Antonino Furnari
Associate Professor
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolAntonino Furnari is an Associate Professor at the University of Catania with a PhD in Mathematics and Computer Science and over a decade of experience in academic research and teaching. He is a leading researcher in egocentric (first-person) computer vision, contributing to large collaborative efforts such as EPIC-KITCHENS and EGO4D to model human activity and predict future intent from wearable video. His trajectory includes visiting researcher stints at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Bristol, reflecting international collaboration and exposure to diverse research environments. Antonino progressed through roles from postdoc to tenure-track and now associate professor within the same institution, signaling strong research continuity and academic leadership. Notably, his work blends rigorous theoretical training with practical, dataset-driven challenges in real-world human–computer interaction scenarios.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Mathematics and Computer Science at Università di Catania
Github Skills (21)
python9
machine-learning9
loss-functions9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
computer-vision8
neural-network8
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
action-recognition5
scene-graph5
feature-extraction4
knife4
epic3
object-detection3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fpv-iplab/action-anticipation-losses
Sep 2018 - May 2019
Implements the loss used in A. Furnari, S. Battiato, G. M. Farinella (2018). Leveraging Uncertainty to Rethink Loss Functions and Evaluation Measures for Egocentric Action Anticipation . In International Workshop on Egocentric Perception, Interaction and Computing (EPIC) in conjunction with ECCV .
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 11 pushes in 8 months
loss-functions
epic-kitchens/C2-Action-Detection
Aug 2020 - Jun 2022
Evaluation measures for the EPIC-KITCHENS-100 Action Detection challenge
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 12 comments in 1 year 9 months
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