Víctor Romero Cano

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Mechatronic Engineer from the Universidad Autónoma de Occidente of Colombia, with a Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Sao Paulo, Brazil, Doctor of Philosophy in Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, Postdoctoral Researcher at the French National Institute in Computer Science and Control.

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Trajectory:

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• He participated in the second Colombian Robotics and Automation Conference in the city of Barranquilla together with a group of robotics research students.

• Winner of the platform 'The Duckie Town Project', which is implemented in the robotics research group and in the course of Robotic Perception.

• He has developed research on topics such as robotic perception, machine learning and computational vision.

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Experience:

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• Postdoctoral Researcher, 2016, - French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (Inira).

• Research Assistant, 2015, Rio Tinto Center for Mine Automation (RTCMA), University of Sydney, Australia.

• Teaching assistant, 2012, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia. I provided tutorials to students of the Systems Dynamics and Control course. These tutorials included a mini-class followed by a question and answer section. Professor: Dr. Ian R. Manchester.

• Professor, 2011, Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Palmira, Colombia. I taught the courses of vector mechanics and physics I.

• Master's student, 2010, School of Engineering, Universidad de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo. Brazil

• Professor, 2008, Institución Universitaria Antonio José Camacho, Cali, Colombia. I taught courses in electronics and mechatronics I. I also dictated a seminar on robotic manipulators.

• Intern, 2007,  Escuela de Aviación Marco Fidel Suarez, Fuerza Aérea Colombiana, Colombia. My internship project was the mechanical design and virtual prototyping of a machine for the manufacture of fuselages.

 

Interests:

 

• Research interests: Robotics, perception, artificial intelligence, machine learningGITCoD, Research Group in Remote Control and Distributed Control Systems

 

Publications: 

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• 2015 – Víctor Romero-Cano, Gabriel Agamennoni, Juan Nieto. A Variational Approach to Simultaneous Multi-Object Tracking and Classification. International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR).

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• 2014 – Víctor Romero-Cano, Gabriel Agamennoni, Juan Nieto. A Variational Approach to Simultaneous Tracking and Classification of Multiple Objects. IEEE International Conference on Information Fusion (FUSION).

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• 2013 – Víctor Romero-Cano, Juan Nieto. Stereo-based motion detection and tracking from a moving platform. IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV).

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• 2013 – Victor Romero-Cano, Juan Nieto, Gabriel Agamennoni. Unsupervised Motion Learning from a Moving Platform. Workshop on Environment Perception and Navigation for intelligent Vehicles at the IEEE Intelligent Vehicles

• Symposium (IV).

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• 2011 – Víctor Romero-Cano, O. L. V. Costa. Map Merging Strategies for Multi-robot FastSLAM: A Comparative Survey. IEEE Latin-American Robotics Symposium and Intelligent Robotic Meeting (LARS). 

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