Usuario:Ivan.villaverde

Ivan Villaverde de la Nava

Affiliation

Computational Inteligence Group
Computer Sciencies and Artificial Inteligence Dept.
Computer Sciencies Faculty of San Sebastian
University of the Basque Country

Currently working at:

Tecnalia Research & Innovation
Sustainable Construction Division
Smart Building & Cities

Academic Degrees

• Engineer in Computer Science (June 2003)
  

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

• MSc in Computational Intelligence (2007)
  

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

• PhD in Computer Science (December 2009)
  

University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU)

Research Interests

• Mobile Robotics
• Computer Vision
• Industrial Automation
• Intelligent Systems
• Lattice Computing

Contact Data

• eMail: ivan.villaverde@ehu.es ivan.villaverde@tecnalia.com
• Phone: (+0034) 647406442
• Postal Address:

TECNALIA, Sede Azpeitia

Area Anardi, 5

20730 Azpeitia - (SPAIN)

Att: Ivan Villaverde

Publications

2012

• Peter Sussner, Estevão L. Esmi, Ivan Villaverde and Manuel Graña. The Kosko Subsethood FAM: Mathematical Background, Properties, and Some Experimental Results in Computer Vision. Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision, Volume 42, Numbers 2-3, 134-149 (2012) DOI.
• Manuel Graña, Ivan Villaverde, Jose Manuel Lopez-Guede and Borja Fernadez-Gauna, Lattice Independent Component Analysis for Appearance Based Mobile Robot Localization. Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 21, Number 5, 1031-1042, Springer (2012)DOI.

2011

• Ivan Villaverde and Manuel Graña, Neuro-Evolutionary mobile robot egomotion estimation with a 3D ToF camera, Neural Computing and Applications, Volume 20, Number 3, 345-354, Springer (2011) DOI.

2010

• Ivan Villaverde, Zelmar Echegoyen, Ramón Moreno and Manuel Graña, Experiments on Robotic Multi-Agent System for Hose Deployment and Transportation. In Y. Demazeau et al. (Ed.), Trends in Practical Applications of Agents and Multiagent Systems, Advances in Soft Computing, volume 71/2010, 573-580, Springer, 2010. DOI
• Ivan Villaverde, Borja Fernandez-Gauna and Ekaitz Zulueta, Lattice Independent Component Analysis for mobile robot localization. In E. Corchado et al. (Eds.), The 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2010), Part II, LNAI vol. 6077, pp. 335-342. Springer, Heidelberg, 2010. (ISBN 978-3-642-13802-7). DOI
• Zelmar Echegoyen, Ivan Villaverde, Ramón Moreno, Manuel Graña and Alicia d'Anjou, Linked Multi-Component Mobile Robots: modeling, simulation and control. Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Volume 58, Issue 12, 31 December 2010, Pages 1292-1305. DOI

2009

• Ivan Villaverde, On Computational Intelligence Tools for Vision Based Navigation of Mobile Robots, PhD Thesis, University of the Basque Country, 2009. ISBN 978-84-9860-340-8 (Donwnload PDF)
• Manuel Graña, Ivan Villaverde, José Orlando Maldonado and Carmen Henandez, Two Lattice Computing approaches for the unsupervised segmentation of Hyperspectral Images. Neurocomputing, 72(2009):2111–2120 (ISI JCR 2006: 0.86; 2007: 0.865) DOI
• Ivan Villaverde and Manuel Graña, An Improved Evolutionary Approach for Egomotion Estimation with a 3D TOF Camera. J. Mira et al. (Eds.) Bioinspired Applications in Artificial and Natural Computation. In Proc. IWINAC 2009, Part II, LNCS 5602, pp. 390-398. Springer Verlag (ISBN 978-3-642-02266-1). DOI
• Manuel Graña, Iván Villaverde, Jose Manuel López Guede and Borja Fernández, Review of Hybridizations of Kalman Filters with Fuzzy and Neural Computing for Mobile Robot Navigation. 4th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems (HAIS09). E. Corchado, X. Wu, E. Oja, A. Herrero, B. Baruque (eds), Springer Verlad 2009, LNAI 5572, pp. 121-128 (ISBN 978-3-642-02318-7). DOI
• Ivan Villaverde, Zelmar Echegoyen y Ramón Moreno, Control visual para multi-robots, Implementación de una prueba de concepto de un SRMC Enlazado. Ekaitz Zulueta, Jose Manuel Lopez Guede (Eds), III jornadas de Inteligencia Computacional, Servicio editorial de la UPV/EHU 2009. ISBN 978-84-9860-320-0

2008

• Ivan Villaverde, Zelmar Echegoyen, Manuel Graña, Neuro-Evolutive system for ego-motion estimation with a 3D camera, Australian Journal of Intelligent Information Processing Systems, 10(1):59-70. ISSN 1321-2133 (Download scanned version)
• Ivan Villaverde and Manuel Graña, A Hybrid Intelligent System for Robot Ego Motion Estimation with a 3D Camera. Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems, Emilio Corchado, Ajith Abraham, Witold Pedrycz (eds), LNAI 5271, Springer Verlag pp: 657-664. ISBN 978-3-540-87655-7. DOI
• Ivan Villaverde, Zelmar Echegoyen and Manuel Graña. Neuro-evolutive system for ego-motion estimation with a 3D camera. In M. Köppen, editor, Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, Part I, volume 5506/2009 of Lecture Notes in Computer Sciences, pages 1021–1028. Springer-Verlag, 2009. DOI
• Zelmar Echegoyen, Alicia D’Anjou, Ivan Villaverde and Manuel Graña. Towards the adaptive control of a multirobot system for an elastic hose. In Advances in Neuro-Information Processing, Part I, volume 5506/2009 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 1045–1052. Springer, 2009. DOI
• Manuel Graña, Maite García-Sebastián, Ivan Villaverde, Elsa Fernandez, An approach from Lattice Computing to fMRI analysis. LBM 2008 (CLA 2008), Proceedings of the Lattice-Based Modeling Workshop, Vassilis Kaburlasos, Uta Priss, Manuel Graña (eds), pp:33-44. ISBN 978-80-244-2112-4 (Download PDF)

2007

• Ivan Villaverde, Alicia D'Anjou, Manuel Graña. Morphological Neutal Networks and Vision Based Simultaneous Localization and Maping. Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering. 14(4):355-363. IOS Press (2007). On-line
• Ivan Villaverde, 3D Camera for Mobile Robot SLAM. Ramón Moreno Jiménez, Miguel A. Veganzones, Maria Teresa García-Sebastián (Eds.) Actas de las I Jornadas de Inteligencia Computacional - JIC'07, Basque Country University Editorial (2007); ISBN 978-84-9860-019-3 (download PDF)
• Ivan Villaverde, Manuel Graña, Jose Luis Jiménez, Lattice Independence and Vision Based Mobile Robot Navigation. Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2007, Bruno Apolloni, Robert J. Howlett, and Lakhmi Jain (Eds.) LNAI 4693, pp. 1196-1203 Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-74826-7. DOI
• Ivan Villaverde, Manuel Graña, Alicia d’Anjou, Morphological Independence for Landmark Detection in Vision Based SLAM. F. Sandoval, A. Prieto, J. Cabestany, M. Graña (Eds.) Proc. of IWANN 2007, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4507, pp. 847-854. Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, 2007. ISBN 3-540-73006-0. DOI
• Manuel Graña, Ivan Villaverde, Ramon Moreno, and Francisco X. Albizuri, Convex Coordinates From Lattice Independent Sets for Visual Pattern Recognition, Vassilis G. Kaburlasos, Gerhard X. Ritter (eds.) Computational Intelligence Based on Lattice Theory, Cap. 6, pp. 99-126. Springer, 2007. ISBN 978-3-540-72686-9. DOI

2006

• Ivan Villaverde, Manuel Graña, Alicia D'Anjou, Morphological Neural Networks and Vision Based Mobile Robot Navigation. Proc. of ICANN 2006 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 4131, pp. 878-887, Springer, Heidelberg, 2006. ISBN 3-540-38625-4. DOI
• I. Villaverde, M. Graña and A. D’Anjou, Morphological Neural Networks for Localization and Mapping. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA’06), IEEE Press, ISBN 1-4244-0245-X, pp. 9-14. (2006). DOI

2005

• I. Villaverde, S. Ibáñez, F. X. Albizuri, M. Graña, Morphological Neural Networks for Real-Time Vision Based Self Localization. Soft Computing as transdisciplinary Science and Techonology, Proc. WSTST'05, Ajith Abrham, Y. Dote, T. Furuhashi, M. Köpen, A. Ohuchi, Y. Ohsawa (eds), Springer Verlag, Advances in Soft Computing, pp 70-82. (2005) ISBN 3-540-25055-7. DOI

Participation in Scientific Events

Communications in Conferences

• The Fourth IEEE international Workshop on Soft Computing as Transdisciplinary Science and Technology (WSTST 2005), May 2005, Muroran (Japan). (Session Chair)
• IEEE International Conference on Computational Inteligence for Measurement Systems and Applications (CIMSA 2006), July 2006, La Coruña (Spain).
• 16th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2006), September 2006, Athens (Greece).
• The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2007), June 2007, San Sebastián (Spain).
• The 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2008), September 2008, Burgos (Spain). (Session Chair)
• The 3rd International Work-conference on the Interplay between Natural an Artificial Computation (IWINAC 2009), June 2009, Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
• The 8th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS 2010), April 2010, Salamanca (Spain).
• The 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Inteligence Systems (HAIS 2010), June 2010, San Sebastián (Spain). (Session Chair)

Organization

• Member of the local committee at The 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'2007)
• Member of the local committee at The 5th International Conference on Hybrid Artificial Inteligence Systems (HAIS 2010)
• Special Session Organization, Hybrid Intelligent Systems for Multi-robot and Multi-agent Systems at the 3rd International Workshop on Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems (HAIS 2008)
• Special Session Organization, Neural Information Processing in Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems at the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2008)

Reviewer, Program and Scientific Committee

• Neurocomputing, Elsevier.
• Information Sciences, Elsevier.
• Information Fusion, Elsevier.
• Neural Computing and Applications, Springer
• Lattice-Based Modeling workshop on the 6th International Conference on Concept Lattices and Their Applications (CLA 2008)
• 9th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2007)
• 11th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN 2011)
• 11th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2007)
• 13th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems (KES 2009)
• 5th Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS 2009)
• 6th Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications (IDAACS 2011)
• International Conference on Neural Computation (ICNC 2010)
• IEEE 74th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2011-Fall)
• 8th International Symposium on Mechatronics and its Applications (ISMA 2012)
• 4th Workshop in Pattern Recognition (CWPR-2012)

Courses

• Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics (PSSCR'07), August 2007, Munich (Germany)

Stays and colaborations at other research institutions

• Technological Educational Institution (TEI) of Kavala, Greece. September-December 2007.

Other science diffusion events

• Carpa de la Semana de la Ciencia 2008, stand "Visión 3D", San Sebastián (Spain), november 2008.
• Carpa de la Semana de la Ciencia 2009, stand "Multirobots colaborativos", San Sebastián (Spain), november 2009.
• Carpa de la Semana de la Ciencia 2010, stand "Multirobots colaborativos", San Sebastián (Spain), november 2010.

Participation in Research Projects

• 2006-2009: Percepción artificial y control de caos para robótica modular en entornos dinámicos y no estructurados (McRobs) [1].

Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.

Investigador principal: Manuel Graña Romay.

Instituciones colaboradoras: Ciencias de la Computación e Inteligencia Artificial (UPV/EHU), Universidad de A Coruña, Inteligencia Artificial (UPM).

Duración: 36 meses.

Referencia: DPI2006-15346-C03-03

• 2004-2005: Sistemas GIS y clasificación de imágenes hiperespectrales no supervisadas.

Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).

Investigador principal: Manuel Graña Romay.

Duración: 12 meses.

• 2003-2004: Estudio de métodos de visión artificial para navegación de sistemas autónomos.

Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU).

Investigador principal: Manuel Graña Romay.

Duración: 9 meses.

Referencia: TIC2000-0739-C4-02

Media

• TV report in Tele 5 news on my early research in robotics. (23/06/2003). (Download avi)
• Zientzia Astea 2009 official blog.
• Press release from the UPV/EHU's Press Service on the PhD Thesis. (30/03/2010) Spanish, Spanish 2, Basque and English.
  • Echoed in ACM.org and other national (1) and international (1, 2, 3) sites.
• Radio chat in "A vivir que son dos días Euskadi", Cadena SER San Sebastián, with Vicky Pizarro and Felix Ares on the PhD Thesis and robotics in general. 24/04/2010. (Download mp3)

Working Datasets

• 3D datasets recorded with ToF camera onboard a Pioneer robot.
• Image datasets recorded with an optical camera onboard a Pioneer robot.

Cuestiones de investigación

1- Estudiar la posibilidad de definir el número natural de endmembers a partir de los trabajos de Ritter y de la distribución de la información mutua en el conjunto de candidatos.

2- Revisión de estado del arte de SLAM y Kalman filters.

3- Aplicación de cámaras 3D a SLAM.

4- Transporte de una manguera por medio de multirobots.

Estado burocrático de la tesis

Director

Manuel Graña

DEA

Realizada estancia de 3 meses en el Technological Educational Institution (TEI) de Kavala, Grecia, con el profesor Vassilis G. Kaburlasos.

Inscrita noviembre de 2008 (olvido del director que lo dió por hecho en 2007?)

Depositada el 7 de octubre del 2009.

Defendida el 9 de diciembre de 2009. Calificada con Sobresaliente cum laude.

Diario de tareas y reuniones de trabajo Ivan Villaverde