Elisa Ricci
Elisa Ricci earned an electrical engineering doctorate at Perugia in 2008. She held research roles at Idiap in 2009 and FBK in 2010, an assistant professorship at Perugia from 2011 to 2017, and an associate professorship at Trento from 2018 to 2023. Her work develops deep learning methods for computer vision, multimedia analysis, and robot perception. Her projects include multimodal human behaviour analysis in SPRING and video analysis in MARVEL. She leads FBK’s Deep Visual Learning group and is a professor at Trento.
- Now at
- Fondazione Bruno Kessler and University of Trento
- Works
- 461
- Citations
- 13,193
- h-index
- 56
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2008–2010
Engineering and research appointments
Ricci received her doctorate in electrical engineering at Perugia in 2008. She then held research roles at Idiap in 2009 and FBK in 2010.
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2011–2023
Perugia and Trento
She was an assistant professor at Perugia from 2011 to 2017 and an associate professor at Trento from 2018 to 2023. She later became a professor and group leader.
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2020–2023
Multimodal robot interaction
In SPRING, she worked on multimodal human behaviour analysis for human-robot interactions. She also conducted video-analysis research in MARVEL. Both projects are dated 2020–2023.
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As of October 2026
Adapting and continuing to learn
Her main methods include domain adaptation, continual learning, and self-supervised learning. It links these methods to learning from visual and multimodal data in open-world settings. Applications include computer vision, multimedia analysis, and robot perception.
Sources and credits
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