Antonio Finocchiaro

PhD Student in Computer Science
@ University of Catania

My research focuses on Object Discovery from Egocentric Vision. I am passionate about Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and building real-time systems to understand human behavior and hand-object interactions.

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Education

Master's in Computer Science

110/110 ✦

University of Catania

Oct 2023 – Sep 2025

Thesis: Investigating Object Detection for Human Behavior Understanding.

Bachelor's in Computer Science

110/110 ✦

University of Catania

Oct 2020 – Jul 2023

Thesis: Temporal Video Segmentation of Calisthenics Skills.

Technical Skills

Computer Vision & AI

Egocentric Vision Object Detection Pose Recognition Depth Estimation Temporal Segmentation

Programming & Data

PyTorch / Lightning Detectron2 & Ultralytics OpenCV NumPy & Pandas Python C/C++ Bash Scripting MySQL / SQL API Development

DevOps & Tools

ELK Stack Apache Spark / Kafka n8n Automation ChromaDB / Neo4j Docker Git & GitHub Actions Linux / SSH 3D Modelling (Blender)

Publications

Online Episodic Memory Visual Query Localization with Egocentric Streaming Object Memory

Zaira Manigrasso, Matteo Dunnhofer, Antonino Furnari, Moritz Nottebaum, Antonio Finocchiaro, Marana Davide, Rosario Forte, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Christian Micheloni

Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2026

arXiv

Efficient Calisthenics Skills Classification through Foreground Instance Selection and Depth Estimation

Antonio Finocchiaro, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari

International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2025

arXiv

T-EVO: Tracking in Egovision for Online Visual Episodic Memory

Zaira Manigrasso, Antonio Finocchiaro, Davide Manara, Rosario Forte, Moritz Nottebaum, Matteo Dunnhofer, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari, Christian Micheloni

International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), 2025

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Calisthenics Skills Temporal Segmentation

Antonio Finocchiaro, Giovanni Maria Farinella, Antonino Furnari

VISAPP - International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications, 2024

arXiv

A Real-Time System for Egocentric Hand-Object Interaction Detection in Industrial Domains

Antonio Finocchiaro, Alessandro Sebastiano Catinello, Michele Mazzamuto, Rosario Leonardi, Antonino Furnari, Giovanni Maria Farinella

ICIAP Workshop on Human-Object Interaction: Integrating Egocentric and Exocentric Perspectives, 2025

arXiv

Projects

Coralike

An n8n automation that scrapes CoreRadio hourly, filters new metal releases through an AI model (Groq / Llama 3.3 70b), and sends personalized Telegram notifications based on your taste profile.

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Exploring and Evaluating Advanced Methods in Object Detection

Comparing Faster R-CNN, Mask R-CNN, and YOLO on the COCO-O dataset, enriching annotations via SAM.

Research Project

Human Body Pose Estimation

Missing joints reconstruction through interpolations comparison, utilizing OpenPose for Calisthenics isometric elements.

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Machine Learning Resource Requirements

Literature and load analysis across configurations, evaluating hyperparameters' influence on computational load.

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Calisthenics Competitions Database

Designed and built using XAMPP and phpMyAdmin, featuring custom queries, triggers, and an E-R diagram.

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FeelsCore

A system to update latest music releases and provide real-time emotional analysis of the songs.

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xCoreBot

A Telegram Bot built with SOLID principles, Unit Tests, and GitHub Actions to deliver recent metal music releases.

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