The Ateneo Laboratory for Intelligent Visual Environments (ALIVE) is looking for industry partners. The lab wants to co‑create machine‑learning tools with experts from health, traffic, and other fields.
Dr. Patricia “Pai” Angela R. Abu, associate professor and chair of Ateneo’s Department of Information Systems and Computer Science, delivered the talk “Smarter Sight: Building Intelligent Visual Systems for Public Good.” She said, “Building a reliable machine‑learning system requires bridging messy reality and mathematical models.” She added, “Then we must prove the system holds up under real‑world conditions.”
ALIVE’s work includes a dental‑imaging aid and deep‑learning models that spot bone metastasis. The team also built V‑PROBE, a system that watches traffic, predicts parking space, and flags congestion.
The lab says industry partners can provide data, test sites, and deployment pathways. Partners can also help address speed, privacy, security, hardware limits, and reliability.
“Interdisciplinary partnerships matter,” Abu said during the Second Ateneo Breakthroughs lecture on 26 February 2026. She explained that doctors teach smart visual systems to find medical patterns that humans may miss.
ALIVE hopes collaboration will move projects from the lab to daily use. The lab invites interested companies to contact Dr. Abu at pabu@ateneo.edu. Media queries can go to media.research@ateneo.edu.
More information on Ateneo’s research is available at archium.ateneo.edu.
Ateneo Lab Seeks AI Partners for Real‑World Impact
