Research - CVC Computer Vision Center

Areas of Excellence

Health & Wellbeing

AI-assisted diagnosis, intervention and planning
Biomedical applications and eHealth
Behavioural and cognitive analysis
Patient monitoring and ambient assisted living technologies

Mobility & Smart Cities

Autonomous driving in urban and rural environments
Simulation for autonomous driving
Text and scene understanding “in the wild”
Automated city auditing and urban intelligence

Culture, Creativity & Inclusive Society

Document Intelligence in historical heritage preservation
Handwriting recognition
Generative AI for cultural and creative applications
Experience-based technologies

Digital & Industry

Industrial inspection and quality control
Automation and human–machine collaboration
Vision-based monitoring for manufacturing and logistics
Color computing and visual enhancement for the audiovisual industry

Agrifood & Environment

Precision agriculture and crop monitoring
Smart Recycling
Animal monitoring and welfare assessment
Forest and water analysis for biodiversity, pollution and invasive species

Civil Security for Society

Document verification and fraud detection
People counting in crowds
Risk and emergency situation detection
Video analytics for safety

Research News

7 CVC Researchers in the Top 2% Most Cited Globally by the Stanford University Ranking

November 18, 2024

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 considered one of the most prestigious, is based on bibliometric information collected from the Scopus database (published by Elsevier), updated to the end of the citation year 2023, and includes the … Read more

Intel·ligència Artificial aplicada a la biodiversitat

August 26, 2024

Al llarg dels darrers anys la preocupació per l’estat i estabilitat de la biodiversitat als boscos de Catalunya ha anat a l’alça, amb la irrupció de múltiples tècniques i opcions com, per exemple: la gestió d’espais naturals protegits, la col·laboració amb entitats, el voluntariat, les campanyes de conscienciació a la societat, la preservació d’animals en … Read more

CVCRD 2024 – 19th CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges

July 22, 2024

We’re excited to share insights from the 19th CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges (CVCRD), held on July 19! CVCRD is our annual workshop where CVC PhD students present their latest research and engage in discussions about their plans and expectations. It’s a platform for dialogues between senior researchers and students, exploring challenges … Read more

The ProdID EU Project Comes to an End: Advancing in Smart Product Identification for Industry and Commerce

June 3, 2024

The ProdID EU project, conducted at the Computer Vision Centre (CVC), has successfully developed multimodal image understanding technologies for fine-grained, real-time product identification in industry and commerce. This initiative has integrated visual and textual data to enhance product retrieval, addressing key challenges in inventory management, automated check-out systems, and visual product search. Key Technological Advancements Industry Applications & Prototypes As part of the project, three prototypes were … Read more

Dr Antonio Lopez and Dr Sergio Escalera have received the “ICREA Academia” distinction for the second time

April 25, 2024

The Catalan Institute for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) has awarded ICREA Acadèmia grants to 40 academic staff members from Catalan universities across various fields in its 2023 call. Among the awardees are Dr Antonio Lopez and Dr Sergio Escalera, both researchers at CVC, who previously received the grant in 2018 and have now renewed … Read more

CVC participates in BERTHA, a European project that will develop a Driver Behavioral Model for safer and more human-like autonomous vehicles

December 20, 2023

The Horizon Europe project BERTHA kicked off on November 22nd-24th in Valencia, Spain. The project has been granted €7,981,799.50 from the European Commission to develop a Driver Behavioral Model (DBM) that can be used in connected autonomous vehicles to make them safer and more human-like. The resulting DBM will be available on an open-source HUB … Read more

CVC Achieves Top Rank in Computer Science in Spain According to SCImago Ranking

December 11, 2023

The SCImago Institutions Rankings (SIR) is a classification of academic and research institutions based on a composite indicator that integrates three distinct sets of criteria, assessing research performance, innovation outputs, and societal impact measured through web visibility. The Scimago ranking categorizes universities and other public and private research institutions in a general ranking, as well … Read more

5 CVC Researchers Acknowledged Among the Most Cited Globally by the Stanford University Ranking

December 4, 2023

CVCRD 2023 – 18th CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges

July 21, 2023

We’re excited to share insights from the 18th CVC Workshop on Computer Vision Trends and Challenges (CVCRD), held on July 14! CVCRD is our annual workshop where CVC PhD students present their latest research and engage in discussions about their plans and expectations. It’s a platform for dialogues between senior researchers and students, exploring challenges … Read more

Interpretable-by-design Prototype-based Deep Learning

March 31, 2023

Abstract: Deep Learning justifiably attracted the attention and interest of the scientific community and industry as well as of the wider society and even policy makers. However, the predominant architectures (from Convolutional Neural Networks to Transformers) are hyper-parametric models with weights/parameters being detached from the physical meaning of the object of modelling. They are, essentially, … Read more

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