Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) - Global Network for Innovation and Research Excellence

Jose Garcia-Rodriguez
University of Alicante, Alicante
Regular Member
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Short Biography
Jose Garcia-Rodriguez received his Ph.D. degree, with specialization in Computer Vision and Neural Networks, from the University of Alicante (Spain). He is currently Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Technology of the University of Alicante. His research areas of interest include: computer vision, neural networks, man-machine interfaces, ambient intelligence, parallel and multicore architectures and visual surveillance systems. He has authored +40 publications and revised papers for several journals like Neurocomputing, Applied Softcomputing, Image Vision and Computing, IET on Image Processing, SPIE Optical Engineering and many others, chairing sessions in IJCNN and participating in program committees of several conferences including IJCNN, ICRA, ICANN, IWANN, KES, ICDP and others.
List of top 5 publications in the last 5 years
Autonomous Growing Neural Gas for applications with time constraint: Optimal parameter estimation.José García-Rodríguez, Anastassia Angelopoulou, Juan Manuel García-Chamizo, Alexandra Psarrou, Sergio Orts Escolano, Vicente Morell Giménez. Neural Networks, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2012.02.032 Using GNG to improve 3D features extraction - Application to 6DoF Egomotion. Diego Viejo, Jose Garcia, Miguel Cazorla. Neural Networks, 2012. doi:10.1016/j.neunet.2012.02.014 Multi-GPU Based Camera Network System Keeps Privacy using Growing Neural Gas. Sergio Orts-Escolano, Jose Garcia-Rodriguez, Vicente Morell-Gimenez, Jorge Azorin-Lopez and Juan Manuel Garcia-Chamizo. IJCNN 2012 Surveillance and human-computer interaction applications of self-growing models. José García Rodríguez, Juan Manuel García Chamizo. Appl. Soft Comput. 11(7): 4413-4431 (2011) Predictions Tasks with Words and Sequences: Comparing a Novel Recurrent Architecture with the Elman Network. David Gil, Jose Garcia, Miguel Cazorla and Magnus Johnsson. 2011 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN)
List of top 5 academic activities during the last 5 years
Chair of Special sessions on Autonomous and Incremental Learning (AIAL). International Joint Conference on Articial Neural Networks IJCNN 2012 Chair of Special sessions on Video and Image Procesing (VIP). International Work Conference on Articial Neural Networks IWANN 2011 Chair of Special sessions on Autonomous and Incremental Learning (AIL). International Joint Conference on Articial Neural Networks IJCNN 2011 Chair of Special sessions on Computer Intelligence for Privacy and Security (CIPS) and Special session on Autonomous and Active Learning (AAL). International Joint Conference on Articial Neural Networks IJCNN 2010 Chair of CUDA Programming Workshops 2001/12