Artificial Intelligence to locate and count whales Noticia
Researchers from the Institute in collaboration with researchers from Almeria have developed a tool that allows us to locate and count whales. Canal UGR (In Spanish)
UGR will lead a European Project for the creation of ultra-light intelligent structures for use in aircraft and wind turbines Noticia
The ENHAnCE project, in which 9 European institutions are participating, has been financed with 2.67 million euros. The coordination of a European project of the H2020 programme is a success for the University of Granada (UGR) and for the DaSCI Institute to which some of its principal researchers are affiliated. The consortium will be led […]
Agreement to launch the TECNALIA Endowed Chair in Artificial Intelligence at the UGR Noticia
The rector of the University of Granada (UGR), Pilar Aranda and TECNALIA’s Deputy Director General of Technology, Jesús Valero, have signed a collaboration agreement for the creation of the “TECNALIA Chair in Artificial Intelligence” which will be endowed with 50,000 € per year. For more information: Actualidad Canal UGR , IDEAL (In Spanish)
Rioja wineries miss out on Twitter communication possibilities, according to a study by UNIR and the University of Granada. Noticia
A study focusing on the Rioja Qualified Designation of Origin (DOCa) carried out by UNIR Marketing professor Carmen Zarco and the expert from the University of Granada, Óscar Cordón, shows that only around 32% of the wineries affiliated to this Designation have a Twitter profile, although not all of them develop active and direct communication. […]
The Andalusian Council of Universities (CAU) has approved the creation of s the Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Intelligence, by the Universities of Jaén (UJA) and Granada (UGR). Noticia
According to a press release from the Delegation of the Regional Government of Andalusia in Jaen, this institute will research in two major fundamental areas, Data Science and Computational Intelligence, two areas of great projection in the field of international research and with scientific recognition at the universities of Jaen and Granada. For more information: […]
The director of the DaSCI Institute, Francisco Herrera becomes a member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain Noticia
Francisco Herrera Triguero, Professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Granada (UGR), joined the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain yesterday as a full member of the academy, in an event that took place at the headquarters of the institution in Madrid and was attended by the rector of the UGR, […]
A UGR Study on the use of algorithms for security and ecology granted by BBVA Foundation Noticia
The BBVA Foundation grants with 100,000 euros a research project at the University of Granada (UGR) called ‘Deep Learning’ applied to Security, Ecology and Natural Language’, coordinated by Francisco Herrera Triguero, professor of the Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. The aim of this project is to generate high quality data for Deep Learning […]
Presentation in Granada of the Spanish R+D+I Strategy in Artificial Intelligence Noticia
On Monday 4 March, the Spanish Strategy for R+D+I in Artificial Intelligence was presented in Granada. The event, took place in the Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos, was presided over by the Minister of Science, Innovation and Universities, Pedro Duque, and closed by the President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez. More information (in spanish).
Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Intelligence, obtains the European qualification of “Digital Innovation Hub” Noticia
Andalusian Research Institute on Data Science and Computational Ingelligence, has been included in the catalogue of the “Digital Innovation Hub” (DIH) whose main objective is to increase the competitiveness of industry through digital technologies and is the highest European recognition of innovative ecosystems. http://s3platform.jrc.ec.europa.eu/digital-innovation-hubs-tool/-/dih/12691/view
The highly cited professors Francisco Herrera, Enrique Herrera, Salvador García and Alberto Fernández are key players in the raise of the University of Granada in the Shanghai Ranking. Noticia
Links a Spanish Paper. Vídeo en Ideal: https://www.ideal.es/miugr/prestigio-ranking-proyeccion-5841464313001-20180928100925-vi.html
CAEPIA 2018 Awards Noticia
First prize of the CAEPIA 2018 Competition of Apps based on Artificial Intelligence by the App MonuMAI Francisco Herrera, Álvaro Martínez-Sevilla, Siham Tabik, Rosana Montes, Alberto Castillo Lamas, Teresa Cruz Sánchez, José Policarpo Cruz. MonuMAI: an app to increase the social value of Andalusian architectural heritage https://sci2s.ugr.es/caepia18/premiados.html#apps (Link a Spanish Media)
REUTERS: AI system that spots guns in real-time video could help airport security Noticia
University of Granada (UGR) researchers have designed a computer algorithm that automatically recognises guns on video in real-time, as Jim Drury reports. Go to video
Videos Conference Future Challenges 2018 Noticia
“Artificial Intelligence in Defense Technology” http://www.ejercito.mde.es/multimedia/Videos-2018/RRFF/05-factor-ind-tec.html (Link a Spanish Video)
Featured from MIT in its technology review portal “The Best of Physics arXiv”: Automatic Handgun Detection Alarm in Videos Using Deep Learning Noticia
https://arxiv.org/abs/1702.05147 Current surveillance and control systems still require human supervision and intervention. This work presents a novel automatic handgun detection system in videos appropriate for both, surveillance and control purposes. We reformulate this detection problem into the problem of minimizing false positives and solve it by building the key training data-set guided by the results […]