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 expertise lies in Computer Vision and Machine Learning. Specifically, my research investigates how intelligent systems can perceive, understand, and anticipate human actions and interactions directly from an embodied, egocentric viewpoint, to enable assistive technologies on wearable devices that provide direct support to users. See the publications page for the full list of publications.
Editorial Roles
- Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI)
- Associate Editor, Pattern Recognition
- Associate Editor, IET Computer Vision
Program Chair
- VISAPP 2024, 2025, 2026, 2027
Area Chair
- NeurIPS 2026, ICML 2026, ECCV 2026, CVPR 2026, WACV 2026, WACV 2025, IJCAI 2025, ICRA 2025, NeurIPS 2024, WACV 2024, ICCV 2023, VISAPP 2023, VISAPP 2022, VISAPP 2021, VISAPP 2020
Publicity Chair
- CVPR 2026, AVSS 2026, ICCV 2025, ICIAP 2025, ICIAP 2021
Workshop Organization
- EgoVis@CVPR 2026
- ACVR@ICCV 2025
- EgoVis@CVPR 2025
- ACVR@ECCV 2024
- EgoVis@CVPR 2024
- Joint EPIC and Ego4D @ CVPR 2023
- ACVR@ICCV 2023
- Joint EPIC and Ego4D @ CVPR 2022
- ACVR@ECCV 2022
- EPIC@CVPR 2021
- ACVR@ICCV 2021
- EPIC@CVPR 2020
- EPIC@ECCV 2020
- ACVR@ECCV 2020
- EPIC@ICCV 2019
- EPIC@CVPR 2019
- EPIC@ECCV 2018
Challenge Organization
- Short-Term Human-Object Interaction Anticipation - EgoVis@CVPR 2026
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EgoVis@CVPR 2026
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EgoVis@CVPR 2025
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EgoVis@CVPR 2024
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EgoVis@CVPR 2024
- Short-Term Human-Object Interaction Anticipation - EgoVis@CVPR 2024
- Short-Term Human-Object Interaction Anticipation - Ego4D@CVPR 2023
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2023
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2023
- Multimodal Action Recognition on the MECCANO Dataset - ICIAP 2023
- Short-Term Human-Object Interaction Anticipation - Ego4D@CVPR 2022
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2022
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2022
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2021
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2021
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2020
- Egocentric Action Detection Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2020
- Egocentric Action Anticipation Challenge - EPIC@CVPR 2019
Guest Editor
- TPAMI Special Issue on Egocentric Perception (2020)
- Frontiers in CS: Machine Vision for Assistive Technology (2022)
- Image and Vision Computing VISAPP Special Issue (2024)
- CVIU: Advances in Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (2025)