SHORT BIO
Dr. Chiuso received
the ``Laurea''
degree (summa cum laude) in Telecommunication Engineering from the
University of Padova in July 1996 and the
Ph.D. (Dottorato di ricerca ) in System
Engineering from the University of Bologna in 2000. Since March
2006
he is Associate Professor with the Dipartimento di Tecnica e Gestione
dei Sistemi Industriali,
University of Padova. From March 2001 to February 2006 he has been
``Ricercatore'' (Assistant Professor) with the Dept. of Information
Engineering,
University of Padova. He has held visiting positions with the Dept. of
Electrical Engineering,
Washington University St. Louis (USA) (visiting research scholar,
August 1998-June 1999), with the Dept. Mathematics,
Royal
Institute of Technology, Sweden (EU-TMR Post-Doctoral fellow, March
2000 -July 2000), with the Dept. of Computer Science, Univesity
of California Los Angeles (Visiting Researcher - July 2001).
He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (from 2010), Automatica, member of the Editorial Board
of the journal IET Control Theroy and Applications, member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing, of the IEEE CSS
Technical Committee on System
Identification and Adaptive Control, Senior Member of the IEEE. He has been member of the IEEE Control
System Society (CSS) Conference Editorial Board (2004-2009)
and a reviewer for Mathematical
Reviews of the American
Mathematical Society.
His
research interest are mainly in Estimation, Identification Theory and
Applications (subspace methods, stochastic
realization, distributed estimation, non-linear estimation, hybrid systems), Computer Vision
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Editorial Activity, Organization
of Scientific Events, Reviewing
- Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (2010-)
- Associate Editor of Automatica (December 1st, 2008 - present)
- Member of the Editorial
Board of IET
Control Theory and Applications
(formerly IEE Proceedings on Control
Theory and Applications) (March 2007 - present)
- Member of the IEEE CSS Conference Editorial Board (CEB) (July 2004 -2009)
- Member of the International Program Committee of 16th IFAC SYSID 2012, Brussels, Belgium.
- Member of the Program Committee of MTNS 2010, July 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
- Member of the Program Committee of CDC 2009, December 2009, Shanghai, China.
- Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) 15th IFAC SYSID 2009, July 2009, Saint Malo, France.
- Member
of the International Programm Committee International Conference on
Informatics in Control, Automation and Robotics (ICINCO 2009).
- Member of the Program Committee of CDC 2008, December 2008, Cancun, Mexico.
- Member of the Program Committee of CDC 2007, New Orleans (LA), USA.
- Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) MTNS 2006, Kyoto, Japan.
- Member of the International Program Committee (IPC) MED 2006, Ancona, Italy
- Member of the Program Committee as Associate Editor of CDC-ECC'05, December 2005, Sevilla,
Spain.
- Member of the International Program Committee (IPC)
MTNS 2004, Leuven,
Belgium.
- Technical Committees/Reviewing
- Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Modeling, Identification and Signal Processing
- Member of the IEEE CSS
Technical Committee on System
Identification and Adaptive Control
- Reviewer of Mathematical
Reviews (American Mathematical Society)
- Member of the IEEE
Control System Society Conference Editorial Board (IEEE CEB)
- Reviewer for the International Journals: Automatica,
IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Transactions on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Intelligence, IEEE Transaction on Circuit
and Systems II, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Intl. Journal on Time Series
Analysis, Intl. Journal on Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, J.
of Multivariate Analysis, System and Control Letters.
- Reviewer for the International Conferences: American Control Conference (ACC), Conf.
on Decision and Control (CDC),
IFAC World Congress, Intl. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition (CVPR), European Control Conference (ECC), European
Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Intl. Conference on Computer
Vision (ICCV), Mediterranean Control Conference (MED), Int. Symposium
on System Identification (SYSID), Industrial Electronics
Conference (IECON).
- Organization of Scientific Events
- Co-Organizer (with A. Ferrante and S. Pinzoni) of the International Conference on Modeling Estimation and Control, Venice, Oct. 4-5, 2007.
- Co-Organizer (with L. Schenato and S. Zampieri) of the Invited Session ``Distributed
Estimation over Sensor Networks'', CDC 2007 , New Orleans, USA
- Co-Organizer (with S.J. Qin) of the Invited
Session ``New
Developments in Closed-Loop Subspace Identification'', IFAC SYSID (International Symposium on System
Identification), Newcastle, Australia, March 2006
- Organizer
of the Invited Session ``New Results in closed loop identification'',
IFAC World Congress, Prague, July (2005)
- Organizer of a Minisymposium on ``Identification and
Control in Computer Vision'', MTNS
2004, Leuven, Belgium.
- Co-Organizer (with G.
Picci and T. Katayama)
of two
invited sessions at the IFAC SYSID
2003.
- Oganizer of a Tutorial on ``Dynamical Systems in Computer
Vision'' at ECCV 2002, Copenhagen.
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Research
Identification and Estimation
Theory and Applications
- Subspace Identification and Stochastic Realization
- Asymptotic Variance, Numerical Conditioning
- Closed Loop Identification
- Distributed Estimation and Quantization
- Filtering and Identification of Jump Linear Systems
- Wide Sense Estimation on Lie Groups
Computer Vision
- Modeling and recognition of dynamic scenes: Texture, gaits etc.
- Structure From Motion
- Characterization of Visual Illusions
- Real Time Motion Estimation
- Data Association, Tracking, Shape modeling
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Publications
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Books
1) A.
Chiuso, A. Ferrante, S. Pinzoni (Eds) (2007),
``Modeling, Estimation and Control. A Festschrift in Honor of Giorgio Picci on the Occasion of his 65th Birthday",
Springer
Lect. Notes in Control and Information Sciences.
2) A.
Chiuso, L. Fortuna, M. Frasca, A. Rizzo, L. Schenato, S. Zampieri (Eds) (2009),
``Modeling, Estimamtion and Control of Networked Complex Systems''
Springer series: Understandig Complex Systems.
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Journal Papers
1) A. Chiuso, R. Brockett and
S. Soatto (2000),
``Optimal Structure From
Motion: Local Ambiguities and Global Estimates".
IJCV, International Journal on Computer
Vision, 39(3), pp. 195-228.
2) A. Chiuso, and
G. Picci (2001).
``Some
Algorithmic aspects of Subspace Identification with Inputs",
Int. Journal Applied Mathematics and
Computer Sciences, Vol. 11, No.1, pp. 55-75.
3) A. Chiuso, P. Favaro,
H. Jin and S. Soatto (2002).
``Structure
from Motion Causally Integrated over Time''.
IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence 24(4),pp. 509-522.
4) G. Doretto, A. Chiuso, Y.N.
Wu, S. Soatto (2003),
``Dynamic
Textures''.
Int. Journal of Computer Vision,
51(2) , pp. 91-109
5) A. Chiuso and G. Picci
(2004),
``Asymptotic
Variance of Subspace Estimates".
Journal of Econometrics, 118(1-2),
pp.257--291.
6) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2004),
``On
the Ill-conditioning of subspace identification with inputs".
(regular paper) Automatica, 40(4), pp 575--589.
7) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2004),
``Numerical
Conditioning and asymptotic variance of subspace estimates".
(brief paper) Automatica, 40(4), pp.
677-683.
8) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2004), ``Subspace
identification by data
orthogonalization and model decoupling".
(regular paper) Automatica,
40(10), pp. 1689-1703.
9) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2004), ``Asymptotic
Variance of Subspace Identification by data orthogonalization and model
decoupling: a comparative study".
(regular paper) Automatica,
40(10), pp. 1705--1717.
10) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2005), ``Consistency Analysis of Certain
Closed-Loop
Subspace Identification Methods".
(special
issue paper), Automatica, Special
Issue on System Identification, 41(3), pp. 377--391 .
11) A. Chiuso (2006), ``Asymptotic
Variance of Closed-Loop Subspace Identification Methods".
(regular paper), IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, 51(8), pp. 1299-1314.
12) A. Chiuso (2007), ``The role of Vector AutoRegressive modeling in
Predictor Based Subspace Identification''
(regular paper) Automatica, 43(6), June 2007, pp. 1034-1048.
13)
A. Chiuso (2007) ``On
the relation between CCA and predictor-based subspace
identification''
(regular paper) IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, 52(10), pp. 1795-1812
14) A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso and S. Soatto
(2007), ``Classification
and Recognition
of Dynamical Models: The Role of Phase, Independent Components,
Kernels and Optimal Transport''. (regular
paper) IEEE
Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 29(10).
15) R. Carli, A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato and S. Zampieri
(2008), ``Distributed Kalman filtering using consensus strategies''
(regular paper) IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, 26(4), pp. 622-633.
16) A.
Chiuso, G. Picci, S. Soatto (2008), ``Wide-sense Estimation on the Special Orthogonal Group''
Communications in Information and Systems, 8(3), pp. 185-200.
17) A.
Chiuso, R. Muradore, E. Marchetti
(2009), ``Dynamic Calibration of Adaptive Optics Systems: A System Identification Approach''
(brief paper) IEEE
Transactions on Control Systems Technology, to appear.
18) A.
Chiuso
(2009), ``On the asymptotic properties of closed loop CCA-type Subspace Algorithms: equivalence results and choice of the future horizon''
(regular paper) IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, to appear.
19) G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso
(2009), ``Fast computation of smoothing splines subject to equality constraints''
(brief paper), Automatica, to appear.
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Articles in
International Books
1)
A. Chiuso and G. Picci (1998)
``Visual tracking of points as estimation on the unit sphere'',
in The Confluence of Vision and
Control, D. Kriegman, W. Hager, S. Morse (Eds.),
Springer LNCIS 1998, pp. 91-104.
2) A. Chiuso, H. Jin, P. Favaro and S. Soatto (2000).
``MFm'' : 3-D Motion and Structure from 2-D
Motion Causally Integrated Over Time: Implementation.
In Computer
Vision - ECCV 2000, D. Vernon ed., Lect. Notes in Computer
Science 1843, pp. 734-750.
3) A.
Chiuso, G. Picci (2002),
``Geometry
of Oblique Splitting, Minimality and Hankel Operators",
in Directions in Mathematical Systems Theory
and Optimization, A. Rantzer and C. Byrnes eds.
Springer
Lect. Notes in Control and Information Sciences, 286, pp. 85-124.
4) R. Vidal, A. Chiuso, S. Soatto and S. Sastry (2003)
``Observability Linear Hybrid Systems'',
In Hybrid
Systems: Computation and Control, Lecture Notes in Computer
Science 2623, pp. 526-539. Springer Verlag, 2003
5) P. Saisan, A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso and S. Soatto (2004)
``Modeling
and Synthesis of facial motion driven by speech",
In: Computer
Vision - ECCV 2004, T. Pajdla and J. Matas eds., Lect. Notes in
Computer Science 3023, pp. 453-467.
6) A. Masiero and A. Chiuso (2006),
``Non linear
temporal texture synthesis, a Monte Carlo approach'',
Computer
Vision - ECCV 2006,
Part II, A. Leonardis, H. Bischof and A. Prinz (eds.),
Lect. Notes in
Computer Science 3952, pp. 283-294.
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Conference
Papers (Referred)
1) A. Chiuso and G. Picci (1998)
``A wide-sense estimation theory on the unit sphere''.
In Proc. of IEEE 37th
Conference on Decision and Control,
Tampa, Florida, December 1998, pp.3743-9754.
2) A. Chiuso, and G. Picci, (1999),
``Subspace Identification by orthogonal decomposition'',
Proc. 14th IFAC World Congress,
Pechino, Cina, July, 1999,
Volume H, pp. 241-246.
3) H. Kawauchi, A. Chiuso, T. Katayama, G.Picci. (1999),
``Comparison of Two Subspace Identification Methods
for Combined Deterministic -Stochastic Systems".
In Proc. of The
31st ISCIE International Symposium on Stochastic Systems Theory and its
Applications,
Yokohama, Japan, 1999, pp. 7-12.
4) A. Chiuso and S. Soatto (2000),
``3-D Motion and Structure Causally Integrated
Over Time: Analysis'',
Tutorial lecture presented at IEEE Intl. Conf. on
Robotics and
Automation, San Francisco, April 2000.
Preliminary version registered as ESSRL Technical
Report 99-001
5) A. Chiuso and G. Picci (2000),
``Error Analysis of Certain Subspace Methods".
In Proc. of IFAC
International Symposium on System Identification,
Santa Barbara, June 2000, pp. 85-90.
6) A. Chiuso and G. Picci (2000),
``Probing Inputs for Subspace Identification".
In Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2000,
Sydney, Australia. (Invited paper number INV0201.)
7) A. Chiuso and S. Soatto (2000), ``Monte Carlo filtering on Lie
Groups",
In Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Decision and Control CDC 2000,
Sydney, Australia.
Regular paper number REG1407.
8) A. Chiuso and G. Picci (2001),
``Asymptotic Variance of Subspace Estimates".
Proc. of IEEE
International Conference on Decision and Control,
Orlando, Florida,USA, December 2001.
9) A. Bissacco, A. Chiuso, Y. Ma and S. Soatto (2001)
``Recognition of human gaits.''
In Proc.
of the IEEE Intl. Conf. on Comp.
Vision and Patt. Recog.,
Hawaii, Dec. 2001.
10) R. Vidal, A. Chiuso and S. Soatto (2002)
``Observability and
Identifiability of Jump Linear Systems''
In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
Las Vegas, USA, 2002.
11) G. Gennari, A. Chiuso, F. Cuzzolin, R. Frezza (2002)
``Integrating dynamic and probabilistic
shape information for data association and tracking''
In Proc. of the IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
Las Vegas, USA, 2002.
12) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2003) ``Asymptotic Variance of Subsapce
Methods by data Orthogonalization and Model Decoupling'',
in Proc. of the IFAC Int. Symposium on System
Identification (SYSID), Rotterdam, 2003.
13) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2003)
``Constructing the state of random
processes with feedback'',
in Proc. of the IFAC Int. Symposium on System
Identification (SYSID), Rotterdam, 2003.
14) S. Soatto, A. Chiuso (2003)
``Snippets of System Identification in
Computer Vision'',
in Proc. of the IFAC Int. Symposium on System
Identification (SYSID),
Semi-Plenary lecture given by S.
Soatto, Rotterdam, 2003.
15) A. Chiuso (2004), ``Asymptotic
Variance of a Certain Closed-Loop Subspace Identification Method"
(estended version).
Proc. of
the 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
2004.
16) A. Chiuso, G.
Picci (2004), ``Consistency Analysis of Certain
Closed-Loop
Subspace Identification Methods" (extended version).
Proc.
of the 43rd IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
2004.
17) G. Gennari, A. Chiuso, F. Cuzzolin,
R. Frezza (2004) ``Integration
of shape constraints in data association filters''
Proc. of the
43rd
IEEE Conf. on Decision and Control,
2004.
18) A. Chiuso and G. Picci (2005), ``Prediction
error vs. Subspace methods in open and closed-loop identification''
Proc.
of the 16th IFAC World Congress, Prague (July 2005)
19) A. Chiuso, A. Ferrante, G.
Picci (2005) ``Reciprocal
realization and modeling of textured images''
Proc. of
CDC-ECC05, Sevilla, Spain (Dec. 2005).
20) R. Frezza, A. Chiuso (2005) ``Learning
and exploiting invariants for multi-target tracking and data
association''
Proc.
of CDC-ECC05, Sevilla, Spain (Dec. 2005).
21) A. Chiuso (2005) ``On
the relation between CCA and predictor-based subspace
identitifcation''
Proc.
of CDC-ECC05, Sevilla, Spain (Dec. 2005).
22) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2006)
``Estimating
the Asymptotic Variance of Closed-Loop Subspace
Estimators''
Proc. of the IFAC
SYSID 2006, Newcastle, Australia (March 2006)
23) A. Chiuso (2006) ``Asymptotic
Equivalence of Certain Closed-Loop Subspace Identification Methods''
Proc.
of the IFAC SYSID 2006, Newcastle,
Australia (March 2006)
24)
A. Chiuso, A Ferrante and G.
Picci (2006) ``Realization of Reciprocal processes and applications to
computer vision''
Presented at the Int.
Symp. Mathematical Theory of Network and Systems, July 2006.
25) A. Chiuso (2006) ``The role of
Vector
AutoRegressive modeling in subspace
identitifcation''
Proc.
of the IEEE
Conf. on Decision and Control, San Diego, Dec. 2006.
26) A. Chiuso (2007),
``Some insights on the choice of the future horizon in
CCA-type subspace algorithm''
Proc.
of American Control
Conference, ACC'07
27) A. Chiuso, R. Muradore and E. Fedrigo
(2007), ``Adaptive Optics Systems: a challenge for closed-loop
subspace identification''
Proc.
of American Control
Conference, ACC'07
28)
Rene Vidal, Stefano Soatto, Alessandro Chiuso (2007) Applications of
Hybrid System Identification in Computer Vision,
Proc. of European Control
Conference, Kos, Grece.
29) R. Carli, A. Chiuso, L. Schenato and S. Zampieri (2007),
``Distributed Kalman filtering using consensus strategies''
Proc. of IEEE
Conf. on Decision and Control, New Orleans, USA, Dec. 2007
30) R. Carli, A. Chiuso, L. Schenato and S. Zampieri (2007)
``Consensus algorithm design for distributed estimation'',
3rd International Workshop on Networked Control Systems: Tolerant to Faults, Nancy, France, Jun. 2007
31) A. Chiuso (2008) ``A note on estimation
using quantized data''
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul (Korea), July 2008.
32) R. Carli, A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato and S. Zampieri
(2008), ``A PI Consensus Controller for Networked Clocks Synchronization''
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul (Korea), July 2008.
33) E. Toffoli, G. Baldan, G. Albertin, L. Schenato, A. Chiuso, A. Beghi (2008),
``Thermodynamic Identification of Buildings using Wireless Sensor Networks''
17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul (Korea), July 2008.
34) A. Agnoli, A. Chiuso, P. D'Errico, A. Pegoraro, L. Schenato (2008),
``Sensor fusion and estimation strategies for data traffic reduction in rooted wireless sensor networks''
International Symp. on Communication, Control and Signal Processing (ISCCSP 2008), Malta, March 2008.
35) A.
Chiuso, R. Muradore, E. Marchetti
(2008), ``Dynamic Calibration of Adaptive Optics Systems: A System Identification Approach''
2008 IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control.
36) A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato
(2008), ``Information fusion strategies from distributed filters in packet-drop networks''
2008 IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control.
37) G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso, G. De Nicolao
(2008), ``Predictor Estimation via Gaussian regression''
2008 IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control.
38) A.
Chiuso, G. Pillonetto, G. De Nicolao
(2008), ``Subspace Identification using predictor estimation via Gaussian regression''
2008 IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control.
39) A.
Chiuso, G. Picci (2008), ``Identification techniques in Computer Vision''
2008 IEEE Conf. on Dec. and Control (Invited Tutorial Paper)
40) A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato
(2009), ``Performance bounds for information fusion strategies in packet-drop networks''
ECC 2009.
41) G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso
(2009), ``Gaussian Processess for Wiener-Hammerstein System Identification''
IFAC SYSID 2009.
42) M, H. Quang, G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso
(2009), ``Nonlinear system identification via Gaussian regression and mixtures
of kernels''
IFAC SYSID 2009.
43) G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso
(2009), ``A Bayesian Learning approach to linear system identification with missing data'',
CDC 2009, accepted.
44) G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso, G. De Nicolao
(2010), ``Regularized estimation of sums of exponentials in spaces generated by stable spline kernels''
ACC 2010, accepted.
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Under
Revision
1) R. Carli, A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato and S. Zampieri
(2008), ``A PI Consensus Controller for Networked Clocks Synchronization''
Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control (Nov. 17, 2008) .
2)
G. Pillonetto, A.
Chiuso, G. De Nicolao (2009), ``Identification of linear predictors: a Gaussian regression approach''
Submitted to Automatica (August 2009) .
3) A.
Chiuso, L. Schenato
(2009), ``Information fusion strategies and performance bounds in packet-drop networks''
Submitted to Automatica (September 2009)
Technical
Reports
1) A. Chiuso, H. Jin, P. Favaro and S.
Soatto (1999),
``Application of Extended Kalman Filtering to the Reconstruction of 3-D
Shape from Visual Motion".
ESSRL Technical
Report 99-001.
2) A. Chiuso (2000)
``A Matlab Toolbox for Subspace Identification'',
Universita di Padova.
3) A. Chiuso, G. Picci (2003),
``Canonical
Correlation Analysis of Linear Stochastic Systems with Inputs'',
Mittag-Leffler
Technical Report No. 45, 2002/2003, Spring
ISSN 1103-467X, ISN IML-R- 45-02/03--SE+spring.
4) A. Chiuso
(2005), ``Asymptotic
Variance of Closed-Loop Subspace Identification Methods".
University of Padova - Complete version
(contains all proofs which have been omitted due to
space limitation imposed by the sharp page limit imposed by the
Transactions on Automatic Control)
of the
paper appearing on the IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control (July
2006) .
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