Ph.D. in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni , 37th cycle (2021-2024)
Ph.D. obtained in 2026
Dissertation:
Visual Perception for Service Robotics: from Frame-based to Event-based sensors (Abstract)
Tutors:
Gianluca Setti Marcello ChiabergeProfile
Research topic
Autonomous navigation methods, algorithms and control strategies that exploit visual informations.
Keywords
Biography
I'm currently a Ph.D. student in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering under the guidance of Professor Gianluca Setti and Professor Marcello Chiaberge. I’m also a member of the Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics at Politecnico di Torino (https://pic4ser.polito.it/member/chiara-boretti/).
My academic and research background has predominantly revolved around visual navigation. In fact, I conducted my master's thesis under the guidance of Professor John Baillieul at Boston University, where we developed a control algorithm based on visual cues known as "time-to-transit" for ground robot navigation. Currently, I am collaborating with Professor Baillieul to further enhance this algorithm.
Moreover, I’m also exploring the possibilities offered by novel neuromorphic-inspired visual sensors known as event-based cameras in the field of service robotics. Specifically, I am currently working on harnessing the output of these visual sensors to address tasks such as person detection, re-identification, and tracking. I am interested in understanding the limitations of classical approaches when dealing with event streams and in exploring new techniques that can preserve their advantages, such as sparsity and asynchronicity, and the advantages offered by the use of event-based cameras.
Teaching
Teachings
Master of Science
- Electronic systems for mechatronics. A.A. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
- Electronic systems for mechatronics. A.A. 2023/24, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
- Electronic systems for mechatronics. A.A. 2024/25, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
- Electronics Fundamentals and Applications. A.A. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
- Electronics Fundamentals and Applications. A.A. 2024/25, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Publications
Works published during the Ph.D. View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Boretti, Chiara (2026)
Visual Perception for Service Robotics: from Frame-based to Event-based sensors. relatore: SETTI, GIANLUCA; CHIABERGE, MARCELLO; , 37. XXXVII Ciclo, P.: 163
Doctoral Thesis - Prono, Luciano; Dhieb, Najmeddine; Bich, Philippe; Boretti, Chiara; Pareschi, Fabio; ... (2026)
FOREST-GC: A conFOrmable Rendering Engine for Synthetic Tree Generation and Counting. In: IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, vol. 19, pp. 9868-9880. ISSN 1939-1404
Contributo su Rivista - Bich, Philippe; Prono, Luciano; Boretti, Chiara; Pareschi, Fabio; Rovatti, Riccardo; ... (2025)
MESA: A Dynamical Attention-based Pre-processing Pipeline for High-throughput Event-based Computer Vision Tasks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS. II, EXPRESS BRIEFS, vol. 72, pp. 2057-2061. ISSN 1549-7747
Contributo su Rivista - Prono, Luciano; Bich, Philippe; Boretti, Chiara; Mangia, Mauro; Pareschi, Fabio; ... (2025)
A Multiply-And-Max/Min Neuron Paradigm for Aggressively Prunable Deep Neural Networks. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS AND LEARNING SYSTEMS, vol. 36, pp. 14414-14427. ISSN 2162-237X
Contributo su Rivista - Bich, P.; Boretti, C.; Prono, L.; Pareschi, F.; Rovatti, R.; Setti, G. (2024)
Optimizing Vision Transformers: Leveraging Max and Min Operations for Efficient Pruning. In: 2024 IEEE 6th International Conference on AI Circuits and Systems (AICAS), Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates), April 22-25, 2024, pp. 337-341. ISBN: 979-8-3503-8363-8
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Wang, Zuowen; Gao, Chang; Wu, Zongwei; Conde, Marcos V.; Timofte, Radu; Liu, Shih-Chii; ... (2024)
Event-Based Eye Tracking. AIS 2024 Challenge Survey. In: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Seattle, WA (USA), 17-18 June 2024, pp. 5810-5825. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6547-4
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boretti, Chiara; Bich, Philippe; Prono, Luciano; Pareschi, Fabio; Rovatti, Riccardo; ... (2024)
Memory in Motion: Exploring Leaky Integration of Time Surfaces for Event-based Eye-tracking. In: 2024 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), Xian (Chi), 24-26 October 2024. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5495-9
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Borgini, Irene; Nazzario, Matteo; D'Apuzzo, Luca Maria; Dara, Gianluca; Eirale, Andrea; ... (2023)
Dispositivo di sanificazione. N. brevetto: 102023000003201, propr. brevetto: 4 - Soggetti terzi
Brevetti - Boretti, C.; Prono, L.; Frenkel, C.; Indiveri, G.; Pareschi, F.; Mangia, M.; Rovatti, ... (2023)
Event-based Classification with Recurrent Spiking Neural Networks on Low-end Micro-Controller Units. In: 56th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems, ISCAS 2023, Monterey, USA, May 21-25, 2023, pp. 1-5. ISBN: 978-1-6654-5109-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boretti, Chiara; Bich, Philippe; Pareschi, Fabio; Prono, Luciano; Rovatti, Riccardo; ... (2023)
PEDRo: an Event-based Dataset for Person Detection in Robotics. In: IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver (CA), 17-24 giugno 2023, pp. 4065-4070. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0249-3
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Boretti, Chiara; Bich, Philippe; Zhang, Yanyu; Baillieul, John (2022)
Visual Navigation Using Sparse Optical Flow and Time-to-Transit. In: 2022 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), Philadelphia, PA, USA, 23-27 May 2022, pp. 9397-9403. ISBN: 978-1-7281-9681-7
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Intellectual and industrial property
Patents and other intellectual properties
- Dispositivo di sanificazione. national Patent
Inventors: Chiara Boretti Marcello Chiaberge Gianluca Dara Andrea Eirale