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The Center for Computational Imaging and Visual Innovations (CIVI) specializes in research projects centered towards solving real-world problems through deep learning solutions trained on visual data. Research projects under CIVI focus on specific goals, particularly (1) data collection, (2) model building and optimization, and (3) application development.
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From the lab
Research, people, and achievements at CIVI.
2026 September 14 - 17
Our BSMSCS student Rafael Subo Yap presented research entitled "Architecture-Aware Structured Pruning for Parameter-Efficient Dense Small-Object Detection" at the 35th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN), held in Padua, Italy 🇮🇹.
2026 September 13 - 17
Our lab head Arren Matthew Antioquia presented research entitled "A Comprehensive Analysis of Lightweight Design Strategies for Camouflaged Crop Detection and WiSDet: A Windshield-Guided Few-Shot Framework for Detecting Car Stickers in the Wild" at the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), held in Tampere, Finland 🇫🇮.
2026 June 26 - 28
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso presented research entitled "A Systematic Class-Wise Analysis of Challenges and Network Efficacy in Camouflaged Crop Detection" at the 10th International Conference on Graphics and Signal Processing (ICGSP), held in Okayama, Japan 🇯🇵.
2026 February 18
Congratulations to Charles Joseph Hinolan, Mac Andre Javellana, Mari Salvador Lapuz, and Audrea Arjaemi Tabadero on receiving the Outstanding Thesis Award (Silver Medal) for their work, "A Lightweight Computer Vision Model for Camouflaged Crop Detection." This marks CIVI`s second Outstanding Thesis Award in the BSCS program and third award overall. Their research evaluates lightweight object detection strategies, including pruning and knowledge distillation, to balance accuracy and computational efficiency for real-world agricultural applications.
2026 January 27 & 2026 February 17
CIVI held FRAME Sprint – Day 1 at the John Gokongwei Innovation Center, DLSU Laguna Campus, on January 27 and February 16, 2026, guiding BSMSCS and THS-ST3 students in refining research manuscripts and preparing papers for conference and journal submission.
2025 December 11
CIVI participated in the DOST-PCIEERD Grand MOA Signing for 2025 Approved Projects on December 11, 2025, at the Philippine Trade Training Center. The event recognized a DOST-PCIEERD-funded project with DLSU GAME Lab exploring synthetic 3D scenes for computer vision.
2024 October 28
Our faculty researcher Dr. John Jethro Virtusio delivered a presentation entitled "Computer Vision in Agriculture" at the 10th DOST-Balik Scientist Program (BSP) Annual Convention, held in the Philippine International Convention Center (PICC).
2024 October 18 - 20
Our lab head Arren Matthew Antioquia delivered a presentation entitled "Machine Learning Models for Biomedical Image Classification Session" at the International Conference on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (ICBSP), held in the Hong Kong.
2024 October 18 - 20
Our lab head Arren Matthew Antioquia presented research entitled "Classifying Skin Diseases using Convolutional Neural Networks" at the International Conference on Biomedical Imaging and Signal Processing (ICBSP), held in Hong Kong.
From our students
Academic lectures & technical workshops delivered by our students
2026 October 17
Our BSMSCS student Marxandrea Diane Cabato led a technical workshop titled "Training a YOLO Model on Imbalanced Data."
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2026 October 10
Our BSMSCS student Marxandrea Diane Cabato presented an academic lecture titled "Long-Tail Object Detection - Addressing Class Imbalance in Vision Models."
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2025 November 19
Our BSMSCS student Christian Tia led a technical workshop titled "Implementing Curriculum Learning in PyTorch."
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2025 November 19
Our BSMSCS student Rafael Subo Yap led a technical workshop titled "Hands-on Pruning of Computer Vision Models in PyTorch."
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2025 November 19
Our BSMSCS student Matthew Ryan Carandang led a technical workshop titled "Training a YOLO model using the NuImages dataset."
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2025 November 19
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso led a technical workshop titled "Development of Camouflaged Object Detection Networks."
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2025 November 12
Our BSMSCS student Christian Tia presented an academic lecture titled "Curriculum Learning for Image Classification."
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2025 November 12
Our BSMSCS student Rafael Subo Yap presented an academic lecture titled "Pruning in Computer Vision: Making Object Detection Lighter."
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2025 November 12
Our BSMSCS student Matthew Ryan Carandang presented an academic lecture titled "Introduction to Single-Stage Object Detection."
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2025 November 12
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso presented an academic lecture titled "An Introduction to Camouflaged Object Detection."
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2025 July 5
Our BSMSCS student Matthew Ryan Carandang presented an academic lecture titled "Exploring Multimodal Object Detection."
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2025 June 28
Our BSMSCS student Rafael Subo Yap presented an academic lecture titled "Small Object Detection: Tiny Targets, Big Problems."
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2025 June 28
Our BSMSCS student Christian Tia presented an academic lecture titled "Transfer Learning for Medical Image Classification."
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2025 June 4
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso led a technical workshop titled "Development and Evaluation of Object Segmentation Networks."
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2025 May 28
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso presented an academic lecture titled "Introduction and Evolution of Object Segmentation."
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2025 March 12
Our BSMSCS student Aaron Gabrielle Dichoso presented an academic lecture titled "An Introduction to Residual Learning for Computer Vision."
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2025 March 5
Our BSMSCS student Ricardo Luis Vicerra presented an academic lecture titled "Super-Resolution: Spotting the Unseen, Seeing the Unthinkable."
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2025 Feb 19
Our BSMSCS student Juan Carlo Azarcon led a technical workshop titled "Building YOLO from Scratch using PyTorch."
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2025 Feb 12
Our BSMSCS student Juan Carlo Azarcon presented an academic lecture titled "Exploring the Evolution of YOLO Models."
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2025 Feb 8
Our BSMSCS student Kate Justine Ermitano led a technical workshop titled "Implementing Decoupling for FGVC Tasks with Noisy Labels."
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2025 Feb 1
Our BSMSCS student Kate Justine Ermitano presented an academic lecture titled "Decoupling for Robust Fine-Grained Visual Classification with Noisy Labels."
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2024 Oct 30
Our BSMSCS student Juan Carlo Azarcon led a technical workshop titled "Introduction to Object Detection with YOLOv8."
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2024 Oct 9
Our BSMSCS student Joseph Thomas Año led a technical workshop titled "Building an Image Classifier using PyTorch."
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