Xavier Giro-i-Nieto is an applied scientist at Amazon Barcelona, in the science team lead by Aleix Martinez and Francesc Moreno-Noguer. Until 2022, he was an associate professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC) in Barcelona, member of the Image Processing Group (GPI), Intelligent Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Research Center (IDEAI-UPC) and the Institute of Industrial Robotics (IRI UPC-CSIC). He graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at ETSETB (UPC) in 2000, after completing his master thesis on image compression at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) with Prof. Peter Schelkens. After working one year in Sony Brussels, he returned to UPC to obtain a PhD on computer vision, supervised by Prof. Ferran Marqués and Prof. Shih-Fu Chang from the Digital Video and MultiMedia laboratory at Columbia University, that he repeatedly visited between 2008-2014. conferences like ICCV 2024 and CVPR 2025.