshun Gong, Xiaoshui Huang, Liang Xiao
Jinwei Hu, Francesco Borsatti, Arianna Stropeni, Davide Dalle Pezze, Manuel Barusco, Gian Antonio Susto
Q&A
Q&A
10.40
IT4LIA AI Factory Coffee Break
IT4LIA AI Factory Coffee Break
11.10
Session 2: Transfer learning
Session 2: Transfer learning
Mainak Singha, Sarthak Mehrotra, Paolo Casari, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Elisa Ricci, Biplab Banerjee
Samuele Angheben, Davide Berasi, Alessandro Conti, Elisa Ricci, Yiming Wang
Haiyang Zheng, Nan Pu, Yaqi Cai, Teng Long, Wenjing Li, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong
Q&A
Q&A
11.45
Session 3: Grounded reasoning
Session 3: Grounded reasoning
Runyu Jiao, Matteo Bortolon, Francesco Giuliari, Alice Fasoli, Sergio Povoli, Guofeng Mei, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi
Yan Shu, Bin Ren, Zhitong Xiong, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Begüm Demir, Nicu Sebe, Paolo Rota
Q&A
Q&A
12.10
IT4LIA AI Factory Lunch & Poster session
IT4LIA AI Factory Lunch & Poster session
Additional posters:
Additional posters:
Large Multimodal Models as General In-Context Classifiers
Marco Garosi, Matteo Farina, Alessandro Conti, Massimiliano Mancini, Elisa RicciFinetune Like You Pretrain: Boosting Zero-shot Adversarial Robustness in Vision-language Models
Songlong Xing, Weijie Wang, Zhengyu Zhao, Jindong Gu, Philip Torr, Nicu SebeSEM: Sparse Embedding Modulation for Post-Hoc Debiasing of Vision-Language Models
Quentin Guimard, Federico Bartsch, Simone Caldarella, Rahaf Aljundi, Elisa Ricci, Massimiliano ManciniLuca Parolari, Nicla Faccioli, Lamberto Ballan
Action-Guided Attention for Video Action Anticipation
Tsung-Ming Tai, Sofia Casarin, Andrea Pilzer, Werner Nutt, Oswald Lanz14.10
Session 4: 3D representations
Session 4: 3D representations
Guofeng Mei, Wei Lin, Luigi Riz, Yujiao Wu, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi
Antonio Luigi Stefani, Niccolò Bisagno, Nicola Conci, Eckehard Steinbach, Francesco GB De Natale
Q&A
Q&A
14:45
Session 5: 3D representations
Session 5: 3D representations
Paparazzo: Active Mapping of Moving 3D Objects
Davide Allegro, Shiyao Li, Stefano Ghidoni, Vincent Lepetit
Qinfeng Xiao, Guofeng Mei, Bo Yang, Liying Zhang, Jian Zhang, Kit-lun Yick
Alessio Mazzucchelli, María Naranjo Almeida, Jorge Bustos Sanchez, Mariella Dimiccoli, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Jordi Sanchez-Riera, Adrian Penate-Sanchez
Q&A
15.20
Session 6: VLM applications
Session 6: VLM applications
Francesco Gentile, Nicola Dall'Asen, Francesco Tonini, Massimiliano Mancini, Lorenzo Vaquero, Elisa Ricci
Zanxi Ruan, Songqun Gao, Qiuyu Kong, Yiming Wang, Marco Cristani
Francesco Laiti, Davide Talon, Jacopo Staiano, Elisa Ricci
Alberto Compagnoni, Marco Morini, Sara Sarto, Federico Cocchi, Davide Caffagni, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
Q&A
Q&A
16.05
Closing
Closing
Fabio Poiesi
Oral presentations: 8m.
Q&A sessions: ~10 mins.
Speakers are highlighted in bold.
Poster presentations: A0 format or, alternatively, 1500 x 750 mm.
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