PhD students from the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes, Enmin Zhong and Celia Ibáñez, participated in the VIA Madrid Summer School 2026, held on June 15, 16, and 17. The event brought together researchers and students to discuss the latest advances in vision and artificial intelligence, covering applications ranging from autonomous driving to medical image analysis.

During the summer school, Enmin took part in the challenge “Explainable Artificial Intelligence for Multimodal Natural Disaster Impact Assessment”, in which her team was awarded second prize. The proposal explored the use of the foundational model TerraMind to assess the impact of climate-related disasters using satellite imagery and time series data, while also incorporating ideas for detecting structural changes in affected areas.

Celia, in turn, received the second prize for Best Poster Presentation for her work “Robust Vision-Based Geo-Registration for Aerial Imagery under Challenging Conditions”. The work presents a robust vision-based geo-registration framework for aerial imagery, designed to improve localization accuracy and reliability in challenging scenarios.

These two recognitions highlight the quality of the research being carried out within the Grupo de Tratamiento de Imágenes.