Research projects
As principal investigator:
- NSFC: National Natural Science Foundation of China
- MOST: Ministry of Science and Technology, China
- MCYT: Ministry of Science and Technology, Spain
- EU FP6: European Union Sixth Framework Programme
- CYCIT: Interministerial Commission for Science and Technology, Spain
- CAS: Chinese Academy of Sciences
- NSFC-61550110505, Contextual Visual Recognition and Retrieval for Mobile Devices. National project (China). 2016 (12 months). Extension of NSFC-61450110446.
- NSFC-61450110446, Contextual Visual Recognition and Retrieval for Mobile Devices. National project (China). 2015 (12 months).
- NSFC-61350110237, Large-scale Visual Information Understanding and Retrieval for Intelligent Applications. National project (China). 7/2013-6/2014 (12 months).
- NSFC-61150110480, Multi-scale representations of video content and application in video browsing and retrieval. NSFC. National project (China). 2012 (12 months).
As part of the research team:
- Proyectos UAM-Santander 2015/ASIA/12, SARADL: Sistema de análisis de video para reconocimiento de actividades basado en técnicas de aprendizaje automático Deep learning, July 2015-2016 (18 months).
- MOST-2014AA015202, Research on Mining Correlations between Heterogeneous Media Data. MOST (863 program). National project (China). 2014-2016.
- NSFC-61322212, Multimedia Analysis Technologies. National project (China). 2014-2016.
- MOST-2012BAH18B02, Research on key technologies for managing new media resources and demo application platform for their integration. MOST (Key Technologies R&D program). National project (China) 2012-2015.
- Programme-specific Video Analysis Technologies. Mitsubishi Electric R&D, 2010-2011.
- MCYT-TIN2007-65400, SemanticVideo: Video analysis strategies for semantic indexing and personalized access. National project (Spain). 2007-2010.
- P-TIC-000223-0505, PROMULTIDIS: Distributed multimedia processing. Madrid regional government. 2006-2009.
- MCYT-TIN2004-07860, MEDUSA: Semantic characterization, indexing and personalized universal access to audiovisual content in controlled environments. National project (Spain). 2005-2007.
- IST-IP-001765, aceMedia: Integrating knowledge, semantics and content for user centred intelligent media services. EU FP6. 2004-2008.
- CYCIT-TIC2002-03692, DYMAS: Automatic obtention and insertion of MPEG-7 descriptions in DVB streams. National project (Spain). 2003-2005.
Fellowships
- CAS Fellowship for Young International Scientists (contract 2011Y1GB05), 2/2012-1/2013, 5/2013-4/2014.
- CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative (PIFI) for Postdoctoral Researchers, 11/2014-10/2015.
Research visits
- Centre for Communication Systems Research, University of Surrey, Guildford, UK.
Visiting researcher. April 2009 – August 2009 - Multimedia and Vision Lab, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
Research internship. May 2005-July 2005
Awards
- CAS International Cooperation Award for Young Scientists 2013, awarded in 2014.
- Outstanding Ph.D award 2010/2011, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 2013.
- Award from the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT/AEIT) to the best Ph.D thesis in Applications for Multimedia Environments, 2011.
- Award from the Spanish Association of Telecommunication Engineers (COIT/AEIT) to the best degree thesis in Telecommunication Networks and Services, 2003.
Journal reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
- IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
- Information Sciences
- Multimedia Tools and Applications
- Computers in Biology and Medicine
- IET Image Processing
- Signal Processing: Image Communication
- Multimedia Systems
- Computer Journal
- Digital Signal Processing.