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DeeperSense Partners Meeting in Girona

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…

ATLANTIS PROJECT: ADVANCING FLOATING WIND FARM TECHNOLOGIES

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’s Research Recognized as Consolidated Group by AGAUR

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…

DOCTORAL THESIS: UNDERWATER 3D SENSING USING STRUCTURED LIGHT: DEVELOPMENT OF AN UNDERWATER LASER SCANNER AND A NON-RIGID POINT CLOUD REGISTRATION METHOD

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…

Exploring the Depths: Eduardo Ochoa’s Journey

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…

We attended Oceanology International 2022 in London

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,…

FINAL EUMR TNA EXPERIMENTS AT UDG

On Friday 19th November 2021 took place the final survey that concluded the TNA experiments that are part of the EUMarineRobots project. The last TNA, whose end-user is the University of Southampton, consisted in gathering image data from different habitats with Sparus II AUV with a downward looking high-resolution camera….