This is the periodical ITSERR Board meeting

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

Annual Workshop of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint – Vol. II in Preparation The Annual Workshop of the Historical and Theological Lexicon of the Septuagint (HTLS) took ... 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 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

  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

Panel about digital medievistic studies in the annual conference of italian medieval scholars where our colleague Dr. Ilaria SABBATINI (ESFRI - RESILIENCE RI/PNRR ITSERR) will participate. Summary La SISMED organizza ... 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, whose venue ... 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

“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.

Vittorio Cuculo (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), presenting the paper "Trends, Applications, and Challenges in Human Attention Modelling" ... Read more

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

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

Our colleague, Giuseppe Cartella (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia) participated in the 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Digital Humanities (AI4DH), presenting the paper "Pixels of Faith: Exploiting ... 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 "Safe-CLIP: Removing NSFW Concepts from ... 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 (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 Optimization", co-authored ... 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

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 CNR-DSU conference for research infrastructures in the Social, Human, and Cultural Heritage Sciences, Francesca Cadeddu (Fscire) highlighted how RESILIENCE can benefit from the prototyping and testing of ... 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

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

On July 9, 2025, ITSERR – Italian Strengthening of the ESFRI RI RESILIENCE – will take part in the European Academy of Religion annual conference (#EuARe2025) in Vienna with the ... Read more