Xavier Giró

Position e-mail
Associate Professor xavier.giro@upc.edu
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Biography

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Xavier Giro-i-Nieto is an applied scientist at Amazon Barcelona, in the science team lead by Aleix Martinez and Francesc Moreno-Noguer. Until 2022, he was an associate professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, member of the Image Processing Group (GPI), Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC) and the Institute of Industrial Robotics (IRI UPC-CSIC). He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at ETSETB (UPC) in 2000, after completing his master thesis on image compression at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) with Prof. Peter Schelkens. After working one year in Sony Brussels, he returned to UPC to obtain a PhD on computer vision, supervised by Prof. Ferran Marqués and Prof. Shih-Fu Chang from the Digital Video and MultiMedia laboratory at Columbia University, that he repeatedly visited between 2008-2014. Dr. Giró was the director of the Postgraduate on Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning at UPC School, and also taught undergradute and graduate course on deep learning at ESEIAAT and ETSETB schools at UPC, as well as the Master in Computer Vision of BarcelonaHe regularly collaborated with the Insight Center of Data Analytics at Dublin City Universityand is a member of the Governance Committee of the Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Research Training in Machine Learning. From a transfer technology perspective, he collaborated with Barcelona-based company Crisalix, and was a member of the scientific advisory committee of Vilynx, which was acquired by Apple in 2020. He is a member of the ELLIS Barcelona unit and the Computer Vision Foundation. He is a funding organizer of the Deep Learning Barcelona Symposium, and serves as area chair in computer vision conferences like ICCV 2024 and CVPR 2025.

Scientific IDs:  Google ScholarWoK Researcher ID: M-5834-2013, ORCID: 0000-0002-9935-5332, Scopus Author ID35098596700, UPC Futur

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Book Chapters and Bookstop

2018
V. Campos, Giró-i-Nieto, X., Jou, B., Torres, J., and Chang, S. - F., Sentiment concept embedding for visual affect recognition, in Multimodal Behavior Analysis in theWild, 1st ed., Elsevier, 2018.
2017
E. Mohedano, Salvador, A., McGuinness, K., Giró-i-Nieto, X., O'Connor, N., and Marqués, F., Object Retrieval with Deep Convolutional Features, in Deep Learning for Image Processing Applications, vol. 31, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, 2017.
M. Bellver, Giró-i-Nieto, X., Marqués, F., and Torres, J., Hierarchical Object Detection with Deep Reinforcement Learning, in Deep Learning for Image Processing Applications, vol. 31, Amsterdam, The Netherlands: IOS Press, 2017.
2012
C. Ventura, Martos, M., Giró-i-Nieto, X., Vilaplana, V., and Marqués, F., Hierarchical Navigation and Visual Search for Video Keyframe Retrieval, in Advances in Multimedia Modeling, vol. 7131, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 652-654.
E. Carcel, Martos, M., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Marqués, F., Rich Internet Application for Semi-automatic Annotation of Semantic Shots on Keyframes, in Computational Intelligence for Multimedia Understanding, vol. 7242, Pisa, Italy: Springer-Verlag, 2012, pp. 172-182. (6.93 MB)

Conference Papers top

2024
D. Bonet, Mas-Montserrat, D., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Ioannidis, A. G., HyperFast: Instant Classification for Tabular Data, in 38th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), 2024. (3.15 MB)
2023
M. Barrabés, Mas-Montserrat, D., Geleta, M., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Ioannidis, A. G., Adversarial Learning for Feature Shift Detection and Correction, in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), New Orleans, USA, 2023.
P. Caselles, Ramon, E., Garcia, J., Giró-i-Nieto, X., Moreno, F., and Triginer, G., SIRA: Relightable Avatars from a Single Image, in Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2023.
L. Tarrés, Gállego, G. I., Duarte, A., Torres, J., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., Sign Language Translation from Instructional Videos, in CVPR 2023 Women in Computer Vision Workshop, Vancouver, Canada, 2023. (4.64 MB)
2022
A. Duarte, Albanie, S., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Varol, G., Sign Language Video Retrieval with Free-Form Textual Queries, in CVPR 2022 - CVF/IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 2022. (3.22 MB)

Research Areas top

Sign Language Recognition, Translation and Production Internal May
2017
May
2026
Population Genomics Internal Jan
2021
Jul
2022
Steganography Internal Sep
2019
Jul
2022
Language and Vision Internal Feb
2016
Dec
2021
Multimodal Deep Reinforcement Learning Internal Sep
2016
Jul
2021

Teaching top

Acronym Title Level College
AIDL Artificial Intelligence with Deep Learning Postgraduate UPC School
ARAP Deep and Reinforcement Learning Bachelor ETSETB TelecomBCN
DLMM Deep Learning for Multimedia Master & PhD Dublin City University
GDSA Multimedia Content Management and Delivery Degree in Audiovisual Systems (3rd year) Escola Superior d'Enginyeries Industrials, Aeroespacial i Audiovisual de Terrassa (ESEIAAT)