Cigdem Beyan

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science, University of Verona

@Vision, Images, Patterns and Signals (VIPS) Research Group

Ca'vignal 2, Room 1.87

Affiliated Researcher in AI for GOOD (AIGO) Lab @Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia

cigdem.beyan[at]univr[dot]it

Cigdem Beyan holds the position of Associate Professor (INFO-01/A - Informatics) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Verona, Italy. Her research interests primarily lie in the areas of computer vision, machine learning, social signal processing, affective computing, and human/animal behavior analysis. Cigdem has co-authored more than 60 peer-reviewed scientific articles and regularly publishes in top-tier journals and conferences in computer vision, multimedia, and social/affective computing. She serves as a reviewer for several journals in multimedia, affective computing, computer vision, and machine learning (e.g., IEEE Trans. PAMI, IEEE Trans. Multimedia, IEEE Trans. Affective Computing, Pattern Recognition), and as an Area Chair for major IEEE/ACM/IAPR/BMVA conferences (e.g., CVPR, ECCV, ICML, WACV, ACM MM, BMVC, ACM ICMI, ICLR). She is a member of IEEE, ACM, and ELLIS. Additionally, she has been actively involved in organizing conferences in the fields of computer vision, social robotics, human-computer interaction, and biometrics. Since 2014, she has been recognized as an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy for her achievement against the UK Professional Standards Framework for teaching and learning support in higher education.

News

I'm serving as an Associate Editor at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025).
I will be talking about recent methods and ongoing challenges in gaze target detection at the Expressive Encounters Workshop organized in conjunction with ECCV 2024. Slides are available, enjoy!
Our paper Upper-Body Pose-based Gaze Estimation for Privacy-Preserving 3D Gaze Target Detection has been accepted at ECCV Workshop (T-CAP). Congrats Andrea Toaiari. Stay tuned for the code and paper on Arxiv soon!
Our paper AL-GTD: Deep Active Learning for Gaze Target Detection has been accepted at 32th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACM MM'24). Congrats Francesco Tonini.
Our paper Automatic Recognition of Commensal Activities in Co-located and Online Settings has been accepted at 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI). Congrats the team of COCOA project team!
Paper Exploring Fine-grained Retail Product Discrimination with Zero-shot Object Classification Using Vision-Language Models has been accepted at IEEE 8th Forum on Research and Technologies for Society and Industry Innovation (RTSI). Congrats our industrial Ph.D. student Anil Osman Tur!
Paper Trajectory-based fish event classification through pre-training with diffusion models has been accepted at Ecological Informatics! Congrats Noemi Canovi and all CoastVision team for the hard work!
A new PROJECT: Transfer And Adaptive Learning In Imperfect Multimodal Data Scenarios - Talim funded by MUR - Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca!
Exciting news!!!! We currently have several PhD student positions available at UNIVR's Department of Computer Science, each offering scholarships. Take a look at the details here and don't hesitate to reach out if you're interested! The deadline for applications is May 23 at 12:00 PM!
Also this year, I will be serving as an Area Chair at the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC). Looking forward to have a productive review and discussion period at BMVC 2024!!
Paper Anticipating Next Active Objects for Egocentric Videos has been accepted at IEEE Access! Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
Paper Diffusion-Based Unsupervised Pre-training for Automated Recognition of Vitality Forms has been accepted at AVI 2024! I congratulate my two Master's students: Noemi Canovi and Federico Montagna, for this succes!
Super happy to announce that I joined the University of Verona , Department of Computer Science as an Associate Professor.
Happy to be a Senior Committee Member at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2024)!
Delighted to be a Senior Committee Member at the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024)!
Exciting news! I am serving as a Doctoral Consortium Co-chair at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)!
Thrilled to serve as an Area Chair at the 18th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2024)!
Delighted to be appointed as an Area Chair at the 26th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ACM ICMI 2024)!
I am serving as a Social Media Co-chair at the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (IEEE RO-MAN 2024)!
Paper Co-Located Human-Human Interaction Analysis using Nonverbal Cues: A Survey is accepted at ACM Computing Surveys!
I am serving as an Associate Editor at the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)!
From September 2023, I am with the Department of Management, Information, and Production Engineering (DIGIP) at the University of Bergamo as a Tenure Track Assistant Professor.
I am serving as a Proceedings Co-chair at the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces 2024!
I am serving as a Publicity Co-chair at the 20th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2024)!
Paper accepted at WACV 2024! The paper entitled ‘Leveraging Next-Active Objects for Context-Aware Anticipation in Egocentric Videos’ has been accepted at WACV 2024. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
Paper Unleashing the Transferability Power of Unsupervised Pre-Training for Emotion Recognition in Masked and Unmasked Facial Images is accepted at IEEE Access!
Paper SKELTER: Unsupervised Skeleton Action Denoising and Recognition using Transformers is accepted at Frontiers in Computer Science! Congrats to Giancarlo Paoletti.
Paper accepted at ICCV 2023! The paper entitled ‘Object-aware Gaze Target Detection’ has been accepted at ICCV 2023. Congrats to Francesco Tonini and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIAP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection with Diffusion Models Conditioned on Compact Motion Representations’ has been accepted at ICIAP 2023 as ORAL presentation. Congrats to Anil Osman Tur and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Exploring Diffusion Models for Unsupervised Video Anomaly Detection’ has been accepted at ICIP 2023 as ORAL presentation. Congrats to Anil Osman Tur and Nicola Dall'Asen.
Paper accepted at ICIP 2023! The paper entitled ‘Enhancing Next Active Object-based Egocentric Action Anticipation with Guided Attention’ has been accepted at ICIP 2023. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
We are the 1st place winner of the 2023 Ego4D Challenge in the Forecasting: Short-term hand object prediction track in CVPR 2023. The paper summarizing our methodology can be found in HERE. Congrats to Sanket Kumar Thakur.
I am serving as the Demo and Exhibition Chair at the 18th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (IEEE FG) !
I am serving as an Area Chair at the 34th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) !
We are organizing a Special Issue called Social and Cognitive Interactions in the Open World at International Journal of Social Robotics! Check out the CALL for more information.
A new version (aka simplified) of the website is now ON!

Teaching

Advanced Programming for AI LM in Artificial Intelligence @UNIVR - Fall 2025 [48h]
Machine Learning and Deep Learning LM in Artificial Intelligence @UNIVR - Fall/Spring 2025 [60h]
HCI-Multimodal Systems LM in Artificial Intelligence @UNIVR - Fall 2025 [12h]
Multimodal Learning and Applications PhD in Computer Science @UNIVR - Spring 2024 [20h]
Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence LM in Computer Engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry @UNIVR - Spring 2024 [24h]
INFORMATICA (CDL 23) LT Ingegneria Meccanica @UNIBG - Fall 2023 [10h]
Introduction to Machine learning LM Data Science @UNITN - Spring 2023 [24h]
Introduction to Machine learning LM Data Science @UNITN - Spring 2022 [24h]
Multimodal Machine learning PhD Course @UNITN - Spring 2022 [10h]
Human Behavior Analysis with a Social Signal Processing Perspective Short Course for PhD and early career researchers @AIDA - Spring 2022 [4h]