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e-mail: bergasa@depeca.uah.es

         luism.bergasa@uah.es

 

 

 

Luis Miguel Bergasa

 

 

He received the MS degree in Electrical Engineering in 1995 from the Technical University of Madrid and the PhD degree in Electrical Engineering in 1999 from the University of Alcalá (UAH). He is Full Professor at the Department of Electronics of the University of Alcalá (UAH) since 2011.

 

He is Head of the RobeSafe Lab from 2010 and Director of Digital Transformation of the UAH from 2022. He was Director of the Advisory Committee for the Strategic Plan of the UAH (2019-2022), Director of Knowledge Transfer at the UAH (2014-2018) and coordinator of UAH Unit of Scientific Culture and Innovation (UCC+i) (2014-2018). Besides, he was Head of the Department of Electronics (2004-2010), co-coordinator of the Master Advanced Electronic Systems, Intelligent Systems (2007-2010), co-coordinator of the Doctorate program in Electronics (2005-2010) and Deputy Inspector of the UAH services  (2012-2013).  This course he is teaching the following subjects: Perception Systems included in the Master in Industrial Engineering, Intelligent Control Systems for the Degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Vision for the Degree in Telecommunication Technologies.

 

He is author of more than 300 refereed papers in journals and international conferences, and corresponding author of 7 national patents and 1 PCT patent. Currently he has a Scholar Google h-index=48, a WoS h-index=34, and a classic paper in the Transportation line included in Engineering and Computer Science area of the Google Scholar Metrics (GSM). He was recognized as a Computer Science leader in 2024 for Research.com, ranking #75 in the field of Computer Science and #49 in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain among Best Scientists for 2024 Research.com edition. He is included in the ranking of top 5000 Spanish scientists (2213 position in 2024). He was recognized as one of the most productive author in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) field during the period 1996-2014.  He was a Distinguished Lecturer of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society (2019-2021). He received the Institutional Lead Award 2019 from the IEEE ITS Society for the longstanding work of his research group. His research activity has been awarded/recognized with 30 prizes/recognitions related to Robotics and Automotive fields from 2004 to nowadays. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on ITS from 2014 and habitual reviewer in several journals included in the JCR index. He was Lead Guest Editor of Multimedia Tools and Applications, Guest Editor of two Special Issues (Sensors and IEEE T ITS), member of the Editorial Board of International Journal of Vehicular Technology (2012-2017) and he has served on Program/Organizing Committees in more than 20 conferences. He was Research Visitor at the Computer Vision Research Group of the Trinity College in Dublin (Ireland) in 1998, Visiting Scholar at the Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (USA) in 2013, collaborating with Raquel Urtasun, and at the OPTIMAL Center Northwestern Polytechnic University (China) in 2017. He was co-founder of Vision Safety Technologies Ltd, a spin-off company established to commercialize computer vision systems for road infrastructure inspection (2009-2016).

 

His research interests include real-time Computer Vision for Intelligent Vehicles. He is currently focus on driver behaviors and scene understanding using Computer Vision and Deep Learning Techniques for autonomous vehicle applications. Please contact me if you are interested in coming to RobeSafe group for PhD studies or post-doctoral research as I am always looking for excellent new team members.

 

Highlights of Recent/Upcoming papers (ONLY last year)

 

·       Ricardo Pizarro, Ricardo Valle, Luis M. Bergasa, José M. Buenaposada, Luis Baumela, “Pose-guided token selection for human action recognition”, in the 39th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), Philadelphia, PA, USA, February 2025. Submitted in August 2024.

·       Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Fabio Sánchez-García, Luis M. Bergasa, “Enhancing Autonomous Driving in Urban Scenarios: A Hybrid Approach with Reinforcement Learning and Classical Control”, in IEEE Access. Submitted in July 2024.

·       Jose Berriales Mateos, Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes, Ángel Llamazares and Luis M. Bergasa, “Voice assistant for autonomous vehicles aimed at elderly people”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Portugal, November 2024. Accepted in September 2024.

·       Daniel Villalobos del Baño, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Navil Abdeselam, Antonio Moratilla and Luis M. Bergasa, “Evaluating V2X Communications in the CARLA Simulator: Challenges of MQTT Messaging Latency and Efficiency in Collaborative Planning”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Portugal, November 2024. Accepted in September 2024.

·       Alejandro Diaz-Diaz, Francisco Parrilla Ayuso, Rafael Barea and Luis M. Bergasa, “Wagon and Container Codes Detection and Recognition based on Yolov8”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Madrid, Portugal, November 2024. Accepted in September 2024.

·       Alberto Justo, Javier Araluce, Iker Pacho, Jesús Murgoitio Larrauri, Luis M. Bergasa, “An Infrastructure-based Localization Method for Articulated Vehicles”, in 1st Workshop on Cooperative Intelligence for Autonomous Driving and Robotics (ECCV-WS), Milan, Italy, September 2024. Accepted in August 2024.

·       Miguel E. Ortiz-Huamani, Luis Unzueta, Hugo D. Rodríguez-Arce, Patxi Iriarte, Luis M. Bergasa, “Context-aware model training for Attention-based Multi-Camera Multi-Object Tracking”, in Conference on Artificial Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications II (SPIE), Edinburgh, UK, September 2024. Accepted in August 2024.

·       Miguel Antunes-García, Luis M. Bergasa, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Rafael Barea, Fabio Sánchez-García, Angel Llamazares, “Fast and Efficient Transformer-based Method for Bird's Eye View Instance Prediction”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September 2024. Accepted in July 2024.

·       Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Luis M. Bergasa, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Miguel Antunes Garcia, Angel Llamazares, “Do You Act Like You Talk? Exploring Pose-based Driver Action Classification with Speech Recognition Networks”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Island, Korea, June 2024. [PDF].

·       Ricardo Pizarro, Luis M. Bergasa, Luis Baumela, Jose Miguel Buenaposada, Rafael Barea, “DRVMon-VM: Distracted driver recognition using large pre-trained video transformers”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Island, Korea, June 2024. [PDF].

·       Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango, Luis M. Bergasa, “Decision Making for Autonomous Driving Stack: Shortening the Gap from Simulation to Real-World Implementations”, in IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Island, Korea, June 2024. [PDF].

·       Santiago Montiel-Marín, Ángel Llamazares, Miguel Antunes, Pedro A. Revenga, Luis M. Bergasa, “Point Cloud Painting for 3D Object Detection with Camera and Automotive 3+1D RADAR Fusion”, in Sensors. Vol. 24(4), nº1244, 1-20. February 2024. [PDF].

·       Javier Araluce, Luis M. Bergasa, Manuel Ocaña, Ángel Llamazares and Elena López-Guillén, “Leveraging Driver Attention for an end-to-end Explainable Decision-making from frontal images”, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. January 2024. [PDF].

·       Fabio Sánchez, Felipe Arango, Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Manuel Ocaña, Pedro Revenga, Luis M. Bergasa, “Green Deep Learning: Comparative Study of Road Object Detectors between Jetson Boards and PC”, in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF].

·       Miguel Antunes, Luis M. Bergasa, Santiago Montiel, Fabio Sánchez-García, Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Pedro Revenga, “Exploring Domain Adaptation with Depth-based 3D Object Detection in CARLA Simulator”, in in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF].

·       Pablo Pardo-Decimavilla, Luis M. Bergasa, Elena López-Guillén, Ángel Llamazares, Navil Abdeselam and Manuel Ocaña, “Driver Activity Recognition by fusing Multi-object and Key Points Detection”, in in Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT), Coimbra, Portugal, November 2023. [PDF]. 

·       Navil Abdeselam, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Elena López-Guillén, Rafael Barea, Santiago Montiel-Marín, Luis M. Bergasa, “Hybrid MPC and Spline-based Controller for Lane Change Maneuvers in Autonomous Vehicles”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·       Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos V. Conde, Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Rafael Barea, Ángel Llamazares, Miguel Antunes, Luis M. Bergasa, “Efficient Context-Aware Graph Transformer for Vehicle Motion Prediction”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·       Rodrigo Gutiérrez-Moreno, Carlos Gómez-Huelamo, Rafael Barea, Elena López-Guillén, Felipe Arango and Luis M. Bergasa, “Augmented Reinforcement Learning with Efficient Social-based Motion Prediction for Autonomous Decision-Making”, in Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain, September 2023. [PDF].

·       Carlos Gómez-Huélamo, Marcos V. Conde, Rafael Barea, Manuel Ocaña, Luis M. Bergasa, “Efficient Baselines for Motion Prediction in Autonomous Driving”, in IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. December 2023. [PDF].

 

Highlights of Recent/Upcoming professional service (ONLY last year)

 

·       2024. IEEE ITS Best Dissertation Award for the doctoral research carried out by Carlos Gómez-Huélamo under my supervision entitled “Predictive Techniques for Scene Understanding using Deep Learning in Autonomous Driving”.

·       2024. Computer Science leader for Research.com, ranking #44 in the field of Computer Science and #41 in the field of Electronics and Electrical Engineering in Spain.

·       2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the Seventh Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT 2024), Madrid, Spain, November, 2024.

·       2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC), Edmonton, Canada, September, 2024.

·       2024. Program Committee in the Workshop on Physical Agents (WAF 2024), Alicante, Spain, September 2024.

·       2024. International Program Committee and Associate Editor in the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV), Jeju Shinhwa World, Jeju Island, Korea.

·       2023. New Transmission project: INARTRANS 4.0. Digital transition towards an advanced industry in artificial intelligence solutions for the transportation infrastructure sector (January 2024 – December 2026). Partners: Acciona, Indra, Virtualmechanics, JIG Internet Consulting, Grupo de empresas AZVI, MainRail, CTCON, Intromac, Tekniker, UPM, UAH. Financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICIIN).

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