Gabriele Berton

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07/2024:	AstroLoc is accepted at ICCV 2025. AstroLoc is now used by NASA to localize photos from the International Space Station.
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:	Visiting period at Carnegie Mellon University's AirLab under the supervision of Prof. Sebastian Scherer.
03/2024:	EarthLoc is accepted at CVPR 2024!
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)

AstroLoc: Robust Space to Ground Image Localizer

Gabriele Berton, Alex Stoken, Carlo Masone

ICCV 2025 (paper + demo)

Website | ArXiv | Proceedings | Bibtex

@inProceedings{Berton_ICCV_2025_AstroLoc,
  author = {Gabriele Berton, Alex Stoken, Carlo Masone},
  title = {AstroLoc: Robust Space to Ground Image Localizer},
  booktitle = {ICCV},
  month = {October},
  year = {2025},
}

MeshVPR: Citywide Visual Place Recognition Using 3D Meshes

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

ECCV 2024 (paper + demo)

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: 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: 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},
}

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},
}

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},
}

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},
}

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}
}

Other cool projects

Megaloc: One retrieval to place them all

Gabriele Berton, Carlo Masone

CVPR 2025 (workshop paper + 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}, 
}

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 paper

@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},
}