Carlo Masone

ERC sectors

• IROS JTCF Novel Technology Paper Award for Amusement Culture conferred by IROS 2016 award committee, Giappone (2016)
• Best Paper Award (finalist) at the IEEE International Conference on Information and Automation (ICIA) conferred by IEEE, Cina (2016)
• Outstanding Reviewer at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conferred by IEEE/CVF (2022)
• Outstanding Reviewer at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conferred by IEEE/CVF (2023)
• Outstanding Reviewer at the International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2024 conferred by IEEE/CVF, Italy (2024)

• Fellow - European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Italia (2024-)
  ELLIS Member

• Ricercatore, presso Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (1/4/2014-31/5/2017)

• Collegio di Ingegneria Elettronica, delle Telecomunicazioni e Fisica. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Ingegneria Gestionale e della Produzione. Componente invitato
• Collegio di Ingegneria Matematica. Componente

Master of Science

• Machine Learning for Mathematical Engineering. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA MATEMATICA. Titolare del corso
• Machine Learning for Mathematical Engineering. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA MATEMATICA. Titolare del corso
• Robot Learning. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
• Machine learning and Deep learning. A.A. 2022/23, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso

Bachelor of Science

• GeoAI: intelligenza artificiale e dati geospaziali. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
• Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2025/26, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
• GeoAI: intelligenza artificiale e dati geospaziali. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA EDILE. Collaboratore del corso
• Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso
• Tecniche di programmazione. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA GESTIONALE. Collaboratore del corso

Projects funded by competitive calls

• SIREN - Smart robotIcs foR the tExtile iNdustry, (2025-2027) - Componente gruppo di Ricerca
  Corporate-funded and donor-funded research

Projects funded by commercial contracts

• Quantificazione delle Incertezze nei Modelli di MachineLearning per Veicoli a Guida Assistita e Autonoma, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research
• MAPP - Musei Alpini Phygitali e Partecipativi - Linea A e sullo SPOKE4 Montagna Digitale e Sostenibile, (2024-2025) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Consulting
• Investigazione sulla realizzabilità di un algoritmo di geolocalizzazione di immagini sfruttando sia immagini terrestri che aeree, oltre che dati 3D, (2023-2024) - Responsabile Scientifico
  Commercial Research

• Davide Sferrazza. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (41^st cycle, 2025-in progress)
• Alessandro Marinai. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (40^th cycle, 2024-in progress)
• Gabriele Rosi. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (39^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
• Riccardo Zaccone. Programme in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi (38^th cycle, 2023-in progress)
  Research subject: Algorithms and architectures for distributed training of deep neural networks
  
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
  Data science, Computer vision and AI
• Shyam Nandan Rai. Programme in Intelligenza Artificiale (37^th cycle, 2021-2025)
  Thesis: From pixels to masks: Toward open-set segmentation

• Cuttano, Claudia; Trivigno, Gabriele; Averta, Giuseppe; Masone, Carlo (In stampa)
  SANSA: Unleashing the Hidden Semantics in SAM2 for Few-Shot Segmentation. In: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 2025), San Diego (USA), December 2nd - 7th, 2025
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Sferrazza, Davide; Berton, Gabriele; Trivigno, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo (2025)
  To Match or Not to Match: Revisiting Image Matching for Reliable Visual Place Recognition. In: 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Nashville (USA), 11-12 June 2025, pp. 2840-2851. ISBN: 979-8-3315-9994-2
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Cuttano, Claudia; Trivigno, Gabriele; Rosi, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo; Averta, Giuseppe (2025)
  SAMWISE: Infusing Wisdom in SAM2 for Text-Driven Video Segmentation. In: 2025 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Nashville (USA), 10-17 June 2025, pp. 3395-3405. ISSN 2575-7075. ISBN: 979-8-3315-4364-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Berton, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo (2025)
  Megaloc: One retrieval to place them all. In: 2025 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Nashville (USA), 11-12 June 2025, pp. 2852-2858. ISBN: 979-8-3315-9994-2
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Zaccone, Riccardo; Praneeth Karimireddy, Sai; Masone, Carlo; Ciccone, Marco (2025)
  Communication-Efficient Heterogeneous Federated Learning with Generalized Heavy-Ball Momentum. In: TRANSACTIONS ON MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCH. ISSN 2835-8856
  Contributo su Rivista
• Berton, Gabriele; Junglas, Lorenz; Zaccone, Riccardo; Pollok, Thomas; Caputo, Barbara; ... (2025)
  MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes. In: 18th European Conference in Computer Vision (ECCV), Milano (IT), September 29 – October 4, 2024, pp. 321-339. ISSN 0302-9743. ISBN: 9783031729034
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Berton, Gabriele; Stoken, Alex; Caputo, Barbara; Masone, Carlo (2024)
  Earthloc: Astronaut photography localization by indexing earth from space. In: IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Seattle (USA), 16-22 June 2024, pp. 12754-12764. ISSN 2163-6648. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5300-6
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Trivigno, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo; Caputo, Barbara; Sattler, Torsten (2024)
  The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Pre-Trained Features for Camera Pose Refinement. In: IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), Seattle (USA), 16-22 June 2024, pp. 12786-12798. ISSN 2163-6648. ISBN: 979-8-3503-5300-6
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Berton, Gabriele; Goletto, Gabriele; Trivigno, Gabriele; Stoken, Alex; Caputo, Barbara; ... (2024)
  EarthMatch: Iterative Coregistration for Fine-grained Localization of Astronaut Photography. In: IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Seattle (USA), 17-18 June 2024, pp. 4264-4274. ISSN 2160-7508. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6547-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Barbarani, Giovanni; Vaccarino, Francesco; Trivigno, Gabriele; Guerra, Marco; Berton, ... (2024)
  Scale-Free Image Keypoints Using Differentiable Persistent Homology. In: 41st International Conference on Machine Learning, Vienna (AUT), 21-27 July 2024, pp. 2990-3002. ISSN 2640-3498
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Zaccone, Riccardo; Berton, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo (2024)
  Distributed training of CosPlace for large-scale visual place recognition. In: FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI, vol. 11. ISSN 2296-9144
  Contributo su Rivista
• Dutto, Mattia; Berton, Gabriele; Caldarola, Debora; Fani, Eros; Trivigno, Gabriele; ... (2024)
  Collaborative Visual Place Recognition through Federated Learning. In: IEEE / CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference Workshop, Seattle (USA), 17-18 June 2024, pp. 4215-4225. ISBN: 979-8-3503-6547-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Berton, Gabriele; Trivigno, Gabriele; Caputo, Barbara; Masone, Carlo (2024)
  JIST: Joint Image and Sequence Training for Sequential Visual Place Recognition. In: IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, vol. 9, pp. 1310-1317. ISSN 2377-3766
  Contributo su Rivista
• Rai, SHYAM NANDAN; Cermelli, Fabio; Caputo, Barbara; Masone, Carlo (2024)
  Mask2Anomaly: Mask Transformer for Universal Open-set Segmentation. In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE, vol. 46, pp. 9286-9302. ISSN 0162-8828
  Contributo su Rivista
• Yu, Xuanlong; Zuo, Yi; Wang, Zitao; Zhang, Xiaowen; Zhao, Jiaxuan; Yang, Yuting; Jiao, ... (2023)
  The Robust Semantic Segmentation UNCV2023 Challenge Results. In: Uncertainty Estimation for Computer Vision, International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop, Paris (FRA), 02-06 October 2023, pp. 4620-4630. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0744-3
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Trivigno, Gabriele; Berton, Gabriele; Masone, Carlo; Aragon, Juan; Caputo, Barbara (2023)
  Divide&Classify: Fine-Grained Classification for City-Wide Visual Place Recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris (FRA), 01-06 October 2023, pp. 11108-11118. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0718-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Berton, Gabriele; Trivigno, Gabriele; Caputo, Barbara; Masone, Carlo (2023)
  EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition. In: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), Paris (FRA), 01-06 October 2023, pp. 11046-11056. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0718-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Barbarani, Giovanni; Mostafa, Mohamad; Bayramov, Hajali; Trivigno, Gabriele; Berton, ... (2023)
  Are Local Features All You Need for Cross-Domain Visual Place Recognition?. In: Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2023), Vancouver (CAN), 18-22 June 2023, pp. 6155-6165. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0249-3
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Rai, SHYAM NANDAN; Cermelli, Fabio; Fontanel, Dario; Masone, Carlo; Caputo, Barbara (2023)
  Unmasking Anomalies in Road-Scene Segmentation. In: International Conference on Computer Vision 2023, Paris (FR), 01-06 October 2023, pp. 4014-4023. ISBN: 979-8-3503-0718-4
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Masone, C.; Stegagno, P. (2021)
  Shared control of an aerial cooperative transportation system with a cable-suspended payload. In: JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS, vol. 103. ISSN 0921-0296
  Contributo su Rivista
• Masone, C.; Mohammadi, M.; Robuffo Giordano, P.; Franchi, A. (2018)
  Shared planning and control for mobile robots with integral haptic feedback. In: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH, vol. 37, pp. 1395-1420. ISSN 0278-3649
  Contributo su Rivista
• Schenk, C.; Masone, C.; Pott, A.; Bulthoff, H. H. (2018)
  Application of a differentiator-based adaptive super-twisting controller for a redundant cable-driven parallel robot. In: Mechanisms and Machine Science / S.N., Cham (Switzerland), Springer, pp. 254-267. ISBN: 978-3-319-61430-4
  Contributo in Volume
• Miermeister, P.; Lachele, M.; Boss, R.; Masone, C.; Schenk, C.; Tesch, J.; Kerger, M.; ... (2016)
  The CableRobot simulator large scale motion platform based on Cable Robot technology. In: 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon Convention Center (KOR), 09-14 October 2016, pp. 3024-3029. ISSN 2153-0858
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Masone, C.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Stegagno, P. (2016)
  Cooperative transportation of a payload using quadrotors: a reconfigurable cable-driven parallel robot. In: 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2016, Daejeon Convention Center (KOR), 09-14 October 2016, pp. 1623-1630. ISSN 2153-0858. ISBN: 978-1-5090-3762-9
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Rajappa, S.; Masone, C.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Stegagno, P. (2016)
  Adaptive super twisting controller for a quadrotor UAV. In: 2016 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2016, Stockholm Waterfront Congress Center (SWE), 16-21 May 2016, pp. 2971-2977. ISSN 2379-9544. ISBN: 978-1-4673-8026-3
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Schenk, C.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Masone, C. (2015)
  Robust adaptive sliding mode control of a redundant cable driven parallel robot. In: 2015 19th International Conference on System Theory, Control and Computing (ICSTCC), Cheile Gradistei - Fundata Resort (ROU), 14-16 October 2015, pp. 427-434. ISSN 2473-5698. ISBN: 978-1-4799-8481-7
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Franchi, A.; Masone, C.; Grabe, V.; Ryll, M.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Giordano, P. R. (2012)
  Modeling and control of UAV bearing formations with bilateral high-level steering. In: THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH, vol. 31, pp. 1504-1525. ISSN 0278-3649
  Contributo su Rivista
• Masone, C.; Franchi, A.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Giordano, P. R. (2012)
  Interactive planning of persistent trajectories for human-assisted navigation of mobile robots. In: 25th IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Systems, IROS 2012, Vilamoura, Algarve (PRT), 07-12 October 2012, pp. 2641-2648. ISSN 2153-0858. ISBN: 978-1-4673-1736-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Franchi, A.; Masone, C.; Bulthoff, H. H.; Robuffo Giordano, P. (2011)
  Bilateral teleoperation of multiple UAVs with decentralized bearing-only formation control. In: 2011 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems: Celebrating 50 Years of Robotics, IROS'11, San Francisco, CA (USA), 25-30 September 2011, pp. 2215-2222. ISSN 2153-0858. ISBN: 978-1-61284-454-1
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
• Masone, C.; Giordano, P. R.; Bulthoff, H. H. (2011)
  Mechanical design and control of the new 7-DOF CyberMotion Simulator. In: 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2011, Shanghai (CHN), 09-13 May 2011, pp. 4935-4942. ISSN 2379-9544. ISBN: 978-1-61284-385-8
  Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)

• Metodo e algoritmo per la progettazione automatica di reti neurali tramite machine learning. national and international Patent
  Inventors: Giuseppe Bruno Averta Barbara Caputo Fabio Cermelli Carlo Masone Antonio Tavera