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I am joining the organisation of the Women in Computer Vision (WiCV) workshop at CVPR 2024.
I will be co-chair of WiCV. I look forward to supporting this community!
More information in the workshop website.
ExploreCSR Google award.
Together with Nils Murrugarra-llerena (Weber State University) and Gilberto Ochoa (Tecnologico de Monterrey), we received a Google award. Our project “LATAM Undergraduate Research Program” aims to build research skills among Latin-American students in computer vision. Link to the project website.
I was invited to the International Summer School organised by the Universidad Panamericana
During the summer school, I gave a two weeks course on ML and CV to undergraduate students.
July 2023
Aguascalientes, Mexico Info
Our workshop LatinX in CV (LXCV) Research at CVPR was a success.
We had 10 full papers accepted, 22 extended abstracts and more than 60 attendees.
My PhD student Willams de Lima Costa presented our work “High-level context representations for emotion recognition in images”.
Related tweets #1, #2, #3, #4.
Vancouver
June 18-22, 2023
I visited Busitema and Makerere Universities through our Erasmus+ 171 funding.
Funding granted! Research funding within the ERJU (European Joint Rail Undertaking) project.
The project and grant are shared with Luuk Spreeuwers and Nicola Strisciuglio in the DMB group. The goal is to develop frameworks for intelligent video gates to control and monitor the maintenance of trains and tracks along the European rail network.
Tweet - Hiring of a 1 PhD position page
I was program co-chair of the workshop “LatinX in CV” at the ECCV.
Oct 2022
Event page. Online.
Erasmus+ 171 funding obtained!!
Sept 2022
Together with Dr. Godliver Owomugisha, we got Erasmus+ 171 funding to foster collaboration between the University of Twente and the Universities of Busitema (Tororo) and Makerere (Kampala), Uganda. Looking forward to this collaboration!
I was selected as general co-chair, together with Fabian Caba, for the next edition of LatinX in CV at CVPR2023.
Our next workshop will again have proceedings and will be onsite in Vancouver. See you there!
I was logistics co-chair of the workshop “LatinX in CV” at the CVPR.
Jun 2022
Event page. New Orleans, United States.
First prize for my 3-min PhD thesis presentation by the AERFAI at the CEDI 20/21 conference
Sept 23, 2021
I started new position at UTwente
Jul 2021 #University of Twente
I started my position as Assistant professor within the Data Management & Biometrics (DMB) group, at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS), University of Twente.
Thesis Award in Computer Science
Jan 2021 #University of Groningen
The Bernouilli Institute Thesis Award in Computer Science was awarded to my PhD thesis “Life-style understanding through the analysis of egocentric photo-streams”!
Read more about the prize.