Luigi Seminara

Luigi Seminara

PhD Student

University of Catania
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Investigating knwoledge grounding for procedural video understanding.

Publications

ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos
conference 2026 🏆 Highlight Top 14%
ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos

Luigi Seminara , Davide Moltisanti , Antonino Furnari

IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

BibTeX Citation

                              @inproceedings{Seminara2026ViterbiPlanNet,
  year = { 2026 },
  booktitle = { IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) },
  title = { ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos },
  author = { Luigi Seminara and Davide Moltisanti and Antonino Furnari },
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.04265},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.04265}
}

                            
Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos
journal 2026 🏆 1st Place Ego-Exo4D Procedure Understanding Challenge 2025
Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos

Luigi Seminara , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

BibTeX Citation

                              @article{seminara2026task,
  author={Seminara, Luigi and Farinella, Giovanni Maria and Furnari, Antonino},
  journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence}, 
  title={Task Graph Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Procedural Activity Understanding in Egocentric Videos}, 
  year={2026},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={1-18},
  doi={10.1109/TPAMI.2026.3689721}}

                            
RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video
preprint 2026
RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video

Luigi Seminara , Antonino Furnari , Lorenzo Torresani

arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19976

BibTeX Citation

                              @article{seminara2026recipe,
  title={RECIPE: Procedural Planning via Grounding in Instructional Video},
  author={Seminara, Luigi and Furnari, Antonino and Torresani, Lorenzo},
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.19976},
  year={2026}
}

                            
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
journal 2025
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

Kristen Grauman , Andrew Westbury , Lorenzo Torresani , Kris Kitani , Jitendra Malik , Triantafyllos Afouras , Kumar Ashutosh , Vijay Baiyya , Siddhant Bansal , Bikram Boote , Eugene Byrne , Zach Chavis , Joya Chen , Feng Cheng , Fu-Jen Chu , Sean Crane , Avijit Dasgupta , Jing Dong , Maria Escobar , Cristhian Forigua , Abrham Gebreselasie , Sanjay Haresh , Jing Huang , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Suyog Jain , Rawal Khirodkar , Devansh Kukreja , Kevin J. Liang , Jia-Wei Liu , Sagnik Majumder , Yongsen Mao , Miguel Martin , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Tushar Nagarajan , Francesco Ragusa , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Luigi Seminara , Arjun Somayazulu , Yale Song , Shan Su , Zihui Xue , Edward Zhang , Jinxu Zhang , Angela Castillo , Changan Chen , Xinzhu Fu , Ryosuke Furuta , Cristina González , Prince Gupta , Jiabo Hu , Yifei Huang , Yiming Huang , Weslie Khoo , Anush Kumar , Robert Kuo , Sach Lakhavani , Miao Liu , Mi Luo , Zhengyi Luo , Brighid Meredith , Austin Miller , Oluwatumininu Oguntola , Xiaqing Pan , Penny Peng , Shraman Pramanick , Merey Ramazanova , Fiona Ryan , Wei Shan , Kiran Somasundaram , Chenan Song , Audrey Southerland , Masatoshi Tateno , Huiyu Wang , Yuchen Wang , Takuma Yagi , Mingfei Yan , Xitong Yang , Zecheng Yu , Shengxin Cindy Zha , Chen Zhao , Ziwei Zhao , Zhifan Zhu , Jeff Zhuo , Pablo Arbeláez , Gedas Bertasius , David Crandall , Dima Damen , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari , Bernard Ghanem , Judy Hoffman , C. V. Jawahar , Richard Newcombe , Hyun Soo Park , James M. Rehg , Yoichi Sato , Manolis Savva , Jianbo Shi , Mike Zheng Shou , Michael Wray

International Journal of Computer Vision

BibTeX Citation

                              @article{Grauman2025,
  author    = {Kristen Grauman and Andrew Westbury and Lorenzo Torresani and Kris Kitani and Jitendra Malik and Triantafyllos Afouras and Kumar Ashutosh and Vijay Baiyya and Siddhant Bansal and Bikram Boote and Eugene Byrne and Zach Chavis and Joya Chen and Feng Cheng and Fu-Jen Chu and Sean Crane and Avijit Dasgupta and Jing Dong and Maria Escobar and Cristhian Forigua and Abrham Gebreselasie and Sanjay Haresh and Jing Huang and Md Mohaiminul Islam and Suyog Jain and Rawal Khirodkar and Devansh Kukreja and Kevin J. Liang and Jia-Wei Liu and Sagnik Majumder and Yongsen Mao and Miguel Martin and Effrosyni Mavroudi and Tushar Nagarajan and Francesco Ragusa and Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan and Luigi Seminara and Arjun Somayazulu and Yale Song and Shan Su and Zihui Xue and Edward Zhang and Jinxu Zhang and Angela Castillo and Changan Chen and Xinzhu Fu and Ryosuke Furuta and Cristina González and Prince Gupta and Jiabo Hu and Yifei Huang and Yiming Huang and Weslie Khoo and Anush Kumar and Robert Kuo and Sach Lakhavani and Miao Liu and Mi Luo and Zhengyi Luo and Brighid Meredith and Austin Miller and Oluwatumininu Oguntola and Xiaqing Pan and Penny Peng and Shraman Pramanick and Merey Ramazanova and Fiona Ryan and Wei Shan and Kiran Somasundaram and Chenan Song and Audrey Southerland and Masatoshi Tateno and Huiyu Wang and Yuchen Wang and Takuma Yagi and Mingfei Yan and Xitong Yang and Zecheng Yu and Shengxin Cindy Zha and Chen Zhao and Ziwei Zhao and Zhifan Zhu and Jeff Zhuo and Pablo Arbeláez and Gedas Bertasius and David Crandall and Dima Damen and Jakob Engel and Giovanni Maria Farinella and Antonino Furnari and Bernard Ghanem and Judy Hoffman and C. V. Jawahar and Richard Newcombe and Hyun Soo Park and James M. Rehg and Yoichi Sato and Manolis Savva and Jianbo Shi and Mike Zheng Shou and Michael Wray},
  title     = {Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives},
  journal   = {International Journal of Computer Vision},
  year      = {2025},
  month     = nov,
  day       = {24},
  volume    = {},
  number    = {},
  pages     = {},
  doi       = {10.1007/s11263-025-02557-6},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-025-02557-6},
  issn      = {1573-1405},
  pdf = {https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s11263-025-02557-6.pdf}
}

                            
Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural Activity Representation and Online Mistake Detection from Egocentric Videos
conference 2024 🏆 EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award 2024/2025 🏆 Highlight Top 2% 🏆 1st Place Ego-Exo4D Procedure Understanding Challenge 2025
Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural Activity Representation and Online Mistake Detection from Egocentric Videos

Luigi Seminara , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems

BibTeX Citation

                              @inproceedings{seminara2024differentiable,
 author = {Seminara, Luigi and Farinella, Giovanni Maria and Furnari, Antonino},
 booktitle = {Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems},
 title = {Differentiable Task Graph Learning: Procedural Activity Representation and Online Mistake Detection from Egocentric Videos},
 pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2406.01486.pdf},
 url = {https://github.com/fpv-iplab/Differentiable-Task-Graph-Learning},
 year = {2024}
}

                            
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives
conference 2024 🏆 EgoVis Distinguished Paper Award 2024/2025 🏆 Oral Top 1%
Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives

Kristen Grauman , Andrew Westbury , Lorenzo Torresani , Kris Kitani , Jitendra Malik , Triantafyllos Afouras , Kumar Ashutosh , Vijay Baiyya , Siddhant Bansal , Bikram Boote , Eugene Byrne , Zach Chavis , Joya Chen , Feng Cheng , Fu-Jen Chu , Sean Crane , Avijit Dasgupta , Jing Dong , Maria Escobar , Cristhian Forigua , Abrham Gebreselasie , Sanjay Haresh , Jing Huang , Md Mohaiminul Islam , Suyog Jain , Rawal Khirodkar , Devansh Kukreja , Kevin J Liang , Jia-Wei Liu , Sagnik Majumder , Yongsen Mao , Miguel Martin , Effrosyni Mavroudi , Tushar Nagarajan , Francesco Ragusa , Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan , Luigi Seminara , Arjun Somayazulu , Yale Song , Shan Su , Zihui Xue , Edward Zhang , Jinxu Zhang , Angela Castillo , Changan Chen , Xinzhu Fu , Ryosuke Furuta , Cristina Gonzalez , Prince Gupta , Jiabo Hu , Yifei Huang , Yiming Huang , Weslie Khoo , Anush Kumar , Robert Kuo , Sach Lakhavani , Miao Liu , Mi Luo , Zhengyi Luo , Brighid Meredith , Austin Miller , Oluwatumininu Oguntola , Xiaqing Pan , Penny Peng , Shraman Pramanick , Merey Ramazanova , Fiona Ryan , Wei Shan , Kiran Somasundaram , Chenan Song , Audrey Southerland , Masatoshi Tateno , Huiyu Wang , Yuchen Wang , Takuma Yagi , Mingfei Yan , Xitong Yang , Zecheng Yu , Shengxin Cindy Zha , Chen Zhao , Ziwei Zhao , Zhifan Zhu , Jeff Zhuo , Pablo Arbelaez , Gedas Bertasius , David Crandall , Dima Damen , Jakob Engel , Giovanni Maria Farinella , Antonino Furnari , Bernard Ghanem , Judy Hoffman , C. V. Jawahar , Richard Newcombe , Hyun Soo Park , James M. Rehg , Yoichi Sato , Manolis Savva , Jianbo Shi , Mike Zheng Shou , Michael Wray

Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

BibTeX Citation

                              @inproceedings{grauman2023egoexo4d,
  primaryclass = { cs.CV },
  archiveprefix = { arXiv },
  eprint = { 2311.18259 },
  pdf = {https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.18259.pdf},
  url = {https://ego-exo4d-data.org/},
  year = {2024},
  booktitle = {  Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)  },
  title = { Ego-Exo4D: Understanding Skilled Human Activity from First- and Third-Person Perspectives },
  author = { Kristen Grauman and Andrew Westbury and Lorenzo Torresani and Kris Kitani and Jitendra Malik and Triantafyllos Afouras and Kumar Ashutosh and Vijay Baiyya and Siddhant Bansal and Bikram Boote and Eugene Byrne and Zach Chavis and Joya Chen and Feng Cheng and Fu-Jen Chu and Sean Crane and Avijit Dasgupta and Jing Dong and Maria Escobar and Cristhian Forigua and Abrham Gebreselasie and Sanjay Haresh and Jing Huang and Md Mohaiminul Islam and Suyog Jain and Rawal Khirodkar and Devansh Kukreja and Kevin J Liang and Jia-Wei Liu and Sagnik Majumder and Yongsen Mao and Miguel Martin and Effrosyni Mavroudi and Tushar Nagarajan and Francesco Ragusa and Santhosh Kumar Ramakrishnan and Luigi Seminara and Arjun Somayazulu and Yale Song and Shan Su and Zihui Xue and Edward Zhang and Jinxu Zhang and Angela Castillo and Changan Chen and Xinzhu Fu and Ryosuke Furuta and Cristina Gonzalez and Prince Gupta and Jiabo Hu and Yifei Huang and Yiming Huang and Weslie Khoo and Anush Kumar and Robert Kuo and Sach Lakhavani and Miao Liu and Mi Luo and Zhengyi Luo and Brighid Meredith and Austin Miller and Oluwatumininu Oguntola and Xiaqing Pan and Penny Peng and Shraman Pramanick and Merey Ramazanova and Fiona Ryan and Wei Shan and Kiran Somasundaram and Chenan Song and Audrey Southerland and Masatoshi Tateno and Huiyu Wang and Yuchen Wang and Takuma Yagi and Mingfei Yan and Xitong Yang and Zecheng Yu and Shengxin Cindy Zha and Chen Zhao and Ziwei Zhao and Zhifan Zhu and Jeff Zhuo and Pablo Arbelaez and Gedas Bertasius and David Crandall and Dima Damen and Jakob Engel and Giovanni Maria Farinella and Antonino Furnari and Bernard Ghanem and Judy Hoffman and C. V. Jawahar and Richard Newcombe and Hyun Soo Park and James M. Rehg and Yoichi Sato and Manolis Savva and Jianbo Shi and Mike Zheng Shou and Michael Wray },
}

                            

Talks & Presentations

3-7 June 2026 Oral & Poster Presentations

ViterbiPlanNet: Injecting Procedural Knowledge via Differentiable Viterbi for Planning in Instructional Videos

CVPR 2026 Workshops & Main Conference