Author: ViCOROB

13 February
In News, Thesis by ViCOROB

DOCTORAL THESIS: Deep learning methods for automated detection of new multiple sclerosis lesions in longitudinal magnetic resonance images

By Mostafa Salem Supervised by Prof. Joaquim Salvi / Prof. Xavier Lladó   Abstract Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory disease of the central nervous system, which is characterized by the presence of lesions in the brain and the spinal cord. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become a core para-clinical tool for diagnosing and predicting long-term disability and treatment response in MS patients. It has been accepted that dissemination in time…

31 January
In News, Projects by ViCOROB

NEW PROJECT: DIVERSE

On January 13th, 14th and 15th, it took place the kick off meeting of the DIVERSE – Promotion of democratic values and diversity in schools through Creative Drama and Fairy Tales project, held in Athens, Greece.   The project is coordinated by the ACTION SYNERGY SA from Greece, and has the collaboration of 6 partners: Kentro Spoudon Laikou Theatrou (Athina, Greece), Universitat de Girona (Spain), Health and Social Development Fpundation…

19 December
In News by ViCOROB

Season’s Greeting

Wishing you the best for 2020! We will be closed from December the 23rd to  January  the 7th  2017.   Que tingueu unes festes plenes de llum! Us recordem que del 23 desembre a 7 de gener restarem tancats.     PRESAGIS DE NADAL   Ja ve Nadal: al taronger lluent ho canta cada fulla. Ho diu la molsa del torrent i la rosada que les pedres mulla. Ja ve Nadal:…

05 December
In News, Projects by ViCOROB

Creative Methods for successful inclusion in multicultural Schools

The last meeting of the Erasmus+ project SEDIN took place the 29th November in Lesbos, Greece. The project is coordinated by the Action Synergy, from Greece with a multi-disciplinar team of researchers from UdigitalEdu research group and 7 other partners from Italy, Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Belgium and Ireland. The main objective of the project is to facilitate the social inclusion of children with refugee / migrant or minority background in…

28 November
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DOCTORAL THESIS: Online 3D View Planning for Autonomous Underwater Exploration

By Eduard Vidal Garcia Supervised by Dr. Marc Carreras / Dr. Narcís Palomeras   Abstract Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) are currently used in many different applications, such as near-bottom mapping, manipulation or inspection. Most of the time, these tasks are planned in advance using prior information about the environment where the robot will operate. When this prior information does not exist, robotic exploration algorithms can be used so that the robot…

15 November
In Events, News by ViCOROB

La recerca és la clau

El passat 7 de novembre es va organitzar per primera vegada una jornada dirigida als estudiants de l’EPS que tenia per objectiu mostrar tant la recerca com les sortides professionals que podia oferir al grup de recerca. En total hi van assistir més de trenta persones.   La jornada va comptar amb la participació tant del director del grup VICOROB com amb la participació de quatre ponents convidats, els quals…

08 November
In News, Udigital.edu by ViCOROB

Premi al projecte InventEUrs sobre les millors pràctiques en educació 2019 a Europa

L’associació Informatics Europe atorga el Best Practices in Education Award de 2019, al projecte InventEUrs liderat pel grup de recerca Vicorob.   Organitzat per Informatics Europe, una associació de departaments de ciències informàtiques i laboratoris de recerca d’Europa i zones veïnes, i patrocinat per Microsoft, multinacional tecnològica, el premi Best Practices in Education es va lliurar en una cerimònia especial celebrada a Roma, Itàlia, durant la 15a  cimera Europea de…

10 October
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We have attended THE BREAKING THE SURFACE 2019

The 11th edition of Breaking the Surface (BtS2019) took place from 29th September to 6th October in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. It is an international interdisciplinary field workshop on maritime robotics and applications. This year over 200 people took part in it.   As a member of University of Girona, Patryk Cieslak presented one of the lectures and one workshop. His lecture was called “Autonomous underwater manipulation from a floating…