[AllUsers-ISR] Fwd: ERASMUS STA - Visit and Talk of Prof. Rafael Muñoz Salinas (Univ. Córdoba, Spain)

[Jorge Batista]

Just to remind you about the talk that will start in 5 minutes

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De: "Jorge Batista" <batista at isr.uc.pt>
Para: docentes at deec.uc.pt, docentes at isr.uc.pt, "allusers" <allusers at isr.uc.pt>
Cc: "Rafael Muñoz Salinas" <rmsalinas at uco.es>
Enviadas: Segunda-feira, 17 De Abril de 2017 15:02:12
Assunto: ERASMUS STA - Visit and Talk of Prof. Rafael Muñoz Salinas (Univ. Córdoba, Spain)

Dear Colleagues
Dear Researchers

During the present week (April 18th - April 21st), Prof. Rafael Muñoz Salinas from the University of Córdoba in Spain is visiting ISR&DEEC under the Erasmus STA program.
Prof. Muñoz Salinas is Associate Professor at the University of Cordoba and his main research interests are related with Computer Vision, in particular camera pose estimation, people detection and tracking, three dimensional reconstruction and also robotics. 

During his stay in Coimbra, Prof. Muñoz Salinas will give a talk on his most recent research activities and is with great pleasure that I invite you all to attend the talk.

The talk will take place at the ISR auditorium, next Wednesday, starting at 14h30m.

Hope to see you there.

Prof. Muñoz Salinas is also interested in discussing research topics and evaluate possible research partnerships. 
I encourage the researchers interested to schedule a meeting with Prof. Muñoz Garrido. 

Best regards

Jorge Batista

Jorge Batista, PhD
Associate Professor w/ tenure
DEEC-FCTUC
University of Coimbra
Coimbra, PORTUGAL

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Title: Fast a Robust Camera Pose Estimation with fiducial Landmarks

Location : ISR Auditorium
Data : Wednesday, April 19th
Hour : 14h30m - 16h00m

Camera pose estimation is a common problem in many applications requiring a precise localization, such as augmented-reality, three-dimensional reconstruction, robotics, education, and medicine, among others. The goal is to determine the camera three-dimensional position and orientation with respect to a known reference system. An  approach to tackle the problem consists in using artificial landmarks, which are easily distinguishable elements that can be robustly detected using low computational resources, and provides a high accuracy. They contain enough information for camera pose estimation using a single marker (squared markers), and also have the advantage of being detected from a wider range of locations than natural landmarks, thus requiring less views for localization and mapping. For all these reasons, artificial landmarks are a very popular option in controlled environments such as industrial and research ones. This talk will review the recent and advances of this research field and future directions.

References:

Garrido-Jurado, Sergio and Muñoz-Salinas, Rafael and Madrid-Cuevas, Francisco José and Marín-Jiménez, Manuel Jesús, "Automatic generation and detection of highly reliable fiducial markers under occlusion", Pattern Recognition 47(6), 2280--2292, 2014.  (Most cited paper of original research  in Pattern Recognition since 2012).

Garrido-Jurado, Sergio,Madrid-Cuevas, Francisco José ,Medina-Carnicer, Rafael, "Generation of fiducial marker dictionaries using Mixed Integer Linear Programming",Pattern Recognition 51, 481--491, 2016.
  
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Short CV

Rafael Muñoz Salinas obtained its master degree in Computer Sciences in the University of Granada  (Spain) in 2003 and his PhD by the same  University in 2006. Currently, he is Associate Professor at the University of Cordoba (Spain).  
His main research interest is in the field  of Computer Vision, in the areas of camera pose estimation, people detection and tracking, three dimensional reconstruction and robotics. His has co-authored  more than forty papers in top ranked JCR Journals.