PERSONAL DATA
Surname :
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Urtasun
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EDUCATION | |
Dec 02 - Present |
Ph.D student Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL. Lausanne, Switzerland Title: "Motion Models for Robust 3D Human Body Tracking" Advisor: Prof. Pascal Fua |
Sep 01 - Dec 02 | Research assistant Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL. Lausanne, Switzerland. |
Oct 00 - July 01 | Postgraduate School in Computer Science
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, EPFL. Lausanne, Switzerland. |
Sep 99 - April 00 | M.S. Thesis
Corporate Communications Department. Institut EURECOM. Sophia Antipolis, France Title: "Implementation of a Tool to Visualize Protocol Design and Processing" Advisor: Prof. Ernst W. Biersack |
Sep 94-Jun 99 | M.S. and B.S.
in Telecommunication Engineering. University of Navarra (UPNA), Pamplona. Spain |
RESEARCH INTEREST | |
Computer Vision, Machine
Learning, Animation, Graphics, Games, Multimedia Applications, Biomedical
Engineering, Image processing. |
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE | |
Oct 00 - July01 | Swiss Federal Institut of Technology, EPFL. Lausanne,
Switzerland. "Constraints in shoulder movements using Motion capture and Implicit Surfaces" Supervisors: Pascal Fua |
May 00 - Oct 00 | Summer Internship, ENST (Telecom Paris). Paris,
France "Automatic segmentation of a fix number of markers (apply to the cerebellum and brainstem)" "Segmentation of a Guinea pig using mathematical morphology" Supervisor: Isabelle Bloch and Petr Dokladal. ENST. |
Sep 99 - Jul 00 | Research Assistant,
Corporate Communications Department. Institut EURECOM, France.
"Implementation of a tool to Visualize Protocol Design and Processing" Supervisor: Prof. Ernst W. Biersack, Matthias Jung. Institut EURECOM. |
Jun 98 - May 99 | Department of Electrical
Engineering. Universidad de Navarra (UPNA). Pamplona, Spain
"Blind deconvolution applied to electro encefalograms (EEGs) using Independent Component Analysis and Neureal Networks" Supervisor: Armando Malanda. |
Sep 98 | Computer support for the Automatic, Industrial
Electronic, and Instrumentation Annual Convention (SAAEI). Pamplona,
Spain |
PUBLICATIONS |
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2006 | R. Urtasun,
D.Fleet and P. Fua Gaussian Process Dynamical Models for 3D People Tracking In Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), New York, 2006 |
2005 | R. Urtasun,
D.Fleet, A. Hertzmann and P. Fua Priors for People Tracking from Small Training Sets In International Conference of Computer Vision (ICCV), Beijing, China, October 2005 |
2005 | R. Urtasun,
D.Fleet and P. Fua Monocular 3D Tracking of the Golf Swing In Conference of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), San Diego, CA, 2005 |
2005 | L. Herda, R. Urtasun and P.
Fua Hierarchical Implicit Surface Joint Limits for Human Body Tracking In Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2005 |
2004 | R. Urtasun, P. Glardon, R.
Boulic, D. Thalmann and P. Fua Style-based Motion Synthesis In Computer Graphics Forum (CGF), Vol. 23, number 4 pp 799-812, December 2004 |
2004 | R. Urtasun, P. Fua 3D Human Body Tracking using Deterministic Motion Models In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Czech Republic, May 2004 |
2004 | R. Urtasun, P. Fua 3D Tracking for Gait Characterization and Recognition In Proceeding of the 6th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), Seoul, Korea, May 2004. IEEE Computer Society. |
2004 | L.Herda, R.Urtasun, P.Fua Hierarchical Implicit Surface Joint Limits to Constraint Video-Based Motion Capture In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), Czech Republic, May 2004 |
2003 | L.Herda, R.Urtasun, P.Fua, A.Hanson
An Automatic Method for Determining Quaternion Field Boundaries for Ball-and-Socket Joint Limits. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR), 22(6): 419 - 436, 2003. |
2003 |
P. Dokladal, I. Bloch, M. Couprie, D.
Ruijters, R. Urtasun and L. Garnero Topologically Controlled Segmentation of 3D Magnetic Resonance Images of the Head by using Morphological Operators. Pattern Recognition , 36(10):2463 - 2478, 2002. |
2002 | L.Herda, R.Urtasun, P.Fua and A.Hanson
Automatic Determination of Shoulder Joint Limits using Quaternion Field Boundaries. Proceeding of the 5th International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition (FGR), pages 95 - 100, Washington DC, May 2002. IEEE Computer Society. |
2001 | P. Dokladal, R. Urtasun, I. Bloch
and L. Garnero Segmentation of 3D head MR images using Morphological reconstruction under constraints and automatic selection of markers. International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), pages 1075-1078, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2001. |
HONORS AND SCHOLARSHIPS |
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Sep 00 | Postgraduate Fellowship School in Computer Science Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL). Lausanne, Switzerland |
Sep 99 | Graduate Fellowship
Institut EURECOM, (France) Project: Implementation of a Tool to Visualize Protocol Design and Processing |
Jun 98 | Research Fellowship
Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture. In collaboration with Department of Electrical Engineering. University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain. Project: Blind deconvolution applied to EEG using Component Analysis and Neural Networks |
Jun 95, Jun 97, Jun 98, Jun 99 | Award for academic
excellency University of Navarra (UPNA), Spain. |
Sep 96 -Jun 99 | University Scholarship as a basketball player |
COMPUTING EXPERIENCE |
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Programming Languages
: C/C++, Java, HTML, Pascal, Assembly, Java Beans. Systems: UNIX, Windows , MS-DOS Software : Maya, Visual C++, Matlab, IBM Java VisualAge, Spice, Labview Hardware programming: Texas Instrument DSP-TMS30C50. |
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LANGUAGES | |
Spanish : Mother Tongue
English : Fluent French : Fluent German : Basics |
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OTHER
ACTIVITIES |
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Basketball, Squash, Skiing
Reading, Travelling |