Conferences

Computer Vision Catalan Alliance at CVPR2019

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A total of 11 papers from Catalan universities and research centers have been accepted at this year’s Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), one of the most important conferences in the field of Computer Vision. This importante presence of researchers from Catalan Centers highlights the high standard and quality of research of Catalonia in … Read more

5 CVPR’s from CVC this year

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As every year, the CVC has been present at the most important gathering in the Computer Vision Science Community, the annual Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference (CVPR). In this edition, CVC researchers have presented a total of 5 papers. The conference was held from the 16th to the 20th of June in Long Beach, California.

The articles presented were the following:

Doodle to Search: Practical Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval , by authors Sounak Dey, Pau Riba, Anjan Dutta, Josep Lladós and Yi-Zhe Song.

Learning Metrics from Teachers: Compact Networks for Image Embedding, by authors Lu Yu, Vacit Oguz Yazici, Xialei Liu, Joost van de Weijer, Yongmei Cheng and Arnau Ramisa

Semantically Tied Paired Cycle Consistency for Zero-Shot Sketch-based Image Retrieval, by authors Anjan Dutta and Zeynep Akata

What does it mean to learn in deep networks? And, how does on detect adversarial attacks?, by authors Ciprian A. Corneanu, Meysam Madadi, Sergio Escalera and Aleix M. Martinez.

Good News, Everyone! Context driven entity-aware captioning for news images, by authors Ali Furkan Biten, Lluis Gomez, Marçal Rusiñol and Dimosthenis Karatzas

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A new symposium claims the importance of Barcelona in Artificial Intelligence

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Global experts in Deep Learning will meet in Barcelona on December 20 and 21. Barcelona will host on December 20 and 21 a new symposium on Deep Learning, Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium (DLBCN), one of the driving forces of the current technological revolution around Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision. The symposium brings together top-level researchers … Read more

3 CVC Papers accepted at this year’s NeurIPS

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CVC researchers have three accepted papers at this year’s Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Conference which will be taking place in Montreal from the 2nd to the 8th of December 2018. Papers are the following: ‘Memory Replay GANs: learning to generate images from new categories without forgetting‘, by authors Chenshen Wu, Luis Herranz, Xialei Liu, Yaxing Wang, Dr. Joost … Read more

CVC researchers at this year’s ECCV2018

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Several CVC researchers attended this year’s European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) that took place in Munich, Germany, from the 8 to 14th of September. CVC presented 6 papers in total to the main conference, and several other papers at the Conference’s Workshops:

Dr. Lluís Gómez, Dr. Marçal Rusiñol and Andrés Mafla presented their paper ‘Single Shot Scene Text Retrieval‘, Yaxing Wang presented his ‘Transferring GANs: generating images from limited data‘, Pau Rodriguez presented ‘Attend and Rectify: a Gated Attention Mechanism for Fine-Grained Recovery‘ and Dr. Sergio Escalera presented two papers: ‘Folded Recurrent Neural Networks for Future Video Prediction‘ and ‘Deep Structure Inference Network for Facial Action Unit Recognition‘ along with Dr. Meysam Madadi. Dr. Antonio López and Felipe Codevilla presented their paper ‘On Offline Evaluation of Vision-based Driving Models‘

In other hand, Raúl Gómez presented a poster and an oral presentation of his work ‘Learning to Learn from Web Data‘ at the ECCV 1st Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop, Dr. Antonio López presented a demo of the CARLA simulator and Dena Bazazian was one of the selected Phd students to organise the Women in Computer Vision ECCV 2018 Workshop, and also presented a poster at the Epic Workshop her poster ‘Soft-PHOC Descriptor for End-to-End Word Spotting in Egocentric Scene Images‘ .

Have a look at our ECCV2018 Twitter Moment.

Related articles: 

6 CVC Papers Accepted At This Year’s ECCV

Dena Bazazian, Organiser Of The Women In Computer Vision ECCV 2018 Workshop

 

CVC researchers at this year’s ICPR2018

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Several CVC researchers attended this year’s International Conference on Pattern Recognition in Beijing during August. CVC presented 5 papers in total: two oral presentations and three posters.

Xialei Liu presented an oral presentation of his paper ‘Rotate your Networks: Better Weight Consolidation and Less Catastrophic Forgetting‘; Pau Riba presented an oral presentation of his paper ‘Learning Graph Distances with Message Passing Neural Networks‘, wining the Best student Scientific Paper Award of Track 5 on Document Analysis and Recognition. 

On the other hand, Lu Yu presented her poster ‘Weakly Supervised Domain-Specific Color Naming Based on Attention‘, Gemma Rotger presented hers: ‘2D-to-3D Facial Expression Transfer‘, and Sounak Dey presented ‘Learning Cross-Modal Deep Embeddings for Multi-Object Image Retrieval using Text and Sketch‘. 

 

 

6 CVC papers accepted at this year’s ECCV

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6 CVc papers have been accepted at this year’s European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) that will take place in Munich from the 8 to the 14th of September. Most of the papers aren’t accessible yet, and we will be publishing them as they become public. For now, we only have two available paper and … Read more

CVC presented two papers and a keynote speech at the 2018 Intelligent Vehicle Symposium

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CVC members Dr. Antonio M. López and Zhijie Fang presented various papers at this year’s Intelligent vehicle systems 2018 Conference, that took place in Chang Shu from the 26th to 29th of June. Furthermore, Dr. Antonio M. López gave a keynote lecture at the Simulation and Navigation for Intelligent Vehicles session titled ‘Videogame technology meets self-driving’. Papers: Monocular … Read more

5 CVC papers accepted at ICPR

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This year, CVC’s presence at the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) will count with a total of 5 accepted papers featuring 14 CVC researchers: Gemma Rotger, Xialei Liu, Lu Yu, Marc Masana, Pau Riba, Sounak Dey, Suman Gosh, Dr. Anjan Dutta, Dr. Joost Van de Weijer, Dr. Luis Herranz, Dr. Antonio López, Dr. Josep … Read more

CVC Researchers at this year’s DAS 2018 Conference in Vienna

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CVC presented a total of three papers and one demo at this year’s Document Analysis Conference that took take place in Vienna the 24th and 25th of April.  Find the papers here:

D. Karatzas, L. Gómez, M. Rossinyol, (2018): The Robust Reading Competition Annotation and Evaluation Platform

M. Carbonell, M. Villegas, A. Fornes, J. LLados (2018): Joint Recognition of Handwritten Text and Named Entities with a Neural End-to-end Model

L. Gómez, M. Rossinyol, D. Karatzas (2018): Cutting Sayre’s Knot: Reading Scene Text without Segmentation. Application to Utility Meters

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Our Associate Director, Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas, explains his paper in this video:

Our PhD student Manuel Carbonell explains his paper in this video:

Dr. Lluis Gómez explains his paper in the following clip: