She came to VICOROB in the second year of the MAIA master. Now, at 32 years old, Liliana is in the 3rd year of her Ph.D. Her career started in Cali, Colombia, where she graduated as a biomedical engineer in 2014 from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente. Afterward, Liliana was working…
This year’s 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, was held from September 18th to 22nd 2022 in Singapore. It was the first time for MICCAI conference to be hosted in Southeast Asia. This year, Albert Clèrigues and Valeriia Abramova, two of VICOROB’s PhD…
The first presential meetings of iToBoS project after the pandemic situation took place last 7th September 2022 in Girona. The University of Girona (UDG) as project coordinator hosted and organized the 4th General Assembly (GA) and 3rd Project Management Board (PMB) meetings at the Auditori Manel Xifra Boada, Scientific and…
One of the principal research lines of the Underwater Vision and Robotics Laboratory of VICOROB institute is the “long-term deployment”. This research line has as its objective to advance the technology in order to achieve future permanent robotic fleets in strategic locations. In the last months, it was sucesfully…
Eduardo Ochoa is a 31-year-old Ph.D. student from El Salvador that is currently starting the third year of his doctoral studies at the Centre d’Investigacio en Robotica Submarina (CIRS) at VICOROB. Eduardo started his studies in El Salvador, where he graduated in Mechatronics Engineering at the Don Bosco University in 2014. In…
Els tallers de robòtica submarina, organitzats per l’Institut de Recerca en Visió per Computador i Robòtica, el departament d’Arquitectura i Tecnologia de Computadors, i l’Escola Politècnica Superior, consisteixen en la construcció d’un robot submarí teleoperat completament operatiu mitjançant la utilització de materials fàcilment accessibles i de baix cost, i la…
Understanding the marine ecosystem is key to monitoring, evaluating, and managing its functioning. To do this, the scientific community needs data. The PLOME project will obtain it with an underwater platform that will monitor the ecosystems of the seabed for extended periods. A scientific team led by the University…
Last May 2022, one of our senior researchers, Josep Forest, spent a month at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FER – Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva) at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in the framework of the DATACROSS project. During his stay, together with Professor Dr. Tomislav Pribanič…