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Research

Selected work, most recent first. Jump to Publications or Open-Source Projects. The full list is on Google Scholar. Most of it was done with my colleagues at the BHI-Research group.

Publications

2026

pico-JEPA v2: When Do Many Small Models Beat One Big Model?
A. Rostagno, J. Iparraguirre, R. Briatore, A. González, S. Aggio
CACIC 2026, XXXII Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación, Concepción del Uruguay, Argentina
Project page · Paper (ES) · Slides (EN) · Slides (ES) · Code

2025

pico-JEPA: Understanding Video with Ultra-Light Models and Collective Wisdom
A. Rostagno, J. Iparraguirre, G. Friedrich, S. Aggio, R. Briatore, L. Tobio, D. Coca
CACIC 2025, XXXI Congreso Argentino de Ciencias de la Computación, Viedma, Argentina
Paper (ES) · Slides (EN) · Slides (ES) · Code

2024

nano-JEPA: Democratizing Video Understanding with Personal Computers
A. Rostagno, J. Iparraguirre, J. Ermantraut, L. Tobio, S. Foissac, S. Aggio, G. Friedrich
WASI 2024, XXV Workshop Agentes y Sistemas Inteligentes, CACIC 2024
Paper · Code

2019

An Open Source Quantitative Evaluation Framework for Automatic Video Summarization Algorithms
L. Balmaceda, A. I. Díaz, A. Rostagno, S. L. Aggio, A. Blanco, J. Iparraguirre
SAIV 2019, I Simposio Argentino de Imágenes y Visión, 48 JAIIO, Salta, Argentina
Paper · Code

Accelerated Particle Swarm Optimization with Explicit Consideration of Model Constraints
L. Damiani, A. I. Díaz, J. Iparraguirre, A. M. Blanco
Cluster Computing, Springer
Paper

2013

Speeded-Up Video Summarization Based on Local Features
J. Iparraguirre, C. A. Delrieux
IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia (ISM 2013)
Paper · Code

2010 · Book

Making Computing More Efficient Based on New Hardware Architectures: A Multi-core Processing Approach
J. Iparraguirre
VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
Amazon

Open-Source Projects

Video understanding with small models

  • pico-JEPA v2: an ensemble of tiny JEPA models that can beat one larger model
  • pico-JEPA: ultra-light JEPA models combined by voting
  • nano-JEPA: a video JEPA you can train on a personal computer
  • nano-datasets: builds small custom subsets of large video datasets

Video summarization

Optimization and parallel computing education