Prof. Simone Palazzo - PeRCeiVe.AI Lab - Team Members
About Me
I received my academic education at the University of Catania, where I achieved my PhD degree in 2017. Since 2010, I collaborated with the PeRCeiVe Lab, where I started my research activity in the areas of computer vision and machine learning. Since 2020, I am an assistant professor at the University of Catania, where I carry out my teaching and scientific activity at the Department of Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering. My current research interests lie in the areas of biosignal analysis for medicine, continual learning in videos and reinforcement learning for robot navigation.
Academic staff
Papers
Projects

2026 - AI-based predictive biomarkers for chronic neurological diseases: the rAIdD prospective, multicenter, observational study protocol

Simone Varrasi, Alfredo Pulvirenti, Vincenzo Catania, Maurizio Palesi, Concetto Spampinato, Davide Patti, Orazio Tomarchio, Giovanni Micale, Alessia Simone, Lisa Passarello, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Patanè, Salvatore Ravidà, Clara Grazia Chisari, Giuseppe Zappalà, Emanuele D'Amico, Carlo Avolio, Federica Felicetti, Claudio Gasperini, Simone Rossi, Paolo Manganotti, Pierpaolo Busan, Carmelo Rodolico, Rossella Laudani, Roberto Marino, Massimo Villari, Francesco Patti, rAIdD Study Group Agodi Antonella Paola Barchitta Martina Giordano Daniela Palazzo Simone Zanghì Aurora Tortorella Carla Haggiag Shalom Ruggieri Serena Dilena Davide Ajčević Miloš Gentile Luca Casile Antonino

2026 - Sequential Geodesic Adaptation for Auditory Attention Detection

Marco Finocchiaro, Salvatore Calcagno, Simone Palazzo, Concetto Spampinato, Federica Proietto Salanitri

2026 - Learning long-and short-term dynamics for human attention prediction using large video models

M. Moradi, M. Moradi, A. Borji, F. Proietto Salanitri, G. Bellitto, F. Rundo, S. Palazzo, C. Spampinato

2026 - Dream2Learn: Structured Generative Dreaming for Continual Learning

S. Calcagno, M. Pennisi, F. Proietto Salanitri, A. Sorrenti, S. Palazzo, C. Spampinato, G. Bellitto

2025 - Text-aligned radar-based sign language recognition for healthcare communication

Raffaele Mineo, Amelia Sorrenti, Gaia Caligiore, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto, Senya Polikovsky, Sabina Fontana, Egidio Ragonese, Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo

2025 - Non-invasive physiological assessment of intermediate coronary stenoses from plain angiography through artificial intelligence: the STARFLOW system

Ovidio De Filippo, Raffaele Mineo, Michele Millesimo, Wojciech Wańha, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Antonio Greco, Antonio Maria Leone, Luca Franchin, Simone Palazzo, Giorgio Quadri, Domenico Tuttolomondo, Enrico Fabris, Gianluca Campo, Alessandra Truffa Giachet, Francesco Bruno, Mario Iannaccone, Giacomo Boccuzzi, Nicola Gaibazzi, Ferdinando Varbella, Wojciech Wojakowski, Michele Maremmani, Guglielmo Gallone, Gianfranco Sinagra, Davide Capodanno, Giuseppe Musumeci, Paolo Boretto, Pawel Pawlus, Andrea Saglietto, Francesco Burzotta, Marco Aldinucci, Daniela Giordano, Gaetano Maria De Ferrari, Concetto Spampinato, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo

2025 - Radar-based imaging for sign language recognition in medical communication

Raffaele Mineo, Gaia Caligiore, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Isaak Kavasidis, Senya Polikovsky, Sabina Fontana, Egidio Ragonese, Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo

2025 - Learning Joint Text and Visual Tokens in CLIP for Medical Image Analysis

Raffaele Mineo, Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Rutger Hendrix, Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo

2025 - Eeg-music emotion recognition: Challenge overview

S Calcagno, S Carnemolla, I Kavasidis, S Palazzo, D Giordano, ...

2025 - Conditional Visuo-Textual Prompt Learning for Medical Image Analysis

Raffaele Mineo, Giovanni Bellitto, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Rutger Hendrix, Ulas Bagci, Daniela Giordano, Concetto Spampinato, Simone Palazzo

2025 - Automated MoCA Score Estimation Using Eye-Gaze Data and Vision Transformers

Raffaele Mineo, Isaak Kavasidis, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Lisa Passarello, Giovanni Piccininno, Vincenzo Masciale, Alessandro Anselmo, Cristiano Convertino, Domenico Rotondi, Nicola Laurieri, Simone Palazzo, Concetto Spampinato, Manuela Pennisi, Daniela Giordano

2024 - FedER: Federated Learning through Experience Replay and privacy-preserving data synthesis

Matteo Pennisi, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto, Bruno Casella, Marco Aldinucci, Simone Palazzo, Concetto Spampinato

2024 - Coronary Artery Stenosis Assessment in X-Ray Angiography Through Spatio-Temporal Attention for Non-Invasive FFR and iFR Estimation.

Raffaele Mineo, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Giovanni Bellitto, Ovidio De Filippo, Fabrizio D'Ascenzo, Simone Palazzo, Concetto Spampinato

2024 - A convolutional-transformer model for ffr and ifr assessment from coronary angiography

Raffaele Mineo, F Proietto Salanitri, G Bellitto, I Kavasidis, O De Filippo, M Millesimo, GM De Ferrari, M Aldinucci, D Giordano, S Palazzo, F D’Ascenzo, C Spampinato

2024 - Magnifying facial micro-movements for cognitive evaluation

Raffaele Mineo, Federica Proietto Salanitri, Lisa Passarello, Alberto Sardella, Laura Messina, Manuela Pennisi, Daniela Giordano, Simone Palazzo, Concetto Spampinato