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2026

TPAMI

A Stationary (and Therefore Compatible) Representation is All You Need

N. Biondi, F. Pernici, S. Ricci, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2026

@article{biondi2024stationary_journal,
  title = {A Stationary (and Therefore Compatible) Representation is All You Need},
  author = {Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Ricci, S. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year = {2026},
}

CVPR

PEPR: Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization for Domain Generalization

G. Magrini, F. Becattini, N. Biondi, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2026

Findings

arXiv Bib Project Page

@inproceedings{magrini2026pepr,
  title = {{PEPR}: Privileged Event-based Predictive Regularization for Domain Generalization},
  author = {Magrini, G. and Becattini, F. and Biondi, N. and Pala, P.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  note = {Findings},
  year = {2026},
}

AAAI

Mitigating Negative Flips via Margin Preserving Training

S. Ricci, N. Biondi, F. Pernici, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2026

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{ricci2026negative,
  title = {Mitigating Negative Flips via Margin Preserving Training},
  author = {Ricci, S. and Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {40},
  number = {11},
  pages = {8721--8730},
  year = {2026},
}

Smart Agri

Parameter-efficient Vision Transformer adaptation for stem quality classification from smartphone forest images

N. Biondi, S. Ricci, N. Arati, and 4 more authors

Smart Agricultural Technology, 2026

Bib

@article{biondi2026parameter,
  title = {Parameter-efficient Vision Transformer adaptation for stem quality classification from smartphone forest images},
  author = {Biondi, N. and Ricci, S. and Arati, N. and Nocetti, M. and Aminti, G. and Pala, P. and Brunetti, M.},
  journal = {Smart Agricultural Technology},
  year = {2026}
}

2025

NeurIPS

λ-Orthogonality Regularization for Compatible Representation Learning

S. Ricci, N. Biondi, F. Pernici, and 2 more authors

In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2025

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{ricci2025lambda,
  title = {$\lambda$-Orthogonality Regularization for Compatible Representation Learning},
  author = {Ricci, S. and Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Patras, I. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
  year = {2025},
}

ACM MM

FRED: The Florence RGB-Event Drone Dataset

G. Magrini, N. Marini, F. Becattini, and 4 more authors

In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia, 2025

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{magrini2025fred,
  title = {{FRED}: The Florence {RGB}-Event Drone Dataset},
  author = {Magrini, G. and Marini, N. and Becattini, F. and Berlincioni, L. and Biondi, N. and Pala, P. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Multimedia},
  year = {2025},
}

2024

CVPR

Stationary Representations: Optimally Approximating Compatibility and Implications for Improved Model Replacements

N. Biondi, F. Pernici, S. Ricci, and 1 more author

In Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2024

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@inproceedings{biondi2024stationary_cvpr,
  title = {Stationary Representations: Optimally Approximating Compatibility and Implications for Improved Model Replacements},
  author = {Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Ricci, S. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition},
  year = {2024},
}

ECCV WS

ComiCap: A VLMs Pipeline for Dense Captioning of Comic Panels

E. Vivoli, N. Biondi, M. Bertini, and 1 more author

In European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (AI4WA), 2024

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{vivoli2024comicap,
  title = {{ComiCap}: A VLMs Pipeline for Dense Captioning of Comic Panels},
  author = {Vivoli, E. and Biondi, N. and Bertini, M. and Karatzas, D.},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (AI4WA)},
  year = {2024},
}

ECCV WS

Backward-Compatible Aligned Representations via an Orthogonal Transformation Layer

S. Ricci, N. Biondi, F. Pernici, and 1 more author

In European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (Beyond Euclidean), 2024

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{ricci2024backward,
  title = {Backward-Compatible Aligned Representations via an Orthogonal Transformation Layer},
  author = {Ricci, S. and Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {European Conference on Computer Vision Workshops (Beyond Euclidean)},
  pages = {28793--28804},
  year = {2024},
}

ICDAR

Comics Datasets Framework: Mix of Comics Datasets for Detection Benchmarking

E. Vivoli, I. Campaioli, M. Nardoni, and 3 more authors

In International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition, 2024

arXiv Bib

@inproceedings{vivoli2024comics,
  title = {Comics Datasets Framework: Mix of Comics Datasets for Detection Benchmarking},
  author = {Vivoli, E. and Campaioli, I. and Nardoni, M. and Biondi, N. and Bertini, M. and Karatzas, D.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition},
  pages = {154--167},
  year = {2024},
}

TMLR

Hyperspherical Simplex Representations from Softmax Outputs and Logits are Inherently Backward-Compatible

S. Ricci, N. Biondi, F. Pernici, and 1 more author

Transactions on Machine Learning Research, 2024

Under review

Bib

@article{ricci2024hyperspherical,
  title = {Hyperspherical Simplex Representations from Softmax Outputs and Logits are Inherently Backward-Compatible},
  author = {Ricci, S. and Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  journal = {Transactions on Machine Learning Research},
  year = {2024},
  note = {Under review}
}

2022

ICIAP

Contrastive Supervised Distillation for Continual Representation Learning

T. Barletti, N. Biondi, F. Pernici, and 2 more authors

In International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2022

Best Paper DOI arXiv Bib HTML

Best Paper Award (Oral)

@inproceedings{barletti2022contrastive,
  title = {Contrastive Supervised Distillation for Continual Representation Learning},
  author = {Barletti, T. and Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Bruni, M. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-031-06427-2_50},
}

ACM ToMM

CL^2R: Compatible Lifelong Learning Representations

N. Biondi, F. Pernici, M. Bruni, and 2 more authors

ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2022

DOI arXiv Bib HTML

@article{biondi2021cl2r,
  title = {{CL$^2$R}: Compatible Lifelong Learning Representations},
  author = {Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Bruni, M. and Mugnai, D. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1145/3564786},
}

2021

TPAMI

CoReS: Compatible Representations via Stationarity

N. Biondi, F. Pernici, M. Bruni, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2021

DOI arXiv Bib HTML

@article{biondi2021cores,
  title = {{CoReS}: Compatible Representations via Stationarity},
  author = {Biondi, N. and Pernici, F. and Bruni, M. and Del Bimbo, A.},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
  year = {2021},
  doi = {10.1109/TPAMI.2023.3259542},
}