The Computer Vision Center (CVC) stepped up to celebrate the “Women and Girls in Science Day” on February 11, initiated by UNESCO as a distinguished day for the international science community since 2015. This day is dedicated towards recognizing the contributions of women scientists in the scientific and technological revolution. Several fun and intellectual activities were … Read more
Source: Department Of The Vice-Presidency, Digital Policies And Territory – Generalitat de Catalunya The CVC researcher, Dr. Alicia Fornés received the Dona TIC award in the Academic/Researcher category. The awards ceremony, which is celebrated annually in commemoration of the Ada Lovelace Day, was held on October 13th at CosmoCaixa Barcelona and broadcasted on Youtube. The Dona … Read more
Every year on March 8th countries around the world celebrate the International Women’s Day. This special date is an opportunity to claim gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls. During February, coinciding with the International Day of Women and Girls in Science settled by the United Nations on February 11th, the CVC launched … Read more
Although females make up at least half of the world population, they represent less than 30% of researchers worldwide, according to a report made by UNESCO. This rate seems more hopeful in the case of Catalonia, in which as stated in the report “Gender bias in staff recruitment, promotion and retention at universities (2019)” by Vives Network, women are 42% of the research … Read more
The CVC prepared a Twitter Campaign in order to celebrate Women’s day on the 8th of March. The main aim was to showcase the professionals we have at CVC, why they studied Computer Science and what would they tell future generations. You can find the Twitter moment here: https://twitter.com/i/events/1236928769501401093
CVC Researcher Dr Maria Vanrell has received the CIARP Aurora Pons-Porrata Award in recognition of her professional trajectory. This international prize is given annually to a living woman in recognition of an outstanding scientific contribution to the field of pattern recognition, data mining and related areas. Dr Maria Vanrell is an Associate Professor of Artificial … Read more
CVC PhD student Dena Bazazian is one of the organisers of the WiCV Workshop at 2018’s ECCV Conference, which will take place in Munich on September with over 4000 expected attendees in the biggest Computer Vision gathering in Europe. Putting the focus of Women in Computer Vision is the main aim of the WiCV Workshop … Read more
CVC PhD student Dena Bazazian is one of the organisers of the WiCV Workshop at 2018’s CVPR Conference, which will take place at Salt Lake City this summer with over 4000 expected attendees in one of the biggest Computer Vision gatherings in the world. Putting the focus of Women in Tech is the main aim … Read more
Marie Curie, Hypatia of Alexandria and Rosalind Franklin are probably some of the few names that sound familiar when talking about women in science. Unfortunately, not many more names stand out and neither do their contributions to science and, of course, society. Throughout history, there have been many brilliant women in science whose work has … Read more
Today is Ada Lovelace’s Day, a special celebration to visualize Ada’s contributions and to recognize women in science, technology, engineering and maths. Ada Lovelace made her contribution in a moment when mathematics was considered only a man’s subject, but despite that, she created the first algorithm to be carried out by a machine. To commemorate … Read more
