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 CURRENT PhD STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

·       Alejandro Díaz (jointly with Francisco Parrilla at Indra). Industrial PhD mention

o   Title: AI-Based Plate Recognition System in Railways

o   Forecasted date for reading: March 2028 (part time)

o   Internships:

·       Ricardo Pizarro Carreño (jointly with Luis Baumela at UPM). Ellis Unit Madrid PhD program

o   Title: DL-based Driver Monitoring System for L3 Autonomous Driving   

o   Forecasted date for reading: April 2026

o   Internships:

·       Felipe Arango Vargas (jointly with Pedro Revenga at UAH).

o   Title: Autonomous Navigation Techniques Validation over a real Electric Vehicle

o   Forecasted date for reading: July 2024

o   Internships: Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)

·       Rodrigo Gutiérrez Moreno (jointly with Elena López-Guillén at UAH).

o   Title: Hybrid Online POMDP and Deep Reinforcement Learning in Decision Making for Autonomous Driving

o   Forecasted date for reading: March 2024

o   Internships: Mechatronic research group at Electrical Engineering Department at Chalmers University, Göteborg, Sweden.

·       Miguel Antunes García (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH).

o   Title: Deep Learning for Unified Perception and Prediction in Autonomous Driving

o   Forecasted date for reading: November 2026

·       Santiago Montiel Marín (jointly with Ángel Llamazares).

o   Title: Scene Understanding based on Cameras and RADAR for Intelligent Vehicles applications

o   Forecasted date for reading: November 2026

 

CURRENT MASTER STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

·       Pablo Pardo Devimavilla.

o   Topic: Vehicle occupant monitoring and driver activity recognition.

o   Forecasted date for reading: July 2024

·       Fabio Sánchez García.

o   Topic: 3D object detection through multimodal fusion of range and RGB images.

o   Forecasted date for reading: July 2024

·       Daniel Villalobos del Baño.

o   Topic: V2X communication in CARLA: Implementation of a ROS module and two-way infrastructure server.

o   Forecasted date for reading: July 2024

 

CURRENT POSTDOC RESEARCHERS [Back]

 

 

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CURRENT VISITING STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

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FORMER PhD STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

·       Carlos Gómez Huélamo (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH). Now Senior Engineer @ Arnold NextG GmbH

o   Title: Predictive Techniques for Scene Understanding by using Deep Learning in Autonomous Driving

o   Reading date: October 20, 2023

o   Internships: 1) Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT) of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany. 2) Mechanical Engineering Department. University of California, Berkeley, USA.

·       Javier Araluce Ruiz (jointly with Manuel Ocaña at UAH). Now Research Scientist @ TECNALIA Research & Innovation

o   Title: Driver Attention based on Deep Learning for a Smart Vehicle to Driver (V2D) interaction

o   Reading date: May 22, 2023

o   Internships: Intelligent Transport Systems Lab. Johannes Kepler University Linz. Linz, Austria.

·       Eduardo Romera. Now Research Scientist @ Alarm.com / ObjectVideo Labs

o   Title: Semantic 3D scene understanding for autonomous vehicles using deep learning

o   Reading date: November 16, 2018

o   Internships: Fraunhofer IOSB del Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) (Germany), Canberra Research Lab, ACT (Australia), Computer Vision and Robotics Research (CVRR) Lab at University of California San Diego (UCSD).

·       Sebastián Bronte (jointly with Daniel Pizarro at UAH). Now Data Scientist in Fujitsu

o   Title: Real Time Sequential Non Rigid Structure from motion using a single camera

o   Reading date: July 11, 2017

o   Internships: Queen Mary University of London (England)

·       Roberto Arroyo (jointly with Pablo F. Alcantarilla at SLAMcore Ltd., UK). Now Senior Computer Vision Scientist at Nielsen

o   Title: Topological Place Recognition for Life-Long Visual Localization

o   Reading date: March 31, 2017

o   Internships: Cambridge Research Lab at Toshiba (England), University of Sydney (Australia)

o   Awards: 3M Innovation Award. Category: Safety. 2011

·       Javier Yebes. Now  Senior Computer Vision Scientist at Nielsen

o   Title: Supervised Learning and Inference of Semantic Information from Road Scene Images: Objects and Layout

o   Reading date: July 25, 2014

o   Internships: Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (USA), Technische Universität Darmstadt (TU-D) (Germany)  

·       Álvaro González Now software developer in Ericsson

o   Title: Text Detection and Recognition in Natural Images using Computer Vision Techniques

o   Reading date: February 22, 2013

o   Internships: University of Surrey (England), RWTH in Aachen (Germany)

·       Pablo F. Alcantarilla. Now Head Of Research at SLAMcore Ltd., UK

o   Title: Vision Based Localization: From Humanoid Robots to Visually Impaired People

o   Reading date: October 21, 2011

o   Internships: Georgia Institute of Technology (USA), Imperial College London (England), AIST-Tsukuba (Japan)

o   Awards: 3M Innovation Award. Category: Safety. 2011

·       Iván G. Daza (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH). Now Assistant Professor at UAH

o   Title: Driver Fatigue Detection using Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) Fusion

o   Reading date: October 14, 2011

o   Internships: Chalmers University (Sweden)

·       Pedro Jiménez. Now researcher in Gamesa Spain

o   Title: Face Pose Estimation with Automatic 3D Model Creation for a Driver Inattention Monitoring Application

o   Reading date: March 18, 2011

o   Internships: Computer Science Department, Trinity College Dublin (Irland), CSIRO Robotics Centre (Australia)

·       Jesús Nuevo. Now R&D at TrueVisionSolutions Pty Ltd (Australia)

o   Title: FaceTracking with active Models for a Driver Monitoring Application

o   Reading date: October 30, 2009

o   Internships: CSIRO Robotics Centre (Australia), Chalmers University (Sweden)

·       David Schleicher (jointly with Manuel Ocaña at UAH). Now  HW electronics engineer at Airbus Spain

o   Title: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping based on stereo vision for improving vehicle navigation in large environments

o   Reading date: February 2, 2009

o   Awards: Second prize in the Eduardo Barreiros Foundation Award to the Best Research Work on the Automotive field in Spain in 2010

·       Edward Rafael Blanco (jointly with Manuel Mazo at UAH)

o   Title: Contribution to segmentation in the HSI color space. Application to Gesture Recognition

o   Reading date: July 24, 2008

·       Manuel Ocaña. Now Associate Professor at the UAH

o   Title: Global localization system based on WiFi (Wireless Fidelity) signal measurements applied to the navigation of a  semiautonomous robot

o   Reading date: May 20, 2005

o   Awards: Best PhD Thesis in Electrical Engineering. University of Alcalá. 2005

·       Elena López (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH). Now Associated Professor at the UAH

o   Title: Global navigation system based on POMDP. Application for an assistance robot

o   Reading date: February 2, 2004

o   Awards: Best PhD Thesis in Robotics. Spanish Committee of Automatic. 2004

 

 

FORMER MASTER STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

·       Miguel Antunes García.

o   Topic: Study of Camera-based Systems for 3D Objects Detection in Autonomous Driving.

o   Period: October 2022 - September 2023

·       Santiago Montiel Marín (jointly with Ángel Llamazares).

o   Topic: Deep Learning based 3D Object Detection for Automotive Radar and Camera Fusion.

o   Period: October 2022 - September 2023

·       Javier de la Peña García (jointly with Elena García Barriocanal at UAH).

o   Topic: Implementation of a 3D object detector in traffic scenes based on a middle-fusion between camera and LiDAR.

o   Period: October 2021 - September 2022

·       Alejandro Díaz Díaz (jointly with Carlos Gómez-Huélamo at UAH).

o   Topic: Path planning and map monitoring for self-driving vehicles based on HD maps

o   Period: From January 2020 to September 2021

·       Oscar Pérez Gil (jointly with Elena López-Guillén at UAH).

o   Topic: Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning to Self-Driving Vehicles

o   Period: From September 2019 to February 2021

·       Felipe Arango Vargas (jointly with Pedro Revenga at UAH).

o   Topic: Drive-by-Wire System for an Autonomous Electric Vehicle

o   Period: From September 2019 to July 2020

·       Javier Araluce Ruiz

o   Topic: HMI for an Autonomous Electric Vehicle

o   Period: From September 2019 to October 2020

·       Javier del Egido Sierra (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH).

o   Topic: End-to-end Autonomous Navigation using Deep Learning.

o   Period: From September 2019 to October 2020

·       Rodrigo Gutiérrez Moreno (jointly with Elena López-Guillén at UAH).

o   Topic: A Waypoint Tracking Controller for Autonomous Ground Vehicles using ROS

o   Period: From September 2019 to February 2020

·       Carlos Gómez Huélamo

o   Topic: Predictive Techniques for scene understanding by using deep-learning

o   Period: From October 2018 to September 2019

·       Álvaro Sáez-Contreras

o   Topic: Semantic segmentation based on fish cameras using CNNs

o   Period: from September 2017 to November 2018

·       Carlos A. Hernanz-Mayoral

o   Topic: App for monitoring senior drivers

o   Period: from February 2018 to December 2018

·       Alberto Lázaro. Now researcher in Siemens

o   Title: UGV Navigation in ROS based on GPS and LIDAR 3D

·       Cesar Arroyo. Now Technical Assistant in UAH 

o   Title: Improvements of DriveSafe App for Driver Behaviour Evaluation

·       Eduardo Romera. Now PhD student 

o   Title: Driver Behaviour Evaluation by using Smartphones

o   Internships: Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

o   Awards: IEEE ITSS-Spain 2º Best Master Thesis Award 2015

·       Mario Passani. Now researcher in Telefonica

o   Title: Probabilistic Graphical Models applied to Road Segmentation

o   Awards: IEEE ITSS-Spain Best Final Degree Project Award 2015, Best Student Paper Award of IEEE Intelligent Vehicle Symposium (IV 2015)

·       Javier Almazán (jointly with Rafael Barea at UAH). Now R&D Engineer in Computer Vision for Talgo Inc.

o   Title: Real-time Vision Based Localization for Smartphone platforms

o   Internships: University of Bristol (England)

 

 

FORMER POSTDOC RESEARCHERS [Back]

 

 

·       Eduardo Romera. Now Research Scientist @ Alarm.com / ObjectVideo Labs

o   Topic: Real-time Semantic 3D scene understanding for autonomous vehicles using deep learning

o   Contract: from February 2019 to May 2020

·       Eduardo Molinos. Now Postdoctoral researcher at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (Germany)

o   Topic: Smart ElderlyCar project

o   Contract: from May 2017 to February 2018

·       Roberto Arroyo. Now researcher at Nielsen Spain 

o   Topic: Smart ElderlyCar project

o   Contract: from April 2017 to October 2017

·       Javier Yebes. Now researcher at Nielsen Spain 

o   Topic: SmartAparc project

o   Contract: from September 2014 to April 2015

·       José Mª Alonso. Ramon y Cajal (RYC-2016-19802) Researcher at University of Santiago de Compostela

o   Spanish Fellowship “Juan de la Cierva”

o   Topic: Abstraction, Synthesis, and Integration of Information for Human-Robot Teams

o   Contract: from February 2012 to October 2012

 

 

FORMER VISITING STUDENTS [Back]

 

 

·       Wijden Bouzidi (Ph.D. Student in Electrical Engineering at National Engineering School of Monastir (Tunisie)

o   Topic: Real-time object detection and recognition using deep learning algorithms

o   Internship: September 2022-February 2023

·       Luis Ibarra (Undergraduate researcher at MIT (USA))

o   Topic: 3D obstacles detection system validated in KITTI

o   MISTI Spain Internship: June 2022-August 2022

·       Ahmet Can Yalcin (Undergraduate student at Karabuk University (Turkey))

o   Topic: Electronics design of a drive-by-wire system for an electric vehicle

o   Internship: September 2021-March 2022

·       Roger Montes (Candidate for B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Concentration in Robotics at MIT (USA))

o   Topic: Testing autonomous navigation techniques developed in ROS in CARLA simulator

o   MISTI Spain Internship: June 2019-August 2019

·       Kailun Yang (PhD student at the Zhejiang University (China))

o   Topic: Detecting obstacles and stairs with a minimum range decreased RGB-D sensor for the visually impaired

o   Internship: September 2017-September 2018

·       Hasan Keser (Undergraduate student at Karabuk University (Turkey))

o   Topic: Electronics design for the automation of an electric vehicle

o   Internship: June 2018-August 2018

·       Andrew Hall (B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a Concentration in Robotics at MIT (USA))

o   Topic: Car body design for an electric vehicle

o   MISTI Spain Internship: June 2018-August 2018

·       Edwin A. Enríquez (MS student at the Universidad Autónoma de Ciudad Juárez, México)

o   Topic: Handwritting recognition system based on CNN

o   Internship: March 2017 – April 2017

·       Abdelkrim Nemra (PostDoc student at the Ecole Militaire Polytechnique, Algiers, Algeria)

o   Topic: Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping for Mini Aerial Vehicles

o   Internship: November 2014 – February 2015

 

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