News
03/2022. One paper accepted to #CVPR2022. Project page: simvqa.github.io
01/2022. Co-organizing the LatinXinCV research workshop at CVPR 2022. Co-chairing the Mentorship Program.
01/2022. I'm moving to Houston, TX to continue my PhD at Rice University.
12/2021. I'm returning to the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab as a PhD Intern Researcher next Summer. []
11/2021. One paper accepted to BMVC 2021. It's all about image patches grid_on and evolution! sync_problem
09/2021. Got my Master's in Computer Science at the University of Virginia. GPA 4.0.
05/2021. Featured as the talent of May in the Costa Rican Talent Network Abroad (Ticotal). National Science Academy, Costa Rica.
01-10/2021. Co-organizing the LatinXinCV research workshop at CVPR 2021, ICML 2021, ICCV 2021. Co-chairing the Mentorship Program.
02/2021. Curriculum Labeling got accepted to AAAI 2021.
01/2021. Accepted a Summer PhD Internship at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab. []
08/2020. Invited to give a workshop at the International Meeting on Artificial Intelligence and its Applications (RIIAA).

Moviescope: Large-scale Analysis of Movies using Multiple Modalities. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Kalpathy Sitaraman, Mengjia Luo, Vicente Ordonez.                [arxiv] [project page] [bibtex] Media coverage: techxplore article

	SimVQA: Exploring Simulated Environments for Visual Question Answering. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Hui Wu, Letao Wang, Rogerio Feris, Vicente Ordonez. 2022 Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. CVPR 2022. New Orleans, Lousiana. June 2022. [arxiv] [bibtex]
	Evolving Image Compositions for Feature Representation Learning. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Arshdeep Sekhon, Yanjun Qi, Vicente Ordonez. The 32nd British Machine Vision Conference. BMVC 2021. Virtual Conference. November 2021. [arxiv] [bibtex]
	Curriculum Labeling: Revisiting Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Learning. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Fuwen Tan, Yanjun Qi, Vicente Ordonez. The 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI 2021. Virtual Conference. February 2021. [arxiv] [code] [bibtex]
	Drill-down: Interactive Retrieval of Complex Scenes using Natural Language Queries. Fuwen Tan, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Xiaoxiao Guo, Hui Wu, Song Feng, Vicente Ordonez. Conf. on Neural Information Processing Systems. NeurIPS 2019. Vancouver, Canada. December 2019. [arxiv] [bibtex]
	Chat-crowd: A Dialog-based Platform for Visual Layout Composition. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Xuwang Yin, Vicente Ordonez, Song Feng. North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics. NAACL 2019. System Demonstrations. Minneapolis, Minnesota. June 2019. [arxiv] [project page] [code] [bibtex]

Variational Image Captioning Using Deterministic Attention. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Hyun Jae Cho, Alphonse N Akakpo.                      [report] [code]

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