Dr Gabriel Villalonga and Dr Sounak Day receive UAB’s PhD special award

Dr Gabriel Villalonga and Dr Sounak Dey have been awarded PhD Special Award by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). This award recognizes the quality of their doctoral theses, which have made significant contributions and advancements in their respective fields. The UAB’s PhD special awards hold immense value within the university community, emphasizing the exceptional … Read more

Dr. Vacit Oğuz Yazıcı winner of the Pioner Awards 2022

Dr. Vacit Oğuz Yazıcı, CVC alumni, has been recognised by the CERCA Institute – Centres de Recerca de Catalunya –, with a Pioner Award for the commercial contribution of his thesis to the fashion industry. A research project that delves into the application of artificial intelligence (AI) for improving two different processes associated with image … Read more

5 CVC researchers, among the top 5.000 researchers in Spain and Spaniards abroad according to the CSIC ranking

The Spanish National Council of Scientific Research (CSIC) has released the new edition of its Researchers in Spain and Spaniards Abroad ranking. This 2023 edition places five CVC researchers among the top 5.000 Spanish and foreign research scientists who do research in Spanish organizations ranked according to their profile indicators in the Google Scholar database. … Read more

CVC has successfully renewed the accreditation “Excellence in HR” of the European Commission

CVC has successfully fulfilled the HRS4R accreditation renewal process. The “Excellence in Human Resources” seal is an accreditation awarded by the European Commission to institutions and research centres that excel in implementing good human resources practices.  The Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) supports institutions and research centers in implementing the European Charter & Code … Read more

El CVC, guardonat amb el premi AmicsUAB

El Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC) ha estat reconegut per l’associació Amics UAB amb el premi “Col·lectiu UAB”, dirigit a institucions que treballen millorant els serveis prestats a la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). Aquest premi reconeix la feina realitzada pel col·lectiu del CVC durant els seus 27 anys d’història, la seva vinculació amb … Read more

El CVC, la Fundació Autònoma Solidària i NOVACT guayadors del premi al Bé social 2022 de l’Associació Catalana d’Intel·ligència artificial

Col·laboracions entre universitats, centres de recerca i organitzacions són necessàries per fer de la intel·ligència artificial una eina útil per a la promoció de drets. La investigació “Racisme digital i COVID-19. Discursos racistes i antiracistes a Twitter durant la pandèmia” realitzada per el CVC, la Fundació Autònoma Solidària – UAB i NOVACT (Institut Internacional per a l’Acció Noviolenta) … Read more

Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas receives an Amazon Research Award

CVC’s Associate Director, Dr Dimosthenis Karatzas has received an Amazon Research Award for his proposal “Multipage and Multilingual Document Visual Question Answering” for the second time in a row. Amazon Research Awards is a program that provides unrestricted funds and AWS Promotional Credits to academic researchers investigating research topics across several disciplines. This award will … Read more

Dr Josep Lladós awarded the IAPR certificate of appreciation

Dr Josep Lladós, CVC Director, has received the IAPR certificate of appreciation for his long-term leadership service with impact on the association’s committees. The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition, computer vision, and image processing in a broad sense. IAPR aims to promote … Read more

Dr Sergio Escalera receives the IAPR fellow award 2022

Dr Sergio Escalera, CVC and University of Barcelona researcher, has been elected a fellow of the International Association of Pattern Recognition for his contributions to the field of Pattern Recognition and Human Behaviour Analysis. The International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) is an international association of non-profit, scientific or professional organizations concerned with pattern recognition, … Read more

El simulador CARLA, guardonat amb el Premi Nacional de Recerca

El Centre de Visió per Computador (CVC) i Intel Intelligent Systems Lab han estat guardonats amb el Premi Nacional al Partenariat Publicoprivat en R+I pel desenvolupament conjunt del simulador de codi obert sense ànim de lucre CARLA, per entrenar i validar sistemes de conducció autònoma. El premi s’ha lliurat el 7 de juny de 2022 … Read more