activity
20202026
most citedLearning general and distinctive 3D local deep descriptors for point cloud registration

94 citations · 99 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

collaborators

24 papers

cs.CV2026

Prior-free relative 6D pose estimation of multiple object instances

Behdad Khodabandehloo, Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini +1

Object 6D pose estimation formulations have progressively reduced reliance on object-specific priors, evolving from explicit 3D models to multi-view object captures to single refer…

cs.CV2026

Foundational feature fusion for conditional flow matching in 6D pose estimation

Amir Hamza, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

Conditional flow matching has enabled a step forward in object 6D pose estimation, achieving state-of-the-art performance by progressively denoising and registering object represen…

cs.CV2026

xperception -- Making Robotic Grasping Easier

Matteo Bortolon, Andrea Caraffa, Alice Fasoli +1

The transition toward high-mix low-volume manufacturing demands flexibility in robotic manipulation. However, conventional vision systems remain a bottleneck, requiring extensive d…

cs.CV2026

Generative 6D Pose Estimation via Conditional Flow Matching

Amir Hamza, Davide Boscaini, Weihang Li +2

Existing methods for instance-level 6D pose estimation typically rely on neural networks that either directly regress the pose in or estimate it indirectly via loc…

cs.CV2025

AI-driven visual monitoring of industrial assembly tasks

Mattia Nardon, Stefano Messelodi, Antonio Granata +3

Visual monitoring of industrial assembly tasks is critical for preventing equipment damage due to procedural errors and ensuring worker safety. Although commercial solutions exist,…

cs.CV2025

An analysis of vision-language models for fabric retrieval

Francesco Giuliari, Asif Khan Pattan, Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi +1

Effective cross-modal retrieval is essential for applications like information retrieval and recommendation systems, particularly in specialized domains such as manufacturing, wher…

cs.CV2025

Accurate and efficient zero-shot 6D pose estimation with frozen foundation models

Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

Estimating the 6D pose of objects from RGBD data is a fundamental problem in computer vision, with applications in robotics and augmented reality. A key challenge is achieving gene…

cs.CV2025

CHIP: A multi-sensor dataset for 6D pose estimation of chairs in industrial settings

Mattia Nardon, Mikel Mujika Agirre, Ander González Tomé +7

Accurate 6D pose estimation of complex objects in 3D environments is essential for effective robotic manipulation. Yet, existing benchmarks fall short in evaluating 6D pose estimat…

cs.CV2025

Distilling 3D distinctive local descriptors for 6D pose estimation

Amir Hamza, Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini +1

Three-dimensional local descriptors are crucial for encoding geometric surface properties, making them essential for various point cloud understanding tasks. Among these descriptor…

cs.CV2025

3D Part Segmentation via Geometric Aggregation of 2D Visual Features

Marco Garosi, Riccardo Tedoldi, Davide Boscaini +3

Supervised 3D part segmentation models are tailored for a fixed set of objects and parts, limiting their transferability to open-set, real-world scenarios. Recent works have explor…

cs.CV2025

Leveraging Confident Image Regions for Source-Free Domain-Adaptive Object Detection

Mohamed Lamine Mekhalfi, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

Source-free domain-adaptive object detection is an interesting but scarcely addressed topic. It aims at adapting a source-pretrained detector to a distinct target domain without re…

cs.CV2024

Functionality understanding and segmentation in 3D scenes

Jaime Corsetti, Francesco Giuliari, Alice Fasoli +2

Understanding functionalities in 3D scenes involves interpreting natural language descriptions to locate functional interactive objects, such as handles and buttons, in a 3D enviro…

cs.CV2024

Exploring Fine-grained Retail Product Discrimination with Zero-shot Object Classification Using Vision-Language Models

Anil Osman Tur, Alessandro Conti, Cigdem Beyan +5

In smart retail applications, the large number of products and their frequent turnover necessitate reliable zero-shot object classification methods. The zero-shot assumption is ess…

cs.CV2024

Wild Berry image dataset collected in Finnish forests and peatlands using drones

Luigi Riz, Sergio Povoli, Andrea Caraffa +13

Berry picking has long-standing traditions in Finland, yet it is challenging and can potentially be dangerous. The integration of drones equipped with advanced imaging techniques r…

cs.CV2023

FreeZe: Training-free zero-shot 6D pose estimation with geometric and vision foundation models

Andrea Caraffa, Davide Boscaini, Amir Hamza +1

Estimating the 6D pose of objects unseen during training is highly desirable yet challenging. Zero-shot object 6D pose estimation methods address this challenge by leveraging addit…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation

Jaime Corsetti, Davide Boscaini, Changjae Oh +2

We introduce the new setting of open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation, in which a textual prompt is used to specify the object of interest. In contrast to existing approaches,…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Detect, Augment, Compose, and Adapt: Four Steps for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation in Object Detection

Mohamed L. Mekhalfi, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) plays a crucial role in object detection when adapting a source-trained detector to a target domain without annotated data. In this paper, we p…

cs.CV2023

PatchMixer: Rethinking network design to boost generalization for 3D point cloud understanding

Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

The recent trend in deep learning methods for 3D point cloud understanding is to propose increasingly sophisticated architectures either to better capture 3D geometries or by intro…

cs.CV2023

Revisiting Fully Convolutional Geometric Features for Object 6D Pose Estimation

Jaime Corsetti, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

Recent works on 6D object pose estimation focus on learning keypoint correspondences between images and object models, and then determine the object pose through RANSAC-based algor…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

The MONET dataset: Multimodal drone thermal dataset recorded in rural scenarios

Luigi Riz, Andrea Caraffa, Matteo Bortolon +11

We present MONET, a new multimodal dataset captured using a thermal camera mounted on a drone that flew over rural areas, and recorded human and vehicle activities. We captured MON…

cs.CV2021★ 94 cited

Learning general and distinctive 3D local deep descriptors for point cloud registration

Fabio Poiesi, Davide Boscaini

An effective 3D descriptor should be invariant to different geometric transformations, such as scale and rotation, robust to occlusions and clutter, and capable of generalising to…

cs.CV2020

Distinctive 3D local deep descriptors

Fabio Poiesi, Davide Boscaini

We present a simple but yet effective method for learning distinctive 3D local deep descriptors (DIPs) that can be used to register point clouds without requiring an initial alignm…

cs.CV2020

Novel-View Human Action Synthesis

Mohamed Ilyes Lakhal, Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi +2

Novel-View Human Action Synthesis aims to synthesize the movement of a body from a virtual viewpoint, given a video from a real viewpoint. We present a novel 3D reasoning to synthe…

cs.CV2020★ 2 cited

3D Shape Segmentation with Geometric Deep Learning

Davide Boscaini, Fabio Poiesi

The semantic segmentation of 3D shapes with a high-density of vertices could be impractical due to large memory requirements. To make this problem computationally tractable, we pro…