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Giovanni Maria Farinella

Giovanni Maria Farinella

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Computer Science

D-Index
35
Citations
6154
World Ranking
11589
National Ranking
384

Overview

Giovanni Maria Farinella is affiliated with the University of Catania in Italy, focusing primarily on computer science with an emphasis on computer vision and pattern recognition. Their research spans multiple subfields including artificial intelligence, human-computer interaction, aerospace engineering, and control and systems engineering.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics with significant contributions in:

  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
  • Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Giovanni Maria Farinella include:

  • Antonino Furnari
  • Tal Hassner
  • Shai Avidan
  • Gabriel Brostow
  • Moustapha Cissé

Publication venues where Farinella's work frequently appears include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Computer Vision and Image Understanding
  • International Journal of Computer Vision
  • IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Pattern Recognition Letters

Among recent notable papers authored or co-authored by Farinella are:

  • Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video, 2022, 2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection, Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-100, 2021, International Journal of Computer Vision
  • The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection, Challenges and Baselines, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Rolling-Unrolling LSTMs for Action Anticipation from First-Person Video, 2020, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
  • Rescaling Egocentric Vision, 2020, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist has also contributed extensively to book publications, primarily through Springer Science+Business Media, with 34 books published. These include titles such as:

  • Pattern Recognition. ICPR International Workshops and Challenges
  • Computer Vision - ECCV 2022
  • Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2022
  • Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications

Giovanni Maria Farinella's scholarly output reflects a broad engagement with advanced methods in computer vision and machine learning applied to real-world video understanding challenges and automated analysis.

Best Publications

  • Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset

    Dima Damen;Hazel Doughty;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Sanja Fidler

  • Ego4D: Around the World in 3,000 Hours of Egocentric Video

    Kristen Grauman;Andrew Westbury;Eugene Byrne;Zachary Chavis

  • Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection, Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-100

    Dima Damen;Hazel Doughty;Hazel Doughty;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Antonino Furnari

  • Computer vision for assistive technologies

    M. Leo;G. Medioni;M. Trivedi;T. Kanade

  • The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset: Collection, Challenges and Baselines

    Dima Damen;Hazel Doughty;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Sanja Fidler

  • What Would You Expect? Anticipating Egocentric Actions With Rolling-Unrolling LSTMs and Modality Attention

    Antonino Furnari;Giovanni Farinella

  • Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset

    Dima Damen;Hazel Doughty;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Sanja Fidler

  • Objective estimation of body condition score by modeling cow body shape from digital images.

    G. Azzaro;M. Caccamo;J. D. Ferguson;S. Battiato

  • Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

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  • Rescaling Egocentric Vision.

    Dima Damen;Hazel Doughty;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Antonino Furnari

  • Rolling-Unrolling LSTMs for Action Anticipation from First-Person Video

    Antonino Furnari;Giovanni Maria Farinella

  • Retrieval and classification of food images

    Giovanni Maria Farinella;Dario Allegra;Marco Moltisanti;Filippo Stanco

  • Digital Mosaic Frameworks - An Overview

    S. Battiato;G. Di Blasi;G. M. Farinella;G. Gallo

  • A Benchmark Dataset to Study the Representation of Food Images

    Giovanni Maria Farinella;Dario Allegra;Filippo Stanco

  • Next-Active-Object Prediction from Egocentric Videos

    Antonino Furnari;Sebastiano Battiato;Kristen Grauman;Giovanni Maria Farinella

  • Semantic segmentation of images exploiting DCT based features and random forest

    D. Ravì;M. Bober;G.M. Farinella;M. Guarnera

  • Robust Image Alignment for Tampering Detection

    S. Battiato;G. M. Farinella;E. Messina;G. Puglisi

  • Experimental methodology for digital breast shape analysis and objective surgical outcome evaluation.

    G. Catanuto;A. Spano;A. Pennati;E. Riggio

  • Classifying food images represented as Bag of Textons

    Giovanni Maria Farinella;Marco Moltisanti;Sebastiano Battiato

  • The MECCANO Dataset: Understanding Human-Object Interactions from Egocentric Videos in an Industrial-like Domain

    Francesco Ragusa;Antonino Furnari;Salvatore Livatino;Giovanni Maria Farinella

  • A survey on human-aware robot navigation

    Ronja Möller;Antonino Furnari;Sebastiano Battiato;Aki Härmä

  • Special issue on animal and insect behaviour understanding in image sequences

    Concetto Spampinato;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Bastiaan Boom;Vasileios Mezaris

  • Survey on Visual Sentiment Analysis

    Alessandro Ortis;Giovanni Maria Farinella;Sebastiano Battiato

  • Leveraging Uncertainty to Rethink Loss Functions and Evaluation Measures for Egocentric Action Anticipation

    Antonino Furnari;Sebastiano Battiato;Giovanni Maria Farinella

Frequent Co-Authors

Sebastiano Battiato
Sebastiano Battiato University of Catania
Marco Leo
Marco Leo National Research Council (CNR)
Dima Damen
Dima Damen University of Bristol
Stavroula G. Mougiakakou
Stavroula G. Mougiakakou University of Bern
Mohan M. Trivedi
Mohan M. Trivedi University of California, San Diego
Gerard Medioni
Gerard Medioni Amazon (United States)
Roberto Cipolla
Roberto Cipolla University of Cambridge
Takeo Kanade
Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University
Sanja Fidler
Sanja Fidler University of Toronto
James D. Ferguson
James D. Ferguson University of Pennsylvania

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