Dr. Nuno Gracias received the MSc and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering (Control and Robotics) from the Technical Univ. of Lisbon, Portugal. From 2004 to 2006 he was a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Miami.
Since 2006 he has been a member of the Computer Vision and Robotics Group (ViCOROB) of the University of Girona, where he held a Juan de la Cierva, Ramon y Cajal and TecnioSpring fellowships. He is Adjunct Faculty of Marine Geoscience at the Univ. of Miami.
His research spans underwater image processing, mapping and classification, and navigation and guidance of autonomous underwater robots.
He co-directs the Underwater Vision Lab (UVL) of the University of Girona since 2013, where he has co-supervised 4 PhD and 9 MSc theses. The UVL is a leading research group in the area of underwater image processing, optical mapping and their applications.
He has co-authored 43 JCR peer-reviewed articles in total (28 Q1, 9 Q2, 4 Q3, 2 Q4), of which 19JCR articles in the last 5 years and more than 50 peer reviewed international conferences.
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Research Director, February 2017 – Present
University of
Girona,
Institute for Computer Vision and Robotics, Girona, Spain
TECNIOspring Fellow, January 2015 – January
2017
University of Miami, Department of Marine
Geosciences, Florida, USA and
University of Girona, Institute for Computer Vision and
Robotics, Girona, Spain
Senior Researcher, March 2013 – November
2014
University of Girona, Institute of Informatics and
Applications, Girona, Spain
Ramon
y Cajal Researcher, February 2008 – January 2013
University of Girona, Institute of Informatics and Applications, Girona, Spain
Navigation and mapping algorithms for
autonomous underwater vehicles using computer vision. Underwater image
processing.
Adjunct Research Faculty,
October 2006 – Present
University of Miami, Department of Marine Geology and Geophysics, Florida, USA
Benthic
habitat monitoring and multispectral underwater image processing.
Juan de la Cierva Researcher, July 2006 – January 2008
University of Girona, Institute of Informatics and Applications, Girona, Spain
Navigation
and mapping algorithms for autonomous underwater vehicles using computer
vision.
Postdoctoral Researcher, January 2004 – June 2006
University of
Miami, Department of
Electrical and Computer Engineering and Rosenstiel School of Marine and
Atmospheric Sciences, Florida, USA
Underwater computer vision and mapping
with special emphasis on large area visual mapping of benthic habitats,
underwater image processing and human interfaces for benthic habitat
monitoring.
Postdoctoral Researcher, June 2003 – December 2003
Institute for
Systems and Robotics, Computer Vision
Laboratory, Lisbon, Portugal.
Computer vision applied to the control
and navigation of a non-holonomic aerial vehicle.
Fast global registration of image sets
and control of an indoor aerial vehicle using real-time vision-based
positioning.
Fellowships
Ramon
y Cajal Fellowship, Senior Research Grant from the
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, February 2008 – January 2013
Juan
de la Cierva
Fellowship,
Postdoctoral Junior Grant from the Spanish Ministry of Economy and
Competitiveness July 2006 – January 2008
Postdoctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology, 2004-2006
Doctoral Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for
Science and Technology, 1997-2003
MSc Fellowship from the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, 1995-1996
