Biomedical Computer Vision at UniAndes
Our field of research is computer vision, the area of artificial intelligence seeking automated understanding of visual information, and the interactions between its three fundamental problems, or Malik's 3Rs of vision: perceptual organization (or re-organization), recognition and reconstruction. Perceptual organization refers to the ability of the human visual system to group together local image entities that belong together, e.g., to the same texture pattern, the same contour, or the same object. Recognition implies connecting visual data with our prior knowledge of the world, and its tasks include classifying images and pixels into semantic visual categories. Reconstruction consists in recovering geometric structure from multiple views or different imaging modalities of the same object or scene. The interactions between these three problems constitute the current frontier of research in computer vision.
Our main domain of application is quantitative biomedical image analysis. We aim at leveraging recent progress in computer vision to contribute to the solution of high-impact and large-scale biological and medical problems of the real world. Our ongoing projects include creating a 3D virtual atlas of Drosophila embryogenesis, low-cost automated tuberculosis diagnosis with portable microscopy, and detection and reconstruction of proteins with electron microscopy.
Faculty
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Pablo Arbelaez Assistant Professor Department of Biomedical Engineering pa.arbelaez 'at' uniandes.edu.co Office ML-430, Ext. 1783 |
Graduate Students
Juan Carlos León Ph.D. |
Ph.D. |
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María Alejandra Bravo M.Sc. |
Silvana Castillo M.Sc. |
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Jorge Madrid M.Sc. |
Alejandro Pardo M.Sc. |
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Gustavo Perez M.Sc. |
Luis Sagarzazu M.Sc. |
News
- 04/2017: Collaboration with The 2017 DAVIS Challenge on Video Object Segmentation.
- 04/2017: Published article in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
- 01/2017: Published article in TPAMI.
- 11/2016: Postdoc position in biomedical computer vision available. Contact Pablo Arbelaez for further details.
- 09/2016: Ph.D. opportunities in biomedical computer vision for top students. Contact Pablo Arbelaez for further details.
- 08/2016: Our group's research is supported by Google Research Awards Latin America 2016.
- 08/2016: Our group's research is supported by NVIDIA's Academic Hardware Grant Program 2016
- 07/2016: One paper accepted at ECCV 2016.
- 07/2016: Our group is collaborating with Mesurex Aeronautics on automated air-to-air refuelling.
- 06/2016: Andres Romero graduated from his Masters and was admitted to our Doctoral Program. Congratulations Andres!
- 05/2016: One paper accepted at MICCAI 2016.
- 04/2016: TPAMI paper on Hypercolumns accepted.
- 02/2016: Malik's 3Rs of Computer Vision paper published in Pattern Recognition Letters.
- 01/2016: Pablo Arbelaez ranked scientist with highest impact in the School of Engineering (#5 in Uniandes, #65 in Colombia)
- 11/2015: Regional press coverage of our Google Award: [El Espectador, La W, El Comercio]
- 09/2015: Our group's research is supported by Google's Faculty Research Awards Program
- 07/2015: Our group's research is supported by NVIDIA's Academic Hardware Grant Program
- 04/2015: Pablo Arbelaez to serve as Area Chair at ICCV 2015
- 04/2015: Pablo Arbelaez to serve as Area Chair at STSIVA 2015
- 04/2015: IJCV paper on RGB-D scene understanding
- 03/2015: Three papers (1 oral + 2 posters) accepted at CVPR 2015
- 03/2015: Pablo Arbelaez to serve as Area Chair at CVPR 2015