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.
