Escalera Guerrero Sergio

Biography

Sergio Escalera obtained the PhD degree on Multi-class visual categorization systems at Computer Vision Center, UAB. He obtained the 2008 best Thesis award on Computer Science at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He leads the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis Group at UB, CVC, and the Barcelona Graduate School of Mathematics. He is an associate professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Analysis, University of Barcelona. He is a part time professor at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. He has been visiting professor at TU Delft and Aalborg Universities. He is a member of the Visual and Computational Learning consolidated research group of Catalonia. He is also a member of the Computer Vision Center at the UAB Campus. He is Editor-in-Chief of American Journal of Intelligent Systems and editorial board member of more than 5 international journals. He is advisor and director of ChaLearn Challenges in Machine Learning. He is co-founder of PhysicalTech company. He is also a member of the AERFAI Spanish Association on Pattern Recognition, ACIA Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence, and he is vice president of IAPR TC-12: Multimedia and visual information systems. I have different patents and registered models. I have published more than 150 research papers and organized scientific events, including CCIA2004, CCIA2014, ICCV2011, and workshops at ICCV2011, ICMI2013, ECCV2014, CVPR2015, ICCV2015. He has been guest editor at JMLR, TPAMI, and IJCV.

Research Interest

statistical pattern recognition, visual object recognition,