About Me
Francesco Ragusa is a research fellow at the University of Catania, Italy. He has completed an Industrial Doctorate in Computer Science in 2021. During his PhD studies, he has spent a period as Research Student at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. His research interests concern Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Machine Learning, with focus on First Person Vision. He is part of EPICK-KITCHENS, EGO4D and EGO-EXO4D teams. He is co-founder and CEO of NEXT VISION s.r.l., an academic spin-off the the University of Catania since 2021.
News
Mar 24: Our paper "Exploiting Multimodal Synthetic Data for Egocentric Human-Object Interaction Detection in an Industrial Scenario" was accepted at CVIU 2024.
Feb 24: Our paper "Ego-Exo4D : Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives." was accepted at CVPR 2024!
Feb 24: Our revised work "An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision" is out!
Jan 24: Our paper "Learning to Detect Attended Objects in Cultural Sites with Gaze Signals and Weak Object Supervision" was accepted at JOCCH 2024.
Research Projects
Ego-Exo4D
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Ego-Exo4D : Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives. K Grauman et al. IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) 2024. ArXiv, Webpage, PDF |
ENIGMA-51
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ENIGMA-51: Towards a Fine-Grained Understanding of Human Behavior in Industrial Scenarios. F. Ragusa R. Leonardi, M. Mazzamuto, C. Bonanno, R. Scavo, A. Furnari, G. M. Farinella. WACV (2024). Paper |
The Future of Egocentric Vision
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An Outlook into the Future of Egocentric Vision. C Plizzari*, G Goletto*, A Furnari*, S Bansal*, F Ragusa*, GM Farinella, D Damen, T Tommasi. (2023). ArXiv |
The MECCANO Dataset
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Webpage and Dataset |Challenge MECCANO: A Multimodal Egocentric Dataset for Humans Behavior Understanding in the Industrial-like Domain. F. Ragusa, A. Furnari, G.M. Farinella. CVIU (2023). Paper The MECCANO Dataset: Understanding Human-Object Interactions from Egocentric Videos in an Industrial-like Domain. F. Ragusa, A. Furnari, S. Livatino, G.M. Farinella. WACV (2021) Oral. Paper, Oral Presentation |