Sara Baldoni

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Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova

Via Gradenigo 6/b, 35131, Padova, Italy

sara.baldoni@unipd.it

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Biography

Sara Baldoni received her Bachelor degree in Electronics Engineering from Roma Tre University in 2016 2016, with a thesis about distributed image processing for Earth observation from LEO satellites,  and Master degree in Information and Communication Technology Engineering from Roma Tre University in 2018, with a thesis about security for GNSS Augmentation Networks. She has been enrolled in the Ph.D. course in Applied Electronics at Roma Tre University from 2018 to 2021 designing of a context-aware security framework which has been applied to geolocalization and Cyber-Physical Systems. She has been a Post Doc researcher at the Department of Industrial, Electronic and Mechanical Engineering at Roma Tre University from December 2021 to February 2023, and she is now a non-tenured assistant professor at the University of Padova.

Research

Her main research interests are in the area of communication security, navigation and localization systems, and multimedia content processing.

Projects

Ongoing projects

  • ISEEYOO – AI-based Network Anomaly Detection for CPS exploiting 2D data representation
    The ISEEYOO Project aims at designing and implementing an anomaly detection system for monitoring the information collected from a network of Cyber Physical Systems (CPSs) in the communication phase. It is founded under the University of Padova “SEED Research Grants”.
    Find out more at https://sites.google.com/view/iseeyoo.
  • RAILGAP
    The RAILGAP project aims at using GNSS for rail positioning to allow a safer and smarter mobility. This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No: 101004129.
    Find out more at https://railgap.eu/.
  • VOLIERA – Video Odometry with Lidar and EGNSS for ERTMS Applications
    The VOLIERA project aims at defining a multi-sensor positioning system for the railway scenario. The positioning framework involves GNSS, IMU, LIDAR, stereo cameras and time-of-flight cameras. VOLIERA is co-funded by the ESA – NAVISP – 2 program.
    Find out more at https://voliera.eu/.
  • INSECTT – Intelligent Secure Trustable Things
    The INSECTT project aims at providing intelligent secure and trustable systems for industrial applications combining the Internet of Things paradigm with Artificial Intelligence. It is a H2020 ECSEL EU Project (Grant Agreement Number 876038).
    Find out more at https://www.insectt.eu/

Concluded projects

  • RESISTO – Resilience enhancement and risk control platform for communication infrastructure operators funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme under Grant Agreement No786409 (May 2018-July 2020).

Publications

Journal Publications

2023

Baldoni, Sara; Sassi, Mohamed Saifeddine Hadj; Carli, Marco; Battisti, Federica

Definition of guidelines for virtual reality application design based on visual attention Journal Article

In: Multimedia Tools and Applications, pp. 1–26, 2023.

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2022

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Brizzi, Michele; Neri, Alessandro

GNSS-Imaging Data Fusion for Integrity Enhancement in Autonomous Vehicles Journal Article

In: IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, vol. 58, no. 5, pp. 4690-4704, 2022.

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Baldoni, Sara; Carli, Marco; Battisti, Federica

Analysis of a 2D Representation for CPS Anomaly Detection in a Context-Based Security Framework Journal Article

In: Frontiers in Signal Processing, vol. 1, 2022.

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2021

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Carli, Marco; Pascucci, Federica

On the Use of Fibonacci Sequences for Detecting Injection Attacks in Cyber Physical Systems Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 41787-41798, 2021.

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2020

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Neri, Alessandro

On the Use of Differential Correction Clustering for Facing Spoofing Attacks to GNSS Augmentation Networks Journal Article

In: IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 219903-219922, 2020.

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2018

Battisti, Federica; Baldoni, Sara; Brizzi, Michele; Carli, Marco

A feature-based approach for saliency estimation of omni-directional images Journal Article

In: Signal Processing: Image Communication, vol. 69, pp. 53-59, 2018, (cited By 33).

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Conference Proceedings

2023

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Carli, Marco; Neri, Alessandro

A context-based framework for enhancing GNSS performance and security Proceedings Article

In: 2023 IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), pp. 729-739, 2023.

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Baldoni, Sara; Wahba, Mahmoud Z. A.; Carli, Marco; Battisti, Federica

A Study on the Impact of Virtual Reality on User Attention Proceedings Article

In: 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing Workshops (ICASSPW), pp. 1-5, 2023.

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Baldoni, Sara; Poci, Ortisa; Calvagno, Giancarlo; Battisti, Federica

An Ablation Study on 360-Degree Saliency Estimation Proceedings Article

In: 2023 International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), pp. 1-6, 2023.

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2022

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Brizzi, Michele; Neri, Michael; Neri, Alessandro

A Semantic Segmentation-based Approach for Train Positioning Proceedings Article

In: ITM/PTTI Institute Of Navigation (ION), pp. 1380-1391, 2022.

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Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Brizzi, Michele; Emmanuele, Giusy; Neri, Alessandro; Pallotta, Luca; Ruggeri, Agostino; Vennarini, Alessia

On the Design of High Accuracy Rail Digital Maps based on Sensor Fusion Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 2022 International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, pp. 1420-1431, 2022.

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Casarin, Sofia; Baldoni, Sara; Carli, Marco; Zanuttigh, Pietro; Battisti, Federica

Unsupervised Network Anomaly Detection by Learning on 2D Data Representations Proceedings Article

In: 2022 9th Swiss Conference on Data Science (SDS), pp. 53-58, 2022.

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2021

Neri, Alessandro; Capua, Roberto; Filip, Aleš; Ruggeri, Agostino; Baldoni, Sara

Integrity Bounds for Rail and Road Applications Based on Local Hazard Maps Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+), 2021.

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Neri, Alessandro; Battisti, Federica; Baldoni, Sara; Brizzi, Michele; Pallotta, Luca; Ruggeri, Agostino; Lauro, Gianluigi

High Accuracy High Integrity Train Positioning Based on GNSS and Image Processing Integration Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the 34th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS+), 2021.

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2020

Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Brizzi, Michele; Neri, Alessandro

Virtual Track: A Vision-based Integrity Enhancement Proceedings Article

In: IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2020.

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Baldoni, Sara; Battisti, Federica; Brizzi, Michele; Neri, Alessandro

A Hybrid Position Estimation Framework based on GNSS and Visual Sensor Fusion Proceedings Article

In: IEEE/ION Position, Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS), 2020.

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Baldoni, Sara; Celozzi, Giuseppe; Neri, Alessandro; Carli, Marco; Battisti, Federica

Inferring Anomaly Situation from Multiple Data Sources in Cyber Physical Systems Proceedings Article

In: International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Security for Critical Infrastructures Protection, Springer 2020.

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2019

Neri, Alessandro; Baldoni, Sara; Capua, Roberto

On Cyber-security of Augmentation Networks Proceedings Article

In: Proceedings of the International Technical Meeting of The Institute of Navigation, 2019.

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Baldoni, Sara; Brizzi, Michele; Carli, Marco; Neri, Alessandro

A watermarking model for omni-directional digital images Proceedings Article

In: 11th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA), pp. 240-245, 2019, (cited By 2).

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