This is the periodical ITSERR Board meeting

ITSERR took part in the international conference “IM MATERIALITIES: Museums between real and digital”, hosted by the Egyptian Museum in Turin from 28 November to 1 December 2023. On this occasion, Stefano ... Read more

At the Museo internazionale delle Marionette “Antonio Pasqualino” in Palermo, the conference “Agiografie/Etnografie. Modelli di santità e pratiche rituali” explored sanctity as both a textual and performative model, from its ... Read more

Our colleagues of the ITSERR WP9 - TAURUS (Professor Stefano De Martino, Dr. Filippo Diara and Dr. Francesco Barsacchi) are the speakers of the conference organized by Musei Reali di ... Read more

Sania Aftar, (University of Palermo) participated in the 20th Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting to Digital and Library Science (formerly the Italian Research Conference on Digital Libraries), presenting ... Read more

The Annual Workshop of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS) took place, focusing on the ongoing preparation of Volume II. Scholars and researchers gathered to discuss the ... Read more

The University of Naples Federico II hosted a seminar by Fabio Tutrone (University of Palermo) titled "L’anima, il cosmo, i quattro elementi: psicologia e filosofia della natura da Agostino a ... Read more

ITSERR took part in the panel “Strengthening the Research Infrastructure – RESILIENCE: the Italian project ITSERR” at the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2024) in Palermo, organised by Francesca ... Read more

ITSERR is the Italian research project aimed at enhancing the ESFRI RESILIENCE Research Infrastructure. By endorsing new technological paradigms, the project is willing to play a pivotal role in enriching ... Read more

FSCIRE – Fondazione per le scienze religiose hosted the conference "Citazioni, allusioni, metafore. Questioni di metodo su forme e dinamiche della rappresentazione" organized within the uBIQUity-WP8, ITSERR and PRIN 2022 ... Read more

The conference “Citazioni, allusioni, metafore. Questioni di metodo su forme e dinamiche della rappresentazione” was held at the Fondazione per le scienze religiose in Bologna and organised within the ITSERR framework and ... Read more

  ITSERR has organized its own Third plenary meeting on the 10th and 11th of June to present the state of the art of the project and to offer to ... Read more

Ilaria Sabbatini (University of Palermo) and Laura Righi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) took part in the panel “Nuovi strumenti per la Storia Medievale: memorie documentarie e Digital Humanities.” Sabbatini ... Read more

Our colleagues Federico Ruozzi and Amina El Ganadi participate within the program of the conference at the University of Reading - sponsored by the Digital Humanities CoP -   with the paper ... Read more

Our colleagues, Giovanni Sullutrone and Luca Sala (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) made significant contributions to the 32nd Symposium on Advanced Database Systems, the leading annual event for the Italian ... Read more

Marcello Costa (University of Palermo) participated in the 2CO Communicating Complexity Conference 2024, presenting his paper "Ubiquity Platform. Data Visualization for Digital Humanities". The paper, developed within the ITSERR project, ... Read more

Cinzia Ferrara and Chiara Palillo (University of Palermo) participated in the SID 2024 National Conference – Design and Research: Sources and Resources, contributing to the discussion panel "Research Tools for ... Read more

Within the framework of the Summer School “Significanza culturale del patrimonio ecclesiastico", promoted by the Accademia Maria Luisa di Borbone, the Università LUMSA and the Arcidiocesi di Lucca, the researcher ... Read more

Fabio Tutrone (University of Palermo) took part in the interdisciplinary conference Worlds Above and Below: Supernatural Worlds in Classics, Judaism, and Early Christianity, organized by the University of Otago. He ... Read more

Anna Mambelli, ITSERR researcher (FSCIRE / University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), took part in the International Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (SBL), “Septuagint Studies” section, in Amsterdam. ... Read more

“Trends, Applications, and Challenges in Human Attention Modelling”

Authors: Giuseppe Cartella, Marcella Cornia, Vittorio Cuculo, Alessandro D’Amelio, Dario Zanca, Giuseppe Boccignone, Rita Cucchiara

Abstract
Human attention modelling has proven, in recent years, to be
particularly useful not only for understanding the cognitive processes
underlying visual exploration, but also for providing support to
artificial intelligence models that aim to solve problems in various
domains, including image and video processing, vision-and-language
applications, and language modelling. This survey offers a reasoned
overview of recent efforts to integrate human attention mechanisms into
contemporary deep learning models and discusses future research
directions and challenges.

Our colleague, Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), presenting the paper "The Revolution of Multimodal ... Read more

Within the framework of the prestigious 18th International conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2024)  the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2024) will be jointly ... Read more

Our colleague, Usman Nawaz (University of Palermo) participated in the 16th IAPR International Workshop on Document Analysis Systems (DAS 2024), jointly held with the 18th International Conference on Document Analysis ... Read more

ITSERR took part in the Convegno Internazionale dell'AISG, entitled “Nuovi Percorsi e Temi della Ricerca in Ambito Giudaistico". During the conference, Andrea Ravasco (University of Palermo) presented the paper “Applicazione ... Read more

The ADI (Associazione di Italianistica) National Conference was held in Palermo, during the event, Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) presented his talk "L'immagine del 'saraceno' in alcune leggende mariane di ... Read more

Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) took part in the Seminario dottorale di Storia medievale at the University of Messina, where he presented his talk "Demoni, santi e tempeste sovrannaturali. Appunti per una ... Read more

Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 28th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2024), presenting the paper "Sensitive Topics Retrieval ... Read more

Silvia Cascianelli and Giuseppe Cartella participated in the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH). Silvia Cascianelli presented the paper “µgat: Improving Single-Page Document Parsing by Providing Multi-Page ... Read more

Federico Cocchi and Marcella Cornia (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024), presenting the paper "Contrasting Deepfakes Diffusion via Contrastive ... Read more

Within the framework of the Annual Meeting on Christian Origins our colleagues Anna Mambelli and Davide Dainese of ITSERR (Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE) participate with the following ... Read more

ITSERR has organized its own fourth plenary meeting on the 23 and 24 of October to present the state of the art of the project and to offer to its ... Read more

Marco Papasidero (University of Palermo) will speak at the seminar "Santi scrittori in digitale", part of the permanent seminar series I Santi internauti. His talk, "Ildegarda spirituale: letture, riletture e ... Read more

  Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 2024 Middle East Librarians Association (MELA) Annual Meeting, presenting the paper "The Digital Maktaba Project: Building an ... Read more

At EMNLP 2024, Sania Aftarha presented RoBERT2VecTM: A Novel Approach for Topic Extraction in Islamic Studies, co-authored by Luca Gagliardelli, Amina El Ganadi, Federico Ruozzi, and Sonia Bergamaschi (University of ... Read more

Federico Ruozzi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Domenico Ciccarello (University of Palermo) presented the paper "Digital Maktaba: Enhancing Library Inclusivity through Automated Knowledge Extraction from Multi-Alphabet Digital Collections" ... Read more

Davide Caffagni, ITSERR researcher (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 35th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), presenting the paper "Revisiting Image Captioning Training Paradigm via Direct CLIP-based ... Read more

At FLLM 2024, Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo) presented the paper The Impact of Generative AI on Islamic Studies: Case Analysis of "Digital Muhammad ibn Ismail Al-Bukhari", co-authored by ... Read more

    "Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Studies: initial research perspectives" December 2, 2024, the Workshop “Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence and Religious Studies: first research perspectives” will be held ... Read more

PhD students Luca Sala and Giovanni Sullutrone presented the paper “Arabic Text Enhancement with GPT for Digital Libraries” at JCDL 2024, where the work was awarded second place in the Best Short Paper category. The contribution, ... Read more

The Fifth Training Event of the ITSERR project in Turin: at the center of Innovation and Interdisciplinary Research in the filedwork of  Religious Studies On 14 and 15 January 2025, ... Read more

At the recent conference on European research infrastructures in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Cultural Heritage, organised by CNR-DSU in Rome to promote open and integrated research systems oriented towards ... Read more

Ilaria Sabbatini (University of Palermo) participated in the international conference "Multimedioevo. Storie medievali e linguaggi multimediali fra XX e XXI secolo" with her paper: "Teaching Medieval Sources in the Age ... Read more

Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo) presented her paper "Digital Maktaba Project: Proposing a Metadata-Driven Framework for Arabic Library Digitization" at the 21st Conference on Information and Research Science Connecting ... Read more

Irfan Ali (University of Palermo) and Amina El Ganadi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence, presenting their research on ... Read more

  The Department of Cultures and Society at the University of Palermo recently hosted two seminars led by Prof. Pedro Ramirez Rueda (University of Barcelona), the first scholar to visit ... Read more

On April 10–11, 2025, the ITSERR project hosted its sixth in-house training event at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” (ISTI-CNR) in Pisa. The two-day meeting brought ... Read more

On May 14, the Faedo Lecture Hall at ISTI-CNR will host the seminar “Arabic Multimodal Language Modeling”, presented by Hawau Olamide Toyin, a PhD student in Natural Language Processing at ... Read more

As part of the activities of the Laboratory of Bibliography and Online Historical Research, the Master’s Degree Programme in Historical, Anthropological and Geographical Studies, and the ITSERR Research Project, a seminar ... Read more

An opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange on the role of artificial intelligence in the study of texts, libraries, and archives. The seminar brings together scholars working in the fields of Digital ... Read more

As part of the National Open Access (NOA) mobility program of the ITSERR project, the seminar titled “AI and Religious Studies: New Perspectives and Applications for the Study of Talmud ... Read more

Giuseppe Cartella, ITSERR researcher, presented the paper “Sanctuaria-Gaze: A Multimodal Egocentric Dataset for Human Attention Analysis in Religious Sites” at SINT4CH 2025 – 1st International Workshop on Spatial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage. ... Read more

On June 12–13, the “Enzo Ferrari” Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the seventh in-house training of the PNRR-funded ITSERR project – Italian ... Read more

Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo, FSCIRE), member of the research team of the ITSERR project, presented the paper “Divine Diplomacy: Religion and Power in Mongol-Muslim Relations during the Yuan Dynasty” ... Read more

ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE – will take part in the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2025) in Vienna with the panel: Technology and the ... Read more

ITSERR took part in the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2025) held in Vienna, contributing with two panels dedicated to methodological and technological developments in Religious Studies. The panel ... Read more

  ITSERR, took part in the 10th Workshop on Slavic Natural Language Processing, held in Vienna, with a contribution on the diachronic analysis of Church Slavonic. Maria Cassese presented the ... Read more

Amina El Ganadi, ITSERR researcher, presented the paper “Reimagining Islamic Knowledge Classification: Evaluating Culturally Adaptive LLMs for Arabic-Script Libraries” at The Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2025. Her contribution examined ... Read more

Anna Mambelli took part in the 25th Congress of the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament (IOSOT), held in Berlin, presenting the paper “The uBIQUity of Sacred ... Read more

  ITSERR took part in the 2025 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Humanities, in Florence, with the paper “ReCoptic: Computer Vision for the Reconstruction of Dismembered Coptic Codices”, presented by ... Read more

  The PNRR ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE project promotes, from 8 to 12 September 2025, the Summer School AI for Religious Studies: Unlocking Knowledge, designed ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo) took part in the seminar “Forme ed espressioni dell’aristotelismo nella tradizione araba”, held at the Giorgio La Pira Library and Research Centre of ... Read more

On 11–12 September 2025, the event will take place at the Complesso Monumentale dello Steri of the University of Palermo. The ITSERR project, funded by the Italian Ministry of University ... Read more

On 19 September 2025, the Area della Ricerca CNR di Pisa will host a seminar by Friederick Riemenschneider (University of Heidelberg), currently in Pisa as a visiting scholar under a ... Read more

From 23 to 26 September 2025, Davide Caffagni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), researcher in the ITSERR project, took part in the 29th International Conference on Theory and Practice ... Read more

uBIQUity  (ITSERR WP8) presented at the 11th CISSR – Annual Meeting on Christian Origins in Bertinoro, within the session Jewish History, Hellenistic Judaism, and Septuagint Studies, co-directed by Anna Mambelli ... Read more

  On 25th September 2025, the Department of Law at the University of Palermo will host the event “DIALOGHI CON LA STORIA DEL DIRITTO” The program will open with contributions ... Read more

  ITSERR project researchers participated in the international conference "Pathways of Texts: From Ancient Traditions to New Computational Frontiers. Bibles, Libraries, Webs of Books". Anna Mambelli (University of Modena and Reggio ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo), took part in the International Conference “The Dānešnāme and its (Structural) Aftermath” at KU Leuven, presenting the paper “Discovering and mapping the manuscripts of Dānešnāme-ye ... Read more

The 44th Course of the International School of Ius Commune, held in Erice, Sicily, and dedicated to “Legal, cultural and religious pluralism: aspects and problems in the tradition of the ... Read more

  Giuseppe Cartella, Vittorio Cuculo and Marcella Cornia took part in the International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) presenting the paper “Modeling Human Gaze Behavior with Diffusion Models for Unified ... Read more

Laura Righi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) and Riccardo Amerigo Vigliermo (Fondazione per le Scienze Religiose – FSCIRE), researchers in the ITSERR project, took part in the international conference ... Read more

  ITSERR researcher Amina El Ganadi (University of Palermo, FSCIRE) took part in the Arabic NLP workshop co-located with the Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025) conference in ... Read more

Amina El Ganadi (FSCIRE, Bologna / University of Palermo / University of Modena and Reggio Emilia), member of the research team of the ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Laura Righi (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) took part in the seminar “Documentazione pontificia e strumenti digitali: i primi risultati del progetto ITSERR attraverso il caso del ... Read more

ITSERR researchers Giovanni Puccetti (IIT‑CNR), Marianna Napolitano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia/FSCIRE) and Andrea Esuli (ISTI–CNR), together with Maria Cassese (ISTI‑CNR), took part in the 49th Austrian Linguistics Conference (Österreichische ... Read more

ITSERR researchers Sara Abram (University of Palermo) and Ivana Panzeca (University of Palermo) took part in the training day for students and PhD candidates “Manoscritti, scritture e conoscenze: la trasmissione del sapere nell'Islam ... Read more

ITSERR researchers from the University of Palermo, Ilaria Sabbatini, Domenico Ciccarello, Ivana Panzeca, Igor Spanò, Marco Papasidero, Andrea Ravasco, Sara Abram and Fabio Tutrone took part in the conference “L’utopia come ... Read more

At the Campus of the University of Palermo, the initiative “Dal papiro all’algoritmo. Lingue antiche e Intelligenza Artificiale: il futuro nasce dal passato”, took place over two days, involving high ... Read more

At the Department of Culture and Society of the University of Palermo, the seminar “Interpretare l’Intelligenza: ermeneutica medievale e intelligenze artificiali” was held, organised within the framework of the ITSERR ... Read more

From 9 to 11 March 2026, the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia will host the international seminar “Exploring the Frontier of Science with AI and the Role of Humanities”, ... Read more

ITSERR took part as one of the key actors in the national workshop “Research Infrastructures for Innovation”, promoted by the National Research Council of Italy (CNR) and dedicated to the ... Read more

On Monday, 11 May 2026, Bologna will host “Religion at the Greenhouse. Exploring the Dynamics and Growth of RESILIENCE”, the event marking the conclusion of the preparatory phase of RESILIENCE, ... Read more

ITSERR researcher Ilaria Sabbatini (University of Palermo) took part in the 8th National Conference of Public History of the AIPH, “Shaking History. Public History and Reconstruction – Heritage on the Move: ... Read more