Author: ViCOROB

15 June
In Events, News by ViCOROB

We travel to the land down under: visit at CSIRO research center and participation at ICRA 2018

The IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) took place in Brisbane, Australia, from 21 to 25 of May. Established in 1984 and held annually, the conference joins experts in the field of robotics and automation for technical communications through presentations and discussions.   ViCOROB participated in the conference, once again. Narcís Palomeras presented the work “Autonomous Mapping of Underwater 3D Structures: From View Planning to Execution”, and Eduard…

11 June
In Events, News by ViCOROB

Eduard Vidal wins a second prize in the Student Poster Competition of Oceans’18 MTS/IEEE Kobe

The Oceans Conference joints maritime professionals and researches to learn, innovate and lead in the protection and utilization of ocean resources. It is co-sponsored by the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (IEEE OES) and the Marine Technology Society (MTS).   The conference is held twice a year. For 2018, it first took place in Kobe, Japan, from May 28th to 31st. This time, Eduard Vidal from ViCOROB was one of the…

07 June
In News, Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB

Learning about the climate change: effects on the Arctic

We set sail for Ny-Aalesund, an island situated on Spitsbergen, north-west of Longyearbyen, in Oscar II land. One of the northernmost city in the world. Now deemed, as an international research center in the Arctic. Ny-Aalesund,  counting 11 institutions from 10 countries.   As we had an opportunity to be part of training program organized by the Italian station support the CNR‘s studies on climatic changes. where the aim of…

10 April
In 3D perception, News, Underwater Robotics, Vicorob's people by ViCOROB

Laser 3D Sense Technology towards the market

The Laser 3D scanner technology developed and patented by the University of Girona is one step beyond the state of the art of underwater 3D perception. It is the result of a PhD thesis in Underwater Robotics and 3D Perception done by Albert Palomer and tutored by Pere Ridao, Josep Forest and David Ribas that will be soon defended.   L3S, as an easy to integrate system, will allow the…

09 April
In Image Analysis, Thesis by ViCOROB

DOCTORAL THESIS: Glandular Tissue Pattern Analysis Through Multimodal MRI-Mammography Registration

Glandular Tissue Pattern Analysis Through Multimodal MRI-Mammography Registration By Eloy García Marcos Supervised by Dr. Joan Martí Bonmatí / Dr. Arnau Oliver Malagelada Abstract Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. Current statistics show that one in eight women will develop this disease over the course of her lifetime. While X-ray mammography is the gold standard image modality for screening and diagnosis of breast cancer, it presents...
28 March
In News, Underwater Robotics, Vicorob's people by ViCOROB

SOUNDTILES technology presented at Oceanology International London

At ViCOROB, we do research on Underwater Vision and Robotics. One of the developed technologies in the last years, currently being valorized in the context of SOUNDTILES project (Ref.: 2016 PROD 00130) consists on the development of a tool for automatic processing of sonar mosaics, a breakthrough in the current technologies available commercially.   Natàlia Hurtós presented this technology in front of a commercial audience in the most important fair of underwater…

06 March
In Projects, Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB

EU Marine Robots Kick Off meeting takes place in Porto

The EUMR Kick Off Meeting was successfully completed in Porto, Portugal on the 1st and 2nd of March, 2018. The meeting facilitated partner introductions and allowed a detailed examination of all project future activities and goals.   During the two day meeting, partners had the opportunity to discuss various topics, including project objectives, the governance structure, milestones, management processes and tools, project roadmap and partners responsibilities.   This meeting was…

02 March
In News, Udigital.edu by ViCOROB

Evaluation of the 1st Year InventEUrs meeting, Perugia, Italy

InventEUrs project (www.inventeurs.eu) , coordinated by UdigitalEdu, has reached its half of the project lifetime by attending to the 3rd project meeting held in the partner facilities of University of Perugia, Italy from the 19 to the 21st of February 2018.   Overall, the meeting goals were achieved: final children projects has been finished and can be seen at the InventEUrs scratch studio (https://scratch.mit.edu/studios/4443203/ ), the results of the first…