Computer Vision Centre celebrates 20 years

This year the UAB Computer Vision Centre (CVC) celebrates its 20th anniversary. During these years, the CVC has become a leading centre in the research into computer vision and in technology transfer to society, while at the same time offering valued added to companies. It develops an average of 13 innovation projects each year and collaborates with 150 national and international companies.

To celebrate these years, the centre has organised a series of activities for this week.

Conference by Professor Antonio Torralba, Researcher at MIT

On 9 July at 7pm, the UAB-Casa Convalescència will play host to a conference by Professor Antonio Torralba, one of the most renowned researchers in computer vision worldwide. He lectures in electrical engineering and computer sciences at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL).

The purpose of the conference, entitled “Teaching Computers to See”, is to unite the main actors of Catalonia's scientific community in Computer Vision in a scientific event, where they can share the current state of research with one of the leading figures of the sector, Professor Torralba.

In this conference, Dr Torralba will offer a brief perspective on why computer vision is so difficult and its evolution up to the present day. He will be speaking on some of the reasons why applications can fail, and also describing some of the most recent projects on comprehension of visual scenes, with emphasis on the power of large image databases and their relation with computer vision.

Institutional Event

On Friday 10 July at 11:30 am, the CVC will celebrate its institutional event at its UAB campus facilities The event, which will be chaired by the Honourable Mr Felip Puig i Godes, Minister for Enterprise and Employment of the Government of Catalonia, will include an exhibit of representative demonstrations of both the versatility of computer vision, applicable to such diverse fields as health, mobility, culture, etc. and the latest tasks carried out by researchers at the centre.

Several projects will also be on display, such as My Stone, a computer vision-based device for quick and reliable visual classifications of kidney stones, or the electric car which can drive by itself. The Perception Laboratory will also be open so that visitors can see some of the experiments the CVC is working on.

There will also be other demonstrations, videos, posters and experiments to help visitors better understand the work carried out at the centre and discover all the technological possibilities computer vision has to offer.

For more information please visit the CVC website