Bill Psomas, a post doc at VRG, has been awarded the prestigious MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship 2024 for his project RAVIOLI (Retrieval-Augmented VIsion-Language Models for Open-vocabulary LocalizatIon). Hosted at the Visual Recognition Group (VRG) under the supervision of associate Prof. Giorgos Tolias, RAVIOLI aims to advance open-vocabulary segmentation by integrating retrieval-based predictions with vision-language models. The project seeks to enhance segmentation accuracy and adaptability across diverse environments and applications. As part of this research, Bill will also undertake a secondment at AImageLab, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE), collaborating with Prof. Rita Cucchiara.