The CVC Talent Program of Internships promotes science and innovation and encourages research in highly talented young students.
The program offers undergraduate and master students an opportunity to learn about research culture, technology transfer and innovation in an international and diverse environment with more than 100 researchers from more than 20 different countries. It is a unique opportunity to experience how is it to work in a research environment.
Interns will have to face specific research challenges guided by our researchers. They will be provided with high-performance computing facilities and trained in the current state-of-the-art methodologies related to computer vision at large at the same time as they participate in regular complementary activities (reading groups, seminars, etc.).
Requirements
FAQS
The program is addressed to students from university degrees related to Artificial Intelligence, Data Engineering, Computer Science, Physics, Computational Mathematics and Data Analytics. As a general rule, we expect applicants to fulfill the following requirements:
- To be currently enrolled in an undergraduate or master university program.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.
- Programming skills including Python & Deep Learning frameworks (Pytorch / Tensor Flow).
- Additional skills will be also required for each specific project.
Undergraduate and master students worldwide with excellent academic records are invited to apply for an internship award at CVC.
Because of funding regulations, this program is mostly oriented to EU citizens, however outstanding applicants from other nationalities will also be considered (no additional expenses will be covered).
No. CVC will not cover additional expenses such as visa applications for non-EU citizens, insurance or others.
Selection of interns is based on merit and potential measured in terms of academic records and personal achievements. Proactive and soft-skills attitudes, like participation in community activities and capacity for teamwork, are also considered.
No. Participation in the CVC Talent Program does not imply any contractual relationship between CVC and the beneficiary.
If the student, for any reason, voluntarily withdraws or interrupts the program, any unduly received payments must be returned.
Rosa Sensat
Student Fellowship
This award offers a first contact with a research center, its personnel and its activities. The "Rosa Sensat" awards constitute the entry gateway to a research ecosystem.
Students in their middle years (2nd & 3rd) of their undergraduate studies (having passed more than 100 ECTS of the study) or, exceptionally, bachelor students (Spanish Baccalaureate) before admission to the university.
Selected candidates will receive a gross stipend of 1,600 euros for a 3-month stage. It is expected a 20-hour-week dedication, or 240 hours in total. A working timetable schedule will be negotiated at the beginning of the stage.
Selected candidates will participate in small, very well-defined technological viability studies or research projects, in order to discover, understand, use and evaluate different generic, most-used computer vision and artificial intelligence techniques.
Elena Maseras
Research Fellowship
This award is intended to let the student achieve an advanced level of understanding of the state-of-the-art techniques in a specific topic in computer vision and artificial intelligence.
Students in the last year of their undergraduate studies.
Selected candidates will receive a gross stipend of 3,600 euros for a 6-month stage. It is expected a 20-hour-week dedication, or 480 hours in total. A working timetable schedule will be negotiated at the beginning of the stage.
Selected candidates will participate in a challenging project, proposed by either a research group, a company, or a public administration. As a result, the student will use the scientific method to identify weaknesses, alternatives, and opportunities for potentially improving the results.
The work done might constitute the Bachelor's Degree Final Project, but this is not compulsory.
Maria Capdevila
Research Fellowship
This award is intended to let students identify all the necessary components to solve a specific computer vision and AI problem, evaluate the resulting system, and elaborate a report that describes the achieved results together with the selected algorithms and models.
Master students.
Selected candidates will receive a gross stipend of 4,500 euros for 360 hours of on-site research work (online dedication is not possible). As a reference, a 3-month stage of 30-hour-week dedication is expected. A working timetable schedule will be negotiated at the beginning of the stage.
Selected candidates will undertake their research internship at a CVC research group or a company/ organisation (industry or public administration). Either way, the student will always need a supervisor who is a CVC staff member.
The work done might be considered a Master's Dissertation and/or for submission to scientific conferences, but this is not compulsory.
For all the awards, the following activities will be required during the stage:
(included in the working hours, up to 5% of the total hours)
- To attend at least one research seminar organized at CVC
- To participate in at least one outreach action aimed to bring research closer to citizens
- To give a public presentation of the research work done (download template)
- To submit a 2-page report briefly explaining the work done (download template)
Application process
All applications shall be submitted exclusively online. Required application material shall be uploaded to the application form and must be complete to be considered. To apply for an internship, suitable candidates are requested to prepare and submit the following document package:
- The candidate’s updated Curriculum Vitae in PDF format
- Tentative dates of the stay (internships can start as of July 2024, and should end by December 2024)
- Preferred working hours (morning, afternoon)
- A presentation, motivation letter describing the candidate’s background, topics or areas of interest at CVC, and future career plans
- Choose your CVC tutor. It is encouraged a letter of support from a CVC researcher (with date, name and contact details). This will allow candidates to get to know the work that the CVC researcher does. If agreed by both parties, the CVC researcher can be his/her tutor during the internship
- A scanned copy of the candidate’s academic transcripts (from previous and current studies, as far as available), in English, Spanish, or Catalan, together with the average academic score
For more information, please address your comments to: internships@cvc.uab.es
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Lluis Gómez
Research interests
Vision & Language, Multi-modal Learning, Social Bias Assessment and Mitigation, AI for Cultural Heritage
Jordi Casas
Research interests
Graph Mining, Multilayer Networks, Brain Networks, MRI Data Analysis, Privacy-Preserving Data Publishing, Machine learning
Joaquín Cerdà
Research interests
Cognitive Neuroscience, Decoding Brain Activity, Visual Perception, Neuroimaging Techniques, Machine Learning
Jose Luis Gomez
Research interests
ADAS, Autonomous Driving, Synth-to-real Domain Adaptation, Semi-supervised Learning, Unsupervised Domain Adaptation
Gabriel Villalonga
Research interests
Autonomous Driving, End-to-end Autonomous Driving, Virtual Worlds, Domain Adaptation, Self-supervised Learning
Yi Xiao
Research interests
End-to-end Autonomous Driving, Imitation Learning, Multimodal Scene Understanding, Representation Learning, Domain Adaptation
Kai Wang
Research interests
Diffusion Models, Text-to-image Generation, Text-guided Image Editing, Domain Adaptation, Continual Learning, Vision Transformers
Simone Balocco
Research interests
Medical Imaging, Computer Vision, Biomedical Analysis, Image Processing, Ultrasound, Magnetic Resonance
Lei Kang
Research interests
Document Analysis, Document Understanding, Human-Document Interaction, Vision and Language Processing, Generative AI
Matias Bilkis
Research interests
Quantum Machine Learning, Reinforcement Learning, Quantum Information Processing
Javier Vazquez-Corral
Research interests
Computational Color, Color Imaging, Image Restoration, Vision Models for Image Processing
Ramon Baldrich
Research interests
Color in computer Vision, shadow estimation, detection and removal, color image models, computational approaches to color perception
Jorge Bernal
Research interests
Endoscopy Imaging Analysis, Machine Vision, Image Processing, Object Detection, Machine learning
Sergio Escalera
Research interests
Human Pose/Gesture Recovery and Face analysis, Multi-modal behavior analysis, Ensemble Learning and Deep Learning
Alicia Fornés
Research interests
Document Image Analysis and Recognition, Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Document Understanding, Knowledge Modeling, Music Scores Recognition
Debora Gil
Research interests
Mathematical Methods, Medical Imaging Processing, Navigation and positioning, Anatomy Modelling, Diagnosis/intervention support systems
Jordi Gonzàlez
Research interests
Image-based Mental Health Evaluation, Interpretation of Image Sequences, Social Media Analysis
Aura Hernández
Research interests
Driving assistance, Head pose estimation, Performance evaluation, Eye tracking, Human behavior analysis
Dimosthenis Karatzas
Research interests
Scene Text Recognition, Robust Reading, Human-document Interaction, Document Image Analysis, Gaze Sequence Interpretation
Josep Lladós
Research interests
Document Image Analysis and Recognition, Structural Pattern Recognition, Graph-based representations in Computer Vision
Antonio M. López
Research interests
Machine Learning, Object detection, Semantic segmentation, Autonomous Driving, Video Analysis
Alejandro C. Parraga
Research interests
Color Vision, Comp. modelling of Human Vision, Visual cortex modelling, Psychophysics, Computational Aesthetics
Mikhail Mozerov
Research interests
Stereo&Optical Flow in Computer Vision, Segmentation, Video sequences analysis, Inpainting in Video
Xavier Otazu
Research interests
Computational Neuroscience, Human Vision Modelling, Visual cortex, Color Perception, Depth Perception
Xavier F. Roca
Research interests
Video Sequence Analysis, Pattern Recognition Models, Image Acquisition and Formation, Industrial Vision
Gemma Sanchez
Research interests
Document Image Analysis and Recognition, Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition, Symbol and handwriting recognition
Bogdan Raducanu
Research interests
Face recognition, Manifold Learning, Social Robotics, Wearable Computing
Oriol Ramos
Research interests
Document Image Analysis, Probabilistic Graphical models, Learning methods, Cultural Heritage
Angel D Sappa
Research interests
3D Image Processing, Shape/Scene Representation, Multispectral imaging, Vision based driving assistance
Joan Serrat
Research interests
Graphical Models, Novelty Detection, Driving Assistance
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Carles Sanzhez
Research interests
Endoscopy Imaging Analysis, Diagnosis/intervenction support systems, Medical Imaging Processing, Navigation and positioning Bronchoscopy
Ernest Valveny
Research interests
Text Recognition and Spotting, Document Image Analysis, Graph-based Pattern Recognition, Contextual Image Understanding
Maria Vanrell
Research interests
Color in computer vision, Understanding Convolutional Neural Networks, Color perception, Visual Saliency
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