Event

CVC celebrated this year’s Annual Catalan Meeting on Computer Vision (ACMCV2018) that took place on the 20th of September. This event is annually organized by the Master in Computer Vision coordinators of the Catalan universities UAB, UOC, UPC and UPF. The aims of this meeting are to strengthen the Catalan academic and industrial computer vision network, to disseminate the most relevant works and to allow students from the Master in Computer Vision meet with members of the Catalan CV community.

This year’s edition counted, as always, with the presentation of the final master thesis from the Master in Computer Vision, a poster session and two keynote lectures carried out by Guillem Alenyà, from the Institute of Robotics and Industrial Informatics (IRI), who talked about the project CLOTHILDE and Marco Pedersoli from the Superior Technology School of Montreal (ETS Montreal), whose talk was about the evolution of his research during the last ten years.

The program and more details about the event can all be found at its website: http://acmcv.cat/

CVC has organised this year’s AERFAI Summer School that took place at UAB’s Casa Convalescència on the 17th and 18th of July. We had keynote lectures by Prof. Antonio Torralba (MIT – IBM), Prof. Joan Bruna (NY University), Dr. Eduard Vázquez (Cortexica), Dr. Marco Bressan (Satellogic) and Prof. Antonio M. López from UAB and C VC. The program and Summer School details can all be found at the event’s website: http://www.cvc.uab.es/aerfai/

Plenty of CVC members attended, with a number of colloquiums debating on Deep Learning and its use in Computer Vision. Dr. Dimosthenis Karatzas, from CVC, moderated an intense debate in which speakers were asked to reflect on the future of Computer Vision and the role of Deep Learning within this new paradigm.

Find the event’s Twitter moment here: https://twitter.com/i/moments/1019536110995861504

CVC was present at this year’s Maker Faire Barcelona 2018 last weekend, 16th and 17th of June at the Italian Pavillion of the Fira de Barcelona.

More than 10.000 people visited this year’s Maker Faire in Barcelona, an expo dedicated to Open Source projects and makers that gathers a rapidly increasing community within the metropolitan area of Barcelona. CVC, along with other research centers, had a space in which it showcased its simulator for autonomous driving, CARLA, and its crowd counting technology, both technologies winning three Maker of Merit awards. PhD student Edgar Riba gave a talk on OpenCV, computer vision and deep learning, and how to embed computer vision in applications for all the maker community.

Have a look at our Maker Faire Twitter Moment

Our Communication manager was interviewed by La Hora Maker. See the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03fZcHjwg8U&feature=youtu.be&app=desktop

CVC celebrated its Open Day last Friday 25th of May in a three turn visit. More than 60 students from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona visited our center and had the opportunity to know, first hand, the research we are developing in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence.

Dr. Fernando Vilariño and Alexandra Canet presented a workshop at last week’s Steam Conference in Cosmocaixa, Barcelona. They presented the Library Living Lab to High School science and technology teachers and dedicated a session on how to build a community with local actors and thus actively work on societal challenges within their towns or neighbourhoods, all of this with the use of robotics. The public was highly commited with their local communities and eager to explore different ways to effectively engage with stakeholders and thus trigger change at a local scale.

The Computer Vision Center took part of this year’s edition of the Mobile World Congress presenting a new crowd counting technique that uses Computer Vision and Deep Learning for the estimation of people in gatherings. The CVC had an important presence in the media and participated in the Mobile Talks organised by Moble World Capital Barcelona.

More than 100.000 people attended this year’s Mobile World Conference, more exactly 107.000 attendees, a few less than past years, but with higher and more interesting profiles. The Computer Vision Center attended with a stand within the Catalonia pavilion, as has been doing for the past 5 years, and presented a demo based on the work of Xialei Liu and Dr. Joost Van de Weijer, which will be presented at this year’s CVPR. The demo counted, real time, the amount of people gathered within the congress square and was a huge success both for the media as for business.

Dr. Joost Van de Weijer gave a press Conference on the second day of the Mobile to more than 20 different media and newspaper journalists presenting his novel technique. The Press Conference was introduced by Mr. Jordi Puignero, the Telecommunications, Cybersecurity and Digital society Secretary of the Government of Catalonia and president of CVC, and presented by Dr. Josep Lladós, CVC director.

Dr. Fernando Vilariño participated at this year’s Mobile Talks, invited by Mobile World Capital Barcelona, in a discussion about Digital Economy with the innovation journalist Roc Fages. Mobile Talks are intended to give visitors the opportunity of in depth views of different current situations. Dr. Vilariño explained the importance of digital transformation along with social innovation, and the need of both of them to evolve alongside.

The CVC team came back from Mobile World Congress with a good impression of the event and plenty of new contacts to be worked on from now. Mobile World Congress 2019 will soon be right by the corner.

Find CVC’s MWC presence in the Media here.

CVC was present at this year’s edition of the Smart City Expo in Barcelona within the Catalonia booth. We presented CARLA, an open-source simulator for autonomous driving research and also brought in our small prototype of autonomous vehicle in order to show the work the CVC is doing within this area.

Have a look at our Smart City Expo Moment in Twitter: https://twitter.com/i/moments/935551269154025472