Javier Civera

Hi! I am Dr. Javier Civera, associate professor at the Robotics, Perception and Real-Time Group, in the University of Zaragoza, Spain.

My research interests are within Computer Vision and Robotics, specifically Structure from Motion, SLAM and visual recognition. I am currently lecturing 3D Vision and Control courses at Bachelor and Master level.

NEWS

April 2013.

I am co-organizing a workshop at IROS 2013 on Cloud Robotics, together with my RoboEarth colleague Markus Waibel (ETHZ), Alper Aydemir (KTH), Ken Goldberg (Berkeley) and Matei Ciocarlie (Willow Garage). Check the workshop web for updates:

http://www.roboearth.org/iros2013

I hope to see you there if you go to IROS, it will be an excellent opportunity to learn and discuss about the great potential of Cloud Computing for robots!

November 2012.

I am looking for a PhD student on SLAM with a wearable camera, starting January 2013. Please, click here for more details on the position and how to apply.

June 2012. I will be at CVPR 2012 with the paper

Alessandro Prest, Christian Leistner, Javier Civera, Cordelia Schmid, Vittorio Ferrari
Learning Object Class Detectors from Weakly Annotated Video (pdf)
CVPR 2012.

Thank you very much Alessandro Prest, Christian Leistner, Cordelia Schmid and Vitto Ferrari for the opportunity of working with you, I learned a lot from you all.

May 2012. I gave a SLAM course in the Mechatronics department at Tallinn University of Technology. I really enjoyed my time there, thank you very much Professor Mart Tamre and Dmitry Shvarts for your kind invitation!

April 2012. A year went by so fast!! An extremely busy and exciting year, with many news but no time to update them here: I had an excellent time during my 4 months visit at Calvin group, ETHZ. I became an associate professor at Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain. I coauthored an IJCV paper with Joan Solà, Teresa Vidal-Calleja and J. M. M. Montiel. My PhD thesis was published by Springer...

April 2011. I am organizing, together with Ana Cristina Murillo, Kurt Konolige and Jana Kosecka the 1st IEEE Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities in Robots Perception, held jointly with ICCV 2011 in Barcelona.
Please, consider submitting a paper if you are working on any topic related with robotic perception. Deadline is July 1. For more information, visit our web: http://robots.unizar.es/corp

March 2011. I am in ETH in Zürich on a research visit until July, working with Professor Vittorio Ferrari.

January 2011. My PhD thesis was accepted for publication in the series Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics.

December 2010. I started co-advising the PhD thesis of Mr. Wajahat Hussain together with Prof. Luis Montano.

September 2010. I was proud to be a finalist for the Robotdalen Award, one of the most prestigious international awards for PhD theses in Robotics and Automation. In the picture I am with Uwe Mettin (left), now in Trondheim; and Matei Ciocarlie (right), the winner, now at Willow Garage.

Picture taken by the photographer Terése Andersson.

May 2010. I released some Matlab code from my PhD thesis under GPL License --inverse depth and 1-point RANSAC--. Find it here. I also inaugurated a news section in my web :)