Goverment Structure - CVC Computer Vision Center

Governing Council

Francisco Javier Lafuente Sancho
Vice-president
Rector, UAB

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Professor of Chemical Engineering in the Department of Chemical, Biological and Environmental Engineering at the UAB. Graduated in Chemical Sciences, specializing in Technical Chemistry and PhD in Chemical Engineering. He is the director of the Technological center for the treatment of gas emissions, liquids, and solid remains (BIO-GLS), and Head of the research team on the treatment of liquid and gas emanations (GENOCOV). Dr. Lafuente has been director of the Department of Chemical Engineering (2004-2010) and Vice-Rector of Innovation and Strategic Projects (from 2016 to 2020). He has also been the coordinator of the degree in Chemical Engineering and Rector's Delegate at the Polytechnic University School of the Environment (EUPMA) in Mollet del Vallés. Dr Lafuente is Rector of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from 13th November, 2020.

Rosa Maria Sebastián

Rosa Maria Sebastián
Member representing the UAB
Vice-Rector for Innovation and Strategic Projects, UAB

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Bachelor's degree and PhD in Chemistry from the UAB. After a two-year postdoctoral stay at the Laboratoire de Chimie de Coordination de Toulouse, she rejoined the UAB with a grant from the Generalitat de Catalunya, to continue being a Ramon y Cajal researcher until her stabilization as an associate professor, finally becoming a Professor in 2020. Her research has evolved from the synthetic study of small molecules to macromolecules to the preparation of polymeric materials and has resulted in more than 73 indexed scientific articles and three patents. She has participated in twelve state and European projects and in six scientific networks. She currently coordinates a funded consolidated research group. She has supervised nine doctoral theses and seven are in development, including 3 industrial doctorates. In terms of knowledge transfer, she has participated in four competitive projects and sixteen contracts with companies, from which 12 industrial property patents have been originated. On 2012, the UAB received the National Research Award for Public-Private Partnership for these collaborations. She has been Head of the Organic Chemistry Unit, secretary of the Department of Chemistry, member of the permanent board of the Faculty of Sciences and of the Chemistry Section and member of the Doctoral Committee of the UAB Department of Chemistry and she is currently Vice-rector of Innovation and Strategic Projects and director of the UAB Research Park.

Assumpció Malgosa Morera

Joan Gómez Pallarès

Joan Gómez Pallarès
Member representing the Generalitat de Catalunya
General Director of Research
Government of Catalonia

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He is the Research Director of the Generalitat de Catalunya. Born in Igualada, in 1960, he is PhD in Classical Philology by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (1986). He has been dean and vice-dean of the UAB Faculty of Philosophy and Arts and vice-dean of Doctorate and Continuing Education, vice-dean of Research and vice-dean of Economic Politics and Planification. He has been secretary of the Catalan Association of Research Centers (ACER) and member of the CERCA institution commission. He has been directing the Catalan Institute of Classical Archaeology (ICAC) from October 2013 to July 2018.

Lluis Juncà Pujol

Georgina Tost Faus

Xavier Pons

Xavier Pons
Member representing the UAB
Full professor at UAB

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Full Professor of Geography at UAB (2005), ICREA Acadèmia researcher (2011-2015), PI of the Grumets GIS and Remote Sensing research group and creator (1994) of the MiraMon software (+200,000 users in 40 countries). He received, between 1988 and 1992, a BS in Biology, two master's degrees (in Botany and Geography) and a PhD. His methodological and applied work in both Remote Sensing (geometry, radiometry, classification, compression, etc) and GIS (climate models, standards, etc) has been cited more than 3000 times. He has been the director of the Master in RS and GIS since 1996 and has been PI or participant in about 90 competitive projects and contracts.

Lluís Rovira

Lluís Rovira
Secretary
Director of the Institute for Catalan Research Centers (CERCA)

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Lluís Rovira (Girona, 1968) is PhD in Biology by the University of Barcelona. In the last few years, he has focused his professional activities on science and technology management. His work as a researcher has made him interested in the analysis of scientific activity and bibliometrics, a field in which he has conducted several research projects. As a manager, he has been secretary of the Board of trustees at the University of Girona and the Scientific and technological Parc of that University.

Scientific Advisory Board

Andreas Dengel

Andreas Dengel
Member
Full Professor at German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

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Professor Andreas Dengel is a member of the Management Board as well as Scientific Director at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Kaiserslautern where he is leading the Knowledge Management research department. In 1993 he was appointed Professor at the Computer Science Department of the University of Kaiserslautern where he holds the chair Knowledge-Based Systems. Since 2009 he is also Professor (Kyakuin) at the Department of Computer Science and Intelligent Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, at Osaka Prefecture University. Since 2006 he is a member of the IT-Summit Working Group on service and consumer-oriented information technology, consulting the German government on questions of future IT strategies. In 2009 he appointed an expert for the German Council of Science and Humanities of the German Government. In 2008 he co-founded the Institute for Document Analysis and Knowledge Science "IDAKS" at the Osaka Prefecture University in Japan.

Andreas is an advisory board member of the Center of Excellence on Semantic Technologies at MIMOS, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, the NEC Computers and Communication Innovation Research Labs (CCIL), and Int. Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR). He is a board member of the Science Alliance Kaiserslautern, a Principle Investigator of the CMCM Research Center at the University of Kaiserslautern as well as of the Diemersteiner Circle. Prof. Dengel is Member of the Editorial Board for international journals like IJDAR, Intelligent Decision Technologies or Future Internet. Moreover, he is founder or initiator of several successful start-up companies. In 2005 he received a Pioneer Spirit Award for one of his start-up concepts. He is co-editor of various international computer science journals and has written or edited 10 books and is the author of more than 160 peer-reviewed scientific publications. In 2004, Andreas Dengel has been elected a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). The most prominent prizes are the ICDAR Young Investigator Award, the Nakano Award, the Technical Communication Award of the Alcatel SEL Foundation, the Multi-Media Award of the State Rheinland-Pfalz as well as a Document Analysis Systems Achievement Award.

Antonio Torralba

Antonio Torralba
Member
Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Antonio Torralba received a degree in telecommunications engineering from Telecom BCN, Spain, in 1994 and a Ph.D. degree in signal, image, and speech processing from the Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France, in 2000. From 2000 to 2005, he spent postdoctoral training at the Brain and Cognitive Science Department and the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT. He is now a Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Prof. Torralba is an Associate Editor of the International Journal in Computer Vision and has served as program chair for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in 2015. He received the 2008 National Science Foundation (NSF) Career award, the best student paper award at the IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) in 2009, and the 2010 J. K. Aggarwal Prize from the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).

Filiberto Pla

Filiberto Pla
Member

Full professor at Jaume I University (Spain)

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Filiberto Pla is a Full Professor at the Department of "Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos" and member of the Research Institute of New Imaging Technologies of the University Jaume I, Castellón, Spain. He teaches different subjects in undergraduate Computer Engineering Degrees, the MSc Degree in Intelligent Systems and the MSc Degree on GeoSpatial Information. He is the Coordinator of the Computer Vision Group. He has led various research projects and published papers in different conferences and journals in Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. His current research interests are color and spectral image analysis, visual motion analysis, active vision and pattern recognition techniques applied to image processing.

Jean-Marc Ogier

Jean-Marc Ogier
Member
Université de La Rochelle

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Jean-Marc Ogier received his PhD degree in computer science from the University of Rouen, France, in 1994. During this period (1991-1994), he worked on graphic recognition for Matra Ms&I Company. From 1994 to 2000, he was an associate professor at the University of Rennes 1 during the first period (1994-1998) and at the University of Rouen from 1998 to 2001. Now full professor at the University of la Rochelle, Pr Ogier was the head of the L3I laboratory (research lab in computer sciences of the university of la Rochelle) which gathers more than 120 members and works mainly on Document Analysis and Content Management. Author of more than 200 publications/communications, he managed several French and European projects dealing with document analysis, either with public institutions or with private companies. Pr Ogier was Deputy Director of the GDR I3 of the French National Research Centre (CNRS) between 2005 and 2013. He was also Chair of the Technical Committee 10 (Graphic Recognition) of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) from 2010 to 2015 and is the representative member of France at the governing board of the IAPR. He is now the general chair of the TC6, dealing with computational forensics of the International Association for Pattern Recognition. Jean-Marc Ogier has been the general chair or the program chair of several international scientific events dealing with document analysis (DAS, ICDAR, GREC, ) He was also Vice-rector of the University of La Rochelle from 2005 to 2016, and president of VALCONUM association, which is an association aiming at fostering relations between industries and research organizations. He is now the president of the University of La Rochelle.

Laura Leal-Taixé

Laura Leal-Taixé

Member

Professor at the Technical University of Munich

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Prof. Dr. Laura Leal-Taixé is a tenure-track professor (W2) at the Technical University of Munich, leading the Dynamic Vision and Learning group. Before that, she spent two years as a postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, and a year as a senior postdoctoral researcher in the Computer Vision Group at the Technical University in Munich. She obtained her PhD from the Leibniz University of Hannover in Germany, spending a year as a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. She pursued B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunications Engineering at the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) in her native city of Barcelona. She went to Boston, USA, to do her Master's Thesis at Northeastern University with a fellowship from the Vodafone Foundation. She is a recipient of the Sofja Kovalevskaja Award of 1.65 million euros for her project socialMaps.

Rita Cucchiara

Rita Cucchiara
Member
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

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Rita Cucchiara is Professor of Computer Architecture and Computer Vision at Engineering Department "Enzo Ferrari" of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy. She heads the Imagelab research lab at UNIMORE. She is Director of the Inter-departmental Centre of Research in ICT Softech-ICTof Emilia Romagna High Technology network, and Director of the Master in Visual Computing and Multimedia Technology. She is working on computer vision, multimedia pattern recognition, machine learning, and intelligent sensing. In 2016 she has been awarded by the Facebook Artificial intelligence Research and the Cineca Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation grants. Rita Cucchiara is president of GIRPR the Italian Association of Pattern Recognition, a Fellow of IAPR and she is on the Advisory Board of Computer Vision Foundation. She covers also the role of deputy-president of the Italian Groups of Computer Engineering Professors GII, for scientific research. In 2020 she will be General Chair of ICPR2020. She is currently AE of IEEE Trans. of Multimedia. She is the author of more than 300 publications in International Journals and Proceedings.