Andrea Prati

Andrea Prati

Team Leader - Full Professor

Andrea Prati graduated in Computer Engineering from the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia in 1998.
He got his PhD in 2002 from the same university.
He served as Assistant Professor from 2005 to 2011, and Associate Professor at the UniversityIUAV of Venice since 2015.
In December 2015 he moved to the University of Parma and got promoted to full professorship in 2019.
He is the head of IMPLab research group and his research interests are related to computer vision and image processing, deep learning and generative models.
He is the author of 9 book chapters, 40+ papers in international referred journals and 100+ papers in proceedings of international conferences and workshops.
To date, his h-index on Google Scholar is 41, with a total of 8773 citations.
On Scopus, his h-index is 27, with a total of 4580 citations.
Andrea Prati is Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IAPR, and a member of CVPL.

Publications

Andrea Prati's publications
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TECMO: Efficient Temporal Cross-Interaction Module for Long Synchronized Audio-Video Generation A. Ergasti, G. Tarollo, F. Botti, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA Accepted [IRIS]
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HTR-MB: Combining Mamba and BiLSTM for Handwritten Text Recognition F. Botti∗, V. Bernuzzi, T. Fontanini, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati PATTERN RECOGNITION 2027 [IRIS]
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Divide and Align: Disentangled Vision-Language Learning for Text-Based Person Anomaly Search A. Ergasti, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2026 [IRIS]
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Revisiting Text-Guided Style Transfer Through Mamba: A Fast and Memory-Efficient Architecture F. Botti, T. Calzetti, A. Ergasti, T. Fontanini, and A. Prati IEEE ACCESS 2026 [IRIS]
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Machine learning-assisted development of a fast Mechanochemical Johnson–Corey–Chaykovsky reaction F. Mele, A. Constantin, M. Barezzi, L. Rossi, A. Ergasti, T. Fontanini, S. Civardi, R. Sundermann, P. Mazzeo, R. Maggi, N. Della Ca', A. Prati, and L. Capaldo NATURE COMMUNICATIONS 2026 [IRIS]
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SISMA: Semantic Face Image Synthesis with Mamba F. Botti, A. Ergasti, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2026 [IRIS]
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Mcgm-styler: free-form styler for mask conditional text-to-image generative model R. Skaik, L. Rossi, T. Fontanini, and A. Prati THE VISUAL COMPUTER 2026 [IRIS]
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Mamba-ST: State Space Model for Efficient Style Transfer F. Botti, A. Ergasti, L. Rossi, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati Proceeding of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025 [IRIS]
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U-Shape Mamba: State Space Model for Faster Diffusion A. Ergasti, F. Botti, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati IEEE COMPUTER SOCIETY CONFERENCE ON COMPUTER VISION AND PATTERN RECOGNITION WORKSHOPS 2025 [IRIS]
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Controllable Face Synthesis with Semantic Latent Diffusion Models A. Ergasti, C. Ferrari, T. Fontanini, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2025 [IRIS]
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Mars: Paying More Attention to Visual Attributes for Text-based Person Search A. Ergasti, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS 2025 [IRIS]
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Swin2-MoSE: A new single image supersolution model for remote sensing L. Rossi, V. Bernuzzi, T. Fontanini, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati IET IMAGE PROCESSING 2025 [IRIS]
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Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-adaptive Cross-attention T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, G. Lisanti, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati IEEE ACCESS 2025 [IRIS]
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MEMORY-AUGMENTED ONLINE VIDEO ANOMALY DETECTION L. Rossi, V. Bernuzzi, T. Fontanini, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati PROCEEDINGS OF THE ... IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ACOUSTICS, SPEECH, AND SIGNAL PROCESSING 2024 [IRIS]
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Masked Style Transfer for Source-Coherent Image-to-Image Translation F. Botti, T. Fontanini, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati APPLIED SCIENCES 2024 [IRIS]
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Adversarial Identity Injection for Semantic Face Image Synthesis G. Tarollo, T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, G. Borghi, and A. Prati 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops 2024 [IRIS]
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Unsupervised Discovery and Manipulation of Continuous Disentangled Factors of Variation T. Fontanini, L. Donati, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati ACM TRANSACTIONS ON MULTIMEDIA COMPUTING, COMMUNICATIONS AND APPLICATIONS 2023 [IRIS]
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FrankenMask: Manipulating semantic masks with transformers for face parts editing T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, G. Lisanti, L. Galteri, S. Berretti, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS 2023 [IRIS]
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Smart System to Recapitulate Student Attendance on Virtual Meeting Platforms During Covid-19 C. Rahmad, A. Rachmad Syulistyo, D. R. H. Putra, A. Prati, T. Fontanini, and R. Ariyanto INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTERACTIVE MOBILE TECHNOLOGIES 2023 [IRIS]
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Automatic Generation of Semantic Parts for Face Image Synthesis T. Fontanini, C. Ferrari, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 2023 [IRIS]
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Improving Localization for Semi-Supervised Object Detection L. Rossi, A. Karimi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2022 [IRIS]
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Self-Balanced R-CNN for instance segmentation L. Rossi, A. Karimi, and A. Prati JOURNAL OF VISUAL COMMUNICATION AND IMAGE REPRESENTATION 2022 [IRIS]
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Aspect-Based Emotion Analysis and Multimodal Coreference: A Case Study of Customer Comments on Adidas Instagram Posts L. De Bruyne, A. Karimi, O. De Clercq, A. Prati, and V. Hoste Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2022 [IRIS]
Avoiding Shortcuts in Unpaired Image-to-Image Translation T. Fontanini, F. Botti, M. Bertozzi, and A. Prati LECTURE NOTES IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 2022 [IRIS]
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Face Synthesis with a Focus on Facial Attributes Translation using Attention Mechanisms R. Li, T. Fontanini, A. Prati, and B. Bhanu IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON BIOMETRICS, BEHAVIOR, AND IDENTITY SCIENCE 2022 [IRIS]
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