"Art-Historically Grounded Multimodal Pretraining for Art Authentication". AI4VA, ECCV 2026, oral presentation. Düzgün Arda Batu, Schaerf Ludovica, Conti Alessandra, Postma Eric. 2026.
"Art Beyond Semantics: Sheaf-Informed Contrastive Learning for Multi-Relational Representations". European Conference of Computer Vision (ECCV). Schaerf Ludovica*, Purificato Antonio*, Riccio Piera, Silvestri Fabrizio, Noa Garcia. 2026.
"One Size does not Fit All: How Do Diffusion Models Organize Information?". Under review. Schaerf Ludovica, Alfarano Andrea, Torre Davide, Silvestri Fabrizio, Noa Garcia. Upcoming.
"(Deep) Representation: a Layered and Interconnected Mediation". in Proceedings of xCoAx 2026. Aimo Lorenzo*, Schaerf Ludovica*, Rozenberg Sebastian, Charlesworth Ellen, 2026.
"The Evolving Nature of Latent Spaces: From GANs to Diffusion". Proceedings of Ethics and Aesthetics of AI. DOI: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.17383. Schaerf Ludovica. 2025.
"Digital F(r)ictions: Re-imagining Colombian Art and its Territory". in SIGGRAPH 2025. DOI: https://dl.acm.org/doi/full/10.1145/3736785. Zapata Ana*, Schaerf Ludovica*, Neri Iacopo*, Negueruela del Castillo Dario, 2025.
"Between the Discrete and the Infinite: Attention and Latent Space Metaphors in Borges and Calvino". in Proceedings of xCoAx 2025. DOI: https://2025.xcoax.org/pdf/schaerf.pdf. Schaerf Ludovica*, Zapata Ana*, Negueruela del Castillo Dario, Neri Iacopo, 2025.
"Training-Free Style and Content Transfer by Leveraging U-Net Skip Connections in Stable Diffusion". in CVEU, CVPR 2025. DOI: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.14524. Schaerf Ludovica, Alfarano Andrea, Impett Leonardo, Silvestri Fabrizio. 2025. Poster. NB: the work was ultimately not published in the proceedings due to mix up with the camera ready.
"ColorwAI: Generative Colorways of Textiles through GAN and Diffusion Disentanglement" in VISART, ECCV 2024, oral presentation. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-91572-7_9. Ludovica Schaerf, Andrea Alfarano, Eric Postma, September 2024.
"Reflections on Disentanglement and the Latent Space" in xCoAx, School of X, 2024. DOI: https://classof24.xcoax.org/paper02.html. Ludovica Schaerf. September 2024.
"Art Forgery Detection using Kolmogorov Arnold and Convolutional Neural Networks", AI4VA, ECCV 2024. DOI: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-92808-6_12. Sandro Boccuzzo, Desirèe Meyer, Ludovica Schaerf. September 2024.
“AI Art Curation: Re-imagining the City of Helsinki on the Occasion of its Biennial”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, presented at EC3V, CVPR 2023, best paper award, DOI: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2306.03753, Ludovica Schaerf*, Pepe Ballesteros*, Valentine Bernasconi*, Iacopo Neri*, and Dario Negueruela del Castillo*, under review.
“New Directions May Emerge: AI Curation of Helsinki’s Cultural Landscape”, in Disegno MOME, special issue on “Designing Digital Humanities”, DOI: https://disegno.mome.hu/articles/Disegno_2023_I_06_Neri-et-al.pdf, Darío Negueruela del Castillo*, Iacopo Neri*, Pepe Ballesteros Zapata*, Valentine Bernasconi*, and Ludovica Schaerf*, December 2023.
“Synthetic images aid the recognition of human-made art forgeries”, in PLOS ONE. DOI:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295967. Johann Ostmeyer*, Ludovica Schaerf*, Pavel Buividovich, Tessa Charles, and Carina Popovici, January 2024.
“Art Authentication with Vision Transformers”, in Springer for Neural Computing and Applications, special issue on "Topical Collection on Visual Pattern Recognition and Extraction for Cultural Heritage", DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00521-023-08864-8, Ludovica Schaerf, Eric Postma, and Carina Popovici, July 2023.
“The diachronic development of Debussy’s musical style: a corpus study with Discrete Fourier Transform” in Nature Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-01796-7, Sabrina Laneve*, Ludovica Schaerf*, Gabriele Cecchetti*, Johannes Hentschel*, and Martin Rohrmeier, June 2023.
“Transhistorical Urban Landscape as Hypermap”, in ACM Conference on Hypertext and Social Media (HT2023), DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3603163.3609083, Dario Negueruela del Castillo*, Iacopo Neri*, Paul Guhennec*, Ludovica Schaerf*, Valentine Bernasconi*, and Pepe Ballesteros Zapata*, September 2023.
* Indicates equal contribution.
Chapters and Commissioned Articles
"Latent Representations". The Handbook of Artificial Intelligence and Visual Culture. Anthem Press. Upcoming. Schaerf Ludovica. 2026.
"Latent Space Fever". «Latent Spaces» DfG SPP «Das digitale Bild». Upcoming. Schaerf Ludovica. 2025.
"Do Latent Spaces Still Matter?". Filmwerkstatt Düsseldorf. Latent Space. Latenzräume der Kunst. Link. Schaerf Ludovica. 2025.
Art Projects
The art projects are created as part of the Digital Visual Studies art collective. Porfolio.
"Latent Space Trial", Theater play written and performed by us. With Iacopo Neri, Dario Negueruela del Castillo, Clay Foye and Paul Guhennec. Performed at xCoAx 2026, Palazzo Madama, Turin, Italy. Link to paper.
"Digital F(r)ictions", AI art curation for the Mambo Museum Bogotà 2024. With Ana Zapata, Iacopo Neri, Dario Negueruela del Castillo, Pepe Ballesteros Zapata. Exhibited at CVPR AI Art 2025.
“Newly Formed City”, AI art curation for the Helsinki Biennial 2023. With Iacopo Neri, Dario Negueruela del Castillo, Yehwan Song, Pepe Ballesteros Zapata, Valentine Bernasconi.
Organization
“Understanding Art & Culture”, tutorial at International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval. With Piera Riccio, Nanne van Noord, ... Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 2026. Webpage.
“Colors of AI”, workshop at International Conference on Computational Creativity. With Piera Riccio, Dejan Grba, Dario Negueruela del Castillo, Nurial Oliver. Jonkoping, Sweden, June 2024. Webpage.
Reviewing / Program Committee
International Conference on Computational Creativity Program Committee,
EPIA conference AI and Creativity Track,
Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Nature Portfolio),
European Conference of Computer Vision VISART workshop 2024-2026,
Green AI workshop ECML-PKDD 2026,
AI for Peace workshop ICLR 2026,
Computational Design and Computer-Aided Creativity workshop ICCC 2025.