CVCRD 2026 – 21st CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges On July 16, Computer Vision Center (CVC) hosted the 21st edition of CVCRD (CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges), the annual event where CVC PhD students present their research, discuss ongoing challenges, and exchange ideas with the centre’s research community. This … Read more
From 8 to 11 July, the Cruïlla Festival will become a unique space for exploring the role that artificial intelligence can play in music and the arts within an open science and innovation framework. Researchers, public administrations, and companies from the innovation ecosystem are joining forces in this initiative to test emerging technologies in a … Read more
Multimodal Foundation Models represent one of the most advanced research frontiers in artificial intelligence. These technologies can learn from vast amounts of heterogeneous data —including text, images, audio, video, and sensor data— enabling them to integrate and relate information from multiple sources to create systems that are more flexible, robust and closer to how humans … Read more
From May 25th to 29th, the 6th IAPR TC10/TC11 Summer School. Next-Gen Document Understanding: RAG, VLMs, and Structured Knowledge Extraction) took place in Vall de Núria, Catalonia, bringing together PhD students, researchers, and professionals working in document analysis. Hosted by the Computer Vision Center, the event followed a Challenge-Based Learning framework, where participants progressed from foundational lectures to hands-on practice sessions … Read more
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
On May 18 and 20, researchers from the MSIAU (Multispectral Image Analysis and Understanding) group at the Computer Vision Center (CVC) took part in the international Pint of Science festival in Sabadell. This global initiative aims to make cutting-edge research more accessible by creating opportunities for direct interaction between scientists and the public in informal, … Read more
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
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
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
Registration is now open for the eighth edition of the AI4ALL programme, which aims to foster the creation of entrepreneurial projects based on artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. It is run by the UAB Research Park, the Centre for Computer Vision, the UAB School of Engineering, and the CSIC Institute for Research in Artificial Intelligence. Artificial … Read more