About Me

Francesco Tonini is an ELLIS Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Trento, Italy, working on vision-language models for human behavior understanding. His research focuses on Gaze Following and Human-Object Interaction, with publications featured in top-tier venues such as ICCV and ACM Multimedia. During his Ph.D. Francesco contributed to the SPRING European project, where he was involved in the development and integration of software modules for socially assistive robots for gerontological healthcare.

Papers

AL-GTD: Deep Active Learning for Gaze Target Detection
F. Tonini, N. Dall’Asen, L. Vaquero, C. Beyan, E. Ricci
ACM International Conference on Multimedia (ACMMM), 2024

Object-aware Gaze Target Detection
F. Tonini, N. Dall’Asen, C. Beyan, E. Ricci
International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2023

Multimodal Across Domains Gaze Target Detection
F. Tonini, C. Beyan, E. Ricci
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI), 2022

Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
X. Alameda-Pineda, A. Addlesee, D. Hernandez Garcia, C. Reinke, S. Arias, F. Arrigoni, A. Auternaud, L. Blavette, C. Beyan, L. Gomez Cámara, O. Cohen, A. Conti, C. Dondrup, Y. Ellinson, F. Ferro, S. Gannot, F. Gras, N. Gunson, R. Horaud, M. D’Incà, I. Kimouche, S. Lemaignan, O. Lemon, C. Liotard, R. Madhavan, L. Marchionni, M. Moradi, T. Pajdla, M. Pino, M. Polic, M. Py, A. Rado, B. Ren, E. Ricci, A. Rigaud, P. Rota, M. Romeo, N. Sebe, W. Sieinska, P. Tandeitnik, F. Tonini, N. Turro, T. Wintz, Y. Yu
arXiv preprint, 2024

Education

ELLIS Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence, University of Trento
Nov. 2022 - Current

M.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Trento
Sep. 2019 - Mar. 2022

B.Sc. in Computer Science, University of Verona
Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2019

Experience

Teaching Assistant, Deep Learning course, University of Trento
Feb. 2024 - Sep. 2024

Junior Researcher, SPRING Project (EU Horizon 2020), University of Trento
Sep. 2022 - Jun. 2024

Junior Researcher, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Mar. 2022 - Sep. 2022

Projects

SPRING - Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare
EU H2020-ICT Research and Innovation Action