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

CVC Open Day 2025

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 50 attendees! We appreciate the strong interest shown by all participants! The visit began with an … Read more

The CVC participated in the MEMEnginy 2025 fair of the UAB School of Engineering.

The Computer Vision Center (CVC) participated on April 24 in MEMEnginy 25, the technology and engineering fair organised by the School of Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), an annual event that connects students, companies, and research centers. MEMEnginy is a university technology fair created to connect young talent with companies and institutions … Read more

European Performing Science Night 2024

On September 27-28th, the European Performing Science Night (EPSN) took place as part of the European Researchers’ Night. The event blended performing arts with cutting-edge science and technology to promote scientific outreach and emphasize the impact of research on everyday life. Its goal was to bridge the gap between science and society by bringing researchers … Read more

CVC & Épica La Fura dels Baus trained a model for “Crema’l tu!” Badalona contest

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CVC collaborated with Épica Foundation and Col·legi Badalonès designing a proposal for the Crema’l tu! contest. A contest to choose the design of the Demon that will be burned in Badalona on the Night of St. Anastasis on May 10. The submitted design resulted from training an AI with more than 500 demon pictures draw by students. Different levels workshops for … Read more

Open Day 2024 at Computer Vision Center

Once a year, the Computer Vision Centre organises an Open Day. On this day, everyone interested in computer vision and artificial intelligence is encouraged to visit our facilities to find out more about what we do and how we contribute to society. This year, the event took place on Wednesday, May 8, and there were two-time slots to choose from. A morning and an afternoon shift of 90 minutes each designed for the attendees to get acquainted with the work currently undertaken by CVC researchers.

Our call resounded upon students and gathered about 60 of them deeply interested in getting to know more about computer vision, the fields in which it is applied, and the main projects and lines of research directly by the hands of our researchers and technical staff. Attendees to the Open Day could also discover the training and career opportunities we offer at the centre, which are, among others: TFGs, internships, Master’s and PhD programmes.

The event opened with an overview of the centre. Laura Martín, of Marketing and Communications, introduced the mission and the objectives that the CVC pursues, so that, those unfamiliar with the centre, can recognise us as a leading non-profit organization dedicated to research and development within the field of computer vision. Afterwards, the attendees to the Open Day visited the facilities while CVC’s research and technical staff explained their research lines and projects illustrating their work with interactive experiences such as generative art from facial expressions, age prediction or sketch to image demonstrations. 

It was time in the Open Day for our researchers, Dr Debora Gil and Dr Carles Sánchez, working in Interactive and Augmented Modelling, explained how AI contributes to medicine. They talked about virtual bronchoscopy and showed participants a software that allows the planning of biopsy interventions to reach pulmonary lesions.

They were followed by Dr Javier Vazquez and Gemma Roselló Fontanals, working in Colour in Context and Neuro Computation and Biological Vision, showed CVC’s colour laboratory and explained some of the experiments and tests that can be performed in this lab.

And, Coen Antens head of the Innovation Unit, explained a demo that CVC students did at a hackathon for the last edition of MWC. This demonstration uses advanced computer vision and AI generative models to go from lip reading to image generation. 

Furthermore, several PhD students and interns contributed to the Open Day explaining their research projects and giving tips to the students, which are likely to become future researchers. They were: 

👉 Alex Gómez-Villa
👉 Guim Casadellà
👉 Adrià Molina
👉 Héctor Laria
👉 Pau Torras
👉 Artemis Llabres

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BADAMON.IA: CVC & Épica La Fura dels Baus trained a model for “Crema’l tu!” Badalona contest

Overview BADAMONIA is an exciting project that explores how artificial intelligence (AI) and creativity can work together. This project is a team effort by the Computer Vision Center (CVC), the Épica Foundation La Fura dels Baus, and Col·legi Badalonès. As part of the 25th anniversary of Badalona’s Crema’l Tu contest, the project aims to design … Read more

ExperimentaAI project awarded the AI Dissemination Prize by the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence

The Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) has awarded the “AI dissemination award” to the ExperimentAI project, a scientific dissemination initiative, coordinated by the CVC and co-funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) – Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities. This project aims to bring artificial intelligence and computer vision closer to … Read more