» Francesco Montorsi «

Developer, Maker and HomeAssistant fan

During my PhD I have been working on different localization techniques, i.e. with systems and algorithms providing an estimate of the physical location(s) of some device(s). This research area also includes tracking systems (i.e. continuous estimation of trajectories of moving devices), radar systems (where the target is usually non-cooperative), robot navigation systems, etc. Wikipedia contains a page about Real-time Location Systems (RTLS) which provides an overview about some aspects of this wide research area.

Additional information are available on the website of the lab that hosted me during my PhD; in particular more information are available on the page about indoor positioning.

As effort to comply with the Open Science movement, I published the source code (mostly MATLAB code) which I developed during my PhD and which was used to generate the numerical results of my papers. All the code is accessible through my SourceForge project collecting my scientific research code or through the links below.

More details about some of my research work will be available in my PhD thesis (however, it is not publicly available for now).

The rest of this page lists my publications organized differentiating between journal, conference and submitted publications. Note that some information about my publications are also available on my Google Scholar profile.

PhD thesis

My PhD thesis contains a summary of my whole PhD research. The thesis reference is:

    Montorsi, F.; “Localization and Tracking for Indoor Environments”, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, 2013.

Journal papers

  1. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Statistical Characterization and Mitigation of NLOS Bias in UWB Localization Systems,” Advances in Electronics and Telecommunications, pp. 11-17, Issue no 4, ISSN 2081-8580
  2. Montorsi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “On the Performance Limits of Pilot-Based Estimation of Bandlimited Frequency-Selective Communication Channels,” IEEE Transactions on Communications, vol. 59, no. 11, pp. 2964-2969, Nov. 2011
  3. Montorsi, F.; Mazuelas S.; Vitetta, G.; Win M. Z.; “On the Performance Limits of Map-Aware Localization,” IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, vol. 59, no. 8, pp. 5023-5038, Aug. 2013
  4. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Map-Aware Models for Indoor Wireless Localization Systems: An Experimental Study,” IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications, vol. 13, no. 5, pp. 2850-2862, May 2014
  5. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Reduced-Complexity Algorithms for Indoor Map-Aware Localization Systems,” International Journal of Navigation and Observation, Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 562680
    • Full text
    • MATLAB code used for numerical results and figure generation (also contains the database of measurements analysed in the Paper)
    • BibTeX
  6. Vitetta, G.; Sirignano, E.; Montorsi, F.; “Particle Smoothing for Conditionally Linear Gaussian Models as Message Passing Over Factor Graphs” IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Volume: 66, Issue: 14, pp. 3633 - 3648, July 2018

Conference papers

  1. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Statistical Characterization and Mitigation of NLOS Errors in UWB Localization Systems,” IEEE International Conference on Ultra-Wideband (ICUWB), pp. 86-90, 14-16 Sept. 2011
  2. Montorsi, F.; Mazuelas S.; Vitetta, G.; Win M. Z.; “On the Impact of A Priori Information on Localization Accuracy and Complexity,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013 - Wireless Communications Symposium, pp. 5792-5797, 9-13 June 2013
  3. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Map-Aware RSS Localization Models and Algorithms Based on Experimental Data,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013 - Wireless Communications Symposium, pp. 5798-5803, 9-13 June 2013
  4. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Design and Implementation of an Inertial Navigation System for Pedestrians Based on a Low-Cost MEMS IMU,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2013 - Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation, pp. 57-61, 9-13 June 2013
  5. Montorsi, F.; Pancaldi, F.; Vitetta, G.; “Reduced-Complexity Techniques for Indoor Map-Aware Localization,” IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC) 2015 - Workshop on Advances in Network Localization and Navigation

Other publications

A few other publications and contributions:

  1. Contributor and Internal Reviewer of “Final Report: Seamless Positioning Techniques in Wireless Communications”, Deliverable DB.4, NewCom++ EU project.
  2. Montorsi, F.; “Efficient Cross-Platform Development: Real-Time Video Processing,” Software Developer Journal, Issue 5/2012 (10), ISSN: 1734-3933