Previous Research
I have worked developing new methods for low- and mid-level vision operators for their implementation in specific-purpose architectures such as FPGAs. I joined the University of Granada in 2007 to obtain my PhD, where my advisors where Prof. Eduardo Ros and Dr. Javier Diaz. I worked on the EU project DRIVSCO Learning to emulate perception-action cycles in a driving school scenario from 2007-2010. In the framework of this project I visited the University of Genoa (2010) under the direction of Prof. Silvio Sabatini. After 2011, I focused on the role that diverse low-level vision engines play in deploying visual attention. The released hardware designs and implementations of all this work can be found at the CERN Open Hardware Repository. I took part of the Telluride Workshop on Neuromorphic Cognition Engineering (Colorado, USA) in 2011. Then, I visited Prof. Kwabena Boahen lab at Stanford University in 2012 designing and developing the final architecture for a visual attention system with top-down modulation. This was the main contribution of my Thesis presented that year. In 2013, I collaborated with the EU project TOMSY Topology based motion synthesis for dextereous manipulation.
Current ResearchMain Publications
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F. Barranco, C. L.
Teo, C.
Fermuller, Y. Aloimonos, "Contour
detection and characterization for asynchronous event sensors,"
International
Conference on Computer Vision, ICCV , 2015. [PDF]
[BibTex]
[Project page and code]
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F. Barranco, C.
Fermuller, Y. Aloimonos, "Contour
motion estimation for asynchronous event-driven cameras," Proceedings of the IEEE, 102
(10), 1537-1556, 2014. [PDF]
[BibTex] |
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F. Barranco, J.
Diaz, B. Pino, E. Ros, "Real-time
visual saliency architecture for FPGA with top-down attention modulation,"
IEEE Trans. on
Industrial Informatics, 10
(3), 1726-1735, 2014. [PDF]
[BibTex]
[Code] F. Barranco, "Specific-purpose processing architectures for dynamic artificial vision systems". Granada: Universidad de Granada, 2013. 243 p. [PDF] [BibTex] |
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F. Barranco, J.
Díaz, A. Gibaldi, S.P. Sabatini, E. Ros, “Vector disparity sensor with
vergence control for active vision systems”, Sensors, 12,
1771-1799, 2012. [PDF]
[BibTex] |
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F. Barranco, M.
Tomasi, J. Díaz, E. Ros, “A
multi-resolution approach for massively-parallel hardware-friendly
optical flow estimation”, Journal of Visual Communication
And Image Representation, 23 (8), 1272-1283, 2012. [PDF]
[BibTex] |
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F. Barranco, M.
Tomasi, J. Díaz, E. Ros, "Hierarchical
architecture for
motion and depth estimations based on color cues'',
Journal of
Real-Time Image Processing, 1-18, 2012. [PDF]
[BibTex]
[Code]
F. Barranco, M. Tomasi, J. Díaz, M. Vanegas, E. Ros, "Parallel architecture for hierarchical optical flow estimation based on FPGA", IEEE Trans. on VLSI Systems, 20 (6), 1058-1067, 2012. [PDF] [BibTex] [Code] M. Tomasi, M. Vanegas, F. Barranco, J. Díaz and E. Ros, "Massive parallel hardware architecture for multi-scale image structure, stereo, and optical flow computation", IEEE Trans. on CSVT, 22 (2), 282-294, 2012. [PDF] [BibTex] [Code] |
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F. Barranco, J.
Diaz, E. Ros, B. Pino "Visual
system based on artificial retina for motion detection", IEEE Trans. on SMC-Part B,
39 (3), 752-762, 2009. [PDF]
[BibTex] [Code] |
Collaborators
- Dr. Matteo Tomasi,
Postdoctoral fellow Schepens
Eye Research Institute, Harvard Medical School Affiliate,
Harvard University (Boston, USA)
- Dr. Mauricio Vanegas, Postdoctoral fellow PSPC-lab, Department of Informatics, Bioengineering, Robotics, and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS) University of Genoa (Genoa, Italy)
- Dr. Jarno Ralli, researcher with Fuel-3D, works in United Kingdom