Pablo García Fernández

I am Pablo García Fernández, an Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) and a researcher at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes (CiTIUS). I received my PhD in 2025 with a dissertation on object detection under minimal supervision, spanning few-shot, open-vocabulary, and category-free object detection.

My research focuses on developing adaptable visual recognition systems that can operate beyond fixed category sets and with limited supervision, with particular interests in open-vocabulary object detection, few-shot learning, and multimodal visual recognition. I have also worked on transferring open-vocabulary models to X-ray imagery for security screening applications.

In 2024–2025, I was a visiting PhD researcher at the University of Trento (Italy), where I worked with the Multimedia and Human Understanding Group (MHUG).

During my PhD, I was awarded an FPU Predoctoral Fellowship from the Spanish Ministry of Universities, a highly competitive national fellowship supporting doctoral research in Spain.

My research has been published in international venues including ICCV, Image and Vision Computing, and CAIP.