Simone Angarano

Hi! I’m Simone Angarano, and I am a 3rd-year Ph.D. student in Machine Learning at Politecnico di Torino . I am a member of the AI section of the Interdepartmental Center for Service Robotics PIC4SeR, where my focus is on creating efficient deep learning models for robot perception and control. In my research, particular attention is given to key aspects of real-world applications like generalization and robustness. I spent a year at the University of Texas at Austin, working on efficient foundation models. In the previous years, I had the opportunity to work on different research projects spanning tasks like human action recognition, super-resolution, semantic segmentation, path planning, and localization. Solving these tasks, I got passionate about domain and sim-to-real generalization, model compression, and knowledge distillation. I also collaborated on various projects with companies, leveraging state-of-the-art deep learning solutions to solve real-world tasks in smart agriculture, space exploration, and domestic assistance. In 2024, I worked as an AI research expert for the European Union Joint Research Center on the AIACS project (drought forecasting using weather data). A few interesting projects I’ve worked on are summarized in this video, that won me the PhD Quality Award from my university.

News

Oct 16, 2024	Our paper A Multi-service Edge-AI Architecture based on Self-supervised Learning has been presented at the 75th International Astronautical Congress! 🚀
Oct 03, 2024	Our paper Action Transformer: A Self-Attention Model for Short-Time Pose-Based Human Action Recognition just reached 200 citations! 🎰
Oct 01, 2024	I’ve been awarded the EECE PhD Quality Award from Politecnico di Torino! 🎉
Jul 09, 2024	Our paper Back-to-Bones: Rediscovering the Role of Backbones in Domain Generalization has been published in the Pattern Recognition Journal! ☠️
Jun 19, 2024	I presented our paper Domain Generalization for Crop Segmentation with Standardized Ensemble Knowledge Distillation has been accepted at CVPR 2024 workshop on Vision for Agriculture! 🌵
Jul 19, 2023	I got my VISA, so it’s official: I will be visiting VITA research group @ UT Austin from September ‘23 to June ‘24! 🤠 Thanks to Prof. Atlas Wang for this wonderful opportunity 🙏🏼
May 16, 2023	Check out our upcoming workshop on Deep Learning for Sustainable Precision Agriculture, in collaboration with Politecnico di Milano and University of Galway! 🍀
May 12, 2023	Our paper Generative Adversarial Super-Resolution at the Edge with Knowledge Distillation has been published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence (Elsevier)! 📸
Apr 20, 2023	I will chair a workshop on Deep Learning for Precision Agriculture at the European Conference of Machine Learning ECML PKDD 2023! 🌱
Apr 18, 2023	New submitted preprint! Autonomous Navigation in Rows of Trees and High Crops with Deep Semantic Segmentation 🌲

Selected Publications

IAC

A multi-service edge-AI architecture based on self-supervised learning

Enrico Magli, Simone Angarano, S Bassetti, T Bianchi, and 7 more authors

In Proc. of 75th International Astronautical Congress, 2024

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@inproceedings{magli2024multi,
  title = {A multi-service edge-AI architecture based on self-supervised learning},
  author = {Magli, Enrico and Angarano, Simone and Bassetti, S and Bianchi, T and Boccardo, Paolo and Bucci, Silvia and Chiaberge, Marcello and Inzerillo, Gabriele and Lisi, D and Mascetti, G and others},
  booktitle = {Proc. of 75th International Astronautical Congress},
  pages = {1--9},
  year = {2024},
  organization = {IAF},
  url = {},
}

PRJ

Back-to-bones: Rediscovering the role of backbones in domain generalization

Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini, Francesco Salvetti, Vittorio Mazzia, and 1 more author

Pattern Recognition, 2024

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@article{angarano2024back,
  title = {Back-to-bones: Rediscovering the role of backbones in domain generalization},
  author = {Angarano, Simone and Martini, Mauro and Salvetti, Francesco and Mazzia, Vittorio and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {Pattern Recognition},
  volume = {156},
  pages = {110762},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320324005132},
}

CVPR

Domain Generalization for Crop Segmentation with Knowledge Distillation

Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini, Alessandro Navone, and Marcello Chiaberge

CVPR, 2024

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@article{angarano2024domain,
  title = {Domain Generalization for Crop Segmentation with Knowledge Distillation},
  author = {Angarano, Simone and Martini, Mauro and Navone, Alessandro and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  year = {2024},
  journal = {CVPR},
  primaryclass = {cs.CV},
  url = {https://openaccess.thecvf.com/content/CVPR2024W/Vision4Ag/html/Angarano_Domain_Generalization_for_Crop_Segmentation_with_Standardized_Ensemble_Knowledge_Distillation_CVPRW_2024_paper.html},
  selected = true
}

IEEE

A Deep Learning Driven Algorithmic Pipeline for Autonomous Navigation in Row-based Crops

Simone Cerrato, Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti, Mauro Martini, and 3 more authors

IEEE Access, 2024

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@article{cerrato2024deep,
  title = {A Deep Learning Driven Algorithmic Pipeline for Autonomous Navigation in Row-based Crops},
  author = {Cerrato, Simone and Mazzia, Vittorio and Salvetti, Francesco and Martini, Mauro and Angarano, Simone and Navone, Alessandro and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {IEEE Access},
  year = {2024},
  publisher = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10685361},
}

ECMR

Autonomous Navigation in Rows of Trees and High Crops with Deep Semantic Segmentation

Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini, Andrea Ostuni, Simone Angarano, and 1 more author

In 2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), 2023

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@inproceedings{navone2023autonomous,
  title = {Autonomous Navigation in Rows of Trees and High Crops with Deep Semantic Segmentation},
  author = {Navone, Alessandro and Martini, Mauro and Ostuni, Andrea and Angarano, Simone and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  booktitle = {2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)},
  pages = {1--6},
  year = {2023},
  organization = {IEEE},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10256334},
}

CASE

Online Learning of Wheel Odometry Correction for Mobile Robots with Attention-based Neural Network

Alessandro Navone, Mauro Martini, Simone Angarano, and Marcello Chiaberge

CASE, 2023

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@article{navone2023online,
  title = {Online Learning of Wheel Odometry Correction for Mobile Robots with Attention-based Neural Network},
  author = {Navone, Alessandro and Martini, Mauro and Angarano, Simone and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  year = {2023},
  journal = {CASE},
  primaryclass = {cs.RO},
  url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10260407},
  selected = true
}

EAAI

Generative Adversarial Super-Resolution at the Edge with Knowledge Distillation

Simone Angarano, Francesco Salvetti, Mauro Martini, and Marcello Chiaberge

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2023

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@article{angarano2023generative,
  journal = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {123},
  pages = {106407},
  year = {2023},
  issn = {0952-1976},
  author = {Angarano, Simone and Salvetti, Francesco and Martini, Mauro and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  title = {Generative Adversarial Super-Resolution at the Edge with Knowledge Distillation},
  url = {},
}

ECML

Waypoint Generation in Row-based Crops with Deep Learning and Contrastive Clustering

Francesco Salvetti, Simone Angarano, Mauro Martini, Simone Cerrato, and 1 more author

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, 2022

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@article{salvetti2022waypoint,
  title = {Waypoint Generation in Row-based Crops with Deep Learning and Contrastive Clustering},
  author = {Salvetti, Francesco and Angarano, Simone and Martini, Mauro and Cerrato, Simone and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases},
  year = {2022},
  url = {},
}

Sensors

Deep Instance Segmentation and Visual Servoing to Play Jenga with a Cost-Effective Robotic System

Luca Marchionna, Giulio Pugliese, Mauro Martini, Simone Angarano, and 2 more authors

Sensors, 2023

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@article{marchionna2022deep,
  title = {Deep Instance Segmentation and Visual Servoing to Play Jenga with a Cost-Effective Robotic System},
  author = {Marchionna, Luca and Pugliese, Giulio and Martini, Mauro and Angarano, Simone and Salvetti, Francesco and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {Sensors},
  volume = {23},
  number = {2},
  pages = {752},
  year = {2023},
  publisher = {MDPI},
}

CASE

Position-Agnostic Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards with Deep Reinforcement Learning

Mauro Martini, Simone Cerrato, Francesco Salvetti, Simone Angarano, and 1 more author

International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022

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@article{martini2022position,
  title = {Position-Agnostic Autonomous Navigation in Vineyards with Deep Reinforcement Learning},
  author = {Martini, Mauro and Cerrato, Simone and Salvetti, Francesco and Angarano, Simone and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering},
  year = {2022},
  url = {},
}

PRJ

Action Transformer: a Self-attention Model for Short-time Pose-based Human Action Recognition

Vittorio Mazzia, Simone Angarano, Francesco Salvetti, Federico Angelini, and 1 more author

Pattern Recognition, 2022

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@article{mazzia2022action,
  title = {Action Transformer: a Self-attention Model for Short-time Pose-based Human Action Recognition},
  author = {Mazzia, Vittorio and Angarano, Simone and Salvetti, Francesco and Angelini, Federico and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {Pattern Recognition},
  volume = {124},
  pages = {108487},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031320321006634?casa_token=WsYILND9mMAAAAAA:Q40e_Yk_U55UYM85LUdJu79ugc3LlhYI8r-1bA6-_iBYVS19DuhN99ZzzopwlzJ2y7gJcg8Z},
}

EAAI

Robust Ultra-wideband Range Error Mitigation with Deep Learning at the Edge

Simone Angarano, Vittorio Mazzia, Francesco Salvetti, Giovanni Fantin, and 1 more author

Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, 2021

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@article{angarano2021robust,
  title = {Robust Ultra-wideband Range Error Mitigation with Deep Learning at the Edge},
  author = {Angarano, Simone and Mazzia, Vittorio and Salvetti, Francesco and Fantin, Giovanni and Chiaberge, Marcello},
  journal = {Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {102},
  pages = {104278},
  year = {2021},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0952197621001251?casa_token=VOdlgHgE2xIAAAAA:aFXw1ldnFNKYCI0f_LNE8uvl1yg0it0ZT_GFoLAwGk0evj1_Sr4dmzp5q9AmWJBaSpQWzV17},
}