Research
My current research interests include computer vision, image processing and machine learning.
During the last few months I have been working on 3D shape representation, segmentation and registration. Take a look at the papers I'm reading.
Before I came to Toronto on January 2006, I did a MSc. in the "Applied Math and Systems" department at UNAM in Mexico and a couple internships in Microsoft.
Publications
Oliver N.; Flores-Mangas F. "MPTrain: a mobile, music and physiology-based personal trainer", Mobile HCI 2006: 21-28 (MobileHCI 2006 (Best paper nominee)
Oliver, N.; Flores-Mangas F. "HealthGear: a real-time wearable system for monitoring and analyzing physiological signals", Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, 2006. BSN 2006. International Workshop on , vol., no.pp. 4 pp.-, 3-5 April 2006
Algorri, M.-E.; Flores-Mangas, F. "Classification of anatomical structures in MR brain images using fuzzy parameters", IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, On page(s): 1599- 1608, Volume: 51, Issue: 9, Sept. 2004
Flores-Mangas F.; Marco Villaseñor A., and María Elena Algorri "A tool for the analysis, segmentation and reconstruction of MR brain images" AIP Conference Proceedings,Volume 593, pp. 107-114, Medical Physics: Fifth Mexican Symposium 2001
Full list of publications and patents in: CV.
I am currently a Ph.D student in the Computer Science Department at University of Toronto under Allan Jepson's supervision.
Else
I do some digital photography, I wish I could do more, but thanks to my wonderful wife I was introduced to the pleasures of developing B/W film! A little taste here!
A little music, even less films but some dinning out... the usual graduate student stuff, I guess. Car restoration is one of those wonderful things I had to trade when I came here.
Fernando Flores-Mangas
Ray-tracing
Ray-tracing is a unique application where the physics of light can be quickly coded and abused to generate (fake-looking) hyper-realistic images. A few here.
