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most citedOn the Real-World Adversarial Robustness of Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Models for Autonomous Driving

52 citations · 131 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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13 papers

cs.CV2026

Towards Real-Time PixOOD: Efficient Anomaly Segmentation for Autonomous Vehicles

Luca de Martino, Federico Aromolo, Federico Nesti +1

Real-time anomaly segmentation is essential for the safety of autonomous systems. Although recent approaches offer high accuracy, their computational cost limits their deployment o…

cs.CV2026

Integrating Object Detection, LiDAR-Enhanced Depth Estimation, and Segmentation Models for Railway Environments

Enrico Francesco Giannico, Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico +5

Obstacle detection in railway environments is crucial for ensuring safety. However, very few studies address the problem using a complete, modular, and flexible system that can bot…

cs.CV2026

OSDaR-AR: Enhancing Railway Perception Datasets via Multi-modal Augmented Reality

Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni +1

Although deep learning has significantly advanced the perception capabilities of intelligent transportation systems, railway applications continue to suffer from a scarcity of high…

eess.SY2025

The Use of the Simplex Architecture to Enhance Safety in Deep-Learning-Powered Autonomous Systems

Federico Nesti, Niko Salamini, Mauro Marinoni +4

Recently, the outstanding performance reached by neural networks in many tasks has led to their deployment in autonomous systems, such as robots and vehicles. However, neural netwo…

cs.CV2025

Towards Railway Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-based 3D Detection: Road-to-Rail and Sim-to-Real via SynDRA-BBox

Xavier Diaz, Gianluca D'Amico, Raul Dominguez-Sanchez +3

In recent years, interest in automatic train operations has significantly increased. To enable advanced functionalities, robust vision-based algorithms are essential for perceiving…

cs.RO2025★ 1 cited

SimPRIVE: a Simulation framework for Physical Robot Interaction with Virtual Environments

Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni +1

The use of machine learning in cyber-physical systems has attracted the interest of both industry and academia. However, no general solution has yet been found against the unpredic…

cs.RO2025

Feelbert: A Feedback Linearization-based Embedded Real-Time Quadrupedal Locomotion Framework

Aristide Emanuele Casucci, Federico Nesti, Mauro Marinoni +1

Quadruped robots have become quite popular for their ability to adapt their locomotion to generic uneven terrains. For this reason, over time, several frameworks for quadrupedal lo…

cs.CV2023

TrainSim: A Railway Simulation Framework for LiDAR and Camera Dataset Generation

Gianluca D'Amico, Mauro Marinoni, Federico Nesti +4

The railway industry is searching for new ways to automate a number of complex train functions, such as object detection, track discrimination, and accurate train positioning, whic…

cs.CV2022★ 13 cited

CARLA-GeAR: a Dataset Generator for a Systematic Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness of Vision Models

Federico Nesti, Giulio Rossolini, Gianluca D'Amico +2

Adversarial examples represent a serious threat for deep neural networks in several application domains and a huge amount of work has been produced to investigate them and mitigate…

cs.CV2022★ 15 cited

Defending From Physically-Realizable Adversarial Attacks Through Internal Over-Activation Analysis

Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Fabio Brau +2

This work presents Z-Mask, a robust and effective strategy to improve the adversarial robustness of convolutional networks against physically-realizable adversarial attacks. The pr…

cs.CV2022★ 52 cited

On the Real-World Adversarial Robustness of Real-Time Semantic Segmentation Models for Autonomous Driving

Giulio Rossolini, Federico Nesti, Gianluca D'Amico +3

The existence of real-world adversarial examples (commonly in the form of patches) poses a serious threat for the use of deep learning models in safety-critical computer vision tas…

cs.CV2021

Evaluating the Robustness of Semantic Segmentation for Autonomous Driving against Real-World Adversarial Patch Attacks

Federico Nesti, Giulio Rossolini, Saasha Nair +2

Deep learning and convolutional neural networks allow achieving impressive performance in computer vision tasks, such as object detection and semantic segmentation (SS). However, r…

cs.CV2021★ 50 cited

Detecting Adversarial Examples by Input Transformations, Defense Perturbations, and Voting

Federico Nesti, Alessandro Biondi, Giorgio Buttazzo

Over the last few years, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have proved to reach super-human performance in visual recognition tasks. However, CNNs can easily be fooled by advers…