Francesco Taioli

PhD student in Artificial Intelligence Member of IntelliGO Labs francesco.taioli@polito.it

I am a PhD candidate in the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence at the Polytechnic of Turin, in collaboration with the University of Verona. I am supervised by Prof. Marco Cristani and Prof. Alessandro Farinelli.

My research interests broadly lie in Deep Learning, with a particular focus on enhancing the autonomy of intelligent agents. Currently, I am exploring Foundation Models (VLMs, LLMs & VLAs) and their applications in Embodied AI, with the goal of advancing navigation, embodied reasoning, and human-robot interaction.

Previously, I spent five months as a Visiting Student Researcher at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver, Canada), where I worked in the GrUVi Lab under the supervision of Prof. Angel Xuan Chang in the GrUVi Lab!

News

• 2025-06

  🎉 Paper accepted at ICCV 25 🎉

  What do human-agent bidirectional interaction, navigation, vision-language models, and hallucinations have in common? Read our new ICCV paper at https://intelligolabs.github.io/CoIN/
• 2025-05

  Outstanding reviewer at CVPR 25!

  I've been recognized as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR25: all outstanding reviewers
• 2025-05

  🤖 IROS Workshop Accepted!

  I co-organized the Human-aware Embodied AI workshop, which has been accepted at IROS 2025. Workshop homepage: https://heai-iros25-workshop.github.io/
• 2024-06

  IROS 2024!

  Mind the Error! Detection and Localization of Instruction Errors in Vision-and-Language Navigation was accepted at IROS 2024, with an oral presentation!
• 2024-06

  CVPR 2024!

  We had a paper accepted at the 5th Annual Embodied AI Workshop @ CVPR 2024. Moreover, we won the MultiON Challenge @ CVPR 2024!
• 2024-06

  Invited Talk!

  I was invited to speak on "What's next in Embodied AI" by the AIML group at Verona. Take a look at the slides!
• 2023-07

  ICVSS 2023!

  I attended the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS).

• Aug 29, 2024 - TPAMI

  Unsupervised Active Visual Search with Monte Carlo planning under Uncertain Detections

  Francesco Taioli, et al.
• Jun 1, 2024 - RO-MAN 24

  I2EDL: Interactive Instruction Error Detection and Localization

  Francesco Taioli, et al.
• Mar 1, 2024 - ORAL - IROS 24

  Mind the Error! Detection and Localization of Instruction Errors in Vision-and-Language Navigation

  Francesco Taioli, et al.
• Aug 11, 2023 - ICCV - Vision And Language Algorithmic Reasoning Workshop

  Language-enhanced RNR-Map: Querying Renderable Neural Radiance Field maps with natural language

  Francesco Taioli, et al.
• Jul 1, 2023 - ICIAP

  SCENE-pathy: Capturing the Visual Selective Attention of People Towards Scene Elements

• Apr 27, 2023 - NESY

  Designing Logic Tensor Networks for Visual Sudoku puzzle classification