I am usually involved in several funded projects and I could occasionally be able to raise some funds to support Msc and PhD students willing to work in my fields of interest:

• Subspace and Manifold Learning and Dimensionality Reduction

• Metric Learning, Adaptive Distances and Nearest Neighbors

• Machine Learning from Small and Unbalanced Samples

• Image and Video Retrieval Applications

• Image and Video Recognition and Analysis Problems

In order to be successful as a PhD candidate you must both have a good-to-excellent academic score (in order to help raising your own grants/funds) and strong-to-herculeous interest in doing research and pursue scientific goals.

You can send me email if you want information about forthcoming opportunities

Current and past students:

• Adrian Perez-Suay (DEA 2009, MSc 2010, PhD candidate). Metric Learning through Margin Maximization using Kernels

• Katerine Diaz-Chito (DEA 2008, MSc 2010, PhD candidate). Subspace-based Image Recognition Methods.

• Vicente Muñoz-Pijuan (DEA 2009, MSc 2010). Feature Selection in Brain Computer Interfaces.

• Marcelo Armengot-Iborra (DEA 2006). Face Recognition using Common Vectors.

• Juan Gutierrez-Aguado (Grad thesis 1999, PhD 2005). Nonlinearities in Contrast Perception and Applications in Image Restoration and Motion Estimation.

• Jose Martinez-Sotoca (PhD 2001). Image Analysis Techniques for Diagnostic Evaluation of Back Deviations.

• Ramon A. Mollineda-Cardenas (PhD 2001). Hierarchical Clustering for Prototype Selection and Distance-based Classification. Use in cyclic strings.

• Jaume Amores-Llopis (Final year thesis 2000). Model-based video coding for Specific Tasks.

• Jose F. Dillet Gomis (Final year thesis 2000). A Person Tracking System for Indoor Scenes with Fixed Cameras.