The Eighth IASTED International Conference on
Visualization, Imaging and Image Processing
~VIIP 2008~

September 1 – 3, 2008
Palma de Mallorca, Spain

TUTORIAL SESSION

New Challenges for Onboard Vision Systems

Dr. Angel D. Sappa
Computer Vision Center, Spain
asappa@cvc.uab.es

Qualifications of the Instructor(s)

Tutorial Session Portrait

Angel D. Sappa received the electromechanical engineering degree from the National University of La Pampa, General Pico, Argentina, in 1995 and the Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, in 1999. In 2003, after holding research positions in France, U.K., and Greece, he joined the Computer Vision Center, Barcelona, where he is currently a Senior Researcher. He has been involved in several national and international research projects in a broad spectrum within the 2-D and 3-D image processing. He is interested in finding connections and overlapping areas between computer vision and computer graphics. He has over 100 publications in these areas in refereed journals and conferences. His current research focuses on stereo image processing and analysis, 3-D modeling, and dense optical flow estimation. Dr. Sappa is a member of the Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Group, Computer Vision Center.