Joe Fioresi | University of Central Florida

About Me

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student at the University of Central Florida (UCF) studying Computer Vision under Dr. Mubarak Shah. My main focus is in video understanding tasks, with an emphasis on learning useful representations under privacy and fairness constraints. I am currently exploring extending these efforts to video-text multimodal generative models. I recently served as the UCF representative on the student leadership council for the Center for Smart City Streetscapes (CS3) NSF ERC. Feel free to reach out with questions or to discuss research!

Research Interests

Computer Vision: bias mitigation, privacy preservation, large multimodal models, action recognition, anomaly detection

News

[Jan. 2025] ICLR 2025 paper accepted for poster presentation!
[Sept. 2024] Awarded 2nd Place in the Google DeepMind Second Perception Test Challenge Grounded VQA task @ ECCV24!!
[May 2024] Began mentorship of Computer Vision REU undergraduate student.
[Oct. 2023] Presented privacy-preserving anomaly detection paper in Paris @ ICCV 2023.
[Sept. 2023] Won 3rd Place in the 3rd Annual HSI Battle of the Brains competition, individually awarded eBay competition scholarship!
[Jul. 2023] ICCV 2023 paper accepted for poster presentation!
[Mar. 2023] Elected UCF Institution Representative on an NSF ERC student leadership council (CS3).
[Aug. 2022] Began graduate school under Dr. Mubarak Shah, given ORC PhD fellowship.
[Jun. 2021] Solar defect segmentation work invited to publish in JPV (Journal of Photovoltaics) is accepted.
[Mar. 2021] Our work on semantic segmentation of solar panel defects is accepted for oral presentation at PVSC 48, finalist for Best Student Presentation Award.
[May 2020] Accepted to summer NSF REU in Computer Vision at UCF CRCV lab.

Publications

ICLR

ALBAR: Adversarial Learning approach to mitigate Biases in Action Recognition

Joseph Fioresi, Ishan Dave, Mubarak Shah

International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2025.

PDF ArXiV Code Project Page Poster Presentation

ICCV

TeD-SPAD: Temporal Distinctiveness for Self-supervised Privacy-preservation for video Anomaly Detection

Joseph Fioresi, Ishan Dave, Mubarak Shah

International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023.

PDF ArXiV Code Project Page Poster Presentation

JPV

Electroluminescence Analysis and Grading of Hail Damaged Solar Panels

Andrew M. Gabor, Philip J. Knodle, Maurice Covino, Joseph Fioresi, Dylan J. Colvin, Kristopher O. Davis

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (JPV), 2022.

PDF Journal Publication

PVSC/JPV

Automated Defect Detection and Localization in Photovoltaic Cells using Semantic Segmentation of Electroluminescence Images

Joseph Fioresi, Dylan J. Colvin, Rafaela Frota, Rohit Gupta, Mengjie Li, Hubert P. Seigneur, Shruit Vyas, Sofia Oliveira, Mubarak Shah, Kristopher O. Davis

IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics (JPV)/IEEE Photovoltaics Specialists Conference (PVSC), 2021.

PDF Code Oral Presentation/Journal Publication

Services

Conference Reviewing

Journal Reviewing

IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (TCSVT) 2024/2025