CV

Education

Ph.D in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science
- Thesis title: Object localisation, dimensions estimation and tracking
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Supervisor Prof. Andrea Cavallaro
- 2020 (expected)
B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Telecommunication Engineering
- Thesis title: Hierarchical detection of groups of people under occlusions
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
- Supervisor Prof. Jose María Martínez Sánchez
- 2014

Work experience

Research assistant
- Computer Vision research in multiple projects including COPCAMS project for multi-object tracking from visual data, CORSMAL project for estimating the physical properties of objects for human-to-robot handover of unseen objects from visual data
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Supervisor Prof. Andrea Cavallaro
- 2014-present
Senior Teacher Assistant
- Data Mining course for graduate and post-graduate students
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Supervisor Prof. Ioannis Patras and Dr. Jesus Requena Carrión
- 2019
Teacher Assistant
- Data Analytics course for graduate and post-graduate students
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Supervisor Dr. Anthony Constantinou
- 2019
Intern
- Deep learning for object tracking over occlusion
- The Alan Turing Insitute (London, UK)
- Supervisors Dr. Vaishak Belle, Dr. Chris Russell and Dr. Brooks Paige
- 2018
Teacher Assistant
- Data Mining course for post-graduate students
- Queen Mary University of London (London, UK)
- Supervisor Prof. Ioannis Patras
- 2018
Researcher
- Computer Vision research under the European project EventVideo for object detection from visual data. Main focus on object detection under occlusions from visual data.
- Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
- Supervisor Dr. Jose María Martínez Sánchez
- 2013-2014

Volunteering

Reviewer
- IEEE International Conference on Image Processing
- 2019-present
Reviewer
- IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
- 2016-present
Reviewer
- IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
- 2016-present

Skills

Technical:
- Python (5*)
- C and C++ (5*)
- Matlab (5*)
- PyTorch (5*)
- TensorFlow (4*)
- OpenCV (5*)
- Latex (5*)
Others:
- Hard work
- Flexible
- Quick learning
- Teamwork
- Ambition
- Leadership
- Problem solving
Languagues
- English (full professional working proficiency)
- Spanish (native)

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Publications

Online multi-target tracking with strong and weak detections

R. Sanchez-Matilla, F. Poiesi and A. Cavallaro. "Online multi-target tracking with strong and weak detection." Proc. of 2nd Workshop on Benchmarking Multi-target Tracking: MOTChallenge.

Hierarchical detection of persons in groups

A. García-Martín, R. Sanchez-Matilla and José M. Martínez."Hierarchical detection of persons in groups." Signal, Image and Video Processing (SIVP).

Multi-modal localization and enhancement of multiple sound sources from a Micro Aerial Vehicle

R. Sanchez-Matilla, L. Wang and A. Cavallaro. "Multi-modal localization and enhancement of multiple sound sources from a Micro Aerial Vehicle." Proc. of ACM Multimedia.

Tracking a moving sound source from a multi-rotor drone

L. Wang, R. Sanchez-Matilla and A. Cavallaro. "Tracking a moving sound source from a multi-rotor drone." Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Confidence Intervals for Tracking Perforamance Scores

R. Sanchez-Matilla and A. Cavallaro. "Confidence Intervals for Tracking Perforamance Scores." Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP).

Scene Privacy Protection

C.Y. Li, A.S. Shamsabadi, R. Sanchez-Matilla, R. Mazzon and A. Cavallaro. "Scene Privacy Protection." Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).

A predictor of moving objects for first-person vision

R. Sanchez-Matilla and A. Cavallaro. "A predictor of moving objects for first-person vision." Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP).

Audio-visual sensing from a quadcopter: dataset and baselines for source localization and sound enhancement

L. Wang, R. Sanchez-Matilla and A. Cavallaro. "Audio-visual sensing from a quadcopter: dataset and baselines for source localization and sound enhancement." Proc. of IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling

Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla, Konstantinos Chatzilygeroudis, Apostolos Modas, Nuno Ferreira Duarte, Alessio Xompero, Pascal Frossard, Aude Billard, and Andrea Cavallaro. "Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling." IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L): Special Issue on Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation.

Towards Robust Sensing for Autonomous Vehicles

Apostolos Modas*, Ricardo Sanchez-Matilla*, Pascal Frossard, and Andrea Cavallaro. "Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Handovers of Unseen Containers with Unknown Filling." IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing Magazine (SPM): Special Issue on Autonomous Driving.

Multi-view shape estimation of transparent containers

A. Xompero, R. Sanchez-Matilla, A. Modas, P. Frossard, A. Cavallaro. "Multi-view shape estimation of transparent containers." Proc. of IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP).