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Gabriele Berton

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I write reproducible papers with solutions to real-world problems

Postdoc at Amazon working on Multimodal Large Language Models. Previously I was a visitor at Carnegie Mellon University's AirLab with Prof. Sebastian Scherer and an intern at Amazon, during my PhD at Polytechnic of Turin with Prof. Barbara Caputo. Before my PhD I worked at the Italian Institute of Technology.
TLDR: Computer Vision PhD with 7 first-author CVPR / ICCV / ECCV papers, ~1000 GitHub stars

News

03/2025: Started a new job as a Postdoc at Amazon! I'll be working on Multimodal Large Language Models
07/2024: MeshVPR is accepted at ECCV 2024!
06/2024: Went to CVPR to present EarthLoc (poster), EarthMatch (workshop oral) and MeshVPR (demo)!
03/2024: Going for a 4-months visiting to Carnegie Mellon University's AirLab under the supervision of Professor Sebastian Scherer.
03/2024: EarthLoc is accepted at CVPR 2024! EarthLoc is now used by NASA to localize photos from the International Space Station.
01/2024: Gave a talk at the Czech Technical University on the applications and challenges of visual geo-localization!
07/2023: Two first-author papers accepted at ICCV!
07/2023: I won the first prize for the Best Student Research in the Video&Poster Competition at EuroCon 2023
07/2023: I gave an invited talk to the Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision group at the Italian Institute of Technology in Genova on the current state of scalable visual geolocalization.
06/2023: I gave a 30 minutes invited talk at CVPR 2023 for the tutorial A Comprehensive Tour and Recent Advancements toward Real-world Visual Geo-Localization.
06/2023: Our demo on using 3D models for geolocalizing images has been accepted to ICCV 2023
06/2022: The RoboTo robotics team (for which I'm doing the computer vision / object detection part) achieved 5th place in the 1 vs 1 competition at the finals of the Robomaster University League in Seattle!
05/2023: I gave an invited talk at MaLGa on the current state of Visual Place Recognition.
04/2023: Our paper on local features and re-ranking methods for Visual Place Recognition has been accepted to the Image Matching Workshop at CVPR 2023
06/2022: I gave an Oral presentation at CVPR 2022 for our Deep Visual Geo-localization Benchmark paper
06/2022: One paper on Sequence-based Visual Place Recognition accepted to IROS 2022!
06/2022: The RoboTo robotics team (for which I'm doing the computer vision / object detection part) qualified for the finals of the Robomaster University League in Texas!
05/2022: I started a 4 months internship at Amazon Berlin as an Applied Scientist Intern, working on multi-model video action recognition and segmentation.
03/2022: Two first-author papers accepted to CVPR 2022! One paper presenting a SOTA geolocalization / visual place recognition method called CosPlace, and one Oral paper presenting a thorough benchmark on the same task.
07/2021: Our paper on "Viewpoint Invariant Dense Matching for Visual Geolocalization" was accepted to ICCV 2021!
10/2020: Our paper on Domain Adaptation for Geolocalization accepted at WACV 2021!

Selected Publications (first author at top conferences)

MeshVPR

MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes

Gabriele Berton, Lorenz Junglas, Riccardo Zaccone, Thomas Pollok, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone

ECCV 2024

ArXiv | Code | Data | Website | Bibtex 
@InProceedings{Berton_ECCV_2024_MeshVPR,
  author    = {Gabriele Berton and Lorenz Junglas and Riccardo Zaccone and Thomas Pollok and Barbara Caputo and Carlo Masone},
  title     = {MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)},
  month     = {October},
  year      = {2024},
}
EarthLoc

EarthLoc: Astronaut Photography Localization by Indexing Earth from Space

Gabriele Berton, Alex Stoken, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2024

Website | ArXiv | Proceedings | Code and Data | Bibtex 
@InProceedings{Berton_CVPR_2024_EarthLoc,
  author    = {Berton, Gabriele and Stoken, Alex and Caputo, Barbara and Masone, Carlo},
  title     = {EarthLoc: Astronaut Photography Localization by Indexing Earth from Space},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2024},
}
EigenPlaces

EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition

Gabriele Berton*, Gabriele Trivigno*, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo

ICCV 2023

ArXiv | Proceedings | Code | Bibtex 
@inProceedings{Berton_ICCV_2023_EigenPlaces,
  author = {Gabriele Berton, Gabriele Trivigno, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo},
  title = {EigenPlaces: Training Viewpoint Robust Models for Visual Place Recognition},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  month = {October},
  year = {2023},
}
DivideClassify

Divide&Classify: Fine-Grained Classification for City-Wide Visual Geo-localization

Gabriele Trivigno*, Gabriele Berton*, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo

ICCV 2023

ArXiv | Proceedings | Code | Bibtex 
@inProceedings{Berton_ICCV_2023_DivideClassify,
  author = {Gabriele Trivigno, Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo},
  title = {Divide&Classify: Fine-Grained Classification for City-Wide Visual Geo-localization},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  month = {October},
  year = {2023},
}
CosPlace

Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications

Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo

CVPR 2022

ArXiv | Proceedings | Code and Data | Bibtex 
@inProceedings{Berton_CVPR_2022_cosPlace,
  author = {Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, Barbara Caputo},
  title = {Rethinking Visual Geo-localization for Large-Scale Applications},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  month = {June},
  year = {2022},
}
VGBenchmark

Deep Visual Geo-localization Benchmark

Gabriele Berton, Riccardo Mereu, Gabriele Trivigno, Carlo Masone, Gabriela Csurka, Torsten Sattler, Barbara Caputo

CVPR 2022 (Oral)

ArXiv | Proceedings | Code | Data | Bibtex 
@inProceedings{Berton_CVPR_2022_benchmark,
  author = {Gabriele Berton, Riccardo Mereu, Gabriele Trivigno, Carlo Masone, Gabriela Csurka, Torsten Sattler, Barbara Caputo},
  title = {Deep Visual Geo-localization Benchmark},
  booktitle = {CVPR},
  month = {June},
  year = {2022},
}
GeoWarp

Viewpoint Invariant Dense Matching for Visual Geolocalization

Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, Valerio Paolicelli, Barbara Caputo

ICCV 2021

ArXiv | Proceedings | Code | Bibtex 
@inProceedings{Berton_ICCV_2021,
  author = {Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone, Valerio Paolicelli, Barbara Caputo},
  title = {Viewpoint Invariant Dense Matching for Visual Geolocalization},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  month = {October}, 
 year = {2021},
 pages = {12169-12178}
}

Demos and other cool projects

AstroLoc

AstroLoc: Robust Space to Ground Image Localizer

Gabriele Berton, Alex Stoken, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2025 Demo

ArXiv | Website & Demo | Bibtex 
@misc{Berton_2025_AstroLoc,
      title={AstroLoc: Robust Space to Ground Image Localizer}, 
      author={Gabriele Berton and Alex Stoken and Carlo Masone},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.07003},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.07003}, 
}
MegaLoc

Megaloc: One retrieval to place them all

Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2025 Demo

ArXiv | Code & Demo | Bibtex 
@misc{Berton_2025_MegaLoc,
      title={MegaLoc: One Retrieval to Place Them All}, 
      author={Gabriele Berton and Carlo Masone},
      year={2025},
      eprint={2502.17237},
      archivePrefix={arXiv},
      primaryClass={cs.CV},
      url={https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.17237}, 
}
MeshVPR

MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes

Gabriele Berton, Lorenz Junglas, Riccardo Zaccone, Thomas Pollok, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2024 Demo

ArXiv | Code | Data | Website | Bibtex 
@article{Berton_2024_MeshVPR,
  title={MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes}, 
  author={Gabriele Berton and Lorenz Junglas and Riccardo Zaccone and Thomas Pollok and Barbara Caputo and Carlo Masone},
  year={2024},
  eprint={2406.02776},
  archivePrefix={arXiv},
}
EarthMatch

EarthMatch: Iterative Coregistration for Fine-grained Localization of Astronaut Photography

Gabriele Berton, Gabriele Goletto, Gabriele Trivigno, Alex Stoken, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2024 Workshop

Website | ArXiv | Proceedings | Code | Data | Matching Code | Bibtex 
@InProceedings{Berton_2024_EarthMatch,
  author    = {Gabriele Berton, Gabriele Goletto, Gabriele Trivigno, Alex Stoken, Barbara Caputo, Carlo Masone},
  title     = {EarthMatch: Iterative Coregistration for Fine-grained Localization of Astronaut Photography},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops},
  month     = {June},
  year      = {2024},
}