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  • 1994 - Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) For contributions to syntactic and structural pattern recognition and service to the IAPR

Overview

Alberto Sanfeliu is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields, mainly within computer science and engineering, with a strong focus on robotics and related technologies.

The main fields of study for Alberto Sanfeliu include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

Subfields of study explored in their research are:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Social Psychology
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Artificial Intelligence

The research topics frequently addressed are:

  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition
  • Video Surveillance and Tracking Methods
  • Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
  • Robotic Path Planning Algorithms
  • Robot Manipulation and Learning
  • Autonomous Vehicle Technology and Safety

Alberto Sanfeliu has coauthored work with several frequent collaborators, including:

  • Anaís Garrell
  • Francesc Moreno-Noguer
  • Javier Laplaza
  • J. E. Domínguez-Vidal
  • Ely Repiso

Their recent papers showcase a variety of topics in robotics, computer vision, and automation. Selected publications include:

  • "A survey on socially aware robot navigation: Taxonomy and future challenges," 2024, The International Journal of Robotics Research
  • "Efficient Hand Gesture Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction," 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • "Accurate detection and depth estimation of table grapes and peduncles for robot harvesting, combining monocular depth estimation and CNN methods," 2023, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • "Weakly and semi-supervised detection, segmentation and tracking of table grapes with limited and noisy data," 2023, Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • "Dual-Branch CNNs for Vehicle Detection and Tracking on LiDAR Data," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Sanfeliu's work is frequently published in multiple venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • International Journal of Social Robotics
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Computers and Electronics in Agriculture
  • UPCommons (Polytechnic University of Catalonia)

Among the distinctions received, Alberto Sanfeliu was named Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) in 1994 for contributions to syntactic and structural pattern recognition and service to the association.

Best Publications

  • A distance measure between attributed relational graphs for pattern recognition

    Alberto Sanfeliu;King-Sun Fu

  • GANimation: anatomically-aware facial animation from a single image

    Albert Pumarola;Antonio Agudo;Aleix M. Martinez;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • PL-SLAM: Real-time monocular visual SLAM with points and lines

    Albert Pumarola;Alexander Vakhitov;Antonio Agudo;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Syntactic and structural pattern recognition : theory and applications

    Horst O. Bunke;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Robot companion: A social-force based approach with human awareness-navigation in crowded environments

    Gonzalo Ferrer;Anais Garrell;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • The AEROARMS Project: Aerial Robots with Advanced Manipulation Capabilities for Inspection and Maintenance

    Anibal Ollero;Guillermo Heredia;Antonio Franchi;Gianluca Antonelli

  • Network robot systems

    Alberto Sanfeliu;Norihiro Hagita;Alessandro Saffiotti

  • Unsupervised Person Image Synthesis in Arbitrary Poses

    Albert Pumarola;Antonio Agudo;Alberto Sanfeliu;Francesc Moreno-Noguer

  • 3DPeople: Modeling the Geometry of Dressed Humans

    Albert Pumarola;Jordi Sanchez;Gary P. T. Choi;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis

    Alberto Sanfeliu;José Ruiz-Shulcloper

  • Robot social-aware navigation framework to accompany people walking side-by-side

    Gonzalo Ferrer;Anaís Garrell Zulueta;Fernando Herrero Cotarelo;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • GANimation: One-Shot Anatomically Consistent Facial Animation

    Albert Pumarola;Antonio Agudo;Aleix M. Martinez;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Graph-based representations and techniques for image processing and image analysis

    A. Sanfeliu;R. Alquézar;J. Andrade;J. Climent

  • Cooperative social robots to accompany groups of people

    Anais Garrell;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Ubiquitous networking robotics in urban settings

    Alberto Sanfeliu;Juan Andrade-Cetto

  • Social-aware robot navigation in urban environments

    Gonzalo Ferrer;Anais Garrell;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Proactive kinodynamic planning using the extended social force model and human motion prediction in urban environments

    Gonzalo Ferrer;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Dependent Multiple Cue Integration for Robust Tracking

    F. Moreno-Noguer;A. Sanfeliu;D. Samaras

  • Function-described graphs for modelling objects represented by sets of attributed graphs

    Francesc Serratosa;René Alquézar;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Unscented Transformation of Vehicle States in SLAM

    J. Andrade-Cetto;T. Vidal-Calleja;A. Sanfeliu

  • 3DPeople: Modeling the Geometry of Dressed Humans

    Albert Pumarola;Jordi Sanchez;Gary P. T. Choi;Alberto Sanfeliu

  • Progress in Pattern Recognition, Speech and Image Analysis: 8th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, Ciarp 2003, Havana, Cuba, November 26-29, 2003: Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2905)

    Alberto Sanfeliu;Jose Ruiz-Shulcloper

Frequent Co-Authors

Juan Andrade-Cetto
Juan Andrade-Cetto Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Francesc Moreno-Noguer
Francesc Moreno-Noguer Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Dimitris Samaras
Dimitris Samaras Stony Brook University
Aleix M. Martinez
Aleix M. Martinez The Ohio State University
Anibal Ollero
Anibal Ollero University of Seville
Norihiro Hagita
Norihiro Hagita Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Vincent Lepetit
Vincent Lepetit École des Ponts ParisTech
Danilo De Rossi
Danilo De Rossi University of Pisa
Takayuki Kanda
Takayuki Kanda Kyoto University

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