Occupation
I am currently working as a Research Programmer at National Robotics Engineering Consortium (NREC).Short biography
I received my B.Sc. degree in Multimedia Engineering, B.Sc. degree in Computer Science and M.Sc. degree in Multimedia Engineering in 1999, 2000 and 2001, respectively, from Enginyeria La Salle. In 2007, I earned a M.Sc. degree in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University.I joined the Computer Science department working as assistant professor at La Salle School of Engineering, in 1999. I combined teaching in Distributed Programming and Algorithms with research in Artificial Intelligence algorithms applied to the automatic detection of breast cancer from mammographies. In 2002, I joined GTD Systems and Software Engineering working in the development of autonomous robots to help in the detection and elimination of antipersonnel landmines in Croatia and Bosnia. In 2003, I became a Researcher at the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. I am working in the development of Machine Learning and Computer Vision algorithms to help robots to understand their environment.
Research interests
My focus is on developing Machine Learning and Computer Vision algorithms to help robots to understand their environment. I am researching in probabilistic graphical models applied to image segmentation and object recognition areas. I am developing a platform that uses input sensors (such as cameras) and produces cost/object maps which are used for various purposes, including vehicle safeguarding and detection of specific objects in the environment (i.e. people, trees, road). This research involves the following fields: Machine Learning (Graphical Models, Bayesian Networks, Statistical Pattern Recognition). Computer Vision (Segmentation, Object Tracking, Classification for high dimensional problems). Mathematical Analysis.I am currently working on this project: Fully autonomous systems capable of following pre-taught paths while detecting and avoiding obstacles .