PhD Researcher · AI & Computer Vision

Federico
Bartsch

MHUG Group, University of Trento.

About

I am a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Trento, supervised by Elisa Ricci and Massimiliano Mancini in the Multimedia and Human Understanding Group (MHUG).

Research

CVPR 2026 · Findings

SEM: Sparse Embedding Modulation for Post-Hoc Debiasing

Quentin Guimard*, Federico Bartsch*, Simone Caldarella, Rahaf Aljundi, Elisa Ricci, Massimiliano Mancini  ·  *Equal contribution

A zero-shot framework using Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) to decompose CLIP text embeddings into interpretable, disentangled features. A modulation mechanism isolates and neutralizes bias-relevant neurons while preserving query-relevant semantic fidelity in the latent space.

arXiv →

Experience

09/2024 – 03/2025
Brussels, Belgium

Toyota Motor Europe

Computer Vision Researcher Intern · Supervisor: Wim Abbeloos

  • Researched high-resolution image utilization for semantic segmentation and object detection.
  • Developed Early Exit methods for segmentation, reducing inference time by 40% with under 1% accuracy loss.
10/2022 – 04/2023
Rome, Italy

Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Software Engineer Intern (Machine Learning)

  • Built an anomaly detection system for multivariate time series data from 5G antennas.

Education

2025 – current

PhD in Artificial Intelligence

University of Trento · MHUG Group

2023 – 2025

MSc in Artificial Intelligence Systems

University of Trento

2019 – 2023

BSc in Computer Science

University of Milan Bicocca

Contact & Links

✉ Email ◎ Google Scholar ⌥ GitHub ⊕ LinkedIn ⊗ MHUG Group