Remote and Distributed Sensing | Doctoral Program - Information Engineering and Computer Science

Remote and Distributed Sensing

The members of this research program have valuable expertise in different ICT sectors of primary importance for the development of advanced systems for environmental monitoring and land management. Their main goal is to develop scientific activities and applications in some of the key areas of the ICT for the environment. The most relevant technological and methodological components of the research program are: airborne and satellite remote sensing technology; signal processing and pattern recognition methodologies; data fusion techniques; radar technology; in-situ sensor technology; the Geographical Information System (GIS). The research group is committed to the development of scientific activities in the above mentioned areas, and works to integrate the methodologies and technologies of multisensory architectures to define effective systems for environmental monitoring. Most of all, the group aims to establish methodologies for the analysis of remote sensing data, and to define data fusion approaches for the integration of multi-temporal and multisensory images (e.g., SAR data, optical data, etc.), as well as ancillary data acquired by in-situ sensors. Attention is paid to the whole processing chain from data acquisition and pre-processing, to data analysis and data fusion, until product delivery to end-users and customized services based on GIS platforms.

 

Publications

28 publications for 9 currently enrolled students

4-Dimensional lung ultrasound imaging for lung surface motion estimation: an in vivo feasibility study
Mento, Federico; Zangrandi, Chiara; Klimonda, Ziemowit; Jarosik, Piotr; Lewandowski, Marcin; Demi, Libertario in POMA, USA: Acoustical Society of America, 2026. - (PROCEEDINGS OF MEETINGS ON ACOUSTICS). Proceedings of: ASA meetings, Honolulu, 2025. - DOI: 10.1121/2.0002275

Advanced Radar Sounder Data Analysis Methods under Limited labeled Data Constraints

Corrigendum to “Fully automated quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy for the differential diagnosis of lung diseases: The first multicenter in-vivo clinical study” [Comput. Biol. Med. (200), 1 January 2026, 111365]
Perpenti, Mattia; Mento, Federico; Pierro, Giovanni; Perrotta, Alessandro; Perrone, Tiziano; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo; Demi, Libertario in COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, v. 203, n. 15 February 2026, 111493 (2026), p. 111493-111493. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2026.111493

CLEAR: A Fast Cloud Removal Method for Optical Remote Sensing Images Combining Class-based Linear Regression and Iterative Residual Compensation
Guo, Houcai; Zheng, Yongjie; Xu, Hanzeyu; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 64, n. 5400616 (2026). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2026.3651961

Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Radar Sounder Data With Scribble Annotations
Yebasse, Milkisa T.; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, v. 23, n. 3500505 (2026), p. 1-5. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2025.3646000

Fully automated Quantitative Lung Ultrasound spectroscopy for the differential diagnosis of lung diseases: The first multicenter in-vivo clinical study
Perpenti, Mattia; Mento, Federico; Pierro, Giovanni; Perrotta, Alessandro; Perrone, Tiziano; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo; Demi, Libertario in COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, v. 200, n. 1 January 2026, 111365 (2026). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2025.111365

Scribble Driven Semi-Supervised Semantic Segmentation of Radar Sounder Data
Yebasse, Milkisa T.; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Piscataway, New Jersey, USA.: IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, 2025, p. 9604-9608. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS). - ISBN: 979-8-3315-0810-4. Proceedings of: IEEE International Symposium on Geoscience and Remote Sensing (IGARSS), Brisbane, Australia, 03-08 August 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11242477

Multisource Noise-Reduced Diffusion Feature Fusion for Hyperspectral and SAR Image Classification
Liu, Hao; Zheng, Yongjie; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, New York: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2025. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS). - ISBN: 979-8-3315-0810-4. Proceedings of: IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 3rd-8th, August. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11314074

Adaptive Mesh Refinement for Radar Sounder Data Simulation with a 2-D Finite-Difference Time-Domain Technique.
Sharma, Aanchal; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IGARSS 2025 - 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Brisbane, Australia, 2025, Brisbane, Australia: IEEE, 2025. Proceedings of: IGARSS, Brisbane, 3rd August- 8th August 2025. - DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS55030.2025.11242548

Scribble-Guided Structural Regression Fusion for Multimodal Remote Sensing Change Detection
Zheng, Yongjie; Liu, Sicong; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, v. 22, (2025). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2025.3575620

SHIFT: Scribble-driven Hybrid Iterative Feature Tracker for Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Change Detection
Zheng, Yongjie; Liu, Sicong; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 63, n. 5636514 (2025). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3596064

Quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy: a novel approach to differentiate acute exacerbation due to pulmonary emphysema versus pulmonary fibrosis – preliminary results from SAURON Study
Perrotta, Alessandro; Pierro, Giovanni; Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Demi, Libertario; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo in European Respiratory Journal, Vol 66, Issue suppl 69, Lausanne, Switzerland: EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY SOC JOURNALS LTD, 2025. - (EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL). Proceedings of: 2025 ERS Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27/09/2025 - 01/10/2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2025.oa6446

Novel Quantitative Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Approach to differentiate Acute Exacerbation of Pulmonary Fibrosis from Pulmonary Fibrosis – preliminary results from SAURON Study
Pierro, Giovanni; Perrotta, Alessandro; Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Demi, Libertario; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo in European Respiratory Journal, Vol 66, Issue suppl 69, Lausanne, Switzerland: European Respiratory Journal, 2025. - (EUROPEAN RESPIRATORY JOURNAL). Proceedings of: 2025 ERS Congress, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 27/09/2025 - 01/10/2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1183/13993003.congress-2025.pa4157

A Spatially Aware Few-Shot Approach to Classification of Radar Sounder Data
Yebasse, Milkisa T.; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 63, (2025), p. 1-14. - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2025.3546160

Efficient semantic segmentation of radar sounder data
Yebasse, M. T.; Bruzzone, L. in Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA: SPIE, 2024. - (PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING). - ISBN: 9781510681002. Proceedings of: Artificial Intelligence and Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXX 2024, gbr, 2024. - DOI: 10.1117/12.3031783

Hybrid FusionNet: A Hybrid Feature Fusion Framework for Multisource High-Resolution Remote Sensing Image Classification
Zheng, Yongjie; Liu, Sicong; Chen, Shu Heng; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 62, n. 5401714 (2024), p. 1-14. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3352812

ELunarDTMNet: Efficient Reconstruction of High-Resolution Lunar DTM From Single-View Orbiter Images
Chen, Hao; Glaser, Philipp; Hu, Xuanyu; Willner, Konrad; Zheng, Yongjie; Damme, Friedrich; Bruzzone, Lorenzo; Oberst, Jurgen in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 62, n. 4601820 (2024). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2024.3501153

Novel Quantitative Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Approach for Diseases Classification
Perpenti, Mattia; Mento, Federico; Pierro, Giovanni; Perrotta, Alessandro; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo; Demi, Libertario in 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 1-4. - (PROCEEDINGS OF THE ... IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON APPLICATIONS OF FERROELECTRICS). - ISBN: 9798350371901. Proceedings of: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), Taipei, Taiwan, 22-26 September 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/uffc-js60046.2024.10793543

A Novel Empirical Wavelet Transform Approach for Classification of Radiofrequency Lung Ultrasound Signals Applied to Diagnosis of Lung Diseases
Perpenti, Mattia; Mento, Federico; Afrakhteh, Sajjad; Barcellona, Giuliana; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), Taipei, Taiwan: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 1-4. - ISBN: 9798350371901. Proceedings of: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, UFFC-JS 2024, Taipei, Taiwan, 22-26 September, 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/uffc-js60046.2024.10793884

A Transformer-Enhanced Encoder-Decoder Network For Unsupervised Heterogeneous Remote Sensing Image Change Detection
Zheng, Yongjie; Liu, Sicong; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in IEEE, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA: IEEE, 2024, p. 8830-8834. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: IGARSS 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, Athens, Greece, 7-12 July 2024. - DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS53475.2024.10640421

Quantitative Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Classification Performance in Differentiating CPE, Pneumonia, and PF, a Comparative Classifiers’ Analysis
Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Barcellona, Giuliana; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium (UFFC-JS), USA: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2024, p. 1-4. - ISBN: 9798350371901. Proceedings of: 2024 IEEE Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control Joint Symposium, UFFC-JS 2024, Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center, Hall 1, No.1, Jingmao 2nd Rd., Nangang District, twn, 22-26 September 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/uffc-js60046.2024.10793564

Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy Applied to the Differential Diagnosis of Pulmonary Diseases: an in vivo multicenter clinical study
Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Barcellona, Giuliana; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON ULTRASONICS FERROELECTRICS AND FREQUENCY CONTROL, v. 71, n. 10 (2024), p. 1217-1232. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/tuffc.2024.3454956

Differential Diagnosis of Lung Disease through Quantitative Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy, an in vivo clinical study over 114 patients
Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Barcellona, Giuliana; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Montreal, Canada: IEEE Computer Society, 2023, p. 1-4. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM). - ISBN: 979-8-3503-4645-9. Proceedings of: 2023 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2023, Montreal, QC, Canada, 03-08 September 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/IUS51837.2023.10308226

Quantitative lung ultrasound spectroscopy, an in vivo clinical study conducted over 101 patients
Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Barcellona, Giuliana; Torri, Elena; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in ASA meetings, Chicago: ASA, 2023, p. A189-A189. - (THE JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA; 3_supplement). Proceedings of: ASA meeting, Chicago, 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1121/10.0018615

Network on or Off? Instant Global Binary Decisions over UWB with Flick
Soprana, E.; Trobinger, M.; Vecchia, D.; Picco, G. P. in IPSN '23: Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, New York: ACM, 2023, p. 261-273. - ISBN: 9798400701184. Proceedings of: 22nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks, IPSN 2023, San Antonio, TX, USA, May 9-12, 2023. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1145/3583120.3586967

An Attention-Enhanced Feature Fusion Network (AeF2N) for Hyperspectral Image Classification
Zheng, Yongjie; Liu, Sicong; Bruzzone, L in IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS, v. 20, (2023), p. 55110051-55110055. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2023.3320193

A Shallow-to-Deep Feature Fusion Network for {VHR} Remote Sensing Image Classification
Liu, Sicong; Zheng, Yongjie; Du, Qian; Bruzzone, Lorenzo; Samat, Alim; Tong, Xiaohua; Jin, Yanmin; Wang, Chao in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 60, (2022), p. 541021301-541021313. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2022.3179288

GCFnet: Global Collaborative Fusion Network for Multispectral and Panchromatic Image Classification
Zhao, Hui; Liu, Sicong; Du, Qian; Bruzzone, Lorenzo; Zheng, Yongjie; Du, Kecheng; Tong, Xiaohua; Xie, Huan; Ma, Xiaolong in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 60, (2022), p. 563281401-563281414. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2022.3215020

 

Students

Pandit, Prashantprashant.pandit [at] unitn.itwebpage
Perpenti, Mattiamattia.perpenti [at] unitn.itwebpage
Sankaranarayanan, Aadhithyaa.sankaranarayanan [at] unitn.itwebpage
Sharma, Aanchalaanchal.sharma [at] unitn.itwebpage
Soprana, Enricoenrico.soprana [at] unitn.itwebpage
Wicklein, Jana Annikajanaannika.wicklein [at] unitn.itwebpage
Yebasse, Milkisa Tesfayemilkisa.yebasse [at] unitn.itwebpage
Zangrandi, Chiarachiara.zangrandi [at] unitn.itwebpage
Zheng, Yongjieyongjie.zheng [at] unitn.itwebpage