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WORKSHOP | Multimodal Foundation Models: from Research to Innovation
On 1 July 2026, the European AI research community will gather in Barcelona for the Workshop on “Multimodal Foundation Models: From Research to Innovation”. This half-day workshop will explore the latest advances in multimodal artificial intelligence, with a focus on how cutting-edge research can be translated into real-world innovation. Bringing together leading researchers, industry representatives … Read more
What makes an image beautiful? A new dataset enables the study of visual aesthetics with reduced interpretative interference
Why do some images appear beautiful while others do not? Research in empirical aesthetics has long sought to answer this question by analysing large image datasets and comparing their visual properties with people’s ratings. However, most existing datasets combine two levels of information that are difficult to disentangle: low-level visual features and high-level semantic content. … Read more
Summer School on Document Analysis
6th IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School Next-Gen Document Understanding: RAG, VLMs, and Structured Knowledge Extraction Registration 850 € Includes accommodation, all meals, coffee breaks, transport, and materials Overview The rapid development of Document Intelligence (DI) has transformed traditional Document Analysis and Recognition (DAR) into a sophisticated, AI-driven field. This summer school provides cutting-edge tools for information … Read more
Pedestrian Intention Prediction for Autonomous Driving
Naveed Riad will defended his PhD thesis on May 26, 2026. What is the thesis about? Artificial Intelligence has become a cornerstone of intelligent transportation systems (ITS), where anticipating human behavior has a direct impact on road safety. Pedestrian intention prediction (PIP), which determines whether a pedestrian will cross in front of an ego-vehicle, is … Read more
HPC@CVC Lessons on Scaling Up: From 1 GPU to 100s | CVC Workshop
🚀 HPC@CVC Workshop Lessons on Scaling Up: From 1 GPU to 100s 📅 Date: May 22, 2026🕘 Time: 09:30 – 14:00📍 Location: CVC Conference Room 👨🏫 Speakers 🧠 Abstract From one GPU under your desk to hundreds across Europe’s supercomputers, scaling modern AI is a journey through performance, memory, communication, and infrastructure. This session breaks … Read more
Internal Pre-CVPR Seminar 2026
📅 Date: May 20🕦 Time: 11:30📍 Location: CVC Conference Room (Centre de Visió per Computador) Abstract: As CVPR 2026 approaches and CVC has multiple papers and workshops accepted this year, we are organizing an Internal Pre-CVPR Seminar to showcase selected contributions from our researchers. During the session, CVC researchers will present a set of papers … Read more
Talent Day 2026 at CVC
On Thursday 14th, we celebrated the CVC Talent Day & CVCRD Junior, a special event where students from the CVC internship programs had the opportunity to present the outcomes of their research projects. These interns shared their experiences and insights gained during their time with the CVC community in a dynamic half-day workshop. The event … Read more
Catalonia launches its new Data and Information Management Cluster
CVC is one of the 12 founding members of this new benchmark ecosystem for innovation and information management The Catalonia Data & Information Management Cluster (CADIM) was officially launched yesterday at an event held at La Pedrera Auditorium in Barcelona. This new initiative aims to become a leading force in the development and innovation of … Read more
CVC Open Day 2026
The Computer Vision Center hosted its annual Open Day, welcoming students and citizens interested discovering how research in computer vision is shaping the future. With two scheduled sessions, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, with around 55 attendees! We appreciate the strong interest shown by all participants! The visit began with an … Read more
