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December 12th, 2008
Dr. Martinez presented a poster entitled "Three Dimensional
Cell Counting for In-Situ Microscopy" at the IAPR 19th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (IAPR
ICPR-2008), Tampa, Florida, USA, December 8-11, 2008.
November
17th, 2008
From
October 30th to November 16th Dr. Martinez was visiting the "Institut
fuer Informationsverarbeitung" (TNT)
at the University of Hannover, Germany. During his visit he also
participated as a member of the PhD evaluation committees for Patrick
Mikulastik and Marcel Merkel.
November
15th, 2008
The licenciate student Andrew Sheehy
gave a talk entitled "Region and Contour Based Cell Cluster
Segmentation Algorithm for In-Situ Microscopy" at the IEEE
International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science
and Automatic Control (CCE 2008), Mexico City, Mexico, November
12-14, 2008.
June 30th, 2008
A new paper entitled "Three-Dimensional Cell Counting for In-Situ
Microscopy" was accepted for publication at the IAPR 19th International
Conference on Pattern Recognition 2008 (IAPR
ICPR-2008), Tampa, Florida, USA, December 8-11, 2008.
June
8th, 2008
A new paper entitled "Region and Contour Based Cell Cluster
Segmentation Algorithm for In-Situ Microscopy" was accepted
at the IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering,
Computing Science and Automatic Control (CCE 2008), Mexico City,
Mexico, November 12-14, 2008.
January
7th, 2008
A new paper entitled "Online Monitoring of Microcarrier Based
Fibroblast Cultivations with In situ Microscopy" has been published
in Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Vol. 99, No. 1, January 1,
2008.
June
12th, 2007
From June 7th to June 10th 2007 Dr. Geovanni Martinez was in Sao
Pablo, Brazil, participating in an Alumni Reunion Event organized
by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
April 3rd, 2007
From March 26th to April 1st Dr. Martinez was visiting the "Institut
fuer Informationsverarbeitung" (TNT)
at the University of Hannover, Germany. During his visit he also
participated as a member of the PhD evaluation committee for Onay
Urfalioglu.
February
7nd, 2007
From January 22th to February 5th Dr. Martinez was visiting the
"Institut fuer Informationsverarbeitung" (TNT)
at the University of Hannover, Germany. During his visit he also
participated as a member of the PhD evaluation committee for Hellward
Broszio.
November
09th, 2006
Francisco
Siles, past
member of the IPCV-LAB, will begin in January
2007 his PhD. studies on patter recognition at the
Technische Universität München, Germany.
September
28th, 2006
Mauricio
Hess, past
member of the IPCV-LAB, is
now conducting PhD. studies on computer vision at the University
of California, Davis, USA.
September 06th, 2006
Dr. Geovanni Martinez visited the new facility of the Ad Astra Rocket
Company in Liberia, Costa Rica.
August
09th, 2006
The licenciate student Edwin
Espinoza
got the highst grade on his thesis entitled "Cell
Cluster Segmentation Based on Global and Local Thresholding for
In-Situ Microscopy".
July 18th, 2006
The undergraduste student Andrew
Sheehy got the highst grade on his thesis entitled "Region
and Contour Based Cell Cluster Segmentation Algorithm for In-Situ
Microscopy".
July
12th, 2006
Dr. Geovanni Martinez was appointed for two years as the Director
of the Electronics and Telecommunications Department of the School
of Electrical Engineering of the University of Costa Rica.
July
06th, 2006
Dr.
Seok-Hyun An, Vice President / Strategic Business Division of the
Korea Electronics
Technology Institute (KETI), visited the IPCV-LAB.
May
22nd, 2006
Dr. Geovanni Martinez presented a poster entitled "Three-Dimensional
Shape Estimation of BHK Cell Clusters from a Still Image Based on
Shape from Shading for In-Situ Micrtoscopy" at the IEEE
International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing
2006 (ICASSP-2006),
Toulouse, France, 14-19
May 2006.
April
28th, 2006
The IPCV-LAB has a new facility with ample space for research activities
in the 4th floor of the new Building of the School of Electrical
Engineering of the University of Costa Rica.
April
10th, 2006
The licenciate student Edwin Espinoza
presented a poster entitled "Cell Cluster Segmentation Based
on Global and Local Thresholding for In-Situ Microscopy" at
the 2006 IEEE
International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging" (IEEE
ISBI-2006), Arlington, Virginia, USA, April 5-9, 2006.
March
2nd, 2006
From February 16th to February 28th Dr. Martinez was visiting the
"Institut fuer Informationsverarbeitung" (TNT)
at the University of Hannover, Germany. During his visit he also
participated as a member of the PhD evaluation committee for Thorsten
Thormaehlen.
January
10th, 2006
Two papers describing research works carried out at the IPCV-LAB
were accepted for publication at
IEEE ICASSP-2006
and IEEE
ISBI-2006.
November
18th, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez participated in the second workshop organized
by the Alumni DAAD-UCR Program entitled "Searching For New
Funding in Germany for Academic Applications", San Jose, Costa
Rica, 16th-18th July, 2005.
September
13th, 2005
Dr. Choon-Ho Kim, President of the Korea
Electronics Technology Institute (KETI), visited the IPCV-LAB.
August
12th,2005
Dr. Yaffa Yeshurum, Assistant Professor and Member of the Cognitive
Psychology Group at the University of Haifa, Israel, visited
the IPCV-LAB.
July
19th, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez participated in the elaboration of a paper
describing the state of the art of science and technology in Costa
Rica in the folowing areas: Biomedical Imaging, Bioinformatic, One-Dimesnional
Signal Processing, Image Processing, Computer Vision and Pattern
Recognition, for the project entitled "Estrategia
Siglo XXI" sponsored by the CR-USA Foundation, San Jose,
Costa Rica.
July
08th, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez participated in the first workshop organized
by the Alumni DAAD-UCR Program entitled "Searching For New
Funding in Germany for Academic Applications", San Jose, Costa
Rica, 6th-8th July, 2005.
July
04th, 2005
Dr. Babette Regierer, Scientific Manager, Institue for Biochemistry
and Biology, University of Potsdam, Germany, visited the IPCV-LAB.
July
1st, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez gave a talk entitled "Image Processing
and Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCV-LAB)" at the
Cellular and Molecular Biology Research Center (CIBCM) of the University
of Costa Rica.
June
23rd, 2005
Dr. Jesus B. Alonso Hernández and Dr. Carlos Manuel Travieso
González, Associate Professors at the "Universidad de
las Palmas de Gran Canaria", Spain, visited the IPCV-LAB.
May
23rd, 2005
Dr. Miguel Angel Ferrer Ballester, "Prefesor Titular"
at the "Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria", Spain,
visited the IPCV-LAB.
May
18th, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez presented a poster entitled "Criterion
for Automatic Selection of the Most Suitable Maximum-Likelihood
Thresholding Algorithm for Extracting Object from their Background
in a Still Image" at the 2005 IAPR Conference on Machine Vision
Applications (MVA-2005),
Tsukuba Science City, Japan.
April
13th, 2005
Dr. Timothy G. Saponas, Manager, Worldwide Higher Education, Intel
Corporation, visited the IPCV-LAB.
March
22nd, 2005
Dr. Geovanni Martinez presented a poster entitled "Cell Density
Estimation from a Still Image for In-Situ Microscopy"
at the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech,
and Signal Processing (IEEE
ICASSP-2005), Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,
USA.
March
4th, 2005
Prof.
Dr. Klaus D. Toennies, Head of the Computer Vision Group, School
of Computer Science, Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg,
Germany, gave a talk entitled "Using Deformable Models for
Image Segmentation" to the electrical engineering students
of the University of Costa Rica.
February
1st, 2005
Eduardo Cardoce,
past member of the IPCV-LAB, is now conducting PhD studies on computer
vision in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
of the University of Kansas, USA.
January
3rd, 2005
A link to the IPCV-LAB home page is now available in the
Computer
Vision Research Groups Home Page.
December
16th, 2004
Dr. Geovanni Martinez gave a talk and presented a poster entitled
"Facial
feature extraction based on the Smallest Univalue Segment Assimilating
Nucleus (SUSAN) algorithm" and "Automatic
Adaptation of a Human Face Model for Model-Based Coding",
respectively, at the Picture Coding Symposium 2004 (PCS-2004),
San
Francisco, California, USA, 15-17 December 2004.
November 30th, 2004
Dr. Geovanni Martinez gave a talk entitled "Integrated circuit
segmentation and color estimation from a single video camera for
human error detection in chip production lines." at Costa Rica
Engineering and Technical Exposition (CREATE2004), Intel Corporation,
Costa Rica, 29-30 Nobember 2004.
Nobember
22nd, 2004
A paper of Dr. Geovanni Martinez et al. was accepted for publication
in the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal
Processing 2005 (ICASSP-2005),
Philadelphia, PA, USA, 19-23 March 2005.
August
19th, 2004
Dr. Geovanni
Martinez gave a keynote speech entitled "Image Processing and
Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCV-LAB): supporting graduate
education and developing solutions for high-tech industry"
at the International Congress on Mechanical Egineering 2004 (CIIM-2004),
San Jose, Costa Rica, August 17th-19th, 2004.
June 28th, 2004
Dr. Geovanni Martinez presented a poster entitled "Improving
the Speed of Convergence of a Maximum Likelihood Motion Estimation
Algorithm of a Human Face" at the IEEE Intenational Conference
on Multimedia and Expo (ICME´2004),
Taipei, Taiwan, June 27th-30th, 2004.
April
28th, 2004
The
master student Mauricio Hess
got the highst grade on his thesis entitled "Automatic Model
Face Adaptation for Model Based Coding"
April 8th, 2004
Dr. Geovanni Martinez gave a talk entitled "Image Processing
and Computer Vision Research Laboratory (IPCV-LAB): supporting graduate
education and developing solutions for high-tech industry"
at UCR-KSU-KU
Symposium,
University of Kansas, Kansas, USA, April 7-9, 2004.
January 26th, 2004
The licenciate student Francisco
Siles got the highest grade on his thesis entitled "Cell
Shape and Color Estimation for In-Situ Microscopy".
January 5th, 2004
The
IPCV-LAB is now located in the room 408 next to the Dr. Martinez´s
office.
November 11th, 2003
A photograph of Dr. Martinez was added to the "Clodomiro
Picado Twight" National Technology Award Winners Gallery at
the Costa Rican National Center of High Technology.
October
9th, 2003
The University of Costa Rica honored Dr. Geovanni Martinez for having
been awarded with the the 2002 "Clodomiro Picado Twight"
National Technology Award.
August
21st, 2003
Eduardo Cardoce got the highest grade on his undergraduate project
entitled "Estimation of the mouth corners form a single view".
August
18th, 2003
The German Embassy, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD),
ACERFA and the Humboldt Schule in Costa Rica honored Dr. Geovanni
Martinez for having been awarded with the the 2002 "Clodomiro
Picado Twight" National Technology Award. DAAD was
the German Organization which financed Dr. Martinez's PhD studies
in Germany.
August
5th, 2003
Dr. Geovanni Martinez gave a talk about Maximum-Likelihood Motion
Estimation of Articulated Objects at the National Center of High
Technology (Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología), Rohmoser,
Pavas, Costa Rica.
July,
10th, 2003:
Dr. Geovanni Martinez presented a poster about Maximum-Likelihood
Motion Estimation of a Human Face at the IEEE International Conference
on Multimedia & Expo 2003 (ICME-2003).
May
20th, 2003:
Dr. Geovanni Martinez was promoted to Full Professor.
March
14th, 2003:
Dr. Geovanni Martinez returned from a two months stay in Germany,
where he conducted research on human face motion estimation from
a single video camera at the Institut fuer Theoretische Nachrichtentechnik
und Informationsverarbeitung of the University of Hannover.
January
24th, 2003:
Dr. Geovanni Martinez won the 2002 "Clodomiro Picado Twight"
National Technology Award for his research efforts on human motion
estimation for video compression and teleoperation space applications.
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