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Gabriele Berton

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I write reproducible papers with solutions to real-world problems

Visiting PhD at Carnegie Mellon University's AirLab with Prof. Sebastian Scherer, and PhD at Polytechnic of Turin with Prof. Barbara Caputo. Previously worked at the Italian Institute of Technology and intern at Amazon. I focus on visual place recognition and large-scale image retrieval, and have worked in representation learning, image matching, object detection, video action segmentation, large-scale classification, data collection and remote sensing.
TLDR: Computer Vision PhD with 7 first-author CVPR / ICCV / ECCV papers, ~1000 GitHub stars

News

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 | 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

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 | 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 DEMO

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},
}