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Master in Computer Vision presentation 2019

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The 2019-2020 promotion of the Master in Computer Vision had its official kick off the last Friday 27th of September at the Computer Vision Center. In this welcome session, students had the opportunity to introduce themselves and get to know more about their course and all the institutions involved in the master’s organisation (UAB, UPC, … Read more

ACMCV 2019 – 6th Annual Catalan Meeting on Computer Vision

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The 6th Annual Catalan Meeting on Computer Vision (ACMCV2019) took place this year on the 17th of September at the Espai Bital, in Barcelona. It is organized every year by the Computer Vision Center and the coordinators of the Master in Computer Vision of several Catalan universities (UAB, UOC, UPC and UPF). The goals of these anual meetings are to strengthen the Catalan academic and industrial Computer Vision network, to highlight the most relevant research results and to allow students from the Master in Computer Vision to meet and interact with members of the Catalan CV community.

This edition, as always, hosted the master thesis presentations of the students of the Master in Computer Vision, a poster session and two keynote lectures carried out by Dr. Gerard Pons-Moll, from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics, with the title ‘Learning from Digital Humans from Images, Videos and Scans’, and Dr. Agata Lapedriza, from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya whose talk was focused on the evolution of her research in Computer Vision during the last ten years.

Presentation of the Computer Vision Catalan Alliance

Furthermore, we had the kick-off presentation of the Computer Vision Catalan Alliance. This terriotorial alliance aims to promote and foster collaboration within the Computer Vision ecosystem, joining the expertise of  researchers and entrepreneurs in this discipline who are currently based in Catalonia. Dr. Josep Lladós, CVC’s Director, gave a brief introduction and context of the Alliance. Directly after that, there was a panel discussion on the pilars of the Computer Vision Catalan Ecosystem with actors from both industry and Academia: Dr. Elisenda Bou (Vilynx), Mr. Oscar Sala (MWC Barcelona), Dr. Marco Bressan (Satellogic) and Dr. Xavier Giró (IDEAI-UPC). The debate was moderated by Xantal Llavina (TV3 journalist) and closed by the Director of Innovation and Digital Economy of the Catalan Government, Mr. Daniel Marco.

The program and more details about the event can all be found here: http://acmcv.cat/

 

Have a look at our ACMCV 2019 Moment in Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1192056946683187200?s=13

NeuroBiT team at ECVP 2019

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CVC’s NeuroBit team presented a talk on colour induction and three posters on computational modelling of V1, visual saliency stimulus generation and symmetry detection at the 42nd edition of the European Conference on Visual Perception (ECVP 2019), which took place in Leuven, Belgium, from August 25th – 29th, 2019.

Our researchers presented the following:

Modelling symmetry perception with banks of quadrature convolutional Gabor kernels by authors Alejandro Párraga, Xavier Otazu and Arash Akbarinia.

A multilayer computational model of the parvocellular pathway in V1 by authors Xim Cerdà-Company, Xavier Otazu and Olivier Panacchio.

Generating Synthetic Images for Visual Attention Modeling, by authors David Berga, Xosé R. Fdez-Vidal, Xavier Otazu, Xosé M. Pardo and Victor Leborán.

Is color assimilation only due to a luminance-chromatic interaction? by authors Xavier Otazu and Xim Cerdà-Company.

CVCR&D 2019

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On July 25th, we celebrated CVC’s 14th Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges (CVCR&D2019), the annual half-day workshop in which PhD students at CVC present their current research, as well as their  future lines of work. This year’s Organising Committee has been formed by Dr. Dena Bazazian and Dr. Jose Antonio Iglesias.

The workshop comprised four different oral sessions with 5 minute presentations dedicated to different Computer Vision areas: (1) Machine Vision, Appearance Analysis and Applications, (2) From Music Scores to Hand Written Texts: Robust Reading and Document Analysis, (3) Autonomous Driving, Action Recognition and Siamese Architectures and (4) Learning to Learn.

Click here to view the CVCR&D 2019 program

Furthermore, an informal poster session was held during both coffee breaks. This Conference, the center’s star internal event, is an excellent chance for PhD students to share their work with the CVC community, giving them the opportunity to receive valuable feedback.

 

Artur Mas, 129th President of the Catalan Government, visits CVC

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The Computer Vision Center received a most honouring visit from a Catalan ex president, with the opportunity to showcase its technology and prototypes to a set of institutional actors and legislators, key to the regional government of Catalonia.

Last Monday 8th of July, the Right Honourable Mr. Artur Mas, 129th President of the Catalan Government, visited the Computer Vision Center, along with a set of distinguished legislators from the regional government. The visit had the aim to know, first-hand, about our research and development activities and counted with the presence of The Honorable Mr. Jordi Puigneró, Conseller of Digital Policies and Public Administration of Catalonia, Mr. Daniel Marco, Director of Innovation and Digital Economy of the Catalan Government, Mrs. Joana Barbany, General Director of Digital Society in the Catalan Government, The Excellent and Magnificent Dr. Margarita Arboix, Rector of the UAB, and the Excellent Dr. Javier Lafuente, UAB’s Vice Rector for Innovation and Strategic Projects.  

During the visit, the President met with Dr. Josep Lladós, CVC Director, Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas and Dr. Fernando Vilariño, CVC Associate Directors and Dr. Juan José Villanueva, CVC founder and former director. It started with an official greeting and reception followed by an institutional presentation and technology demonstrations by part of several CVC researchers. 

NeuroBiT team at the Iberian Conference on Perception 2019

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CVC’s NeuroComputation and Biological Vision Team (NeuroBiT) gave three talks and presented one poster at the 8th Iberian Conference on Perception, which was held from the 20th to the 22nd of June in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

The conference is focused on Perception, emphasizing different aspects like: Motion Perception, Spatial Vision,Stereopsis, Colour Perception, Perception and Action, Attention and Cognition, Auditory Perception, Multisensory Integration and Reading/Speech Perception. Dr. Xavier Otazu was also the organizer of the conference’s symposium Computational Perception.

The papers presented in this Conference were the following:

Poster:

C. Alejandro Parraga, Xavier Otazu, Arash Akbarinia: Modelling symmetry perception with banks of quadrature convolutional Gabor kernels.

Talks:

D. Berga: Computational modeling of visual attention: What do we know from physiology and psychophysics?

D. Berga: Measuring bottom-up visual attention in eye tracking experimentation with synthetic images

Dr. X. Otazu: No chromatic-chromatic interaction in colour assimilation.

Computer Vision Catalan Alliance at CVPR2019

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A total of 11 papers from Catalan universities and research centers have been accepted at this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), one of the most important conferences in the field of Computer Vision. This importante presence of researchers from Catalan Centers highlights the high standard and quality of research of Catalonia in … Read more

5 CVPR’s from CVC this year

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As every year, the CVC has been present at the most important gathering in the Computer Vision Science Community, the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR). In this edition, CVC researchers have presented a total of 5 papers. The conference was held from the 16th to the 20th of June in Long Beach, California.

The articles presented were the following:

Doodle to Search: Practical Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval , by authors Sounak Dey, Pau Riba, Anjan Dutta, Josep Lladós and Yi-Zhe Song.

Learning Metrics from Teachers: Compact Networks for Image Embedding, by authors Lu Yu, Vacit Oguz Yazici, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yongmei Cheng and Arnau Ramisa

Semantically Tied Paired Cycle Consistency for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval, by authors Anjan Dutta and Zeynep Akata

What does it mean to learn in deep networks? And, how does on detect adversarial attacks?, by authors Ciprian A. Corneanu, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera and Aleix M. Martinez.

Good News, Everyone! Context driven entity-aware captioning for news images, by authors Ali Furkan Biten, Lluis Gomez, Marçal Rusiñol and Dimosthenis Karatzas

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Dr. Debora Gil invited speaker at the conference “L’Estadística de les Coses”

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CVC researcher, Dr. Debora Gil, took part in this year’s Spring Meeting “L’Estadística de les coses”, organized by Societat Catalana d’Estadística. In this edition, the conference focused on Data Science and the Internet of Things and was held on the 5th of June at ETSAB (Barcelona School of Architecture). Dr. Debora Gil gave the talk “Iot4 … Read more

CVC Open Day for students 2019

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Last Friday 31st of May, CVC celebrated its Open Day in a two turn visit. Students from the Autonomous University of Barcelona and professionals from several local companies visited our institution in order to know, first hand, the research that is being developed in the area of Computer Vision, as well as the different job and training opportunities offered. Moreover, they were able to explore our facilities and test some of our latest demonstrations.