Curriculum Vitae José M. Buenaposada Universidad Rey Juan Carlos Departamento de Ciencias de la Computación C\ Tulipán s\n, E-28933 Móstoles, Madrid (Spain). Work Phone: (+34) 914888129 e-mail: josemiguel.buenaposada@urjc.es web: http://zenon.etsii.urjc.es/~jmbuena Date of Birth: 18 June 1974 Citizenship: Spanish Research areas Computer Vision, face expressions analysis, face tracking, incremental image alignment, motion capture. Education 02/2005 PhD in Computer Science (Doctor en Informática), Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid), Spain. Thesis title: Facial expressions analysis using Computer Vision (in Spanish). Under the supervision of Dr. Luis Baumela Molina. 06/2002 Diploma de Estudios Avanzados (DEA), Postgraduate degree preparing to a PhD, Technical University of Madrid (Spain). 07/1999 Licenciado en Informática (almost equivalent to Master in Computer Science) 6 courses, Technical University of Madrid. Thesis title: Computer Vision-based robust face tracking (in Spanish). Under the supervision of Dr. Luis Baumela Molina. Work Experience Since 11/2008 Profesor contratado doctor (permanent position), Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). 02/2007-11/2008 Profesor colaborador (permanent position), Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). 10/2006-02/2007 Profesor ayudante doctor (up to five years contract), Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). 10/2003-09/2006 Profesor ayudante, Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid, Spain). 01/2000-09/2003 Phd Student, Artificial Intelligence Department, Computer Science School (Facultad de Informática), Technical University of Madrid, Spain. 08/1999-12/1999 Software Developer, Resource Business Solutions (Spanish software company). Working on an Internet Baking system using Java servlets 07/1999 Research assistant, Intelligent Systems lab (Isys), Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Spain. 1
01/1999-07/1999 Licenciado en Informática final project, Computer Vision Group, Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid, Spain. 11/1997-12/1998 Research assistant, Intelligent Systems group (http://www.isys.dia.fi.upm.es), Technical University of Madrid, Spain. 08/1995-10/1997 Software Operator, Brainstorm Multimedia S.A. Spanish software company making 3D virtual tv sets (http://www.brainstorm.es). Foreign Visits 06/2007-10/2007 Universidad de Lisboa, Instituto Superior Técnico, Instituto de Robótica y Sistemas, VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab (with Joao Paulo Costeira). 08/2001-10/2001 Queen Mary, University of London. Department of Computer Science, Vision Group. Under the supervision of Professor Shaogang Gong. Honors+awards 02/2007 PhD Thesis award (Premio extraordinario de doctorado). Computer Science School, Thecnical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). 01/2000-09/2003 Phd studentship (beca F.P.U.) awarded by the Spanish Ministry of Education. 07/1999 Research assistant studentship (beca de investigación) awarded by the Technical University of Madrid (within the Intelligent Systems group). 11/1997-12/1998 Research assistant studentship (beca de investigación) awarded by the Technical University of Madrid (within the Intelligent Systems group). Subjects Taught 2009/10 Data Structures (Estructuras de Datos). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2009/10 Computer Vision (Visión Computacional). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2009/10 Automata Theory and Formal Languages (Teoría de Autómatas y Lenguajes Formales). Telecomunications School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2008/09 Programming Laguages Fundamentals (Bases de Lenguajes de Programación). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2007/08, 2008/09 Data and Information Structures (Estructuras de Datos y de la Información). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2007/08, 2008/09 Artificial Vision (Visión Artificial). Master on Telematic and Compute Systems. Rey Juan Carlos University. 2
2006/07 Computer Science Logic (Lógica Informática). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2006/07 Computational Logic (Lógica Computacional). Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07, 2007/08, 2008/09 2003/04, 2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/07 Introduction to Computer Science for non Computer Scientist (Introducción a la Informática). ESCET, Rey Juan Carlos University. Computer Science Fundamentals (Informática Básica). ESCET and Computer Science School, Rey Juan Carlos University. Software Architectures (Arquitectura del software). ESCET, Rey Juan Carlos University. 2001/02, 2002/03 Digital Image Processing (Procesamiento de imágenes digitales). Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Courses Received 6/9/2000-8/9/2000 Summer School on Shape in Computer Vision and Graphics : 2D object description (Prof. Bernd Schiele), Shape Description (Prof. Markus Gross), Invariance (Prof. L. Van Gool), 3D reconstruction (Dr. Pollefeys), Volumetric Shapes (Prof. G Szèkely). ETH Zürich, Switzerland. 13-24/6/2005 Course for University lecturers. Rey Juan Carlos University, Móstoles (Madrid), Spain. Languages Spanish (mother tongue), English (fluent). Computer Skills C/C++, OpenGL, GTK+; Matlab; Java; Makefiles, CVS, Subversion, Cmake, automake, autoconf; Latex, vi, GNU/Linux Debian distributions (Installation and Administration levels). 3
Research Projects participation 2008-2010 Probabilistic Graphical Models for Multi-class Classifiers with Applications in Computer Vision: TIN2008-06815-C02-02. Funding: Spanish Ministery for Education and Science. Main Researcher UPM: Luis Baumela Molina. 2006-2008 MOVICON, Visual Monitor for driver atention level estimation: TRA2005-08529-C02. Funding: Spanish Ministery for Education and Science. Main researcher UPM:: Luis Baumela Molina, Main researcher UAH: Luis Miguel Bergasa Pascual. 2002-2004 Facial expressions estimation for MPEG-4 (Codificador MPEG-4 de gestos faciales: TIC2002-00591). Funding: Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology. Main researcher: Dr. Luis Baumela Molina. 2002-2004 Automated facial expression analysis using Computer Vision. Funding: Royal Society (UK). Main researchers: Dr. Lourdes de Agapito Vicente (Queen Mary and Westfield Collage, London, UK) and Dr. Luis Baumela Molina (Computer Science School, Technical University of Madrid). 2000-2002 System for human face motion analysis (Sistema de análisis del movimiento del rostro humano: TIC99-1021). Funding: Spanish CICyT. Partners: Technical University of Madrid and Eptron Multimedia S.A. (Spanish company). Main researcher: Dr. Luis Baumela Molina. 1997-1999 FLUIDS (Future Line of User Interface Decision Support). Funding: European Union, Telematics applications programme. Partners: Technical University of Madrid (Isys, Computer Science School), DFKI, 5T Consortium (Telematics Technologies for Transport and Traffic in Turin), MIZAR Automazione S.p.A. Main researcher: Dr. José Cuena Bartolomé. Publications Journals Efficient illumination independent appearance-based face tracking, José M. Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumel. Image and Vision Computing Journal (ISSN: 0262-8856) Vol. 27, No 5, pp 560-578. January 2009. Recognising facial expressions in video sequences Autores. José M. Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Pattern Analysis and Applications (ISSN: 1433-7541), Vol. 11, No 1 pp. 101-116. January 2008. Variations of Grey World for Face Tracking, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Luis Baumela Molina.. Image Processing & Communications, Vol. 7, No. 3-4, pp.51-61, 2001. 4
Spanish journals Real-time robust facial expressions analysis José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. WCVIA 03: International WorkShop on Computer Vision and Image Analysis. Cuadernos del Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, number 26, pp. 49-54. ISSN: 1575-6807. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. December 2003 Some experiments on incremental image alignment, Enrique Muñoz, José Miguel Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. WCVIA 03: International WorkShop on Computer Vision and Image Analysis. Cuadernos del Instituto Universitario de Ciencias y Tecnologías Cibernéticas, number 26, pp. 55-60. ISSN: 1575-6807. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain. December 2003. Book Chapters A Computer Vision-Based Human-Robot Interface, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Luis Baumela Molina. In Autonomous Robotics Systems: Soft Computing and Hard Computing Methodologies and Applications. Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing series, Physica- Verlag. ISBN:3-7908-1546-2. Video-based face processing: 2D and 3D approaches, José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. In Pattern Recognition: Progress, Directions and Applications. Editors: Filiberto Plá, Petia Radeva, Jordi Vitrià. Computer Vision Center, UAB (http://www.cvc.uab.es/). Año 2005. ISBN: 84-933652-6-2. Referred International Conferences A direct approach for efficiently tracking with 3D Morphable Models, Enrique Muñoz, José Miguel Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2009. Kioto, Japan. September 2009. Analysing Driver's Attention Level using Computer Vision, Luis M. Bergasa, Jose M. Buenaposada, Jesus Nuevo, Pedro Jimenez, Luis Baumela. Proc. of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference, ITSC 2008. (ISBN: 978-1-4244-2112-1), pp. 1149-1154. Beijing, China. October 2008. An Empirical Comparison of Graph-based Dimensionality Reduction Algorithms on Facial Expression Recognition Tasks, He Li, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2008. Tampa, USA. December 2008. A model of brightness variations due to illumination changes and nonrigid motion using spherical harmonics, José M. Buenaposada, Alessio del Bue, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc of British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2008. Vol. 1, pp 463-472. Leeds, UK. September 2008. Efficient Tracking of 3D Objects Using Multiple Orthogonal Cameras, Enrique Muñoz, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. Proc. of British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2008. Vol 2, pp 1005-1014. Leeds, UK. 5
September 2008. Real-time facial expression recognition with illumination-corrected image sequences, He Li, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. Proc. of IEEE International Conference on automatic face and gesture recognition, FG2008. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. September 2008. Appearance-based tracking and face identification in video, José M. Buenaposada, Juan Bekios, Luis Baumela. Proc. of Conference on Articulated motion and deformable objects, AMDO 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, LNCS 5098, Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, pp. 349-358. July 2008. Planar tracking using the GPU for augmented reality and games, Luis Alexis Leiva, Antonio Sanz, José M. Buenaposada. ACM SIGGRAPH POSTERS. August 2007. Efficiently estimating facial expression and illumination in appearancebased tracking, José M. Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc of British Machine Vision Conference, BMVC 2006. Vol. 1 pp. 57-66. Edinburgh. September 2006. Performance driven facial animation using illumination independent appearance-based tracking, José M. Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc of IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2006. Vol 1. pp. 303-306. Hong Kong. August 2006. Efficient model-based 3D tracking of deformable objects, E. Muñoz, J.M. Buenaposada, L. Baumela. Proc. of International Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV 2005. Vol. I pp.887-882. October 2005. Automatic modelling and efficient tracking of deformable objects, E. Muñoz, A. Del Bue, J. Buenaposada, L. Baumela and L. Agapito. Proc. of IEE Conference on Visual Information Engineering, VIE 2005, pp. 267-274. Glasgow, Scotland, UK. April 2005. Performance driven facial animation by appearance based tracking, José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc. of Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2005, LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) 3522, pp. 476-483, Springer-Verlag. Estoril, Portugal. June 2005 Tracking heads using piecewise planar models, José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc. of Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, IbPRIA 2003. LNCS 2652, pp. 126-133, Springer. Palma de Mallorca, Spain. June de 2003. Speeding up SSD planar tracking by pixel selection, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Luis Baumela Molina. Proc. of International Conference on Image Processing, ICIP 2002. Vol I, pp. 565-568, IEEE. Rochester, NY, USA. September 2002. Real-time tracking and estimation of plane pose, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Luis Baumela Molina. Proc. of International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2002. Vol II, pp. 697-700, IEEE. Quebec, Canada. August 2002. Face tracking using the Dynamic Grey World Algorithm, José Miguel Buenaposada, David Sopeña, Luis Baumela Molina. Proc. of Computer 6
Analysis of Images and Patterns, CAIP 01. LNCS 2124, pp. 341-348, Springer. Warsaw, Poland. September 2001. Referred International Workshops Improving RANSAC for Fast Landmark Recognition, Pablo Márquez- Neila, Jacobo García, Luis Baumela, José M. Buenaposada. Proc. of Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms (In conjunction with International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, CVPR 2008). Anchorage, Alaska. June 2008. Efficient appearance-based tracking, José Miguel Buenaposada. Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc. of IEEE Workshop on Articulated and Nonrigid Motion, ANM'2004 (In conjunction with CVPR 2004). Washington DC, USA. June 2004 Tracking a planar patch by additive image registration, José Miguel Buenaposada, Enrique Muñoz, Luis Baumela. Proc. of International workshop, VLBV 2003 (visual content processing and representation). LNCS 2849, pp. 50-57, Springer-Verlag. Madrid, Spain. September 2003. Referred spanish Conferences Seguimiento robusto del rostro humano mediante visión por computador, Enrique Muñoz, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela. Actas del Primer Congreso de Español de Informática, CEDI 2005. I Worshop sobre Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes, pp. 167-174. Granada. Septiembre 2005. Seguimiento de planos en tiempo real: aplicación al seguimiento del rostro, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Cristian del Pascua, Luis Baumela Molina. In Proceedings of the Spanish Association for Artificial Intelligence Conference, CAEPIA 20001, Vol I, pp. 615-624. Gijón, Spain. November 2001. Face tracking based on Colour Constancy, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, David Sopeña, Luis Baumela. En Libro de actas del IX Simposium Nacional de Reconocimiento de Formas y Análisis de Imágenes, SNRFAI 01. J. Salvador y F. Pla (Eds.) Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis. Vol II. pp. 145-150. Castellón, Spain. May 2001. Seguimiento robusto del rostro humano mediante visión computacional, José Miguel Buenaposada Biencinto, Luis Baumela Molina. En Libro de Actas de la Conferencia de la Asociación Española para la Inteligencia Artificial, CAEPIA 1999, Vol. 1, Pág. 48-53. Murcia, Spain November 1999. 7