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Mitek systems acquires ICAR, a CVC spin off focused in digital identity verification

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Mitek, a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification software solutions, today announced that it has acquired ICAR, a leading provider of consumer identity verification solutions in Spain, for an aggregate purchase price of up to €12.75 million (~US$15.0 million) paid in a combination of cash and shares of Mitek common stock. The acquisition … Read more

The first computer algorithm comes by the name of Ada

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Today is Ada Lovelace’s Day, a special celebration to visualize Ada’s contributions and to recognize women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Ada Lovelace made her contribution  in a moment when mathematics was considered only a man’s subject, but despite that, she created the first algorithm to be carried out by a machine. To commemorate … Read more

Announcement of the awards of GIANA Sub-challenge on Gastrointestinal Image Analysis

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GIANA 2017 Sub-challenge on Gastrointestinal Image Analysis took part on September 10th during MICCAI 2017 conference, held in Quebec, Canada. It was part of the MICCAI 2017 EndoVis challenge, which comprised 4 different categories this year: Gastrointestinal Image ANAlysis, Surgical Workflow Analysis in the SensorOR, Robotic Instrument Segmentation and Kidney Boundary Detection. GIANA 2017 Sub-challenge … Read more

It’s all in the contrast, colour constancy for computers

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In their latest’s paper at IEEE’s Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Dr. Arash Akbarinia and Dr. Alejandro Párraga explain their ASM model (adaptive surround modulation), where they work on biologically inspired colour constancy and its application in computers. Colour is essential in our perception of the world, as it allows us to segment … Read more

CVC ADAS team participating at the Video Analytics towards Vision Zero partnership

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The Vision Zero partnership is a crowdsourcing platform dedicated to help the video analytics system learn to detect road conflicts. The ADAS team at CVC, along with researchers from the UAB’s Engineering school, have joined the platform in order to generate realistic synthetic images with pixel-level annotation to help generalize and improve the training processes … Read more

Autonomous driving at San Francisco’s steepest streets

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Researchers from the Computer Vision Center, Daimler and the Autonomous University of Barcelona have found a way to teach autonomous cars to successfully drive in steep city streets by reducing significant computational cost with a novel stixel depth model. When faced with a steep street, an autonomous car will identify a wall or a vertical … Read more

myStone: a real time kidney stone classification

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Quickness, accuracy and a lower price are the main advantages of myStone, a device made to classify kidney stones and support urologists.  It is a fact that around 12% population suffer from kidney stones at some point in their lives and it is known that this rate is increasing globally. These stones are formed by … Read more

Best industry paper award at BMVC2017 for the ADAS team at CVC

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The paper ‘Slanted stixels: Representing San Francisco’s Steepest Streets‘ has been awarded the best industry paper award at the British Machine Vision Conference 2017 in London. This paper is the result of the work produced by CVC, UAB and Daimler, more specifically authors Daniel Hernández, Lukas Schneider, Dr. Antonio Espinosa, Dr. David Vázquez, Dr. Uwe Franke, Dr. Marc Pollefeys and Dr. Juan C. Moure. The paper was presented as an oral session on the 5th of September at BMVC 2017 and it presents a novel compact scence representation based on stixels that infers geometric and semantic information. Congratulations to all the authors!

 

Dr. Alicia Fornes, winner of the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award 2017

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CVC Researcher Dr. Alicia Fornes has been awarded the IAPR/ICDAR young investigator award for her “outstanding contributions in the recognition of handwriting, text and graphics, with high impact to the field of Digital Humanities, and her service to the IAPR Technical Committee on Graphics Recognition” the IAPR official communication states. IAPR/ICDAR awards look to prize … Read more

Preserving ancient music scores with AI

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CVC researchers and the UAB Musicology Department are collaborating in different research lines in order to preserve, catalogue, and disseminate historic musical documents and to evolve towards the digital processing of musical information. When talking about the digitalization of printed texts, we make use of a process called OCR (Optical Character Recognition), a technique that … Read more