Hi there 👋 - I'm Luca Parolari, a PhD student at the University of Padova as part of the Visual Intelligence and Machine Perception (VIMP) group. I primarily work with generative AI for dataset generation in the field of visual grounding. I'm currently learning and working with object tracking and re-identification of polyps in colonoscopy videos. I have a deep fascination with blockchain technology and astronomy.

• 18/06/2024: we presented our poster at the CVPR 2024 Synthetic Data for Computer Vision workshop! 🎉 [linkedin post]

• L. Parolari, E. Izzo, L. Ballan. Harlequin: Annotation-driven Generation of Synthetic Data for Referring Expression Comprehension. Pre-print, under review at ICPR. 2024. [short paper at SD4CV@CVPR'24]
• D. Rigoni, L. Parolari, L. Serafini, A. Sperduti, L. Ballan. Weakly-Supervised Visual-Textual Grounding with Semantic Prior Refinement. In 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). 2023. [paper] [code]

• PhD Student · University of Padova · Padova, Italy · 11/2023–current
• Research Fellow · University of Padova · Padova, Italy · 12/2022–10/2023
• AI Software Engineer · Orobix · Bergamo, Italy · 01/2022–11/2022
• CS Teacher · "Camillo Golgi" High School · Breno (BS), Italy · 11/2019–06/2021
• Software Engineer · freelance · 2016-2019

• Ph.D. in Brain, Mind and Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy · 2019-current
• M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Padova, Italy · 2019-2021
• B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Parma, Italy · 2016-2019