Francesco Pasti
(Computer Vision and Robotics)
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Welcome to my Personal Website! 🎉
I'm a PhD Student at the Machine Intelligence Group of the University of Padova under the supervision of Nicola Bellotto.
Currently, I'm a visiting researcher at Columbia University in New York under the supervision of Shree Nayar
My research focuses on Tiny Robotics for data collection in agricultural environments. I am particularly interested in edge applications that bring neural networks to resource-constrained devices, with a focus on Object Detection and Active Vision for robotics. Recently, I've been exploring Continual Learning.
I previously worked at Amazon RME as an Automation Engineer.
NEWS
NEWS
06/2025: Replay Consolidation with Label Propagation for Continual Object Detection has been accepted to COLLAs 2025
04/2025: Joined as a Visiting PhD the CAVE lab at Columbia University in New York under the supervision of Shree Nayar 🗽
01/2025: MicroFlow: An Efficient Rust-Based Inference Engine for TinyML, has been published in the Internet of Things Journal.
01/2025: Second seminar on Continual Learning [slides] 🧑🏫
09/2024: Presented Latent Distillation for Continual Object Detection at the Edge at CADL, an ECCV-2024 Workshop [slides] 🎤
09/2024: Created the TiROD dataset for Continual Object Detection in Tiny Robotics 🤖
09/2024: Attended the Doctoral Summer School on Robotics and Intelligent Machines-DSRIM2
08/2024: Latent Distillation for Continual Object Detection at the Edge has been accepted at CADL, an ECCV-2024 Workshop
08/2024: OpenNav: Efficient Open Vocabulary 3D Object Detection for Smart Wheelchair Navigation has been accepted at ACVR, an ECCV-2024 Workshop
05/2024: My first seminar on Continual Learning [slides] 🧑🏫
02/2024: Began Teaching Assistantship for the "Artificial Intelligence" course
11/2023: Decided to go back to Academia and started my "National" PhD 🧑💻
03/2023: Presented my Master Thesis Evaluation of Computer Vision-Based Person Detection on Low-Cost Embedded Systems at VISAPP-2023 in Lisbon, won the "Best Industrial Paper" award 🏆
11/2022: Graduated from the University of Padova with a Master’s in Control Systems Engineering 🎓
09/2022: Started working at Amazon as an Automation Engineer Apprentice 👷
04/2022: Ended my wonderful Erasmus at RWTH Aachen 🗺️
Publications (w. selected pre-prints)
OpenNav: Efficient Open Vocabulary 3D Object Detection for Smart Wheelchair Navigation
Muhammad Rameez ur Rahman, Piero Simonetto, Anna Polato, Francesco Pasti, Luca Tonin, Sebastiano Vascon
ECCV 2024 Workshop "Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics"
[paper]
Evaluation of Computer Vision-Based Person Detection on Low-Cost Embedded Systems
Francesco Pasti, Nicola Bellotto
VISAPP 2023
[paper]
Extra
In my free time I play basketball 🏀, ride my bike 🚴, and enjoy the Dolomites ⛰️
Contacts
"Le cime erano bianche, il cielo insolitamente azzurro, una sensazione di miracolo." P.Cognetti in Le otto montagne, 2016
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