Yiming Wang
Yiming Wang is a Researcher in the Deep Visual Learning unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler in Trento, Italy, and an affiliated researcher at the Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision Lab at IIT. She received her PhD in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London under the supervision of Prof. Andrea Cavallaro and Prof. Yi-Zhe Song. At FBK, she focuses on the intersection of computer vision and robotics, addressing topics such as multimodal perception, active vision, and embodied tasks. More recently, she has advanced training-free methods and efficient adaptation of Vision-Language Models to address perception challenges in robotic automation and smart cities. She is contributing to several EU projects and she is Principal Investigator of projects including SketchReal and LoCa AI. She serves as an Area Chair for top-tier conferences in computer vision and robotics, including CVPR, ECCV, BMVC and ICRA, as well as Associate Editor for International Journal of Social Robotics. She is an ELLIS member.
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October 1, 2025Will robots be the smartphones of the future?On Sunday, October 5 at 12:30 at Palazzo del Bene in Rovereto, FBK researcher Yiming Wang will take part in Wired Next Fest with the talk “Amico Robot”, presenting her vision of how humans and robots will coexist in the coming decades. Wang has built her career in computer vision and robotic perception: at Fondazione Bruno Kessler she investigates multimodal models and scene understanding, with applications on assistive robotics. -
September 29, 2025Wired Next Fest 2025 TrentinoFondazione Bruno Kessler will be one of the key participants at WIRED Next Fest Trentino 2025, taking place in Rovereto October 2 through 5. The Foundation's events will explore topics such as green hydrogen and the energy transition, citizen science, digital justice, AI in medicine, complex systems, human-machine interaction, and intelligent robotics. -
April 8, 2022Responsible Artificial IntelligenceImages and privacy of citizens in a Smart City. FBK participates in the MARVEL European project