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10 February In News, Thesis, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

Doctoral Thesis: Underwater 3D Sensing using Structured Light: Development of an Underwater Laser Scanner and a Non-Rigid Point Cloud Registration Method

By Miguel Castillón Sánchez Supervised by Dr.Pere Ridao Rodríguez / Dr. Josep Forest Collado Abstract Accurate underwater 3D perception is essential to advance towards the automation of expensive, dangerous and/or time-consuming tasks, such as the inspection, maintenance and repair of off-shore industrial sites. Accurate underwater 3D sensors can potentially have…

01 February In News, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

Exploring the Depths: Eduardo Ochoa’s Journey

Eduardo Ochoa, a doctoral student at ViCOROB/UdG, is participating in a four-week research cruise organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, PI Dan Fornari), from January 6th to February 2nd.. The cruise is part of a multi-year project to study and map a submarine volcano that scientists believe will…

20 October In Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

Eduardo Ochoa is a Oceans 2020 Student Poster Competition award finalist

This year the conference was plan to be held in Singapore and the Gulf Coast. But due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the organization decided to organize a virtual conference instead. Global Oceans 2020 is the event for global maritime professionals to learn, innovate and lead in the protection and utilization…

27 January In Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

New mission of the Girona 500

This November, we board the vessel “Sarmiento de Gamboa” together with the CSIC scientifics, in charge of the scientific supervision and evaluation of the mission. From our side, we participated with our AUV Girona500, taking it to a depth of about 300 meters near the Palamós coast. The aim…

25 March In News, Projects, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

First Meeting of the Eurofleets+ project in Galway

First Meeting of the Eurofleets+ project in Galway, Ireland EUROFLEETS+ is an H2020 project funded under the Infrastructures initiative, coordinated by the Marine Institute that brings together a significant group of key marine research actors in Europe, North America and Oceania. The EurofleetsPlus project will facilitate open access to…

15 October In News, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

ViCOROB team at IROS Madrid 2018

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018) took place from the 1st to the 5th of October in Madrid (Spain). It is the most important scientific event on robotics worldwide. The event counted on the participation of more than 4,000 people and was organized by Universidad Carlos…

11 October In News, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

Breaking the Surface -10th year celebration

By Guillem Vallicrosa Photos: BTS organization We attended the 10th International interdisciplinary field workshop of maritime robotics and applications – Breaking the Surface – BTS 2018. The conference was held on 30 Sep – 7 Oct, in Biograd na Moru, Croatia. “BTS is a conference not only focused…

21 June In News, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB with No comment

EU Research and Industry meet at EMRA Limerick

EU workshop on EU-funded Marine Robotics and Applications (EMRA) has taken place in Limerick (Ireland). Organized on the framework of EXCELLABUST and EUMR H2020 projects, the event is a perfect occasion to put together researchers and industry and establish and enhance relations between them. EMRA has been organized by the…