Projects
We have been involved in the following First Person (Egocentric) Vision projects:
Title: Ego-Exo4D
Partners: Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Università di Catania, Universidad de los Andes, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, The University of Tokyo, Simon Fraser University, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, University of Bristol, Meta, University of Minnesota, International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad, National University of Singapore, Indiana University Bloomington, Georgia Institute of Technology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of Pennsylvania, The University of Texas at Austin, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it, antonino.furnari@unict.it
Title: Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR)
Partners: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Deloitte Risk Advisory S.R.L S.B., Expert.ai S.p.A., Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Intesa Sanpaolo S.P.A., Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Istituto Nazionale Di Fisica Nucleare, Leonardo S.p.A., Lutech S.p.A., Politecnico di Milano, Politecnico di Torino, Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati, Scuola Normale Superiore, STMicroelectronics s.r.l., Università Campus Bio-Medico, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Università degli Studi di Bari “Aldo Moro”, Università degli Studi di Napoli “Federico II”, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Università della Calabria, Alma Studiorum – Università di Bologna, Università di Catania, Università di Pisa, Università di Trento.
Principal Investigator WP10.3: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Tracking in Egovision for Applied Memory (TEAM)
Duration: 24 months
Partners: Università degli Studi di Udine, Università degli Studi di Catania
Grant by: Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca - PRIN 2022 - PNRR
Principal Investigator: Antonino Furnari
Contact: antonino.furnari@unict.it
Title: EXTRA EYE - Egocentric and eXocenTRic views for An object-level human bEhavior analYsis and undErstanding through tracking in complex spaces
Duration: 24 months
Partners: Università degli Studi di Macerata, Università degli Studi di Catania, Università degli Studi di Udine
Grant by: Ministero dell'Università e della Ricerca - PRIN 2022
Principal Investigator: Antonino Furnari
Contact: antonino.furnari@unict.it
Title: EGO4D
Partners: University of Catania, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Carnegie Mellon University - Pittsburgh, Georgia Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota, Indiana University Bloomington e University of Pennsylvania, University of Bristol, Carnegie Mellon University Africa, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, National University of Singapore, University of Los Andes, University of Tokyo, International Institute of Information Technology - Hyderabad, Facebook AI Research (FAIR).
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: EPIC-KITCHENS-100
Partners: University of Bristol, University of Catania
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dima Damen, Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Scene Graphs for Long Range Video Understanding
Partners: Intel, University of Catania
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Assistive Wearable Technologies for Rehabilitation.
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: December 2021
Ending Date: November 2024
Ph.D. Grant by: A.I.A.S. (Acireale, IT)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: SAFER - SAFEty on Road construction activities
Duration: 15 months
Starting Date: April 2021
Ending Date: June 2022
Grant by: Xenia Network Solutions
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: HERO - Huge and Easy Reproduction of Objects
Duration: 12 months
Starting Date: February 2021
Ending Date: Jan 2022
Grant by: Xenia Network Solutions
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: MEGABIT - Monitoring Egocentric Gaze for Analysis of Behaviors and Interactions with Targets
Duration: 24 months
Starting Date: July 2020
Ending Date: June 2022
Grant by: Piano di incentivi per la ricerca di Ateneo 2020/2022 (Pia.ce.ri.) – linea di intervento 2, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli studi di Catania
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Maria De Salvo
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Predizione di azioni e interazioni con oggetti da immagini e video acquisiti mediante telecamere indossabili
Duration: 36 months
Starting Date: April 2020
Ending Date: Mar 2023
Grant by: PON Ricerca e Innovazione 2014-2020 - Attraction and International Mobility (AIM) - AIM1893589 - Linea 3 - SSNI Fabbrica Intelligente
Principal Investigator: Dr. Antonino Furnari
Contact: furnari@dmi.unict.it
Title: ENIGMA - Egocentric Navigator for Industrial Guidance, Monitoring and Anticipation
Duration: 43 months
Starting Date: Mar 2020
Ending Date: Sept 2023
Grant by: MISE - Fondo per la Crescita Sostenibile – Sportello “Fabbrica intelligente” PON I&C 2014-2020 (Prog n. F/190050/02/X44 – CUP: B61B19000520008 COR: 1631498)
Grant Amount: € 2.340.368,75
Partners: XENIA Progetti s.r.l., University of Catania, Morpheos s.r.l
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: EVA – Egocentric Vision with Adaptation: Studio di algoritmi di domain adaptation nel contesto First Person (Egocentric) Vision
Duration: 11 months
Starting Date: Feb 2020
Ending Date: Dec 2020
Grant by: Xenia Network Solutions s. r. l.
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: VALUE - Visual Analysis for Localization and Understanding of Environments
Duration: 42 months
Starting Date: Jan 2020
Ending Date: June 2023
Grant by: PO FESR 2014/2020 - Azione 1.1.5 (N. 08CT6209090207 - CUP G69J18001060007)
Grant Amount: € 2.010.086,30
Partners: University of Catania (CUTGANA), Xenia Gestione Documentale srl, IMC Service, Capitale Cultura, CNR
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Prof. Giovanni Signorello
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: PhilHumans - Personal Health Interfaces Leveraging HUman-MAchine Natural interactionS
Duration: 48 months
Starting Date: 01 Jan 2019
Ending Date: 31 Dec 2022
Grant by: Marie Sklodowska Curie - Horizon 2020-ITN-EID
Grant Amount: € 2.187.774
Partners: Philips, TU/e, University of Cagliari, University of Catania, University of Aberdeen, R2M Solution
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: VIPS – Visual Indoor Positioning: System - Studio e design di algoritmi per la localizzazione a partire da sequenze di immagini acquisite con dispositivi di First Person (Egocentric) Vision.
Duration: 11 months
Starting Date: February 2019
Ending Date: December 2019
Grant by: Xenia Network Solutions
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: MAN-FPV: Studio e design di algoritmi di Computer Vision e Machine Learning per Anticipazione delle Azioni e delle Interazioni fra Utente e Oggetti.
Duration: 7 months
Starting Date: June 2018
Ending Date: December 2018
Grant by: Xenia Network Solutions
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: First Person (Egocentric) Vision for Scene Understanding
Duration: 24 months
Starting Date: January 2018
Ending Date: December 2019
Grant by: Piano della Ricerca 2016-2018 – linea di intervento 2, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università degli studi di Catania
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Egocentric Vision and Wearable Computing for Learning through Imitation.
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: November 2018
Ending Date: October 2021
Ph.D. Grant by: Programma Operativo Nazionale (PON) MIUR
Industrial Partner: OrangeDev (Misterbianco, IT)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Active Vision for Robot Localization.
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: November 2018
Ending Date: October 2021
Ph.D. Grant by: OrangeDEV (Misterbianco, IT)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Sistemi di visione artificiale per la localizzazione.
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: November 2017
Ending Date: October 2020
Ph.D. Grant by: DWORD – XENIA (Aci Castello, IT)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: Understanding Environments, Objects and Persons from Egocentric Images and Videos.
Duration: 3 years
Starting Date: November 2017
Ending Date: October 2020
Ph.D. Grant by: Programma Operativo Nazionale Ricerca e Innovazione (PON 2014/2020)
Industrial Partner: DWord (Acicastello, IT)
Principal Investigator: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: MBZIRC 2020
Grant Amount: $ 140.000
Principal Investigators: Prof. Sebastiano Battiato, Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Prof. Giovanni Muscato, Prof. Corrado Santoro
See Selected Teams
Title: EPIC-KITCHENS-55
Partners: University of Bristol, University of Toronto, University of Catania
Principal Investigators: Prof. Dima Damen, Prof. Sanja Fidler, Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: VEDI - Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation
Duration: 24 months
Starting Date: 02 Jan 2017
Ending Date: 01 Feb 2019
Grant by: PON MISE Horizon 2020 (Prog. n. F/050457/02/X32, CUP: B68I17000800008, COR: 128032)
Grant Amount: € 1.424.404,87
Partners: University of Catania (CUTGANA), Xenia Gestione Documentale srl, IMC Service.
Principal Investigators: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Prof. Giovanni Signorello
Contact: gfarinella@dmi.unict.it
Title: MBZIRC 2017
Grant Amount: $ 61.000
Principal Investigators: Prof. Sebastiano Battiato, Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Prof. Giovanni Muscato, Prof. Corrado Santoro
See Selected Teams and Final Scores
See Video of our preformance (First Trial)