Carlos D. Castillo Ph.D. Student, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland, College Park, MD I'm a Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. I started my Ph.D. studies in August 2005. My advisor is David Jacobs. During my free time, I play tennis, soccer and recently I've started running long distances. Contact Info Email: carlos@cs.umd.edu Office: AVW 4420

Research Interests

• My research interests include computer vision and related problems such as object detection and recognition, machine learning, perceptual organization, etc.
• I'm also interested in the novel usage of computer vision methods in other areas. In the past I've worked in such projects in robotics and remote sensing.

Software

• Implementation of Burges' Method for Simplified Decision Rules for SVMs : Designed for LIBSVM model files, written in Python, only works for a homogenous quadratic kernel. You can read more info about the method here.

Publications

• Carlos D. Castillo and David W. Jacobs, "Using Stereo Matching for 2-D Face Recognition Across Pose", IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2007.
• Carlos D. Castillo and Carolina Chang, "Vision-Based Victim Detection", IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2006.
• Carlos D. Castillo and Carolina Chang, "A Method to Detect Victims in Search and Rescue Operations using Template Matching", IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics, 2005.
• Carlos D. Castillo and Carolina Chang, "An Approach to Vision-Based Person Detection in Robotic Applications", 2nd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2005.
• Carlos D. Castillo, Miguel Lurgi and Ivette C. Martínez, "Chimps: An Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning Approach for Soccer Agents", IEEE Conference on Systems, Man & Cybernetics, 2003.
• Ivette C. Martínez, Miguel A. Castro and Carlos D. Castillo, "Vertical Cultural Transmission: An Advise Based Evolutionary Model", ALEA 2003.

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