The ICREA Academia 2018 program has recognised the scientific trajectory of two CVC researchers, Dr. Antonio López and Dr. Sergio Escalera. The aim of the ICREA Academia Award is to reward excellence in research among professors in Catalan Universities. A total of 45 researchers have received this distinction, with a five year grant in order … Read more
CVC was present at this year’s MEMEnginy that took place at the hall of UAB’s Engineering School.
We presented our training opportunities both for undergraduate as graduate students, as well as the Master in Computer Vision, coordinated by Dr. Maria Vanrell, UAB professor and CVC Researcher.
In addition, all the attendees who came to the CVC booth, were able to test different demonstration such as the apparent personality detector, the video game of racing against the Artificial Intelligence through theCARLA Simulatoror the videogames used to validate the transcription of the old handwritten documents.
The Computer Vision Center (CVC) presented some of its latest computer vision technologies at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019, held from February 25 to 28 at Fira de Barcelona.
Recognized as the world’s leading event for the mobile and ICT industries, the 2019 edition of MWC brought together over 109.000 visitors and more than 2.400 companies from around the globe to explore the latest innovations and emerging technologies.
CVC was among the 46 Catalan companies and institutions showcased in the Catalan Pavilion (CS20), organised by the Government of Catalonia. From this central location within the Congress, the CVC team had the opportunity to share its research with international professionals, investors, and journalists, while also gaining visibility through visits from various dignitaries — including the Right Honourable President of the Government of Catalonia, Quim Torra.
Throughout the event, CVC featured three interactive demonstrations in the CVC’s booth:
First Impressions AI, a system that predicts personality traits from short video clips.
Image Retrieval Tools, enabling users to search for images using text or sketches.
BronchoX, an AI-based service designed to assist in lung cancer biopsy procedures.
On the final day, the CVC team also presented a live autonomous driving demonstration in the main entrance of the Catalan Pavilion, where attendees could race against artificial intelligence in the CARLA simulator. The demo was led by Dr Antonio López, principal investigator in autonomous driving at CVC, and Yi Xiao, PhD student in the same field. This demonstration was also part of the Catalan Government’s commitment to showcasing Catalonia’s progress in mobility research, underlining the region’s growing expertise in autonomous and intelligent transport systems.
It was an intense and rewarding four days of technology, innovation, and networking, during which hundreds of visitors stopped by the CVC stand to discover how computer vision research is helping shape the future of industry and society.
We had a good representation of CVC people at this year’s NeurIPS which took place on the first week of December in Montreal. The articles presented were the following:
Dr. Antonio Lopez took part of the First Forum on Autonomous Vehicles, organized by the Association of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia, that was held the 27th of November at Barcelona.
The event was celebrated in order to reflect on the changes that may arise from the implementation of the autonomous vehicle. In this first edition, called “between myth and reality”, it was discussed the issue of the autonomous car not only from the technological current but also from other areas such as Law, Sociology or Philosophy.
Dr. Antonio López was an invited speaker of the technological part, in which he talked about Artificial Intelligence for Autonomous Driving and presented his current research and recent projects such as Carla or Synthia.
CVC was present at this year’s Smart City Expo presenting its technology in Computer Vision to a high number of enterprises and companies who visited us in our stand. The Smart City Expo is a great opportunity to meet game changes all over the world, who gather in Barcelona for one week in order to exchange ideas and business opportunities. A day after the Expo, we had a visit of more than 50 delegates from over 10 countries invited by ACCIO in order to know our Research Center and explore possible sinergies and collaborations.
On the 7th of November we had the official kick off to the ExperimentAI project, an initiative promoted and coordinated by the Computer Vision Center and funded by the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT) that brings Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision closer to society.
The session started with an inaugural address by Joana Barbany, General Director of Digital Society at the Government of Catalonia and councillor of Sant Cugat del Vallès. It continued with an introduction of the project and the aims and objectives of all following sessions.
The introduction was then followed by an open on how Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision are impacting our daily life, their uses and applications. The panel was composed by Dr. Fernando Vilariño, Associate CVC director, Alexandra Canet, CVC Communications Manager, CVC PhD students Laura López and Marc Masana, and last but not least, Sigrid Vila, Bruno Moya and Oriol Baeza. The last three are High School students who have spent a research stay at CVC as part of their Research School Projects. In addition, all members of the public could contribute and thus detect the different challenges that this technology must face in their different areas of expertise.
ExperimentAI is a recurrent activity that will take place on a weekly basis from the 7th of November until the 20th of Februrary 2019 at the Library Living Lab. We will be presenting, every Wednesday, new experiences, prototypes and activities to understand the impact of AI and Computer Vision in our future and current society.
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 Schoolthat 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.
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.
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