Carles Ventura

Position	e-mail
PhD Candidate	carles.ventura@upc.edu

Office	Phone
D5-120	+34 934 011 627

Biography

Carles Ventura received the degree in Electrical Engineering in 2010, and the M.Sc. in Research on Information and Communication Technologies in 2011; both from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC). He is currently enrolled in a Ph.D. program in the Image Processing Group at UPC, holding a scholarship of the Spanish Government. His research work is mainly focused on content-based image retrieval, object detection and recognition, and image segmentation.

Journal Articles top

2013
C. Ventura, Vilaplana, V., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Marqués, F., “Improving retrieval accuracy of Hierarchical Cellular Trees for generic metric spaces”, Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2013. DOI Google Scholar BibTex (1.97 MB)

Book Chapters and Books top

2012
C. Ventura, Martos, M., Giró-i-Nieto, X., Vilaplana, V., and Marqués, F., “Hierarchical Navigation and Visual Search for Video Keyframe Retrieval”, in Advances in Multimedia Modeling, vol. 7131, Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2012, pp. 652-654. DOI Google Scholar BibTex

Conference Papers top

2015
C. Ventura, Giró-i-Nieto, X., Vilaplana, V., McGuinness, K., Marqués, F., and O'Connor, N., “Improving Spatial Codification in Semantic Segmentation”, in IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2015, Quebec City, 2015. Google Scholar BibTex (18.81 MB)

2014
K. McGuinness, Mohedano, E., Zhang, Z. X., Hu, F., Albatal, R., Gurrin, C., O'Connor, N., Smeaton, A. F., Salvador, A., Giró-i-Nieto, X., and Ventura, C., “Insight Centre for Data Analytics (DCU) at TRECVid 2014: Instance Search and Semantic Indexing Tasks”, in 2014 TRECVID Workshop, Orlando, Florida (USA), 2014. Google Scholar BibTex (2.45 MB)

2013
C. Ventura, Giró-i-Nieto, X., Vilaplana, V., Daniel Giribet,, and Eusebio Carasusan, “Automatic Keyframe Selection based on Mutual Reinforcement Algorithm”, in CBMI (Content-Based Multimedia Indexing), Veszprem, 2013. DOI Google Scholar BibTex (2.98 MB)
C. Ventura, Tella, M., and Giró-i-Nieto, X., “UPC at MediaEval 2013 Hyperlinking Task”, in MediaEval 2013 Workshop, Barcelona, Catalonia, 2013. Google Scholar BibTex (1.62 MB)

2010
X. Giró-i-Nieto, Ventura, C., Pont-Tuset, J., Cortés, S., and Marqués, F., “System architecture of a web service for Content-Based Image Retrieval”, in ACM International Conference On Image And Video Retrieval 2010, 2010, pp. 358–365. DOI Google Scholar BibTex

Theses top

2016
C. Ventura, “Visual Object Analysis using Regions and Local Features”, 2016. Google Scholar BibTex (2.5 MB)

Other top

2015
M. Bellver, “Efficient Exploration of Region Hierarchies for Semantic Segmentation”. 2015. Google Scholar BibTex (11.62 MB)	Ms Thesis
C. Ventura, Giró-i-Nieto, X., Vilaplana, V., McGuinness, K., Marqués, F., and O'Connor, N. E., “Improving Spatial Codification in Semantic Segmentation (Supplementary Material)”, 2015. Google Scholar BibTex (18.81 MB)	Report

2014
J. Sánchez-Escué, “Bundling interest points for object classification”. 2014. Google Scholar BibTex (2.15 MB)	Ms Thesis

2013
C. Ventura, “Visual Object Analysis Using Regions and Interest Points”, ACM Multimedia. 2013. DOI Google Scholar BibTex (132.2 KB)	Ms Thesis
A. Garcia-delMolino, “Extension of Instance Search Technique by Geometric Coding and Quantization Error Compensation”. 2013. Google Scholar BibTex	Ms Thesis

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Projects top

BigGraph - Heterogeneous information and graph signal processing for the Big Data era. Application to high-throughput, remote sensing, multimedia and human computer interfaces.	National	Jan 2014	Dec 2017
SGR14 - Image and Video Processing Group	National	Jan 2014	Apr 2017
MuViPro - Multicamera Video Processing	National	Jan 2011	Aug 2014
SGR09 - Processament de Video Multicamera	National	Oct 2009	Dec 2013
Buscamedia - Hacia una adaptación semántica de medios digitales multi-red multi-terminal	National	Jan 2010	Dec 2012