AI for Sustainability

Date: 18 June 2026

Room: CB31A

Chairs: Francesco Scarcello (UniCal), Roberta Calegari (UniBo)

Description

The AI for Sustainability workshop explores how artificial intelligence can contribute to ecological transition and sustainable development by enabling more efficient resource management. The focus is on applications in environmental monitoring, energy systems, smart agriculture, sustainable cities, and circular economy. The workshop also considers the environmental impact of AI technologies themselves and their role in supporting sustainable development models.

Detailed Programme

Times show each contribution's presentation slot. An asterisk marks the presenting author when provided in the programme data.

TimeIDContribution
09:00-09:10#25Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation for Sustainable AI: Annotation Efficiency, Lightweight Deployment, and InterpretabilityDe Marinis, Pasquale; Vessio, Gennaro; Castellano, Giovanna
09:10-09:20#92Sustainable AI: Methodologies and Applications from the CINI-AIIS Lab at Federico IIAlberino, Alessandro; Benfenati, Domenico; Capuozzo, Salvatore; Carandente, Vincenzo; De Filippis, Giovanni Maria; Foscardi, Gianfranco; Laudante, Antonio; Marassi, Lidia; Marrone, Stefano; Masciari, Elio; Moscato, Vincenzo; Napolitano, Enea Vincenzo; Orlando, Gian Marco; Perillo, Marco; Rinaldi, Antonio Maria; Russo, Cristiano; Russo, Diego; Sansone, Carlo; Sperlì, Giancarlo; Tommasino, Cristian; Vestri, Marcello; Vignali, Andrea
09:20-09:30#95Energy-Efficient AI at the EdgeSabatini, Anna; Davide, Cacciari ; Pau, Danilo Pietro; Pennazza, Giorgio ; Santonico, Marco; Vollero, Luca
09:30-09:40#114Sustainable Privacy in Human Pose Estimation: a Research Line From Anonymization to Edge DeploymentMugnai, Matteo; Crispino, Francesco Pio; Pistolesi, Francesco; Anastasi, Giuseppe
09:40-09:50#29Learning Fire and Smoke Classifiers Under Domain ShiftMaiorana, Luigi; Lombardo, Gabriele; Lo Presti, Liliana; La Cascia, Marco
09:50-10:00#75AI for Sustainability: Research Activities and Results Obtained at Ud’A NodeAhmad, Ijaz; Amelio, Alessia; Cantagallo, Cristina; Caroprese, Luciano; Gill, Eliezer Zahid; Ippoliti, Luigi; Monaco, Gianpiero; Moscardelli, Luca; Sangiorgio, Valentino
10:00-10:10#98From Multimodal Perception to Autonomous Action in AI for SustainabilitySalmè, Marco; Iele, Irene; Bonifacio, Anna; Caprio, Floriano; Conte, Francesco; Molino, Daniele; Mulero Ayllón, Elena; Romoli, Giulia; Ruffini, Filippo; Silvestro, Federico; Valentini, Piefrancesco; Guarrasi, Valerio; Sicilia, Rosa; Tortora, Matteo; Soda, Paolo
10:10-10:20#39A 3D CNN Framework for Robust Energy Consumption EstimationBello, Stefania; Devito, Fabrizia; Musti, Luca; Cerino, Fabio; Sergi, Luigi; Vinci, Marco; Impedovo, Donato
10:20-10:30#21Hierarchy-Aware DETR for Roadside Waste Dumping DetectionMalagoli, Emanuele; Conci, Nicola; Di Persio, Luca
10:30-11:00Coffee Break
11:00-11:10#79Sustainable Federated AI: Research Activities on Energy Aware Learning at the M.O.D.A.L LabAmitrano, Sara; Annunziata, Daniela; Borrelli, Anna; Canzaniello, Marzia; De Angelis, Valentina; Giampaolo, Fabio; Izzo, Stefano; Piccialli, Francesco
11:10-11:20#56Benchmarking Open-Source and Commercial LLMs for Institutional Technical-Regulatory Question Answering: A Case Study on Renewable Energy CommunitiesFrascella, Angelo; Pizzuti, Stefano; Zangheri, Paolo; De Angelis, Cosma Damiano
11:20-11:30#120Caregiver Mobility in Inner Areas: A Slope-Aware Walkability Index and Agent-Based SimulationDe Pellegrin, Alessio; Borrè, Luca; Carbutti, Lucia; Bandini, Stefania
11:30-11:40#140VANET: AI for Sustainable Cooperative MobilityBalzano, Walter