Latest news:

March 1st, 2009

Dr. Geovanni Martinez was appointed for two years as the Director of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, School of Electrical Engineering, University of Costa Rica.

Welcome to the Image Processing and Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCV-LAB). Our current research projects include camera calibration, image stabilization, image segmentation, pose, shape, color, mimic and motion estimation of real objects for unmanned aerial vehicles, robotics, on-line inspection, in-situ microscopy, 3D inmersive information systems and video compression.

Prof. Geovanni Martínez, PhD.
Coordinator

Escuela de Ingeniería Eléctrica
Apartado Postal 11501-2060 UCR
San José, Costa Rica
Central America
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Phone: ++506 2207 3864
Fax: ++506 2207 3920
Email: gmartin@pacuare.eie.ucr.ac.cr
Short biography:
Dr. Martínez earned his PhD (Dr.-Ing.) from the Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik und Informationsverarbeitung at the University of Hannover, Germany, in 1998. His PhD thesis dealt with shape, motion and color estimation of articulated objects for video compression. His PhD advisor was Prof. H.-G. Musmann. From August 2000 to June 2002, he conducted posdoctoral research work on optical tracking for teleoperation space applications at the University of Houston and NASA - Johnson Space Center. In 1997 he joined the Faculty at the University of Costa Rica, where he is now Full Professor. He is the Director of the Graduate Program in Electrical Engineering, the founder and coordinator of the Image Processing and Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCV-LAB) and the recipient of the 2002 "Clodomiro Picado Twight" National Technology Award.