Marcello PELILLO

Position
Full Professor
Telephone
041 234 8440
E-mail
pelillo@unive.it
Academic discipline
Informatics [INFO-01/A]
Website
https://www.unive.it/web/en/19197/people/pelillo(personal record)
Office
Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics
Website: https://www.unive.it/dep.dais
Where: Campus scientifico via Torino
Room: office 513 (Alfa building, 5th floor)
Office
European Center for Living Technology (ECLT)
Research Institute
Research Institute for Complexity

Office hours

Teaching activity current year

Teaching activity previous years

Activities and research skills

Academic discipline
Informatica [INFO-01/A]
Settore Scientifico Disciplinare (SSD) affine
SISTEMI DI ELABORAZIONE DELLE INFORMAZIONI [ING-INF/05]
Geographic areas in which the research experience mainly applies
Internazionale: America Settentrionale,Europa, Oceania
Known languages
Italiano (scritto: madrelingua parlato: madrelingua)
Inglese (scritto: avanzato parlato: avanzato)
Participation in editorial boards of scientific journals/book series
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence - Member of Editorial Board;
Pattern Recognition - Member of Editorial Board
Main departmental research areas and fields
Area: Beni culturali Linea: Conservazione e restauro di beni mobili
Area: Informatica Linea: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Area: Informatica Linea: INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Area: Informatica
L’attività di ricerca riguarda lo sviluppo di sistemi di apprendimento automatico, di elaborazione delle immagini e di “visione artificiale”.
Keywords:
Computer technology, Image processing, Knowledge technology
Game-theoretic models in machine learning
SSD:
INF/01
Other members of the research group:
Andrea TORSELLO
Similarity-based pattern analysis and recognition
SSD:
INF/01
Structural methods in computer vision and pattern recognition
SSD:
INF/01
AI4EU: A European AI On Demand Platform and Ecosystem
Funding body:
Commissione Europea
Type:
H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://www.ai4eu.eu
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
Artificial Intelligence Assisted Performance and Anomaly Detection and Diagnostic
Funding body:
European Space Agency
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
SB
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 18
ELISE: European Learning and Intelligent Systems Excellence
Funding body:
Commissione Europea
Type:
H2020 - Industrial Leadership - LEIT
Role in the project:
SB
Starting date:
Year: 2020 Length in months: 36
EasyWalk: Intelligent Social Walker for Active Living
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Sito di progetto:
https://sites.google.com/view/easywalk-project/
Starting date:
Year: 2023 Length in months: 24
Other members of the research group:
Muhammad Rameez Ur RAHMAN
Sebastiano VASCON
Hume-Nash Machines: Context-Aware Models of Learning and Recognition
Funding body:
Samsung
Type:
Altri finanziamenti per progetti di ricerca
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2015 Length in months: 24
MEMEX: MEMories and EXperiences for inclusive digital storytelling
Funding body:
Commissione Europea
Type:
H2020 - Societal Challenges
Role in the project:
SB
Sito di progetto:
https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/870743
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
Other members of the research group:
Claudio SILVESTRI
Sebastiano VASCON
REXlearn: Reliable and Explainable Adversarial Machine Learning
Funding body:
MIUR
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
PT
Starting date:
Year: 2019 Length in months: 36
RePAIR: Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage
Funding body:
Horizon 2020
Type:
H2020 - Excellence Science - FET
Role in the project:
LD
Sito di progetto:
https://www.repairproject.eu/
Starting date:
Year: 2021 Length in months: 42
Other members of the research group:
Sinem ASLAN
Sebastiano VASCON
Realizzare un sistema di acquisizione di immagini 3D di occhiali
Funding body:
Evolvenda S.r.l.
Type:
Conto terzi - Prestazioni di ricerca
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2008 Length in months: 6
SIMBAD -- Beyond Features: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition
Funding body:
UE
Type:
VII Programma Quadro - Cooperation
Role in the project:
LD
Starting date:
Year: 2007 Length in months: 36
Similarità, matching e clustering di strutture relazionali: una prospettiva unificante
Funding body:
Cofinanziamento MiUR - Ateneo
Type:
PRIN
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2006 Length in months: 24
Studio e selezione degli approcci scientifici più opportuni per realizzare un sistema di acquisizione di immagini 3D di occhiali e una successiva ricerca ed ordinazione per similarità di forma dei loro componenti.
Funding body:
EVOLVENDA Srl
Type:
Conto terzi - Prestazioni di ricerca
Role in the project:
NS
Starting date:
Year: 2009 Length in months: 6

Publication highlights

Ali, Waqar; Vascon, Sebastiano; Stadelmann, Thilo; Pelillo, Marcello Multi-view graph pooling via dominant sets for graph classification in PATTERN RECOGNITION, vol. 172 (ISSN 0031-3203)
DOI 2026, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5118447


Ali, Waqar; Vascon, Sebastiano; Stadelmann, Thilo; Pelillo, Marcello Topology-Aware Node Dropping Augmentation for Graph Classification , 2026 6th International Conference on Neural Networks, Information and Communication Engineering, NNICE 2026, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 589-594, Convegno: 6th International Conference on Neural Networks, Information and Communication Engineering, NNICE 2026, 2026
DOI 2026, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5120009


Bison, Gianluca; Palmieri, Luca; Aslan, Sinem; Vascon, Sebastiano; Pelillo, Marcello Automatizing 3D reconstruction pipelines for speeding-up cultural heritage digitization in MULTIMEDIA TOOLS AND APPLICATIONS, vol. 84, pp. 39577-39597 (ISSN 1573-7721)
DOI 2025, Journal Article - ARCA card: 10278/5112727


Begga, Ahmed; Beretta, Guglielmo; Vascon, Sebastiano; Escolano, Francisco; Lozano, Miguel Angel; Pelillo, Marcello Entropy-Guided Graph Clustering via Rényi Optimization , Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition, Springer Nature, pp. 189-199, Convegno: International Workshop on Graph-Based Representations in Pattern Recognition (ISBN 9783031941382; 9783031941399) (ISSN 0302-9743)
DOI 2025, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5097769


Alagrami A.; Palmieri L.; Aslan S.; Pelillo M.; Vascon S. Reassembling Broken Objects Using Breaking Curves , Lecture Notes in Computer Science - ICPR'24 Conference Proceedings, Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH, vol. 15318, pp. 197-208, Convegno: 27th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2024, 2024 (ISBN 9783031784552; 9783031784569) (ISSN 0302-9743)
DOI 2025, Article in Conference Proceedings - ARCA card: 10278/5105927


List of publications

Curriculum vitae

Marcello Pelillo is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Ca’ Foscari University, Venice, where he leads the Computer Vision and Machine Learning Lab which he established in 1995. He has been the Director of the European Centre for Living Technology (ECLT) and has held visiting research/teaching positions at Yale University (USA), McGill University (Canada), University College London (UK), University of Vienna (Austria), York University (UK), NICTA (Australia), Wuhan University (China), Huazhong University of Science and Technology (Wuhan, China), South China University of Technology (Guangzhou, China). He is an external affiliate of the Computer Science Department at Drexel University (USA) and of the Italian Institute of Technology. His research interests are in the areas of computer vision, machine learning and pattern recognition where he has published more than 300 technical papers in refereed journals, handbooks, and conference proceedings. 

He has been General Chair for ICCV 2017, the reference conference for the computer vision area, held in Venice, Italy, in October 2017, and Program Chair for ICPR 2020, the historical IAPR conference on pattern recognition. He has also been Track Chair for ICPR 2018, Area Chair for ICCV, ECCV, IJCAI, ICPR, BMVC, Publicity Chair for ECCV 2012, and has served as Program Chair for several conferences, including workshops at NIPS (1999, 2011) and ICML (2010), many of which he initiated (e.g., EMMCVPR, SIMBAD, IWCV). He is the Chief Editor of Frontiers in Computer Science – Computer Vision, and serves or has served on the Editorial Boards of several journals, including IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), Pattern Recognition, IET Computer Vision, Frontiers in Computer Image Analysis, Brain Informatics, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (Guest Editor), Pattern Recognition Letters (Guest Editor), and serves on the Advisory Board of Springer’s International Journal of Machine Learning and Cybernetics. He is regularly invited as a Keynote Speaker in international conferences and summer schools and has been a Tutorial Lecturer in the top-notch conferences of his area (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICPR, ACL, ECML).

Prof. Pelillo is Fellow of the IEEE,  the IAPR, and the AAIA, and is an IEEE SMC Distinguished Lecturer. His Erdös number is 2.