Giovanni Maria FARINELLA

Giovanni Maria Farinella is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. He is Associate Editor of the international journals Pattern Recognition and IET Computer Vision. He founded (in 2006) and currently directs the International Computer Vision Summer School. He also founded (in 2014) and currently directs the Medical Imaging Summer School. He was awarded the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize 2017. 

List of Publications in Scopus in the range 2014-2018 (Last update 10/08/2018)

Santarcangelo, V., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Battiato, S.
Market basket analysis from egocentric videos
(2018) Pattern Recognition Letters, 112, pp. 83-90. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.patrec.2018.06.010

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Gallo, G., Giudice, O.
On-board monitoring system for road traffic safety analysis
(2018) Computers in Industry, 98, pp. 208-217. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.compind.2018.02.014

Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
Personal-location-based temporal segmentation of egocentric videos for lifelogging applications
(2018) Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 52, pp. 1-12. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2018.01.019

Musumeci, R.E., Moltisanti, D., Foti, E., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
3-D monitoring of rubble mound breakwater damages
(2018) Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation, 117, pp. 347-364. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.measurement.2017.12.020

Battiato, S., Daniele, P., Farinella, G.M., Giuffrè, S., Scrimali, L.R.M.
Preface
(2018) Journal of Global Optimization, 70 (2), p. 307. 
DOI: 10.1007/s10898-018-0613-6

Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
How Shall We Evaluate Egocentric Action Recognition?
(2018) Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Workshops, ICCVW 2017, 2018-January, pp. 2373-2382. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2017.280

Ortis, A., Farinella, G.M., D'Amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G., Battiato, S.
Organizing egocentric videos of daily living activities
(2017) Pattern Recognition, 72, pp. 207-218. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2017.07.010

Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Grauman, K., Farinella, G.M.
Next-active-object prediction from egocentric videos
(2017) Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 49, pp. 401-411. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2017.10.004

Di Mauro, D., Moltisanti, M., Patane, G., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
Park Smart
(2017) 2017 14th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, AVSS 2017, art. no. 8078502, . 
DOI: 10.1109/AVSS.2017.8078502

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Bruna, A.R., Battiato, S.
Distortion adaptive Sobel filters for the gradient estimation of wide angle images
(2017) Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, 46, pp. 165-175. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvcir.2017.03.019

Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
On the exploitation of Hidden Markov models to improve location-based temporal segmentation of egocentric videos
(2017) WearMMe 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 Workshop on Wearable MultiMedia, co-located with ICMR 2017, pp. 1-4. 
DOI: 10.1145/3080538.3080539

Mougiakakou, S., Farinella, G.M., Yanai, K., Sazonov, E.
Guest Editorial Nutrition Informatics: From Food Monitoring to Dietary Management
(2017) IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 21 (3), art. no. 7922467, pp. 585-587. 
DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2017.2694938

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Recognizing Personal Locations From Egocentric Videos
(2017) IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 47 (1), art. no. 7588113, pp. 6-18. 
DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2016.2612002

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Bruna, A.R., Battiato, S.
Affine covariant features for fisheye distortion local modeling
(2017) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 26 (2), art. no. 7740839, pp. 696-710. 
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2016.2627816

Farinella, G.M., Leo, M.
Preface
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10590 LNCS, pp. V-VI. 

Ragusa, F., Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M.
Understanding Food Images to Recommend Utensils During Meals
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10590 LNCS, pp. 419-425. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70742-6_40

Gallo, G., Signorello, G., Farinella, G.M., Torrisi, A.
Exploiting Social Images to Understand Tourist Behaviour
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10485 LNCS, pp. 707-717. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_64

Sciortino, G., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S., Leo, M., Distante, C.
On the Estimation of Children’s Poses
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10485 LNCS, pp. 410-421. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_38

Leo, M., Medioni, G., Trivedi, M., Kanade, T., Farinella, G.M.
Computer vision for assistive technologies
(2017) Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 154, pp. 1-15. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2016.09.001

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Napoli, C., Nicotra, G., Riccobene, S.
Recognizing Context for Privacy Preserving of First Person Vision Image Sequences
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10485 LNCS, pp. 580-590. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_53

Allegra, D., Anthimopoulos, M., Dehais, J., Lu, Y., Stanco, F., Farinella, G.M., Mougiakakou, S.
A Multimedia Database for Automatic Meal Assessment Systems
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10590 LNCS, pp. 471-478. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-70742-6_46

Guarnera, L., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Salici, A., Ciampini, C., Matranga, V., Battiato, S.
GRAPHJ: A Forensics Tool for Handwriting Analysis
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10485 LNCS, pp. 591-601. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68548-9_54

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Milotta, F.L.M., Ortis, A., Stanco, F., D’Amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G.
Organizing videos streams for clustering and estimation of popular scenes
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10484 LNCS, pp. 51-61. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68560-1_5

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
(2017) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10484 LNCS, pp. 129-139. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-68560-1_12

Mougiakakou, S., Farinella, G.M., Yanai, K., Anthimopoulos, M.
MADiMa2016: 2nd international workshop on multimedia assisted dietary management workshop chairs' welcome
(2016) MADiMa 2016 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016, p. iii. 

Ragusa, F., Tomaselli, V., Furnari, A., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
Food vs non-food classification
(2016) MADiMa 2016 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Multimedia Assisted Dietary Management, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016, pp. 77-81. 
DOI: 10.1145/2986035.2986041

Ortis, A., Farinella, G.M., D'Amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G., Battiato, S.
Organizing egocentric videos for daily living monitoring
(2016) LTA 2016 - Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Lifelogging Tools and Applications, co-located with ACM Multimedia 2016, pp. 45-54. 
DOI: 10.1145/2983576.2983578

Mougiakakou, S., Farinella, G.M., Yanai, K.
Overview of the ACM multimedia 2016 international workshop on multimedia assisted dietary management
(2016) MM 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 1489-1490. 
DOI: 10.1145/2964284.2980535

Farinella, G.M., Allegra, D., Moltisanti, M., Stanco, F., Battiato, S.
Retrieval and classification of food images
(2016) Computers in Biology and Medicine, 77, pp. 23-39. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2016.07.006

Farinella, G.M., Kanade, T., Leo, M., Medioni, G.G., Trivedi, M.
Special issue on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics-Part i
(2016) Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 148, pp. 1-2. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2016.05.010

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Milotta, F.L.M., Ortis, A., Addesso, L., Casella, A., D'Amico, V., Torrisi, G.
The social picture
(2016) ICMR 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval, pp. 397-400. 
DOI: 10.1145/2911996.2912024

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Giudice, O., Puglisi, G.
Aligning shapes for symbol classification and retrieval
(2016) Multimedia Tools and Applications, 75 (10), pp. 5513-5531. 
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-015-2523-7

Ravì, D., Bober, M., Farinella, G.M., Guarnera, M., Battiato, S.
Semantic segmentation of images exploiting DCT based features and random forest
(2016) Pattern Recognition, 52, pp. 260-273. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2015.10.021

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Temporal segmentation of egocentric videos to highlight personal locations of interest
(2016) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9913 LNCS, pp. 474-489. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_34

Santarcangelo, V., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Egocentric vision for visual market basket analysis
(2016) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9913 LNCS, pp. 518-531. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-46604-0_37

Farinella, G.M., Kanade, T., Leo, M., Medioni, G.G., Trivedi, M.
Special Issue on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics - ``Assistive Solutions for Mobility, Communication and HMI''
(2016) Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 149, pp. 1-2. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.cviu.2016.05.014

Di Mauro, D., Battiato, S., Patanè, G., Leotta, M., Maio, D., Farinella, G.M.
Learning approaches for parking lots classification
(2016) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 10016 LNCS, pp. 410-418. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-48680-2_36

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Bruna, A.R., Battiato, S.
Generalized Sobel Filters for gradient estimation of distorted images
(2015) Proceedings - International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP, 2015-December, art. no. 7351404, pp. 3250-3254. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2015.7351404

Ortis, A., Farinella, G.M., D'Amico, V., Addesso, L., Torrisi, G., Battiato, S.
RECfusion: Automatic video curation driven by visual content popularity
(2015) MM 2015 - Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Multimedia Conference, pp. 1179-1182. 
DOI: 10.1145/2733373.2806311

Torrisi, A., Farinella, G.M., Puglisi, G., Battiato, S.
Selecting discriminative CLBP patterns for age estimation
(2015) 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2015, art. no. 7169755, . 
DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2015.7169755

Santarcangelo, V., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Gender recognition: Methods, datasets and results
(2015) 2015 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo Workshops, ICMEW 2015, art. no. 7169756, . 
DOI: 10.1109/ICMEW.2015.7169756

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Puglisi, G., Snijders, A., Spiekstra, J.
An integrated system for vehicle tracking and classification
(2015) Expert Systems with Applications, 42 (21), pp. 7263-7275. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2015.05.055

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Recognizing Personal Contexts from Egocentric Images
(2015) Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, 2015-February, art. no. 7406408, pp. 393-401. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICCVW.2015.59

Pardalos, P., Pavone, M., Farinella, G.M., Cutello, V.
Machine learning, optimization, and big data: First international workshop, MOD 2015 Taormina, Sicily, Italy, july 21–23, 2015 revised selected papers
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9432, . 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27926-8

Farinella, G.M., Allegra, D., Stanco, F.
A benchmark dataset to study the representation of food images
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8927, pp. 584-599. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_41

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Bruna, A.R., Battiato, S.
Distortion adaptive descriptors: Extending gradient-based descriptors to wide angle images
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9280, pp. 205-215. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23234-8_20

Farinella, G.M., Giuffrida, M.V., Digiacomo, V., Battiato, S.
On blind source camera identification
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9386, pp. 464-473. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_40

Farinella, G.M., Moltisanti, M., Battiato, S.
Food recognition using consensus vocabularies
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9281, pp. 384-392. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23222-5_47

Pardalos, P., Pavone, M., Farinella, G.M., Cutello, V.
Preface
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9432, . 

Farinella, G.M., Allegra, D., Stanco, F., Battiato, S.
On the exploitation of one class classification to distinguish food Vs non-food images
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9281, pp. 375-383. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23222-5_46

Milotta, F.L., Allegra, D., Stanco, F., Farinella, G.M.
An electronic travel aid to assist blind and visually impaired people to avoid obstacles
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9257, pp. 604-615. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-23117-4_52

Farinella, G.M., Leonardi, P., Stanco, F.
A mobile application for Braille to black conversion
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9386, pp. 741-751. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_64

Giuffrida, M.V., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S., Guarnera, M.
Exploiting time-multiplexing structured light with picoprojectors
(2015) Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering, 9393, art. no. 939304, . 
DOI: 10.1117/12.2083031

Moltisanti, M., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
Semi-Naive mixture model for consensus clustering
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9432, pp. 337-346. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-27926-8_30

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S.
An experimental analysis of saliency detection with respect to three saliency levels
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8927, pp. 806-821. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_56

Farinella, G.M., Ravì, D., Tomaselli, V., Guarnera, M., Battiato, S.
Representing scenes for real-time context classification on mobile devices
(2015) Pattern Recognition, 48 (4), pp. 1082-1096. 
DOI: 10.1016/j.patcog.2014.05.014

Spampinato, G., Bruna, A., Farinella, G.M., Battiato, S., Puglisi, G.
Fast and low power consumption outliers removal for motion vector estimation
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9386, pp. 70-80. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_7

Moltisanti, D., Farinella, G.M., Musumeci, R.E., Foti, E., Battiato, S.
Monitoring accropodes breakwaters using RGB-D cameras
(2015) VISAPP 2015 - 10th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications; VISIGRAPP, Proceedings, 1, pp. 76-83. 

Spampinato, C., Farinella, G.M., Boom, B., Mezaris, V., Betke, M., Fisher, R.B.
Special issue on animal and insect behaviour understanding in image sequences
(2015) Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2015 (1), 4 p. 
DOI: 10.1186/1687-5281-2015-1

Signorello, G., Farinella, G.M., Gallo, G., Santo, L., Lopes, A., Scuderi, E.
Exploring protected nature through multimodal navigation of multimedia contents
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 9386, pp. 841-852. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-25903-1_72

Chippendale, P., Tomaselli, V., D’Alto, V., Urlini, G., Modena, C.M., Messelodi, S., Strano, S.M., Alce, G., Hermodsson, K., Razafimahazo, M., Michel, T., Farinella, G.M.
Personal shopping assistance and navigator system for visually impaired people
(2015) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8927, pp. 375-390. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16199-0_27

Farinella, G.M., Moltisanti, M., Battiato, S.
Classifying food images represented as Bag of Textons
(2014) 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014, art. no. 7026055, pp. 5212-5216. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2014.7026055

Furnari, A., Farinella, G.M., Puglisi, G., Bruna, A.R., Battiato, S.
Affine region detectors on the fisheye domain
(2014) 2014 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2014, art. no. 7026149, pp. 5681-5685. 
DOI: 10.1109/ICIP.2014.7026149

Cipolla, R., Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M.
Preface
(2014) Studies in Computational Intelligence, 532, pp. v. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-44907-9

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Puglisi, G., Ravì, D.
Aligning codebooks for near duplicate image detection
(2014) Multimedia Tools and Applications, 72 (2), pp. 1483-1506. 
DOI: 10.1007/s11042-013-1470-4

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Puglisi, G., Ravi, D.
Saliency-based selection of gradient vector flow paths for content aware image resizing
(2014) IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 23 (5), art. no. 6775267, pp. 2081-2095. 
DOI: 10.1109/TIP.2014.2312649

Guarneri, I., Capra, A., Farinella, G.M., Cristaldi, F., Battiato, S.
Multi touch shape recognition for projected capacitive touch screen
(2014) VISAPP 2014 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 3, pp. 111-117. 

Farinella, G.M., Farioli, G., Battiato, S., Leonardi, S., Gallo, G.
Face re-identification for digital signage applications
(2014) Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), 8811, pp. 40-52. 
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-12811-5_3

Battiato, S., Farinella, G.M., Furnari, A., Puglisi, G., Snijders, A., Spiekstra, J.
Vehicle tracking based on customized template matching
(2014) VISAPP 2014 - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2, pp. 755-760. 

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My main research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning with focus on applications in the following domains:

- First Person (Egocentric) Vision

- Social Media Mining

- Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics