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26 October In News, Thesis by ViCOROB

Online Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles under Motion Constraints

Doctoral thesis “Online Path Planning for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles under Motion Constraints” By Juan David Hernández Vega Supervised by Dr. Marc Carreras Abstract Thesis submitted to the University of Girona in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of PhilosophySince their beginning in the late 1950s, the capabilities and applications of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) have continuously evolved. Their most common applications include imaging and inspecting different…

11 October In News by ViCOROB

Six members of ViCOROB attend the Breaking the Surface summer school in Croatia

BtS (Breaking the Surface) is a summer workshop that encourages interaction and the exchange of knowledge and experience about the maritime robotics field and its applications. In 7 days, participants get first-hand knowledge about the latest in scientific research and results, technological achievements as well as hands-on experience in working with complex and modern underwater systems. In the event, Nuno Gracias and Ricard Campos gave a tutorial on “Omnidirectional…

27 September In Underwater Robotics by ViCOROB

Successful participation of our team at European Robotics League competition 2017

ERL Emergency 2017 occurred in Piombino from 15th to 23rd of September, it’s a European Robotics League competition or, what researchers call, Champions League of Robotics, instigated by the catastrophic nuclear accidents that touched Fukushima, Japan, in 2011. The challenge collecting among 130 participants from 16 universities and companies, came from 8 European countries. In the competition, robots from different domain: air, land and sea cooperate in order to complete…

20 September In Image Analysis by ViCOROB

We obtain the 4th position in two of the MICCAI 2017 conference challenges

The 14th of september, VICOROB presented two convolutional neural network methods to the iSeg and White Matter Hyperintensities challenges from the MICCAI 2017 conference. The first challenge was aimed at segmenting brain tissues from infant brain MRI, while the second one was aimed at segmenting vascular white matter hyperintensities of adult brain MRI. The first approach was presented orally by Jose Bernal and the second one was presented orally and…

03 August In News by ViCOROB

Summer time is here!!

Don’t miss this opportunity to relax and enjoy your free time. We will be closed from the 7th of August until the 1st of September. Have a nice holiday! Aprofiteu per descansar i desconectar. Recordeu que marxem del 7 d’agost a l’1 de setembre. Bon estiu!!!!

22 July In News, Thesis by ViCOROB

Robot Learning applied to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for intervention tasks

Doctoral thesis “Robot Learning applied to Autonomous Underwater Vehicles for intervention tasks” By Arnau Carrera Viñas Supervised by Marc Carreras, Narcís Palomeras and Petar Kormushev Abstract The interest in performing underwater tasks using AUVs has been growing over the past few decades. The initial focus was on the exploration of underwater areas, performing survey trajectories harvesting data to build bathymetric maps or photo-mosaics. Later the focus of research switched…

20 July In News, Thesis by ViCOROB

Case-level detection of mammographic masses

Doctoral thesis “Case-level detection of mammographic masses” By Meritxell Tortajada Giménez Supervised by Jordi Freixenet and Robert Martí Abstract This thesis is focused on the automatic detection of masses in FFDM images by using case-level information which includes bilateral, temporal and/or ipsilateral information. As a ﬁrst step, FFDM images are preprocessed to improve image quality before working on the proper detection framework. A novel enhancement method is applied to…

10 July In News by ViCOROB Media

ViCOROB recull el premi Manel Xifra Boada

El Col·legi d’Enginyers Graduats i Enginyers Tècnics Industrials de Girona i Comexi van atorgar el passat 07/07/2017 el premi Manel Xifra Boada al grup de recerca ViCOROB per la seva trajectòria en recerca i transferència del coneixement. El premi, entregat de la mà del Conseller Santi Vila, representa un reconeixement als resultats de l’equip. L’estudiant de doctorat del mateix grup, Èric Pairet, graduat en Enginyeria Electrònica Industrial i Automàtica…