Alessandro Moro

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Alessandro Moro’s research lies at the intersection of robotic teleoperation, 3D computer vision, and human-robot interaction, with a particular focus on enhancing situational awareness for operators of disaster-response and construction robots. His major contributions include pioneering methods for generating spatio-temporal bird’s-eye views from multiple fish-eye cameras (37 citations) and developing decoupled virtual camera systems that separate viewpoint control from robot movement, reducing operator disorientation during teleoperation. Moro has advanced dense 3D reconstruction techniques using spherical cameras, enabling complete structural measurements from small camera motions—work that has garnered over 30 citations across related publications. His more recent research addresses autonomous navigation safety, including pedestrian trajectory prediction using BiRNN encoder-decoder frameworks and novel “smartphone zombie” detection from LiDAR point clouds to prevent collisions. Moro’s work on arbitrary viewpoint visualization for disaster response robots and spherical camera rotation estimation via specialized CNNs demonstrates his sustained impact on practical robotic systems. With over 150 total citations across his most-cited papers, his research continues to shape how robots perceive and interact with complex, human-populated environments.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Spatio-temporal bird's-eye view images using multiple fish-eye cameras

   37 citations · 2013
2. 2
   Visualization of the surrounding environment and operational part in a 3DCG model for the teleoperation of construction machines

   20 citations · 2015
3. 3
   Dense 3D reconstruction from two spherical images via optical flow-based equirectangular epipolar rectification

   18 citations · 2016
4. 4
   3D reconstruction of structures using spherical cameras with small motion

   15 citations · 2016
5. 5
   A decoupled virtual camera using spherical optical flow

   14 citations · 2016
6. 6
   Pedestrian trajectory prediction using BiRNN encoder–decoder framework

   14 citations · 2019
7. 7
   Smartphone Zombie Detection From LiDAR Point Cloud for Mobile Robot Safety

   12 citations · 2020
8. 8
   Anomaly detection from images in pipes using GAN

   8 citations · 2023
9. 9
   Arbitrary Viewpoint Visualization for Teleoperation of Disaster Response Robots

   6 citations · 2019
10. 10
    E-CNN: Accurate Spherical Camera Rotation Estimation via Uniformization of Distorted Optical Flow Fields

    5 citations · 2019

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