Lecturer on
Computer Vision
Associate Professor
at La Salle School of Engineering and
Architecture - Ramon Llull University
Director of the Master
of Research in IT and Management
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Dr. Elisa Martinez
Enginyeria
La Salle - Universitat Ramon Llull
St. Joan de La
Salle, 42
08022 – Barcelona, Spain
Tel.
(+34) 932902439
Last update: 15/10/09
TEACHING
- Algebra (95/96, 96/97)
- Signal Processing (96/97,97/98, 98/99,
99/00,00/01)
- Transmission Signals and Systems
(96/97,97/98, 98/99, 99/00,00/01)
- Digital Image Processing (98/99)
- Computer Vision (00/01-act)
You can find more information
in the intranet.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Current
research is mainly focused on computer
vision and image understanding.
I have extensively worked in structure from motion, egomotion estimation,
tracking with deformable models, visual guidance of mobile robots and
interpretation of image sequences. I have also been interested in multimodal
interfaces fusing vision, speech and
sound for human-computer interaction (HCI). I am particularly keen on the
translation of research results into commercial prototypes through technology transfer agreements.
My former
topic of research was focussed on medical
image processing. The research contributed new results in segmentation of
cell’s nucleus in images of biopsies using methods based on mathematical
morphology, segmentation of coronary arteries in angiographic images and
segmentation and 3D reconstruction of bones from CAT images, especially using
deformable models.
Research Activity
Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull
contribution to the European project SALERO:
Semantic AudiovisuaL Entertainment Reusable Objects. 2006-2010.
Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull
contribution to the Cenit Project INREDIS
(Interfaces for the RElation between the environment and people with special
neeDs). 2008-2009.
Main
researcher in the national project SAVE (Expressive Audiovisual Synthesis).
Ref: TEC2006-08043. 2007-2009.
Member
of the Spanish Thematic Network about
Audiovisual Signal Processing for Advanced Multimodal Interfaces funded by
the Spanish Education and Science Ministry. Ref. TIN2006-26901-E/ 2007-2008.
Member
of the Spanish Thematic Network
in Speech Technologies funded by the Spanish Education and Science Ministry.
Ref. TEC2005-24712-E and TEC2006-28101-E. 2006-2008.
Researcher in the project DPI2003-05193-C02-01,
called SIRVENT “Sistema reconfigurable para la navegación basada en visión de
robots caminantes y rodantes en entornos naturales”, funded by the Spanish
Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dr.
Coordinator of Universitat Ramon Llull
contribution to the project IntegraTV-4all
(ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-350301-2004-2) funded by the Spanish Science and
Technology Council. 2004-2005.
Coordinator of the research project
“Videophone” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-350300-2004-44), funded by the Spanish
Science and Technology Council. 2004-2005.
Coordinator of the research project “Virtual
Characters” (ref. RDITSCON04 0005) funded by the Catalan Center for Innovation
and Development (CIDEM). 2004.
Member
of the Group of
Interest in Intelligent Outdoor Transport Systems (GUIA-EX), funded by the
Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Francisco Aparicio
Izquierdo from the Automobile Research Institute (INSIA). (January-December 2004).
Coordinator of the research project
PGR-PR2003-02 “Interlocutor virtual”,
funded by FUNITEC La Salle. 01/12/03-30/9/04.
Coordinator of the research project
PGR-PR2002-03 “Locutor virtual
interactiu personalitzable”, funded by FUNITEC La Salle. 01/09/02-01/12/03.
Researcher in the project CICYT
DPI2000-1352-C02-01, called ARGOS
“Navegación autónoma de robots guiados por objetivos visuales”, funded by the
Spanish Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dr.
Member
of the GeVi research
group of the Artificial
Vision Area in the Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (IRI). 2001-act.
Researcher in the project “Detección de
estados incipientes de somnolencia en conductors de vehículos a motor”
(DPI2002-02279), funded by the Spanish
Science and Technology Council. Main researcher: Dra.
Coordinator of the research project “Virtual
Speaker” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-150500-2002-410), funded by the Spanish Science
and Technology Council.
Joint
coordinator, with Fernando de
la Torre, of the research project “Automatic detection of driver
drowsiness” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-1101100-2002-77), funded by the Spanish
Science and Technology Council. Reseach partner: Perception Lab of the Psychology Department
of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
Coordinator
of the research project “Automatic analysis of industrial paint coatings
through computer vision” (ref. MCYT PROFIT FIT-070000-2002-115), funded by the
Spanish Science and Technology Council.
Colaboration as PhD student in the research
project CICYT TAP97-1209 "Navegación basada en visión de robots autónomos
en entornos no estructurados". Main researcher: Dr.
Research visitor at the Visual Dynamics Group
of the
PhD
Thesis
- RECOVERY OF 3D STRUCTURE AND MOTION FROM
THE DEFORMATION OF AN ACTIVE CONTOUR IN A SEQUENCE OF MONOCULAR IMAGES [Pdf file of part 1 in B&W]
[Pdf file of part 2 in B&W].
My
advisor was Prof. Carme Torras from the Institut
de Robotica i Informatica Industrial (IRI).
Publications
- Javier Melenchón, Elisa Martínez,
Fernando De la Torre, José A. Montero. Emphatic
visual speech synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Audio Speech and Language
Processing. Vol. 17, Issue 3, pp. 459-468, 2009.
- Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet,
Joan-Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez, Francesc Alías and Carlos Monzo. Automatic refinement of an
expressive speech corpus assembling subjective perception and automatic
classification. Speech Communication. Vol. 51, Issue 9, pp. 744-758, 2009.
doi:10.1016/j.specom.2008.12.001 . Finalist of the Speech Technologies Network Best Paper Award 2009 .
- Maria Alberich-Carramiñana, Guillem
Alenyà, Juan Andrade-Cetto, Elisa Martínez, Carme Torras. Recovering
Epipolar Direction from
Two Affine Views of a Planar Object. Computer Vision and Image Understanding,
Vol. 112, Number 2, pp. 195-209, 2008.
- Iriondo, I.; Planet, S.; Alías, F.;
Socoró, J. C.; Martínez, E. Emulating
Subjective Criteria in Corpus Validation. Book chapter at Encyclopedia
of Artificial Intelligence. Pp. 541-546. 100528 - IGI Global, ISBN:
978-1-59904-849-9, Spain, 2008
- Juan José Curto, Miguel Blanca, Elisa
Martínez. Automatic Sunspots detection on
Full-disk Solar images using mathematical morphology. Solar Physics,
Vol. 250, Number 2, pp. 411-429, 2008. DOI 10.1007/s11207-008-9224-6
- Planet S., Iriondo, I., Martínez, E.,
Montero J. A. (2008). TRUE: an
online testing platform for multimedia evaluation. In Proceedings of the
Second International Workshop on EMOTION: Corpora for Research on Emotion
and Affect at the 6th Conference on Language Resources & Evaluation
(LREC 2008).Marrakech, Morocco. 2008.
- Monzo, C., Iriondo I. and Martínez E.
Procedimiento para la medida y la modificación del jitter y del shimmer
aplicado a la síntesis del habla expresiva. V Jornadas en Tecnologías del
Habla (5JTH08). Bilbao, Spain, 2008
- Monzo, C., Adell, J., Formiga,
L., Socoró, J. C., Iriondo, I., Martínez, E. & Goodman, C. Demonstration of the Reusability of
the Current TTS Synthesis System in New Scenarios. Technical Report:
SALERO project (IST FP6-027122) deliverable D6.4.2. (2008).
- J. Melenchón, E. Martínez, Efficiently
Downdating, Composing and Splitting Singular Value Decompositions
Preserving the Mean Information. Iberian Conference on Pattern
Recognition and Image Analysis, LNCS 4478:436-443, 2007, Girona (Spain).
- J. Melenchón, J. Simó, G. Cobo,
E. Martínez, Objective
Viseme Extraction and Audiovisual Uncertainty: Estimation Limits between
Auditory and Visual Modes, International Conference on Auditory-Visual
Speech Processing, 2007, Hilvarenbeek, (The Netherlands).
- Iriondo, I., Planet, S., Alías,
F., Socoró, J. C., Martínez, E. Validation
of an expressive speech corpus by mapping automatic classification to
subjective evaluation. In Computational and Ambient
Intelligence. 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural
Networks, IWANN 2007, San Sebastián, Spain, June 20-22, 2007. Proceedings.
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4507, pp. 646--653. Springer, Heidelberg.
- Ignasi Iriondo, Santiago Planet,
Francesc Alías, Joan Claudi Socoró, Elisa Martínez. Validation of
an Expressive Speech Corpus by Mapping Automatic Classification to Subjective
Evaluation. Computational and Ambient Intelligence. Lecture Notes in
Computer Science Vol.4507. ISBN: 978-3-540-73006-4. ISSN: 0302-9743.
Springer Verlag. (pp.646-653), 2007.
- Iriondo, I., Planet, S., Alías, F.,
Socoró, J. C., Monzo, C., Martínez, E. Expressive
speech corpus validation by mapping subjective perception to automatic
classfication based on prosody and voice quality. In Proceedings of the 16th
International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS), pp. 2125--2128,
Saarbrücken, Germany, 2007.
- Javier Gonzalvo, Joan Claudi
Socoró, Ignasi Iriondo, Carlos Monzo, Elisa Martinez, “Linguistic
and mixed excitation improvements on a HMM-based speech synthesis for
Castilian Spanish”, SSW6, Bonn, 2006
- M. Alberich-Carramiñana,
G. Alenyà, J. Andrade-Cetto, E. Martínez, and
C. Torras. Affine
epipolar direction from two views of a planar contour. Lecture
Notes in Computer Science 4179, pages 944-955, September 2006.
- Luigi Ceccaroni, Josefa Hernández,
Elisa Martínez, Paloma Martínez, Xavier Verdaguer. "Using Al to make interactive
television more usable by people with special needs", I Congreso de Accesibilidad a
los medios audiovisuales para personas con discapacidad (AMADIS´06).
Madrid, 2006.
- Ceccaroni, L., Martínez, P.,
Martínez, E., Hernández, J. y Verdaguer, X. Aplicación de la inteligencia
artificial para hacer la televisión interactiva más usable por las
personas con necesidades especiales. Poster. Accesibilidad a los
medios audiovisuales para personas con discapacidad (AMADIS’06)
- Alenyà G., Martínez E. and
Torras C.: “Fusion of Visual and
Inertial Sensors". Journal of Robotic Systems (JRS), Vol.
21, pp. 23-32, 2004.
- Alenyà G., Martínez E. and Torras C.:
“Estimació del moviment d’un robot observant contorns actius”, In “Recerca
en automàtica, visió i robòtica”, edited by
- Martínez E. and Torras C.: ``Contour-based 3D motion recovery
while zooming". Robotics and Autonomous Systems, vol. 44,
num. 3/4, pp. 219-227, Sept. 2003.
- J. Melenchón, I. Iriondo, J.C.
Socoró, E. Martínez and L. Meler: “Lip
Animation of a personalizad Facial Model from Auditory Speech”, IEEE
Internacional Symposium on Signal Processing and Information Technology
(ISSPIT), December 2003, Darmstat (
- Xavier Melenchón,
- Guillem Alenyà,
- E. Martínez, J.A. Montero, J.A.
Morán, J.C. Socoró. New Technologies and Problem
Based Learning in Artificial Vision, Workshop on Education and Practice in
Artificial Vision, pp.140-143, Mallorca, Spain, June 2003.
- Martínez E. and Torras C.: ``3D
motion recovery while zooming using active contours". In ``Intelligent
Autonomous Systems 7", edited by M. Gini, W-M. Shen, C. Torras
and H. Yuasa, IOS Press, pp. 207-214, 2002.
- Lluís Safont, Elisa Martínez. 3D reconstruction of third proximal
femur (31-) with active contours. In Proceedings of the International
Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP '99). Venice, Italy, 1999. DOI
- F. De la Torre, X. Jové, E.
Martínez and LL. Vicent. Appearance Based
Tracking with switching. 2on Congrés Català
d'Inteligència Artificial. Girona, Spain. 25-27 October 1999.
- L. Safont, E. Martínez, X. Jové, F. de
- J.C. Socoró, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X.
Jové. Aplicación de técnicas de
estimación espectral superresolutivas a subbandas armónicas para la
síntesis de sonidos percusivos. Revista
Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN
1134-3281), Nº 18, pp. 67-70, Abril 1999
- J.C. Socoró, X. Jové, E. Santamaría, E.
Martínez. Aplicación de técnicas de
estimación espectral superresolutivas a subbandas armónicas para la
síntesis de sonidos percusivos. Revista
Divulgativa de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN
1134-3281), Nº 16, pp. 62-65, Abril 1998
- E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X. Jové, F. de la
Torre. Unsupervised
morphological segmentation of objects in contact, Proceedings of the Symposium on
Signal and Image Processing GRETSI 97, Grenoble, France 1997. pp.
1379-1383.
- F. de la Torre, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría,
J.A. Morán. Moving
object detection and tracking system: a real time implementation, Proceedings of the Symposium on
Signal and Image Processing GRETSI 97, Grenoble, France 1997. pp. 375-378.
- E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, X. Jové, J.C.
Socoró, Non linear analysis of biopsy images, Revista Divulgativa
de Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281),
Nº 13, pp. 16-20, Febrer 1997
- E. Martínez, E. Santamaría, C. Vos. Non linear image analysis for
fuzzy classification of breast cancer, Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE
International Conference on Image Processing ICIP '96. Laussane, Switzerland, 1996
- L. Sanmartín, E. Martínez, E. Santamaría. Sistema de segmentación automático para la determinación de la
calidad de los vinos espumosos. Revista Divulgativa de
Tecnologies d'Informació i Gestió de Recursos (INPUT, ISSN 1134-3281), Nº
12, pp. 5-9, Octubre 1996
- L. Sanmartín, E. Martínez. Automatic
segmentation of sparckling wines images for visual analysis and quality
assesment, Proceedings of the XI National Symposium of the Scientific International
Union of Radio. URSI
'96. Madrid, Spain, 1996
- E. Martínez, E. Santamaría. Morphological
analysis of mammary biopsy images, Proceedings of the 8th
Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference on Industrial Applications in
Power Systems, Computer Science and Telecommunications. MELECON '96. Bari, Italy, 1996
- E. Martínez, X. Jové. Automatic
extraction of the contour of the coronary arteries on angiographic images,
Proceedings of the X National Symposium of the Scientific International
Union of Radio. URSI '95. Valladolid, Spain,1995
EDUCATION AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Education
2006-2007 Executive Program on Management Skills. ESADE
Business School.
2001-2002 Master in Project Management. La Salle School
of Engineering. Ramon Llull University (URL)
1995-2000 Ph.D in Electronic Engineering.
1996-1998 Computer Vision Master. Computer Vision Center.
Universitat Autònoma de
Barcelona (UAB)
1995-1997 Master in Signal and Information Theory and
Processing.
1993-95 Electronic Engineer.
1990-93 Telecommunications Engineer (Electronic
Equipments).
Additional
training
2009 Course on Management
of European R+D FP7 projects, organized by ACC10.
2009 Seminar on Best
Practices in Technology Tranfesr, organized by ACC10.
2003 Course on Management of European R+D FP6
projects, organized by UPF
Member of the “Asociación
Española de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes (AERFAI)”.
Professional
Experience
2008-act Director
of the Master of Research in IT and Management
2004-2008 Head of Digital Signal Processing Area at La Salle Technology Transfer Office.
2000-2008 Head of the Digital Signal Processing Section.
2000-2009 Head of the Multimodal Processing Research Group.
1997-2004 Project manager at La Salle’s Technology
Transfer Office.
2003-2004 Coordinator of the Signal and Information
Theory and Processing Doctoral Program. Universitat Ramon Llull.
2002-act Associate professor.
1995-2002 Assistant professor at the Communications and
Signal Theory Department.
1997 Research visitor at the Visual Dynamics Group
of the
1994-95 Practices Assistant Professor at the
Communications and Signal Theory Department.
1993-94 Scholarship holder at the Communications and
Signal Theory Department.
1991-93 Collaboration at the Electronics and
Microelectronics Department.
School
Committees
1996-1997 Contribution to the creation of the curricula
for Multimedia
Engineering.
1998 Contribution to the creation of the new module
on Digital Image Processing in the Multimedia Engineering curricula.
1999 Creation of the new module on Computer Vision
in the Multimedia Engineering curricula.
1996-2001 Contribution to the revision of various
engineering modules: algebra, digital image processing, digital signal
processing, signals and systems.
Awards
and Honours
2006-2007 Full grant from the Work Department of the
Catalan Government. Executive Program on Management Skills. ESADE Business
School.
1997-1998 Catalan
Government (Generalitat de Catalunya) fellow. Beca BE.
1994-1995 Spanish Science
and Technology Ministry fellow. Beca colaboración.
1993 First award for
Telecommunications Engineering Master Thesis by Colegio Oficial de Ingenieros
Técnicos de Telecomunicaciones.
1990-1993 Epson fellow
1990-1993.
Media
coverage
“Reconeixement facial
mitjançant visió artificial” (“Computer vision for face recognition”), 2000
Fast Forward on TV3. April 2001.
Interview of 15 minutes about “Applications of digital signal
processing” in the program “La Malla Ràdio” on COM RÀDIO. January, 9, 2002.
Interview of 10 minutes
about “Applications of artificial vision” in the program “La Malla Ràdio” on
COM RÀDIO. January, 23, 2002.
Interview about “Virtual
Speaker” in the program “
News on
TV3. “Application
of the Virtual Speaker to e-inclusion”. Telenotícies TV3. August, 8,
2003.
Interview of 10 minutes about “Women in
Information Technology” Radio4. RNE (Spanish National Radio). March, 2008.
Opinion article at La Vanguardia daily
newspaper “Elegir
Universidad: ¿proximidad o calidad?”. July 27, 2009.
Opinion article at La Vanguardia daily
newspaper “Investigadores
que generan valor”. October, 23, 2009.
Opinion article at Tecnonews, digital news “Investigadores,
un valor en alza”. February, 17, 2010.