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6 CVC papers accepted at this year’s ECCV

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6 CVc papers have been accepted at this year’s European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) that will take place in Munich from the 8 to the 14th of September. Most of the papers aren’t accessible yet, and we will be publishing them as they become public. For now, we only have two available paper and … Read more

Toyota Research Institute Supports Development of Open-Source Automated Driving Simulator

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Toyota Research Institute (TRI) is furthering its support of open source platforms by donating $100,000 to the Computer Vision Center (CVC) to accelerate its development of an open source simulator for automated driving, Car Learning to Act (CARLA). “Technological advances and growth are made possible through collaboration and community support,” said Vangelis Kokkevis, director of Driving Simulation … Read more

CARLA simulator and Crowd Counting at Maker Faire BCN 2018

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CVC was present at this year’s Maker Faire Barcelona 2018 last weekend, 16th and 17th of June at the Italian Pavillion of the Fira de Barcelona.

More than 10.000 people visited this year’s Maker Faire in Barcelona, an expo dedicated to Open Source projects and makers that gathers a rapidly increasing community within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. CVC, along with other research centers, had a space in which it showcased its simulator for autonomous driving, CARLA, and its crowd counting technology, both technologies winning three Maker of Merit awards. PhD student Edgar Riba gave a talk on OpenCV, computer vision and deep learning, and how to embed computer vision in applications for all the maker community.

Have a look at our Maker Faire Twitter Moment

Our Communication manager was interviewed by La Hora Maker. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03fZcHjwg8U&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

CVC presented two papers and a keynote speech at the 2018 Intelligent Vehicle Symposium

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CVC members Dr. Antonio M. López and Zhijie Fang presented various papers at this year’s Intelligent vehicle systems 2018 Conference, that took place in Chang Shu from the 26th to 29th of June. Furthermore, Dr. Antonio M. López gave a keynote lecture at the Simulation and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles session titled ‘Videogame technology meets self-driving’. Papers: Monocular … Read more

5 CVC papers accepted at ICPR

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This year, CVC’s presence at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) will count with a total of 5 accepted papers featuring 14 CVC researchers: Gemma Rotger, Xialei Liu, Lu Yu, Marc Masana, Pau Riba, Sounak Dey, Suman Gosh, Dr. Anjan Dutta, Dr. Joost Van de Weijer, Dr. Luis Herranz, Dr. Antonio López, Dr. Josep … Read more

INNOBRAIN: optimizing the cognitive rehabilitation of neurological and psychiatric patients

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The Catalan consortia INNOBRAIN explores computer-human interaction and artificial intelligence algorithms to predict intervention results. The initiative is part of NEXTHEALTH, the RIS3CAT community participated by CVC which is aimed to innovation in Health coordinated by Biocat and supported by ACCIÓ. A new technological platform will facilitate the stimulation and congitive rehabilitation of people with … Read more

CVC Open Day 2018

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CVC celebrated its Open Day last Friday 25th of May in a three turn visit. More than 60 students from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona visited our center and had the opportunity to know, first hand, the research we are developing in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Building communities and innovation networks with robotics at schools – Steam Conference 2018

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Dr. Fernando Vilariño and Alexandra Canet presented a workshop at last week’s Steam Conference in Cosmocaixa, Barcelona. They presented the Library Living Lab to High School science and technology teachers and dedicated a session on how to build a community with local actors and thus actively work on societal challenges within their towns or neighbourhoods, all of this with the use of robotics. The public was highly commited with their local communities and eager to explore different ways to effectively engage with stakeholders and thus trigger change at a local scale.

CVC Researchers at this year’s DAS 2018 Conference in Vienna

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CVC presented a total of three papers and one demo at this year’s Document Analysis Conference that took take place in Vienna the 24th and 25th of April.  Find the papers here:

D. Karatzas, L. Gómez, M. Rossinyol, (2018): The Robust Reading Competition Annotation and Evaluation Platform

M. Carbonell, M. Villegas, A. Fornes, J. LLados (2018): Joint Recognition of Handwritten Text and Named Entities with a Neural End-to-end Model

L. Gómez, M. Rossinyol, D. Karatzas (2018): Cutting Sayre’s Knot: Reading Scene Text without Segmentation. Application to Utility Meters

VIDEOS

Our Associate Director, Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas, explains his paper in this video:

Our PhD student Manuel Carbonell explains his paper in this video:

Dr. Lluis Gómez explains his paper in the following clip:

CVC, granted with a La Caixa – Palau Macaya grant for Public engagement of AI and Computer Vision

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The Computer Vision Center has been granted a project that will take the latest AI research to the public, in a series of work groups, seminars and debates that go under the title ‘Artificial Intelligence, ethics and public participation’. The project, which intends to empower citizens by giving them accurate and specific information of the … Read more