Publications
Journal articles
Vision-state Fusion: Improving Deep Neural Networks for Autonomous Robotics
Elia Cereda, Stefano Bonato, Mirko Nava, Alessandro Giusti, and Daniele Palossi.
Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 110, 2024.
Self-Supervised Learning of Visual Robot Localization Using LED State Prediction as a Pretext Task
Mirko Nava, Nicholas Carlotti, Luca Crupi, Daniele Palossi, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 9, pp. 3363-3370, 2024.
Self-Supervised Robot Learning for Spatial Perception
Mirko Nava.
Doctoral Dissertation, Università della Svizzera italiana, 2023.
Learning Visual Localization of a Quadrotor Using its Noise as Self-Supervision
Mirko Nava, Antonio Paolillo, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 7, pp. 2218-2225, 2022.
Uncertainty-aware Self-Supervised Learning of Spatial Perception Tasks
Mirko Nava, Antonio Paolillo, Jérôme Guzzi, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, pp. 6693-6700, 2021.
State-consistency Loss for Learning Spatial Perception Tasks From Partial Labels
Mirko Nava, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, pp. 1112-1119, 2021.
On the Benefits of Domain Adaptation Techniques for Quality of Transmission Estimation in Optical Networks
Cristina Rottondi, Riccardo Di Marino, Mirko Nava, Alessandro Giusti, and Andrea Bianco.
Journal of Optical Communications and Networking, vol. 13, pp. 34-43, 2021.
Path Planning With Local Motion Estimations
Jérôme Guzzi, Ricardo Omar Chavez-Garcia, Mirko Nava, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 5, pp. 2586-2593, 2020.
Learning Long-range Perception Using Self-Supervision From Short-range Sensors and Odometry
Mirko Nava, Jérôme Guzzi, Ricardo Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 4, pp. 1279-1286, 2019.
Conference articles
Learning to Estimate the Pose of a Peer Robot in a Camera Image by Predicting the States of its LEDs
Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 2763-2769, 2024.
Visual Servoing With Geometrically Interpretable Neural Perception
Antonio Paolillo, Mirko Nava, Dario Piga, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5300-5306, 2022.
Workshops and Abstracts
Multi-LED Classification as Pretext for Robot Heading Estimation
Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava, and Alessandro Giusti.
IEEE ICRA@40, 2024.
Now I See You: Self-Supervised Learning of Omnidirectional Human Motion Estimation
Simone Arreghini, Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava, Alessandro Giusti, and Antonio Paolillo.
International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, 17th Edition, 2024.
Real-time Fully Convolutional Networks for Peer-to-Peer Nano-drone Visual Localization and LED State Estimation
Nicholas Carlotti, Mirko Nava, and Alessandro Giusti.
Springer Nature European Robotics Forum, vol. 1, pp. 310-314, 2024.
Learning to Perceive Long-range Obstacles Using Self-Supervision From Short-range Sensors
Mirko Nava, Jérôme Guzzi, Ricardo Omar Chavez-Garcia, Luca Maria Gambardella, and Alessandro Giusti.
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pp. 9867-9868, 2019.
Lectures and Invited talks
Striking a Balance Between Novelty and Data Protection
Panelist at Roundatable on AI for Enterprises, Hyphen-group, 3 July 2025.
Computer Vision for Mechanical Systems: Overview of Theory and Applications
Lecture at the course of Machine Learning for Mechanical Systems, Politecnico di Milano, 21 May 2025.
The Importance of Symbols: An AI Perspective
Talk at Digital Content Factory Revolution, Hyphen-group, 6 June 2024.