Piera Riccio
PhD Student
Piera Riccio is an ELLIS PhD student. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Media Engineering (2018, Politecnico di Torino), a Master’s degree in ICT for Smart Societies (2021, Politecnico di Torino), and a Master’s degree in Data Science and Engineering (2021, Télécom Paris – EURECOM). In 2020, she was an affiliate at Metalab (at) Harvard. In 2021, she was a research assistant at the Oslo Metropolitan University. In her research, she is interested in exploring the cultural, social, and artistic possibilities of AI. In her PhD, she focuses on the effect that social media have on the lives of women and the way they are perceived in the social media cultural ecosystem. Her supervisors are Nuria Oliver (ELLIS Alicante), Thomas Hofmann (ETH Zurich) and Miguel Angel Lozano (Universidad de Alicante).
Link to ORCID profile: 
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-8271
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8602-8271
Publications in association with ELLIS Alicante
2021
09/16
Riccio, P., Bergaust, K., Christensen-Scheel, B., De Martin, J. C., Zuluaga, M. A., & Nichele, S. (2021, September). AI-based artistic representation of emotions from EEG signals: a discussion on fairness, inclusion, and aesthetics. In Politics of the Machines.
2022
04/15
Riccio, P., Galati, F., Zuluaga, M. A., De Martin, J. C., & Nichele, S. (2022, April). Translating Emotions from EEG to Visual Arts. In International Conference on Computational Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (Part of EvoStar) (pp. 243-258).
06/27
Riccio, P., Oliver, J. L., Escolano, F., & Oliver, N. (2022, June). Algorithmic Censorship of Art: A Proposed Research Agenda. In 13th International Conference on Computational Creativity.
07/19
Riccio, P., Psomas, B., Galati, F., Escolano, F., Hofmann, T., & Oliver, N. (2022, July). OpenFilter: A Framework to Democratize Research Access to Social Media AR Filters. In 36th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Datasets and Benchmarks Track.
2023
02/18
Riccio, P., & Oliver, N. (2023, February). Racial Bias in the Beautyverse: Evaluation of Augmented-Reality Beauty Filters. In European Conference on Computer Vision 2022 (Vol. 13803, pp. 714-721).
2024
03/31
Riccio, P., & Oliver, N. (2024, March). A Techno-Feminist Perspective on the Algorithmic Censorship of Artistic Nudity. In Bibliotheca Hertziana–Max Planck Institute for Art History (Vol. 3).
04/19
Riccio, P., Colin, J., Ogolla, S., & Oliver, N. (2024). Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the whitest of all? Racial biases in social media beauty filters. Social Media and Society, 10(2), 20563051241239296.
Top 5% of research outputs scored by Altmetric
05/11
Riccio, P., Hofmann, T., & Oliver, N. (2024, May). Exposed or Erased: Algorithmic Censorship of Nudity in Art. In CHI '24: Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-17).
09/29
Milan, IT
Milan, IT
Riccio, P., Curto, G., Hofmann, T., & Oliver, N. (2024, September). An Art-centric perspective on AI-based content moderation of nudity. In Artificial Intelligence for Visual Arts (AI4VA) workshop at ECCV.
09/29
Milan, IT
Milan, IT
Riccio, P., Curto, G., & Oliver, N. (2024, September). Exploring the Boundaries of Content Moderation in Text-to-Image Generation. In Critical evaluation of generative models and their impact on society (CEGIS) workshop at ECCV.
2025
03/25
Riccio, P., Galati, F., Schweighofer, K., Garcia, N., & Oliver, N. (2025). ImageSet2Text: Describing Sets of Images through Text. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.19361.
07/17
Vancouver, CA
Vancouver, CA
Doh, M., Höltgen, B., Riccio, P., & Oliver, N. (2025, July). Position: The Categorization of Race in ML is a Flawed Premise. In ICML'25: International Conference on Machine Learning.
Poster Spotlight
08/22
Honolulu, US
Honolulu, US
Riccio, P., Domene Garcia, L., & Oliver, N. (2025). Towards Accessible Image Set Descriptions with ImageSet2Text. Workshop on Vision Foundation Models and Generative AI for Accessibility: Challenges and Opportunities.
2026
01/25
Riccio, P., Galati, F., Schweighofer, K., Garcia, N., & Oliver, N. (2026). ImageSet2Text: Describing Sets of Images through Text. Proceedings of the 40th Annual AAAI Conference on AI.