Dr Josep Lladós, CVC director, Elected New President of the Catalan Association of Research Entities (ACER) 

On Monday, October 6, the Extraordinary General Assembly of the Catalan Association of Research Entities (ACER) elected Dr. Josep Lladós as the institution’s president for the next four years. Dr. Lladós, the current director of the Computer Vision Center (CVC) and a professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), succeeds Josep Samitier, director of … Read more

Global study uncovers the drivers of animal anti-predator colour strategies

Published in Science and featured on the cover of its latest issue, the research, conducted with the involvement of the CVC and UAB, a global study highlights how ecological context and multiple factors determine whether camouflage or warning colouration provide the greatest evolutionary advantage. Natural selection has led some animals to evolve two alternative antipredator colour strategies: … Read more

ACMCV 2025

On September 16th, the 12th edition of the Annual Catalan Meeting on Computer Vision (ACMCV2025) was held at CVC, bringing together around 150 participants, including students, lecturers, researchers, and industry representatives. The day began with the Master’s thesis defenses: 21 students from the Master in Computer Vision (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, … Read more

CVCRD 2025 – 20th CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges

Last Friday, July 25th, the 20th edition of CVCRD (CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges) was held at the Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC). This annual event is dedicated to scientific exchange among researchers at the centre. This edition was organised by Dr. Alexandra Gómez-Villa and Dr. Danna Xue, with support from … Read more

The CVC celebrates 30 years advancing computer vision from Catalonia.

The Computer Vision Center (CVC) celebrated three decades of research and technology transfer with an institutional event full of emotions, reunions, and recognition for all the people who have contributed to making the center an international reference in computer vision and artificial intelligence. The event took place on Thursday, July 17th, at Casa Convalescència of … Read more

La Càtedra UAB-Cruïlla i el CVC porten la visió per computador al Festival Cruïlla 2025

La col·laboració entre la Càtedra ENIA UAB-Cruïlla de recerca en Intel·ligència Artificial en l’àmbit de la Música i les Arts i el Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC) convertirà el Festival Cruïlla en un entorn d’innovació tecnològica centrada en la ciutadania. La proposta es concretarà amb la instal·lació de dos demostradors en un estand obert … Read more

European Research Network of Excellence “ELSA” Extended until August 2026

The European Commission has announced the extension of ELSA – European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI for an additional twelve months. ELSA is one of only nine “Networks of Excellence” funded by the European Union to support research in key technologies, including Machine Learning, Cybersecurity, Privacy, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence (AI). ELSA – European … Read more

CVC takes part in ELLIOT, a Horizon Europe flagship project for robust general-purpose AI

CVC will be a partner in ELLlOT, a Horizon Europe-funded project aiming to develop next-generation Multimodal Generalist Foundation Models, AI systems capable of learning general knowledge and patterns from massive amounts of data of various types — from videos, images, and text to sensor signals, industrial time series, and satellite feeds —  and efficiently transferring … Read more

CVC at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka

The Computer Vision Center took part in Catalonia Week at the Osaka 2025 World Expo. This initiative, framed within the Catalunya–Japan Year, served as a window to the world to showcase the very best of Catalonia in areas such as tourism, gastronomy, culture, and, especially, innovation. The Osaka 2025 Expo, held under the global theme … Read more