Research Interests
- Computer and Robot Vision
- Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
- Scene Understanding, Object Detection and Object Recognition
Grants
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"Boosting Learning Algorithms for Multiclass Classification and Multidimensiona Regression:
Applications to Object Detectiona and Classification"
Principal Investigator, Grant N. 3120218, ~US$80,000, two years (10/2011-09/2013).
Granted by FONDECYT (CONICYT-Chile) -- National Commission for Scientific and Technological Research
Projects
Object Detection
Participation: Doctoral CONICYT Grant, 2005-2009 (Universidad de Chile)
Object Detection Using Nested Cascades of Boosted Classifiers: A learning framework and its extension to the multi-class case
Humanoid Vision: Robocup @ Home
Participation: Research Collaborator, 2010-present (Universidad de Chile)
Face detection and recognition, navigation, person detection and identification.
Face Analysis
Participation: Research Collaborator, 2005-present (Universidad de Chile)
Detection and identification of persons in unconstrained environments. Our work includes the development of novel face detection, alignment, tracking, recognition and skin detection algorithms.
Face recognition Simulator
Participation: Research Collaborator, 2010-present (Universidad de Chile)
Face Recognition Simulator uncostrained environments: simulation of the navigation of a robot/agent in a uncontrained environment.
Thermal Vision
Participation: Research Collaborator, 2010-present (Universidad de Chile)
Face Detection, Face Recognition and Person Detection in thermal images.
Previous Projects
WebFaces: Search of persons in the Web using face information.
Research Collaborator, 2004, Center for Web Research
WebFaces is a content-based search system that uses computer vision algorithms, such as skin detectors, faces detectors and face recognition.
4-legged Robocup Teams
(Universidad de Chile, Research Collaborator, 2005)
Robot vision: robot detection.
Skin Detection
- Robust skin segmentation in images using neighborhood information
(CWR, Research Collaborator, 2003-2005) - Robust skin segmentation in images using differences of fuzzy integrals
- Skin segmentation in videos the Spatial-range domain
Image Collection Charaterization
(Collaborator, Center for Web Research, Universidad de Chile, 2003-2005)
- Web-Collection content characterization by image and text analysis
- Web-Collection content characterization of Pornographyc and Nudity content
- Face analysis for information retrieval in videos
A-contrario Validation of Object Detections
(ENS Cachan)
Hand gesture recognition
(December 2008 to February 2009, Uchile)
FaceQS-Tool
Development a Face Detector, an Eye Detector and a Pose Estimator.
Software licented to the Bundesdruckerei (Federal German printing office) and the Franhoufer IPK for their e-passport production system to check whether the submitted images fulfills the ICAO standard.
Director: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar.
Period: 2005-2006.
Other Projects & Collaborations
ETHICAL
(Uchile)
Fairness
(Kyushu Institute of Technology)