Benedetta Liberatori

PhD Student

Benedetta Liberatori is currently working towards a PhD at the University of Trento, Italy. Her research interests lie in the area of computer vision, with a focus on vision-language models for video understanding.

Education

Nov. 2022 —
Ph.D. in Computer Science
University of Trento, Italy
Advisor: Elisa Ricci
Oct. 2020 - Sept. 2022
M.S. in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence
University of Trieste, SISSA and ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Final grade: 110/110 cum Laude
Sept. 2017 — Jul. 2020
B.S. in Mathematics
University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy
Final grade: 110/110 cum Laude

Research Experience

Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
, Deep Visual Learning Lab
Mentor: Elisa Ricci, Yiming Wang
Research state-of-the-art methods for video anomaly detection and develop a method to detect anomalous activities. The Deep Visual Learning Lab conducts research in the areas of deep learning and computer vision, developing novel methodologies for image and video understanding

Publications

Text-Enhanced Zero-Shot Action Recognition: A training-free approach
Massimo Bosetti, Shibingfeng Zhang, Benedetta Liberatori, Giacomo Zara, Elisa Ricci, Paolo Rota
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Kolkata, India, 2024.
Conditioned Prompt-Optimization for Continual Deepfake Detection
Francesco Laiti, Benedetta Liberatori, Thomas De Min, Elisa Ricci
International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Kolkata, India, 2024.
Test-Time Zero-Shot Temporal Action Localization
Benedetta Liberatori, Alessandro Conti, Paolo Rota, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci
IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). Seattle, Washington, USA, 2024.
Delving into CLIP latent space for Video Anomaly Recognition
Luca Zanella*, Benedetta Liberatori*, Willi Menapace, Fabio Poiesi, Yiming Wang, Elisa Ricci
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). 2024.
Yolo-based face mask detection on low-end devices using pruning and quantization
Benedetta Liberatori, Ciro Antonio Mami, Giovanni Santacatterina, Marco Zullich, Felice Andrea Pellegrino
Jubilee International Convention on Information, Communication and Electronic Technology (MIPRO). 2022.

Academic Service

Reviewer
European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024

Teaching

Spring 2024
Teaching Assistant
University of Trento, Italy
Introduction to Machine learning, Instructor: Paolo Rota, Yiming Wang

Honors and Awards

2021
First Ascent
Selected as one of the twenty computer science & software engineering students for the First Ascent Italy event: all-expenses-paid, four-day event in organized by Bending Spoons.
2020-2022
SISSA Scholarship
Awarded of one of the four scholarships by SISSA, founding partners of the MSc and among the most famous Research Centers in the scientific field. The scholarship is merit-based and covers full support for two years.
2017-2020
BSc Excellence Course
Admitted as one of the thirty members of the Excellence Course within the BSc Degree. The program consisted of additional courses and tests. The grade point average bounded the admission.