Josep Lladós Canet
Josep Lladós Canet
Director of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC)
Dr Josep Lladós Canet graduated in Computer Engineering from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 1991 and obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the University of Paris 8 (France) in 1997. He is currently a UAB Professor and Director of the Computer Vision Centre (CVC). Within the realm of computer vision, Dr Lladós specialises in document image recognition. He has made various contributions in this area to the field of digital humanities, in tools for reading digitised historical documents. He has led several R&D projects, published around 300 papers in various international congresses and journals, and supervised 17 PhD theses. Dr Lladós has been a member of the commissions that have defined the artificial intelligence strategies for Spain and Catalonia.
