Rodrigo Verschae

Rodrigo Verschae

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics and AI Researcher

Rodrigo Verschae

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Publications

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News

I am organizing the First Japan-Chile Symposium on Field Robotics, funded by The Japan Foundation. Come join us! in Rancagua, Chile, December 2019. More information Soon!

I am organizing (together with J. Ruiz-del-Solar of Univ. de Chile), the IEEE RAS Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision. Come join us! in Santiago & Rancagua, Chile, December 2019.

2019

  • [Since April 2019] I am an Associate Professor at the Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
  • [PAR Explora], From April 2019 I am director of the PAR Explora O’Higgins Project, CONICYT, for the promotion of Science in the O’Higgins Region, Chile. Two year project (renewable for two more years); Granted funding: 350.000 USD per year.
  • Visiting Fellow (Feb 2019), Computer Vision Laboratory, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • Dec. 2018 - Jan 2019. I am doing a Research Visit, Awarded by a Santander Universidades grant, at the Vehicles Robotics Lab, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain

2018

  • [IEEE RAS Summer School] I am co-organizing (General Chair) the IEEE RAS Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision, Santiago & Rancagua, Chile, December, 2019
  • [Solar Energy] New paper on Image-based Photovoltaic Energy Generation Prediction: Jinsong Zhang, Rodrigo Verschae, Shohei Nobuhara and Jean-Francois Lalonde, “Deep photovoltaic nowcasting”, Solar Energy, Vol. 176, PP. 267-276, Dec 2018.
  • [Chile-Japan Academic Forum] I will participate in the Chile-Japan Academic Forum, 25-29 Sept, 2018, Nikko, Japan. In the event, I am will present at the Workshop “Sensors, Robotics, Automation & ICT in Mining, AgroSciences & Natural Resources, Smart Cities”.
  • [CMM] Since August 2018 I am an associate researcher of the Center for Mathematical Modeling (CMM), Universidad de Chile, Chile.
  • [SCI] Since August 2018 I am in the Advisory Board of the MDIP SCI Journal.
  • [ML Meetup] I presented my work on “Sky image based solar energy prediction”, at the Santiago Machine Learning Meetup, Santiago, Chile.
  • [New Affiliation] Since 2018 I am with the Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile

2017

  • [MIRU 2017] I will presenting our work on “Daytime Sky Image Model and Prediction” at MIRU 2017, Hiroshima, Japan.
  • [Information, 2017] Since June 2017 I am part of the Editorial Board of the MDPI journal Information.
  • [OCEANS MTS/IEEE, 2017] I will be attending the Oceans Conference in Anchorage, Alaska, to present our work on fish tracking.
  • [Energy7, 2017] I will be attending the Energy 7 symposium, in Manchester, UK, to present my work on coordinated energy management.
  • [IEEE PVSC, 2017] I will be attending the IEEE PVSC in WASHINGTON, D.C., USA, to present our work on image-based PV estimation and prediction.

2016

2015

2014

  • [SmartGridComm, 2014] Paper on “A Distributed Hierarchical Architecture for Community-based Power Balancing” to be presented at the IEEE SmartGridComm’2014 conference. PDF presentation
  • [ECC, 2014] Paper on a “Distributed coordination framework for on-line scheduling and power demand balancing of household communities” presented at the European control conference, Strasbourg, France.

    2013

  • [New affiliation, 2013] I am with the Matsuyama Lab, working on distributed coordination and mode scheduling within the context of the i-Energy project.
  • [Book chapter, 2013] The book chapter I co-authored (titled “Thermal Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments using histograms of LBP Features”) is now available as part of the Springer book Local Binary Patterns: New Variants and Applications (also at Amazon).
  • I presented my work on “Multiclass Weak Classifiers in Boosted-Cascade Based Object Detection” at the ICML workshop on Learning with Test-Time Budgets
  • [ICML 2013] I attended the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML’13)
  • Invited talk, 2013 at SCIAN-lab ( Laboratory for Scientific Image Analysis) at Medical School of the University of Chile, Santiago, Chile

About

Since March 2018 I am an assistant professor (tenure track) at the Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile, and before that (2015-2018) I was a assistant professor at the Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University. Japan.

My research interest include computer and robot vision, machine learning, and intelligent and robot systems with various applications (energy, agriculture, etc.).

I received a Doctoral degree in Electrical Engineering (Universidad de Chile, 2010), a M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics (Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Cachan, France, 2006), an Electrical Engineering degree (Universidad de Chile, 2003), and a Bachelor in Computer Engineering degree (Universidad de Chile, 2002).

I have been a Postdoctoral Researcher (principal researcher of the FONDECYT Grant N. 3120218) at the Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, (2011-2013), a visiting foreign researcher (7 months, BecasChile Grant) at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Fukuoka, Japan (2011), a research fellow at the Network Design Research Center, at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (2009-2010), an associated researcher at the Fraunhofer IPK-Institute, Berlin, Germany (2004-2005), and a research collaborator of the Center for Web Research at Universidad de Chile (2004).

I have participated in international projects, developed algorithms for large scale industrial systems, and at age 40 (2019), I am an active researcher with over 55 publications in international conferences and journals.

My current research interests include:

  • Distributed, autonomous, robotic and multi-agent systems
  • Coordinated energy management
  • Computer and robot vision, machine learning, pattern recognition
  • Object detection and recognition; scene understanding.