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Andrea Fossati’s research bridges computer vision and multi-robot systems, with a focus on perception, uncertainty, and human-robot interaction. Her most influential work, *Consumer Depth Cameras for Computer Vision: Research Topics and Applications* (2012, 36 citations), established a foundational reference for the use of affordable depth sensors—like Microsoft Kinect—in vision research, enabling new approaches in 3D reconstruction, gesture recognition, and scene understanding. Earlier, Fossati made a significant contribution to distributed robotics with her 2006 paper on cooperative localization, which introduced a minimum-entropy approach using Extended Kalman Filters to achieve scalable, uncertainty-aware pose estimation across multi-robot teams (35 citations). This work addressed critical challenges in perception for autonomous systems operating in dynamic environments. She also contributed to the FP7 project RADHAR, which developed semi-autonomous navigation for wheelchair users by fusing uncertain sensor data with human intent—an application directly improving assistive technology. Through these contributions, Fossati has advanced both the theoretical foundations of probabilistic perception and the practical deployment of vision and robotics in real-world, human-centered contexts.