Selected publications and patents

For the complete list of publications please visit the lab webpage

Journals

• S.P. Sabatini.  Deep Representation Hierarchies for 3D Active Vision: Designing Specializations in Perception-Action Loops. Kuenstliche Intelligenz, Vol. 29(1), pp. 31-40, 2015. [doi]
• M. Antonelli, A. Gibaldi, F. Beuth, A. Duran, A. Canessa, M. Chessa, F. Solari, A. del Pobil, F. Hamker, E. Chinellato, S.P. Sabatini A hierarchical system for a distributed representation of the peripersonal space of a humanoid robot. IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, Vol. 6(4), pp. 259-273, 2014. [doi]
• F. Solari, M. Chessa, M. Garibotti, S.P. Sabatini. Natural perception in dynamic stereoscopic augmented reality environments. Displays, Vol. 34(2), pp. 142-152, 2013. [doi]
• M. Chessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini Biologically Inspired Adjustable Linear Models for Motion Interpretation, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 117(6), pp. 603-619, 2013. [doi]
• M. Chessa, V. Bianchi, M. Zampetti, S. P. Sabatini, F. Solari.  Real-time simulation of large-scale neural architectures for visual features computation based on GPU. Network: Computation in Neural Systems, Vol. 23(4), pp. 272-291, 2012. [doi]
• F. Barranco, J. Diaz, A. Gibaldi, S.P. Sabatini, E. Ros. Vector Disparity Sensor with Vergence Control for Active Vision Systems. Sensors, Vol. 12(2), pp. 1771-1779, 2012. [doi]
• R. Breveglieri, K. Hadjidimitrakis, A. Bosco, S.P. Sabatini, C. Galletti, P. Fattori Eye-position encoding in 3D space: integration of version and vergence signals in the medial posterior parietal cortex. The Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 32(1): 159-169, 2012. [doi]
• F. Solari, M. Chessa, S.P. Sabatini Design strategies for direct multi-scale and multi-orientation feature extraction in the log-polar domain Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 33(1), pp. 41-51, 2012. [doi]
• K. Hadjidimitrakis, R. Breveglieri, G. Placenti, A. Bosco, S.P. Sabatini, P. Fattori Fix Your Eyes in the Space You Could Reach: Neurons in the Macaque Medial Parietal Cortex Prefer Gaze Positions in Peripersonal Space PLoS ONE 6(8): e23335. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0023335, 2011. [doi]
• N. Chumerin, A. Gibaldi, S.P. Sabatini and M.M. Van Hulle Learning Eye Vergence Control from a Distributed Disparity Representation International Journal of Neural Systems, Vol. 20(4):267-278, 2010. [doi]
• S.P. Sabatini, G. Gastaldi, F. Solari, K. Pauwels, M.M. Van Hulle, J. Diaz, E. Ros, N. Pugeault and N. Krueger A Compact Harmonic Code for Early Vision based on Anisotropic Frequency Channels Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 114:681-699, 2010. [doi]
• A. Gibaldi, M. Chessa, A. Canessa, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari. A cortical model for binocular vergence control without explicit calculation of disparity. Neurocomputing, Vol. 73:1065-1073, 2010. [doi]
• S.P. Sabatini and F. Solari Emergence of Motion-in-depth Selectivity in the Visual Cortex through Linear Combination of Binocular Energy Complex Cells with Different Ocular Dominance Neurocomputing special issue on Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 2004,  Vol 58-60C: 865-872, 2004. [doi]
• S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, P. Cavalleri, and G.M. Bisio Phase-based Binocular Perception of Motion-in-depth: Cortical-like Operators and aVLSI Architectures EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing, special issue on "Neuromorphic Signal Processing and Implementations", Vol. 7: 690-702, 2003. [doi]
• P. Cavalleri, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, G.M. Bisio Centric-minded Templates for Self-motion Perception Vision Research, Vol. 43(13): 1473-1493, 2003. [doi]

Book chapters

• S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, A. Canessa, M. Chessa, A. Gibaldi.Early Perception-Action Cycles in Binocular Vision: Visuomotor Paradigms and Cortical-like Architectures. In: Developing and Applying Biologically-Inspired Vision Systems: Interdisciplinary Concepts. Marc Pomplun and Jun Suzuki Eds., IGI Global, pp. 154-182, 2012. [abstract]
• M. Chessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini. Virtual Reality to Simulate Visual Tasks for Robotic Systems In Virtual Reality, Ed. Jae-Jin Kim, InTech, ISBN/ISSN: 978-953-307-518-1, 2010.

Conference proceedings

• A. Gibaldi, A. Canessa, M. Chessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini How a Population-based Representation of Binocular Visual Signal Can Intrinsically Mediate Autonomous Learning of Vergence Control IJCNN'13, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Dallas TX, 4-9 August, 2013.
• A. Gibaldi, A. Canessa, M. Chessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini Population Coding for a Reward-Modulated Hebbian Learning of Vergence Control Procedia Computer Science, Volume 13, 2012, Pages 125-134, ISSN 1877-0509.
• A. Gibaldi, A. Canessa, M. Chessa,  S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari. A neuromorphic control module for real-time vergence eye movements on the iCub robot head IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, 26-28 October, 2011, Bled, Slovenia.
• M. Chessa, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, F. Tatti. A fast and reliable technique for the log-polar mapping: a quantitative comparison. International Conference on Computer Vision Systems, 20-22 September, 2011, Sophia Antipolis, France.
• G. Maiello, C. Silvestro, A. Canessa, M. Chessa, A. Gibaldi, S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari. ssessment of stereoscopic depth perception in augmented reality environments based on low-cost technologies Applied perception in graphics and visualization, 27-28 August, 2011, Toulouse, France.
• A. Canessa, M. Chessa, A. Gibaldi,  F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini. Empirical horopter explained by the statistics of disparity patterns in natural space European Conference on Visual Perception, 28 August - 1 September, 2011, Toulouse, France.
• A. Gibaldi, M. Chessa, A. Canessa, F. Solari, S.P. Sabatini. A cortical model for vergence control: advantages of space-variant geometry of the cortical domain Computational and Systems Neuroscience, 24-27 February, 2011, Salt Lake City, Utah.
• M. Chessa, S.P. Sabatini and F. Solari A fast joint bioinspired algorithm for optic flow and two-dimensional disparity estimation. 7th Int. Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS'09), 13-15 October 2009, Liege, Belgium.
• J.G. Samarawickrama, S.P. Sabatini Version and vergence control of a stereo camera head by fitting the movement into the Hering's law. Fourth Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision, Montreal, Canada, 28-30 May 2007.
• S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, G.M. Bisio Fast Space-variant Image Analysis Through Steerable Gabor-like Filters. 5Proc. th International WorkShop on Information Optics, Toledo, Spain, June 5-7, 2006.
• S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, G.M. Bisio Detection of first-order elementary components in noisy optic flow fields through context sensitive recurrent filters IV Workshop on Dynamic Perception, Bochum 14-15 November 2002.
• S.P. Sabatini, F. Solari, G. Andreani, C. Bartolozzi, G.M. Bisio. A hierarchical model of complex cells in visual cortex for the binocular perception of motion-in-depth. In: T. G. Dietterich and S. Becker and Z. Ghahramani (Eds), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, MIT Press, 2002, Vol. 2, pages 1271-1278.

Patents

• Improved three-dimensional stereoscopic rendering of virtual objects for a moving observer, M. Chessa, F. Solari, M. Garibotti, S.P. Sabatini. Assignee: University of Genoa. International Patent application PCT/IB2012/057284, 13th December 2012.