Francesco Ragusa

Research Fellow

Francesco Ragusa

Research Fellow

Publications

Francesco Ragusa, Michele Mazzamuto, Rosario Forte, Irene D'Ambra, James Fort, Jakob Engel, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Ego-EXTRA: video-language Egocentric Dataset for EXpert-TRAinee assistance. IEEE Winter Conference on Application of Computer Vision (WACV). 2026.

Rosario Leonardi, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Leveraging Synthetic Data for Enhancing Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). 2026.

Salvatore Mario Carota, Alessandro Privitera, Daniele Di Mauro, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Francesco Ragusa. Benchmarking Neural Rendering Approaches for 3D Reconstruction of Underwater Environments. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2025.

Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, Jitendra Malik, Triantafyllos Afouras, Kumar Ashutosh, Vijay Baiyya, Siddhant Bansal, Bikram Boote, Eugene Byrne, Zach Chavis, Joya Chen, Feng Cheng, Fu-Jen Chu, Sean Crane, Avijit Dasgupta, Jing Dong, Maria Escobar, Cristhian Forigua, Abrham Gebreselasie, Sanjay Haresh, Jing Huang, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Suyog Jain, Rawal Khirodkar, Devansh Kukreja, Kevin J. Liang, Jia-Wei Liu, Sagnik Majumder, Yongsen Mao, Miguel Martin, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Tushar Nagarajan, Francesco Ragusa, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Luigi Seminara, Arjun Somayazulu, Yale Song, Shan Su, Zihui Xue, Edward Zhang, Jinxu Zhang, Angela Castillo, Changan Chen, Xinzhu Fu, Ryosuke Furuta, Cristina González, Prince Gupta, Jiabo Hu, Yifei Huang, Yiming Huang, Weslie Khoo, Anush Kumar, Robert Kuo, Sach Lakhavani, Miao Liu, Mi Luo, Zhengyi Luo, Brighid Meredith, Austin Miller, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Xiaqing Pan, Penny Peng, Shraman Pramanick, Merey Ramazanova, Fiona Ryan, Wei Shan, Kiran Somasundaram, Chenan Song, Audrey Southerland, Masatoshi Tateno, Huiyu Wang, Yuchen Wang, Takuma Yagi, Mingfei Yan, Xitong Yang, Zecheng Yu, Shengxin Cindy Zha, Chen Zhao, Ziwei Zhao, Zhifan Zhu, Jeff Zhuo, Pablo Arbeláez, Gedas Bertasius, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Jakob Engel, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Bernard Ghanem, Judy Hoffman, C. V. Jawahar, Richard Newcombe, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Manolis Savva, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Michael Wray. Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives. International Journal of Computer Vision. 2025.

Marco Moltisanti, Ketty Cantone, Antonino Lopes, Emanuele Ragusa, Rosario Leonardi, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Egocentric Human-Object Interaction in Industrial Scenarios: a Case Study. Ital-IA 2025: 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 23–24, 2025, Trieste, Italy. 2025.

Daniele Di Mauro, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Spatial Understanding for Industry. Ital-IA 2025: 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, June 23–24, 2025, Trieste, Italy. 2025.

Chiara Plizzari, Gabriele Goletto, Antonino Furnari, Siddhant Bansal, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Dima Damen, Tatiana Tommasi. An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision. International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV). 2024.

Rosario Leonardi, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Are Synthetic Data Useful for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection?. European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV). 2024.

Kristen Grauman, Andrew Westbury, Lorenzo Torresani, Kris Kitani, Jitendra Malik, Triantafyllos Afouras, Kumar Ashutosh, Vijay Baiyya, Siddhant Bansal, Bikram Boote, Eugene Byrne, Zach Chavis, Joya Chen, Feng Cheng, Fu-Jen Chu, Sean Crane, Avijit Dasgupta, Jing Dong, Maria Escobar, Cristhian Forigua, Abrham Gebreselasie, Sanjay Haresh, Jing Huang, Md Mohaiminul Islam, Suyog Jain, Rawal Khirodkar, Devansh Kukreja, Kevin J Liang, Jia-Wei Liu, Sagnik Majumder, Yongsen Mao, Miguel Martin, Effrosyni Mavroudi, Tushar Nagarajan, Francesco Ragusa, Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan, Luigi Seminara, Arjun Somayazulu, Yale Song, Shan Su, Zihui Xue, Edward Zhang, Jinxu Zhang, Angela Castillo, Changan Chen, Xinzhu Fu, Ryosuke Furuta, Cristina Gonzalez, Prince Gupta, Jiabo Hu, Yifei Huang, Yiming Huang, Weslie Khoo, Anush Kumar, Robert Kuo, Sach Lakhavani, Miao Liu, Mi Luo, Zhengyi Luo, Brighid Meredith, Austin Miller, Oluwatumininu Oguntola, Xiaqing Pan, Penny Peng, Shraman Pramanick, Merey Ramazanova, Fiona Ryan, Wei Shan, Kiran Somasundaram, Chenan Song, Audrey Southerland, Masatoshi Tateno, Huiyu Wang, Yuchen Wang, Takuma Yagi, Mingfei Yan, Xitong Yang, Zecheng Yu, Shengxin Cindy Zha, Chen Zhao, Ziwei Zhao, Zhifan Zhu, Jeff Zhuo, Pablo Arbelaez, Gedas Bertasius, David Crandall, Dima Damen, Jakob Engel, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Bernard Ghanem, Judy Hoffman, C. V. Jawahar, Richard Newcombe, Hyun Soo Park, James M. Rehg, Yoichi Sato, Manolis Savva, Jianbo Shi, Mike Zheng Shou, Michael Wray. Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives. Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR). 2024.

Francesco Ragusa, Rosario Leonardi, Michele Mazzamuto, Claudia Bonanno, Rosario Scavo, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. ENIGMA-51: Towards a Fine-Grained Understanding of Human-Object Interactions in Industrial Scenarios. IEEE Winter Conference on Application of Computer Vision (WACV). 2024.

Rosario Leonardi, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Exploiting Multimodal Synthetic Data for Egocentric Human-Object Interaction Detection in an Industrial Scenario. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). 2024.

Luca Strano, Claudia Bonanno, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. HERO-GPT: Zero-Shot Conversational Assistance in Industrial Domains Exploiting Large Language Models. International Conference on Image Processing and Video Engineering (IMPROVE). 2024.

Michele Mazzamuto, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Learning to Detect Attended Objects in Cultural Sites with Gaze Signals and Weak Object Supervision. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). 2024.

Rosario Forte, Michele Mazzamuto, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. World-map misalignment detection for visual navigation systems. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2024.

Michele Mazzamuto, Francesco Ragusa, Alessandro Resta, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. A Wearable Device Application for Human-Object Interactions Detection. In International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2023.

Michele Mazzamuto, Francesco Ragusa, Alessandro Resta, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. A Wearable Device Application for Human-Object Interactions Detection.. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2023.

Luigi Seminara, Francesco Ragusa, Rosario Leonardi, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. An AR-Based Tool for Acquisition and Automatic Labeling of Human-Object Interactions From First Person Vision. IEEE Conference on Metrology for eXtended Reality, Artificial Intelligence and Neural Engineering (MetroXRAINE). 2023.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Antonino Lopes, Marco Moltisanti, Emanuele Ragusa, Marina Samarotto, Luciano Santo, Nicola Picone, Leo Scarso, Giovanni Maria Farinella. ENIGMA: Egocentric Navigator for Industrial Guidance, Monitoring and Anticipation. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2023.

Claudia Bonanno, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. HERO: A Multi-Modal Approach on Mobile Devices for Visual-Aware Conversational Assistance in Industrial Domains. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2023.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. MECCANO: A Multimodal Egocentric Dataset for Humans Behavior Understanding in the Industrial-like Domain. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU). 2023.

Marco Rosano, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. MOVING: a MOdular and flexible platform for embodied VIsual NaviGation. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2023.

Rosario Scavo, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. Quasi-Online Detection of Take and Release Actions from Egocentric Videos. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2023.

Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari. StillFast: An End-to-End Approach for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops. 2023.

Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa. Wearable Visual Intelligence to Assist Humans in Workplaces. Ital-IA 2023: 3rd National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, organized by CINI, May 29--31, 2023, Pisa, Italy. 2023.

Rosario Leonardi, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Egocentric Human-Object Interaction Detection Exploiting Synthetic Data. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2022.

Claudia Bonanno, Francesco Ragusa, Rosario Leonardi, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. HERO: An Artificial Conversational Assistant to Support Humans in Industrial Scenarios. International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP). 2022.

Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa. Sistemi di Visione Artificiale Indossabili in Ambienti Industriali. . 2022.

Michele Mazzamuto, Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Weakly Supervised Attended Object Detection Using Gaze Data as Annotations. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2022.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Salvatore Livatino, Giovanni Maria Farinella. The MECCANO Dataset: Understanding Human-Object Interactions from Egocentric Videos in an Industrial-like Domain. IEEE Winter Conference on Application of Computer Vision (WACV). 2021.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella. EGO-CH: Dataset and Fundamental Tasks for Visitors Behavioral Understanding using Egocentric Vision. Pattern Recognition Letters - Special Issue on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Cultural Heritage. 2020.

Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa, Emanuele Ragusa, Giuseppe Sorbello, Antonino Lopes, Luciano Santo, Marina Samarotto, Bartolo Scarso, Edoardo Scarso. Metodo di assistenza virtuale relativo dispositivo e sistema. . 2020.

Francesco Ragusa, Daniele Di Mauro, Alfio Palermo, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Semantic Object Segmentation in Cultural Sites using Real and Synthetic Data. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). 2020.

Sebastiano Battiato, Luciano Cantelli, Fabio D'urso, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Luca Guarnera, Dario Calogero Guastella, Rosario Leonardi, Alessia Li Noce, Giovanni Muscato, Alessio Piazza, Francesco Ragusa, Corrado Santoro, Giuseppe Sutera, Antonino Zappalà.. The UNICT-TEAM vision modules for the Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Challenge 2020. Mohamed Bin Zayed International Robotics Competition Symposium (MBZIRC). 2020.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Egocentric Point of Interest Recognition in Cultural Sites. International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP). 2019.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Egocentric Visitors Localization in Cultural Sites. Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). 2019.

Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Antonino Lopes, Marina Samarotto, Luciano Santo, Giovanni Distefano, Davide Giuseppe Marano. VEDI - Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation. Ital-IA - Convegno Nazionale CINI sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Roma 18-19 Marzo. 2019.

Giovanni Maria Farinella, Giovanni Signorello, Sebastiano Battiato, Antonino Furnari, Francesco Ragusa, Rosario Leonardi, Emanuele Ragusa, Emanuele Scuderi, Antonino Lopes, Luciano Santo, Marina Samarotto. VEDI: Vision Exploitation for Data Interpretation. International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP). 2019.

Francesco Ragusa, Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Signorello, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Localization of Visitors for Cultural Sites Management. International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications (SIGMAP). 2018.

Battiato, S., Cantelli, L., D’urso, F., Farinella, G.M., Guarnera, L., Guastella, D., Melita, C.D., Muscato, G., Ortis, A., Ragusa, F., Santoro, C.. A system for autonomous landing of a UAV on a moving vehicle. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2017.

Ragusa, F., Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M.. Understanding Food Images to Recommend Utensils During Meals. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics). 2017.

Ragusa, F., Tomaselli, V., Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.. Food vs non-food classification. MADiMa 2016 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016. 2016.