Program

20th May 2026

9.00

Welcome + IT4LIA AI Factory project

Fabio Poiesi & Luigi Riz

9.15

Keynote: The making of Blender

Francesco Siddi, CEO of Blender

Francesco Siddi will walk us through his own experience coming up through the Blender community and will share how the Blender was built into a public, community-centric project.

10.15

Session 1: Generative AI

A Self-Conditioned Representation Guided Diffusion Model for Realistic Text-to-LiDAR Scene Generation

Wentao Qu, Guofeng Mei, Yang Wu, Yongshun Gong, Xiaoshui Huang, Liang Xiao

MIRAGE: Model-agnostic Industrial Realistic Anomaly Generation and Evaluation for Visual Anomaly Detection

Jinwei Hu, Francesco Borsatti, Arianna Stropeni, Davide Dalle Pezze, Manuel Barusco, Gian Antonio Susto

Q&A

10.40

IT4LIA AI Factory Coffee Break

11.10

Session 2: Bias, safety & interpretability

From Weights to Concepts: Data-Free Interpretability of CLIP via Singular Vector Decomposition

Francesco Gentile, Nicola Dall'Asen, Francesco Tonini, Massimiliano Mancini, Lorenzo Vaquero, Elisa Ricci

PoInit-of-View: Poisoning Initialization of Views Transfers Across Multiple 3D Reconstruction Systems

Weijie Wang, Songlong Xing, Zhengyu Zhao, Nicu Sebe, Bruno Lepri

Q&A

11.35

Session 3: Transfer learning

CLIPoint3D: Language-Grounded Few-Shot Unsupervised 3D Point Cloud Domain Adaptation

Mainak Singha, Sarthak Mehrotra, Paolo Casari, Subhasis Chaudhuri, Elisa Ricci, Biplab Banerjee

Specificity-aware reinforcement learning for fine-grained open-world classification

Samuele Angheben, Davide Berasi, Alessandro Conti, Elisa Ricci, Yiming Wang

The Devil Is in Gradient Entanglement: Energy-Aware Gradient Coordinator for Robust Generalized Category Discovery

Haiyang Zheng, Nan Pu, Yaqi Cai, Teng Long, Wenjing Li, Nicu Sebe, Zhun Zhong

Q&A

12.10

Session 4: Grounded reasoning

Obstruction reasoning for robotic grasping

Runyu Jiao, Matteo Bortolon, Francesco Giuliari, Alice Fasoli, Sergio Povoli, Guofeng Mei, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi

TerraScope: Pixel-Grounded Visual Reasoning for Earth Observation

Yan Shu, Bin Ren, Zhitong Xiong, Xiao Xiang Zhu, Begüm Demir, Nicu Sebe, Paolo Rota

Q&A

12.35

IT4LIA AI Factory Lunch + Posters

14.35

Session 5: 3D representations

Efficient Encoder-Free Fourier-based 3D Large Multimodal Model

Guofeng Mei, Wei Lin, Luigi Riz, Yujiao Wu, Yiming Wang, Fabio Poiesi

Learning to Identify Out-of-Distribution Objects for 3D LiDAR Anomaly Segmentation
Simone Mosco, Daniel Fusaro, Alberto Pretto

Haptic Neural Fields: Bringing Tactile Interactions to 3D Rendered Scenes

Antonio Luigi Stefani, Niccolò Bisagno, Nicola Conci, Eckehard Steinbach, Francesco GB De Natale

Q&A

15.10

Session 6: 3D representations

Paparazzo: Active Mapping of Moving 3D Objects
Davide Allegro, Shiyao Li, Stefano Ghidoni, Vincent Lepetit

Universal 3D Shape Matching via Coarse-to-Fine Language Guidance

Qinfeng Xiao, Guofeng Mei, Bo Yang, Liying Zhang, Jian Zhang, Kit-lun Yick

BEA-GS : BEyond RAdiance Supervision in 3DGS for Precise Object Extraction

Alessio Mazzucchelli, María Naranjo Almeida, Jorge Bustos Sanchez, Mariella Dimiccoli, Francesc Moreno-Noguer, Jordi Sanchez-Riera, Adrian Penate-Sanchez

Q&A

15.45

Q&A

16.30

Closing

Fabio Poiesi

Oral presentations: 8m.

Q&A sessions: ~10 mins.

Speakers are highlighted in bold.

Poster presentations: A0 format or, alternatively, 1500 x 750 mm.

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