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Andrea Cavallaro

GLoFool: Global Enhancements and Local Perturbations to Craft Adversarial Images

Adversarial examples crafted in black-box scenarios are affected by unrealistic colors or spatial artifacts. To prevent these shortcomings, we propose a novel strategy that generates adversarial images with low detectability and high transferability. The p ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Learning Privacy from Visual Entities

Andrea Cavallaro

Subjective interpretation and content diversity make predicting whether an image is private or public a challenging task. Graph neural networks combined with convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which consist of 14,000 to 500 millions parameters, generate ...

2025

Stereo Hand-Object Reconstruction for Human-to-Robot Handover

Andrea Cavallaro

Jointly estimating hand and object shape facilitates the grasping task in human-to-robot handovers. Relying on handcrafted prior knowledge about the geometric structure of the object fails when generalising to unseen objects, and depth sensors fail to dete ...

2025

Segmenting Object Affordances: Reproducibility and Sensitivity to Scale

Andrea Cavallaro

Visual affordance segmentation identifies image regions of an object an agent can interact with. Existing methods re-use and adapt learning-based architectures for semantic segmentation to the affordance segmentation task and evaluate on small-size dataset ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

RAFT: Regularized Adversarial Fine-Tuning to Enhance Deep Reinforcement Learning for Self-Parking

Andrea Cavallaro

Deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a powerful method for local motion planning in automated driving. However, training of DRL agents is difficult and subject to instability. We propose Regularized Adversarial Fine-Tuning (RAFT), an adversarial DRL traini ...

2025

Image-Guided Topic Modeling for Interpretable Privacy Classification

Andrea Cavallaro

Predicting and explaining the private information contained in an image in human-understandable terms is a complex and contextual task. This task is challenging even for large language models. To facilitate the understanding of privacy decisions, we propos ...

Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH2025

Open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation

Andrea Cavallaro

We introduce the new setting of open-vocabulary object 6D pose estimation, in which a textual prompt is used to specify the object of interest. In contrast to existing approaches, in our setting (i) the object of interest is specified solely through the te ...

IEEE2024

Identifying Privacy Personas

Andrea Cavallaro

Privacy personas capture the differences in user segments with respect to one's knowledge, behavioural patterns, level of self-efficacy, and perception of the importance of privacy protection. Modelling these differences is essential for appropriately choo ...

2024

Test-time adaptation for 6D pose tracking

Andrea Cavallaro

We propose a test -time adaptation for 6D object pose tracking that learns to adapt a pre -trained model to track the 6D pose of novel objects. We consider the problem of 6D object pose tracking as a 3D keypoint detection and matching task and present a mo ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Sparse multi-view hand-object reconstruction for unseen environments

Andrea Cavallaro

Recent works in hand-object reconstruction mainly focus on the single-view and dense multi-view settings. On the one hand, single-view methods can leverage learned shape priors to generalise to unseen objects but are prone to inaccuracies due to occlusions ...

IEEE2024