Sebastian Ramos

Contact Information Computer Vision Center Edici O, Campus UAB 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain E-mail: sramosp@cvc.uab.es Homepage: http://www.cvc.uab.es/sramosp Computer Vision: Visual Scene Understanding, 2D/3D Semantic Segmentation, Object Detection, 3D Reasoning and Reconstruction. Machine Learning: Probabilistic Graphical Models, On-line and Active Learning, Domain Adaptation. Computer Vision Center (CVC), Barcelona - Spain Ph.D. Candidate / Research Assistant Advisor: Prof. Antonio M. Lopez Ph.D. in Computer Vision Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Spain M.Sc. in Computer Vision Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) Open University of Catalonia (UOC) 2013 - Present

Research Interests

Current Position

Education

2013 - (Expected) 2014

Visiting Student Sep 2010 - Mar 2012 Technical University Munich (TUM), Germany M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Major: Robotics - Advisor: Dr. Kolja K uhnlenz B.Sc. with honors in Electronic Engineering 2007 - 2013 National University of Colombia (UNAL), Colombia GPA: 4.4/5.0 (First ranked student) Master Thesis: Ecient Temporal Semantic Segmentation (Prof. M. Buss) Done at Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at TU Munich (Germany) Research Experience Computer Vision Center, Barcelona - Spain Jan 2013 - Present Research Assistant Advisor: Prof. Antonio M. Lopez - Semantic Scene Understanding and Domain Adaptation

Automation Group at National University of Colombia May - Nov 2012 Research Assistant Advisor: Prof. Flavio A. Prieto - Vision-based Robot Control Algorithms for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Institute of Automatic Control Engineering at TU Munich and Computer Vision Laboratory at ETH Zurich Aug 2011 - Mar 2012 Research Assistant Advisors: Roderick de Nijs (TUM) and Xavier Boix (ETHZ) - Semantic Segmentation of Urban Scenarios for Mobile Robotic Platforms Siemens AG, Corporate Research and Technologies, Munich Robotics Technologies Group Mar - Jul 2011 Research Intern Advisor: Dr. Martin Soika - Perception Algorithms using 2D/3D Laser Scanners for Mobile Robots Dept. of Mechanic and Mechatronics Engineering Feb - Jul 2010 at National University of Colombia Research Assistant Advisor: Prof. Flavio Augusto Prieto Ortiz - Machine Vision Applications using Neuronal Networks and Pattern Recognition Techniques Training International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS) July 2013 Computer Vision and Machine Learning School Directors: Roberto Cipolla, Sebastiano Battiato, Giovanni Farinella Calabria - Italy 6th International Engineering Seminar Computational Electromagnetics National University of Colombia July 2012

4th International Engineering Seminar July 2010 Digital Signal Processing and Processors: Principles and Applications National University of Colombia Publications (*) indicates equal contribution G. Roig*, X. Boix*, S. Ramos, R. de Nijs, L. Van Gool. Active MAP Inference in CRFs for Ecient Semantic Segmentation. In ICCV 2013 Oral presentation (acceptance rate 2,52 %). S. Ramos*, Y. Socarras*, D. Vazquez, A. M. Lopez, T. Gevers Adapting Pedestrian Detection from Synthetic to Far Infrared Images. In ICCV Workshop 2013.

J. Xu, D. Vazquez, S. Ramos, A. M. Lopez, D. Ponsa. Adapting a Pedestrian Detector by Boosting LDA Exemplar Classiers. In CVPR Workshop 2013. D. Vazquez, J. Xu, S. Ramos, A. M. Lopez, D. Ponsa. Weakly Supervised Automatic Annotation of Pedestrian Bounding Boxes. In CVPR Workshop 2013. S. Ramos*, R. de Nijs*, G. Roig, X. Boix, L. Van Gool, K. Kuehnlenz. On-line Semantic Perception Using Uncertainty. In IROS 2012. Mentoring Andrea Alvarez, B.Sc. Student UAB, Ongoing Thesis Gabriel Villalonga, B.Sc. Student UAB, Ongoing Thesis Jer onimo Fernandez and Laura Mart nez, B.Sc. Students UAB Ongoing Project Xavier Riu, B.Sc. Student UAB, Ongoing Project Fernando Moya, B.Sc. Student UNAL, Ongoing Project Manuel Granados, M.Sc. Student, UAB Thesis: Semantic Scene Understanding for Urban Scenarios Sergi Canyameres, B.Sc. Student, UAB Project: Virtual World for ADAS Awards 2013 2013 2013

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Finalist in the Colombian National Contest Otto de Grei for the best Undergraduate Thesis in the area of Appropriate Technologies 2013 Best Undergraduate Thesis Award of B.Sc. Electronic Engineering 2013 National University of Colombia Awarded as the best student of B.Sc. Electronic Engineering 2013 National University of Colombia Awarded as one of the best students at the School of Engineering 2013 (Ranked 2/294) National University of Colombia Awarded as one of the Highest GPA students 2009 School of Engineering National University of Colombia Best students semi-annual honourable mention 2007 - 2012 B.Sc. Electronic Engineering National University of Colombia Training of Research Personnel FPI Fellowship, Spanish Government. Young Researchers Colciencias Fellowship Colombian Government. 2013- Present May - Nov 2012

Fellowships

 Sponsored Research at TU Munich Aug 2011 - Mar 2012 BAYLAT Grant Sponsored student at TU Munich Oct 2010 - Feb 2011 Scholarship for the best exchange students. Sponsored student at National University of Colombia 2007 - 2012 Scholarship for the best students of the School of Engineering. Participation in Research Projects Spanish Project TRA2011-29454-C03-00-00 Jan 2013 - Present Ecologic Cooperative Driver and Road Intelligent Visual (eCo-DRIVERS) http://www.cvc.uab.es/adas/projects/eco-drivers European Project FP7-ICT-248314 Interactive Urban Robot (IURO) http://www.iuro-project.eu Aug 2011 - Mar 2012

Invited Talks ICCV Workshop Dic 2013 Computer Vision in Vehicle Technology: From Earth to Mars, Sydney (Australia) NICTA Computer Vision Research Group, Canberra (Australia) University of Zaragoza Robotics and Real Time Group, Spain Daimler AG, Research & Development Environment Perception Group, Sindelngen (Germany) Selected Press National University of Colombia News Ecient Temporal Semantic Segmentation RCN Radio (Main Radio Network in Colombia) Colombian Young Researcher in Robotics and Articial Intelligence Languages Spanish: Native Language English: Fluent prociency German: Fluent prociency Kindly provided under request. Nov 2013

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