Hi, I'm Noa.
I am an Assistant Professor at IDS, Osaka University.
Latest News
Nov. 2023: Our work has been reproduced at the ML Reproducibility Challenge 2022! A big thanks to the authors for choosing our paper 🙏
Nov. 2023: I am delivering a talk about Text-to-Image Models in Art and Society at the Rethinking the ethics of AI symposium at Doshisha University.
Oct. 2023: I am co-organizing the MUWS 2023 workshop at CIKM 2023.
Sep. 2023: A paper accepted at NeurIPS 2023 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
Aug. 2023: I will return to work by the end of August 👋.
Apr. 2023: I am on maternity leave. It may take a while to answer emails.
Apr. 2023: I will be an invited speaker at CVPR 2023 NICE Workshop.
Apr. 2023: Yuta Nakashima as PI and I as Co-PI have been awarded a 5-year JSPS Kakenhi grant KIBAN A.
Apr. 2023: A paper on text-to-image generation for art analysis accepted at ICMR 2023.
Mar. 2023: Our paper "Uncurated Image-Text Datasets: Shedding Light on Demographic Bias" has been selected as a highlight at CVPR 2023 (2.5% of submissions).
Feb. 2023: Two papers on the topic of bias in vision and language accepted at CVPR 2023.
Aug. 2022: I am participating in a panel about DALL-E and art history at the Digital Art History Summer School 2022.
Aug. 2022: A preprint about knowledge transfer in vision and language published in arxiv.
Aug. 2022: Our team won the ICPR 2022 ODOR challenge for olfactory object recognition in paintings.
Aug. 2022: I am visiting the Visual Recognition Group at CTU in Prague for a week, where I will present our work on societal bias.
Jul. 2022: I will serve as area chair for BMVC 2022.
Jul. 2022: I am co-organizing a tutorial at DH 2022.
Apr. 2022: I will be a keynote speaker at the Computer Vision for Fashion, Art, and Design workshop at CVPR 2022.
Apr. 2022: A paper accepted at ACM FAccT 2022.
Mar. 2022: I am co-organizing 2 workshops at ECCV 2022: VISART and the Instance-Level Recognition workshop.
Mar. 2022: A paper accepted at CVPR 2022 as an oral.
Mar. 2022: I've been awarded a 4-year JSPS Kakenhi grant KIBAN C.
Oct. 2021: A paper accepted at BMVC 2021.
Oct. 2021: A paper accepted at NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks track.
Jul. 2021: A paper accepted at ICCV 2021.
Highlighted Publications
Tong Xiang, Liangzhi Li, Wangyue Li, Mingbai Bai, Lu Wei, Bowen Wang, Noa Garcia (NeurIPS 2023 D&B track)
Noa Garcia , Yusuke Hirota, Yankun Wu, Yuta Nakashima (CVPR 2023, Highlight)
Yusuke Hirota, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia (CVPR 2023)
Yankun Wu, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia (ICMR 2023)
Yusuke Hirota, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia (FAccT 2022)
Tianran Wu, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura (BMVC 2021)
Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima (AAAI 2020)
Zekun Yang, Noa Garcia, Chenhui Chu, Mayu Otani, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura (WACV 2020)
Noa Garcia, Benjamin Renoust, Yuta Nakashima (ICMR 2019)
Students
Current students
Yusuke Hirota: Ph.D. student (previously master student), since 2020.
Tianwei Chen: Ph.D. student (previously internship student), since 2020.
Yankun Wu: Ph.D. student (previously internship student), since 2021.
Patrick Ramos: internship student, since Oct. 2023.
Ryan Ramos: internship student, since Oct. 2023.
Warren Leu: internship student, since Oct. 2023.
Alumni
Nikolai Huckle: visiting student (2020).
Zechen Bai: remote visiting student (2020 - 2021).
Tianran Wu: master student (2020 - 2022).
Selina Khan: visiting student (2023).
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