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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…

20 February In Projects, Udigital.edu by ViCOROB

SEDIN KICK-OFF MEETING, Athens , Greece

On the 1st and 2nd of February 2018, UdigitalEdu attended to the kick-off meeting of a new project co-funded by the Erasmus+ programme (KA3 – Social Inclusion) through the Education, Culture and Audiovisual Executive Agency (EACEA) of the European Commission.     The project called “SEDIN: Creative methods for successful inclusion in multicultural schools” is coordinated by Action Synergy SL, from Greece and is composed by seven countries: Greece, Italy,…

20 December In News by ViCOROB

Arriba el Nadal

Res no s’acaba i tot comença. Vénen mecànics de remença Amb olis nous de llibertat; Una Veu canta en recompensa: Que a cal fuster hi ha novetat. Des d’Alacant a la Provença Qui mor no mor, si el son és clar Quan neix la llum en el quintà.   Fragment del poema “Ho sap tothom, i és profecía” de J. V. Foix,   Que tingueu unes festes plenes de llum,…