Rodrigo Verschae, Dr.

Rodrigo VERSCHAE
Associate Professor
Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins Chile

Director, PAR Explora CONICYT Project, O’Higgins Region, Chile

Contact

Email: rodrigo@verschae.org
Email: rodrigo.verschae@uoh.cl
Webpage: http://rodrigo.verschae.org
Address:
 Rodrigo Verschae
 Instituto de Ciencias de la Ingenieria
 Universidad de O'Higgins
 Av. Libertador Bernardo O'Higgins 611
 Rancagua
 Chile

Personal Information

• Full Name: Rodrigo Andres Verschae Tannenbaum.
• Nationality: Chilean & Belgian.
• Birthdate and birthplace: February 22nd, 1978, Santiago, Chile.
• Marital Status: Married.

Research Interests

• Computer and robot vision
• Machine learning and pattern recognition
• Object detection, object recognition, face analysis
• Distributed, autonomous, robotic and multi-agent systems
• Distributed and coordinated energy management

Affiliations

• 2019 (April) - present: Associate Professor (tenure track), Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
• 2018 (April) - 2019 (March): Assistant Professor (tenure track), Institute of Engineering Sciences, Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
• 2018 (June) - present: Associated Researcher, Center For Mathematical Modeling, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2015 (April) - March (2018): Program-specific Assistant Professor, Department of Intelligence Science and Technology, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2013 - 2015: Program-specific Postdoctoral Researcher, Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan
• 2011 - 2013: FONCECYT Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2010 - 2011: Postdoctoral Researcher, Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2009 - 2010: Postdoctoral Research fellow, Network Design Research Center, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
• 2005 - 2009: PhD Candidate/Student, Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2004 - 2005: Associated researcher (part time), Dept. of Pattern Recognition, Fraunhofer IPK-Institute, Berlin, Germany
• 2003 - 2004: Research collaborator, Center for Web Research (CWR), Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2003: Research assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Chile

Education

• 2010: Doctor in Electrical Engineering (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
  • Thesis: “Object Detection Using Nested Cascades of Boosted Classifiers: A learning framework and its extension to the multi-class case”.
  • Advisor: Prof. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar.
• 2006: Master in Applied Mathematics (Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS) de Cachan, France)
  • Master Program: Mathematics, Vision and Learning.
  • Thesis: “Improvement of a Face Detection System using A-Contrario Validation Methods”.
• 2003: Electrical engineering degree (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
  • Thesis: “Face Detection on Image Databases” (In Spanish).
• 2002: Bachelor in computer engineering (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
• 2001: Bachelor in electrical engineering (Universidad de Chile, Chile)

Grants and Awards

• 2018: Santander Grant for young Researchers
  • Research visit (two months) at the Robot Vehicles lab, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• 2011 - 2013: FONDECYT (Chile) research grant.
  • Principal Investigator. Postdoctoral Grant N. 3120218 (two year project, ~USD$80000).
  • Title: ”Boosting Learning Algorithms for Multiclass Classification and Multidimensional Regression: Applications to Object Detection and Classification”.
  • Application ranked in the best 10% (among 200 applicants).
• 2007: 1st place award IEEE RAS Poster competition, LA Summer School on Robotics, Chile
  • Title: “Detection of AIBO and Humanoid Robots using Boosted Cascades”.
  • Joint work with Matias Arenas.

Fellowships

• 2011 - 2012: Postdoctoral research visit fellowship
  • Kyushu Institute of technology, Japan (7 months, September 2011 - March 2012).
  • BecasChile Postdoctoral program for research abroad, granted by CONICYT-Chile (Science and Technology Chilean Commission) .
• 2008: Research visit fellowship
  • Image Processing Group, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona (2 months, September - October 2008).
  • Scholarship awarded by the Academics Affairs Office, Universidad de Chile.
• 2005 - 2008: Doctoral fellowship (CONICYT). - Fellowship awarded by CONICYT-Chile to pursue Doctoral studies.
• 2005 - 2007: Research visit fellowship - Center for Mathematics and their Applications (CMLA), Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France - 18 months, Oct 2005 - Sept 2006 and March - Sept 2007. - Fellowship granted by the EU ALFA Network in Computer Vision.

Academic Activities

University Service

• July 2019 - 2022: Member of the Academic Council of the Universidad de O’Higgins (Elected for four years)

Committees

• 2019: IEEE RAS Summer School on Deep Learning for Robot Vision, Santiago, Chile, December, General Chair
• 2017 - present: MDPI Journal Information, Editorial Board
• 2015 - present: Frontiers in Robotics and AI (Specialty section on Visions Systems Theory, Tools and Applications), Associate Editor
• 2015 - 2016: Human safety and comfort in human-robot shared workspaces, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Research Topic Co-editor
• 2012: IEEE RAS Summer School on Robot Vision and Applications, Santiago, Chile, December, General Co-chair
• 2009: World Conference on Soft Computing (WSC), On-line conference, Web Chair

Journal Article Reviewer

• 2018: IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII)
• 2017: Energies (MDPI)
• 2017: Transaction on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, IEEE (TCDS)
• 2017: IEEE SMCA
• 2016: Information (MDPI)
• 2016: Sensors (MDPI)
• 2010, 2014, 2016: Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems (JINT/JIRS)
• 2015: Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI)
• 2015: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing (TAC)
• 2015: Multimedia Systems Journal, Elsevier (MMSJ)
• 2014 - 2015: Advanced Robotics (AR)
• 2011 - 2015: Applied Soft Computing (ASOC)
• 2012 - 2015: International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems (IJARS)
• 2013: Transaction on Autonomous Mental Development, IEEE (TAMD)
• 2012: IEEE Journal System Man and Cybernetics A (SMC-A)
• 2009 - 2011: Computers and Electrical Engineering (COMPELECENG)
• 2010: Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT)
• 2009: International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV)
• 2007 - 2008: Machine Vision and Applications (MVA)
• 2007: Image and Vision Computing (IMAVIS)
• 2006 - 2007: IEE Vision Image and Signal Processing (IEE VIS)
• 2005, 2012: International Journal of Hybrid Intelligent Systems (IJHIS)
• 2005: International Journal of Computational Intelligence Research (IJCIR)

Conference Program Committee

• 2016: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• 2016: Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IBERAMIA)
• 2013: International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR)
• 2013: Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)
• 2012: Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS)
• 2012: International Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding (HBU)
• 2010: Hybrid Intelligence Systems (HIS)
• 2009: International Conference on Emerging Trends in Engineering & Technology (ICETET)
• 2007: Pacific-Rim Symposium on Image and Video Technology (PSIVT)

Conference Paper Reviewer

• 2014: IEEE International Conference on Smart Grid Communications (SmartGridComm)
• 2014: European Control Conference (ECC)
• 2014: International Workshop on Information Network Design (WIND)
• 2013: Latin American Theoretical INformatics Symposium (LATIN)
• 2013: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
• 2012: IEEE International Workshop on Robots and Human Interactive Communications (Ro-Man)
• 2010: IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
• 2010: International Symposium on Neural Networks (ISNN)
• 2009: Online World Conference on Soft Computing in Industrial Applications (WSC 15)
• 2009: Image and Vision Computing New Zealand (IVCNZ)
• 2006: German Pattern Recognition Conference (DAGM)
• 2005: String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE)
• 2005: Latin American Web Congress (LA-WEB)

Project Proposal Reviewer

• 2016: Reviewer of two CORFO (Chile) projects in the program competitivity in Industriy.
• 2015: Reviewer of one INNOVA CORFO (Chile) projects in the program for strategic public goods for competitivity (projects funding up to ~US$300000).
• 2012: Reviewer of three INNOVA CORFO (Chile) Line-2 projects (research and development projects with funding up to ~US$350000).

  External Reviewer

• 2011 - 2013 : Pattern Recognition, Gjovik College University, Norway

Teaching

• 2018: Software system programming (1 semester), Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
• 2018: Introduction to Programming (1 semester), Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
• 2018: Algorithms and Data Structures (1 semester), Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile
• 2018: Digital Design and Applications (1 semester), Universidad de O’Higgins, Chile

Teaching Assistant

• 2008: Advanced Image Processing (1 semester), Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 2001: Information Processing Systems (1 semester), Universidad de Chile, Chile
• 1999 - 2001: Networks Analysis (3 semesters), Universidad de Chile, Chile

Thesis co-supervisor & reviewing committees

• 2011 - 2012: External Reviewer of 3 Master Theses, Gjovik College University, Norway
• 2007 - 2009: Co-supervisor & reviewer of 3 Master-level Theses, Universidad de Chile
  • 2009: Matias Arenas (now at Groupon, USA)
  • 2008: Oscar Sanhueza (now at JOT Automation, Finland)
  • 2007: Hardy Franke (now at Atlas Copco)

Project Participation

• 2015 - present: Aqua Vision project
  • Kakenhi project on underwater computer vision.
  • Participation: design and development of 3D multi fish tracking system.
• 2013-2015: i-Energy
  • Construction and demonstration of a community nano-grid based on `i-energy’ (CREST Project, Japan).
  • Participation: research on the topic of community coordinated energy management
• 2010-2011: ETHICAL project
  • FP7 project of the European Commission for “Promoting International Debate on Ethical Implications of Data Collection, use and retention for Biometric and Medical Applications”.
  • Participation: Part of the Universidad de Chile working group (attended several project’s meetings, in charge of one of the deliverables, etc).
• 2006-2013: [Bender Humanoid Robot] (http://bender.li2.uchile.cl/)
  • Participation: Development of several computer vision modules used in Bender, a Humanoid Robot developed at the Universidad de Chile.
  • The development of Bender obtained the Robocup@Home Innovation award in 2007 and in 2008.
• 2005 - 2006: FaceQS-Tool
  • Participation: Design and development of a Face Detector, an Eye Detector, and a Pose Estimator.
  • Software licensed to the Fraunhofer-IPK Institute, Berlin, and to the Federal German printing office for their e-passport production system.
  • Work done at Universidad de Chile.
• 2004: [Webfaces project] (http://www.cwr.cl/webfaces/)
  • Center for Web Research, Universidad de Chile.
  • Participation: Development of several modules, including: face detection, face recognition, skin detection, face alignment.

Presentations

Invited, Tutorial and Workshop Presentations

• 2016: Invited panelist and speaker at the “Future of Electricity Utilities Protect”, Hong Kong, March, 2016. Event organized by the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House).
• 2015: Singapore-Japan Joint Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks (ASN), Singapore, December (Workshop presentation: “A cooperative distributed protocol for coordinated energy management in prosumer communities”)
• 2015: Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, May (Invited presentation: “Coordinated energy management for prosumer communities”)
• 2013: Laboratory for Scientific Image Analysis (SCIAN), Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile, May (Invited presentation: “Object detection using multiclass coarse-to-fine boosted classifiers”)
• 2013: Xerox Research Center Europe (XRCE), Grenoble, France, February (Invited presentation)
• 2012: IEEE RAS Summer School on Robot Vision, Santiago, Chile, December (Tutorial presentation: “Efficient object detection”)
• 2011: Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan (Invited presentation)
• 2010: IEEE LA-RAS Summer School, Santiago, Chile, December (Tutorial presentation: “Multiclass object detection”)
• 2010: Department of Computer Science, Catholic University of Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile, March (Invited presentation)
• 2009: Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan, (Invited presentation)
• 2008: Image Processing Group, Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, October (Invited presentation)
• 2008: Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria (UTFSM), Valparaiso, Chile, September (Workshop presentation)
• 2008: ALFA Workshop on computer Foundations and Applications, Paris, France, March (Workshop presentation)
• 2007: School on Neuromathematics of Vision, Pisa, Italy, (Workshop presentation)
• 2006: IEEE LA-RAS Summer School, Santiago, Chile December (Tutorial presentation: “Face detection”, together with Prof. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar)
• 2004: IEEE LA-RAS Summer School, Santiago, Chile December (Tutorial presentation: “Face detection”, together with Prof. Javier Ruiz-del-Solar)

Presentations at Peer-Reviewed Conferences

• 2014: IEEE SmartGridComm, Venice, Italy (Oral)
• 2014: European Conference on Control (ECC), Strasbourg, France (Oral)
• 2013: ICML workshop on “Learning with Test-Time Budgets”, Atlanta, USA (Poster)
• 2012: ECCV workshop on “Benchmarking Facial Image Analysis Technologies” (BeFIT), Florence, Italy (Oral)
• 2012: International Symposium on Visual Computing, Crete, Greece (Oral)
• 2010: International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Istanbul,Turkey (Poster)
• 2008: ECCV workshop on “Faces in Real Live”, Marseille, France (Oral)
• 2006: ECCV workshop on “Computer Vision Based Analysis in Sport Environments”, Graz, Austria, May (Poster)
• 2004: International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), Singapore (Poster)
• 2003: International Conference on Image analysis and Processing (ICIAP), Mantova, Italy (Poster)

Others

Activities and Attended events

• 2015: Research visitor (2 weeks), Advanced Mining Technology Center, University of Chile, Chile
• 2015: Part of the TedxKyoto Photography Team, Kyoto, Japan.
• 2015: Kyoto University Academic Day, Kyoto, Japan.
• 2015: Kyoto University - Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Price Symposium, Kyoto, Japan.
• 2014: TedxKyoto, Kyoto, Japan.
• 2014: Kyoto University - Inamori Foundation Joint Kyoto Price Symposium, Kyoto, Japan.
• 2011: Intensive Japanese classes, Genki Jacks Japanese Language School, Fukuoka, Japan (2 months).
• 2008: 6th Summer School on Complex Systems, Valparaiso, Chile.
• 2007: Machine Learning Summer School, Max Plank Institute, Tübingen, Germany, August 20 - August 31.
• 2006 - 2009 & 2011 - 2013: Co-organizer of the computer vision seminar, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
• 2006: Vision by Brains and Machines (VBM) Introductory Courses and the Symposium, Montevideo, Uruguay, 6th - 10th and 13th - 17th.
• 2006: Mathematical Foundations of Learning Theory Conference, Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS), Paris, France.
• 1997-2002: Member of the University Basketball team, Universidad de Chile, Chile.

Societies

• Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 1999.
• IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
• IEEE Robotics and Automation Society.
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
• Computer Vision Foundation (CVF).

Languages

• Spanish (native)
• English (fluent)
• French (intermediate)
• Japanese (basic-intermediate): - intermediate level for spoken communication (listening and speaking), - basic level for written communication (reading and writing).
• German (basic-intermediate)

Publication Count

• Journal articles: 16
• Book chapters: 2
• Refereed conference papers (at Scopus): 47
• Doctoral thesis: 1
• Master-level thesis: 2
• Technical reports and magazines articles: 4
• H-index: 7 (2016, Source: ISI Web of Knowledge and Research ID)
• H-index: 9 (2016, Source: Scopus)
• H-index: 17 (2016, Source: Google Scholar)

Skills

• Programming: Proficient in C and Go. Familiar with JAVA, C++, Bash/Awk and OpenMP. Basic knowledge of PHP.
• Versioning: Familiar with GIT and SubVersion (SVN).
• Data analysis: Familiar with Matlab, WEKA, Gnuplot and R.
• OS: Experienced with GNU/Linux and OSX. Familiar with Windows.
• Publishing: Experienced with \LaTeX.

Publication List

Notes:

• A full and up to date list (with PDFs and links) is available at [rodrigo.verschae.org/pub] (http://rodrigo.verschae.org/pub) and Google Scholar Profile
• The numbering in bold letters is used it indicate journal articles and book chapters

2016

• (61) Rodrigo Verschae, Takekazu Kato, Takashi Matsuyama, “Energy Management in Prosumer Communities: A Coordinated Approach”, Energies. 2016; 9(7): 562.
• (60) Jose Delpiano, Luis Pizarro, Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Multi-objective optimization for parameter selection and characterization of optical flow methods”, Applied Soft Computing, 2016 (in press) (ISI)
• (59) Rodrigo Verschae, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takekazu Kato, Takashi Matsuyama, “Coordinated energy management for inter-community imbalance minimization”, Renewable Energy, Volume 87, Part 2, March 2016, Pages 922-935, ISSN 0960-1481, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2015.07.039, 2016 (ISI)
• (58) Mauricio Correa, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “A realistic virtual environment for evaluating face analysis systems under dynamic conditions”, In Pattern Recognition, vol. 52, no. , pp. 160 - 173, 2016 (ISI)

2015

• (57) Rodrigo Verschae, Takekazu Kato, Hiroaki Kawashima, and Takashi Matsuyam, ”: A cooperative distributed protocol for coordinated energy management in prosumer communities”, IEICE Singapore-Japan Joint Workshop on Ambient Intelligence and Sensor Networks, Singapore, 2015.
• (56) Rodrigo Verschae and Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Object Detection: Current and Future Directions”, In Frontiers in Robotics and AI, vol. 2, no. 29, 2015.
• (55) Gabriel Hermosilla, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “An enhanced representation of thermal faces for improving local appearance-based face recognition”, In Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 1-12, 2015 (ISI)
• (54) 鈴木達哉, 川嶋宏彰, 加藤丈和, Rodrigo Verschae, 松山隆司, “協調型エネルギーマネジメントによる分散型蓄電池制御のためのインセンティブモデルの検討” (in Japanese), 第14回情報科学技術フォーラム (FIT2015), M-018, 2015.9.17.

2014

• (53) Rodrigo Verschae, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takekazu Kato, Takashi Matsuyama, “A Distributed Hierarchical Architecture for Community-based Power Balancing”, SmartGridComm 2014, Venice, Italy, pp 169-175, Venice, Italy, 2014.
• (52) Rodrigo Verschae, Hiroaki Kawashima, Takekazu Kato, Takashi Matsuyama, “A Distributed Coordination Framework for On-line Scheduling and Power Demand Balancing of Household Communities”, 13th European Control Conference (ECC 2014), pp. 1655-1662, Strasbourg, France, June 24-27, 2014. (Acceptance rate: 484/803=60.27%)
• (51) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Gabriel Hermosilla, Mauricio Correa, “Thermal Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments Using Histograms of LBP Features”, Chapter in Local Binary Patterns: New Variants and Applications, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 219-243, 2014.
• (50) Jose Delpiano, Luis Pizarro, Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Multi-objective Optimization for Characterization of Optical flow methods”, In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2014), vol. 2, pp. 556-573, 2014.

2013

• (49) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Multiclass Weak Classifiers in Boosted-Cascade Based Object Detection”, ICML workshop on Learning with Test-Time Budgets, Atlanta, USA, 2013.
• (48) Wilma Pairo, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, Patricio Loncomilla, “Person following by mobile robots: analysis of visual and range tracking methods and technologies”, In Proceedings of 17th RoboCup International Symposium Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 8371

2012

• (47) Mario Koppen, Rodrigo Verschae, Masato Tsuru, “MASP: A Multi-attribute Secretary Problem Approach to Multi-objective Optimization with Fair Decision Maker”, In Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC), 2012 Sixth International Conference on, pp. 324-327, 2012.
• (46) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “TCAS: A multiclass object detector for robot and computer vision applications”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Visual Computing, vol. 7431, pp. 632-641, 2012.
• (45) Rodrigo Verschae, Mario Koppen, Masato Tsuru, “A benchmark for evaluating approximated algorithms for fair wireless channel allocation”, In Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on, pp. 178-184, 2012.
• (44) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, Rodrigo Verschae, Fernando Bernuy, Patricio Loncomilla, Mauricio Mascaró, Romina Riquelme, Felipe Smith, “Bender–A General-Purpose Social Robot with Human-Robot Interaction Abilities”, In Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 54-75, 2012.
• (43) Mario Koeppen, Rodrigo Verschae, Masato Tsuru, “A Relational Approach to Collaborative Fairness”, In Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCoS), 2012 4th International Conference on, pp. 113-120, 2012.
• (42) Mauricio Correa, Gabriel Hermosilla, Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Human Detection and Identification by Robot using Thermal and Visual Information in Domestic Environments”, In Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Kluwer Academic Publishers, vol. 66, no. 1-2, Hingham, MA, USA, pp. 223-243, 2012.
• (41) Gabriel Hermosilla, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, “A comparative study of thermal face recognition methods in unconstrained environments”, In Pattern Recognition, vol. 45, no. 7, pp. 2445 - 2459, 2012.
• (40) Mauricio Correa, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “A Virtual Environment Tool for Benchmarking Face Analysis Systems”, In ECCV Workshops (3), pp. 536-546, 2012.
• (39) Mario Koeppen, Kaori Yoshida, Rodrigo Verschae, Masato Tsuru, Yuji Oie, “Comparative Study on Meta-heuristics for Achieving Parabolic Fairness in Wireless Channel Allocation”, In Applications and the Internet (SAINT), 2012 IEEE/IPSJ 12th International Symposium on, pp. 302-307, 2012.

2011

• (38) Rodrigo Verschae, Mario Koeppen, Kaori Yoshida, “Partial user-supplied information and user modeling for improving QoS”, In International Journal on Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory (SIMPAT), vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 47-55, 2011.
• (37) Mauricio Correa, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, S. Parra-Tsunekawa, “A realistic simulation tool for testing face recognition systems under real-world conditions”, In RoboCup 2010: Robot Soccer World Cup XIV, Springer, pp. 13-24, 2011.

2010

• (36) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Matias Arenas, Patricio Loncomilla, “Play Ball! Fast and Accurate Multiclass Visual Detection of Robots and its Application to Behavior Recognition”, In Robotics Automation Magazine, IEEE, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 43 -53, 2010.
• (35) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Coarse-To-Fine Multiclass Nested Cascades for Object Detection”, In , IEEE Computer Society, vol. 0, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, pp. 344-347, 2010.
• (34) Rodrigo Verschae, “Object Detection Using Nested Cascades of Boosted Classifiers: A learning framework and its extension to the multi-class case”, PhD thesis, Universidad de Chile, 2010.
• (33) Mario Koeppen, Rodrigo Verschae, Kaori Yoshida, Masato Tsuru, “Comparison of Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization Algorithms for the Utilization of Fairness in Network Control”, In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Istanbul, Turkey, 10-13 October 2010, pp. 2647-2655, 2010.
• (32) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Mascaró, Mauricio Correa, Fernando Bernuy, Romina Riquelme, Rodrigo Verschae, “Analyzing the Human-Robot Interaction Abilities of a General-Purpose Social Robot in Different Naturalistic Environments”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (RoboCup Symposium 2009), vol. 5949, pp. 308-319, 2010.
• (31) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, Jong Lee-Ferng, Nelson Castillo, “Real-Time Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Robot Interaction”. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (RoboCup Symposium 2009), In , vol. 5949, pp. 46-57, 2010.
• (30) Jong Lee-Ferng, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, Rodrigo Verschae, “Hand Gesture Recognition for Human Robot Interaction in Uncontrolled Environments”, In Workshop on Multimodal Human - Robot Interfaces, 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Anchorage, Alaska, 2010.
• (29) Matias Arenas, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Patricio Loncomilla, “Visual Detection of Legged Robots and Its Application to Robot Soccer Playing and Refereeing”, In International Journal on Humanoid Robotics, vol. 7, no. 4, pp. 669-698, 2010.

2009

• (28) Rodrigo Verschae, Mario Koeppen, Kaori Yoshida, “User Modeling for Improving QoS using partial user supplied information”, In International Conference in Intelligent Networking and Collaborative Systems (INCOS ’09), pp. 387-390, 2009.
• (27) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, “Recognition of Faces in Unconstrained Environments: A Comparative Study”, In EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, vol. -, 2009.
• (26) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Jong Lee-Ferng, Mauricio Correa, “Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Human Robot Interaction”, In LARS 2009 (CD Proceedings), Valparaiso, Chile, 2009.
• (25) Gabriel Hermosilla, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Mauricio Correa, “Face Recognition using Thermal Infrared Images for Human-Robot Interaction Applications: A Comparative Study”, In LARS 2009 (CD Proceedings), Valparaiso, Chile, 2009.

2008

• (24) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, “Face Recognition in Unconstrained Environments: A Comparative Study”, In Workshop on Faces in ‘Real-Life’ Images: Detection, Alignment, and Recognition, Marseille France, 2008.
• (23) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “Multiclass Adaboost and Coupled Classifiers for Object Detection”, In CIARP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) (Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper, Walter G. Kropatsch, eds.), Springer, vol. 5197, pp. 560-567, 2008.
• (22) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, “A unified learning framework for object detection and classification using nested cascades of boosted classifiers”, In Machine Vision Applications, Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., vol. 19, no. 2, Secaucus, NJ, USA, pp. 85-103, 2008.

2007

• (21) Aureli Soria-Frisch, Rodrigo Verschae, Aitor Olano, “Fuzzy fusion for skin detection”, In Fuzzy Sets and Systems, vol. 158, no. 3, 2007.
• (20) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Paul Vallejos, Mauricio Correa, “Face analysis for human computer interaction applications”, In VISAPP (Special Sessions), pp. 23-30, 2007.
• (19) Matias Arenas, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “Detection of AIBO and Humanoid Robots Using Cascades of Boosted Classifiers”, In RoboCup, pp. 449-456, 2007.
• (18) Hardy Franke, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “Real-Time Hand Gesture Detection and Recognition Using Boosted Classifiers and Active Learning”, In PSIVT, pp. 533-547, 2007.

2006

• (17) Rodrigo Verschae, “Improvement of a Face Detection System using A-Contrario Validation Methods”, Master’s thesis, CMLA, ENS Cachan, 2006.
• (16) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “SKINDIFF. Robust and Fast Skin Segmentation”, Technical report, UCH-DIE-VISION-2006-01, Universidad de Chile, 2006.
• (15) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, “A Unified Learning Framework for Face, Eyes and Gender Detection using Nested Cascades of Boosted Classifiers”, Technical report, UCH-DIE-VISION-2006-02, Universidad de Chile, 2006.
• (14) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mauricio Correa, “Gender Classification of Faces using Adaboost”, In CIARP, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), vol. 4225, pp. 68-77, 2006.
• (13) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “State of the Art Face Detection: Cascade Boosting Approaches”, Chapter in Applications of Soft Computing: Recent Trends, Springer, vol. 36, 2006.

2005

• (12) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Mario Koeppen, Raul Vicente-Garcia, “Improvement of a Face Detection System by Evolutionary Multi-Objective Optimization”, In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems, pp. 361-366, 2005.
• (11) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Victor Castaneda, Rodrigo Verschae, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Felipe Ortiz, “Characterizing Objectionable Image Content (Pornography and Nude Images) of Specific Web Segments: Chile as a Case Study”, In LA-WEB 2005, 3rd Latin American Web Congress, Buenos Aires, Argentina, pp. 269-278, 2005.
• (10) Aitor Olano, Aureli Soria-Frisch, Rodrigo Verschae, “Robust skin detection based on the fuzzy integral”, In Fourth Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology – EUSFLAT 2005 –, Barcelona, pp. 1135-1140, 2005.
• (9) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Daniel Kottow, “Skin Detection in Videos in the Spatial-Range Domain”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 3617, pp. 961-969,, 2005.

2004

• (8) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “Robust Skin Segmentation Using Neighborhood Information”, In the Eleventh International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP 2004), pp. 207-210, October 24-27, 2004, Singapore, IEEE Press., 2004.
• (7) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, “Skin Detection using Neighborhood Information”, In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FG2004), Seoul, Korea, pp. 463-468, 2004.
• (6) Alex Jaimes, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Dinko Yaksic, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Emilio Davis, Carlos Castillo, “On the Image Content of a Web segment: Chile a case study”, In Invited Paper , Journal of Web Engineering, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 153-168, 2004.
• (5) Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Carlos Castillo, Carlos Hurtado, “Content-based Image Retrieval and Characterization on Specific Web Collections”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3115, Springer, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Image and Video Retrieval(CIVR2004), Dublin City University, Ireland, pp. 189-198, 2004.

2003

• (4) Rodrigo Verschae, “Face Detection on Image Databases (In Spanish)”, Master (Electrical Engineering) thesis, Universidad de Chile, 2003.
• (3) Rodrigo Verschae, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, “A Hybrid Face Detector based on an Asymmetrical Adaboost Cascade Detector and a Wavelet-Bayesian-Detector”, In Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2686, pp. 742-749, 2003.
• (2) Alex Jaimes, Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Rodrigo Verschae, Dinko Yaksic, Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Emilio Davis, Carlos Castillo, “On the Image Content of the Web in Chile”, In Proceedings of the 1st Latin American Web Conference (LA-Web’03), Santiago de Chile, Chile, pp. 72-83, 2003.
• (1) Javier Ruiz-del-Solar, Alon Shats, Rodrigo Verschae, “Real-Time Tracking of Multiple Persons”, In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP’03), Mantova, Italy, pp. 109-114, 2003.