The DeeperSense team recently got together for the project’s biannual partners meeting, this time held in Girona. This very productive meeting focused on advances in perception for underwater robotics, using state-of-the-art deep learning methods specially developed for sonars and conventional cameras. The meeting brought together members of the German Research…
On the 20th of April, the leaders of the ATLANTIS Project organised a project dissemination event and technology workshop in the port of Viana do Castelo, nearby Porto, Portugal. The event was organised by the INESCTEC research group, and funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 program. The ATLANTIS project…
VICOROB research lines, Underwater Vision and Robotics, Medical Imaging, and Educational Robotics; have renewed their recognition as a consolidated research group from AGAUR, the Catalan Agency for the Management of University and Research Grants. This recognition has a duration of 3 years, from 2022 to 2024, and we are very…
By Miguel Castillón Sánchez Supervised by Dr.Pere Ridao Rodríguez / Dr. Josep Forest Collado ABSTRACT Accurate underwater 3D perception is essential to advance towards the automation of expensive, dangerous and/or time-consuming tasks, such as the inspection, maintenance and repair of off-shore industrial sites. Accurate underwater 3D sensors can potentially have a large positive…
Eduardo Ochoa, a doctoral student at ViCOROB/UdG, is participating in a four-week research cruise organized by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI, PI Dan Fornari), from January 6th to February 2nd.. The cruise is part of a multi-year project to study and map a submarine volcano that scientists believe will…
One of the principal research lines of the Underwater Vision and Robotics Laboratory of VICOROB institute is the “long-term deployment”. This research line has as its objective to advance the technology in order to achieve future permanent robotic fleets in strategic locations. In the last months, it was sucesfully achieved,…
Understanding the marine ecosystem is key to monitoring, evaluating, and managing its functioning. To do this, the scientific community needs data. The PLOME project will obtain it with an underwater platform that will monitor the ecosystems of the seabed for extended periods. A scientific team led by the University…
Last May 2022, one of our senior researchers, Josep Forest, spent a month at the Faculty of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FER – Fakultet elektrotehnike i računarstva) at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, in the framework of the DATACROSS project. During his stay, together with Professor Dr. Tomislav Pribanič…
From the 15th to the 17th of March, our researcher Marc Carreras has been at the Oceanology International (OI22) exhibition. The event is the meeting point for businesses and academics of marine robotic technology. OI22 is a must-attend event for those involved in exploring, monitoring, developing or protecting the world’s oceans,…
Over the next four years, the research team will evaluate the usefulness of a network of newly created marine protected reserves in waters between 300 and 400 meters deep. Fishing activity is one of the main drivers of ecosystem change in the Mediterranean Sea. Beyond the potential global effect…