Oscar Deniz Suarez

His research interests are mainly focused on computer vision and pattern recognition. He is the author of more than 50 refereed papers in journals and conferences. He has served as visiting researcher at Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Imperial College London (UK) and Leica Biosystems (Ireland). Currently, he works as an Associate Professor at UCLM and contributes to VISILAB. He is a Senior Member of IEEE and is affiliated with the AAAI, SIANI, CEA-IFAC, AEPIA, AERFAI-IAPR and The Computer Vision Foundation. He serves as an Academic Editor of Journal PLoS ONE. He is the Coordinator of European Project “Eyes of Things”, an Innovation Action funded within the Horizon 2020 programme. Reviewer / Technical Expert for EU programs such as Eurostars and Advisory Board Member of H2020 project TULIPP. Recipient of following awards/mentions: Internet of Things (IoT) Technology Research Award Pilot by Google, Runner-up best PhD work on computer vision & pattern recognition by AERFAI, ‘Image File & Reformatting Sofware’ Challenge Award by Innocentive Inc, national finalist of the 2009 Cor Baayen award. His work is being used by cutting-edge companies like Existor, Tapmedia, E-Twenty… and has been also added to OpenCV, the most advanced open source computer vision library. He has published a book on OpenCV and another one on OpenCV programming for mobile devices.