Researcher in Computer Vision

My research interests span Computer Vision, Machine Learning, AI Safety, and AI for Science. I focus on developing safe, accurate, and efficient vision systems and machine-learning models that can reliably perceive, understand, and act on information, while ensuring robustness, protecting privacy, and aligning with societal values.

I received my B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in Computer Science from Universidad Industrial de Santander, Colombia, in 2015, 2018, and 2022, respectively. I was a research intern at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab (SVL), supervised by Prof. Juan Carlos Niebles. I am currently a Postdoctoral Researcher at KAUST, working with Prof. Bernard Ghanem.

[Note] I am always looking for talented Ph.D. students for internships at KAUST. If you have a research idea that connects with my research interests, I would be happy to hear from you. Feel free to send me an email at carlos DOT hinojosa AT kaust DOT edu DOT sa.

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Highlights

| Jan. 2026 | I am an invited speaker at The Middle East and North Africa Machine Learning (MenaML) Winter School 2026. Talk title: “The Rise of Multi-Agent Systems: Capabilities, Opportunities, and Safety Considerations”.
| Jul. 2025 | Our Paper UnMix-NeRF has been accepted in ICCV 2025!
| Jun. 2025 | I’m excited to share that I’m co-organizing the 1st Workshop on Safe and Trustworthy Multimodal AI Systems (SaFeMM-AI) at ICCV2025!
| May. 2025 | I am an Area Chair for BMVC 2025.
| Sep. 2024 | I am an invited speaker at the 2nd Workshop on Privacy For Vision & Imaging at ECCV 2024.
| Sep. 2024 | Our ColorMAE paper will also be presented in the Self Supervised Learning: What is Next workshop at ECCV 2024.
| Jul. 2024 | Our ColorMAE paper has been accepted in ECCV 2024! See you in Milan.
| Feb. 2024 | 2 papers accepted to CVPR2024!!
| Aug. 2023 | I am editor of the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing. Check the published Collection articles here
| Jul. 2023 | I will co-organizing the LatinX in CV (LXCV) workshop at ICCV 2023!
| Mar. 2023 | I will co-organizing the LatinX in CV (LXCV) workshop at CVPR 2023!
| Jan. 2023 | I joined the IVUL research group at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology as a Postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Prof. Bernard Ghanem.
| Oct. 2022 | Our oral paper on privacy-preserving human action recognition was featured as the cover story in the ECCV2022 magazine by RSIPvision! See the magazine here.
| Oct. 2022 | Our paper “Optics Lens Design for Privacy-preserving Scene Captioning” won the Best Paper Award from the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP2022)! See here.
| Apr. 2022 | I successfully defended my Ph.D. and got the laureate distinction!
| Apr. 2022 | Happy to win third place in a data challenge competition for rare tumors organized by the Société Française de Radiologie (SFR) - France. The news here (spanish)

| Nov. 2021 | I will co-organizing the LatinX in CV (LXCV) workshop at CVPR 2022!
| Oct. 2021 | Our IEEE JSTAR journal paper on Fast Hyperspectral Image Subspace Clustering was accepted for publication.
| Oct. 2021 | I won the best oral poster presentation award in the LXCV@ICCV2021 workshop. I presented my ICCV 2021 conference paper on Privacy-preserving Optics.
| Sep. 2021 | I am co-organizing the LXCV workshop at ICCV 2021.
| July 2021 | Excited to start doing a research internship at the Stanford Vision and Learning Lab this fall!
| July 2021 | Our ICCV2021 conference paper on Privacy-preserving Optics will appear as an oral presentation (top 3% of all ICCV2021 submissions).

Publications

Journal and conference papers I have published

PrivHAR: Recognizing Human Actions from Privacy-preserving Lens

ECCV 2022 | European Computer Vision Association (ECVA)

Carlos Hinojosa, Miguel Marquez, Henry Arguello, Ehsan Adeli, Fei-Fei Li, Juan Carlos Niebles

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CX-DaGAN: Domain Adaptation for Pneumonia Diagnosis on a Small Chest X-ray Dataset

IEEE TMI | Journal

Karen Sanchez, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello, Denis Kouamé, Olivier Meyrignac, Adrian Basarab

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Optics lens design for privacy-preserving scene captioning

ICIP 2022 | IEEE Conference

Paula Arguello, Jhon Lopez, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello

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Hierarchical Compressed Subspace Clustering of Infrared Single-pixel Measurements

Whispers 2022 | SwIIms | IEEE Conference

Miguel Marquez, Jonathan Monsalve, Kevin Arias, Karen Sanchez, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello

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A Fast and Accurate Similarity-constrained Subspace Clustering Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image

IEEE JSTARS | Journal

Carlos Hinojosa, Esteban Vera, Henry Arguello

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Learning Privacy-preserving Optics for Human Pose Estimation.

ICCV 2021 | IEEE Conference

Carlos Hinojosa, Juan Carlos Niebles, Henry Arguello

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Efficient subspace clustering of hyperspectral images using similarity-constrained sampling

SPIE Applied Remote Sensing | Journal

Jhon López, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello

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Subspace-based Domain Adaptation Using Similarity Constraints for Pneumonia Diagnosis within a Small Chest X-ray Image Dataset

ISBI 2021 | IEEE Symposium

Karen Sanchez, Carlos Hinojosa, Henry Arguello, Simon Freiss, Nicolas Sans, Denis Kouamé, Oliver Meyrignc, Adrian Basarab

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Hyperspectral image segmentation using 3D regularized subspace clustering model

SPIE Applied Remote Sensing | Journal

Carlos Hinojosa, Fernando Rojas, Sergio Castillo, Henry Arguello

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Single-pixel camera sensing matrix design for hierarchical compressed spectral clustering

MLSP 2019 | IEEE Workshop

Carlos Hinojosa, Jorge Bacca, Edwin Vargas, Sergio Castillo, Henry Arguello

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Conferences Attendance

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Researcher in Computer Vision

Highlights

Publications

PrivHAR: Recognizing Human Actions from Privacy-preserving Lens

CX-DaGAN: Domain Adaptation for Pneumonia Diagnosis on a Small Chest X-ray Dataset

Optics lens design for privacy-preserving scene captioning

Hierarchical Compressed Subspace Clustering of Infrared Single-pixel Measurements

A Fast and Accurate Similarity-constrained Subspace Clustering Algorithm for Hyperspectral Image

Learning Privacy-preserving Optics for Human Pose Estimation.

Efficient subspace clustering of hyperspectral images using similarity-constrained sampling

Subspace-based Domain Adaptation Using Similarity Constraints for Pneumonia Diagnosis within a Small Chest X-ray Image Dataset

Hyperspectral image segmentation using 3D regularized subspace clustering model

Single-pixel camera sensing matrix design for hierarchical compressed spectral clustering

Projects

Learning Privacy-preserving Optics for Human Pose Estimation

Smartphone-based application for agricultural remote technical assistance in Colombia

Time to depth conversion and seismic interval velocity estimation

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