Roberto Bigazzi

Roberto Bigazzi received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Milan, Italy. He pursued his PhD degree in ICT at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, working in AImageLab under the supervision of professor Rita Cucchiara. Now, he is a Post-Doc Researcher at AImageLab. The topics covered by his research are: Embodied AI, Visual Navigation, Reinforcement Learning, and Robotics.

Research Projects

• European Training Network on PErsonalized Robotics as SErvice Oriented applications
• Prediction of activities and Events by Vision in an Urban Environment
• Fit for Medical Robotics

Research Activities

• Self-Supervised Navigation and Recounting
• Acquisition of 3D Environments for Robotic Navigation
• Embodied Vision-and-Language Navigation
• Personalized Instance-based Navigation

Publications

1	Barsellotti, Luca; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Personalized Instance-based Navigation Toward User-Specific Objects in Realistic Environments" Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, Vancouver, Canada, December 9-15, 2024, 2024 Conference
2	Rawal, Niyati; Maharjan, Rahul Singh; Romeo, Marta; Bigazzi, Roberto; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita; Cangelosi, Angelo "Intelligent Multimodal Artificial Agents that Talk and Express Emotions" Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics, Lugano, 30 September to 1 October 2024, 2024 Conference
3	Rawal, Niyati; Bigazzi, Roberto; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "AIGeN: An Adversarial Approach for Instruction Generation in VLN" Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops, CVPRW 2024, Seattle, pp. 2070 -2080 , 16th-22st June 2024, 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/CVPRW63382.2024.00212 Conference
4	Bigazzi, Roberto; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Kousik, Shreyas; Cucchiara, Rita; Pavone, Marco "Mapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition" Proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol. 2024, Yokohama, pp. 7686 -7693 , May 13th-17th, 2024, 2024 | DOI: 10.1109/ICRA57147.2024.10610897 Conference
5	Poppi, Samuele; Rawal, Niyati; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Towards Explainable Navigation and Recounting" IMAGE ANALYSIS AND PROCESSING, ICIAP 2023, PT I, vol. 14233, Udine, Italy, pp. 171 -183 , September 11-15, 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-43148-7_15 Conference
6	Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Embodied Agents for Efficient Exploration and Smart Scene Description" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), vol. 2023-May, London, pp. 6057 -6064 , 29 May - 2 June 2023, 2023 | DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160668 Conference
7	Bigazzi, Roberto "Agenti Autonomi Incorporati: Quando la Robotica incontra il Ragionamento con Deep Learning" 2023 Other
8	Landi, Federico; Bigazzi, Roberto; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Spot the Difference: A Novel Task for Embodied Agents in Changing Environments" Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, vol. 2022-, Montréal Québec, pp. 4182 -4188 , August 21-25, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR56361.2022.9956538 Conference
9	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cascianelli, Silvia; Cornia, Marcella; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Embodied Navigation at the Art Gallery" Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, vol. 13231, Lecce, Italy, pp. 739 -750 , May 23-27, 2022, 2022 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-06427-2_61 Conference
10	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cornia, Marcella; Cucchiara, Rita "Focus on Impact: Indoor Exploration with Intrinsic Motivation" IEEE ROBOTICS AND AUTOMATION LETTERS, vol. 7, pp. 2985 -2992 , 2022 | DOI: 10.1109/LRA.2022.3145971 Journal
11	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Explore and Explain: Self-supervised Navigation and Recounting" Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Milan, Italy, pp. 1152 -1159 , 10-15 January 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412628 Conference
12	Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita "Out of the Box: Embodied Navigation in the Real World" Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns, vol. 13052, Virtual, pp. 47 -57 , 27 September - 01 October 2021, 2021 | DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-89128-2_5 Conference