Ernesto Fontana
email: ernesto.fontana@unipr.it
mailing address: Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Architettura
Parco Area delle Scienze 181/A, 43124 Parma, ITALY
office: Ufficio Dottorandi 1, Palazzina 1
phone: +39 0521 906183
Ernesto Fontana is currently Ph.D. student at the Department of Engineering and Architecture at the University of Parma. He studied Information Engineering at the University of Parma where he received the Bachelor Degree in October 2018 and the Master Degree in October 2020. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Boston University Robotics Laboratory for a period of 6 months, starting from March 2023. His main research interests lie in advanced perception and elaboration techniques for tridimensional sensory data.
Profiles on Google Scholar, ORCID and Scopus.
All public projects are available on Github.
Journal publications:
Fontana E, Lodi Rizzini D. Accurate Global Point Cloud Registration Using GPU-Based Parallel Angular Radon Spectrum. Sensors. 2023; 23(20):8628. DOI 10.3390/s23208628 [DOI] [bibtex] [.] [code]D. Lodi Rizzini and E. Fontana. Rotation Estimation based on Anisotropic Angular Radon Spectrum. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 7(3):7279-7286, 2022. DOI 10.1109/LRA.2022.3182111 [DOI] [bibtex] [.] [code]
Conference and Workshop Proceedings:
A.U. Khan, E. Fontana, D. Lodi Rizzini, S. Caselli. Experimental Assessment of Feature-based Lidar Odometry and Mapping. IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing (IRC), pages 72-75, Napoli, Italy, December 5-7, 2022 [DOI] [.] [bibtex]
E. Fontana, D. Lodi Rizzini, S. Caselli.
A Combinatorial Approach to Detection of Box Pallet Layouts.
In Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), pages 417-422, Oct. 28-31, 2021.
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E. Fontana, W. Zarotti, D. Lodi Rizzini.
A Comparative Assessment of Parcel Box Detection Algorithms for Industrial Applications.
In Proc. of the European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR), pages 1-6, Aug. 31-Set. 3, 2021.
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Theses
E. Fontana, Geometric Methods for Object Detection and Pose Estimation through Depth Cameras for Industrial Applications, Master Thesis, University of Parma, october 2020
E. Fontana, Development of a Library for Vertical Structure Detection in Point Clouds acquired with Lidar 3D Sensor, Bachelor Thesis, University of Parma, october 2018