Paolo Rota
Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTD-b)
CIMeC/DISI - University of Trento
cognition
Palazzo Fedrigotti - Room 216 - Rovereto
network_intelligence
Polo Ferrari - Room 214 - Povo
About me
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.
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Introduction to Machine Learning (for MSc in Data Science) web slides
Paper accepted at CVPR 2025!
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