Loris Bazzani

AI Research Leader

Hi, I'm Loris, an AI Research Leader with 15+ years of experience in AI between academia and big tech. My research focus is in adaptive and collaborative multimodal learning and generation.

10 yrs
at Amazon
8+
Products Launched
$100M+
Business Impact
50+
Publications
6700+
Citations
28
H-index
New: I am searching for a new home to join, where I can lead high-stakes innovation and drive the next generation of AI for industry.
Specialization of large multimodal and diffusion-based models
Controllable multimodal generation and editing for data synthesis
Interaction-native modeling and learning
Clear impact on real-world industrial applications
2026-now

Independent Researcher & Innovation Leader

Driving independent research and developing early-stage prototypes on adaptive and collaborative multimodal intelligence, focusing on the intersection of LMMs and interactive systems.
2025-now

Adjunct Professor @ University of Verona

Teaching Data Visualization as part of the Master’s degree in Data Science.
2016-2025

Principal Scientist @ Amazon

Led high-impact core research and launched 8+ products across Prime Video, Alexa, and mobile/.com shopping generating $100M+ in business impact, related to movies and TV series autotagging, image accessibility, live sports highlights, virtual try-on, interactive product recommendations, and shopping assistants, used by millions of users worldwide. I led scientist and developed novel models and architectures for video understanding, vision-language representation, Large Multimodal Models, and diffusion models.
2014-2015

Postdoc @ Dartmouth College

Research on video understanding, saliency in videos and object localization and detection. Collaborating with Prof. Lorenzo Torresani and Prof. Hugo Larochelle.
2011-2013

Postdoc @ Italian Institute of Technology

Research on video understanding, object recognition, Bayesian networks and Kernel-based methods. Collaborating with Prof. Vittorio Murino.
2009-2012

PhD in Computer Vision and Machine Learning @ University of Verona

Research on person re-identification, video understanding, tracking and attentional models. Supervised by Prof. Vittorio Murino and Prof. Marco Cristani.
2010

Visiting Student @ University of British Columbia

Collaborating with Prof. Nando de Freitas and Prof. Hugo Larochelle..

📢 News

  • Mar 2, 2026: Invited guest lecture on Multimodal Intelligence at University of Utah. Thanks Ziad!
  • Feb 21, 2026: 1/2 papers accepted at CVPR 2026!
  • Dec 5, 2025: Invited speaker at the University of Trento and FBK. Thanks Yiming!
  • Nov 28, 2025: Invited speaker at the Turin AI Fall School 2025. Thanks Tatiana!
  • Oct 27, 2025: Invited speaker at the IIT. Thanks Vittorio!
  • Oct 01, 2025: After nearly 10 intense and rewarding years at Amazon, I’ve decided it’s time to move on. More details here.
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📝 Research, Publications and Patents [Google Scholar]

Interactive Episodic Memory with User Feedback

N. Subedi, L. Bazzani, Z. Al-Halah.
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2026
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Multi-Level Conditioning by Pairing Localized Text and Sketch for Fashion Image Generation

Z. Liu, D. Talon, F. Girella, Z. Ruan, M. Mondo, L. Bazzani, Y. Wang, M. Cristani.
Arxiv, 2026

Med-MMFL: A Multimodal Federated Learning Benchmark in Healthcare

A. Chhetri, B. Niroula, P. Shrestha, Y. R. Shrestha, L. A. Anderson, P. K. Gyawali, L. Bazzani, B. Bhattarai.
Arxiv, 2026

Learning Visual Hierarchies in Hyperbolic Space for Image Retrieval

Z. Wang, S. Ramasinghe, C. Xu, J. Monteil, L. Bazzani, T. Ajanthan
In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2025
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LatteCLIP: Unsupervised CLIP Fine-Tuning via LMM-Synthetic Texts

A. Cao, M. Jaritz, M. Guillaumin, R. de Charette, L. Bazzani
In IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025

UniCoRN: Unified Commented Retrieval Network with LMMs

M. Jaritz, M. Guillaumin, S. Sternig, L. Bazzani
Arxiv, 2025
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ViewFusion: Towards Multi-View Consistency via Interpolated Denoising

X. Yang, Y. Zuo, S. Ramasinghe, L. Bazzani, G. Avraham, A. van den Hengel
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024

iEdit: Localised Text-guided Image Editing with Weak Supervision

R. Bodur, E. Gundogdu, B. Bhattarai, T-K Kim, M. Donoser, L. Bazzani
In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2024
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[Patent] Interactive Retrieval Using Visual Semantic Matching

US-11720942, 2023
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[Patent] Localized Visual Similarity

US-11809520, 2023
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[Patent] Attribute-based Interactive Product Recommendations

US-11829445, 2023
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[Patent] Visual Blending of Content

US 11416910, 2022
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[Patent] Machine Learning System to Score Alt-text in Image Data

US-11361212, 2022
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Contrastive Language-Action Pre-training for Temporal Localization

M. Xu, E. Gundogdu, M. Lapin, B. Ghanem, M. Donoser, L. Bazzani
Arxiv, 2022
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Learning Attribute-driven Disentangled Representations for Interactive Fashion Retrieval

Y. Hou, E. Vig, M. Donoser, L. Bazzani
In International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021

Revamping Cross-Modal Recipe Retrieval with Hierarchical Transformers and Self-supervised Learning

A. Salvador, E. Gundogdu, L. Bazzani, M. Donoser
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2021

Localized Triplet Loss for Fine-Grained Fashion Image Retrieval

A. D’Innocente, N. Garg, Y. Zhang, L. Bazzani, M. Donoser
In Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, 2021
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Learning Joint Visual Semantic Matching Embeddings for Language-guided Retrieval

Y. Chen, L. Bazzani
In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2020
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Image Search with Text Feedback by Visiolinguistic Attention Learning

Y. Chen, S. Gong, L. Bazzani
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2020

[Patent] Automated Video Ratings

US-10643074, 2020
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Image Captioning as Neural Machine Translation Task in SOCKEYE

L. Bazzani, T. Domhan, F. Hieber
Arxiv, 2018

Recurrent Mixture Density Network for Spatiotemporal Visual Attention

L. Bazzani, H. Larochelle, L. Torresani
International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2017

Group Detection and Tracking using Sociological Features

S. Vascon, and L. Bazzani
Group and Crowd Behavior for Computer Vision, 2017
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Image and Video Understanding in Big Data

V. Murino, S. Gong, C. C. Loy and L. Bazzani
Special Issue in CVIU, 2017.
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Approximate Log-Hilbert-Schmidt Distances Between Covariance Operators for Image Classification

H. Q. Minh, M. San Biagio, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2016
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Self-taught Object Localization with Deep Networks

L. Bazzani, A. Bergamo, D. Anguelov, L. Torresani
In IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2016

A Unifying Framework in Vector-valued Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for Manifold Regularization and Co-Regularized Multi-view Learning

H. Q. Minh, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 2016

Kernel Methods on Approximate Infinite-Dimensional Covariance Operators for Image Classification

H. Q. Minh, M. San Biagio, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
Arxiv, 2016
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Joint Individual-Group Modeling for Tracking

L. Bazzani*, M. Zanotto*, M. Cristani, V. Murino
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (PAMI), 2015

SDALF: Modeling Human Appearance with Symmetry-driven Accumulation of Local Features

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
Person Re-identification, 2014

Weighted Bag of Visual Words for Object Recognition

L. Bazzani*, M. San Biagio*, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2014
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A Unifying Framework for Vector-valued Manifold Regularization and Multi-view Learning

H. Q. Minh, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2013

Semi-Supervised Multi-Feature Learning for Person Re-Identification

D. Figueira, L. Bazzani, H.Q. Minh, M. Cristani, A. Bernardino, V. Murino
In International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal-based Surveillance (AVSS), 2013
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Person Re-Identification with a PTZ Camera: An Introductory Study

P. Salvagnini, L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2013
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Symmetry-Driven Accumulation of Local Features for Human Characterization and Re-Identification

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2013

Social Interactions by Visual Focus of Attention in a Three-Dimensional Environment

L. Bazzani, D. Tosato, M. Cristani, M. Farenzena, G. Pagetti, G. Menegaz, and V. Murino
Expert Systems 2013

Decentralized Particle Filter for Joint Individual-Group Tracking

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2012

Learning Where to Attend with Deep Architectures for Image Tracking

M. Denil, L. Bazzani, H. Larochelle, and N. de Freitas
Neural Computation, 2012

Re-Identification with RGB-D Sensors

B. I. Barbosa, M. Cristani, A. Del Bue, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
In 1st International Workshop on Re-Identification, 2012

Online Bayesian Non-Parametrics for Social Group Detection

M. Zanotto, L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2012
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Analyzing Groups: A Social Signaling Perspective

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, G. Paggetti, D. Tosato, G. Menegaz, and V. Murino
Video Analytics for Business Intelligence, 2012

Multiple-Shot Person Re-Identification by Chromatic and Epitomic Analyses

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, A. Perina, and V. Murino
Pattern Recognition Letters (PRL), 2012
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Learning Attentional Policies for Object Tracking and Recognition in Video with Deep Networks

L. Bazzani, N. de Freitas, H. Larochelle, V. Murino, J-A Ting
The 30th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2011

Custom Pictorial Structures for Re-Identification

D. S. Cheng, M. Cristani, M. Stoppa, L. Bazzani, V. Murino
In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011

Social Interaction Discovery by Statistical Analysis of F-Formations

M. Cristani, L. Bazzani, G. Pagetti, A. Fossati, D. Tosato, A. Del Bue, G. Menegaz, V. Murino
In British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2011

Towards Computational Proxemics: Inferring Social Relations from Interpersonal Distances

M. Cristani, G. Pagetti, A. Vinciarelli, L. Bazzani, G. Menegaz, V. Murino
In International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom), 2011
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Multiple-Shot Person Re-Identification by HPE Signature

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, A. Perina, M. Farenzena, V. Murino
In International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2010
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Person Re-Identification by Symmetry-Driven Accumulation of Local Features

M. Farenzena, L. Bazzani, A. Perina, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2010

Collaborative Particle Filters for Group Tracking

L. Bazzani, M. Cristani, V. Murino
In International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2010
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🦄 Personal Projects

Music Album: Accepted Insanity

As long-time keyboardist, I am currently composing and producing original synthwave music. This album explores the insanity that sorrounds us but we are somehow programmed to accept.

Personal Hybrid Training Planner

As a runner and passionate about strength training, I created a personalized planner that leverages AI to build highly personalized, multi-week training plans tailored to your specific requirements.