From September 15th to 18th, the ELLIS Summer School in Autonomous Driving took place in Casa Convalescència, Barcelona, bringing together PhD students, researchers, and professionals working in autonomous driving. Organized by the Computer Vision Center alongside the ELLIS Unit Barcelona and VALEO, the four-day program covered key topics in autonomous driving, including perception, world models, … Read more
On September 165h, the 13th edition of the Annual Catalan Meeting on Computer Vision (ACMCV2026) was held at CVC, bringing together around 100 participants, including students, lecturers, researchers, and industry representatives. The day began with the Master’s thesis defenses: 25 students from the Master in Computer Vision (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, … Read more
Artificial intelligence has transformed the way we create, edit and consume images and videos. From social media filters to the restoration of old photographs and low-cost audiovisual production, visual editing tools are now more accessible and powerful than ever. The growing demand for intelligent and user-friendly editing tools requires solutions capable of addressing both traditional … Read more
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 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
Research confirms it: in image generation, AI creativity is a myth. Although current generative AI models may indeed appear autonomous creative agents, when deconstructing their imaginative process, their lack of true creative abilities becomes apparent. This is the conclusion reached by a new study, published in the scientific journal Advanced Science, led by an international … Read more
The 7th edition of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN2025) took place yesterday, 17 December, at CosmoCaixa, consolidating its role as one of the key annual meeting points for the artificial intelligence and machine learning community in Barcelona. This year’s edition gathered more than 345 participants, once again filling the venue. All free tickets were … Read more
We are proud to announce that the CVC has achieved remarkable positions in the 2025 SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR), highlighting our commitment to excellence in research, innovation, and societal impact. The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is an annual classification of academic and research-related institutions, assessed using a composite indicator that combines research performance, innovation outputs, … Read more
Seven researchers from the Computer Vision Center (CVC) have been recognized in the latest update on Stanford University’s global ranking, placing them among the 2% of scientists with the greatest influence. Stanford University, in collaboration with Elsevier-Scopus, has recently updated the results of the study of the most-cited authors in the world. This global ranking … Read more