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e-mail: bergasa@depeca.uah.es

         luism.bergasa@uah.es

 

 

 

Luis Miguel Bergasa

 

 

He received the MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Technical University of Madrid and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Alcalá (UAH). He is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Alcalá (UAH) since 2011.

 

He is Head of the RobeSafe Lab from 2010 and Director of Digital Transformation of the UAH from 2022. He was Director of the Advisory Committee for the Strategic Plan of the UAH (2019-2022), Director of Knowledge Transfer at the UAH (2014-2018) and coordinator of UAH Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) (2014-2018). Besides, he was Head of the Department of Electronics (2004-2010), co-coordinator of the Master Advanced Electronic Systems, Intelligent Systems (2007-2010), co-coordinator of the Doctorate program in Electronics (2005-2010) and Deputy Inspector of the UAH services  (2012-2013).  This course he is teaching the following subjects: Perception Systems included in the Master in Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Control Systems for the Degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Vision for the Degree in Telecommunication Technologies.

 

He is author of more than 300 refereed papers in journals and international conferences, and corresponding author of 7 national patents and 1 PCT patent. Currently he has a Scholar Google h-index=47, a WoS h-index=33, a classic paper in the Transportation line included in Engineering and Computer Science area of the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM), and 2 main publications in GSM in the last 5 years: 1 x IEEE T Intelligent Transportation Systems journal (2018-2022), 1 x Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (2018-2022). He ranked #70 in Spain among Best Scientists for 2023 Research.com edition in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering and #71 in the field of Computer Science. He is included in the ranking of top 5000 Spanish scientists (3358 position in 2023). He was recognized as one of the most productive author in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) field during the period 1996-2014.  He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2019-2021). He received the Institutional Lead Award 2019 from the IEEE ITS Society for the longstanding work of his research group. His research activity has been awarded/recognized with 28 prizes/recognitions related to Robotics and Automotive fields from 2004 to nowadays. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS from 2014 and habitual reviewer in several journals included in the JCR index. He was Lead Guest Editor of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Guest Editor of two Special Issues (Sensors and IEEE T ITS), member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Vehicular Technology (2012-2017) and he has served on Program/Organizing Committees in more than 20 conferences. He was Research Visitor at the Computer Vision Research Group of the Trinity College in Dublin (Ireland) in 1998, Visiting Scholar at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (USA) in 2013, collaborating with Raquel Urtasun, and at the OPTIMAL Center Northwestern Polytechnic University (China) in 2017. He was co-founder of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company established to commercialize computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection (2009-2016).

 

His research interests include real-time Computer Vision for Intelligent Vehicles. He is currently focus on driver behaviors and scene understanding using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques for autonomous vehicle applications. Please contact me if you are interested in coming to RobeSafe group for PhD studies or post-doctoral research as I am always looking for excellent new team members.

 

Highlights of Recent/Upcoming papers (ONLY last year)

 

·        Santiago Montiel-Marín, Ángel Llamazares, Miguel Antunes, Pedro A. Revenga, Luis M. Bergasa, “Point Cloud Painting for 3D Object Detection with Camera and Automotive 3+1D RADAR Fusion”, in Sensors. Submitted in December 2023.

·        Javier Araluce, Luis M. Bergasa, Manuel Ocaña, Ángel Llamazares and Elena López-Guillén, “Leveraging Driver Attention for an end-to-end Explainable Decision-making from frontal images”, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. January 2024. [PDF].

·        Fabio Sánchez, Felipe Arango, Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Manuel Ocaña, Pedro Revenga, Luis M. Bergasa, “Green Deep Learning: Comparative Study of Road Object Detectors between Jetson Boards and PC”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF].

·        Miguel Antunes, Luis M. Bergasa, Santiago Montiel, Fabio Sánchez-García, Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Pedro Revenga, “Exploring Domain Adaptation with Depth-based 3D Object Detection in CARLA Simulator”, in in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF].

·        Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Luis M. Bergasa, Elena López-Guillén, Ángel Llamazares, Navil Abdeselam and Manuel Ocaña, “Driver Activity Recognition by fusing Multi-object and Key Points Detection”, in in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF]. 

·        Navil Abdeselam, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Elena López-Guillén, Rafael Barea, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Luis M. Bergasa, “Hybrid MPC and Spline-based Controller for Lane Change Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·        Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos V. Conde, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Ángel Llamazares, Miguel Antunes, Luis M. Bergasa, “Efficient Context-Aware Graph Transformer for Vehicle Motion Prediction”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·        Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Carlos Gómez-Huelamo, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango and Luis M. Bergasa, “Augmented Reinforcement Learning with Efficient Social-based Motion Prediction for Autonomous Decision-Making”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·        Xuan He, Kailun Yang, Junwei Zheng, Jin Yuan, Luis M. Bergasa, Hui Zhang and Zhiyong Li, “S3-MonoDETR: Supervised Shape&Scale-constrained Deformable Transformer for Monocular 3D Object Detection”, in IEEE Transactions on Multimedia. Submitted in August 2023. [PDF].

·        Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos V. Conde, Rafael Barea, Manuel Ocaña, Luis M. Bergasa, “Efficient Baselines for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving”, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. December 2023. [PDF].

·        Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos Conde, Rafael Barea and Luis M. Bergasa, “Improving Multi-Agent Motion Prediction with Heuristic Goals and Motion Refinement”, in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Vancouver, Canada, June 2023. [PDF].

·        Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Navil Abdeselam and Luis M. Bergasa, “Hybrid Decision Making for Autonomous Driving in Complex Urban Scenarios”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June 2023. [PDF].

·        Wijden Bouzidi, Soulef Bouaafia, Mohamed Ali Hajjaj and Luis M. Bergasa, “Enhanced U-Net Approach: Semantic Segmentation for Self Driving Cars Applications”, in IEEE International Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), Mahdia, Tunisia. February 2023. [PDF].

 

Highlights of Recent/Upcoming professional service (ONLY last year)

 

·        2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September, 2024.

·        2024. Program Committee in the Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF 2024), Alicante, Spain, September 2024.

·        2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea.

·        2024. Autonomous and connected vehicles Course. Invited conference “Human Factors and Social Aspects”. January-March, 2024, INSIA, Madrid, Spain.

·        2023. New Transmission project: INARTRANS 4.0. Digital transition towards an advanced industry in artificial intelligence solutions for the transportation infrastructure sector (January 2024 – December 2026). Partners: Acciona, Indra, Virtualmechanics, JIG Internet Consulting, Grupo de empresas AZVI, MainRail, CTCON, Intromac, Tekniker, UPM, UAH. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIIN).

·        2023. Evaluator of Industrial Doctorates grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2023 call in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). July 2023.

·        2023. Second prize in the "Thesis in 3 minutes" 2023 award, organized by the public universities of Madrid, in the branch of knowledge "Engineering and Architecture" for my PhD student Mr. Carlos Gómez Huélamo.

·        2023. International Referee for the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) in the field of Computer Science. 1st semester 2023.

·        2023. Chair at the Workshop RoboCity2030-DIH:  Intelligent robotics in health and care challenges. March 2023.

·        2023. Keynote lecture entitled "Beyond supervised Deep Learning for Autonomous Driving”, at the Master in Computer Vision of the URJC, March 2023.

·        2023. Business excellence round table. Success story: Industrial doctorate at INDRA organized by Spanish Engineering Institute. March 2023.

·        2023. Evaluator of the ELISE (European Network of AI Excellence Centres) 2nd Open Call (H2020 ICT48 project) for start-ups and SMEs. January-March 2023.

·        2023. Evaluator of Industrial Doctorates grants of the Community of Madrid for the 2020 call in the field of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). Tracking. January 2023.

·        2023. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Anchorage, Alaska, USA, June, 2023.

·        2023. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September, 2023.

·        2023. New proof of concept project: AVAD. Autonomous Vehicle for Aging Drivers (December 2022 – November 2024). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIN).

·        2023. New industrial project: Automotive radar clustering implementation. 2nd part (January 2023 – December 2023). Company: Huawei Düsseldorf Technologies GmbH.

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