01 / About Me
I am an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania, where I am a member of the Image Processing Laboratory (IPLAB).
My research lies in the areas of Computer Vision and Machine Learning, with a focus on embodied vision. I study how intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and anticipate human actions and interactions from an egocentric viewpoint, enabling wearable assistive technologies that provide timely and meaningful support to users.
02 / News
I was recognized as an Outstanding Area Chair at CVPR 2026.
Our paper Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos has been accepted at IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI).
I will be serving as an Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.
Our paper “Integrating Affordances and Attention models for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation” has been accepted to the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)!
The preprint is available on arXiv.
03 / Talks
- 3 June 2026
upcomingTowards Always‑On Wearable AI That Perceives, Understands, and Assists
- 22 May 2026
Towards Embodied Human-AI Symbiosis with Egocentric Vision
- 10 April 2026
From Perception to Partnership: A Path Toward Collaborative AI via Egocentric Vision
Bocconi University
04 / Research Highlights

ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos
Luigi Seminara, Daniele Moltisanti, Antonino Furnari

Ego-EXTRA: video-language Egocentric Dataset for EXpert-TRAinee assistance
Francesco Ragusa, Michele Mazzamuto, Rosario Forte, Irene D'Ambra, James Fort, Jakob Engel, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Online Episodic Memory Visual Query Localization with Egocentric Streaming Object Memory
Zaira Manigrasso, Matteo Dunnhofer, Antonino Furnari, Moritz Nottebaum, Antonio Finocchiaro, Davide Marana, Rosario Forte, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Christian Micheloni

ProSkill: Segment-Level Skill Assessment in Procedural Videos
Michele Mazzamuto, Daniele Di Mauro, Gianpiero Francesca, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari

Gazing Into Missteps: Leveraging Eye-Gaze for Unsupervised Mistake Detection in Egocentric Videos of Skilled Human Activities
Mazzamuto, Michele, Furnari, Antonino, Sato, Yoichi, Farinella, Giovanni Maria

Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural Activity Representation and Online Mistake Detection from Egocentric Videos
Seminara, Luigi, Farinella, Giovanni Maria, Furnari, Antonino

Action Scene Graphs for Long-Form Understanding of Egocentric Videos
Ivan Rodin, Antonino Furnari, Kyle Min, Subarna Tripathi, Giovanni Maria Farinella

AFF-ttention! Affordances and Attention models for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation
Lorenzo Mur-Labadia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Josechu Guerrero, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari

An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision
Chiara Plizzari, Gabriele Goletto, Antonino Furnari, Siddhant Bansal, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Dima Damen, Tatiana Tommasi

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

PREGO: online mistake detection in PRocedural EGOcentric videos
Alessandro Flaborea, Guido D'Amely, Leonardo Plini, Luca Scofano, Edoardo De Matteis, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Fabio Galasso

Synchronization is All You Need: Exocentric-to-Egocentric Transfer for Temporal Action Segmentation with Unlabeled Synchronized Video Pairs
Camillo Quattrocchi, Antonino Furnari, Daniele Di Mauro, Mario Valerio Giuffrida, Giovanni Maria Farinella

StillFast: An End-to-End Approach for Short-Term Object Interaction Anticipation
Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari

Rescaling Egocentric Vision: Collection, Pipeline and Challenges for EPIC-KITCHENS-100
Dima Damen, Hazel Doughty, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Evangelos Kazakos, Jian Ma, Jian, Davide Moltisanti, Jonathan Munro, Toby Perrett, Will Price, Michael Wray

What Would You Expect? Anticipating Egocentric Actions With Rolling-Unrolling LSTMs and Modality Attention
Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Scaling Egocentric Vision: The EPIC-KITCHENS Dataset
D. Damen, H. Doughty, G. M. Farinella, S. Fidler, A. Furnari, E. Kazakos, D. Moltisanti, J. Munro, T. Perrett, W. Price, M. Wray

Next-active-object prediction from egocentric videos
Antonino Furnari, Sebastiano Battiato, Kristen Grauman, Giovanni Maria Farinella

Temporal Segmentation of Egocentric Videos to Highlight Personal Locations of Interest
Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Sebastiano Battiato
05 / Teaching
Triennale
