Talent Day at the Computer Vision Centre

On Friday 24^th, we celebrated the CVC Talent Day & CVCRD Junior, a special event where students from the Elena Maseras and Rosa Sensat internship programs had the opportunity to present the outcomes of their research projects. These interns shared their experiences and insights gained during their time with the CVC community in a dynamic half-day workshop. 

The event kicked off with presentations by the interns, showcasing their work and the state-of-the-art of their projects. The interns and projects presented at this year’s CVCRD junior were: 

• Jack Benarroch Jedlicki - “Topology - Informed Generative Models” 
• Nil Biescas Rue - “Can we use graphs without language for document related tasks?” 
• Guim Casadellà Cors - “Semantic segmentation in urban datasets” 
• Manuel Arnau Fernandez - “Reinforcement Learning with Hidden Markov Models for Discovering Decision – Making Dynamics” 
• Neil de la Fuente - “Synthetic Data Generation via VAE Latent Space Interpolation” 
• Adrián García Sebastián - “Is there another way of validating that a neuron is color selective other than Gaussian Mixture model? If yes, which color?” 
• Joan Lafuente Baeza - “Comic Next Panel Text Prediction” 
• Mireia Majó i Cornet - “A complete benchmark for polyp detection segmentation and classification in colonoscopy images” 
• Arnau Marcos Almansa - “Add light polarization to a NeRF model” 
• Martin Méndez López - “Structured analysis and comparison of alphabets in historical handwritten ciphers”  
• Jan Moran Ricardo - “Semantic segmentation of different types of clouds in multispectral satellite images” 
• Maria Piligua - “Low Light Image Enhancement” 
• Abril Piñol Chacon - “Prelaminar work: Image restoration based” 
• Laia Querol Alturo - “Detection of Helicobacter Pylori by histology on gastric biopsies” 
• Alex Roldan - “Cognitive States Assessment” 
• Joan Samper Vila - “Give no answer prediction for DocVQA” 
• Èric Sánchez López - “Generating captions from images using Visual Transformers” 
• Xavier Soto Picos - “Multimodal Machine Unlearning” 
• Daniel Vidal - “STEP - Towards Structured Scene-Text Spotting” 
• Tomas Crosta - "Model-Free Automatic Recalibration of Quantum Devices" 
• Goio García Moro - “Exploring the Alignment of Transcriptions to Images of Encrypted Manuscripts” 

Following the interns' presentations, we hosted a roundtable with professionals who have built part of their careers at CVC. They shared their experiences and offered valuable advice to young students pursuing research careers. The session, moderated by Artemis Llabrés, included the following speakers: 

• Pau Rodriguez Lopez, Research Scientist at Apple and CVC Alumni 
• Marçal Rossinyol, CTO and co-founder at AllRead, also a CVC Alumni 
• Fátima I. Lopez,Tech Transfer and Industry Partnership Manager at CVC 
• Aura Hernandez Sabaté, CVC Researcher and Vice-dean for Gender and Secondary School Relations at UAB School of Engineering.  

After insightful discussions and exchanges of experiences, the event wrapped up with a casual lunch featuring pizza and beer, creating a relaxed atmosphere for interns, PhD students, tutors and CVC staff to network, share stories, and enjoy each other's company. 

This event is part of the CVC Talent Program, dedicated to promoting science and innovation while fostering a research-oriented mindset among highly talented young students. For more information about this enriching program, please visit CVC Talent Program: https://www.cvc.uab.es/internship/