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  1. Article ; Online: Traffic lights detection and tracking for HD map creation.

    Mentasti, Simone / Simsek, Yusuf Can / Matteucci, Matteo

    Frontiers in robotics and AI

    2023  Volume 10, Page(s) 1065394

    Abstract: HD-maps are one of the core components of the self-driving pipeline. Despite the effort of many companies to develop a completely independent vehicle, many state-of-the-art solutions rely on high-definition maps of the environment for localization and ... ...

    Abstract HD-maps are one of the core components of the self-driving pipeline. Despite the effort of many companies to develop a completely independent vehicle, many state-of-the-art solutions rely on high-definition maps of the environment for localization and navigation. Nevertheless, the creation process of such maps can be complex and error-prone or expensive if performed
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-03
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2781824-X
    ISSN 2296-9144 ; 2296-9144
    ISSN (online) 2296-9144
    ISSN 2296-9144
    DOI 10.3389/frobt.2023.1065394
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  2. Article ; Online: On the precision of 6 DoF IMU-LiDAR based localization in GNSS-denied scenarios.

    Frosi, Matteo / Bertoglio, Riccardo / Matteucci, Matteo

    Frontiers in robotics and AI

    2023  Volume 10, Page(s) 1064930

    Abstract: Positioning and navigation represent relevant topics in the field of robotics, due to their multiple applications in real-world scenarios, ranging from autonomous driving to harsh environment exploration. Despite localization in outdoor environments is ... ...

    Abstract Positioning and navigation represent relevant topics in the field of robotics, due to their multiple applications in real-world scenarios, ranging from autonomous driving to harsh environment exploration. Despite localization in outdoor environments is generally achieved using a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver, global navigation satellite system-denied environments are typical of many situations, especially in indoor settings. Autonomous robots are commonly equipped with multiple sensors, including laser rangefinders, IMUs, and odometers, which can be used for mapping and localization, overcoming the need for global navigation satellite system data. In literature, almost no information can be found on the positioning accuracy and precision of 6 Degrees of Freedom Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) localization systems, especially for real-world scenarios. In this paper, we present a short review of state-of-the-art light detection and ranging localization methods in global navigation satellite system-denied environments, highlighting their advantages and disadvantages. Then, we evaluate two state-of-the-art Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) systems able to also perform localization, one of which implemented by us. We benchmark these two algorithms on manually collected dataset, with the goal of providing an insight into their attainable precision in real-world scenarios. In particular, we present two experimental campaigns, one indoor and one outdoor, to measure the precision of these algorithms. After creating a map for each of the two environments, using the simultaneous localization and mapping part of the systems, we compute a custom localization error for multiple, different trajectories. Results show that the two algorithms are comparable in terms of precision, having a similar mean translation and rotation errors of about 0.01 m and 0.6°, respectively. Nevertheless, the system implemented by us has the advantage of being modular, customizable and able to achieve real-time performance.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-01-24
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2781824-X
    ISSN 2296-9144 ; 2296-9144
    ISSN (online) 2296-9144
    ISSN 2296-9144
    DOI 10.3389/frobt.2023.1064930
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  3. Article ; Online: OSM-SLAM: Aiding SLAM with OpenStreetMaps priors.

    Frosi, Matteo / Gobbi, Veronica / Matteucci, Matteo

    Frontiers in robotics and AI

    2023  Volume 10, Page(s) 1064934

    Abstract: In the last decades, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) proved to be a fundamental topic in the field of robotics, due to the many applications, ranging from autonomous driving to 3D reconstruction. Many systems have been proposed in literature ...

    Abstract In the last decades, Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) proved to be a fundamental topic in the field of robotics, due to the many applications, ranging from autonomous driving to 3D reconstruction. Many systems have been proposed in literature exploiting a heterogeneous variety of sensors. State-of-the-art methods build their own map from scratch, using only data coming from the equipment of the robot, and not exploiting possible reconstructions of the environment. Moreover, temporary loss of data proves to be a challenge for SLAM systems, as it demands efficient re-localization to continue the localization process. In this paper, we present a SLAM system that exploits additional information coming from mapping services like OpenStreetMaps, hence the name OSM-SLAM, to face these issues. We extend an existing LiDAR-based Graph SLAM system, ART-SLAM, making it able to integrate the 2D geometry of buildings in the trajectory estimation process, by matching a prior OpenStreetMaps map with a single LiDAR scan. Each estimated pose of the robot is then associated with all buildings surrounding it. This association allows to improve localization accuracy, but also to adjust possible mistakes in the prior map. The pose estimates coming from SLAM are then jointly optimized with the constraints associated with the various OSM buildings, which can assume one of the following types: Buildings are always fixed (Prior SLAM); buildings surrounding a robot are movable in chunks, for every scan (Rigid SLAM); and every single building is free to move independently from the others (Non-rigid SLAM). Lastly, OSM maps can also be used to re-localize the robot when sensor data is lost. We compare the accuracy of the proposed system with existing methods for LiDAR-based SLAM, including the baseline, also providing a visual inspection of the results. The comparison is made by evaluating the estimated trajectory displacement using the KITTI odometry dataset. Moreover, the experimental campaign, along with an ablation study on the re-localization capabilities of the proposed system and its accuracy in loop detection-denied scenarios, allow a discussion about how the quality of prior maps influences the SLAM procedure, which may lead to worse estimates than the baseline.
    Language English
    Publishing date 2023-03-29
    Publishing country Switzerland
    Document type Journal Article
    ZDB-ID 2781824-X
    ISSN 2296-9144 ; 2296-9144
    ISSN (online) 2296-9144
    ISSN 2296-9144
    DOI 10.3389/frobt.2023.1064934
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  4. Book ; Online: Federated Survival Forests

    Archetti, Alberto / Matteucci, Matteo

    2023  

    Abstract: Survival analysis is a subfield of statistics concerned with modeling the occurrence time of a particular event of interest for a population. Survival analysis found widespread applications in healthcare, engineering, and social sciences. However, real- ... ...

    Abstract Survival analysis is a subfield of statistics concerned with modeling the occurrence time of a particular event of interest for a population. Survival analysis found widespread applications in healthcare, engineering, and social sciences. However, real-world applications involve survival datasets that are distributed, incomplete, censored, and confidential. In this context, federated learning can tremendously improve the performance of survival analysis applications. Federated learning provides a set of privacy-preserving techniques to jointly train machine learning models on multiple datasets without compromising user privacy, leading to a better generalization performance. Despite the widespread development of federated learning in recent AI research, only a few studies focus on federated survival analysis. In this work, we present a novel federated algorithm for survival analysis based on one of the most successful survival models, the random survival forest. We call the proposed method Federated Survival Forest (FedSurF). With a single communication round, FedSurF obtains a discriminative power comparable to deep-learning-based federated models trained over hundreds of federated iterations. Moreover, FedSurF retains all the advantages of random forests, namely low computational cost and natural handling of missing values and incomplete datasets. These advantages are especially desirable in real-world federated environments with multiple small datasets stored on devices with low computational capabilities. Numerical experiments compare FedSurF with state-of-the-art survival models in federated networks, showing how FedSurF outperforms deep-learning-based federated algorithms in realistic environments with non-identically distributed data.
    Keywords Computer Science - Machine Learning
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2023-02-06
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  5. Book ; Online: Few Shot Semantic Segmentation

    Catalano, Nico / Matteucci, Matteo

    a review of methodologies and open challenges

    2023  

    Abstract: Semantic segmentation assigns category labels to each pixel in an image, enabling breakthroughs in fields such as autonomous driving and robotics. Deep Neural Networks have achieved high accuracies in semantic segmentation but require large training ... ...

    Abstract Semantic segmentation assigns category labels to each pixel in an image, enabling breakthroughs in fields such as autonomous driving and robotics. Deep Neural Networks have achieved high accuracies in semantic segmentation but require large training datasets. Some domains have difficulties building such datasets due to rarity, privacy concerns, and the need for skilled annotators. Few-Shot Learning (FSL) has emerged as a new research stream that allows models to learn new tasks from a few samples. This contribution provides an overview of FSL in semantic segmentation (FSS), proposes a new taxonomy, and describes current limitations and outlooks.
    Keywords Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ; Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
    Publishing date 2023-04-12
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  6. Article ; Online: Concomitant surgical revascularization in postinfarction ventricular septal rupture and ventricular aneurysm repair: A straightforward indication or a prognostic factor?

    Ronco, Daniele / Matteucci, Matteo / Massimi, Giulio / Lorusso, Roberto

    Journal of cardiac surgery

    2022  Volume 37, Issue 9, Page(s) 2703–2705

    MeSH term(s) Coronary Artery Bypass ; Heart Aneurysm/complications ; Heart Aneurysm/surgery ; Heart Ventricles/surgery ; Humans ; Prognosis ; Treatment Outcome ; Ventricular Septal Rupture/etiology ; Ventricular Septal Rupture/surgery
    Language English
    Publishing date 2022-06-15
    Publishing country United States
    Document type Journal Article ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 639059-6
    ISSN 1540-8191 ; 0886-0440
    ISSN (online) 1540-8191
    ISSN 0886-0440
    DOI 10.1111/jocs.16673
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  7. Article: Probabilistic electric load forecasting through Bayesian Mixture Density Networks

    Brusaferri, Alessandro / Matteucci, Matteo / Spinelli, Stefano / Vitali, Andrea

    Applied energy. 2022 Mar. 01, v. 309

    2022  

    Abstract: This work presents a novel approach to address a challenging and still unsolved problem of neural network based load forecasting systems, that despite the significant results reached in terms of prediction error reduction, still lack suitable indications ...

    Abstract This work presents a novel approach to address a challenging and still unsolved problem of neural network based load forecasting systems, that despite the significant results reached in terms of prediction error reduction, still lack suitable indications regarding sample-wise trustworthiness of their predictions. The present approach is framed on Bayesian Mixture Density Networks, enhancing the mapping capabilities of neural networks by integrated predictive distributions, and encompassing both aleatoric and epistemic uncertainty sources. An end-to-end training method is developed, aimed to discover the latent functional relation to conditioning variables, characterize the inherent load stochasticity, and convey parameters uncertainty in a unique framework. To achieve reliable and computationally scalable estimators, both Mean Field variational inference and deep ensembles are integrated. Experiments have been performed on short-term load forecasting tasks at both regional and fine-grained household scale, to investigate heterogeneous operating conditions. Different architectural configurations are compared, showing by Continuous Ranked Probability Score based tests that significant performance improvements are achieved by integrating flexible aleatoric uncertainty patterns and multi-modalities in the parameters posterior space.
    Keywords Bayesian theory ; energy ; prediction ; uncertainty
    Language English
    Dates of publication 2022-0301
    Publishing place Elsevier Ltd
    Document type Article
    ZDB-ID 2000772-3
    ISSN 0306-2619
    ISSN 0306-2619
    DOI 10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.118341
    Database NAL-Catalogue (AGRICOLA)

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  8. Article ; Online: Left ventricular venting for extracorporeal life support in pheochromocytoma: Letter to the Editor - response.

    Matteucci, Matteo / Lorusso, Roberto

    Perfusion

    2020  Volume 36, Issue 1, Page(s) 105–106

    MeSH term(s) Adrenal Gland Neoplasms/therapy ; Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation ; Heart Ventricles ; Humans ; Pheochromocytoma/therapy ; Shock, Cardiogenic
    Language English
    Publishing date 2020-10-21
    Publishing country England
    Document type Letter ; Comment
    ZDB-ID 645038-6
    ISSN 1477-111X ; 0267-6591
    ISSN (online) 1477-111X
    ISSN 0267-6591
    DOI 10.1177/0267659120966916
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  9. Book ; Online: Anticipate, Ensemble and Prune

    Sarti, Simone / Lomurno, Eugenio / Matteucci, Matteo

    Improving Convolutional Neural Networks via Aggregated Early Exits

    2023  

    Abstract: Today, artificial neural networks are the state of the art for solving a variety of complex tasks, especially in image classification. Such architectures consist of a sequence of stacked layers with the aim of extracting useful information and having it ... ...

    Abstract Today, artificial neural networks are the state of the art for solving a variety of complex tasks, especially in image classification. Such architectures consist of a sequence of stacked layers with the aim of extracting useful information and having it processed by a classifier to make accurate predictions. However, intermediate information within such models is often left unused. In other cases, such as in edge computing contexts, these architectures are divided into multiple partitions that are made functional by including early exits, i.e. intermediate classifiers, with the goal of reducing the computational and temporal load without extremely compromising the accuracy of the classifications. In this paper, we present Anticipate, Ensemble and Prune (AEP), a new training technique based on weighted ensembles of early exits, which aims at exploiting the information in the structure of networks to maximise their performance. Through a comprehensive set of experiments, we show how the use of this approach can yield average accuracy improvements of up to 15% over traditional training. In its hybrid-weighted configuration, AEP's internal pruning operation also allows reducing the number of parameters by up to 41%, lowering the number of multiplications and additions by 18% and the latency time to make inference by 16%. By using AEP, it is also possible to learn weights that allow early exits to achieve better accuracy values than those obtained from single-output reference models.
    Keywords Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2023-01-28
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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  10. Book ; Online: Enhancing Once-For-All

    Sarti, Simone / Lomurno, Eugenio / Falanti, Andrea / Matteucci, Matteo

    A Study on Parallel Blocks, Skip Connections and Early Exits

    2023  

    Abstract: The use of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate the design of neural networks has become increasingly popular in recent years. The proliferation of devices with different hardware characteristics using such neural networks, as well as ... ...

    Abstract The use of Neural Architecture Search (NAS) techniques to automate the design of neural networks has become increasingly popular in recent years. The proliferation of devices with different hardware characteristics using such neural networks, as well as the need to reduce the power consumption for their search, has led to the realisation of Once-For-All (OFA), an eco-friendly algorithm characterised by the ability to generate easily adaptable models through a single learning process. In order to improve this paradigm and develop high-performance yet eco-friendly NAS techniques, this paper presents OFAv2, the extension of OFA aimed at improving its performance while maintaining the same ecological advantage. The algorithm is improved from an architectural point of view by including early exits, parallel blocks and dense skip connections. The training process is extended by two new phases called Elastic Level and Elastic Height. A new Knowledge Distillation technique is presented to handle multi-output networks, and finally a new strategy for dynamic teacher network selection is proposed. These modifications allow OFAv2 to improve its accuracy performance on the Tiny ImageNet dataset by up to 12.07% compared to the original version of OFA, while maintaining the algorithm flexibility and advantages.
    Keywords Computer Science - Machine Learning ; Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence ; Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition ; Computer Science - Neural and Evolutionary Computing
    Subject code 006
    Publishing date 2023-02-03
    Publishing country us
    Document type Book ; Online
    Database BASE - Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (life sciences selection)

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