Publications

E Bellocchio, G Costante, S Cascianelli, ML Fravolini, P Valigi

Combining Domain Adaptation and Spatial Consistency for Unseen Fruits Counting: A Quasi-Unsupervised Approach

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020) 5 (2), 1079-1086

@article{bellocchio2020combining, title={Combining Domain Adaptation and Spatial Consistency for Unseen Fruits Counting: A Quasi-Unsupervised Approach}, author={Bellocchio, Enrico and Costante, Gabriele and Cascianelli, Silvia and Fravolini, Mario Luca and Valigi, Paolo}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={5}, number={2}, pages={1079--1086}, year={2020}, publisher={IEEE} }

A Devo, G Costante, P Valigi

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following Visual Navigation in 3D Maze-Like Environments

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2020) 5 (2), 1175-1182

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@article{devo2020deep, title={Deep Reinforcement Learning for Instruction Following Visual Navigation in 3D Maze-Like Environments}, author={Devo, Alessandro and Costante, Gabriele and Valigi, Paolo}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={5}, number={2}, pages={1175--1182}, year={2020}, publisher={IEEE} }

S Cascianelli, G Costante, A Devo, TA Ciarfuglia, P Valigi, ML Fravolini

The Role of the Input in Natural Language Video Description

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (2019) 22 (1), 271-283

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@article{cascianelli2019role, title={The Role of the Input in Natural Language Video Description}, author={Cascianelli, Silvia and Costante, Gabriele and Devo, Alessandro and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Valigi, Paolo and Fravolini, Mario L}, journal={IEEE Transactions on Multimedia}, volume={22}, number={1}, pages={271--283}, year={2019}, publisher={IEEE} }

E Bellocchio, TA Ciarfuglia, G Costante, P Valigi

Weakly Supervised Fruit Counting for Yield Estimation Using Spatial Consistency

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2019) 4 (3), 2348-2355

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@article{bellocchio2019weakly, title={Weakly Supervised Fruit Counting for Yield Estimation Using Spatial Consistency}, author={Bellocchio, Enrico and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Costante, Gabriele and Valigi, Paolo}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={4}, number={3}, pages={2348--2355}, year={2019}, publisher={IEEE} }

Maryam Abdollahyan, Silvia Cascianelli, Enrico Bellocchio, Gabriele Costante, Thomas A Ciarfuglia, Francesco Bianconi, Fabrizio Smeraldi, Mario L Fravolini

Visual Localization in the Presence of Appearance Changes Using the Partial Order Kernel

26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), (2018) 697-701

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@article{smeraldi2020partial, title={Partial Order Rank Features in Colour Space}, author={Smeraldi, Fabrizio and Bianconi, Francesco and Fern{\'a}ndez, Antonio and Gonz{\'a}lez, Elena}, journal={Applied Sciences}, volume={10}, number={2}, pages={499}, year={2020}, publisher={Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute} }

G Costante, TA Ciarfuglia

LS-VO: Learning dense optical subspace for robust visual odometry estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2018) 3 (3), 1735-1742

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@article{costante2018ls, title={LS-VO: Learning dense optical subspace for robust visual odometry estimation}, author={Costante, Gabriele and Ciarfuglia, Thomas Alessandro}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={3}, number={3}, pages={1735--1742}, year={2018}, publisher={IEEE} }

M Mancini, G Costante, P Valigi, TA Ciarfuglia

J-MOD2: Joint Monocular Obstacle Detection and Depth Estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2018) 3 (3), 1490-1497

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@article{mancini2018j, title={J-MOD 2: joint monocular obstacle detection and depth estimation}, author={Mancini, Michele and Costante, Gabriele and Valigi, Paolo and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={3}, number={3}, pages={1490--1497}, year={2018}, publisher={IEEE} }

S Cascianelli, G Costante, TA Ciarfuglia, P Valigi, ML Fravolini

Full-GRU natural language video description for service robotics applications

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (2018) 3 (2), 841-848

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@article{cascianelli2018full, title={Full-GRU natural language video description for service robotics applications}, author={Cascianelli, Silvia and Costante, Gabriele and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Valigi, Paolo and Fravolini, Mario L}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, volume={3}, number={2}, pages={841--848}, year={2018}, publisher={IEEE} }

Gabriele Costante, Jeffrey Delmerico, Manuel Werlberger, Paolo Valigi, Davide Scaramuzza

Exploiting photometric information for planning under uncertainty

Robotics Research (2018), pp. 107-124

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@incollection{costante2018exploiting, title={Exploiting photometric information for planning under uncertainty}, author={Costante, Gabriele and Delmerico, Jeffrey and Werlberger, Manuel and Valigi, Paolo and Scaramuzza, Davide}, booktitle={Robotics Research}, pages={107--124}, year={2018}, publisher={Springer}

Cascianelli S., Costante G., Bellocchio E., Valigi P., Fravolini M.L., Ciarfuglia T.A.

Robust visual semi-semantic loop closure detection by a covisibility graph and CNN features

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2017), 92 53-65,

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@article{cascianelli2017robust,
title={Robust visual semi-semantic loop closure detection by a covisibility graph and CNN features},
author={Cascianelli, Silvia and Costante, Gabriele and Bellocchio, Enrico and Valigi, Paolo and Fravolini, Mario L and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A},
journal={Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
volume={92},
pages={53--65},
year={2017},
publisher={North-Holland},
doi = {10.1016/j.robot.2017.03.004}
}

M. Mancini, G. Costante, P. Valigi, T. A. Ciarfuglia, J. Delmerico, D. Scaramuzza

Towards Domain Independence for Learning-Based Monocular Depth Estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters ( Jan. 2017 )

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@ARTICLE{7829276, author={M. Mancini and G. Costante and P. Valigi and T. A. Ciarfuglia and J. Delmerico and D. Scaramuzza}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, title={Towards Domain Independence for Learning-Based Monocular Depth Estimation}, year={2017}, volume={PP}, number={99}, pages={1-1}, keywords={Benchmark testing;Cameras;Estimation;Feature extraction;Streaming media;Training;Vehicles;Collision Avoidance;Range Sensing;Visual- Based Navigation}, doi={10.1109/LRA.2017.2657002}, ISSN={2377-3766}, month={},}

Porzi L., Bulò S.R., Lanz O., Valigi P., Ricci E.

An automatic image-to-DEM alignment approach for annotating mountains pictures on a smartphone

Machine Vision and Applications. (2017), 28 (1), 101-115

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@article{porzi2016automatic,
author={Porzi, Lorenzo and Bul{\`o}, Samuel Rota and Lanz, Oswald and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa},
title={An automatic image-to-DEM alignment approach for annotating mountains pictures on a smartphone},
journal={Machine Vision and Applications},
pages={1--15},
year={2016},
publisher={Springer Berlin Heidelberg},
doi={10.1007/s00138-016-0808-0},
}

M. Mancini, G. Costante, P. Valigi and T.A. Ciarfuglia

Fast robust monocular depth estimation for Obstacle Detection with fully convolutional networks

2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (Sep. 2016)

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@INPROCEEDINGS{7759632, author={M. Mancini and G. Costante and P. Valigi and T. A. Ciarfuglia}, booktitle={2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)}, title={Fast robust monocular depth estimation for Obstacle Detection with fully convolutional networks}, year={2016}, pages={4296-4303}, keywords={collision avoidance;learning (artificial intelligence);neural nets;object detection;autonomous systems;deep neural network;fully convolutional networks;intrinsic constraints;machine learning;massive blurring;object detection system;obstacle detection;path planning;photo-realistic synthetic images;robotic system;robust monocular depth estimation;safe avoidance;scene depth estimation;unpredictable environment;Convolution;Estimation;Feature extraction;Optical imaging;Robots;Robustness;Three-dimensional displays}, doi={10.1109/IROS.2016.7759632}, month={Oct},}

G. Costante, M. Mancini, P. Valigi and T.A. Ciarfuglia

Exploring Representation Learning With CNNs for Frame-to-Frame Ego-Motion Estimation

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (Volume: 1, Issue: 1, Jan. 2016)

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@ARTICLE{7347378, author={G. Costante and M. Mancini and P. Valigi and T. A. Ciarfuglia}, journal={IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters}, title={Exploring Representation Learning With CNNs for Frame-to-Frame Ego-Motion Estimation}, year={2016}, volume={1}, number={1}, pages={18-25}, keywords={Feature extraction;Motion estimation;Neural networks;Simultaneous localization and mapping;Visual Learning;Visual-Based Navigation}, doi={10.1109/LRA.2015.2505717}, ISSN={2377-3766}, month={Jan},}

Bellocchio E., Ciarfuglia T.A., Crocetti F., Ficola A., Valigi P.

Modelling and simulation of a quadrotor in V-tail configuration

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control (2016), 26 (2), 158-170

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@article{bellocchio2016modelling,
title={Modelling and simulation of a quadrotor in V-tail configuration},
author={Bellocchio, Enrico and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Crocetti, Francesco and Ficola, Antonio and Valigi, Paolo},
journal={International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control},
volume={26},
number={2},
pages={158--170},
year={2016},
publisher={Inderscience Publishers (IEL)},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12918-015-0216-5}
}

F. Bianconi, E. Baldelli, V. Ludovini, E. Petricoin, L. Crinò, P. Valigi

Conditional robustness analysis for fragility discovery and target identification in biochemical networks and in cancer systems biology

BMC systems biology (2015), 9 (1), 70

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@Article{Bianconi2015, author={Bianconi, Fortunato and Baldelli, Elisa and Luovini, Vienna and Petricoin, Emanuel F. and Crin{\`o}, Lucio and Valigi, Paolo},
title={Conditional robustness analysis for fragility discovery and target identification in biochemical networks and in cancer systems biology},
journal={BMC Systems Biology},
year=2015,
volume=9,
number=1,
pages=70,
issn={1752-0509},
doi={10.1186/s12918-015-0216-5},
url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12918-015-0216-5}
}

Costante G., Ciarfuglia T.A., Valigi P., Ricci E.

Transferring knowledge across robots: A risk sensitive approach

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2015), 65 1-14,

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@article{costante2015transferring,
title={Transferring knowledge across robots: A risk sensitive approach},
author={Costante, Gabriele and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa},
journal={Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
volume={65},
pages={1--14},
year={2015},
publisher={North-Holland},
doi = {10.1016/j.robot.2014.12.004}
}

Thomas A. Ciarfuglia, Gabriele Costante, Paolo Valigi, Elisa Ricci.

Evaluation of Non-Geometric Methods for Visual Odometry

Robotics and Autonomous Systems (2014), 62 1717-17304,

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@article{ciarfuglia2014evaluation,
title={Evaluation of non-geometric methods for visual odometry},
author={Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Costante, Gabriele and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa},
journal={Robotics and Autonomous Systems},
volume={62},
number={12},
pages={1717--1730},
year={2014},
publisher={North-Holland},
doi = {10.1016/j.robot.2014.08.001}
}

Gabriele Costante, Thomas A Ciarfuglia, Paolo Valigi, Elisa Ricci.

A transfer learning approach for multi-cue semantic place recognition.

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

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@inproceedings{costante2013transfer,
title={A transfer learning approach for multi-cue semantic place recognition},
author={Costante, Gabriele and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa},
booktitle={Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2013 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
pages={2122--2129},
year={2013},
organization={IEEE}
}

Lorenzo Porzi, Elisa Ricci, Thomas A Ciarfuglia, Michele Zanin.

Visual-inertial tracking on android for augmented reality applications.

Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS), 2012 IEEE Workshop on. IEEE, 2012,

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@inproceedings{porzi2012visual,
title={Visual-inertial tracking on android for augmented reality applications},
author={Porzi, Lorenzo and Ricci, Elisa and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Zanin, Michele},
booktitle={Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems (EESMS), 2012 IEEE Workshop on},
pages={35--41},
year={2012},
organization={IEEE}
}

Thomas A. Ciarfuglia, Gabriele Costante, Paolo Valigi, Elisa Ricci.

A discriminative approach for appearance based loop closing.

Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on

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@inproceedings{ciarfuglia2012discriminative,
title={A discriminative approach for appearance based loop closing},
author={Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Costante, Gabriele and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa},
booktitle={Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on},
pages={3837--3843},
year={2012},
organization={IEEE}
}

Gabriele Costante, Thomas A. Ciarfuglia, Paolo Valigi, Elisa Ricci.

Transfer Learning for Visual Place Classification.

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@article{costantetransfer,
title={Transfer Learning for Visual Place Classification},
author={Costante, Gabriele and Ciarfuglia, Thomas A and Valigi, Paolo and Ricci, Elisa}
}

F. Bianconi, E. Baldelli, V. Ludovini, L. Crinò, A. Flacco and P. Valigi.

Computational model of EGFR and IGF1R pathways in lung cancer: a Systems Biology approach for Translational Oncology

Biotechnology Advances (2012), 30(1), 142-53

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@article{bianconi2012computational,
title={Computational model of EGFR and IGF1R pathways in lung cancer: a systems biology approach for translational oncology},
author={Bianconi, Fortunato and Baldelli, Elisa and Ludovini, Vienna and Crin{\`o}, Lucio and Flacco, Antonella and Valigi, Paolo},
journal={Biotechnology advances},
volume={30},
number={1},
pages={142--153},
year={2012},
publisher={Elsevier},
doi={}
}