News (updated on 01/2025):
2025:
[14/05/2025] Submit your paper at TerraBytes, our ICML workshop, with PMLR proceedings.
[13/05/2025] I held a seminar at ML4GEO (University of Edinburgh - online), with the title Benchmarking and Enhancing Geospatial Foundation Models Capabilities
[12/05/2025] I was acknowledged as outstanding reviewer for CVPR 2025. Thanks!
[07/05/2025] the ESA-NASA International Workshop on AI Foundation Model for EO was a great success! I am happy to have presented my recent works and to have helped in the organization.
[05/05/2025] I released three new pre-prints, about diffusion models (COP-GEN-Beta, SatDiFuser) and parameter efficient fine-tuning (DEFLECT).
[22/04/2025] on EarthDay, we released TerraMind. Read the news and the pre-print. We will release the benchmarking code in PANGAEA very soon!
[15/04/2025] We are the winners of Embed2Scale Challenge! Great effort from the KTH and Friends team!
[27/02/2024] I gave a Lectio magistralis at SSAS (Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati) at Sapienza University of Rome (IT) on Artificial Intelligence: foundations, trends and applications.
[15/01/2025] I just joined the ESA Φ-lab. I just started my new position as an Internal Research Fellowship.
2024:
[06/12/2024] We just released the preprint of Pangaea, a curated open-source codebase and dataset, to benchmark Geospatial Foundation Models. Check it out the pre-print and the GitHub!
[20/09/2024] We just released Pangaea, a curated open source codebase and dataset, to benchmark Geospatial Foundation Models.
Check it out![08/07/2024] I presented Assessing the Adaptability of Self-Supervised Learning Methods for Small-Scale Hyperspectral Imaging at IGARSS!
[04/06/2024] My new pre-print X-STARS is out. Check it out at: https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.09922
[21/05/2024] I was invited to take a seminar about Multi-modal feature learning for Earth Observation at COMET Signal and Image Processing community @CNES (online). Thanks to Romain Thoreau, who invited me.
[08/04/2024] I just started my postdoc at KU Leuven, in the Geomatics Research Group (Ghent), led by prof. Maarten Vergauwen!
[26/03/2024] I just gave a Lectio magistralis at SSAS (Scuola Superiore di Studi Avanzati) at Sapienza University of Rome (IT) on Artificial Intelligence: foundations, trends and applications.
[01/01/2024] My resolution for 2024 is to read more papers. For this, I will post on LinkedIn and X on average one recap per week on an interesting paper. My target is 50 papers! I am open to any suggestions!
2023:
[01/12/2023] I was the keynote speaker at GeoAI @PoliTO, with a talk entitled Intelligenza Artificiale e Osservazione della Terra: metodi, stato dell'arte e trend emergenti. Thanks to the organizing committee and to anyone who attended my talk and asked questions.
[01/12/2023] I was invited to UMR Tetis, to present Towards Cross-Sensor Self-Supervised Pretraining and Alignment for Remote Sensing. Thanks to Dino Ienco, for having me in the beautiful Montpellier.
[17/11/2023] I presented my new research line Towards Cross-Sensor Self-Supervised Pretraining and Alignment for Remote Sensing at ESA Philab. Thanks to Mikolaj Czerkawski for inviting me.
[20/07/2023] I won the People's Choice Award at the GeoPitch Challenge, organized at IGARSS, with the pitch SURFACE: Super Resolution For AgriCulturE! Thanks to people who voted for me!
[17/07/2023] I presented CONTINUAL SELF-SUPERVISED LEARNING IN EARTH OBSERVATION WITH EMBEDDING REGULARIZATION at IGARSS! Check out the paper!
[18/06/2023] I presented GeoMultiTaskNet: remote sensing unsupervised domain adaption using geographical coordinates at EarthVision (CVPR2023)! Check out the paper!
[25/05/2023] I successfully defended my Ph.D. thesis, named Tackling the main challenges for an effective application of deep learning to earth observation!
[23/05/2023] Our paper Continual Barlow Twins has been accepted in JSTARS! Check it out at the link!
[06/04/2023] My work done at IGN, named GeoMultiTaskNet: remote sensing unsupervised domain adaption using geographical coordinates, has been accepted at EarthVision! I'll present it at CVPR2023! Check out the preprint!
[03/04/2023] The work done by the master thesis student I supervised (Hamna Moieez) has been accepted at IGARSS! Congrats Hamna! I will present it in Pasadena!
[01/03/2023] I started my one-year postdoc at CNAM, in the MAGE project, led by prof. Nicolas Audebert!
[31/01/2023] I concluded my visiting period at IGN and my Ph.D. in Sapienza University of Rome! I will defend my thesis in the next few months!
[13/01/2023] Our paper Inferring 3D change detection from bitemporal optical images has been accepted in ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing! Check it out at the link!
2022:
[01/09/2022] I just started a five-month visiting period at IGN, under the supervision of prof. Clement Mallet!
[07/06/2022] 3DCD: a new dataset for 2D and 3D change detection using deep learning techniques will be presented at ISPRS Congress 2022 in Nice as a poster contribution!
[31/05/2022] The paper 3DCD: a new dataset for 2D and 3D change detection using deep learning techniques is now online at this link!
[31/05/2022] A new arxiv preprint Inferring 3D change detection from bitemporal optical images is now online at this link!
[27/05/2022] 3DCD was presented at LPS2022 as a poster contribution!
[23/05/2022] A new arxiv preprint Continual Barlow Twins: continual self-supervised learning for remote sensing semantic segmentation is now online at this link!
[10/05/2022] 3DCD dataset can be downloaded! See 3DCD website!