About

I am a Postdoctoral Researcher at MHUG, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) of the University of Trento, advised by Elisa Ricci and Paolo Rota. My research focuses on Deep Learning and Robotics Perception, with a particular interest in Visual Localization.

I received the M.Sc. magna cum laude in Robotics Engineering (2020) and the Ph.D. in Information Engineering (2024) from the University of Perugia, under the supervision of Gabriele Costante at ISARLab. During my studies I joined the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI-CSIC) in Barcelona and the Autonomous Robotics Research Center (ARRC), Technology Innovation Institute (TII), in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Publications

Full list on Google Scholar.

Journal Papers

Mushtaq S., Brunacci V., Felicioni S., Moschitta A., "A novel ranging method based on magnetic fields and neural networks", Measurements, 2026

Felicioni S., Castellani M., Costante G., Montecchiani F., Cavalagli N., Venanzi I., "Integrating robotics and immersive technologies for automated structural monitoring", Procedia Structural Integrity, 2026

Felicioni S., Rizzo B., Tortorici C., Costante G., "Vision-based Topological Localization for MAVs", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Dionigi A., Felicioni S., Leomanni M., Costante G., "D-VAT: End-to-End Visual Active Tracking for Micro Aerial Vehicles", IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2024

Crocetti F., Bellocchio E., Dionigi A., Felicioni S., Costante G., Fravolini M.L., Valigi P., "ARD-VO: Agricultural Robot Dataset of Vineyards and Olive groves", Journal of Field Robotics, 2023

Legittimo M., Felicioni S., Bagni F., Tragliavini A., Dionigi A., Gatti F., Verucchi M., Costante G., Bertogna M., "A Benchmark Analysis of Data-driven and Geometric Approaches for Robot Ego-Motion Estimation", Journal of Field Robotics, 2023

Mollica G., Felicioni S., Legittimo M., Meli L., Costante G., Valigi P., "MA-VIED: A Multisensor Automotive Visual Inertial Event Dataset", IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 2023

Conference Papers

Felicioni S., Castellini L., Tinti L., Giorgetti F., Fravolini M.L., "Enhanced sensor fault detection in bridge monitoring using Siamese-based encoder-decoder", IEEE CASE 2025

Felicioni S., Castellini L., Tinti L., D'Antoni F., Fravolini M.L., "Sensor Fault Detection in Bridge Monitoring Applications", Automatica.it 2025

Felicioni S., Burani E., Leomanni M., Fravolini M.L., Valigi P., Costante G., "Integrating Occupancy Grid with Semantic Road Information for Autonomous Navigation in Urban Scenarios: A Benchmark Study", IEEE CASE 2024

Felicioni S., Legittimo M., Fravolini M.L., Costante G., "GOLN: Graph Object-based Localization Network", ICAR 2021

Felicioni S., Dimiccoli M., "InteractionGCN: A Graph Convolutional Network based framework for social interaction recognition in egocentric videos", IEEE ICIP 2021

Theses

Felicioni S., "Vision-based Robot Localization: from model-based and data-driven strategies to topological approaches". Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Perugia, 2023.

Felicioni S., "Analysing social interactions through a wearable camera: a first-person point of view". M.Sc. Thesis, University of Perugia, 2020.

Activities

Reviewer
Journals — IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) · IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE) · IEEE Access
Conferences — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) · IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems(IROS) · IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE) · International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP) · ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM)
Organization
2025
Local Organizing Committee Member Automatica.it 2025