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
A comprehensive list of publications and patents can be found in my CV.
I am a Ph.D candidate in the Computer Science Department at University of Toronto under supervision of Allan Jepson.
Fernando Flores-Mangas
Random things
Ray-tracing is a unique application from computer graphics where the physics of light can be coded and abused to generate hyper-realistic images. I wrote my version for the CG course a couple of years ago. Some of the resulting images can be found here.
The distance transform is a map that indicates pixel distances to the closest 'marked region' of an image. The interesting thing is that P. Felzenswalb and D. Huttenlocker found an algorithm that computes the distance transform in linear time! Their paper is pretty elegant, as is the algorithm itself.
(left: kidney segmentation, center: distance to the kidney, right: distance to the border)
Research
Image registration, motion segmentation and video indexing are typicaly unrelated areas of computer vision, but all three problems can be treated by gathering low level image features that, when combined, provide good higher level hypothesis for the models that describe their solutions. These are three of the problems I have worked on during my Ph.D.
In the past I did some more medical imaging (undergrad thesis), lots of robotics (academic work), some neural networks (M.Sc. thesis) and even some mobile apps with wearable sensors (Microsoft Research internships).
Above Apollonian, below Dionysian
I do some digital photography, I wish I could do more. It all started when my wonderful wife introduced me to the pleasures of developing B/W film. Now it's all pixels, mainly portraits. I carry a 50mm f/1.4 (from the 60's!) mounted on a relatively modern Nikon body.
A little music, lots of cooking, both of which I really enjoy. Antique car restoration is one of many great things I unfortunately had to leave behind, in Mexico I mean.
