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NVIDIA AI Developers Day in Catania, 11 November

Talks on AI for industry, medicine and forensics with NVIDIA and other companies, on 11 November 2026 at the University of Catania.

STAG 2026 in Catania, 15–20 November

Catania hosts STAG 2026 – Smart Tools and Applications in Graphics, the 13th annual conference of the Eurographics Italian Chapter, from 15 to 20 November 2026 …

Three Papers Accepted at NeurIPS 2026

Three of our papers have been accepted at NeurIPS 2026. SynthForensics: Benchmarking and Evaluating People-Centric Synthetic Video Deepfakes (Evaluations & …

HexMIL Accepted at ACM Multimedia 2026

Our paper has been accepted at the ACM Multimedia 2026 Main Track. HexMIL: Hierarchical Attention MIL for Ante-Hoc Explainable Detection of AI-Manipulated CT …

µFlow Accepted at ECCV 2026

Our paper has been accepted at ECCV 2026. µFlow: Leveraging Average Images for Improving Generalisation of Deepfake Faces Detectors Orazio Pontorno, Mattia …

EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award 2024/2025

Our papers Differentiable Task Graph Learning (NeurIPS 2024) and Ego-Exo4D (CVPR 2024) received the EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award 2024/2025, announced at the …

Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation Accepted at TPAMI

Our paper Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos by Luigi Seminara, Giovanni Maria Farinella, and …

Integrating Affordances and Attention Models Accepted at TPAMI

Our paper Integrating Affordances and Attention models for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation by Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jose J. …

ViterbiPlanNet Accepted at CVPR 2026

One paper has been accepted at CVPR 2026. ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos Luigi …

IEEE Access

We are thrilled to announce that our paper “Attractor-Aware Hyperbolic Lipschitz-Constrained Reinforcement Learning for FX Market: LLM-Structured Chain of …

MetroXRAINE 2025

From October 22 to 24, Massimo Orazio Spata have attended MetroXRAINE 2025 IEEE Conference in Ancona, where I presented with an oral two research papers during …

IEEE/CVF WACV (Winter Conference on Application of Computer Vision) 2026

Novel Metric for Detecting Memorization in Generative Models for Brain MRI Synthesis’ accepted at IEEE/CVF WACV (Winter Conference on Application of Computer …

EURASIP Journal on Information Security

CNNMC: A Convolutional Neural Network with Monte Carlo Dropout for Speaker Recognition. Authors: Massimo Orazio Spata, Alessandro Ortis, Georgia Fargetta, …

AAAI 2026

I’m super excited to share that our paper “TRUST: Leveraging Text Robustness for Unsupervised Domain Adaptation” has been accepted at AAAI 2026! TRUST …

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

I’m very pleased to share that our latest paper, “Multi-agent reinforcement learning and variational inequality models for international trade networks under …

1st AADD‑2025 Challenge: Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors

We are very proud to announce that the 1st AADD‑2025 Challenge: Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors, held as a grand challenge at ACM Multimedia 2025, …

1st Deepfake Forensics Workshop: Detection, Attribution, Recognition, and Adversarial Challenges in the Era of AI-Generated Media

We are thrilled to announce that the 1st Deepfake Forensics Workshop: Detection, Attribution, Recognition, and Adversarial Challenges in the Era of …

Ecological Informatics

Georgia Fargetta, Stefano Anile, Luigi Priano, Massimo Orazio Spata, Alessandro Ortis, and Sebastiano Battiato are pleased to announce the publication of our …

Plasmare il futuro con l’AI applicata

Happy to contribute next week (28/10/2025) – thanks to Xenia Progetti for inviting me!  Prof Giovanni Maria Farinella

IEEE Access

The paper entitled “A Novel Adversarial Gray-Box Attack on DCT-based Face Deepfake Detectors” has been accepted at IEEE Access  This work introduces a novel …

IEEE Access

The paper entitled “SignForensics: A Robust Framework for Forensic Offline Signature Verification with Enhanced Detection, Noise Removal, and Multi-Stage …

IEEE Open Journal of the Computer Society

The paper “Hyperbolic Deep Learning System for Intelligent Gate-Driving and Health Monitoring of SiC MOSFETs” has been accepted for publication in the IEEE …

International Journal of Computer Vision

Good news! The paper with title “Exocentric-to-Egocentric Adaptation for Temporal Action Segmentation with Unlabeled Synchronized Video Pairs” has been …

Journal of Computer Vision

We are pleased to share that our paper “Uncertainty-guided Open-Set Source-Free Unsupervised Domain Adaptation with Target-private Class Segregation” – Mattia …

ICIAP 2025

Congrats to our students Giuseppe Lando and Rosario Forte for the ICIAP 2025 Best Student Paper Award!

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

Can people really tell AI images from real ones?Our new study, “A (Mid)Journey Through Reality”, published today (!) in Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies …

WACV 2026

Good news! Three papers accepted at WACV 2026! (iCore rank: A) ProSkill: Segment-Level Skill Assessment in Procedural Videos (in collaboration with Toyota – …

Human Behavior and Emerging Technologies

We’re thrilled to share that our manuscript “A (Mid)Journey Through Reality: Assessing Accuracy, Impostor Bias, and Automation Bias in Human Detection of …

DFF-2025 at ACM Multimedia!

Good news! Excited to share that our paper, “What if Retrieval Could Work Before Decoding? The Case of JPEG AI Latents for Deepfake Source Attribution,” has …

ICCV 2025 (PHAROS Workshop)

We are thrilled to announce that our paper titled “𝗗𝗲𝗲𝗽𝗦𝗲𝗴-𝗠𝗦: 𝗔 𝟯𝗗 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗶𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶-𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗠𝗥𝗜 𝗺𝘂𝗹𝘁𝗶𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝘀𝗰𝗹𝗲𝗿𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘀 𝗹𝗲𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 …

ICCV 2025 (PHAROS Workshop)

We are proud to announce that our paper titled “Dopamine-Inspired Neuro-Modulated Radiomic Pipeline for Computed-Tomography-Driven Prediction of Immunotherapy …

ACM Multimedia 2025

We are excited to share that our paper “Towards Reliable Audio Deepfake Attribution and Model Recognition: A Multi-Level Autoencoder-Based Framework” has been …

UniCt ranked as 4th among Italian Universities for the area of “Computer Vision”

Computer Science Ranking: Happy to see UniCt ranked as 4th among Italian Universities for the area of “Computer Vision” …

ICVSS 2025

Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer)

Our paper “DeepFeatureX-SN: Generalization of Deepfake Detection via Contrastive Learning” has been accepted for publication in Multimedia Tools and …

ICVSS 2025

https://www.unictmagazine.unict.it/alla-icvss-si-studia-la-computer-vision-spatial-ai?fbclid=IwY2xjawOBQhJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyA …

ICIAP 2025

Good news! “A Real-Time System for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection in Industrial Domains” accepted at the ICIAP Workshop on Human-Object …

MetroAUTOMOTIVE 2025

Last week, Massimo Orazio Spata had the pleasure of attending IEEE Metroautomotive 2025 conference in Parma, where I had the opportunity to present the latest …

MetroXRAINE 2025

I am pleased to announce that two papers have been accepted at IEEE MetroXRAINE 2025:1. Deepfake Forensic Analysis: Source Dataset Attribution and Legal …

IJCNN conference

Two papers were presented at VERIMEDIA: International Workshop on Media Verification and Integrity – IJCNN conference. Official website …

Premio Archimede 2025

Congratulazioni ad Alfio e Riccardo nostri studenti! https://www.facebook.com/share/1JAzmhq73Q/

ECCV 2026

ECCV 2026 will be in Malmo, Sweden Sept 8-13, 2026 Happy to be part of the Organizing Committee! Stay tuned! https://eccv.ecva.net

Ital-IA 2025

We are going to run the workshop on “AI for Industry” in Trieste next week as part of the “Italian Conference CINI on Artificial Intelligence (Ital-IA)” List …

ICVSS 2025 – Poster Session

ICVSS 2025 – Poster Session List of posters accepted at ICVSS 2025 is online! https://icvss.dmi.unict.it/icvss2025/Posters See booklet of abstracts at the …

ICIAP 2025

Awesome! 5 papers accepted at ICIAP 2025 Great performances of our master students (all first authors) Alessandro Sebastiano Catinello, Antonio Finocchiaro, …

We Make Future 2025

Grazie a quanti hanno rappresentato IPLAB alla scorsa edizione di “We Make Future” di Bologna  

CVPR25

CVPR25, here we come! I’m excited to attend the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2025) in Nashville and to be part of the …

CVPR25!

On our way to Nashville for CVPR25! We will be presenting “Gazing Into Missteps: Leveraging Eye-Gaze for Unsupervised Mistake Detection in Egocentric Videos of …

We Make Future 2025

At We Make Future 2025, we’re presenting our research in various fields. I’m showcasing an AI-driven smoking detection system that uses wearables, as well as a …

📢 New Dataset Release!

New Dataset Release! The MSLesSeg dataset for Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation is now publicly available — and we’re thrilled to announce its official …

The Visual Computer

The paper “Benchmarking Computer Vision Architectures for Cloud Detection from Lidar Ceilometer Backscatter Data” has been accepted for publication in The …

IJCNN 2025 Main conference Rome

‘Attention-Enhanced Convolutional Deep Architecture with Adaptive Jacobian Regularization for Joint Multi-Modal Optical and X-Ray Screening of Silicon-Carbide …

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025) – VERIMEDIA Workshop

The paper WILD: a new in-the-Wild Image Linkage Dataset for synthetic image attribution has been accepted for presentation at 2025 International Joint …

International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025) – VERIMEDIA Workshop

We are pleased to inform you that the paper End-to-end Audio Deepfake Detection from RAW Waveforms: a RawNet-Based Approach with Cross-Dataset Evaluation has …

International Conference in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR25)

Excited to announce that our paper “Exploiting Adversarial Learning and Topology Augmentation for Open-Set Visual Recognition” has been accepted at the …

AADD -2025 – Grand Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2025

AADD -2025 – Grand Challenge, ACM Multimedia 2025 We invite you to participate at the first Grand Challenge entitled Adversarial Attacks on Deepfake Detectors: …

DFF-2025 Workshop, ACM Multimedia 2025

DFF-2025 Workshop, ACM Multimedia 2025 We invite you to submit your scientific research to the first Deepfake Forensics: Detection, Attribution, Recognition, …

Multimedia Tools and Applications

Glad to inform you that our paper on Cloud Gaming has been published on Multimedia Tools and Applications! Lorenzo Catania Filippo Stanco Sebastiano Battiato …

IEEE Access

Great news! The paper Cloud Detection Challenge – Methods and Results has been accepted for publication in IEEE Access (Q1, I.F. 3.4)This work presents the …

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Our paper Smoking Detection and Cessation: An Updated Scoping Review of Digital and Mobile Health Technologies was just published in IEEE Journal of Biomedical …

CVPR 2025

We have a paper accepted at CVPR 2025!!! Gazing Into Missteps: Leveraging Eye-Gaze for Unsupervised Mistake Detection in Egocentric Videos of Skilled Human …

MDPI Journal of Imaging

The paper Deepfake Media Forensics: Status and Future Challenges has been accepted for publication in MDPI Journal of Imaging (Q1, IF 2.7)! This work is part …

NeAIxt Project

The JUCHIPS Horizon project: Next Generation of edge AI crossing technology field (NEAIXT) has been approved!!!! Starting expected date: May 2025 …

Springer Journal of Social Network Analysis and Mining

We proudly announce that our article “Analyzing Interactions in Donation-Based Live Streaming Platforms: A Multi-Leader-Follower Game Approach” has been …

Ego4D paper

Ego4D paper has reached more than 1000 citations! This paper was published at CVPR 2022 – great effort of 15 institutions, including UNICT, to push the …

IEEE Access

We are very proud to announce that our article “A New Pipeline for Snooping Keystroke Based on Deep Learning Algorithm” has been accepted and already published …

Special Issue @ Computer Vision and Image Understanding

Call for Papers!Special Issue @ Computer Vision and Image UnderstandingRecent Advances in Assistive Computer Vision and RoboticsMore information …

Springer book series Communications in Computer and Information Science

Good News (3)! The paper entitled “Predictions of Hotel Dynamic Pricing for Revenue Management System” has been accepted for publication in the Springer book …

VISAPP 2025

Good news (2)! The paper entitled “Benchmarking Neural Rendering Approaches for 3D Reconstruction of Underwater Environments” has been accepted for publication …

IET Computer Vision journal

Good news! The paper entitled “Egocentric Action Anticipation from Untrimmed Videos” has been accepted for publication by the IET Computer Vision journal! …

VISAPP25

Good news at Christmas time! Two papers accepted! “Online Detection of End of Take and Release Actions from Egocentric Videos” First paper of our master …

NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver

We are at NeurIPS 2024 in Vancouver! Antonino Furnari and Luigi Seminara are going to present our work on “Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural …

IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2024 @ Abu Dhabi

next week IEEE International Conference on Image Processing 2024 @ Abu Dhabi Invited Speaker with a talk entitled: Generative AI and Impostor Bias: …

MetroXRaine 2024

These days, our group participated in the IEEE MetroXRaine 2024 conference (https://www.metroxraine.org/).In particular, during the Poster Session in these …

NEM Summit 2024

Bruxelles – here we are! NEM Summit 2024 – “Emerging virtual worlds for a new digital society” I am going to talk about our research on “Procedure …

Intelligence Based Medicine Elsevier Journal

“Temporal Convolutional Network on Raman Shift for Human Osteoblast Cells Fingerprint Analysis” has been accepted for publication in the journal …

ICPR 2024

I’m excited to announce that our paper, “ICPR 2024 Competition on Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation – Methods and Results”, has been accepted at the …

Pattern Recognition Letters

We are thrilled to announce the Special Issue titled “Open the Brain: Horizons and Challenges in Brain Image Analysis” on Pattern Recognition Letters! This …

Health Economics Review

La ‘Computer Science’ ce lo diciamo spesso nei nostri consessi, è pervasiva e può generare valore aggiunto e fornire preziosi strumenti di analisi e di …

Computers in Biology and Medicine

I am proud to announce that our work, MITS-GAN: Safeguarding Medical Imaging from Tampering with Generative Adversarial Networks, has been published in …

NeurIPS 2024

What? What? YEEE! Amazing result of our group! We have a paper accepted at NeurIPS 2024!!!! Paper Title: Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural …

PNRR FAIR

Domani presenteremo a Napoli alcuni dei nostri risultati relativamente al progetto PNRR FAIR! A parte i 3 lavori pubblicati su CVPR 2024, faremo highlight sui …

Stanford’s TOP 2% World Sciences

A quanto pare, due IPLabini sono inclusi nella lista …

Finnaly out on IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence! (Conference version published at CVPR22 has aready more than 700 citations on …

MICCAI 2024

We are delighted to announce that the Brain Latent Progression (BrLP) paper has been selected for oral presentation at MICCAI 2024! Authors: Puglisi L., Prof. …

ICPR 2024

Happy to notify that the paper with title “The Analog Layer: Simulating Imperfect Computations in Neural Networks to Improve Robustness and Generalization …

ACM SAC 2025

========= ACM SAC 2025 | CALL FOR PAPERS === 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2025) March 31 – April 4, 2025 Catania, Italy …

ICPR 2024

We are proud to announce that our paper, “DeepFeatureX Net: Deep Features eXtractors based Network for discriminating synthetic from real images“, has just …

Intellisys 2024

https://link.springer.com/…/10.1007/978-3-031-66329-1_26 Ci sono alcuni lavori che ti restano nel cuore per un po’, perché ci hai messo tutta la tua passione , …

MultimediaForensics Top20

We are proud to announce that we are among the top 20 globally in deepfake research! We will continue to advance our research in the deepfake domain, ensuring …

ICIAP 2025

ICIAP 2025 will be in Rome! 15-19 Sept 2025 https://www.iciap.org/ Paper submission deadline first round: 1 feb 2025 Call for workshops will come soon – Stay …

ICPR 2024

We are thrilled to announce the conclusion of the MSLesSeg competition! We’re excited to share that 28 teams registered for the competition, and 16 of them …

Applied Sciences

We’re excited to announce that our paper “AI Chatbots for Mental Health: A Scoping Review of Effectiveness, Feasibility, and Applications” has been published in …

ECCV24 workshop

Very happy to be one of the invited speakers of the ECCV24 workshop on “EYES OF THE FUTURE: INTEGRATING COMPUTER VISION IN SMART EYEWEAR” organized by …

ECCV 2024

A W E S O M E ! Three papers accepted at ECCV 2024! Are Synthetic Data Useful for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection? Authors: Rosario Leonardi, …

ICVSS 2024 – Numbers

ICVSS – Numbers First edition in 2007 – ICVSS is 18 years old! https://iplab.dmi.unict.it/icvss2024/PreviousEditions 7 days to the opening of the 2024 edition …

2024 IEEE MetroXRAINE

Good news! The paper with title “ViLaBot: Connecting Vision and Language for Robots That Assist Humans at Home” has been accepted with minor revisions for …

Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation

We are extremely happy to announce that the paper in which we give birth to the “impostor bias” has been published in Forensic Science International: Digital …

MICCAI 2024

Happy to announce that our paper “TADM: Temporally-Aware Diffusion Model for Neurodegenerative Progression on Brain MRI” has been accepted at the main …

CVPR 2024

What are we going to do @ CVPR 2024, apart attending orals/posters to get new knowledge, enjoy friends, networking with colleagues, exchange ideas, find new …

HoloAssist Challenge promoted by Microsoft

Breaking News We are the WINNERS! Our Gaze-Based approach for Mistake Detection in egocentric videos has ranked first for the HoloAssist Challenge promoted by …

Forensic Science International: Digital Investigation

In a world where deepfakes have reached a very high quality and realism, a new cognitive bias has emerged related to the doubt that pervades a person who sees …

EgoVis 2024 Workshop

“Affordances and attention based models” score 2nd on the Short-term Anticipation Ego4D Challenge Presentation will be given at EgoVis workshop @ CVPR 2024 in …

MetrtoXRaine 2024

We are happy to announce that our paper ‘A Case Study on the Use of Hypnosis Combined With Virtual Reality in Psychological Partner Violence’ has been accepted …

MetroXRaine 2024

We are pleased to announce that paper ‘A Novel Pipeline Based on Attention Mechanism Within a GNN to Predict New Edges Between Diseases and Genes’ has been …

MetroXRaine 2024

Good news! Two papers accepted for publication and presentation at the 2024 IEEE MetroXRAINE “VALUE: Visual Analysis for Location and Understanding of …

ESANN 2024

Another good news this week! Our paper, “Federated Learning in a Semi-Supervised Environment for Earth Observation Data” has been accepted at the European …

International Journal of Nanomedicine

Exciting news! Our paper “Nose-to-Brain Drug Delivery and Physico-Chemical Properties of Nanosystems: Analysis and Correlation Studies of Data from Scientific …

EgoVIS 2023/2024

The 10 papers selected as the EgoVis 2022/2023 Distinguished Paper Awards have been announced! https://egovis.github.io/awards/2022_2023/ The awards ceremony …