Luigi SEMINARA

Education

• Master's Degree in Computer Science, University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (September 2021 - April 2023)
  • Thesis Title: Tool for capture and automatic labeling of human-object interactions from First Person Vision (FPV).
  • Supervisors: Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella, Prof. Antonino Furnari, Prof. Francesco Ragusa.
  • Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, University of Catania, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (September 2018 - July 2021)
  • Thesis Title: Recognition of actions on objects using Microsoft HoloLens2.
  • Supervisors: Prof. Antonino Furnari, Dr. Rosario Leonardi.
  • Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Main Background

• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Computer Vision
• Procedure Understanding

Experience

• Visitor Student at the University of Bath (UK) under the supervision of Dr. Davide Moltisanti (February 2025 - Ongoing)
• Machine Learning Algorithms for Egocentric Action Recognition (March 2023 - July 2023)
  • Scholarship contract with UNICT for research activity related to the project MEGABIT - Monitoring Egocentric Gaze for Analysis of Behaviors and Interactions with Targets. Scientific coordinator Prof. Giovanni Maria Farinella.
• Development of a System for the Online Recognition of Human-Object Interactions and Actions in an Industrial Setting (April 2023 - July 2023)
  • Internship in Next Vision s.r.l., under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Ragusa.
• Study and Development of a System for the Acquisition and Labeling of Images and Videos on PIPE (January 2023 - March 2023)
  • Training internship in Next Vision s.r.l., under the supervision of Prof. Francesco Ragusa.
• Programming I Tutoring (December 2021 - June 2022 and September 2022 - June 2023)
  • I acted as a junior tutor (with a formal contract by UNICT) for the subject Programming I of the academic year 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
• Computer Networks Tutoring (December 2021 - June 2022)
  • I acted as a junior tutor (with a formal contract by UNICT) for the subject Computer Networks of the academic year 2021-2022 at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

Participation to scientific conferences

• I attended the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) on October 23-27, 2022.
• I attended the IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) on June 17-21, 2024.
• I attended the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) from September 29th through October 4th, 2024.
• I attended the Thirty-Eight Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) on December 9-15, 2024.