Baró Solé Xavier

Biography

Dr. Xavier Baró received his BS in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2003. In 2005 he obtained his MS degree in Computer Vision at the UAB, and in 2009 the Ph.D degree in Computer Engineering. At present, he is a lecturer and researcher at the IT, Multimedia and Telecommunications department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC). He is involved in the teaching activities of the IT, Telecommunication and Multimedia degrees of the UOC, and collaborates as assistant professor on the teaching activities of the Computer Science degree in the Mathematics and Analysis Applied at the University of Barcelona (UB). In addition, he is involved in the Interuniversity master's degree in Artificial Intelligence (UPC-UB-URV). He is co-founder of the Scene Understanding and Artificial Intelligence (SUNAI) group at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3) of the UOC, and collaborates with the Computer Vision Center of the UAB, as a member of the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis HUPBA) group. His research interests are related to machine learning, evolutionary computation, sequence analysis and statistical pattern recognition, especially their applications to human centered scenening understanding or looking at people.

Research Interest

Computing