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11 July In 3D perception, News by ViCOROB Media

ViCOROB members participate in the 19th BMVA Computer Vision Summer School 2014

This year 19th BMVA Computer Vision Summer School 2014 was held in Swansea, UK from 30th June till 4th July 2014. The delegates attending the summer school were from universities all across Europe. All the delegates were PhD students in their first or second year. VICOROB research group was represented by Ferran and I Habib, from 3D perception Lab. Swansea University, located along the coast of Swansea bay, was…

08 July In Image Analysis, News, Thesis by ViCOROB Media

Konstantin Korotkov defends his PhD thesis “Automatic change detection in multiple pigmented skin lesions”

Malignant melanoma is the rarest and deadliest of skin cancers causing three times more deaths than all other skin-related malignancies combined. Fortunately, in its early stages, it is completely curable, making a total body skin examination (TBSE) a fundamental procedure for many patients. During TBSE, dermatologists look for pigmented skin lesions (PSLs) exhibiting typical melanoma signs as well as PSLs undergoing the rapid changes characteristic of cancer. Accompanied by clinical…

25 June In News by ViCOROB Media

7th ViBOT DAY takes place in Girona

The ViBOT day is an event that the Erasmus Mundus Master VIBOT organizes every year at the Scientific and Technological park at the University of Girona. In this occasion, it took place last 19th of June 2014 with the main goal of establishing a link between companies and graduate students. Along the ViBOT day the students have the chance to present their work in front of a wide audience…

16 June In News by ViCOROB Media

Cooperation agreement between University of Girona and Gunadarma University

As a result of the participation of Indonesian students in the Erasmus Mundus Programme in Computer Vision and Robotics, ViBOT, the University of Girona signed last 13th of June 2014 a Cooperation Agreement with Gunadarma University, considered the best university of Inodesia according to the Webometrics 2014 ratio. From ViCOROB we would like to thank the delegation that visited us for their commitment and the interest shown on all…

09 June In News, Projects, Underwater Robotics, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB Media

PRESENTING PANDORA FP7 AND MORPH FP7 PROJECTS AT EMRA 2014

Our researchers Pere Ridao and Marc Carreras are currently in Rome in the Workshop on EU Funded Marine Robotics and Applications (EMRA 2014). Researchers and users of marine robotic technology are invited to EMRA2014. The workshop shall summarize current EU FP7 marine robotics research, and provide a platform for marine stakeholders to share their current technological challenges. For researchers, EMRA2014 will offer dissemination opportunities for existing work, and highlight new…

09 June In News, Projects, Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB Media

EU launches world’s largest civilian robotics programme – 240,000 new jobs expected

The European Commission and 180 companies and research organisations (under the umbrella of euRobotics) today launch the world’s largest civilian research and innovation programme in robotics. Covering manufacturing, agriculture, health, transport, civil security and households, the initiative – called SPARC – is the EU’s industrial policy effort to strengthen Europe’s position in the global robotics market (€60 billion a year by 2020). This initiative is expected to create over 240,000…

06 June In News by ViCOROB Media

VIBOT Erasmus Mundus Master gets “International Master Distinction” from the Catalan Government

A total of 59 official masters taught by different Catalan universities have gained a new distinction of International Master’s Programme (IMP), promoted by the Catalan Government. This accreditation aims to promote studies with a high degree of internationalization taught in the higher education system in Catalonia. The UdG has received this distinction for two programs: Erasmus Mundus European Master’s in Tourism Management (EMTM) and Erasmus Mundus European Master’s in Vision…

02 June In News, Thesis, Underwater Vision by ViCOROB Media

Ricard Campos defends his PhD thesis “Surface Reconstruction Methods for Seafloor Modelling”

Underwater maps are an important source of information for the scientific community, since mapping the seafloor is the starting point for underwater exploration. The advance of range scanning methodologies, both using acoustic and optical techniques, enables the mapping of the seabed to attain increasingly larger resolutions. However, all these techniques sample the surface to reconstruct in the form of a point cloud. For the case of areas containing non-trivial 3D…