Paolo Rota
Associate Professor @ CIMeC/DISI - University of Trento
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Palazzo Fedrigotti - Room 216 - Rovereto
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Polo Ferrari - Room 214 - Povo
About me
I am Paolo Rota, associate 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.
News
Benedetta's work serves as a benchmark to evaluate how models handle video similarity based on various concepts. Tom's work instead reexamines the feature reliance of our nice old CNNs, analysing the results on controlled suppressions.
- ConViS-Bench: Estimating Video Similarity Through Semantic Concepts - Benedetta Liberatori · Alessandro Conti · Lorenzo Vaquero · Yiming Wang · Elisa Ricci · Paolo Rota
- ImageNet-trained CNNs are not biased towards texture: Revisiting feature reliance through controlled suppression - Tom Burgert · Oliver Stoll · Paolo Rota · Begum Demir (oral)
Alessandro successfully defended his PhD! Congrats!
Paper accepted at ICIAP 2025 as oral presentation!
Paper accepted at ICCV 2025!!
Introduction to Machine Learning (for MSc in Data Science) web slides
Paper accepted at CVPR 2025!
Current Students
Former Students
Alessandro Conti
Giacomo Zara
Recent Publications
