Development Quality Control

Xavier Gibert Serra

www.umiacs.umd.edu/ gibert

Computer Vision Laboratory

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University of Maryland 301-***-****

College Park, MD 20742, USA

Research Interests

Computer Vision, Digital Image Processing, Statistical Inference, Signal Processing, Embedded Systems,

and Robotics.

Education

University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA

Ph.D. Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2010 present

Reseach Topic: Anomaly Detection in Outdoor Images

Advisor: Prof. Rama Chellappa

Expected graduation date: May 2014

M.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering August 2001 December 2003

Research Topic: Sports Video Classi cation

Advisor: Dr. David Doermann

Universitat Polit`cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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B.S. Telecommunications Engineering September 1996 June 2001

Research and Work Experience

Computer Vision Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park

Graduate Student September 2011 present

Assisted in the preparation of a BAA research proposal for the Federal Railroad Administration O ce

of Research and Development. Principal Investigator: Rama Chellappa.

Ensco, Inc., Spring eld, Virginia

Senior Scientist April 2004 present

As the leader of the Image Processing Group, I have participated and supervised several image and signal

processing R&D projects applied to the railroad industry. Some of my duties have been:

Development of real time signal processing algorithms for optical rail pro le analysis, including rail

type detection under partial occlusion. Development of digital lters to remove sun noise and other

errors. Integration system with user interface and database. Field testing.

Implementation and testing of Image Processing and Pattern Recognition algorithms for realtime

joint bar localization and crack detection using line-scan cameras. Integration with other real-time

data collection systems.

Development of a Machine Vision system for real-time inspection of steel beams.

Product management, including technology assessment, requirements gathering, version control, issue

tracking unit testing, build automation and continuous integration.

Development of data acquisition and presentation software for sideway mapping using stereo cameras

and GPS receiver.

Improvement of algorithms for fusion of DGPS with dead reckoning data using Kalman lter.

Writing of research and development proposals.

Team Ensco, Darpa Grand Challenge

Member April 2005 June 2006

Participated in the design, development and testing of DEXTER, an Autonomous Ground Vehicle

according to the requirements of the second DARPA Grand Challenge. The vehicle traveled 91 miles

fully autonomously in the Mojave Desert at speeds up to 40 mph and placed sixth out of 23 nalists.

Development of an obstacle detector using stereo cameras, part of the robot s automatic obstacle

avoidance system. Integration of obstacle detector with GPS/INS navigation system and path planner.

Language and Media Processing Laboratory, University of Maryland, College Park

Graduate Research Assistant September 2001 December 2003

Implementation of image processing algorithms for image segmentation and labeling

Design of Audio/Video feature extraction and evaluation of multiple Pattern Recognition techniques

for Video Classi cation

Development of a Face Detector

Development of ground truth generation software for an OCR evaluation system

Writing of technical reports and preparation of presentations and posters

Integral Stocks Control, S.A., Terrassa, Barcelona, Spain

Software/Network Engineer, Jun 1996 Aug 2001

Computer Systems administration.

Design of microprocessor-based sensing and monitoring devices and their manufacturing process.

Development of client-server applications.

Development of quality control automation software

Installation, customer support and technical service.

Writing of manuals and installation procedures.

Translation of technical documents

Honors and Awards

Invited Speaker at Prof. Kenneth Hintz s Introduction to Digital Image Processing class (ECE 537),

George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, 2009

Teaching Experience

Math Tutor, Academic Achievement Programs, University of Maryland, College Park, 2004

Publications

A machine vision system for automated joint bar inspection from a moving rail vehicle,

Xavier Gibert-Serra, Andrea Berry, Christian Diaz, William Jordan, Boris Nejikovsky and Ali Tajaddini.

ASME/IEEE Joint Rail Conference & Internal Combustion Engine Spring Technical Conference, 2007

Automated joint bar inspection using high speed cameras, Boris Nejikovsky, Garry Carr, Christian

Diaz, William Jordan and Xavier Gibert-Serra. AREMA Conference and Exposition, 2005

Sports Video Classi cation using HMMs, Xavier Gibert, Huiping Li and David Doermann. IEEE

International Conference on Multimedia & Expo (ICME), 2003

Computer Skills

Operating systems: MSDOS, Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and QNX RTOS.

Programming languages: C, C++, CUDA C, Java, Visual Basic, Pascal, Assembler, SQL.

Development frameworks: MFC, Qt, OpenCV, Boost C++.

Distributed Computing: Amazon EC2, MPI. Concurrent programming in Windows, UNIX and Java.

Network programming.

Electrical Engineering: PSPICE, VHDL, AHDL, Verilog, LabView.

CAD programs: AutoCAD.

Numerical tools: Maple, Matlab.

Con guration management and issue tracking: CVS, Suversion, GIT, Atlassian JIRA, TRAC.

Languages

English: Fluent.

Catalan: Fluent.

Spanish: Fluent.

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