Giovanni
Maria Farinella obtained the degree in
Computer Science (egregia cum laude) from the
University of Catania, Italy, in 2004. He is Founder
Member of the IPLAB Research Group at
University of Catania since 2005. He also
became an Associate Member of the Computer
Vision and Robotics Research Group
at University of Cambridge in 2006, and
Associate Member of the Italian
National Research Council since 2018. He
was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Computer
Vision) from the University of Catania in
2008. He is Full 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, with focus on First Person (Egocentric) Vision. He is Associate Editor of
the international journals IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine
Intelligence, Pattern
Recognition - Elsevier , International Journal of Computer Vision. He has been serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2020/21/22/23, ICCV
2017/19/21/23, ECCV 2020, BMVC 2020, WACV 2019/22, ICPR 2018, and as Program Chair of ECCV 2022, ICIAP 2021 and VISAPP 2019/20/21/22/23. Giovanni
Maria Farinella 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 is member of
the European
Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent
Systems (ELLIS), Senior Member of the
IEEE Computer Society, Scientific Advisor
of the NVIDIA
AI Technology Centre (NVAITC), and board member of the CINI Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (lead of the area AI for Industry - since 2021). He was awarded the PAMI
Mark Everingham Prize 2017 and the Intel's 2022 Outstanding Researcher Award. In addition to academic work, Giovanni's industrial experience includes scientific advisorship to different national and international companies and startups, as well as the leadership as Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Next Vision - Spinoff of the University of Catania.
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Giovanni Maria Farinella has
got the
National Scientific Qualification to
Associate Professor (ASN
- Seconda Fascia) in the areas of
Information Engineering (SSD 09/H1) and
Computer Science (SSD 01/B1) on 03/12/2013
and 29/01/2014 respectively.
He
has got the National Scientific
Qualification to Full Professor (ASN
- Prima Fascia), in the areas of Computer
Science (SSD 01/B1) and Information
Engineering (SSD 09/H1) on 28/03/2018 and
26/07/2018 respectively.
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