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Boyan Ivanov Bonev, Ph.D.
Research Assistant at the Robot Vision Group, University of Alicante
Associated Lecturer at the Faculty of Economics, University of Alicante
Developer at Prompsit Language Engineering, S.L.

Ph. D. Thesis

Obtained Ph.D. Thesis in Computer Science from the University of Alicante at DCCIA (Computational Science and Artificial Intelligence Department). June, 2010
Supervised by: Miguel A. Cazorla and Francisco Escolano
Title: Feature Selection based on Information Theory

Research Interests

Main interests in Artificial Intelligence:

• Computer Vision
• Mobile Robotics: Localization, Vision-based Navigation
• Machine Learning: Feature selection
• Information Theory

My research interests are summarized in this talk which I gave at the MPI:

• Talk at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics (November 26th, 2010).

Publications

Books

• F. Escolano, P. Suau, B. Bonev (2009)
  Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Springer. Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics
  ISBN: 978-1-84882-296-2, Hardcover, pages: 390

Journals

• B. Bonev, M. Cazorla, F. Martín and V. Matellán (2010)
  Portable autonomous walk calibration for 4-legged robots
  Applied Intelligence, August 2010
  DOI: 10.1007/s10489-010-0249-9

• M.A. Lozano, F. Escolano, B. Bonev, P.Suau, W. Aguilar, J.M. Saez, M.A. Cazorla (2008)
  Region and constellations based categorization of images with unsupervised graph learning
  Image and Vision Computing, November 2008
  DOI information: 10.1016/j.imavis.2008.09.011

• B. Bonev, F. Escolano, M. Cazorla (2008)
  Feature selection, mutual information, and the classification of high-dimensional patterns
  Pattern Analysis and Applications , February 2008
  ISSN 1433-7541 (Print), 1433-755X (Online), DOI 10.1007/s10044-008-0107-0

• B. Bonev, M. Cazorla, F. Escolano (2007)
  Robot Navigation Behaviors based on Omnidirectional Vision and Information Theory
  Journal of Physical Agents,, September 2007, Vol. 1, Num. 1
  ISSN: 1888-0258
  Presentation in:
  WAF 2007 (VIII Workshop de Agentes Físicos) - CEDI 2007. Zaragoza (Spain).
  In proceedings (ISBN: 978-84-9732-598-1, pages 49-56)

Conferences and Workshops

• B. Bonev, F. Escolano, D. Giorgi, S. Biasotti (2010)
  Information-theoretic Feature Selection from Unattributed Graphs
  International Conference on Pattern Recognition. Istanbul, Turkey, August 2010.
  In proceedings.

• F. Escolano, M.A. Lozano, B. Bonev, P. Suau (2010)
  Bypass information-theoretic shape similarity from non-rigid points-based alignment
  3rd Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'10), in conjunction with CVPR'10, San Francisco, USA, June 18th, 2010
  In proceedings.

• F. Escolano, A. Peñalver, B. Bonev (2010)
  Entropy-based Variational Scheme for Fast Bayesian Learning of Gaussian Mixtures
  Statistical, Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition. Cezme, Turkey, August 2010.
  In proceedings.

• B. Bonev, F. Escolano, D. Giorgi, S. Biasotti (2010)
  High-dimensional Spectral Feature Selection for 3D Object Recognition based on Reeb Graphs
  Statistical, Structural and Syntactic Pattern Recognition. Cezme, Turkey, August 2010.
  In proceedings.

• B. Bonev, M. Cazorla (2008)
  Large Scale Environment Partitionaing in Mobile Robotics Recognition Tasks
  WAF 2008 (IX Workshop de Agentes Físicos). Vigo (Spain), September 2008.
  In proceedings, pages 9-15. ISBN-13: 978-84-8158-399-1

• B. Bonev, F. Escolano, M. Cazorla (2007)
  A Novel Information Theory Method for Filter Feature Selection
  Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (MICAI 2007) , 11 - 14 September 2007, Aguascalientes (Mexico).
  LNAI 4827, ISSN 0302-9743, pages 432 - 440

• F. Escolano, B. Bonev, P. Suau, W. Aguilar, Y. Frauel, J.M. Saez, M. Cazorla (2007)
  Contextual visual localization: cascaded submap classification, optimized saliency detection, and fast view matching
  IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. 29/10/2007 - 02/11/2007, San Diego, California. USA

• B. Bonev, F. Escolano, M.A. Lozano, P. Suau, M.A. Cazorla, W. Aguilar (2007)
  Constellations and the Unsupervised Learning of Graphs
  6th IAPR -TC-15 Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition. Alicante (Spain). 11 - 13 june, 2007
  LNCS 4538, ISSN 0302-9743, pages 340 - 350

• J.M. Perez, B. Bonev, P. Suau, D. Viejo, and M. Cazorla (2007)
  JavaVis: open source code for computer vision subjects
  Congreso Internacional de Sistemas de Software Libre y de Código Abierto (FLOSS: Free/Libre/Open Source Systems). Cádiz (Spain). March, 2007

• J.M. Perez, B. Bonev, P. Suau, D. Viejo, and M. Cazorla (2006)
  JavaVis: An (extended) framework for teaching computer vision
  VIII Simposio Internacional de Informática Educativa. 24 - 26 October 2006, León (Spain)
  ISBN 84-9773-303-7, Vol 1 (ISBN 84-9773-301-0), pages 101 - 108

• B. Bonev , M. Cazorla (2006)
  Towards Autonomous Adaptation in Visual Tasks
  WAF 2006 (VII Workshop de Agentes Físicos). Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2006. In proceedings, pages 59-66. ISBN 84-689-8115-X (reg. 06/27294)

• B. Bonev, M. Cazorla, H. Martínez. (2005)
  Walk calibration in a four-legged robot
  CLAWAR 2005 (Climbing and Walking Robots). London (U.K). ISBN 978-3540264132

• B. Bonev, M. Cazorla, H. Martínez. (2005)
  Parameters optimization for quadruped walking
  WAF 2005 (Workshop de Agentes Físicos) - CEDI 2005 , Granada (Spain). In proceedings, pages 25-32. ISBN 84-9732-450-1

• H. Martínez, V. Matellan, M. Cazorla, A. Saffiotti, D. Herrero, F. Martin, B. Bonev, K. LeBlanc. (2005)
  Team Chaos Description Paper
  RoboCup 2005 , Osaka (Japan)

• H. Martínez, V. Matellan, M. Cazorla, A. Saffiotti, D. Herrero, F. Martin, B. Bonev, K. LeBlanc. (2005)
  Robotics soccer with Aibos
  WAF 2005 (Workshop de Agentes Físicos) CEDI 2005 , Granada (Spain). In proceedings, pages 69-71. ISBN 84-9732-450-1

• Z. Kozareva, B. Bonev, A. Montoyo. (2005)
  Self-Training and Co-Training applied to Spanish Named Entity Recognition
  MICAI 2005 , Mexico. LNAI 3789, pages 770-779, ISBN 3-540-29896-7

• Carme Armentano-Oller, Antonio M. Corbí-Bellot, Mikel L. Forcada, Mireia Ginestí-Rosell, Boyan Bonev, Sergio Ortiz-Rojas, Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Gema Ramírez-Sánchez, Felipe Sánchez-Martínez. (2005)
  An open-source shallow-transfer machine translation toolbox: consequences of its release and availability
  OSMaTran: Open-Source Machine Translation, A workshop at Machine Translation, Summit X. Phuket (Thailand), 2005. In proceedings, pages 23-30. ISBN 974-7431-35-1

Projects and Collaborations

Vision

OUTSLAM: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) in outdoor environments via Computer Vision and Cooperative Robotics (MEC: DPI2005-01280, 2005-2008)

MAP3D - Mapping with mobile robots using computer vision techniques (MCYT: TIC2002-02792, 2003-2005)

HLSLAM: Hybrid metric-topological SLAM integrating computer vision and 3D LASER for large environments (MCI: TIN2008-04416/TIN)

Robotics

Worked in a coordinated project with the University of Alicante (DCCIA), University of Murcia (DIF), University Rey Juan Carlos of Madrid (GSYC) and Orebro University from Sweden in a Robotic Soccer project, for the RoboCup Four-legged league. (2004-2005)

Participated in the following international robotic soccer competitions:

• RoboCup German Open 2005, Paderborn (Germany)
  
• RoboCup 2005, Osaka (Japan)
  
• Spanish Open 2005, Granada (Spain)
  

Machine Translation

Collaborated in the Transducens group (DLSI - UA) in the project Apertium: an open-source shallow-transfer machine translation engine and toolbox. http://apertium.sourceforge.net  (2004-2005).

Contact Information

Boyan Ivanov Bonev
Dep. Ciencia de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial
Universidad de Alicante
Ap. Correos 99, E-03080 Alicante, Spain
(Politécnica II building, coordinates 38°23’12.2’’ N, 0°30’45.1’’ W)
Tel: +34 965903897
e-mail: boyan dccia.ua.es