Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Elettrica, Elettronica E Delle Comunicazioni , 37th cycle (2021-2024)
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)
Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Department of Electronics and Telecommunications (DET)
Profile
PhD
Research topic
Autonomous navigation methods, algorithms and control strategies that exploit visual informations.
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Research interests
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
- Electronics Fundamentals and Applications. A.A. 2024/25, 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. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
- Electronics Fundamentals and Applications. A.A. 2022/23, MECHATRONIC ENGINEERING (INGEGNERIA MECCATRONICA). Collaboratore del corso
Publications
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- 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) - 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) - 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, 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; 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)