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Full curriculum vitae.
General Information
| Full Name | Niccolò Biondi |
| Position | Assistant Professor (RTD-A) |
| Institution | Multimedia & Human Understanding Lab (MHUG), University of Trento |
| Address | Via Sommarive, 9, 38123 Povo, Trento, Italy |
| niccolo.biondi@unitn.it | |
| Editorial Role | Managing Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Elsevier |
| Languages | Italian (native), English (fluent) |
Positions & Education
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2025 – now Assistant Professor (RTD-A)
Multimedia & Human Understanding Lab (MHUG), DISI, University of Trento, Trento, IT -
2021 – 2025 Ph.D. in Information Engineering (cum laude)
University of Florence, Florence, IT - Thesis: Learning Backward-Compatible Representations via Stationarity.
- Supervisors: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo and Prof. Federico Pernici. Defended 11 June 2025.
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2021 Research Fellow
MICC, University of Florence, Florence, IT — European Commission H2020, grant no. 951911 (AI4Media) -
2021 M.Sc. in Information Engineering (cum laude)
University of Florence, Florence, IT - Thesis: Incremental Learning of Compatible Representations.
- Focus: machine learning, computer vision, statistics and optimization theory.
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2018 B.Sc. in Information Engineering
University of Florence, Florence, IT - Thesis: Financial Document Recognition with Neural Networks.
- Focus: computer science, machine learning, physics and mathematics.
Industry & Tech-Transfer Projects
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2026 PIA Project — RECO 3.26 s.r.l.
Biometric verification and retail security - Deep-learning computer vision systems for face anti-spoofing, appearance-based person re-identification, and pose/behavior-based shoplifting detection.
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2025 – 2026 Digital Art Interaction — University of Florence
Human-centered HCI for cultural heritage and education - AI-powered multimodal system combining conversational agents and body tracking for engaging with digital art (published at HCII 2025).
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2022 Project Transfer — Leonardo S.p.A.
Face recognition on masked faces using deep learning and transfer learning
Research Funding
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2026 – now MINGLE — Horizon Europe
University of Trento (MHUG lab) -
2025 – now ELLIOT — European Lighthouse on Foundation Models
University of Trento (MHUG lab) -
2020 – 2024 AI4Media — Horizon 2020, grant no. 951911
MICC, University of Florence -
2026 – 2028 CINECA ISCRA-D Award — ReAD (call 10)
CINECA — Role: PI - Includes a 30 TB data repository on the Leonardo supercomputer (2026 – 2029).
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2026 – 2027 CINECA ISCRA-C Award — SFMRI (HP10C8VBGH)
CINECA — Role: PI (External Supervisor) - 64,000 standard hours on Leonardo Booster for research on foundation models for fetal brain medical imaging.
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2025 – 2026 CINECA ISCRA-C Award — MGRES (HP10CKYJ61)
CINECA — Role: PI (External Supervisor) - 96,000 standard hours on Leonardo Booster for research on medical generalized referring expression segmentation.
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2022 – 2023 CINECA ISCRA-C Award — CoReS (HP10C4TIIM)
CINECA — Role: PI (External Supervisor) - HPC resources to pursue further research on compatible representations.
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2021 – 2022 CINECA ISCRA-C Award — ILCoRe (HP10CRMI87)
CINECA - HPC resources to pursue research on compatible representations.
Honors & Awards
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2024 Highlight Paper (top 2.8%)
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2024) - For "Stationary Representations: Optimally Approximating Compatibility and Implications for Improved Model Replacements."
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2022 Petrosino Prize — Best M.Sc. Thesis
CVPL Association - For "Contrastive Supervised Distillation for Continual Representation Learning."
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2022 Best Student Paper Award
21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP) - For "Contrastive Supervised Distillation for Continual Representation Learning" (Oral presentation).
Invited Talks & Tutorials
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2025 Generative AI
Medea Academy 2025, Florence, IT -
2025 Model Updates without Re-indexing: A Tutorial on Backward-Compatible Representations
23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2025), Rome, IT - With S. Ricci, F. Pernici and A. Del Bimbo.
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2024 Learning Backward-Compatible Representations
ACM Multimedia 2024 (ACM MM 2024), Melbourne, AU - With S. Ricci, F. Pernici and A. Del Bimbo.
Teaching
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2025 – 2026 Advanced Course on Representation Learning
CNR Florence - Foundations of representation learning, self-supervised learning (SimCLR, BYOL, DINO, Barlow Twins) and vision transformers.
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2025 – 2026 Image and Video Analysis — B024271 (B339)
University of Florence, Multimedia Systems curriculum (with Prof. Pietro Pala) - Multimodal learning (CLIP, SigLIP), promptable segmentation (SAM, SAM2, SAM3) and video foundation models (V-JEPA).
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2024 – 2025 Computer Vision and Intelligent Media Recognition — B031289 (B241)
University of Florence (with Prof. Pietro Pala) - Advanced M.Sc. class on deep learning and computer vision fundamentals.
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2023 – 2024 Computer Vision and Intelligent Media Recognition — B031289 (B241)
University of Florence (with Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo) - Advanced M.Sc. class on deep learning and computer vision fundamentals.
M.Sc. Thesis Co-supervision
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2025 Francesco Correnti
Can MRI Teach US? Spatiotemporal Weak Pairing for Fetal Brain Development Analysis — with Prof. Pietro Pala - 110/110 cum laude and honors. Led to WASP (NeurIPS 2026).
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2025 Martina Tuccio
A Unified Framework for Text-Driven and Context-Aware Medical Image Segmentation — with Prof. Pietro Pala -
2025 Giulia Manno
Generalized Referring Expression Segmentation in Medical Images — with Prof. Pietro Pala -
2025 Edoardo Cappelli
Event-Guided Day-to-Night Domain Generalization and Adaptation for Robust Semantic Segmentation — with Prof. Pietro Pala -
2024 Marco Chisci
Continual Representation Learning for Visual Search — with Prof. Federico Pernici - 110/110 cum laude.
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2021 Tommaso Barletti
Continual Representation Learning for Visual Search — with Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo and Prof. Federico Pernici - Led to the ICIAP 2021 Best Student Paper Award.
Academic Service
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Editorial Roles
- Managing Editor, Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), Elsevier, 2026–2028
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Area Chair
- CVPR 2027
- ACM Multimedia 2026
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Conference Reviewer
- NeurIPS: 2025, 2022
- CVPR: 2025, 2024, 2022
- ICCV: 2025
- ECCV: 2024, 2022
- WACV
- ACM Multimedia: 2025
- ICME: 2024
- ICMR: 2023
- ICPR / ICPRW: 2022
- ICPRAI: 2022
- ICIAP: 2021
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Journal Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (TMM)
- IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (TAES)
- MDPI Sensors
Technical Skills
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Languages
- Python (primary)
- C / C++
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Frameworks & Libraries
- PyTorch
- Hugging Face
- scikit-learn
- NumPy
- OpenCV
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Infrastructure
- Git / GitHub
- Linux
- Docker
- CUDA
- Multi-GPU / multi-node and HPC training
Schools & Continuing Education
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2023 6th Advanced Course on Data Science & Machine Learning (ACDL 2023)
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2022 International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2022)
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2022 Machine Learning Summer School (MLSS 2022)
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2022 High Performance Deep Learning with GPU — NVIDIA
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2021 Advanced School on Parallel Computing — CINECA
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2019 Hackathon AIRtificial Intelligence — Aeronautica Militare ISMA & Leonardo S.p.A.
- Machine learning solutions to improve standard procedures in aeronautics.