Nicola Dall'Asen

Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence @ University of Trento and University of Pisa.

Hello there! I am Nicola Dall’Asen and I am a PhD student in the Italian National Artificial Intelligence program, supervised by Elisa Ricci and Yiming Wang.

My research interest lies in generative models (in particular Diffusion Models and Flow Matching), applied in (almost) every task. It has been the natural continuation of my work during the internship in Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in the Deep Visual Learning Lab. The resulting model became my first publication, “Graph-based Generative Face Anonymisation with Pose Preservation”, which you can check out here!

I spent my period abroad at FAIR in Montreal, where I worked with Michal Drozdzal and Adriana Romero Soriano on Diffusion and Flow Matching models for image generation.

Beside research, I enjoy reading books and comics, racing on karts, and playing video games.

Contact me through the socials below or at nicola [dot] dallasen [at] gmail [dot] com


news

Jun 22, 2025 DISEF has been accepted to ICIAP 2025 after being told that image classification is not a task anymore! Thanks to the wonderful team ✨ See you in Rome in September!
Sep 20, 2024 CoRE has been accepted to EMNLP 2024! Thanks to the wonderful team ✨ See you in Miami!
Sep 16, 2024 I have joined the Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) team at Meta in Montreal as a research scientist intern! 🍁
Jul 16, 2024 AL-GTD has been accepted to ACM Multimedia 2024! Kudos to the dream team ✨ More details to come!
Jun 15, 2024 One submission at EMNLP 2024! 🤞

latest posts

selected publications

  1. EMNLP
    Retrieval-enriched zero-shot image classification in low-resource domains
    Nicola Dall’Asen, Yiming Wang , Enrico Fini , and Elisa Ricci
    In Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) , 2024
  2. ICCV
    Object-aware Gaze Target Detection
    Francesco Tonini , Nicola Dall’Asen, Cigdem Beyan , and Elisa Ricci
    In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) , 2023
  3. ICIAP
    Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Models Conditioned on Compact Motion Representations
    *Anil Osman Tur , *Nicola Dall’Asen, Cigdem Beyan , and Elisa Ricci
    In 22nd International Conference on Image analysis and Processing (ICIAP) , 2023
  4. ICIAP
    Graph-based Generative Face Anonymisation with Pose Preservation
    Nicola Dall’Asen,  Yiming Wang ,  Hao Tang ,  Luca Zanella , and  Elisa Ricci
    In 21st International Conference on Image analysis and Processing (ICIAP) , 2022