Lazzeri, N., Mazzei, D., Cominelli, L., Cisternino, A., & De Rossi, D. E. (2018). Designing the Mind of a Social Robot. Applied Sciences, 8(2), 302.

Humans have an innate tendency to anthropomorphize surrounding entities and have always been fascinated by the creation of machines endowed with human-inspired capabilities and traits. In the last few decades, this has become a reality with enormous...

Cominelli, L., Carbonaro, N., Mazzei, D., Garofalo, R., Tognetti, A., & De Rossi, D. (2017). A Multimodal Perception Framework for Users Emotional State Assessment in Social Robotics. Future Internet, 9(3), 42.

In this work, we present an unobtrusive and non-invasive perception framework based on the synergy between two main acquisition systems: the Touch-Me Pad, consisting of two electronic patches for physiological signal extraction and processing; and the...

Avvenuti, M., Cresci, S., Nizzoli, L., & Tesconi, M. (2018, June). GSP (Geo-Semantic-Parsing): geoparsing and geotagging with machine learning on top of linked data. In European Semantic Web Conference (pp. 17-32). Springer, Cham.

Research Best Paper Candidate: https://2018.eswc-conferences.org/program/tuesday-june-5/#not-set:all Available at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-93417-4_2

Simone Del Cesta, Andrea Ria, Roberto Simmarano, Massimo Piotto and Paolo Bruschi, "A compact programmable differential voltage reference with unbuffered 4 mA output current capability and ±0.4 % untrimmed spread"

ESSCIRC 2017 - 43rd IEEE European Solid State Circuits Conference - 10.1109/ESSCIRC.2017.8094513. -- A compact differential voltage reference cell, which combines an original switched capacitor integrator with a digitally programmable bandgap core, is...

R. Iglio,S. Mariani, V. Robbiano,L.Strambini and G. Barillaro. Flexible Polydimethylsiloxane Foams Decorated with Multiwalled Carbon Nanotubes Enable Unprecedented Detection of Ultralow Strain and Pressure Coupled with a Large Working Range.

ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces DOI 10.1021/acsami.8b02322 Low-cost piezoresistive strain/pressure sensors with large working range, at the same time able to reliably detect ultralow strain (≤0.1%) and pressure (≤1 Pa), are one of the challenges...

R. Costanzi, D. Fenucci, V. Manzari, A. Caiti, "Bearing-only AUV tracking performance: Unscented Kalman Filter estimation against uncertainty in underwater nodes position", IFAC 2017 World Congress, Toulouse (France)

Autonomous Underwater Vehicles require highly accurate autonomous navigation to achieve long-term tasks while collecting data that need to be correctly georeferenced. Nevertheless, no standard evaluation methods for vehicle navigation skills exist, and...

Davide Mulfari. 2018. A TensorFlow-based Assistive Technology System for Users with Visual Impairments. In W4A ’18: W4A ’18: The Internet of Accessible Things, April 23–25, 2018, Lyon, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10. 1145

Abstract: The paper investigates the potential benefits of bringing together Internet of Things and deep learning techniques toward the development of assistive technologies for users with visual disabilities. We propose a computer vision system...

M. Diani, M. Moscadelli, G. Corsini - Improved Alpha Residuals for Target Detection in Thermal Hyperspectral Imaging. IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, vol. 15, no. 5, pp. 779-783, May 2018

This letter presents a new method to compute alpha residuals (AR) in longwave infrared hyperspectral images. AR allow emissivity-based target detection being them a quantity, related to the target emissivity, which is less prone to errors in the...

N Fuin, O A Catalano, M Scipioni, L P W Canjels, D Izquierdo, S Pedemonte, and C Catana, Concurrent Respiratory Motion Correction of Abdominal PET and DCE-MRI using a Compressed Sensing Approach J Nucl Med, 2018

Purpose : We present an approach for concurrent reconstruction of respiratory motion compensated abdominal DCE-MRI and PET data in an integrated PET/MR scanner. The MR and PET reconstructions share the same motion vector fields (MVFs) derived from...

MF Santarelli, N Vanello, M Scipioni, G Valvano and L Landini, New Imaging Frontiers in Cardiology: Fast and Quantitative Maps from Raw Data, Current Pharmaceutical Design, volume 23, issue 22, pages 32

Background : Among the novelties in the field of cardiovascular imaging, the construction of quantitative maps in a fast and efficient way is one of the most interesting aspects of the clinical research. Quantitative parametric maps are typically...

R. Iglio, S. Mariani, L.M. Strambini and G. Barillaro. Macroporous PDMS foam decorated with carbon nanotubes for conductometric pressure and strain sensors. Conference Paper IEEE Sensors 2017

Abstract: In this work a novel top-down approach for the preparation of macroporous polydimethylsiloxane (mpPDMS) foam decorated with pristine multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) is reported. mpPDMS-MWCNTs foam is subjected to different...

A. Motroni, A. Buffi, P. Nepa: "Localization of a mobile device equipped with an RFID reader", 2017 IEEE International Conference on RFID Technology & Application (RFID-TA)

This paper presents a new technique to locate a device moving along a known trajectory, when it is equipped with an UHF RFID reader. The proposed technique exploits the phase of consecutive readings of a single stationary tag positioned near the device...

F. Righetti, C. Vallati, G. Anastasi, S. K. Das: "Performance Evaluation of the 6top Protocol and Analysis of its Interplay with Routing," 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing (SMARTCOMP), Hong Kong, 2017, pp. 1-6.

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) will represent a crucial enabling technology to interconnect sensors and actuators in future smart cities. Since many applications will demand for reliable and low-latency communication, current standardization efforts...

P. Perazzo, C. Vallati, A. Arena, G. Anastasi, G. Dini: "An Implementation and Evaluation of the Security Features of RPL", ADHOC-NOW 2017: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, pp. 63-76, Sept 2017

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) will represent a key building block for the future Internet of Things, as a cheap and easily-deployable technology to connect smart devices on a large scale. In WSAN implementation, the Routing Protocol for...

P. Perazzo, C. Vallati, A. Arena, G. Anastasi, G. Dini: "An Implementation and Evaluation of the Security Features of RPL", ADHOC-NOW 2017: Ad-hoc, Mobile, and Wireless Networks, pp. 63-76, Sept 2017

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks (WSANs) will represent a key building block for the future Internet of Things, as a cheap and easily-deployable technology to connect smart devices on a large scale. In WSAN implementation, the Routing Protocol for...

J. Dunning, F. Mourad, A. Zingoni et al., "Cavitation Sounds during Cervicothoracic Spinal Manipulation", The International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy, Vol. 12, N. 4, pp. 642-654, 2017

D. Brizi, A. Monorchio, N. Fontana, "A novel coil for highly focused magnetic hyperthermia with nanoparticles", Antennas and Propagation & USNC/URSI National Radio Science Meeting, 2017 IEEE International Symposium on, IEEE, 2017.

Design, control and validation of the variable stiffness exoskeleton FLExo

Fabio Carrara, Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Fabrizio Falchi, Alejandro Moreo Fernández: "Picture It In Your Mind: Generating High Level Visual Representations From Textual Descriptions". Information Retrieval Journal, Springer. October 2017

In this paper we tackle the problem of image search when the query is a short textual description of the image the user is looking for. We choose to implement the actual search process as a similarity search in a visual feature space, by learning to...

Andrea Esuli, Tiziano Fagni, Alejandro Moreo Fernandez: "JaTeCS, an open-source JAva TExt Categorization System". ArXiv e-prints:1706.06802, June 2017.

JaTeCS is an open source Java library that supports research on automatic text categorization and other related problems, such as ordinal regression and quantification, which are of special interest in opinion mining applications. It covers all the...