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Ph. D. Thesis

Ph. D. in Computer Science from University of Alicante
Title: Information-theoretic Visual Saliency Detection
Supervised by: Francisco Escolano

Research Interests

My interests are in the field of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition:

Visual feature extraction
Object/scene recognition
Information Theory
Spectral Graph Theory

Publications

Books

F. Escolano, P. Suau, B. Bonev, Information Theory in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Springer, ISBN: 978-1-84882-296-2, hardcover, 390 pages

Journals

M. A. Lozano, F. Escolano, B. Bonev, P. Suau, W. Aguilar, J. M. Sáez, M. Cazorla, Region and Constellations Based Categorization of Images with Unsupervised Graph Learning, Image and Vision Computing 27(7), pp. 960-978, ISSN: 0262-8856 (2009)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, Bayesian Optimization of the Scale Saliency Filter, Image and Vision Computing 26(9), pp. 1207-1218, ISSN: 0262-8856 (2008)

Conferences and Workshops

P. Suau, E. R. Hancock, F. Escolano, Analysis of the Schrödinger Operator in the Context of Graph Characterization, to be published in proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition (SIMBAD 2013) (2013)
P. Suau, E. R. Hancock, F. Escolano, Graph Characteristics from the Schrödinger Operator, to be published in proceedings of the 9th IAPR-TC15 workshop on Graph-Based Representation in Pattern Recognition (GBR 2013) (2013)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, Analysis of the Multi-Dimensional Scale Saliency Algorithm and its Application to Texture Categorization, in proceedings of the 2010 Joint International Workshops on Structural and Syntatic Pattern Recognition and Statistical Techniques in Pattern Recognition (S+SSPR 2010), pp. 698-707, ISBN: 978-3-642-14979-5 (2010)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, Entropy Estimation and Multi-Dimensional Scale Saliency, in proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2010), ISBN: 978-3-642-14714-2 (2010)
F. Escolano, M. A. Lozano, B. Bonev, P. Suau, Bypass Information-Theoretic Shape Similarity from Non-Rigid Points-Based Alignment, in proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Non-Rigid Shape Analysis and Deformable Image Alignment (NORDIA'2010), pp. 37-44, ISBN: 978-1-4244-7029-7 (2010)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, A New Feasible Approach to Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency, in proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems (ACIVS 2009), pp. 77-88, ISBN: 978-3-642-04696-4 (2009)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, Multi-dimensional Scale Saliency Feature Extraction Based on Entropic Graphs in proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC 2008), pp. 978-3-540-89645-6, pp. 170-180 (2008)
F. Escolano, B. Bonev, P. Suau., W. Aguilar, Y. Frauel, J. M. Sáez, M. Cazorla, Contextual Visual Localization: Cascaded Submap Classification, Optimized Saliency Detection and Fast View Matching in proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2007), pp. 1715-1722, ISBN: 1-4244-0912-8 (2007)
B. Bonev, F. Escolano, M. A. Lozano, P. Suau, M. Cazorla, W. Aguilar, Constellations and the Unsupervised Learning of Graphs, in proceedings of the 6th IAPR Workshop on Graph Based Representations in Pattern Recognition (GBR 2007), pp. 340-350, ISBN: 3-540-72902-X (2007)
P. Suau, F. Escolano, Exploiting Information Theory for Filtering the Kadir Scale-Saliency Algorithm, in proceedings of the 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IBPRIA 2007), pp. 146-153, ISBN: 3-540-72848-1 (2007)
J. M. Pérez, B. Bonev, P. Suau, D. Viejo, M. Cazorla, JavaVis: Open Source Code for Computer Vision Subjects, in proceedings of the First Free/Libre/Open Source Systems International Conference (FLOSS 2007), pp. 106-115, ISBN: 978-84-9828-124-8 (2007)
P. Suau, D. Micol, Ajuste Dinámico de Profundidad en el Algoritmo Alfa-Beta (DDAalfa-beta), in proceedings of the Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia Artificial (CMPI 2006), pp. 646-654, ISBN: 84-689-9560-6 (2006)
P. Suau, Adapting Hausdorff Metrics to Facial Detection Systems: a Scale-Normalized Hausdorff Distance Approach, in proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2005), pp. 76-86, ISBN: 3-540-30737-0 (2005)
P. Suau, Robust Artificial Landmark Recognition Using Polar Histograms, in proceedings of the 12th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2005), pp. 455-461, ISBN: 3-540-30737-0 (2005)
P. Suau, F. Pujol, R. Rizo, M. Pujol, Detección Facial Basada en una Distancia de Hausdorff Normalizada, in proceedings of the XI Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2005), pp. 375-384, ISBN: 84-96474-13-5 (2005)
P. Suau, R. Rizo, M. Pujol, Reconocimiento Robusto de Marcadores Artificiales para la Navegación de Robots, in proceedings of the XI Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial (CAEPIA 2005), pp. 161-170, ISBN: 84-96474.13.5 (2005)
P. Suau, S. Caton, O. Rana, F. Pujol, B. Batchelor, R. Rizo, M. Pujol, Agent-Based Recognition of Facial Expressions, in proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems (AAMAS 2005), Industrial Track volume, pp. 161-162, 1-59593-150-2 (2005)
P. Suau, R. Rizo, M. Pujol, Image Recognition Using Polar Histograms, in proceedings of the Seventh All-Ukrainian International Conference on Signal/Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (UkroBraz 2004), pp. 197-200, ISBN: 966-02-3413-9 (2004)

Projects and Collaborations

Object recognition with mobile devices for visually impaired people (TIN2012-32839)

Object recognition for visually impaired people in open environments by means of mobile computation and aerial vision (TIN2011-27043)

Guiding system for visually impaired people based on computer vision and mobile devices (GV/2012/105)

Computer Vision in mobile devices as support to visually impaired people (GRE10-21)

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

Robust heterogeneous SLAM applied to rescue and surveillance environments (GV06/134)