Laura Bravo Sánchez

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Hi! I’m a Ph.D. student at Stanford University where I’m advised by Prof. Serena Yeung-Levy.

My research focuses on understanding human social interaction and behavior through computer vision. I develop 3D human mesh estimation and, more broadly, video understanding models, with a focus on applications in healthcare. My goal is to create scalable AI systems to analyze complex social dynamics, particularly those behind parent-child interactions.

Previously I obtained my M.Sc and B.Sc at Universidad de los Andes in Biomedical Engineering and worked on computer vision for surgical scene understanding under Prof. Pablo Arbeláez.

You can download my CV here.

news

Mar 17, 2025 Check out our new paper MicroVQA accepted at CVPR 2025
Jan 10, 2025 I’ll be interning during the summer 2025 with Naver Labs Europe!

selected publications

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    MicroVQA: A Multimodal Reasoning Benchmark for Microscopy-Based Scientific Research
    James Burgess*, J.H Nirschl*Laura Bravo-Sánchez*, and 1 more author
    CVPR, 2025
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    Ask, Pose, Unite: Scaling Data Acquisition for Close Interactions with Vision Language Models
    Laura Bravo-Sánchez, Jaewoo Heo, Zhenzhen Weng, and 2 more authors
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.00309, 2024
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    Artificial intelligence–powered 3D analysis of video-based caregiver-child interactions
    Zhenzhen Weng, Laura Bravo-Sánchez, Zeyu Wang, and 9 more authors
    Science Advances, 2025
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    Diffusion-HPC: Synthetic Data Generation for Human Mesh Recovery in Challenging Domains
    Zhenzhen Weng, Laura Bravo-Sánchez, and Serena Yeung-Levy
    In 2024 International Conference on 3D Vision (3DV), 2024
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    ISINet: an instance-based approach for surgical instrument segmentation
    Cristina González*Laura Bravo-Sánchez*, and Pablo Arbelaez
    In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, 2020
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    Finding Four-Leaf Clovers: A Benchmark for Fine-Grained Object Localization
    L. Bravo, A. Pardo, G. Perez and P. Arbelaez
    The Sixth Workshop on Fine-Grained Visual Categorization (FGVC6), CVPR 2019., 2019