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The drive of doing research
Research is made with passion and consistency every day. We enjoy our daily meetings and weekly meetings from Bucharest Computer Vision Group where we are working and discussing about fascinating topics in the research area we are all interested and also about the future of AI!
Let us meet always in this beautiful place where theory and practice meets in person! Here we are in our Laboratory no 7 and also at our weekly Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group at University Politehnica of Bucharest.
Our weekly meetings with our group and also at Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group
The beginning of this year is full of great ideas of our working progress projects and also with our upcoming ones! We are working at them with enthusiasm at your daily meetings in our Laboratory from University Politehnica of Bucharest and also at our weekly group meeting at Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group.
Our first research meetings with our group and also at Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group
What an amazing first meeting we had together with our group and also at our Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group for this new year with great and new ideas ready to make them reality!
We want to wish you a warm Happy New Year! May you have a 2024 full of health, joy of life and fulfillment on all levels!
Our Research Group
9 January 2024
Our research meetings at Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group
Great memories from our last two meetings before the holiday season at our weekly Bucharest Computer Vision Reading Group talking about the new transformers era in AI and coming with new, fresh research ideas!
It was a fantastic year for which we are grateful and we are waiting the next New Year with the same enthusiasm and passion for Science!
Have a beautiful time for Christmas and a Happy New Year!
24 December 2023
Fly to the Sky, Romania
A scientific and artistic journey flying to the sky of our homeland, always fascinated about the new discovery and our inspiration for our projects!
Music composition and performance by Marius Leordeanu
Artificial Intelligence Research and Filming was created and coordonated by Marius Leordeanu. All scenes shown are located in Romania.
Work funded by UEFISCDI Romania and EEA Norway Grants
2023, International Conference of Computer Vision, ICCV, Paris, France
"Together with my dear PHD Students from today Alina Elena Marcu, Dragos Costea, Mihai Cristian Pîrvu, Mihai Masala and from yesterday Dr. Emanuela Haller dear collegues Prof. Dr. Bogdan Alexe, dear friends and partners Dr. Rahul Sukthankar, Vice-President of Research, Google and Dr. Nabil Belbachir, Director of Research, NORCE at International Conference of Computer Vision - international top Conference rang A*, which took place this year in Paris where we presented 5 scientific papers! "
Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu
2023, ICCV Workshop Presentation at International Conference of Computer Vision, ICCV, Paris, France
ICCV Workshop Presentation by Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu at ICCV Workshop on Representation with Limited Images with his presentation on Self-supervised Joint Multi-dataset Teacher-Student Learning for Action Recognition in Video - scientific paper wrote together with student Lucian Bicsi, Prof. Univ. Dr. Bogdan Alexe and Prof. Dr. Radu Ionescu.
The scientific paper is available on JEDI: Joint Expert Distillation in a Semi-Supervised Multi-Dataset Student-Teacher Scenario for Video Action Recognition (arxiv.org)
Meeting at Trento, Italy - HORIZON Project "European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability" (ELIAS) under the ELLIS umbrella
Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu at the kick-off meeting in Trento (Italy) of the HORIZON Project "European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability" (ELIAS), where, together with his group from Universitatea POLITEHNICA din București and the team from Bitdefender, they are part of a network of excellence (under the ELLIS umbrella), at the European level, in the field of "Sustainable AI".
2023, AQUA NOR, NORCE, Norway
Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu: "This week I had the most wonderful experience at Norway's greatest conference on Aquaculture Industry, Aqua Nor, where I presented our work at the Norwegian Research Center (NORCE) on computer vision and artificial intelligence for Fish Farming - a domain with an amazing potential and future! Thank you, NORCE, for this great opportunity! Thank you, Aqua Nor!"
2023, IMPACT HUB, PWN Romania, Bucharest, Romania
Our team: Prof. Univ.Dr. Marius Leordeanu, Drd. Alina Marcu, Drd. Dragos Costea and Artist Cristina Lazar was honoured to be awarded for our new project with ART and AI - MAIA AI: A Real Time Non-verbal Chat for Human AI Interaction - first non verbal chat in the world with human AI interaction. The paper can be found here: Maia: A Real-time Non-Verbal Chat for Human-AI Interaction (arxiv.org)
The program is called Start-Up Toolkits for Women Entrepreneurs @truse_pwnromania by Professional Women’s Network powered by BCR Romania where we had a pitch for our project at the event “Meet the Investors” at Impact Hub. This extraordinary program was offered by the entrepreneur Ms. Daniela Mariscu and PWN Romania namely a scholarship called Trusa Antreprenoriat/Start - Toolkit for Women Entrepreneurs Program, PWN Romania, Professional Women’s Network, powered de BCR – Banca Comerciala Romana, 2023
2023, SMART DIASPORA, TIMISOARA, Eveniment aflat sub înaltul patronaj al Președintelui României
Our team Prof.Univ.Dr.Marius Leordeanu together with Phd students Drd. Alina Marcu and Drd. Dragos Costea and Artist Cristina Lazar and our Partner Prof. Univ. Dr. Adina Magda Florea was participating at the prestigious event SMART DIASPORA 2023 - Eveniment aflat sub înaltul patronaj al Președintelui României and also at the workshop TRUST AI with a poster about our projects with ART and Artificial Intelligence
More information could be found here: Smart Diaspora 2023 | 10-13 Aprilie 2023, Timisoara (diaspora-stiintifica.ro)
The link for the workshop: Abordări orientate către om pentru Inteligență Artificială de încredere (diaspora-stiintifica.ro)
2022, University Politehnica of Bucharest and visiting Romania
Spacetime Vision Project - A Bridge between Romania and Norway. In November 23, 2022 together with our dear PhD students and Dr. Xuan Zhang who visited us from NORCE (Norway Research Center), as part of our collaboration on the Spacetime Vision project: we did research, flew drones, visited castles and spent wonderful evenings together! What a wonderful week! Prof.Univ.Dr. Marius Leordeanu
2022, NORCE, Norwegian Research Centre
In August 2022 Prof, Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu was spending a fantastic week visiting our partners from NORCE (one of Norway's largest research institutes) with whom we started a few years ago Spacetime Vision (an extraordinary research project in robotics, computational vision and automatic learning) and with whom we will collaborate for many years to come! And that is how the story of a wonderful journey of discovery, knowledge and construction continues!
2021, University of Bucharest, UB
The SpaceTimeVision research team from University of Bucharest, October, 2021, Bucharest.
2021, Research Team Meetup
The research team's first physical "pandemic" gathering respecting the legal safety measures.
DJI_0753_a1.MP4
Beautiful landscapes of our PRECIS campus at the University Politehnica of Bucharest, alongside members from our research team captured during one of our flights on a warm autumn day in October.
2020, Ministry of European Funds of Romania
In December 19, 2020 Professors from our research group namely Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu, Prof. Univ. Dr. Traian Rebedea, Prof. Univ. Dr. Bogdan Alexe and Prof. Univ. Dr. Radu Ionescu had the opportunity to participate in discussions with Romanian Minister of European Funds, Mr. Marcel Bolos on the use of European Funds in technology and artificial intelligence.
These times it was created a very important project for Romania AI research soon to be accomplished, namely "HUB Român de Inteligență Artificială – HRIA"
As shown in the official press release of the event, during the discussions Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu pointed out that:
"We are on the edge of a new era in technology, triggered by the emergence of artificial intelligence, which will fundamentally change the world, as we know it. Just as the invention of the steam engine, electricity, airplanes, television or the Internet has decisively marked human society, so artificial intelligence has the potential to transform the possibilities in our lives. Artificial intelligence is not just a simple tool. It is about automatically making technology of any kind, in any field, act in the most intelligent way, based both on learning from real data and from experience, but also on efficient and correct computation and mathematics. Intelligence is the best possible way to use as few resources as possible for optimal effect. If we now know how to take advantage of this extraordinary opportunity in history and give Romania the right impetus in this direction, through a wise and courageous investment in the human value factor, but also in the necessary equipment and data, then we have all the chances to emerge victorious."
2020, University Politehnica of Bucharest, UPB
Our SpaceTimeVision research team in action at the PRECIS research center, Bucharest.
2019, NeurIPS & EEML
December 18, 2019: Iulia Duta and Andrei Liviu Nicolicioiu presenting our paper, which introduces the Recurrent Space-time Graph Neural Networks model, at Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference, in Vancouver, Canada.
2019, students of the world studying Machine Learning at EEML in Romania
"This is one of the most beautiful pictures I have taken in many years! Seeing all our wonderful students and guests from the Eastern European Machine Learning Summer School 2019, here in our beautiful park Herastrau (Bucharest, Romania), is absolutely fantastic! " Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu
2019, Collaboration with Petru Cercel High-School, Targoviste
Our fun and fruitful collaboration with Petru Cercel high school in Targoviste, Romania. We thank all 16 hardworking volunteers that participated in labeling the largest aerial video dataset for semantic segmentation, Ruralscapes.
More details can be found in our paper:
A. Marcu, V. Licaret, D. Costea and M. Leordeanu, Semantics through Time: Semi-supervised Segmentation of Aerial Videos with Iterative Label Propagation, ACCV 2020
2019, Dagstuhl Seminar
At Dagstuhl Seminar ( Home (dagstuhl.de) in January 2019, where Prof. Univ. Dr. Marius Leordeanu was inviting among top international researchers and where he presented his work on learning to describe videos in natural language using multiple networks consensus.
More details can be found in the paper:
I. Duta, A. Nicolicioiu, V. Bogolin and M. Leordeanu, Mining for Meaning: from Vision to Language through Multiple Networks Consensus, BMVC 2018
2018, Our first drone flight
Our team having a great time while learning to fly the drone for the very first time.
2017, Our team at ICCV, Venezia
Our team got Best Presentation Award for our ICCV article, Creating Roadmaps in Aerial Images with Generative Adversarial Networks and Smoothing-Based Optimization.
