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Publications: PROF Valentina Donzella

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Kumar S, Brophy T, Mohandas R, Grua EM, Sistu G, Donzella V, Eising C ( 2025 ) . Occluded nuScenes: A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Evaluating Perception Robustness in Automated Driving .
Kumar S, Sharma S, Asghar R, Mohandas R, Brophy T, Sistu G, Grua EM, Donzella V et al. ( 2025 ) . Exploring Sensor Impact and Architectural Robustness in Adverse Weather on BEV Perception . IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology vol. 6 , 2857 - 2875 .
Wang Y, Zhao H, Gummadi D, Dianati M, Debattista K, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Robustness of Panoptic Segmentation for Degraded Automotive Cameras Data . IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering vol. 22 , 21020 - 21032 .
Li B, Wang H, Wang Y, Chan PH, Perks D, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Data-Driven Headlight Flare Model for Automotive Cameras . IEEE Open Journal of Vehicular Technology vol. 6 , 2709 - 2720 .
Shahbeigi S, Proma NM, Hodge V, Hawkins R, Li B, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Robustness Requirement Coverage using a Situation Coverage Approach for Vision-based AI Systems .
Wang H, Huggett A, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . A New Approach for Bayer Adaption Techniques in Compression . Conference: 2025 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 2185 - 2191 .
Souvalioti G, Goswami A, Singh A, Debattista K, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Lightweight RAW Object Detection for Automated Driving . Conference: 2025 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 1856 - 1861 .
Robinson J, Lovric M, Woodman R, Croft D, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Real-Time Mitigation of LiDAR Mutual Interference . Conference: 2025 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 2100 - 2105 .
Donzella V, Chan PH, Gummadi D, Raisuddin AM, Aksoy EE ( 2025 ) . LiDAR De-Snow Score (DSS): Combining Quality and Perception Metrics for Optimized De-Noising . IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 25 , ( 13 ) 25820 - 25828 .
Raisuddin AM, Holmblad J, Haghighi H, Poledna Y, Drechsler MF, Donzella V, Aksoy EE ( 2025 ) . REHEARSE-3D: A Multi-modal Emulated Rain Dataset for 3D Point Cloud De-raining .
Chan PH, Roudposhti SS, Ye X, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . A Noise Analysis of 4D RADAR: Robust Sensing for Automotive? . IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 25 , ( 10 ) 18291 - 18301 .
Baris G, Li B, Chan PH, Avizzano CA, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Automotive DNN-Based Object Detection in the Presence of Lens Obstruction and Video Compression . IEEE Access vol. 13 , 36575 - 36589 .
Chan PH, Wei C, Huggett A, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Raw Camera Data Object Detectors: An Optimisation for Automotive Video Processing and Transmission . IEEE Access vol. 13 , 21695 - 21706 .
Shahbeigi S, Proma NM, Hodge V, Hawkins R, Li B, Donzella V ( 2025 ) . Robustness Requirement Coverage using a Situation Coverage Approach for Vision-based AI Systems . Conference: 2025 IEEE 33rd International Requirements Engineering Conference Workshops (REW) vol. 00 , 504 - 507 .
Chan PH, Li B, Baris G, Sadiq Q, Donzella V ( 2024 ) . The inconvenient truth of ground truth errors in automotive datasets and DNN-based detection . Data-Centric Engineering vol. 5 ,
Herranen T, Martí EH, Chan PH, Poledna Y, Duthon P, Ben-Daoued A, Drechsler MF, Donzella V . Creation of digital models for accelerated and reliable testing of automated systems in adverse weather . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Autonomous Systems for Security and Defence vol. 13207 ,
Shahbeigi S, Molloy J, Stefanakos I, Zou J, Chan H, Donzella V, Ryan P . Dynamic risk assessment and assurance for configurable UAVs (Conference Presentation) . Conference: Autonomous Systems for Security and Defence
Warg F, Donzella V, Chan PH, Robinson J, Poledna Y, Liandrat S, Cihan U, Aramrattana M et al. ( 2024 ) . From operational design domain to test cases: A methodology to include harsh weather . Open Research Europe vol. 4 ,
Chan PH, Debattista K, Donzella V ( 2024 ) . Parametric Physics-Based Snow Model for Automotive Cameras . Conference: 2024 IEEE SENSORS vol. 00 , 01 - 04 .
Zhao H, Wang Y, Bashford-Rogers T, Donzella V, Debattista K ( 2024 ) . Exploring Generative AI for Sim2Real in Driving Data Synthesis . Conference: 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 3071 - 3077 .
Chan PH, Huggett A, Souvalioti G, Jennings P, Donzella V ( 2024 ) . Influence of AVC and HEVC compression on detection of vehicles through Faster R-CNN . Conference: 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 3140 - 3140 .
Poledna Y, Drechsler MF, Donzella V, Chan PH, Duthon P, Huber W ( 2024 ) . REHEARSE: adveRse wEatHEr datAset for sensoRy noiSe modEls . Conference: 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) vol. 00 , 2451 - 2457 .
Zhao H, Wang Y, Bashford-Rogers T, Donzella V, Debattista K ( 2024 ) . Exploring Generative AI for Sim2Real in Driving Data Synthesis .
Haghighi H, Samadi A, Dianati M, Donzella V, Debattista K ( 2024 ) . Taming Transformers for Realistic Lidar Point Cloud Generation .
Wang Y, Zhao H, Gummadi D, Dianati M, Debattista K, Donzella V ( 2024 ) . Benchmarking the Robustness of Panoptic Segmentation for Automated Driving .
Shahbeigi S, Robinson J, Donzella V ( 2024 ) . A Novel Score-Based LiDAR Point Cloud Degradation Analysis Method . IEEE Access vol. 12 , 22671 - 22686 .
Haghighi H, Dianati M, Donzella V, Debattista K ( 2023 ) . A Unified Generative Framework for Realistic Lidar Simulation in Autonomous Driving Systems .
Chan PH, Huggett A, Souvalioti G, Jennings P, Donzella V ( 2023 ) . Influence of AVC and HEVC Compression on Detection of Vehicles Through Faster R-CNN . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems vol. 25 , ( 1 ) 203 - 213 .
Haghighi H, Dianati M, Donzella V, Debattista K ( 2023 ) . Accelerating Stereo Image Simulation for Automotive Applications Using Neural Stereo Super Resolution . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems vol. 24 , ( 11 ) 12627 - 12636 .
Wang Y, Chan PH, Donzella V ( 2023 ) . Semantic-Aware Video Compression for Automotive Cameras . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles vol. 8 , ( 6 ) 3712 - 3722 .
Wei C, Wu G, Barth M, Chan PH, Donzella V, Huggett A ( 2023 ) . Enhanced Object Detection by Integrating Camera Parameters into Raw Image-Based Faster R-CNN . Conference: 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) vol. 00 , 4473 - 4478 .
Wang Y, Zhao H, Debattista K, Donzella V ( 2023 ) . The Effect of Camera Data Degradation Factors on Panoptic Segmentation for Automated Driving . Conference: 2023 IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) vol. 00 , 2351 - 2356 .
Robinson J, Venturi A, Dudley R, Bevilacqua M, Donzella V ( 2022 ) . Methodology To Investigate Interference Using Off-The-Shelf LiDARs . Conference: 2022 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) vol. 00 , 124 - 130 .
Donzella V, Chan PH, Huggett A ( 2022 ) . Optimising Faster R-CNN Training to Enable Video Camera Compression for Assisted and Automated Driving Systems . Conference: 2022 2nd International Conference on Robotics, Automation and Artificial Intelligence (RAAI) vol. 00 , 234 - 239 .
Li B, Baris G, Chan PH, Rahman A, Donzella V ( 2022 ) . Testing ground-truth errors in an automotive dataset for a DNN-based object detector . Conference: 2022 International Conference on Electrical, Computer, Communications and Mechatronics Engineering (ICECCME) vol. 00 , 1 - 6 .
Li B, Chan PH, Baris G, Higgins MD, Donzella V ( 2022 ) . Analysis of Automotive Camera Sensor Noise Factors and Impact on Object Detection . IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 22 , ( 22 ) 22210 - 22219 .
Wang Y, Chan PH, Donzella V ( 2022 ) . A Two-stage H.264 based Video Compression Method for Automotive Cameras . Conference: 2022 IEEE 5th International Conference on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS) vol. 00 , 01 - 06 .
Smyth J, Chen H, Donzella V, Woodman R ( 2021 ) . Public acceptance of driver state monitoring for automated vehicles: Applying the UTAUT framework . Transportation Research Part F Traffic Psychology and Behaviour vol. 83 , 179 - 191 .
Robinson J, Smyth J, Woodman R, Donzella V ( 2021 ) . Ethical considerations and moral implications of autonomous vehicles and unavoidable collisions . Theoretical Issues in Ergonomics Science vol. 23 , ( 4 ) 435 - 452 .
Chan PH, Souvalioti G, Huggett A, Kirsch G, Donzella V ( 2021 ) . The data conundrum: compression of automotive imaging data and deep neural network based perception . London Imaging Meeting vol. 2 , ( 1 ) 78 - 82 .
Espineira JP, Robinson J, Groenewald J, Chan PH, Donzella V ( 2021 ) . Realistic LiDAR With Noise Model for Real-Time Testing of Automated Vehicles in a Virtual Environment . IEEE Sensors Journal vol. 21 , ( 8 ) 9919 - 9926 .
Hsu C-P, Li B, Solano-Rivas B, Gohil AR, Chan PH, Moore AD, Donzella V ( 2020 ) . A Review and Perspective on Optical Phased Array for Automotive LiDAR . IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics vol. 27 , ( 1 ) 1 - 16 .
Chan PH, Dhadyalla G, Donzella V ( 2020 ) . A Framework to Analyze Noise Factors of Automotive Perception Sensors . IEEE Sensors Letters vol. 4 , ( 6 ) 1 - 4 .
Luan E, Donzella V, Cheung K, Chrostowski L ( 2019 ) . Advances in Silicon Photonic Sensors Using Sub-Wavelength Gratings . Conference: 2019 24th OptoElectronics and Communications Conference (OECC) and 2019 International Conference on Photonics in Switching and Computing (PSC) vol. 00 , 1 - 3 .
Allen A, Donzella V ( 2018 ) . MAINTAINING THE PACE: DESIGNING TECHNICAL POST-GRADUATE COURSES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY . ICERI Proceedings . Conference: ICERI2018 Proceedings vol. 1 , 6847 - 6853 .
Donzella V ( 2018 ) . THE POWER OF PLAY IN HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHING . ICERI Proceedings . Conference: ICERI2018 Proceedings vol. 1 , 8565 - 8566 .
Donzella V, Allen AJ, Dhadyalla G ( 2017 ) . BOARD-GAME FOR TEACHING AUTOMOTIVE GUIDELINES IN THE TECHNICAL ACCREDITATION SCHEME AT WMG . ICERI Proceedings . Conference: ICERI2017 Proceedings vol. 1 , 1010 - 1017 .
Flueckiger J, Schmidt S, Donzella V, Sherwali A, Ratner DM, Chrostowski L, Cheung KC ( 2016 ) . Sub-wavelength grating for enhanced ring resonator biosensor . Optics Express vol. 24 , ( 14 ) 15672 - 15686 .
Pacradouni V, Klein J, Donzella V, Pond J, Li ZQ, Li S ( 2016 ) . Accuracy of 1D Compact Laser Model Laser Model Results from 1D Compact Model Compared with Detailed 2D Simulation . Conference: 2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Photonics (ICP)1 - 2 .
Zhang F, Yun H, Donzella V, Lu Z, Wang Y, Chen Z, Chrostowski L, Jaeger NAF ( 2015 ) . Sinusoidal anti-coupling SOI strip waveguides . Conference on Lasers and Electro Optics Europe Technical Digest . vol. 2015-August ,
Sherwali A, Donzella V, Chrostowski L ( 2015 ) . Propagation Loss in Sub-Wavelength Grating Waveguides . Conference: 2015 Photonics North1 - 1 .
Donzella V, Sherwali A, Flueckiger J, Grist SM, Fard ST, Chrostowski L ( 2015 ) . Design and fabrication of SOI micro-ring resonators based on sub-wavelength grating waveguides . Optics Express vol. 23 , ( 4 ) 4791 - 4803 .
Fard ST, Murray K, Caverley M, Donzella V, Flueckiger J, Grist SM, Huante-Ceron E, Schmidt SA et al. ( 2014 ) . Silicon-on-insulator sensors using integrated resonance-enhanced defect-mediated photodetectors . Optics Express vol. 22 , ( 23 ) 28517 - 28529 .
Donzella V, Flueckiger J, Sherwali A, Fard ST, Grist SM, Chrostowski L ( 2014 ) . Compact and Broad Band Directional Coupler for Sub-Wavelength Grating SOI Components . Conference: 2014 IEEE Photonics Conference607 - 608 .
Schmidt S, Flueckiger J, Wu W, Grist SM, Fard ST, Donzella V, Khumwan P, Thompson ER et al. ( 2014 ) . Improving the performance of silicon photonic rings, disks, and Bragg gratings for use in label-free biosensing . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Biosensing and Nanomedicine VII vol. 9166 ,
Donzella V, Sherwali A, Flueckiger J, Fard ST, Grist SM, Chrostowski L ( 2014 ) . Sub-wavelength grating components for integrated optics applications on SOI chips . Optics Express vol. 22 , ( 17 ) 21037 - 21050 .
Fard ST, Donzella V, Schmidt SA, Flueckiger J, Grist SM, Fard PT, Wu Y, Bojko RJ et al. ( 2014 ) . Performance of ultra-thin SOI-based resonators for sensing applications . Optics Express vol. 22 , ( 12 ) 14166 - 14179 .
Donzella V, Fard ST, Chrostowski L ( 2013 ) . Study of waveguide crosstalk in silicon photonics integrated circuits . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Photonics North 2013 vol. 8915 ,
Donzella V, Fard ST, Chrostowski L ( 2013 ) . Fabrication and experimental characterization of cascaded SOI micro-rings for high-throughput label-free molecular sensing . Conference: 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference614 - 615 .
Fard ST, Donzella V, Schmidt SA, Ratner DM, Bojko RJ, Chrostowski L ( 2013 ) . Sensitivity analysis of thin waveguide SOI ring resonators for sensing applications . Conference: 2013 IEEE Photonics Conference616 - 617 .
Donzella V, Fard ST, Chrostowski L ( 2013 ) . Modelling of asymmetric slot racetracks for improved bio-sensors performance . Conference: 2013 13th International Conference on Numerical Simulation of Optoelectronic Devices (NUSOD)25 - 26 .
Grist SM, Schmidt SA, Flueckiger J, Donzella V, Shi W, Talebi Fard S, Kirk JT, Ratner DM et al. ( 2013 ) . Silicon photonic micro-disk resonators for label-free biosensing . Optics Express vol. 21 , ( 7 ) 7994 - 8006 .
Fard ST, Grist SM, Donzella V, Schmidt SA, Flueckiger J, Wang X, Shi W, Millspaugh A et al. ( 2013 ) . Label-free silicon photonic biosensors for use in clinical diagnostics . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Silicon Photonics VIII vol. 8629 ,
Zaidi F, Nannipieri T, Signorini A, Taki M, Donzella V, Di Pasquale F ( 2013 ) . High Performance Time Domain FBG Dynamic Interrogation Scheme Based on Pulse Coding . IEEE Photonics Technology Letters vol. 25 , ( 5 ) 460 - 463 .
Donzella V, Faralli S ( 2012 ) . Recent Patents on Silicon Photonics Optical Amplifiers and Lasers . Recent Patents on Electrical & Electronic Engineering e vol. 5 , ( 2 ) 120 - 133 .
Donzella V, Crea F ( 2011 ) . Optical biosensors to analyze novel biomarkers in oncology . Journal of Biophotonics vol. 4 , ( 6 ) 442 - 452 .
Donzella V, Toccafondo V, Faralli S, Di Pasquale F, Cassagnettes C, Barbier D, Figueroa HH ( 2010 ) . Ion-exchanged Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped waveguide amplifiers longitudinally pumped by broad area lasers . Optics Express vol. 18 , ( 12 ) 12690 - 12701 .
Donzella V, Toccafondo V, Faralli S, Di Pasquale F, Barbier D, Figueroa HH ( 2009 ) . Phosphate glass ion-exchange Er3+/Yb3+ co-doped waveguide amplifiers longitudinally pumped by broad area lasers . Conference: 2009 International Conference on Photonics in Switching vol. 1 , 1 - 2 .
Donzella V, Toccafondo V, Faralli S, Di Pasquale F, Pitanti A, Daldosso N, Pavesi L, Gourbilleau F et al. ( 2009 ) . Er-doped Si nanoclusters waveguides longitudinally pumped by broad area lasers for optical amplification . Proceedings of SPIE--the International Society for Optical Engineering . Conference: Photonics North 2009 vol. 7386 ,
Donzella V, Faralli S, Toccafondo V, Di Pasquale F ( 2009 ) . Effect of Si-nc to ${\hbox {Er}}^{3+}$ Coupling Ratio in EDWAs Longitudinally Pumped by Visible Broad-Area Lasers . Journal of Lightwave Technology vol. 27 , ( 16 ) 3342 - 3350 .
Donzella V, Faralli S, Di Pasquale F ( 2008 ) . Effect of Si-nc to Er<sup>3+</sup> coupling ratio and multimode resonant pumping on EDWAs performance . Conference Proceedings LEOS '97 10th Annual Meeting IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society 1997 Annual Meeting . Conference: LEOS 2008 - 21st Annual Meeting of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society595 - 596 .
Ciaramella E, D'Errico A, Donzella V ( 2008 ) . Using Semiconductor-Optical Amplifiers with Constant Envelope WDM Signals . IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics vol. 44 , ( 5 ) 403 - 409 .
Ciaramella E, Donzella V, D'Errico A ( 2007 ) . Parameters Affecting the Performance of WDM-DPSK Systems Based on SOA Amplifiers . Conference: 2007 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics (CLEO)1 - 2 .
D'Errico A, Donzella V, Contestabile G, Betti S, Carrozzo V, Curti F, Guglielmucci M, Ciaramella E ( 2007 ) . Field-trial of SOA-based WDM-DPSK 8×10 Gbit/s system over 300 km with conventional amplification span . Electronics Letters vol. 43 , ( 7 ) 404 - 405 .
Ciaramella E, D'Errico A, Donzella V, Contestabile G, Betti S, Carrozzo V, Curti F, Guglielmucci M ( 2007 ) . In-Field WDM-DPSK $8\times 10$ Gb/S Transmission over 300 km Using Four Common SOAs . Conference: OFC/NFOEC 2007 - 2007 Conference on Optical Fiber Communication and the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference1 - 3 .
Ciaramella E, D'Errico A, Donzella V, Contestabile G, Betti S, Carrozzo V, Curti F, Guglielmucci M ( 2007 ) . In-field WDM-DPSK 8x10 Gb/s transmission over 300 km using four common SOAs . Optics Infobase Conference Papers .
Ciaramella E, Donzella V, D'Errico A ( 2007 ) . Parameters affecting the performance of WDM-DPSK systems based on SOA amplifiers . Optics Infobase Conference Papers .
Wang Y, Li B, Wei Z, Rahman A, Gummadi D, Zhao H, Donzella V . A Survey and New Perspective of Sensing in the Dark for Intelligent Transportation Systems . IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Rahman A, Woodman R, Donzella V . Advancing Blink Detection in Driver Monitoring with Improved Eye Landmark Analysis . Conference: The IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) 2025
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