Julia Guerrero Viu
I am a PhD Candidate working under the supervision of Prof. Belen Masia and Prof. Diego Gutierrez at Graphics and Imaging Lab, at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain). Previously, I studied Bachelor in Computer Engineering at Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain) and Master in Computer Science with specialization in Artificial Intelligence at University of Freiburg (Germany). My research interests lie among the fields of computer graphics, perception science, computer vision and deep learning. My PhD thesis focuses on better understanding how our brains visually perceive material appearance in order to build intuitive, perceptually-based representations of appearance for visual content creation. In my free time, I love volunteering in scientific outreach activities and raising visibility of women in STEM.
- Download my CV here
- Email: juliagviu (at) unizar.es
- City: Zaragoza, Spain
- Phone: +34 648629137
- ORCID: 0000-0002-2077-683X
Publications
TexSliders: Diffusion-Based Texture Editing in CLIP Space
Julia Guerrero-Viu, Miloš Hašan, Arthur Roullier, Midhun Harikumar, Yiwei Hu, Paul Guerrero, Diego Gutierrez, Belen Masia, Valentin Deschaintre
Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2024
Predicting Perceived Gloss: Do Weak Labels Suffice?
Julia Guerrero-Viu*, J. Daniel Subias*, Ana Serrano, Katherine R. Storrs, Roland W. Fleming, Belen Masia, Diego Gutierrez
Computer Graphics Forum (Proceedings of Eurographics 2024)
The Visual Language of Fabrics
Valentin Deschaintre*, Julia Guerrero-Viu*, Diego Gutierrez, Tamy Boubekeur, Belen Masia
ACM Transactions on Graphics (Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2023)
Bag of Baselines for Multi-objective Joint Neural Architecture Search and Hyperparameter Optimization
Sergio Izquierdo, Julia Guerrero-Viu, Sven Hauns, Guilherme Miotto, Simon Schrodi, Andre Biedenkapp, Thomas Elsken, Difan Deng, Marius Lindauer, Frank Hutter
2021 ICML Workshop on Automated Machine Learning - International Conference on Machine Learning
What's in my Room? Object Recognition on Indoor Panoramic Images
Julia Guerrero-Viu*, Clara Fernandez-Labrador*, Cédric Demonceaux, José J. Guerrero
2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
Research Stays
Junior Research Intern at Graphics and Imaging Lab
2019
Supervised by Dr. Julio Marco and Prof. Diego Gutierrez
Denoising of physically based renders in challenging scenarios using Deep Neural Networks (210 h.)
Collaboration Research Scholarship at Robotics, Perception and Real Time Group
2018 - 2019
Supervised by Prof. Josechu Guerrero
Use of indoor 3D layouts for object recognition on omnidirectional images (8 months ‐ 15h./week)
Funded by Spanish Ministry of Education (Competitive National Scholarship)
Teaching & Supervision
Teaching
Programming Fundamentals
2022/23 & 2023/24 & 2024/25
BSc in Industrial Technologies Engineering
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
Supervision
Optical illusions and deep learning models: Performance analysis and comparisons to human perception
2024
Jorge Esteban Merino ‐ BSc in Computer Engineering
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
BSc Thesis (9.1/10.0 Sobresaliente)
Disentangled latent representations of material appearance with unsupervised learning
2023
Santiago Jiménez Navarro ‐ MSc in Robotics, Graphics and Computer Vision
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
Internship ‐ 225 hours & MSc Thesis (9.5/10.0 Matricula de Honor)
Prediction of perceived glossiness with supervised learning
2022
Fernando Gómez Osta ‐ BSc in Computer Engineering
Universidad de Zaragoza (Spain)
Internship ‐ 188 hours
News
Thesis in 3 Minutes
November 2024
I have participated in this year's edition of the challenge "Thesis in 3 minutes", organized by Campus Iberus. I had the difficult task of summarizing my PhD thesis in only three minutes for a general audience. It was a great opportunity to learn communication skills, meet other PhD students from the universities of Campus Iberus and get to know their research topics. I made it to the final phase, you can watch my speech at this link (minute 9:07, Spanish only).
Una ingeniera en cada cole
March 2024 - April 2024
I have participated in this year's edition of "Una ingeniera en cada cole" ("A female engineer in every school"), as I have been doing for the last nine years. This is a dissemination initiative organized by AMIT-Aragon in regional primary schools (children aged 6‐12) about engineering and science, aiming to increase the visibility of women in STEM, stop gender stereotypes and act as role-model for young girls. Together with my colleagues, we visited three schools: CEIP Hermanos Marx and Colegio Sagrado Corazón Moncayo in Zaragoza, and CEIP Asuncion Pañart Montaner in Ainsa (Huesca).
11F ‐ International Day of Women and Girls in Science
February 2023
We celebrated the International Day of Women and Girls in Science on 11th February. Around this day, I participated in several dissemination activities, including a couple of visits to high schools in Zaragoza and the young researchers' talks organized by AMIT-Aragon and CSIC. We discussed about many critical issues of research nowadays, such as compensations, temporary contracts, mobility, or academic pressure, which are even more notorious in the case of women as an underrepresented gender in our field.
European Researchers' Night
September 2022
We celebrated the European Researchers' Night at Universidad de Zaragoza. Together with my colleagues from Graphics and Imaging Lab, we organized a dissemination activity for children and families about the research areas of our lab. We also showed a few virtual reality demos to the attendees, who enjoyed a lot.
WONNOW Award
2021
I was honoured to receive the WONNOW Award from Microsoft and CaixaBank, a recognition for the best female student in STEM degrees in Spain. This award gave me the opportunity to give interviews in national and regional media, such as El Periodico de Aragon, eldiario.es, Aragon Radio and RTVE (07:15). Recently, I have been included in the "Científicas e innovadoras" online platform, a repository of Spanish female scientists considered influential to inspire young people.