Federico Nesti

Publications

Preprint
2026
E. F. Giannico, F. Nesti, G. D'Amico, M. Marinoni, F. Salotti, S. Sabina, G. Buttazzo
Integrating Object Detection, LiDAR-Enhanced Depth Estimation, and Segmentation Models for Railway Environments
arXiv preprint arXiv:2604.14781
Preprint
2026
F. Nesti, G. D'Amico, M. Marinoni, G. Buttazzo
OSDaR-AR: Enhancing Railway Perception Datasets via Multi-modal Augmented Reality
arXiv preprint arXiv:2602.22920
Journal
2026
F. Nesti, N. Salamini, M. Marinoni, G. Cicero, G. Serra, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
The Use of the Simplex Architecture to Enhance Safety in Deep-Learning-Powered Autonomous Systems
Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence
Conference
2025
X. Diaz, G. D'Amico, R. Dominguez-Sanchez, F. Nesti, M. Ronecker, et al.
Towards Railway Domain Adaptation for LiDAR-based 3D Detection: Road-to-Rail and Sim-to-Real via SynDRA-BBox
IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation (ICIRT 2025)
Conference
2025
F. Nesti, G. D'Amico, M. Marinoni, G. Buttazzo
SimPRIVE: a Simulation framework for Physical Robot Interaction with Virtual Environments
IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC 2025)
Preprint
2025
A.E. Casucci, F. Nesti, M. Marinoni, G. Buttazzo
Feelbert: A Feedback Linearization-based Embedded Real-Time Quadrupedal Locomotion Framework
arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.19965
Conference
2025
N. Salamini, F. Nesti, M. Marinoni, G. Cicero, G. Serra, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
Integrating the Simplex Architecture to Enhance Safety in Deep Learning Autonomous Systems
ACM/IEEE 16th International Conference on Cyber-Physical Systems
Conference
2025
G. D'Amico, F. Nesti, G. Rossolini, M. Marinoni, S. Sabina, G. Buttazzo
SynDRA: Synthetic Dataset for Railway Applications
Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Journal
2024
F. Nesti, G. Rossolini, G. D'Amico, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
CARLA-GeAR: A Dataset Generator for a Systematic Evaluation of Adversarial Robustness of Deep Learning Vision Models
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
vol. 25, no. 8, pp. 9840-9851
Journal
2023
G. D'Amico, M. Marinoni, F. Nesti, G. Rossolini, G. Buttazzo, S. Sabina, et al.
TrainSim: A railway simulation framework for LiDAR and camera dataset generation
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
vol. 24, no. 12, pp. 15006-15017
Journal
2023
G. Rossolini, F. Nesti, G. D'amico, S. Nair, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
On the real-world adversarial robustness of real-time semantic segmentation models for autonomous driving
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
Conference
2023
G. Rossolini, F. Nesti, F. Brau, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
Defending from physically-realizable adversarial attacks through internal over-activation analysis
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
vol. 37, no. 12, pp. 15064-15071
Conference
2022
F. Nesti, G. Rossolini, S. Nair, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
Evaluating the robustness of semantic segmentation for autonomous driving against real-world adversarial patch attacks
Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision
Conference
2022
G. D'Amico, M. Marinoni, F. Nesti, S. Sabina, G. Lauro, G.C. Buttazzo
Graphic Simulation Framework of Railway Scenarios for LiDAR Dataset Generation
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Railway Technology
Journal
2021
F. Nesti, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
Detecting adversarial examples by input transformations, defense perturbations, and voting
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 1329-1341
Conference
2021
M. Pacini, F. Nesti, A. Biondi, G. Buttazzo
X-BaD: A flexible tool for explanation-based bias detection
2021 IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR)
Workshop
2020
L. De Marinis, F. Nesti, M. Cococcioni, N. Andriolli
A photonic accelerator for feature map generation in convolutional neural networks
Photonics in Switching and Computing
PsTh1F.3
Journal
2019
A. Biondi, F. Nesti, G. Cicero, D. Casini, G. Buttazzo
A safe, secure, and predictable software architecture for deep learning in safety-critical systems
IEEE Embedded Systems Letters
vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 78-82
Conference
2017
P. Nannipieri, G. Meoni, F. Nesti, E. Mancini, F. Celi, L. Quadrelli, E. Ferrato, et al.
Application of FBG sensors to temperature measurement on board of the REXUS 22 sounding rocket in the framework of the U-PHOS project
2017 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for AeroSpace (MetroAeroSpace)
Conference
2017
P. Nannipieri, M. Anichini, L. Barsocchi, G. Becatti, L. Buoni, A. Catarsi, F. Celi, et al.
The U-PHOS experience within the ESA student REXUS/BEXUS programme: a real space hands-on opportunity
2017 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON)
pp. 852-855
Journal
2017
P. Nannipieri, M. Anichini, L. Barsocchi, G. Becatti, L. Buoni, F. Celi, A. Catarsi, et al.
U-PHOS project: development of a large diameter pulsating heat pipe experiment on board REXUS 22
Journal of Physics: Conference Series
vol. 796, no. 1, article 012044