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04 February In News, Projects, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

ROBOCADEMY PROJECT MEETING IN GIRONA

During the last days of January (28-30.1.2015) Girona was the venue of the project meeting as well as the first workshop of the ROBOCADEMY – “European Academy for Marine and Underwater Robotics”, FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN, project. Starting with the project meeting on the 28th, which was first of a kind for the vast majority of the fellows, gave all involved a good opportunity to get acquainted and the fellows the opportunity to present their projects and current progress to the rest of the peers and their supervisors. Additionally, future scientific trainings and minor organizational questions were addressed rounding a successful meeting. [/vc_column][/vc_row]

15 December In News by ViCOROB with No comment

Ho!!Ho!!Ho!!

ViCOROB wants to wish you Happy Holidays and Happy New Year…:) We will be closed from December the 24th to January the 6th 2015. Des de ViCOROB us volem desitjar Bones Festes i Feliç Any Nou 2015 i us recordem que, durant aquestes vacances (23 desembre a 6 de gener), restarem tancats.

16 October In Master VIBOT, News by ViCOROB with No comment

El màster VIBOT rep una beca per a Màsters d’Excel.lència de la Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera

La Fundació Catalunya-La Pedrera ha atorgat, un any més, una beca per a Màsters d’Excel.lència al Màster VIBOT. Amb aquestes beques La Fundació vol reconèixer i atraure el talent, fomentar l’excel•lència i contribuïr a fer de Catalunya un referent en l’àmbit dels estudis de postgrau de qualitat. Els màsters inclosos en el programa de beques es fan a Catalunya i s’han considerat excel•lents tenint en compte la seva projecció internacional. Són impartits en llengua anglesa, amb professorat de prestigi i amb una clara orientació a la recerca. L’acte d’entrega oficial va tenir lloc dilluns passat a La Pedrera, Barcelona. Van…

19 May In Open position by ViCOROB with No comment

Early Stage Researcher (ESR) – Robocademy

( CLOSED ) Robocademy – The Maritime Robotics Research and Training Network The Robocademy ITN will establish a European training and research network to develop key skills and enabling technologies in underwater robotics for the scientific and economic exploration of the oceans (e.g. offshore oilfield of the future). Through the close collaboration of leading research institutes, academia, industry, and SMEs in robotics, marine technology, marine science, and offshore industry, Robocademy will provide first-class training and research opportunities for ESRs. In well-defined and well-tutored PhD research projects, the Robocademy fellows will push the state-of-the-art in the area of robust, reliable and...

28 April In News, Thesis by ViCOROB with No comment

Coverage Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles

Doctoral thesis “Coverage Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles” By Enric Galceran, PhD student of the Doctoral Program in Technology Supervised by Dr. Marc Carreras Pérez Abstract At present, a mission to survey the ocean floor with an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) is typically planned by selecting a list of waypoints that then the vehicle will automatically navigate through while keeping a safe distance from the bottom. Nonetheless, this approach has major drawbacks: (1) it does not allow the vehicle to safely operate amidst protrusions on the sea floor; (2) when traversing rugged terrain, the vehicle is forced to…

07 April In News, Projects, Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB with No comment

7FP European Project MORPH: the next step in the future of underwater robotics

From 7-11th April 2014, a number of autonomous underwater and surface vehicles (robots) from several European institutions will be tested in the Costa Brava area, Spain. The tests will be carried out by 26 scientists from Germany, Portugal, Italy, France, and Spain. The major goal of these field trials is to demonstrate that the MORPH ensemble of vehicles can acquire data to map the sea bottom while operating in a cooperative manner and reacting to environmental conditions. The trials will focus on the execution of an optical and acoustic surveying mission with two surface and two underwater vehicles moving in…

01 April In News, Thesis by ViCOROB with No comment

Automated underwater object classification using optical imagery

PhD Thesis “Automated underwater object classification using optical imagery” By Shihavuddin, A.S.M Supervised by Dr. Nuno Grácias, Dr. Rafael García Abstract This thesis addresses the problem of automated underwater optical image characterization. Remote underwater optical sensing allows the collection and storage of vast amounts of data for which manual classification may take months. Supervised automated classification of such datasets can save time and resources and can also enable extraction of valuable information related to marine and geological research.

12 March In News, Thesis by ViCOROB with No comment

Computer-aided lesion detection and segmentation on breast ultrasound

Doctoral thesis “Computer-aided lesion detection and segmentation on breast ultrasound” By Gerard Pons Rodríguez. Supervised by Joan Martí Bonmatí, Robert Martí Marly. Abstract This thesis deals with the detection, segmentation and classification of lesions on sonography. The contribution of the thesis is the development of a new Computer-Aided Diagnosis (CAD) framework capable of detecting, segmenting, and classifying breast abnormalities on sonography automatically. Firstly, an adaption of a generic object detection method, Deformable Part Models (DPM), to detect lesions in sonography is proposed. The method uses a machine learning technique to learn a model based on Histogram of Oriented…