Research

Research Interests and Topics

• Computer and Robot Vision
• Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition
• Scene Understanding, Object Detection and Object Recognition
• Coordination and Distributed Systems
• Coordinated Energy Management

Rodrigo Verschae (left), Claudio Tapia (center), Nao robot (right). Photo taken at the computer vision lab of Universidad de Chile (2013).

Coordinated Energy Management

• Participation: Assistant Professor
• Institution: Kyoto University
• (2015-present)

Distributed Mode Scheduling for Power Balancing

• Participation: Postdoctoral Researcher
• Institution: Kyoto University
• (2013-2015)

Object Detection

Multiclass Object Detection and Pose Estimation

• Universidad de Chile
• Participation: Principal researcher (FONDECYT Grant N. 3120218)
• Project Title: Boosting Learning Algorithms for Multiclass Classification and Multidimensional Regression: Applications to Object Detection and Classification
• (2011-2013)

Efficient Face and Object Detection

• Universidad de Chile
• Participation: Doctoral CONICYT Grant
• Thesis Title: Object Detection Using Nested Cascades of Boosted * Classifiers: A learning framework and its extension to the multi-class case
• (2005-2009)

Robot Vision

Humanoid Robot Vision: Robocup @ Home

• Universidad de Chile
• Topics: Face detection and recognition, person detection and identification
• Participation: Research Collaborator, 2010-2013

Topic: Robot detection.

• Aibo robot detection for the 4-legged Robocup Team
• Universidad de Chile
• Participation: Research Collaborator
• (2005)

Hand gesture recognition

• Hand detection and tracking and hand gesture recognition for a humanoid robot
• Universidad de Chile
• Participation: Research Collaborator
• (2008- 2009)

Face Analysis

• Universidad de Chile
• Detection and identification of persons in unconstrained environments. The work includes the development of novel face detection, alignment, tracking, recognition and skin detection algorithms.
• Participation: Research Collaborator
• (2005-2013)

Virtual environment for evaluating Face recognition and detection methods

• Universidad de Chile
• Face Recognition Simulator uncostrained environments: simulation of the navigation of a robot/agent in a uncontrained environment.
• Participation: Research Collaborator
• (2010-2013)

Thermal face

• Face Detection, Face Recognition and Person Detection in thermal images
• Participation: Research Collaborator
• Universidad de Chile
• (2010-2013)

Face detection

• Face Detection, an Eye Detection and a Pose Estimation
• Universidad de Chile
• The was Software licensed to the Bundesdruckerei (Federal German printing office) and the Franhoufer IPK for their e-passport production system to check whether the submitted images fulfils the ICAO standard.
• Director: Javier Ruiz-del-Solar.
• Participation: Research, development and implementation
• (2005-2006)

WebFaces: Search of persons in the Web using face information.

• WebFaces is a content-based search system that uses computer vision algorithms, such as skin detectors, faces detectors and face recognition Participation: Research Collaborator
• Center for Web Research, Universidad de Chile
• (2004)

Other topics

Fairness in Multi-objective optimization

• Kyushu Institute of Technology
• 2009-2010 and 2011

Skin detection

Three topics related with Skin detection were studied:

• Robust skin segmentation in images using neighbourhood information
  • Universidad de Chile (2003)
• Robust skin segmentation in images using differences of fuzzy integrals
• Skin segmentation in videos the Spatial-range domain
  • Fraunhofer IPK (2004)

Image Collection Charaterization

• Web-Collection content characterization by image and text analysis
• Web-Collection content characterization of Pornographyc and Nudity content
• Face analysis for information retrieval in videos
• Participation: Collaborator, Center for Web Research, Universidad de Chile
• (2003-2005)

A-contrario Validation for an Object Detector

• Master Thesis
• ENS Cachan, France
• (2006)