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

Epica

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

Read more

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

ExperimentAI finalitza amb 170 participants i 23 experts per experimentar i reflexionar sobre intel·ligència artificial a les biblioteques públiques

ExperimentAI, el projecte de divulgació científica centrat aproximar la intel·ligència artificial (IA) i la visió per computador al públic general, ha finalitzat amb èxit la seva segona edició. Aquesta iniciativa, desenvolupada pel Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC), centre CERCA de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona i cofinançada per la Fundació Espanyola per la Ciència … Read more

Cicle de conferències | Intel·ligència artificial: revelant impactes socials

La intel•ligència artificial s’ha fet present a les nostres vides d’una manera accelerada durant els últims anys. El debat sobre el que significa una intel•ligència artificial acceptable està essent intens i profund, amb contribucions molt rellevants, però també amb soroll i preocupació sobre els potencials impactes socials, que encara s’han de revelar en totes les … Read more

CVC at Open Living Lab Days 2023

We are proud to reflect on our active role at the recently concluded Open Living Lab Days 2023 Conference “Living Labs for an Era of Transitions”, #OLLD23, that took place in Barcelona on Septermber 21-23. As co-organizers and enthusiastic participants, we made meaningful contributions to this global gathering of innovators and changemakers. Join us to discover … Read more

El CVC i 10 instituts avançant cap al reciclatge intel·ligent

El Programa recerca, creació i servei, impulsat per la Direcció General d’Innovació, Digitalització, Currículum i Llengües de la Generalitat de Catalunya, fomenta els aprenentatges competencials a partir de reptes proposats per entitats i centres de recerca catalans. L’alumnat triarà el seu projecte i contribuirà a la societat elaborant productes i serveis.  La innovació pedagògica unida amb la recerca científica pot ser un … Read more

CVC School Visits 2022-2023: Exploring the Research World

During the 2022-2023 academic year, our research center had the pleasure of hosting 11 school visits. We welcomed students from different schools, including a primary school facing social challenges, high schools with various academic interests and diverse vocational schools. Some of these visits were possible through our collaboration with the School of Engineering at the … Read more