Hi, I'm Noa.

I am an Assistant Professor at ISLab, Osaka University.

A big thank you to everybody who has supported me so far, especially professors, colleagues, and students at ISLab.

Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis, Noa Garcia, Guangxing Han, Sarah Ibrahimi, Nanne Van Noord, Giorgos Tolias

(NeurIPS 2021 Track on Datasets and Benchmarks)

Zechen Bai, Yuta Nakashima and Noa Garcia (ICCV 2021)

Noa Garcia and Yuta Nakashima (ECCV 2020)

Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu and Yuta Nakashima (AAAI 2020)

Noa Garcia and George Vogiatzis (VISART workshop, ECCV 2018)

2021

International Conferences

Zechen Bai, Yuta Nakashima, Noa Garcia. Explain Me the Painting: Multi-Topic Knowledgeable Art Description Generation. (ICCV 2021) [Data] [Code] [Video]
Nikolaos-Antonios Ypsilantis, Noa Garcia, Guangxing Han, Sarah Ibrahimi, Nanne Van Noord, Giorgos Tolias. Instance-level Recognition for Artworks: The MET Dataset. (NeurIPS 2021 Datasets and Benchmarks). [Data] [Code]
Tianran Wu, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura. Transferring Domain-Agnostic Knowledge in Video Question Answering. (BMVC 2021)
Cheikh Brahim El Vaigh, Noa Garcia, Benjamin Renoust, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Hajime Nagahara. GCNBoost: Artwork Classification by Label Propagation through a Knowledge Graph (ICMR 2021)
Yuta Kayatani, Zekun Yang, Mayu Otani, Noa Garcia, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura. The Laughing Machine: Predicting Humor in Video (WACV 2021)

International Workshops

Jules Samaran, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima. Attending Self-Attention: A Case Study of Visually Grounded Supervision in Vision-and-Language Transformers (Student Research, ACL-IJCNLP 2021)
Yusuke Hirota, Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Ittetsu Taniguchi, Takao Onoye. Visual Question Answering with Textual Representations (Closing the Loop Between Vision and Language, ICCV 2021)

Journals

Zekun Yang, Noa Garcia, Chenhui Chu, Mayu Otani, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura. A Comparative Study of Language Transformers for Video Question Answering (Neurocomputing, Mar. 2021)
Chenhui Chu, Vinicius Oliveira, Felix Giovanni Virgo, Mayu Otani, Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima. The Semantic Typology of Visually Grounded Paraphrases. (CVIU, Dec. 2021)

2020

International Conferences

Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima. Knowledge-Based Video Question Answering with Unsupervised Scene Descriptions (ECCV 2020) [Code] [Video]
Noa Garcia, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima. KnowIT VQA: Answering Knowledge-Based Questions about Videos (AAAI 2020) [Data] [Code]
Zekun Yang, Noa Garcia, Chenhui Chu, Mayu Otani, Yuta Nakashima, Haruo Takemura. BERT representations for Video Question Answering (WACV 2020)

International Workshops

Noa Garcia, Chentao Ye, Zihua Liu, Qingtao Hu, Mayu Otani, Chenhui Chu, Yuta Nakashima, Teruko Mitamura. A Dataset and Baselines for Visual Question Answering on Art (VISART, ECCV 2020) [Code&Data] [Video]
Nikolai Huckle, Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima. Demographic Influences on Contemporary Art with Unsupervised Style Embeddings (VISART, ECCV 2020)

Journals

Wenjian Dong, Mayu Otani, Noa Garcia, Yuta Nakashima, Chenhui Chu. Cross-Lingual Visual Grounding (IEEE Access, Dec. 2020)

2019

International Conferences

Noa Garcia, Benjamin Renoust, Yuta Nakashima. Context-Aware Embeddings for Automatic Art Analysis (ICMR 2019) [Code] Best paper award candidate

International Workshops

Noa Garcia, Benjamin Renoust, Yuta Nakashima. Understanding Art through Multi-Modal Retrieval in Paintings (Language and Vision workshop, CVPR 2019) [Code]
Benjamin Renoust, Matheus Franca, Jacob Chan, Noa Garcia, Van Le, Ayaka Uesaka, Yuta Nakashima, Hajime Nagahara, Juereng Wang, Yutaka Fujioka. Historical and Modern Features for Buddha Statue Classification (SUMAC workshop, ACMMM 2019)

Journals