Fixed-term tenure-track assistant professor
Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI)
- Member of Interdepartmental Center PIC4SeR - PoliTO Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics
Profile
Research interests
Biography
DI PIETRA Vincenzo is Assistant Professor with fixed-term contract (RTD-B) at Politecnico di Torino - Italy, in the Department of Environment, Land and Infrastructure Engineering (DIATI) from May 2021 (https://www.diati.polito.it/personale/scheda/(nominativo)/vincenzo.dipietra). He teaches in various courses concerning geomatics in Bachelor, Master, and Ph.D. degrees at Politecnico di Torino where he also participates in innovative teaching projects (challenges by firms) as a mentor. He is part of the Geomatics research group, and his research focuses on positioning and navigation in challenging environments via sensor fusion and data integration algorithms for smart cities and emergency management. He is a member of the International Association of Geodesy (IAG) (Working Group 4.1.4. “Vision Aided Positioning and Navigation” of Sub-Commission 4.1: “Emerging Positioning Technologies and GNSS Augmentations”). His Ph.D. thesis, discussed in 2018, concerned the “seamless positioning and navigation in urban environment” and was developed in collaboration with the Finnish Geospatial Research Institute (FGI) of the National Land Survey of Finland. The main scientific activities in this context were the analysis and performance evaluation of low-cost UWB systems for positioning and the validation of raw GNSS data from the newest dual-frequency smartphone receivers. He developed several multi-sensor algorithms for navigation with particular attention to vision-based systems. Recently, in the frame of the BEEMS project and with the collaboration of the Israeli partner of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he started developing and implementing OBIA and machine learning algorithms for land cover classification with UAS imagery for monitoring bee diversity in natural systems. He is the author of over 30 publications at national and international level, with articles in journals, book chapters, and proceedings. During his academic career, he has won the Young Author award at “62° CONVEGNO NAZIONALE Società italiana di fotogrammetria e topografia” in 2017, the Quality award 2018 for PhD students of the 31st and 32nd cycle, PhD School - Politecnico di Torino in 2018 and the best doctoral thesis conferred by the “Associazione Universitari di Topografia e Cartografia” – AUTeC in 2019. Regarding the activities concerned robotics and mapping, he has tutored several master’s students for thesis related to unmanned ground vehicles for precise agriculture, providing support on the topics of depth camera sensing for visual perception, 3D path planning, autonomous navigation, and ultrawideband positioning. He is also a member of the PIC4SeR - PoliTO Interdepartmental Centre for Service Robotics (https://pic4ser.polito.it/) where he shares tools and skills to experiment robotics solutions in different application scenarios (precision agriculture, smart cities, search&rescue, patrolling and early warning systems, life support for elderly and disabled people, rehabilitation, archaeological survey/security/protection, etc.).
Curriculum
Scientific branch
(Area 0008 - Civil engineering and architecture)
Skills
ERC sectors
SDG
Open badges
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Learning to Teach (L2T)
Issued by Politecnico di Torino on 15-06-2024
Awards and Honors
- Premio giovani autori SIFET conferred by SIFET: Società Italiana di Fotogrammetria E Topografia, Italy (2017)
- Premio Qualità conferred by Politecnico di Torino, Italy (2018)
- Premio AUTeC conferred by Associazione Universitari di Topografia e Cartografia, Italy (2021)
Teaching
Collegi of the PhD programmes
- INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE, 2024/2025 (40. ciclo)
Politecnico di TORINO
Collegi of the degree programmes
- Collegio di Ingegneria Civile ed Edile. Componente
- Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica. Componente invitato
- Collegio di Ingegneria per l'Ambiente e il Territorio. Componente
Teachings
PhD
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Main teacher
- Statistical data processing. A.A. 2022/23, URBAN AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT. Teaching assistant
- Tecniche geomatiche innovative per il monitoraggio di strutture, infrastrutture e territorio. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE E AMBIENTALE. Teaching assistant
Master of Science
- Laboratory of GIS and Geospatial Service for engineering Applications. A.A. 2024/25, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2024/25, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Progettazione per l'ambiente e il territorio. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratory of GIS and Geospatial Service for engineering Applications. A.A. 2023/24, CIVIL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2023/24, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Progettazione per l'ambiente e il territorio. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Laboratory of GIS and Geospatial Service for engineering Applications. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Titolare del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2022/23, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Progettazione per l'ambiente e il territorio. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA PER L'AMBIENTE E IL TERRITORIO. Collaboratore del corso
- Challenge@PoliTo by Firms - Dream Your Outdoor. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE (ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT). Collaboratore del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2021/22, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatics. A.A. 2021/22, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Interdisciplinary projects. A.A. 2020/21, ICT FOR SMART SOCIETIES (ICT PER LA SOCIETA' DEL FUTURO). Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2020/21, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Cartografia numerica e GIS. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
- Geomatica. A.A. 2019/20, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Bachelor of Science
- Topographic and Geophysical Land Surveying. A.A. 2024/25, CIVIL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. Titolare del corso
- Geologia applicata/Topografia (modulo di Topografia). A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA CIVILE. Collaboratore del corso
Research
Research areas
Research projects
Projects funded by competitive calls
- MORPHEUS - GeoMORPHomEtry throUgh Scales for a resilient landscape, (2023-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
Nationally funded research - PRIN
Projects funded by commercial contracts
- Studio di fattibilità sull’utilizzo di deep-learning per l’ispezione e monitoraggio di ammaloramenti sull’infrastruttura di comunicazione di proprietà di Rai Way, mediante immagini acquisite da droni”, definita come “Fase 1”, (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
Commercial Research - OrigoSat for Smartphones, (2022-2023) - Responsabile Scientifico
Consulting
Supervised PhD students
- Milad Bagheri. Programme in Ingegneria Civile E Ambientale (40th cycle, 2024-in progress)
Publications
Publications by type
PoliTO co-authors
Latest publications View all publications in Porto@Iris
- Savino, Pierclaudio; Graglia, Fabio; Scozza, Gabriele; Di Pietra, Vincenzo (2025)
Automated corrosion surface quantification in steel transmission towers using UAV photogrammetry and deep convolutional neural networks. In: COMPUTER-AIDED CIVIL AND INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING. ISSN 1093-9687
Contributo su Rivista - RODRIGUEZ POLANIA, Daniel; Osello, Anna; Tondolo, Francesco; Piras, Marco; Grasso, ... (2025)
Bridges monitoring and assessment using an integrated bim methodology. In: INNOVATIVE INFRASTRUCTURE SOLUTIONS, vol. 10, pp. 1-18. ISSN 2364-4176
Contributo su Rivista - Spadavecchia, Claudio; Belcore, Elena; DI PIETRA, Vincenzo; Grasso, Nives (2024)
A Combination of Geomatic Techniques for Modelling the Urban Environment in Virtual Reality. In: Geographical Information Systems Theory, Applications and Management, Praga, 25/04/2023 - 27/04/2023, pp. 14-33. ISBN: 9783031602764
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Dabove, P.; Di Pietra, V. (2024)
A GNSS low-cost RTK network: positioning and atmospheric monitoring performances in mountain areas. In: 2024 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, ITM 2024, Long Beach (CA - USA), 23-25 January 2024, pp. 858-868. ISSN 2330-3662
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding) - Ghantous, Jad; DI PIETRA, Vincenzo (2024)
Terrace Smoothing Using Open Source Tools In Digital Terrain Models. In: Conferenza Nazionale ASITA 2024, Padova, 9-13 dicembre, pp. 265-275. ISBN: 9791298535503
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)