Josep Lopez Camuñas (Any/All)
PhD Student in Affective Computing @ UOC

I am currently a doctoral student in the Network and Information Technologies (NIT) program at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC), advised by Prof. Agata Lapedriza. As a member of the AIWELL (AI for Human WELL-being) lab, I explore emotion understanding and model interpretability in multimodal systems.

Prior to my PhD, I earned a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Universitat de Barcelona. I then worked for two years as a Data Scientist at DMD.Solutions, a consulting company focused on reliability and safety in the aerospace industry. After that, I completed a Master's in Computer Vision at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, where I became increasingly interested in human-centered AI and multimodal systems.

I am actively collaborating with Northeastern University and the MIT CSAIL Vision Group in Antonio Torralba’s lab. As part of this collaboration, I completed two mid-term research visits to both institutions in 2024 and 2025. I also contributed to the organization of KDD 2024 in Barcelona and have served as a reviewer for WACV and CVPR 2025. I enjoy being involved in the academic community and regularly engage in research, reviewing, and event organization activities that support knowledge exchange and collaboration.

Curriculum Vitae

Education
  • Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Universitat Oberta de Catalunya
    Network and Information Technologies
    Ph.D. Student
    Sep. 2022 - present
  • Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona
    MSc in Computer Vision
    Sep. 2021 - Sep. 2022
  • Universitat de Barcelona
    Universitat de Barcelona
    BSc in Computer Science
    Sep. 2016 - Jul. 2020
Experience
  • DMD Solutions
    DMD Solutions
    Data Scientist
    Feb. 2020 - Nov. 2021
Honors & Awards
  • UOC Grant Programme
    2022
News
2025
Visiting Researcher at MIT & Northeastern University.
Feb 28
2024
1 Paper Accepted at WACV 2025: 2nd Workshop on Computer Vision with Small Data.
Dec 28
Visiting Researcher at Northeastern University.
Apr 26
Selected Publications (view all )
Experimenting with Affective Computing Models in Video Interviews with Spanish-speaking Older Adults
Experimenting with Affective Computing Models in Video Interviews with Spanish-speaking Older Adults

Josep Lopez Camuñas, Cristina Bustos, Yanjun Zhu, Raquel Ros, Agata Lapedriza

Submitted to Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops 2025

Understanding emotional signals in older adults is crucial for designing virtual assistants that support their well-being. However existing affective computing models often face significant limitations: (1) limited availability of datasets representing older adults especially in non-English-speaking populations and (2) poor generalization of models trained on younger or homogeneous demographics. To address these gaps this study...

Experimenting with Affective Computing Models in Video Interviews with Spanish-speaking Older Adults

Josep Lopez Camuñas, Cristina Bustos, Yanjun Zhu, Raquel Ros, Agata Lapedriza

Submitted to Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops 2025

Understanding emotional signals in older adults is crucial for designing virtual assistants that support their well-being. However existing affective computing models often face significant limitations: (1) limited availability of datasets representing older adults especially in non-English-speaking populations and (2) poor generalization of models trained on younger or homogeneous demographics. To address these gaps this study...

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