Hi, I'm Silvia Cascianelli

An AI Researcher and aspiring AI Researchers' mentor

Recent Projects

Image Generation

Efficient and lightweight generation of images with desired characteristics by adapting the inference time behavior of Diffusion Models.

    Merging and Splitting Diffusion Paths for Semantically Coherent Panoramas

    Fabio Quattrini, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara

    Alfie: Democratising RGBA Image Generation With No $$$

    Fabio Quattrini, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara

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Handwriting Imitation

Algorithms for generating images of text with the desired content and handwriting style, methods to evaluate them, and application use cases.

    VATr++: Choose Your Words Wisely for Handwritten Text Generation

    Bram Vanherle, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Nick Michiels, Frank Von Reeth, Rita Cucchiara

    Handwritten Text Generation from Visual Archetypes

    Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara

    HWD: A Novel Evaluation Score for Styled Handwritten Text Generation

    Vittorio Pippi, Fabio Quattrini, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara

    How to Choose Pretrained HTR Models for Single Writer Fine-Tuning

    Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Christopher Kermorvant, Rita Cucchiara

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Document Understanding

Information extraction from 2D and 3D images of documents (from carbonized Roman papyri to modern ESGs), including ink bits, text, layout, and something about the writer.

    μgat: Improving Single-Page Document Parsing by Providing Multi-Page Context

    Carmine Zaccagnino, Fabio Quattrini, Silvia Cascianelli, Laura Righi, Rita Cucchiara

    ToFu: Visual Tokens Reduction via Fusion for Multi-modal, Multi-patch, Multi-image Tasks

    Vittorio Pippi, Matthieu Guillaumin, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara, Maximilian Jaritz, Loris Bazzani

    Volumetric FFC for Detecting Ink on the Carbonized Herculaneum Papyri

    Fabio Quattrini, Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Rita Cucchiara

    Evaluating Synthetic Pre-Training for Handwriting Processing Tasks

    Vittorio Pippi, Silvia Cascianelli, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara

    The LAM Dataset: A Novel Benchmark for Line-Level Handwritten Text Recognition

    Silvia Cascianelli, Vittorio Pippi, Martin Maarand, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Christopher Kermorvant, Rita Cucchiara

    Boosting Modern and Historical HTR with Deformable Convolutions

    Silvia Cascianelli, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara

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Mentorees

  1. Vittorio Pippi

    Vittorio Pippi

    PhD Student at UniMoRe

    Vittorio is pursuing his PhD within the National PhD program in AI and he's just back from an internship at Amazon Research Berlin. I'm his proud co-supervisor. He's grounded, generous, and sharp. I could watch him learn to apply these traits to research and show them properly.
  2. Fabio Quattrini

    Fabio Quattrini

    PhD Student at UniMoRe

    Fabio is a PhD student of the ICT program at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, now in internship at Amazon Research Berlin. I'm happy to be his advisor in this journey. He's creative, kind, and blunt. I'm seeing him gaining more and more control over his talent for research.
  3. Carminie Zaccagnino

    Carmine Zaccagnino

    Research Intern at UniMoRe

    Carmine just obtained his MSc degree from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. I've been his thesis co-tutor and we're still working together for his research internship at UniMoRe. He's hardworking, active, and passionate. I'm more and more pleased with his capacity to pick up on each opportunity he's presented with.
  4. Kostantina Nikolaidou

    Kostantina Nikolaidou

    PhD Student at LTU

    Kostantina is pursuing her PhD at the Luleå University of Technology. I've been collaborating with her since when I've been her advisor during her 3 month internship at UniMoRe. She's tenacious, resilient, and thoughtful. I'm amazed by her capacity to find and maintain connections, both professional and personal.
  5. Pau Torras Coloma

    Pau Torras Coloma

    PhD Student at CVC

    Pau is pursuing his PhD at the Computer Vision Ceter of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. I've been his advisor during his 1.5 month internship at UniMoRe we still collaborate. He's committed, curious, and fun. I'm delighted of his capacity to adapt to new working environments and approaches.
  6. Bram Vanherle

    Bram Vanherle

    CV Engineer at Colruyt Group Smart Innovation

    Bram just gained his PhD from the University of Hasselt and spent 5 months in internship at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, during which I had the pleasure of advising him. He's concrete, easygoing, and solid. I enjoyed a lot working with him (also after his internship).  

Latest Updates

Keynote @WACV-VisionDocs

I gave a [remote - sigh!] keynote at the VisionDocs workshop at WACV about how we teach machines to write and read: it's been an honor!

AI Governance Lab

I served as one of the lecturers for the AI Governance Lab course: it's always cool to teach some ML!

ECCV2024

I'm just back from ECCV2024 in Milan. Some seeds have been planted: stay tuned to see how it goes!

AC @CVPR

It's official: I'll have the honor to serve as an Area Chair at CVPR2025!

Flash seminar @Huawei

I had the chance to chat with people at the Amsterdam Huawei Research Center about my research. I'm confident we gave each other interesting insights...

Bram's Defense

I had the pleasure of being a member of the jury for Bram Vanherle's PhD defense (and the chance to give a seminar at UHasselt the day before). Congrats to him!

ICDAR2024

I've concluded my summer with ICDAR2024 in Athens. That community feels like home each time!

AC @ECCV

I'm serving as an Area Chair at ECCV2024! Get your papers ready!

Contact

Silvia Cascianelli

Thanks for visiting my web portfolio! As you might have seen, I am an AI and Computer Vision Researcher and a people person and here's what (and where, and with whom) I am working on. If something sparked your interest or curiosity, please reach out!

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