Welcome to the Vision, Language and Reading (VLR) research team at the Computer Vision Center in Barcelona, Spain.
The VLR research team conducts fundamental research and technology transfer at the frontier between vision, language and reading systems. We devise reading systems for text in the wild, and incorporate scene text semantics in a multitude of computer vision tasks such as captioning, visual question answering, cross-modal retrieval, fine-grained classification, etc. In parallel, we advance document understanding with a special interest in end-to-end approaches for Document Visual Question Answering.
(last updated Sept 2023)
Sep 2023 Dimosthenis Karatzas gave an invited talk at the DocILE lab at CLEF 2023
Jul 2023 Our NeurIPS 2023 competition on Privacy Preserving Federated Learning Document VQA is now on!
Jun 2023 A new postdoc joined the group - welcome Lei Kang!
Arp 2023 3 papers accepted to ICDAR 23
Apr 2023 A new postdoc joined the group - welcome Mohamed Souibgui!
Mar 2023 The creation of the ELLIS Unit Barcelona was approved! Dimosthenis Karatzas will co-direct the new unit along Prof Carme Torras
Jan 2022 A new PhD student joined the group - welcome Qi Dong!
Nov 2022 2 papers accepted to AAAI 23
Nov 2020 Andres Mafla successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
Nov 2020 Ali Biten successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
Nov 2022 Dimosthenis Karatzas was ranked at the top 2% of the world´s most cited AI researchers 2021 based on Scopus standardized citation indicators
Oct 2022 VLR co-organised the "Text in Everything" workshop at ECCV 2022
Sep 2022 VLR participates in the new European Lighthouse on Safe and Secure AI (ELSA)
Sep 2022 Dimosthenis Karatzas was awarded an Amazon Research Award
June 2022 Ali Biten's research was featured in the CVPR Daily magazine
June 2022 Andres Mafla recognised as outstanding reviewer of CVPR 22
Feb 2022 1 paper accepted to CVPR 2022
Oct 2021 4 papers accepted to WACV 22
Oct 2021 Dimosthenis Karatzas was ranked at the top 2% of the world´s most cited AI researchers 2020 based on Scopus standardized citation indicators
Sep 2021 VLR co-organised the "Document Visual Question Answering" workshop at ICDAR 2021
May 2021 2 papers accepted to ICDAR 21
Dec 2020 Anguelos Nicolau successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
Oct 2020 3 papers accepted to WACV 21
Oct 2020 Dimosthenis Karatzaswas ranked at the top 2% of the world´s most cited AI researchers 2019 based on Scopus standardized citation indicators
Dec 2020 Raul Gomez successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
July 2020 1 paper accepted to ACM MM 20
July 2020 1 paper accepted to ECCV 20
June 2020 VLR co-organised the "Text and Documents in the Deep Learning Era" workshop at CVPR 2020
Jan 2020 1 paper accepted to ICRA 20
Apr 2020 Dimosthenis Karatzas was awarded an AWS Machine Learning Research Award
Oct 2019 2 papers accepted to WACV 20
Sep 2019 VLR co-organised the "Human-Document Interaction" workshop at ICDAR 2019
July 2019 1 paper accepted to ICCV 19
May 2019 7 papers accepted to ICDAR 19
Mar 2019 VLR researchers Lluis Gomez, Marcal Rossinyol and Dimosthenis Karatzas create a new spin-off company, AllRead
Feb 2019 1 paper accepted to CVPR 19
Dec 2018 VLR co-organised the "Int. Workshop on Robust Reading" at ACCV 2018
Nov 2018 Dena Bazazian successfully defended her PhD thesis. Congratulations!
July 2018 1 paper accepted to ECCV 18
Sep 2017 VLR co-organised the "Human-Document Interaction" workshop at ICDAR 2017
Sep 2017 VLR co-organised the "Camera Based Document Analysis and Recognition" workshop at ICDAR 2017
May 2017 4 papers accepted to ICDAR 19
Feb 2017 1 paper accepted to CVPR 17
Feb 2017 Dimosthenis Karatzas and Andy Bagdanov were awarded a Google Faculty Award
Apr 2016 Lluis Gomez successfully defended his PhD thesis. Congratulations!
Sep 2018 VLR co-organised the "Robust Reading" workshop at ECCV 2018
Aug 2013 Dimosthenis Karatzas was awarded the IAPR/ICDAR Young Investigator Award