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most citedA 64mW DNN-based Visual Navigation Engine for Autonomous Nano-Drones

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cs.AR2026

Adaptive AI: Energy Efficient Multi-exit TinyML on Intelligent Vision Systems at the Edge

Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Alessandro Giusti +1

Traditional TinyML systems for edge devices achieve high accuracy by relying on fixed-depth models that require a constant number of multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations regardless…

eess.IV2026

Thinking Fast, Thinking Slow: Adaptive Multimodal Transformer-based Sensor Fusion for Depth Estimation on Ultra-low-power MCUs

Luca Crupi, Lorenzo Lamberti, Giovanni Badaracco +3

Artificial intelligence (AI)-based multimodal sensor fusion is a relevant topic gaining ever more traction across ultra-low-power (ULP) embedded and cyber-physical systems, as it i…

eess.IV2026★ 31 cited

Improving Autonomous Nano-drones Performance via Automated End-to-End Optimization and Deployment of DNNs

Vlad Niculescu, Lorenzo Lamberti, Francesco Conti +2

The evolution of energy-efficient ultra-low-power (ULP) parallel processors and the diffusion of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are fueling the advent of autonomous driving n…

cs.CV2026

MR2-ByteTrack: CNN and Transformer-based Video Object Detection for AI-augmented Embedded Vision Sensor Nodes

Luca Bompani, Manuele Rusci, Luca Benini +2

Modern smart vision sensors need on-device intelligence to process video streams, as cloud computing is often impractical due to bandwidth, latency, and privacy constraints. Howeve…

eess.IV2026

TinyDEVO: Deep Event-based Visual Odometry on Ultra-low-power Multi-core Microcontrollers

Alessandro Marchei, Lorenzo Lamberti, Daniele Palossi +1

A key task in embedded vision is visual odometry (VO), which estimates camera motion from visual sensors, and it is a core component in many embedded power-constrained systems, fro…

cs.RO2026

Self-supervised Domain Adaptation for Visual 3D Pose Estimation of Nano-drone Racing Gates by Enforcing Geometric Consistency

Nicholas Carlotti, Michele Antonazzi, Elia Cereda +4

We consider the task of visually estimating the relative pose of a drone racing gate in front of a nano-quadrotor, using a convolutional neural network pre-trained on simulated dat…

cs.RO2026

Tiny-DroNeRF: Tiny Neural Radiance Fields aboard Federated Learning-enabled Nano-drones

Ilenia Carboni, Elia Cereda, Lorenzo Lamberti +3

Sub-30g nano-sized aerial robots can leverage their agility and form factor to autonomously explore cluttered and narrow environments, like in industrial inspection and search and…

cs.RO2026

NanoCockpit: Performance-optimized Application Framework for AI-based Autonomous Nanorobotics

Elia Cereda, Alessandro Giusti, Daniele Palossi

Autonomous nano-drones, powered by vision-based tiny machine learning (TinyML) models, are a novel technology gaining momentum thanks to their broad applicability and pushing scien…