Carlo Masone

Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN).
VANDAL lab member.
ELLIS member.

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carlo.masone@polito.it

My research spans the fields of machine learning, computer vision and robotics. One area I am focused is the broad field of spatial intelligence, particularly for what concerns localization (understand where an observation is in space) and fine grained understanding (understand the fine details in the observations).

A second thread of my reasearch is more related to pure learning, and particularly to reliable machine learning, distributed machine learning, edge machine learning and continuous functional learning. The common denominator is to try and make models that can be deployed to real world applications.

From 2009 to 2017 I was a researcher at the Autonomous Robotics and Human Machine Systems group within the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen (Germany). I started there as a visiting master and by the end I was a Postdoc. During that time, I worked mainly on problems of model based shared control and planning for various robotics platforms, including anthropomorphic manipulators, teams of drones and cable-driven parallel robots.

I also had a brief stint in industry, between 2017 and 2020, working as an autonomous driving specialist at Italdesign. During that time I contributed to the development of autonomous/assisted concept vehicles, focusing mainly on motion planning and perception. Among the projects I worked on, there are Pop.Up Next and WheeM-i.

news

Jul 31, 2024 :scroll: Our paper MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes was accepted to ECCV 2024. Check out the project page!
Jun 20, 2024 :star: For the second year in a row, I am serving as Area Chair for the WACV conference.
Jun 16, 2024 :scroll: Our paper Mask2Anomaly: Mask Transformer for Universal Open-set Segmentation was accepted to IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Kudos to Shyam Nandan Rai for the achievement!
May 23, 2024 :trophy: I have been nominated as an Outstanding Reviewer for CVPR 2024! Third year in a row :open_mouth:.

selected publications

  1. Journal
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    Mask2Anomaly: Mask Transformer for Universal Open-set Segmentation
    Shyam Nandan Rai, Fabio Cermelli, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2024
  2. Conference
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    MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes
    Gabriele Berton, Lorenz Junglas, Riccardo Zaccone, Thomas Pollok, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 2024
  3. Conference
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    Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology
    Giovanni Barbarani, Francesco Vaccarino, Gabriele Trivigno, Marco Guerra, Gabriele Berton, and Carlo Masone
    In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML), 2024
  4. Conference
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    The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Features for Camera Pose Refinement
    Gabriele Trivigno, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo, and Torsten Sattler
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2024
  5. Conference
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    Earthloc: Astronaut photography localization by indexing earth from space
    Gabriele Berton, Alex Stoken, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2024
  6. Journal
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    JIST: Joint Image and Sequence Training for Sequential Visual Place Recognition
    Gabriele Berton, Gabriele Trivigno, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Jun 2024
  7. Conference
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    Divide&Classify: Fine-Grained Classification for City-Wide Visual Place Recognition
    Gabriele Trivigno, Gabriele Berton, Juan Aragon, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Jun 2023
  8. Conference
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    EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition
    Gabriele Berton, Gabriele Trivigno, Barbara Caputo, and Carlo Masone
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Jun 2023
  9. Journal
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    Learning Sequential Descriptors for Sequence-Based Visual Place Recognition
    Riccardo Mereu, Gabriele Trivigno, Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, and Barbara Caputo
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Jun 2022
  10. Conference
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    Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications
    G. Berton, C. Masone, and B. Caputo
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2022
  11. Conference
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    Deep Visual Geo-localization Benchmark
    G. Berton, R. Mereu, G. Trivigno, C. Masone, G. Csurka, T. Sattler, and B. Caputo
    In IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Jun 2022
  12. Conference
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    Viewpoint Invariant Dense Matching for Visual Geolocalization
    G. Berton, C. Masone, V. Paolicelli, and B. Caputo
    In IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Jun 2021
  13. Journal
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    Shared Control of an Aerial Cooperative Transportation System with a Cable-suspended Payload
    C. Masone, and P. Stegagno
    Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Jun 2021
  14. Journal
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    A Survey on Deep Visual Place Recognition
    C. Masone, and B. Caputo
    IEEE Access, Jun 2021
  15. Journal
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    IDDA: A Large-Scale Multi-Domain Dataset for Autonomous Driving
    E. Alberti, A. Tavera, C. Masone, and B. Caputo
    IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Jun 2020