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Digital Signal Processing Section

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Elisa Martínez Marroquín

Lecturer on Computer Vision

 

Head of the Digital Signal Processing Section

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·         Teaching

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Dr. Elisa Martínez                                                                                        

Digital Signal Processing Section

Enginyeria La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull
Pge. Bonanova, 8

08022 – Barcelona

Spain

Telf. (+34) 932902440

Revised: 15/3/08

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gifTEACHING

  • Algebra (95/96, 96/97)
  • Signal Processing (96/97,97/98, 98/99, 99/00,00/01)
  • Transmission Signals and Systems (96/97,97/98, 98/99, 99/00,00/01)
  • Digital Image Processing (98/99)
  • Computer Vision (00/01-act)

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 RESEARCH INTERESTS

Current research is mainly concerned with computer vision (including structure from motion, egomotion estimation, tracking with deformable models, visual guidance of mobile robots and interpretation of image sequences) and multimodal interfaces fusing vision, speech and sound for human-computer interaction (HCI). I am particularly keen on the translation of research results into commercial prototypes through technology transfer agreements.

The former topic of research was focussed on medical image processing. The research contributed new results in segmentation of cell’s nucleus in images of biopsies using methods based on mathematical morphology, segmentation of coronary arteries in angiographic images and segmentation and 3D reconstruction of bones from CAT images, especially using deformable models.

 

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gif  Research Activity

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull contribution to the European project SALERO: Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects. 2006-2010.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull contribution to the Cenit Project INREDIS (Interfaces for the RElation between the environment and people with special neeDs). 2008-2009.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Main researcher in the national project SAVE (Expressive Audiovisual Synthesis). Ref: TEC2006-08043. 2007-2009.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Member of the Spanish Thematic Network about Audiovisual Signal Processing for Advanced Multimodal Interfaces funded by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry. Ref. TIN2006-26901-E/ 2007-2008.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Member of the Spanish Thematic Network in Speech Technologies funded by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry. Ref. TEC2005-24712-E and TEC2006-28101-E. 2006-2008.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Researcher in the project  DPI2003-05193-C02-01, called SIRVENT “Sistema reconfigurable para la navegación basada en visión de robots caminantes y rodantes en entornos naturales”, funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dr. Enric Celaya from the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). Research partners: Carme Torras, Josep Amat, Rafael Huber and Alberto Sanfeliu from IRI and Carles Sierra and Ramon López de Mantaras from the Institut d’Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial from the CSIC (Spanish Scientific Research Council). From 01.12.2003 to 30.11.2006.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull contribution to the project IntegraTV-4all (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-350301-2004-2) funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. 2004-2005.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project “Videophone” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-350300-2004-44), funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. 2004-2005.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project “Virtual Characters” (ref. RDITSCON04 0005) funded by the Catalan Center for Innovation and Development (CIDEM). 2004.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Member of the Group of Interest in Intelligent Outdoor Transport Systems (GUIA-EX), funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Francisco Aparicio Izquierdo from the Automobile Research Institute (INSIA). (January-December 2004).

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project PGR-PR2003-02  “Interlocutor virtual”, funded by FUNITEC La Salle. 01/12/03-30/9/04.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project PGR-PR2002-03  “Locutor virtual interactiu personalitzable”, funded by FUNITEC La Salle. 01/09/02-01/12/03.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Researcher in the project CICYT DPI2000-1352-C02-01, called ARGOS “Navegación autónoma de robots guiados por objetivos visuales”, funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dr. Enric Celaya from the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). Research partners: Carme Torras, Josep Amat and Alberto Sanfeliu from IRI and Carles Sierra and Ramon López de Mantaras from the Institut d’Investigació en Intel.ligència Artificial from the CSIC (Spanish Scientific Research Council). 2001-2003.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Member of the GeVi research group of the Artificial Vision Area in the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). 2001-act.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Researcher in the project “Detección de estados incipientes de somnolencia en conductors de vehículos a motor” (DPI2002-02279),  funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dra. Olga Soler Vilageliu from the Perception Lab of the Psychology Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project “Virtual Speaker” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-150500-2002-410), funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Joint coordinator, with Fernando de la Torre, of the research project “Automatic detection of driver drowsiness” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-1101100-2002-77), funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council. Reseach partner: Perception Lab of the Psychology Department of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif Coordinator of the research project “Automatic analysis of industrial paint coatings through computer vision” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-070000-2002-115), funded by the Spanish Science and Technology Council.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gifColaboration as PhD student in the research project CICYT TAP97-1209 "Navegación basada en visión de robots autónomos en entornos no estructurados". Main researcher: Dr. Enric Celaya from the "Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial" (IRI. http://www-iri.upc.es ). 1997-2000.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gifResearch visitor at the Visual Dynamics Group of the University of Oxford. My advisor was Prof. Andrew Blake. 1997.

 

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gif PhD Thesis

My advisor was Prof. Carme Torras from the Institut de Robotica i Informatica Industrial (IRI).

 

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gif Some Demos of research results at the Digital Signal Processing Group

Member of the “Asociación Española de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes (AERFAI)”.

 

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http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gif Publications

  • Maria Alberich-Carramiñana, Guillem Alenyà, Juan Andrade-Cetto, Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Recovering Epipolar Direction from Two Affine Views of a Planar Object. To appear in Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 2008.

 

  • Iriondo, I.; Planet, S.; Alías, F.; Socoró, J. C.; Martínez, E. Emulating Subjective Criteria in Corpus Validation. To apper as book chapter in Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence. 100528 - IGI Global, ISBN: 978-1-59904-849-9, Spain, 2008

 

  • Juan José Curto, Miguel Blanca, Elisa Martínez. Automatic Sunspots detection on Full-disk Solar images using mathematical morphology. To appear in Solar Physics. 2008.

 

  • J. Melenchón, E. Martínez, Efficiently Downdating, Composing and Splitting Singular Value Decompositions Preserving the Mean Information. Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS 4478:436-443, 2007, Girona (Spain).

 

  • J. Melenchón, J. Simó, G. Cobo, E. Martínez, Objective Viseme Extraction and Audiovisual Uncertainty: Estimation Limits between Auditory and Visual Modes, International Conference on Auditory-Visual Speech Processing, 2007, Hilvarenbeek, (The Netherlands).

 

  • Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet, Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez. Validation of an Expressive Speech Corpus by Mapping Automatic Classification to Subjective Evaluation. Computational and Ambient Intelligence. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol.4507. ISBN: 978-3-540-73006-4. ISSN: 0302-9743. Springer Verlag. (pp.646-653), 2007.

 

  • Javier Gonzalvo, Joan Claudi Socoró, Ignasi Iriondo, Carlos Monzo, Elisa Martinez, “Linguistic and mixed excitation improvements on a HMM-based speech synthesis for Castilian Spanish”, SSW6, Bonn

 

  • M. Alberich-Carramiñana, G. Alenyà, J. Andrade-Cetto, E. Martínez, and C. Torras. Affine epipolar direction from two views of a planar contour. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4179, pages 944-955, September 2006.

 

  • "Using Al to make interactive television more usable by people with disabilities", Luigi Ceccaroni, Josefa Hernández, Elisa Martínez, Paloma Martínez, Xavier Verdaguer. I Congreso de Accesibilidad a los medios audiovisuales para personas con discapacidad (AMADIS´06). Madrid,  2006.

 

  • Alenyà G., Martínez E. and Torras C.: “Integration of Visual and Inertial Sensors". Journal of Robotic Systems (JRS), Vol. 21, pp. 23-32, 2004.

 

  • Alenyà G., Martínez E. and Torras C.: “Estimació del moviment d’un robot observant contorns actius”, In “Recerca en automàtica, visió i robòtica”, edited by Antoni Grau and Viçens Puig, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya,  pp. 319-324, 2004. ISBN: 84-7653-844-8.

 

 

  • J. Melenchón, I. Iriondo, J.C. Socoró, E. Martínez and L. Meler: “Lip Animation of a personalizad Facial Model from Auditory Speech”, IEEE Internacional Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology (ISSPIT), December 2003, Darmstat (Germany).

 

  • Xavier Quintana, Elisa Martínez, Xavier Melenchón. Automatic evaluation of degradation of paint coatings through EM algorithm. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 565-568. Barcelona. September 2003.

 

  • Carlos García, Fernando de la Torre, Elisa Martínez. Subspace eyetracking for driver warning. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 329-332. Barcelona. September 2003.

 

  • Xavier Melenchón, Fernando de la Torre, Ignasi Iriondo, Francesc Alias, Elisa Martínez, Lluís Vicent. Text to Visual Synthesis with Appearance Models. In Proc. IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, pp. 237-240. Barcelona. September 2003.

 

  • Guillem Alenyà, Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Fusing visual contour tracking with inertial sensing to recover robot egomotion. Workshop on Integration of Vision and Inertial Sensors, pp. 1891-1898. Coimbra, Portugal, June 2003.

 

  • E. Martínez, J.A. Montero, J.A. Morán, J.C. Socoró. New Technologies and Problem Based Learning in Artificial Vision, Workshop on Education and Practice in Artificial Vision, pp.140-143, Mallorca, Spain, June 2003.

 

  • Martínez E. and Torras C.: ``3D motion recovery while zooming using active contours". In ``Intelligent Autonomous Systems 7", edited by M. Gini, W-M. Shen, C. Torras and H. Yuasa, IOS Press, pp. 207-214, 2002.

 

  • Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Qualitative vision for the guidance of legged robots in unstructured environments. Pattern Recognition. Vol. 34/8, pp 1585-1599, August 2001.

 

  • Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Depth map from the combination of matched points with active contours. In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Vehicles, pp. 332-338.Detroit, October 2000.
  • Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Epipolar geometry from the deformation of an active contour. Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), pp. 534-537. Barcelona, Septiembre 2000.
  • Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Integration of appearance and geometric methods for the analysis of monocular sequences. In Proc. IST/SPIE 12th Annual Symp. on Electronic Imaging, pp. 62-70, San Jose, California, January 2000
  • Xavier Quintana, Elisa Martínez, Computer vision system for the analysis of sparkling wines. Revista Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT. ISSN 1134-3281), Nº 19, pp. 75-79, Setembre 1999.
  • Elisa Martínez, Xavier Quintana. Automatic Visual Inspection of Quality in Sparkling Wines. Proceedings of the International Conference on Imaging Science (CISST '99). Las Vegas, USA, 1999.
  • Lluís Safont, Elisa Martínez. 3D reconstruction of third proximal femur (31-) with active contours. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP '99). Venice, Italy, 1999.
  • F. De la Torre, X. Jové, E. Martínez and LL. Vicent. Appearance Based Tracking with switching. 2on Congrés Català d'Inteligència Artificial. Girona, Spain. 25-27 October 1999.
  • L. Safont, E. Martínez, X. Jové, F. de la Torre. Reconstrucció tridimensional del terç proximal del fèmur a partir de contorns actius. In Proceedings of the Congrés Català d'Intel.ligència Artificial (CCIA 99). Girona, Spain. 25-27 October 1999.
  • J.C. Socoró, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X. Jové. Aplicación de técnicas de estimación espectral superresolutivas a subbandas armónicas para la síntesis de sonidos percusivos. Revista Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281), Nº 18, pp. 67-70, Abril 1999
  • Xavier Quintana, Elisa Martínez. Estimación automática visual de la velocidad de las burbujas de vinos espumosos, Proceedings of the XIII National Symposium of the Scientific International Union of Radio. URSI '98. Pamplona, Spain, 16-18 Setembre1998.
  • J.C. Socoró, X. Jové, E. Santamaría, E. Martínez. Aplicación de técnicas de estimación espectral superresolutivas a subbandas armónicas para la síntesis de sonidos percusivos. Revista Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281), Nº 16, pp. 62-65, Abril 1998
  • E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X. Jové, F. de la Torre. Unsupervised morphological segmentation of objects in contact, Proceedings of the Symposium on Signal and Image Processing GRETSI 97, Grenoble, France 1997. pp. 1379-1383.
  • F. de la Torre, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, J.A. Morán. Moving object detection and tracking system: a real time implementation, Proceedings of the Symposium on Signal and Image Processing GRETSI 97, Grenoble, France 1997. pp. 375-378.
  • E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X. Jové, J.C. Socoró, Non linear analysis of biopsy images, Revista Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281), Nº 13, pp. 16-20, Febrer 1997
  • E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, C. Vos. Non linear image analysis for fuzzy classification of breast cancer, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP '96. Laussane, Switzerland, 1996
  • L. Sanmartín, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría. Sistema de segmentación automático para la determinación de la calidad de los vinos espumosos. Revista Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281), Nº 12, pp. 5-9, Octubre 1996
  • L. Sanmartín, E. Martínez. Automatic segmentation of sparckling wines images for visual analysis and quality assesment, Proceedings of the XI National Symposium of the Scientific International Union of Radio. URSI '96. Madrid, Spain, 1996
  • E. Martínez, E. Santamaría. Morphological analysis of mammary biopsy images, Proceedings of the 8th Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference on Industrial Applications in Power Systems, Computer Science and Telecommunications. MELECON '96. Bari, Italy, 1996
  • E. Martínez, X. Jové. Automatic extraction of the contour of the coronary arteries on angiographic images, Proceedings of the X National Symposium of the Scientific International Union of Radio. URSI '95. Valladolid, Spain,1995

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EDUCATION AND OTHER ACTIVITIES

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gifEducation

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2006-2007 Executive Program on Management Skills, organized by CIDEM and taught by ESADE Business School.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2001-2002 Master in Project Management. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1995-2000 Ph.D in Electronic Engineering. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1996-1998 Computer Vision Master. Computer Vision Center. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1995-1997 Master in Signal and Information Theory and Processing. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1993-95 Electronic Engineer. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1990-93 Telecommunications Engineer (Electronic Equipments). La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gif Professional Experience

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2004-act Head of Digital Signal Processing Area at La Salle Technology Transfer Office. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2000-act Head of the Digital Signal Processing Section. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2000-act Head of the Multimodal Processing Research Group. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1997-2004 Project manager at La Salle’s Technology Transfer Office.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif2003-2004 Coordinator of the Signal and Information Theory and Processing Doctoral Program. Universitat Ramon Llull.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1995-act Adjunt Professor at the Communications and Signal Theory Department. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1997 Research visitor at the Visual Dynamics Group of the University of Oxford. My advisor was Prof. Andrew Blake.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1994-95 Practices Assistant Professor at the Communications and Signal Theory Department. La Salle School of Engineering.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1993-94 Scholarship holder at the at the Communications and Signal Theory Department. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University. Working on Digital Image Processing.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif1991-93 Collaboration at the Electronics and Microelectronics Department. La Salle School of Engineering. Ramon Llull University. Working on Electromagnetic Compatibility.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_verde.gifAwards and Honours

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif 2006-2007 Granted by the Work Department of the Catalan Government. Executive Program on Management Skills.

http://www.els.url.es/globals/b_groga.gif 1997-1998 Catalan Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) fellow. Beca BE.

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