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

23 publications for 16 currently enrolled students

Novel velocity model for the quantitative characterization of pleural sliding, in vivo multicenter clinical study on RF lung ultrasound data
Zangrandi, Chiara; Mento, Federico; Perpenti, Mattia; Pierro, Giovanni; Perrotta, Alessandro; Perrone, Tiziano; Smargiassi, Andrea; Inchingolo, Riccardo; Demi, Libertario in COMPUTERS IN BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, v. 2026, (2026), p. 111695-111695. - DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2026.111695

Quantitative Assessment of Pleural Sliding Velocity using Lung Ultrasound Spectroscopy: First Clinical Study on in-vivo Radio-Frequency Data
Zangrandi, Chiara; Mento, Federico; Perrone, Tiziano; Demi, Libertario in IEEE Proceedings ICASSP, USA: IEEE, 2026, p. 8067-8071. Proceedings of: IEEE ICASSP, Barcellona, 2026. - DOI: 10.1109/icassp55912.2026.11465109

A Multitask Framework With Cross-Task Selective Feature Sharing for Remote Sensing Image Time-Series Analysis
Atanasova, Milena; Bergamasco, Luca; Bovolo, Francesca in IEEE JOURNAL OF SELECTED TOPICS IN APPLIED EARTH OBSERVATIONS AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 19, (2026), p. 10308-10323. - DOI: 10.1109/jstars.2026.3673598

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

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

Physics-Informed Channel Modeling with Ultrasound Localization Microscopy: Reconstructing Geometry and Flow Field from Sparse Velocity Measurements
Giaccone, Luca; Tuccio, Giulia; Demi, Libertario in 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Utrecht, Netherlands: IEEE Computer Society, 2025, p. 1-3. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM). - ISBN: 979-8-3315-2332-9. Proceedings of: 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands, 15-18 September 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/ius62464.2025.11201751

Detection of Pulsatile Oscillations via Ultrasound Localization Microscopy
Giaccone, Luca; Tuccio, Giulia; Demi, Libertario in 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (IUS), Utrecht, Netherlands: IEEE Computer Society, 2025, p. 1-4. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM). - ISBN: 979-8-3315-2332-9. Proceedings of: 2025 IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, IUS 2025, Utrecht, Netherlands, 2025. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/ius62464.2025.11201781

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, p. 9595-9599. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 2025 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2025, 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

Time Series Change Vector Analysis for Semisupervised Abrupt Land Cover Change Detection
Listiani, Indira Aprilia; Zanetti, Massimo; Bovolo, Francesca in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING, v. 63, (2025), p. 1-15. - DOI: 10.1109/tgrs.2025.3615291

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

OBSUM: An object-based spatial unmixing model for spatiotemporal fusion of remote sensing images
Guo, Houcai; Ye, Dingqi; Xu, Hanzeyu; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in REMOTE SENSING OF ENVIRONMENT, v. 304, n. 114046 (2024). - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2024.114046

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

Hyperspectral data augmentation with transformer-based diffusion models
Ferrari, Mattia; Bruzzone, Lorenzo in Proceedings Volume 13196, Artificial Intelligence and Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXX, Bellingham, Washington USA: SPIE, 2024, p. 115-124. - (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, Edinburgh, 16th September - 20th September 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1117/12.3032957

Time Series Directional Change Vector Analysis
Listiani, Indira Aprilia; Zanetti, Massimo; Bovolo, Francesca in IGARSS, 345 E 47TH ST, NEW YORK, NY 10017 USA: IEEE, 2024, p. 8683-8686. - (IEEE INTERNATIONAL GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING SYMPOSIUM PROCEEDINGS). Proceedings of: 2024 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium, IGARSS 2024, Athens, Greece, 07-12 July 2024. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1109/igarss53475.2024.10642170

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 theoretical framework for unsupervised land cover change detection in dense satellite image time series
Listiani, Indira Aprilia; Bovolo, Francesca; Zanetti, Massimo in Proc. SPIE 12733, Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIX, 127330A, Bellingham, WA USA: SPIE DIGITAL LIBRARY, 2023, p. 11. - (PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING). - ISBN: 9781510666955. Proceedings of: Image and Signal Processing for Remote Sensing XXIX 2023, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 3-6 September 2023. - DOI: 10.1117/12.2679728

Mapping Mediterranean maquis formations using Sentinel-2 time-series
Listiani, Indira Aprilia; Leloglu, Ugur Murat; Zeydanli, Ugur; Caliskan, Bilgehan Kaan in ECOLOGICAL INFORMATICS, v. 71, (2022), p. 10181401-10181417. - Publication URL . - DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101814

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

Atanasova, Milena Minchevamilena.atanasova [at] unitn.itwebpage
Dinesh, Devdev.dinesh [at] unitn.itwebpage
Ferrari, Mattiamattia.ferrari-2 [at] unitn.itwebpage
Giaccone, Lucaluca.giaccone [at] unitn.itwebpage
Goswami, Anurupaanurupa.goswami [at] unitn.itwebpage
Guo, Houcaihoucai.guo [at] unitn.itwebpage
Hueller, Jhonnyjhonny.hueller [at] unitn.itwebpage
Listiani, Indira Apriliaindira.listiani [at] unitn.itwebpage
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
Zangrandi, Chiarachiara.zangrandi [at] unitn.itwebpage
Zheng, Yongjieyongjie.zheng [at] unitn.itwebpage