About Me
My background and current research.
I'm a -year-old Computer Science Master's student at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Catania and a member of the LIVE research group within the Image Processing Laboratory (IPLAB). My academic path is focused on AI and Computer Vision, with particular interest in Vision-Language Models for egocentric video understanding and in intelligent assistive systems designed to support users during complex procedural tasks.
Education
Current
University of CataniaMaster's Degree in Computer Science
Relevant courses: Deep Learning, Generative AI, Advanced Robotics, Computer Vision, Multimedia, Parallel Programming and GPU Computing for HPC.
Jul 2025
University of CataniaBachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Relevant courses: AI, Robotics, Social Media Data Analysis, Fundamentals of Data Analysis, ML.
Thesis title: Predicting Next-Active Objects with Vision Large Language Models in Egocentric Scenarios.
Final grade: 110/110 cum laude
Experience
Apr 2026 - Current
University of Catania - LIVE@IPLABResearch Scholar
Study and development of Multimodal Learning algorithms for procedural task assistance and mistake detection.
Feb 2025 - Jun 2025
Next Vision s.r.l.Student Researcher - Internship
Conducted research and designed multimodal LLM-based Computer Vision algorithms, with a focus on Object Anticipation tasks in Egocentric Vision.
Publications
My research papers.
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2026
Daniele Materia, Francesco Ragusa, Giovanni Maria Farinella. Leveraging Gaze and Set-of-Mark in VLLMs for Human-Object Interaction Anticipation from Egocentric Videos. International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR). Accepted
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2026
Rosario Leonardi, Francesco Ragusa, Daniele Materia, Alessandro Passanisi, James Fort, Jakob Engel, Giovanni Maria Farinella. EgoInteract: Synthetic Egocentric Videos Generation for Interaction Understanding and Anticipation. arXiv preprint 2605.18214. Under Review
Contact
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