12th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWDM) On our way to Cambridge (US): Scratch Conference 2014 International experience: Angelos Mallios ...
June / July / August 2014 Newsletter: 25 http://vicorob.udg.edu From August 6 to 9 some team members of UdiGital.Edu participated for the third time at the Scratch@MIT Conference, held every two years at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (US). The aim of the conference is to bring together the global Scratch community (researchers, educators and users) and encourage them to spend a few days learning and sharing ideas in a superb place, which is precisely the birthplace of Scratch. Our team gave a talk about the project Inventors4Change, launched last year and which we will continue during this academic course. We enjoyed so much those days, learning about new projects and ideas, participating in workshops, and sharing conversations with people from around the world, all of them convinced of the virtues of Scratch, Computational Thinking and Creative Thinking. UdiGital.Edu: http://udigital.udg.edu Scratch@MIT 2014: http://scratch.mit.edu/conference/ MIT Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/ Inventors4change: http://www.inventors4change.org/ On our way to Cambridge (US): Scratch Conference 2014 Eduard Muntaner / Cambridge Is there life after the VIBOT? The VIBOT master is one of the two Erasmus Mundus masters that the University of Girona has, teaching is 100% in English and it is in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics. But, what happens after the master? At ViCOROB we know all the possibilities! We have had 7 PhD students who have finished their theses and now work with us or in international companies and research centers; we have had a lot of students doing their master theses with us and, currently, we count on 10 vibotians in our team. So, the answer is yes, there is life after the ViBOT, and not only in the research area, also in the private companies world! ViCOROB / Girona Last July three members of the VICOROB group attended the IWDM 14 in Gifu (Japan). This conference (held in Girona in 2010) represents one of the main gatherings of researchers in breast imaging. In this edition, the main news was that the focus of the conference changed from digital mammography to all breast image modalities and, thus, the research being carried on in the grup in breast “Magnetic Ressonance Imaging” (MRI) or “Automated Breast UltraSound” (ABUS) found a good reception. ViCOROB got 4 contributions accepted to the conference and Robert Martí, Joan Martí and myself (Yago Diez) travelled to Japan to present them. The trip was truly profitable both in terms of research and personal experiences. On the one hand, we got the opportunity to speak once again to some of the members of the ASSURE projects and get the latest updates on the tasks that we have in common. We also had the opportunity to discuss personally the details of some of the research that we are considering now with the authors. On a personal level, I think we all got to enjoy a very different (but quite friendly) culture. I have to say that I had lots of fun putting my many hours of Japanese study at work. Actually, I have to say Joan and Robert helped a lot with that by appointing me as the semi-official interpreter of whatever group of people we were in. 12 th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWDM) Yago Diez / Gifu
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June / July / August 2014 Newsletter:
25http://vicorob.udg.edu
From August 6 to 9 some team members of UdiGital.Edu participated for the third time at the Scratch@MIT Conference, held every two years at MIT Media Lab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, (US).The aim of the conference is to bring together the global Scratch community (researchers, educators and users) and encourage them to spend a few days learning and sharing ideas in a superb place, which is precisely the birthplace of Scratch.
Our team gave a talk about the project Inventors4Change, launched last year and which we will continue during this academic course. We enjoyed so much those days, learning about new projects and ideas, participating in workshops, and sharing conversations with people from around the world, all of them convinced of the virtues of Scratch, Computational Thinking and Creative Thinking.
UdiGital.Edu: http://udigital.udg.eduScratch@MIT 2014: http://scratch.mit.edu/conference/MIT Media Lab: http://www.media.mit.edu/Inventors4change: http://www.inventors4change.org/
On our way to Cambridge (US): Scratch Conference 2014
Eduard Muntaner / Cambridge
Is there life after the VIBOT?
The VIBOT master is one of the two Erasmus Mundus masters that the University of Girona has, teaching is 100% in English and it is in the field of Computer Vision and Robotics.
But, what happens after the master? At ViCOROB we know all the possibilities! We have had 7 PhD students who have finished their theses and now work with us or in international companies and research centers; we have had a lot of students doing their master theses with us and, currently, we count on 10 vibotians in our team.
So, the answer is yes, there is life after the ViBOT, and not only in the research area, also in the private companies world!
ViCOROB / Girona
Last July three members of the VICOROB group attended the IWDM 14 in Gifu (Japan). This conference (held in Girona in 2010) represents one of the main gatherings of researchers in breast imaging. In this edition, the main news was that the focus of the conference changed from digital mammography to all breast image modalities and, thus, the research being carried on in the grup in breast “Magnetic Ressonance Imaging” (MRI) or “Automated Breast UltraSound” (ABUS) found a good reception.
ViCOROB got 4 contributions accepted to the conference and Robert Martí, Joan Martí and myself (Yago Diez) travelled to Japan to present them. The trip was truly profitable both in terms of research and personal experiences.
On the one hand, we got the opportunity to speak once again to some of the members of the ASSURE projects and get the latest updates on the tasks that we have in common. We
also had the opportunity to discuss personally the details of some of the research that we are considering now with the authors.
On a personal level, I think we all got to enjoy a very different (but quite friendly) culture. I have to say that I had lots of fun putting my many hours of Japanese study at work. Actually, I have to say Joan and Robert helped a lot with that by appointing me as the semi-official interpreter of whatever group of people we were in.
12th International Workshop on Breast Imaging (IWDM)Yago Diez / Gifu
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International experience:Angelos Mallios
Angelos Mallios / EUA
Greetings from Massachusetts, USA. Last March, I came to Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution as part of my postdoctoral TECNIOSPRING - Marie Curie fellowship, that requires one year here and one year back to UdG. My office is at Deep Submergence Laboratory and my research at WHOI includes deep AUV technologies. More specifically, I am working in two problems with a 1000m depth rated glider AUV. The first is how the glider can autonomously adapt its path in order to map an area of interest efficiently, instead of following a fixed preprogrammed trajectory. The second is how to improve its localization accuracy and make it able to navigate relatively near to seafloor structures instead of the open sea where they normally operate.
However, there are so many projects in the lab that run in parallel that nobody can focus in only one. A week after my arrival, I was in a plane to take part in a cruise using a 6000m ROV, for evaluating contamination from munitions deposed in the seabed at the end of the second world war. There is soon another project in the Red Sea for mapping a coral reef using sonar, and in the meanwhile I participate in a number of proposals writing. There is a reason that WHOI scientists are the leaders at their fields but is very hard to keep up with their rhythms.
To enhance the field of view and collaborations, WHOI organizes weekly multidisciplinary seminars open to everyone, monthly activities that bring together postdocs from different fields, and I am also following the scientific diving program.
Except from the research, living at Woods Hole is a different experience. It is a nice small village at the south of Cape Cod with beautiful wooden houses, full of trees and natural ponds, few restaurants, and two bars, all serving the popular (and cheap) fresh lobsters! It is the port for the ferry that goes to Martha’s Vineyard island and for that reason the summer is full of tourists. In the winter the place is empty as the village consists mostly from WHOI labs and in the streets you see generally only scientists going from one lab to the other.I feel very lucky to be here and have my office next to the people that build the ALVIN and discovered the hydrothermal vents, found the Titanic, and build vehicles for the deepest parts of the planet. I believe it is a positive experience in which I will learn new things and will wider the collaboration between WHOI and UdG.
ViCOROB People
Ricard Campos 22/01/1986 Sant Feliu de Guíxols
I recently obtained my PhD degree after studying both the Computer Science degree and the master’s degree (MIIACS) at the University of Girona. I’m currently working as a post-doc for the MORPH project in the VICOROB group.From my beginnings in the VICOROB group, about seven years ago, my main research area has always been closely related to the 3D reconstruction process from a set of images. In this direction, my thesis tackled one of the later parts of this pipeline: the surface reconstruction from a set of unorganized points.My favourite sport is swimming, I’m keen on reading and I enjoy spending my free time with my family and friends.
Josep Bosch Alay 25/03/1988Vilamarí
I graduated from Universitat de Girona in a degree in Industrial Engineering in 2012. I coursed my final degree project in the framework of an Erasmus Programme at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh. The project consisted in the integration of different simulated underwater sensors in a single simulation framework. As a result of this work I was offered the possibility to work there for a year, that allowed me to join the Heriot-Watt team in the TRIDENT FP7 project and take part in 2012 SAUC-e competition. Once again in Girona, I started the Masters in Information Technologies and Automation in UdG and I joined CIRS, where I have carried out my master’s thesis in omnidirectional underwater camera calibration and I will realize my PhD studies under the direction of Drs. Nuno Gracias and Pere Ridao, studying the possibilities that the integration of an omnidirectional optical sensor with underwater robots can offer.
About my personal side, I’m a sports lover, mainly running and mountain biking, that allow me to enjoy the magnificent landscapes of Vilademuls and El Pla de l’Estany. I’m always happy to discuss about football: I’m a truly Barcelona supporter.
During these three months we have attended the defense of three PhD theses related to different areas:
PhD : “Surface Reconstruction Methods for Seafloor Mode-lling” has defended Ricard Campos, out under the supervision of Dr. García Campos, RafaelPhD: “Automatic change detection in multiple pigmented skin lesions”, has defended Konstantin Korotkov, , out under the supervision Dr. García Campos, Rafael PhD: “Automatic source detection in astronomical images” has defended Marc Masias, , out under the supervision Dr. Freixenet i Bosch, Jordi, Dr. Lladó Bardera, Xavier and Dra. Peracaula i Bosch, Marta.
