Publications

2026

• Eken, D., Ribei, R., Galloway, J., Neate, T., Howe, R. D., & Gionfrida, L. (2026). Vision-based assessment of joint swelling in rheumatoid arthritis. IEEE EMBC 2026.

• Hu, C., Motaghedolhagh, K., Hammerbeck, U., Luo, S., & Gionfrida, L. (2026). PointGraspII: Point cloud-based grasp intent detection for a soft exoskeleton glove. IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2026.

• Akpo, E. M., Lyu, S., Raison, N., Bergeles, C., & Gionfrida, L. (2026). Egocentric hand pose for robot learning from sterile manipulations. IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2026.

• Sarajchi, M., Pasteau, E., Guerin, N., Moghayedi, A., Gionfrida, L., Munera, M., & Cifuentes, C. A. (2026). Intention-driven control of a cable-driven upper-limb exoskeleton using multimodal vision–inertial sensing. IEEE RAS/EMBS BioRob 2026.

• Esposito, I., Eken, D., Galloway, J., De Benedetto, E., & Gionfrida, L. (n.d.). Remote monitoring of rheumatoid arthritis patients via sEMG-based activity recognition. IEEE.

• Eken, D., Neate, T., Abosi, T., Wilson, N., Galloway, J., & Gionfrida, L. (2026). Towards mobile swollen joint count assessments. British Rheumatology Conference.

• Hu, T. C. H., Luo, S., & Gionfrida, L. (2026). OVGrasp: Open-vocabulary grasping assistance via multimodal intent detection. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1077314226000433 

• Guzman, E. R., Gionfrida, L., & Howe, R. D. (2026). RGB-D and IMU-based staircase quantification for assistive navigation using step estimation for exoskeleton support. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cviu.2025.104621

2025

• Hu, T. C. H., Eken, D., Hammerbeck, U., Luo, S., & Gionfrida, L. (2025). Qualitative Evaluation on the Design of a Soft Exoglove on Post-Stroke Survivors. 24th IEEE Proceedings on EMBS/BMES. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SP1X-V_WvEAAmIuiyhecdQEPOZOtFLmz/view?usp=sharing 

• Hu, T. C. H., Tricomi, E., Rho, E., Kim, D., Masia, L., Luo, S., & Gionfrida, L. (2025). Point Cloud-based Grasping for Soft Hand Exoskeleton. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 10(11), 11315-11322. https://doi.org/10.1109/LRA.2025.3606358 

• Hu, T. C. H., & Gionfrida, L. (Accepted/In press). Embodied Intelligence in Wearable Robotics. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s9BawiamiTrlZDDCCV6WXppkoYfQ14qz/view?usp=sharing 

• Lyu, S., & Gionfrida, L. (2025). Shared Muscle Activation in Simulated Grasping Tasks. In International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rFegGT8T35hQXO955yoR4C2SuPXHVaDP/view?usp=sharing 

• Hu, C., Neate, T., Luo, S., Gionfrida, L. (2026). MultiClear: Multimodal Soft Exoskeleton Glove for Transparent Object Grasping Assistance. In: Cavalcanti, A., Foster, S., Richardson, R. (eds) Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems. TAROS 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16045. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-01486-3_16 

• Lyu, S., Caggiano, V., Leonetti, M., Farina, D., & Gionfrida, L. (2025). Imitation Learning for Adaptive Control of a Virtual Soft Exoglove. In 2025 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, ICORR 2025 (pp. 483-489). (IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR66766.2025.11063210 

• Tricomi, E., Piccolo, G., Russo, F., Zhang, X., Missiroli, F., Ferrari, S., Gionfrida, L., Ficuciello, F., Xiloyannis, M., Masia, L. (2025). Leveraging Geometric Modeling-Based Computer Vision for Context Aware Control in a Hip Exosuit. IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 41, pp. 3462-3479, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1109/TRO.2025.3567489 

• C. K. Tan et al., "Myoassist 0.1: Myosuite for Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans," 2025 International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), Chicago, IL, USA, 2025, pp. 437-442, https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR66766.2025.11063089 

• Ning, J., Spratling, M., Gionfrida, L. (2025). Improving the Accuracy of Tiny Object Detection by Negative Sample Copy-Paste. In: Mahmud, M., Doborjeh, M., Wong, K., Leung, A.C.S., Doborjeh, Z., Tanveer, M. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2024. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2291. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-6975-2_16 

2024

• Caggiano, V., Durandau, G., Song, S., Kwang Tan, C., Wang, C., K. Hodossy, B., Schumacher, P., Gionfrida, L., Sartori, M., & Kumar, V. (2024). MyoChallenge 2024: A New Benchmark for Physiological Dexterity and Agility in Bionic Humans. In NeurIPS 2025 Datasets and Benchmarks Track poster http://openreview.net/forum?id=1dSLbhErNv&referrer=%5Bthe%20profile%20of%20Beomsoo%20Shin%5D(%2Fprofile%3Fid%3D~Beomsoo_Shin1) 

• L. Gionfrida, C. Wang, L. Gan, M. Chli and L. Carlone, "Computer and Robot Vision: Past, Present, and Future [TC Spotlight]," in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 31, no. 3, pp. 211-215, Sept. 2024, https://doi.org/10.1109/MRA.2024.3428780 

• Gionfrida, L., Kim, D., Scaramuzza, D., Farina, D., & Howe, R. D. (2024). Wearable robots for the real world need vision. Science Robotics, 9(90), Article eadj8812. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.adj8812 

• Gionfrida, L., Kim, D., Jin, Y., Walsh, C. J., & Howe, R. D. (2024). Muscle Architecture Parameters Inferred from Simulated Single-Element Ultrasound Traces. 1113-1118. Paper presented at 10th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference for Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, BioRob 2024, Heidelberg, Germany. https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob60516.2024.10719970

2023

• Gionfrida, L., Nuckols, R. W., Walsh, C., & Howe, R. D. (2023). Improved fascicle length estimates from ultrasound using a U-net-LSTM framework. In 2023 International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) (Vol. 2023, pp. 1-6). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICORR58425.2023.10328385