About us

The research activity in Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision and Machine/Deep Learning at the Italian Institute of Technology originated in 2009 with the foundation of the Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision (PAVIS) research unit, recently followed by another research unit named AI for Good (AIGO). 

PAVIS was established and led by Vittorio Murino, who coordinated the unit from its inception until 2019. The lead of PAVIS was then taken from Alessio Del Bue who coordinated the research group from 2019 to 2025. Since the beginning, PAVIS has been dedicated to developing AI methods and approaches aimed at understanding physical space and human behaviours within it. The PAVIS webpage is still accessible via the AIGO/Research page. 

In 2024, Vittorio Murino get back to IIT to establish and lead a new research team—AI for Good (AIGO)—currently serving as its Principal Investigator. Building upon this extensive experience, AIGO's current mission is to prosecute the expertise consolidated within PAVIS to real-world challenges, with a specific focus on managing imperfect data—information that is often unlabelled, noisy, limited, or biased. Today, AIGO utilizes state-of-the-art multimodal models, with a special attention to visual data, and Foundation Models to interpret complex signals from various modalities, including video, audio, and language. Through the integration of specialized components, the research unit aims at developing efficient and scalable AI solutions for high-impact sectors such as healthcare, assisted living, and industrial applications (e.g., inspection, anomaly detection, etc.).