Yiming Wang

I obtained the PhD in Electronic Engineering in 2018 from Queen Mary University of London (UK) under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Cavallaro, working on vision-based multi-agent navigation. Since 2018, I worked as a post-doc researcher in the Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision/Visual Geometry Modelling (PAVIS/VGM) research line led by Dr. Alessio Del Bue at Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), working on topics related to active 3D vision through both research and industrial Projects. Currently I work as a researcher in the Deep Visual Learning (DVL) unit led by Prof. Elisa Ricci in Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) under a series of EU Projects. My main expertise revolves around multimodal perception and efficient model adaption. My recent research focuses on human-centric multimodal perception and reasoning, concerning model personalization, content generation, and embodied AI.

I have published more than 50 scientific papers on prestigious venues. I serve as Area Chair for ICRA’24/25, CVPR’25/26, ECCV’24/26 and BMVC’25. I am Associated Editor in International Journal of Social Robotics. I co-organised the workshop on Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics (IROS’22), the workshop on Green Foundation Models (ECCV’24) and the workshop on Human-aware Embodied AI (IROS’25).

 

Robotic vision

3D scene understanding

Human behavior analysis

1. Aghaei, Maya; Bustreo, Matteo; Wang, Yiming; Bailo, Gianluca; Morerio, Pietro; Del Bue, Alessio,
   Single image human proxemics estimation for visual social distancing,
   Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV),
   2021
   , pp. 2785-
   2795
2. Wang, Yiming; Giuliari, Francesco; Berra, Riccardo; Castellini, Alberto; Bue, Del Alessio; Farinelli, Alessandro; Cristani, Marco; Setti, Francesco,
   POMP: Pomcp-based Online Motion Planning for active visual search in indoor environments,
   Proceedings of the British Machine Vision Conference,
   2020
3. Wang, Yiming; Del Bue, Alessio,
   Where to Explore Next? ExHistCNN for History-Aware Autonomous 3D Exploration,
   Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV),
   vol. 12374,
   2020
   , pp. 125-
   140
4. Wang, Yiming; Carletti, Marco; Setti, Francesco; Cristani, Marco; Del Bue, Alessio,
   Active 3D Classification of Multiple Objects in Cluttered Scenes,
   Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) Workshops,
   2019
5. Wang, Yiming; James, Stuart; Stathopoulou, Elisavet Konstantina; Beltran-Gonzalez, Carlos; Konishi, Yoshinori; Del Bue, Alessio,
   Autonomous 3D Reconstruction, Mapping, and Exploration of Indoor Environments With a Robotic Arm,
   in «IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS»,
   vol. 4,
   n. 4,
   2019
   , pp. 3340-
   3347
6. Wang, Yiming; Cavallaro, Andrea,
   Concurrent Target Following with Active Directional Sensors,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP),
   2018
   , pp. 6603-
   6607
7. Wang, Yiming; Cavallaro, Andrea,
   Active visual tracking in multi-agent scenarios,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),
   2017
   , pp. 1-
   6
8. Wang, Yiming; Cavallaro, Andrea,
   Prioritized target tracking with active collaborative cameras,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),
   2016
   , pp. 131-
   137
9. Wang, Yiming; Cavallaro, Andrea,
   Coalition formation for distributed tracking in wireless camera networks,
   Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS),
   2015
   , pp. 1-
   6