MARIA VANRELL I MARTORELL
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Associate Professor
PERSONAL DATA:
Date and Place of birth: 20-09-67, Alcúdia (Mallorca)
EDUCATION:
Graduated in Computer Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1990.
Ph D in Computer Science, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 1996.
PRESENT POSITION:
Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence.
Director of project in the Computer Vision Center
RESEARCH INTEREST: Colour and Texture in Computer Vision.
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Texture description & representation |
Colour Naming |
Colour & Texture co-joint representations |
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General computational texture representations and their meaningful descriptions are the main goal of this research area. <Related works> |
Building colour naming models presenting invariance properties to acquisition conditions is the aim of this area. <Related works> |
How colour induction phenomena can be coped by computational colour texture representation is our main goal. <Related works> |
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CVC Researchers in these areas: R. Baldrich, F. Lumbreras, R. Benavente, A. Salvatella, F. Tous |
PROJECTS:
Private Funds
ATIC: Automatic Tile Classification based on colour texture features.
CAOPPP: Colour Adjustment On Printed Paper Production.
WLK2: Who LooKs LiKe... Project for the automatic description of people appearance.
Public Funds
- Computer vision system for people recognition based on appearance features. FEDER Funds (2FD97-1800).
- Computational texture-colour representations for visual inspection in industry. CICYT TAP98-0618.
- Automatic classification of tiles based on colour texture properties. FEDER Funds (FD97-0104).
- Building a research and development software for computer vision. CICYT TAP96-0629-C04-03.
- Multiscale models for texture analysis. Application to automatic diagnosis of pneumoconiosis. DGICYT PB91-0513.
TEACHING:
Undergraduate courses on Artificial Intelligence and Experts Systems.
Short Courses on Texture and Colour:
Some Talks
RELATED WORKS:
Colour Naming
- F. Tous, A. Borràs, R. Benavente, R.Baldrich, M. Vanrell, J. Lladós. Textual descriptors for
browsing people by visual appearance. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2504, pp. 419-429, 2002,
Spinger-Verlag.
- Robert Benavente, Francesc Tous, Ramon Baldrich, and Maria Vanrell. Statistical Modelling of a Colour Naming Space. In Proceedings of the 1st European Conference on Color in Graphics Imaging and Vision, p. 406-411, Poitiers (France), April 2-5, 2002.
M. Vanrell, F. Lumbreras, A. Pujol, R. Baldrich, J. Lladós and J. Villanueva. Colour normalisation based on background information. In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Vol. 1, p. 874-877. Tessaloniki, Greece, October 2001.
Robert Benavente and Maria Vanrell. A Color Naming Experiment. CVC Technical Report #56. Bellaterra, September 2001.
Robert Benavente, Ramon Baldrich, Maria Cinta Olivé and Maria Vanrell. Colour Naming Considering the Colour Variability Problem. Computación y Sistemas. Vol. 4, No. 1, pp.30 - 43, Jul-Sep, 2000
Robert Benavente, Gemma Sànchez, Ramon Baldrich, Maria Vanrell and Josep Lladós. Normalized colour segmentation for human appearance description. In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, pp. 637-641, Barcelona, September 2000.
Robert Benavente.Dealing with Colour Variability: Application to a colour naming task. Master Thesis, CVC Technical Report #32. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, June 2000.
Robert Benavente, Maria Cinta Olivé, Maria Vanrell and Ramon Baldrich. Colour Perception: A Simple Method for Colour Naming.
In 2n Congrés Català d'Intel·ligència Artificial, pp. 340-347, Girona, October 1999.
Texture Description and Representation
- Anna Salvatella.
On Texture Description. Master Thesis, CVC Technical Report #55. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, September 2001.
- M. Vanrell, Jordi Vitrià. A four-dimensional texture representation space. In Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis . April 1997, Barcelona, pp. 245-250, Vol. 1.
- M. Vanrell, Jordi Vitrià, Xavier Roca. A Multidimensional Scaling approach to explore the behavior of a texture perception algorithm. Machine Vision and Applications. Vol. 9, 5/6, 1997, 262-271.
- M. Vanrell. Identifying dimensions of a texture representation space based on a preattentive perceptual model . Phd Thesis. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, November 1996. (In catalan, . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, November 1996. (In catalan, thesis.pdf, 10.268Kb)
- M. Vanrell, J. Vitrià. Mathematical Morphology, Texture Perception and Granulometries. In Image Algebra and Morphological Image Processing IV - SPIE's Int. Symposium on Optical Instrumentation and Applied Science. July 1993, San Diego, USA, pp. 152-161.
- Maria Vanrell, Xavier Roca, Jordi Vitrià. A General Morphological Framework for Perceptual Texture Discrimination based on Granulometries. In Mathematical Morphology and its Applications to Signal Processing. May 1993, Barcelona, pp. 112-118.
Colour and Texture co-joint representations
- R. Baldrich. Perceptual approach to a computational colour texture representation for surface inspection. Phd Thesis. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, December 2001.
- F. Lumbreras, J. Serrat, R. Baldrich, M. Vanrell, J.J. Villanueva. Color Texture Recognition Through Multiresolution Features. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Quality Control by Artificial Vision. France, 1:114-121, 2001.
- F. Lumbreras, R. Baldrich, M. Vanrell, J. Serrat, J.J. Villanueva. Multiresolution texture classfication of ceramic tiles. In VIII Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes. Mayo 1999, Bilbao, Vol 1. pp. 145--152.
- R. Baldrich, M. Vanrell, J.J. Villanueva. Texture-colour features for tile classification. In EUROPTO/SPIE Conference on Colour and Polarisation Techniques in Industrial Inspection. Munich (Germany), June 1999.
- F. Lumbreras, R. Baldrich, M. Vanrell, J. Serrat, J.J. Villanueva. Multiresolution texture classification of ceramic tiles. In Recent Research Developments in Optical Engineering. Vol. 2, pp. 213-228. Signpost Research (Ed. S.G. Pandalai), India 1999.
- R. Baldrich, M. Vanrell. Ceramic Tile Classification based on Colour Similarity Measurements. In Workshop on European Scientific and Industrial Collaboration. June 1998, Girona, pp. 307-311.
Mathematical Morphology
- J. Vitrià, M. Vanrell. Morfologia Matemática. Reconocimiento de Formas y análisis de imágenes, (CD-ROM electronic version) AERFAI, ISBN 84-922529-4-4, 1998.
- Maria Vanrell, Jordi Vitrià. Optimal 3x3 decomposable disks for morphological transformations. Image and Vision Computing. Vol. 15 (1997) 845-854.
- Maria Vanrell, Jordi Vitrià. 3x3 decomposition of circular structuring elements. In IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. September 1996, Laussane, pp. 5-8, Vol. 3.
Other topics
- X. Roca, J. Vitrià, M. Vanrell, J.J. Villanueva. Visual behaviours for binocular navigation with autonomous systems. In VIII Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes. Mayo 1999, Bilbao, Vol 1. pp. 329--336.
- X. Roca, J. Vitrià, M. Vanrell, J.J. Villanueva. Gaze control in a binocular robot system. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation. Barcelona, October 1999
Computer Vision Center (CVC)
Campus Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08193 Bellaterra, SPAIN