Rodrigo Verschae

Rodrigo Verschae

Computer Vision, Machine Learning, Robotics and AI Researcher

News

2026

2025

  • [New Paper] Singla, R., Verschae, R. & Parthasarathy, H. “Large deviation-based noise mitigation in coupled quantum robotic systems”. Quantum Inf Process 24, 358 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11128-025-04982-5
  • [New Award] on Technological and Scientific Development, from the Institute of Engineers of Chile, for our work on Precision Agriculture.
  • [New Paper] on “Visualization of Profiles and Trajectories in Early Childhood Math Abilities using Data Mining Techniques”, accepted at ICETC 2025, joint work with Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, Jairo Navarrete, and Christopher A. Flores.
  • [New Paper] on “Active Learning in Biomedical Text Classification Using a Bag-of-Regular-Expressions Approach”, published at IEEE CBMS 2025 (IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems), joint work with Christopher A. Flores.
  • [New Recognition] I have been elevated to IEEE Senior member
  • [New Project] UOH internal URO Grant for Project “Technology transfer of a Precision Livestock monitoring system in the coastal drylands of O’Higgins: LoraWAN and Computer Vision for location, behavior analysis, and automated counting of sheep and cattle.
  • [New Paper] on “Human-Robot Navigation using Event-based Cameras and Reinforcement Learning”, Ignacio Bugueño Córdova, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae at Event Vision Workshop at CVPR 2025.
  • [New poster] on “eBIRD: Event-Based Image Reconstruction by a Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Model Control”, FABIAN IGNACIO VALDERRAMA PENALOZA, Ignacio Bugueño Córdova, Rodrigo Verschae, at LatinX in CV (LXCV) Workshop at CVPR 2025
  • [New Paper] on “Orchard Sweet Cherry Color Distribution Estimation from Wireless Sensor Networks and Video-based Fruit Detection”, with Luis Cossio, Cristobal Quininao, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture, Volume 235, 2025
  • [Khipu] Invited spotlight speaker at Khipu, Santiago, Chile, March 2025
  • [New Paper] on “Event-based optical flow: Method categorisation and review of techniques that leverage deep learning”, with R Guamán-Rivera and J Delpiano, published at Neurocomputing
  • [New Paper] on “Estimating time-varying delays and parametric uncertainties in teleoperated robots” with Rohit Singla, S Escaida, and H Parthasarathy, published at the Nonlinear Dynamics Journal.
  • [New Project] ANID FOVI Project “Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Remote and Proximal Sensing in Precision Agriculture”
  • [New Project] UOH internal Interdisciplinary Grant for Project “Building models of cherry development and maturity using AI and 3D computer vision from hyperspectral imagery”

2024

  • [New Visit] Visiting Professor @ENS Paris-Saclay, Japan (October - December 2024).
  • [New Visit] Short research Visit @Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay (November 2024).
  • [New Visit] Short research Visit @L3S Center, Hannover University, Germany (November 2024).
  • [Associate Editor] Since August 2024, Associate Editor of the Journal Applied Soft Computing (ASOC).
  • [New Visit] Visiting Professor @Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan (June - July & September & August 2024).
  • [New Visit] Research Visitor @Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (March 2024 -> present).
  • [New Event] During December 2024, we are organizing the LACORO Summer School on Robotics in Chile. Come join us!
  • [New Paper] on “Cherry CO Dataset: a dataset for cherry detection, segmentation and maturity recognition” with Luis Cossio and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, published at IEEE RA-L.
  • [Postdoctoral Fondecyt Advisor] Since March 2024 I am Sponsoring researcher for the Postdoctoral Fondecyt project of Robert Guaman, who will be working on Visual servoing, digital twins and event-based vision in Construction
  • [New Paper] on “Active Learning for Image Classification: A Comprehensive Analysis in Agriculture” with Christopher Flores to be presented at ICICT 2024, London, UK.
  • [New Paper] on “A Hybrid Method for Clinical Text Classification Based on Confident Predictions and Regular Expressions” with Christopher Flores to be presented at ICAIIC 2024, Osaka, Japan.
  • [New Paper] on “A Color Event-Based Camera Emulator for Robot Vision” with Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, Robert Guaman and Miguel Campusano, to be presented at RoboVis 2024, Roma, Italy.

2023

  • [New Paper] on “Event-based Gesture and Facial Expression Recognition: A Comparative Analysis” with Ignacio Bugueno-Cordova, available at IEEE Access, 2023.
  • [October 2023] We are looking for a Postdoc / Research Engineer to work on Machine Learning applied to bio-engineering problems, particularly cancer-related. More details here
  • [ICCV23 - LAXAI] Ignacio Bugueno will be presenting our work on “Event-based Facial Expression Recognition and Learning Framework”, at ICCV23 - LAXAI workshop, Paris 2023.
  • [New Paper] on “Combining Regular Expressions and Supervised Algorithms for Clinical Text Classification” with Christopher Flores, accepted at IDEAL, Portugal 2023
  • Alternate Director, [FONDEF IT23i0012 ANID Project] “Pedagogical management system for the mathematics classroom based on intelligent games and recommendations”, Chile
  • Director (2023-2024) of PAR Explora O’Higgins, Science Dissemination program of the Ministry of Science & Technology, Chile
  • Director (2023) of Science Festival O’Higgins, Science Festival; Outreach program of the Ministry of Science & Technology, Chile
  • [New Book Chapter] “Smart Technologies in Agriculture”. In: Zhang, Q. (eds) Encyclopedia of Smart Agriculture Technologies. Springer Cham.
  • 2020 - 2023, Director Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
  • [New Paper] “An Automated Assessment of Early Math Abilities Based on Digital Games” at the 2023 11th International Conference on Information and Education Technology (ICIET 2023) Fujisawa, Japan
  • [Invited Speaker] at the Biobio IA Robotics Summit, January 2023, Concepcion, Chile.
  • [New paper], “Why the low adoption of robotics in the farms? Challenges for the establishment of commercial agricultural robots”, G Gil, D Casagrande, LP Cortés, R Verschae, Smart Agricultural Technology 3, 100069

2022

  • [EMBC’22], New paper on “A Generic Semi-Supervised and Active Learning Framework for Biomedical Text Classification” presented at the International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC’22). Join work with Christopher Flores.
  • [IMPRESS, Feb 2022], Research visit at ENS Paris-Saclay, France (Gabriele Facciolo) as part of the STIC AmSud collaboration project IMPRESS (Image Modeling and Process for Remote SenSing in agriculture). Join Project with Gabriele Facciolo (ENS Paris-Saclay, France), Javier Preciozzi (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay).
  • [Postdoctoral Fondecyt Advisor] Since Abril 2022 I am Sponsor of Postdoctoral Fondecyt project of Christopher Flores, who is working on active and semi-supervised learning.

2021

  • [IMPRESS, December 2021], Research visit at ENS Paris-Saclay, France (Gabriele Facciolo) as part of the STIC AmSud collaboration project IMPRESS (Image Modeling and Process for Remote SenSing in agriculture). Join Project with Gabriele Facciolo (ENS Paris-Saclay, France), Javier Preciozzi (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay).
  • [International Workshop on Innovative Robotics], Invited Speaker. Event organized by The University of Salento in collaboration with the Kyushu Institute of Technology, October 2021
  • [Webinar on Innovation and Technology applied to Fruit Growing and Horticulture], Invited Speaker. Event organized by Embassy of Chile in Japan, September 2021
  • [ISICS 2022], I am part ot the Scientific Advisory Committee of the International Symposium on Intelligent Computing Systems - ISICS, Chile – March 2022
  • [First Japan-Chile Symposium on Field Robotics], Event sponsored by The Japan Foundation. Chile – March 2021

2020

  • [FG 2020] TUTORIAL: Introduction to face and gesture recognition using event-based cameras given at the 15th IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition
  • [ICI UOH] Since September 2020 I am an Director of the Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile.
  • [IEEE RAS Education Committee] Since July 2020 I am a Co-Chair of the IEEE RAS Education Committee.
  • [CEINE] Since March 2020 I am an associate researcher of the Business Intelligence Center (CEINE), Universidad de Chile, Chile.
  • [IMPRESS], International Coordinator of the STIC AmSud collaboration project IMPRESS (Image Modeling and Process for Remote SenSing in agriculture). Join Project with Gabriele Facciolo (ENS Paris-Saclay, France), Javier Preciozzi (Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay).

2019

  • IEEE RAS Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision, in Santiago Chile, December 2019. General Chair (together with J. Ruiz-del-Solar of Univ. de Chile)
  • [September 2019] Inverview (in Spanish) at the Library of the Chilean Congress regarding the importance of the collaboration between Industry and Academy for the development of Robotics.
  • [July 2019] Inverview (in Spanish) at the Library of the Chilean Congress regarding the First Japan-Chile Symposium on Field Robotics I am organizing.
  • [Since July, 2019] Member of the Academic Council of the Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
  • [July 2019] Research Visit, Computer Vision Laboratory, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • [June 2019] Visit, Vehicles Robotics Lab, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
  • [April 2019] I was promoted to Associate Professor at the Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
  • [PAR Explora O’Higgins CONICYT], 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