Publications

      @article{catalano_mars,
        title={MARS: a Multimodal Alignment and Ranking System for Few-Shot Segmentation},
        author={Catalano, Nico and Samele, Stefano and Pertino, Paolo and Matteucci, Matteo},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)},
        month     = {March},
        year      = {2026}
        }

      

@article{CATALANO2026111524,
title = {Balancing accuracy and cost in precision agriculture: a few-shot learning approach for efficient weed − crop segmentation},
journal = {Computers and Electronics in Agriculture},
volume = {245},
year = {2026},
issn = {0168-1699},
doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compag.2026.111524},
url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168169926001195},
author = {Nico Catalano and Sofia Matilde Luglio and Agnese Chiatti and Mino Sportelli and Christian Frasconi and Davide Facchinetti and Matteo Matteucci},
}

      

        @inproceedings{lusha2025graph,
          title={Graph Against the Machine: Neuro-Symbolic Approach for Enhanced Video Question Answering},
          author={Lusha, Fabio and Chiatti, Agnese and Pid{\`o}, Sara and Catalano, Nico and Matteucci, Matteo},
          year={2025}
          booktitle = {Proceedings of the workshop on Advanced Neuro-symbolic Applications (ANSyA) at ECAI.}
        }


      

@inproceedings{
aasan2025differentiable,
title={Differentiable Hierarchical Visual Tokenization},
author={Marius Aasan and Martine Hjelkrem-Tan and Nico Catalano and Changkyu Choi and Ad{\'\i}n Ram{\'\i}rez Rivera},
booktitle={The Thirty-ninth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2025},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=y8VWYf5cVI}
}

      

@inproceedings{Catalano2024,
  author={Catalano, Nico and Maranelli, Alessandro and Chiatti, Agnese and Matteucci, Matteo},
  booktitle={2024 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)}, 
  title={More than the Sum of Its Parts: Ensembling Backbone Networks for Few-Shot Segmentation}, 
  year={2024},
  pages={1-8},
  doi={10.1109/IJCNN60899.2024.10650126}
}

      

@inproceedings{Catalano2024CASE,
  author={Catalano, Nico and Leone, Monica and Matteucci, Matteo},
  booktitle={2024 IEEE 20th International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE)}, 
  title={Tackling Environmental Variability: Few Shot Segmentation for Domain-Adaptive Weed Segmentation in Agricultural Robotics}, 
  year={2024},
  pages={583-588},
  doi={10.1109/CASE59546.2024.10711616}
}

      

@inproceedings{Catalano2023ECMR,
  author={Chiatti, Agnese and Bertoglio, Riccardo and Catalano, Nico and Gatti, Matteo and Matteucci, Matteo},
  booktitle={2023 European Conference on Mobile Robots (ECMR)}, 
  title={Surgical Fine-Tuning for Grape Bunch Segmentation Under Visual Domain Shifts}, 
  year={2023},
  pages={1-7},
  doi={10.1109/ECMR59166.2023.10256348}
}

      

@misc{Catalano2023Arxiv,
  title={Few Shot Semantic Segmentation: a review of methodologies, benchmarks, and open challenges},
  author={Catalano, Nico and Matteucci, Matteo},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.05832},
  year={2023}
}
      

@article{Bertoglio2023,
  author  = {Bertoglio, R. and Mazzucchelli, A. and Catalano, N. and Matteucci, M.},
  title   = {A comparative study of Fourier transform and CycleGAN as domain adaptation techniques for weed segmentation},
  journal = {Smart Agricultural Technology},
  volume  = {4},
  pages   = {100188},
  year    = {2023},
  issn    = {2772-3755},
  doi     = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.atech.2023.100188},
}