GIOVANNI MARIA FARINELLA

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science - University of Catania


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  • 2007-Today: Director of the “International Computer Vision Summer School” (ICVSS). School Website
  • 2014: Director of the “Medical Imaging Summer School” (MISS). School Website
  • 2008 – Today: Member of the Joint Laboratory STMicroelectronics – IPLAB University of Catania
  • 2013: General Chair - International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR), held in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2014, Zürich, Switzerland
  • 2013: Chair - Video Proceedings, ACM Multimedia (ACM MM), 21-25 October 2013, Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain
  • 2012: Chair - Video Proceedings, European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), 7-13 October 2012, Florence, Italy
  • 2012: Committee Member and Local Organizer of the International Workshop on Computer Vision (IWCV)
  • 2015: Programme Committee Member of IAPR International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)
  • 2014: Programme Committee Member of the International Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail and Digital Signage (VAAM) - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • 2014: Programme Committee Member of the IEEE Winter Conference on Application and Computer Vision (WACV)
  • 2014: Programme Committee Member of the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP)
  • 2014: Programme Committee Member of the International Symposium On Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
  • 2012/14: Program Committee Member of the International Workshop on Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB)
  • 2013: Programme Committee Member of the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
  • 2013: Programme Committee Member of the International Workshop on Video and Image Ground Truth for Computer Vision Applications (VIGTA'13) - held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2013)
  • 2013: Programme Committee Member of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • 2013/14/15: Programme Committee Member of the International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH)
  • 2013/14/15: Programme Committee Member of the International Conferences on Pervasive Patterns and Applications (PATTERNS)
  • 2012/13/14: Programme Committee Member of the International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE)
  • 2012/13/14: Program Committee Member of the IAPR International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV)
  • 2012: Program Committee Member of the International Conference IET Image Processing
  • 2011: Scientific Committee Member of the International Workshop on Breast Image Analysis held in conjunction with MICCAI International Conference 2011
  • 2009/10/11/12/13/14/15: Program Committee Member of the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
  • 2009/10/11/12/13/14: Program Committee Member of the IADIS International Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems - Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing
  • 2009: School Committee for the “21st International School for Computer Science Researchers” – Molecular and Medical Image Analysis and Bioinformatics, Lipari 11-18 July 2009.
  • 2006: Scientific Committee Member and local organizer of 4° Convegno EUROGRAPHICS Italian Chapter

  • To appear 2015: Editor of the special issues on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics, Co-Eds. G.M. Farinella, T. Kanade, M. Leo, G. Medioni, M. Trivedi, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier
  • To appear 2014: Editor of the special issues on Animal and Insect Behavior Understanding in Image Sequences, Co-Eds. C. Spampinato, G. M. Farinella, B. Boom, M. Betke, R. B. Fisher, V. Mezaris, EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing (ISSN: 1687-5281), Springer
  • 2014: Editor of the book “Advanced Topics in Computer Vision”, Series: Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer
  • 2013: Editor of the book “Registration, Recognition and Reconstruction in Images and Videos”, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer
  • 2012: Editor of the book “Machine Learning for Computer Vision”, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer
  • 2010: Editor of the book Computer Vision: Detection, Recognition and Reconstruction, Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence, Springer
  • 2014-Today: Member of the Review Editorial Board of Computer Image Analysis, Specialty section of Frontiers in ICT, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL)
  • 2011-Today: Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Computer Vision & Signal Processing (IJCVSP) (ISSN: 2186-1390)

  • February 2015 Scientific Course on “Recent Trends on Imaging Devices” at the IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging San Francisco, USA, 8-12 February 2015
  • 3 April 2014: Invited Speaker at the 34th Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic, 3 April 2014. Talk Title: Instant Scene Context Recognition on Mobile Platform.
  • 2 September 2010: Invited Speaker at the International Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis 2010 (WAPA2010), Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 1-2 September 2010. Talk Title: Visual Pattern Recognition.
  • 2 October 2009: Invited Speaker at the International School “The Analysis of Patterns 2009”, Pula (Cagliari, Sardinia), 27 September – 3 October 2009. Talk Title: Pattern Recognition in Computer Vision.
  • 11 July 2008: Invited Speaker at the International School of Functional Genomics, Sampieri (Scicli), Italy, 5-19 July 2008.Talk Title: Microarray Image Analysis
  • Other Invited Talks:
    • 29 July 2013: Invited Speaker at the International Ares Film & Media Festival, Siracusa, IT. Talk Title: The training of Digital Artists
    • 5 July 2013: Invited Speaker at the The Best Researcher Award, Catania, IT. Talk Title: Image and Video Understanding for Smart Devices
    • 23 May 2013: Invited Speaker at the ENIAC, Brussels, Belgium. Talk Title: Vehicle tracking and modeling in a multi camera system (Talk given in joint with Dr. Jelmer Spiekstra, Q-free Netherlands)
    • 11 April 2013: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: Vehicle tracking
    • 3 March 2012: Invited Speaker at the Liceo Scientifico Statale “Alessandro Volta” – Caltanissetta, IT. Talk Title: Computer Vision: la Visione dei Computers
    • 26 October 2011: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: Visual Tracking
    • 26 November 2010: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: Recognizing Visual Pattern Through Bag of Visual Word
    • 26 November 2010: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: In the jungle of classifiers: Trees, Forests and Ferns
    • 17 December 2007: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: Scene Recognition: an overview
    • 7 June 2007: Invited Speaker at the AST Computer Vision Group, STMicroelectronics Catania, IT. Talk Title: Image and Video Understanding
    • 6 October 2006: Invited Speaker at the Computer Vision and Robotics Group, University of Cambridge, UK. Talk Title: Detection, Recognition and Segmentation in Videos - The Pedestrian “Object” Case Study

  • 2015: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Cybernetic
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Haptics
  • 2008/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer the international Journal Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Elsevier
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer
  • 2013/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal Pattern Analysis and Applications, Springer
  • 2013/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Society
  • 2013/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal of Electronic Imaging, SPIE
  • 2013/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal Sensors, MDPI
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy, Elsevier
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Springer
  • 2012/13: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Journal Pattern Recognition Letters, Elsevier
  • 2011/12/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
  • 2011/12: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Information, Forensics and Security
  • 2011/12/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal Pattern Recognition, Elsevier
  • 2011: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
  • 2011/12: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal of Biomedical Data Mining, Ashdin Publishing
  • 2011: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal Recent Patents on Electrical Engineering, Bentham Science Publisher
  • 2011: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal Signal Processing: Image Communication, Elsevier
  • 2011/12/13: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal Bioinformatics, Oxford Journals
  • 2011/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal The Computer Journal, Oxford University Press
  • 2011: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IEEE Transaction on MultiMedia – Special Issue in Forensics, Security and Intelligence
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IET Computer Vision
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Journal IET Electronics Letters.
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the Annals of the British Machine Vision Association Journal – Medical Image Understanding and Analysis (MIUA) Special Issue
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer the International Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing - Special issue on "Emerging Methods for Color Image and Video Quality Enhancement.
  • 2009/11/12: Invited to serve as Reviewer the international Journal Computers in Biology and Medicine, Elsevier.

  • 2015: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Symposium On Computer-Based Medical Systems (CBMS)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Computer Vision and Robotics (ACVR) - held in conjunction with the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail and Digital Signage (VAAM) - held in conjunction with the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • 2014: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conferences in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision (WSCG)
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the 12th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL)
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the 8th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis (ISPA)
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics and Applications (ISIEA)
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Video and Image Ground Truth for Computer Vision Applications (VIGTA'13) - held in conjunction with the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems (ICVS 2013)
  • 2013: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
  • 2013/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International on Informatics, Electronics & Vision (ICIEV)
  • 2013/14/15: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference on Business Intelligence and Technology (BUSTECH)
  • 2013/14/15: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conferences on Pervasive Patterns and Applications (PATTERNS)
  • 2012/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference on Connected Vehicles & Expo (ICCVE)
  • 2012/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Visual observation and analysis of animal and insect behavior (VAIB)
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (CGIV)
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IEEE Symposium on Industrial Electronics & Applications (ISIEA)
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis (WAPA)
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the ACM International Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics, Security and Intelligence (MiFor)
  • 2010/12/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR)
  • 2010: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)
  • 2009/10/11/12/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IADIS International Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems - Computer Graphics, Visualization, Computer Vision and Image Processing (CGVCVIP)
  • 2009/10/11/12/13/14/15: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP)
  • 2008/09/10/11/12/13/14: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing(ICIP)
  • 2009/11/13/15: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP)
  • 2009: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS)
  • 2006: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the Fourth Conference Eurographics Italian Chapter
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the IAPR International Conference on Informatics, Electronics & Vision
  • 2012: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Conference IET Image Processing
  • 2011: Invited to serve as Reviewer for the International Workshop on Breast Image Analysis held in conjunction with MICCAI International Conference 2011
  • 2008: Invited to serve as Reviewer the ECCV Workshop on Multi-camera and Multi-modal Sensor Fusion Algorithms and Applications (M2SFA2).

  • Delegate speaker for presenting accepted papers at the following conferences/workshops:
    • International Workshop on Video Analytics for Audience Measurement in Retail and Digital Signage, Stockholm, Sweden, 24 August 2014
    • International Workshop on Assistive Computer Vision and Robotics, Zurich, Switzerland, 12 September 2014
    • XIII Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA), Turin, Italy, 4-6 December 2013
    • IAPR International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Napleas, Italy, 10-13 September 2013
    • IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tsukuba Science City, JAPAN, 11-15 November 2012
    • European Conference on Computer Vision 2012, Florence, Italy, 7-13 October 2012
    • International Conference ACM Multimedia, Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 28 Nov – 1 Dec 2011
    • International ACM Workshop on Multimedia in Forensics and Intelligence (MiFor), Scottsdale, Arizona, USA, 29 Nov 2011
    • IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Istanbul, Turkey, 23-26 August 2010
    • IAPR International Workshop on Visual Observation and Analysis of Animal and Insect Behavior, Istanbul, Turkey, 22 August 2010
    • International Workshop on Applications of Pattern Analysis, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor, UK, 31 Aug - 2 Sept 2010
    • International Workshop on Computer Vision, Vietri sul Mare, IT, 25-27 May 2010
    • International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, Sophia-Antipolis, France, 7-9 January 2009
    • IAPR International Conference on Pattern Recognition, Tampa, Florida, USA, 8-11 December 2008
    • IAPR International Workshop on Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition (SSPR), Orlando, Florida, USA, 4-6 December 2008
    • V Congresso Nazionale di Archeometria - AIAr, Siracusa, Sicilia, 26-29 February 2008
    • IEEE International Conference on Computational Science ICCS 2006 - Fifth International Workshop on Computer Graphics and Geometric Modeling, CGGM 2006, Reading, UK, 28-31 May 2006