Giovanni Maria Farinella

Giovanni Maria Farinella is a Tenure Track Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. He is author of more than 100 papers in international book chapters, journals and conference proceedings, and co-inventor of 4 patents involving industrial partners. Dr. Farinella serves as a reviewer and on the board programme committee for major international journals and conferences (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, BMVC). He has been Video Proceedings Chair for ECCV 2012 and ACM MM 2013, Dr. Farinella founded (in 2006) and currently directs the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS). He also founded (in 2014) and currently directs the Medical Imaging Summer School (MISS). Dr. Farinella was awarded the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize in October 2017.

Affiliation: Giovanni Maria Farinella, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy

List of Relevant Publications:

• A. Furnari, S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella ( 2018 ). Personal-Location-Based Temporal Segmentation of Egocentric Video for Lifelogging Applications . Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , 52 , pp. 1-12
• A. Furnari, G. M. Farinella, S. Battiato ( 2017 ). Recognizing Personal Locations From Egocentric Videos. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems , 47 ( 1 ), pp. 6-18 .
• D. Damen, H. Doughty, G. M. Farinella, S. Fidler, A. Furnari, E. Kazakos, D. Moltisanti, J. Munro and T. Perrett, W. Price, M. Wray (2018). Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset. arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.02748.
• A. Furnari, S. Battiato, K. Grauman, G. M. Farinella ( 2017 ). Next-active-object prediction from egocentric videos . Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation , 49 ( Supplement C ), pp. 401 - 411.
• A. Ortis, G. M. Farinella, V. D’Amico, L. Addesso, G. Torrisi, S. Battiato (2017). Organizing egocentric videos of daily living activities. Pattern Recognition, 72(Supplement C), pp. 207 - 218.
• Other relevant publications on Egocentic (First Person) Vision are available at: http://iplab.dmi.unict.it/fpv