Julian D. Santamaria

Office 18-333
Cl. 67 #53-108
050010 Medellín, Colombia
I am a Master’s student in Engineering at Universidad de Antioquia, co-advised by Ph.D. Claudia Isaza and Ph.D. Jhony H. Giraldo. My work focuses on computer vision, specifically on domain adaptation and out-of-distribution generalization for wildlife monitoring. I develop deep learning methods tailored to species recognition using limited and geographically biased data, and I am particularly interested in adapting foundation models to real-world ecological challenges.
I hold a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics Engineering from Universidad de Antioquia, where I graduated with academic distinction. Throughout my academic journey, I have contributed to open-source projects and coauthored peer-reviewed papers published at international venues such as WACV and IARIA.
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Jul 10, 2025 | I have recently started as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Universidad de los Andes 🇨🇴, working under the supervision of Dr. Pablo Arbeláez. Project: *Wildlife segmentation. 📍 Bogotá, Colombia |
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Feb 28, 2025 | Our paper “CATALOG: A Camera Trap Language-guided Contrastive Learning Model” has been selected as an oral presentation (top 8%) at the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) 2025! 🎉📷🧠 |
Jan 01, 2025 | Excited to begin a research internship at Télécom Paris, part of the Institut Polytechnique de Paris 🇫🇷, under the supervision of PhD. Jhony H. Giraldo. Over the next six months, I will be working on domain generalization for computer vision models applied to biodiversity monitoring. 📍 Paris, France |