I am a Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Rice University advised by Prof. Vicente Ordóñez Román, working on computer vision and language. I received a Master of Computer Science at the University of Virginia and my B.S. in Engineering at the Tecnológico de Costa Rica. Previously I spent 10 years working as a Software Engineer at different Tech Companies. Here is my CV.
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 |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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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] |
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Variational Image Captioning Using Deterministic Attention. Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Hyun Jae Cho, Alphonse N Akakpo. [report] [code] |