PERSONAL DATA

Date and Place of birth: March 12, 1975 in Tortosa, Catalonia Spain

EDUCATION

PhD in Computer Engineering, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), 2004.

POSITIONS

Full Professor in Computer Science, UAB (2023- ).

Program Coordinator of the PhD in Computer Science, UAB (2018- ).

Faculty Secretary of the School of Engineering, UAB (2015- ).

Senior Researcher at the Computer Vision Center (CVC), UAB (1998- ).

TEACHING 2023

Lectures in the Artificial Intelligence, Computer Engineering and Computational Mathematics and Data Analytics Undergraduated Courses at UAB: Machine Learning.

RESEARCH

Image Sequence Evaluation, based on the work by Prof. Hans-Hellmut Nagel.

List of publications at Google Scholar.

TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER

Co-founder of Care Respite, S.L., 2015.

Co-founder of Visual Tagging Services, S.L., 2012.

Co-founder of Cloud Size Services, S.L., 2011.

DOCTORAL THESES, SUPERVISOR

Diego A. Velázquez Dorta, "Towards Robustness in Computer-based Image Understanding", July 14, 2023.

Parichehr Behjati, "Towards Efficient and Robust Convolutional Neural Networks for Single Image Super-Resolution", April 27, 2022.

Pau Rodríguez, "Towards Robust Neural Models for Fine-Grained Image Recognition", March 1, 2019. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

Meysam Madadi, "Human Segmentation, Pose Estimation and Applications", October 13, 2017.

Wenjuan Gong, "3D Motion Data aided Human Action Recognition and Pose Estimation", May 10, 2013.

Murad Al Haj, "Looking at Faces: Detection, Tracking and Pose Estimation", February 22, 2013.

Josep M. Gonfaus, "Towards Deep Image Understanding: From pixels to semantics", November 23, 2012.

Bhaskar Chakraborty, "Model Free Approach to Human Action Recognition ", October 22, 2012. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

Marco Pedersoli, "Hierarchical Multiresolution Models for fast Object Detection", June 8, 2012. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

Noha Elfiky, "Compact, Adaptive and Discriminative Spatial Pyramids for Improved Object and Scene Classification", June 4, 2012. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

Ariel Amato, "Environment-Independent Moving Cast Shadow Suppression in Video Surveillance", March 16, 2012.

Ignasi Rius, "Motion Priors for Efficient Bayesian Tracking in Human Sequence Evaluation", July 6, 2010. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

Ivan Huerta, "Foreground Object Segmentation and Shadow Detection for Video Sequences in Uncontrolled Environments", July 5, 2010.

Carles Fernández, "Understanding Image Sequences: the Role of Ontologies in Cognitive Vision", July 2, 2010. Outstanding PhD Award UAB.

F. Javier Orozco, "Human Emotion Evaluation on Facial Image Sequences", July 28, 2009.

Pau Baiget, "Modeling Human Behavior for Image Sequence Understanding and Generation", July 13, 2009.

Daniel A. Rowe, "Towards Multiple-Target Tracking in Unconstrained Human-Populated Environments", February 8, 2008.

Last modified: May 25, 2023