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"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced." James Baldwin.
Yes, of course, as you can imagine I am a PhD student. I work as a research assistant in the RobeSafe Group, at the Department of Electronics, University of Alcalá
Everyday, I tackle my project forward because I want to change robots perception of the world. Their image sensors capture world information in 2D format, but, what are pixels for a robot? Let's provide them a meaningful 3D world. What is more, my current work is focused on semantic learning and 3D navigation over a previously existent map of environment. Doesn't sound interesting? Well, even more, I hope my thesis can be applied to help visually impaired people in order to guide them in indoor and outdoor environments. My project is under the supervision of Dr. L. M. Bergasa and it is a further research of the work by Pablo F. Alcantarilla, who is nowadays a Research Associate at the ALCoV group, University d'Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France.
My main research interests are in the areas of:
Computer Vision: Image classifiers, object recognition, scene understanding, visual learning.
Robotics: Visual SLAM, service robots.
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Occupants monitoring, wraparound view, driver drowsiness detection.
Short bio
I have been working in RobeSafe research group since October 2008 collaborating in several ITS projects funded by an International Company and the Spanish government.
Before starting my PhD thesis, I received a MsC in Advanced Electronic Systems. Intelligent Systems from the University of Alcalá (UAH) in September 2010
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Apart from my research experience, I worked for 3 years on Teléfonica I+D projects concerning the multimedia messaging and browsing platforms for mobile phones of Movistar servide provider.
