Hello, I am Antonella.
I am a researcher and project lead at the LARICS lab.
I am a PhD candidate at the University of Zagreb, Croatia.
I am passionate about perception, autonomy, and drones.
I love project management and organizing cool events/projects.
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Research projects
Here are some of my ongoing and completed research projects:
Synthetic Aerial Data
This project focuses on generating synthetic aerial images for use in machine learning algorithms.
Thermal Synthesis
This project involves the synthesis of thermal images for various applications in thermal imaging and analysis.
Domain Adaptation
This project focuses on adapting machine learning models to new domains with minimal retraining.
News
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[June 2024] Happy to announce 4th edition of DroneDays in Zagreb, Croatia!
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[May 2024] Participated in ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan.
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[February 2024] Our team UNIZG-FER won the MBZIRC 2024 competition!!
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[January 2024] Our paper “Bio-inspired Visual Relative Localization for Large Swarms of UAVs” got accepted to ICRA 2024. webpage dataset
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[January 2024] As top 5 finalist in MBZIRC competition, selected from pool of 52 teams worlwide, we spent a month in Abu Dhabi testing our innovative solution through experimental trials.
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[December 2023] I delivered two talks to IFRoS Master students at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Informatics ELTE IK.
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[Novemeber 2023] I gave a talk to students at Rochester Institute of Technology Croatia on my research into synthetic data and domain adaptation for robotics.
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[October 2023] The MARCUS project I worked on in the USA under NATO SPS is now featured on the US government’s website and Sandia National Labs success stories.
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[May 2023] I spent a month as a visiting researcher at MRS Group at FEE-CTU Prague under the guidance of prof. Martin Saska.
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[May 2023] I served as the project manager for DroneDays 2023, a major event for drone experts and enthusiasts held in Zagreb, Croatia.
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[October 2022] I gave a talk at CCVW 2022 on how to manipulate synthetically generated data to improve object detection.
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[July 2022] I gave a talk at the Aerial and Space Robotics Workshop on synthetic data powering AI-enabled perception for drones.
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[June 2022] We completed field demonstrations for partners and investors of the MARCUS project in Albuquerque, NM, USA, together with collaborators from ETH Zurich and Sandia National Laboratories. Videos will follow soon!
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[March 2022] Our paper Brain over Brawn: Using a Stereo Camera to Detect, Track, and Intercept a Faster UAV by Reconstructing the Intruder’s Trajectory is published in a green open access journal Field Robotics. [video]
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[February 2022] We completed the simulation demo for NATO and partners of the MARCUS project.
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[January 2022] Our paper Sim2Air-Synthetic Aerial Dataset for UAV Monitoring is accepted to IEEE RA-L and ICRA 2022. We propose a texture-invariant approach for detecting objects in the air using synthetic data. [paper] [video]
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[Novemeber 2021] I will be joining NATO project in the USA as a lead researcher under Prof. Rafael Fierro.
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[October 2021] We organized DroneDays 2022, a two-day event featuring academic and industry leaders in drone technology.