Francesc Tarrés

Short Biography:

Francesc Tarres received a degree in telecommunication engineering from the Telecommunication School of the UPC-BARCELONATECH, Barcelona, Spain, in 1985, and the Ph.D degree in 1988.

He is a Professor at the Technical University of Catalonia where he teaches Signal & Image Processing  and Video Systems courses. He collaborates with Catalonia Television (TV3) teaching some graduate courses in Digital Television. He has been responsible of many national and international projects in audio and video coding applications, mobile antenna communications activities. His main interests are audio and video coding, image and video analysis and mobile communications. He has also collaborated as researcher or project manager in audiovisual and telecommunications projects for companies such as SONY España S.A, Indra, Mitsubishi Electrics and Promax.  He is also editor of several books in the Image Processing and Audiovisual Systems areas.

Conference papers:

• Quijada, R.; Raventós, A.; Tarrés, F.; Dura, R.; Hidalgo, S.; "The use of digital image processing for IC reverse engineering" Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2014 11th International , vol., no., pp.1,6, 11-14 Feb. 2014
• Raventós, A.; Quijada, R.; Torres, L.; Tarrés, F.; Carasusán, E.; Giribet, D., "The importance of audio descriptors in automatic soccer highlights generation" Multi-Conference on Systems, Signals & Devices (SSD), 2014 11th International , vol., no., pp.1,6, 11-14 Feb. 2014
• Raventos, A.; Tarres, F., "Formula 1 onboard camera shot detector using motion activity areas" Content-Based Multimedia Indexing (CBMI), 2012 10th International Workshop on , vol., no., pp.1,4, 27-29 June 2012
• J. Congote, I. Barandiaran, J. Bariandaran, T. Montserrat, J. Quelen, C. Ferran, P Mindan, O. Mur, F. Tarrés, O. Ruiz, "Real-time depth map generation architecture for 3d videoconferencing", 3DTV-Conference: The True Vision-Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video (3DTV-CON), 2010.
• A. Rama, F. Tarrés, A Soria-Frisch, "Cascade scheme face detection using a non-linear classifier", Workshop Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS 2009.
• X. Artigas, F.Tarres, and L. Torres “Método para la generación de información lateral multicámara para la codificación distribuida de vídeo” in XII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, Tenerife, Spain, 19^th-21^th September 2007al
• A.Rama, F.Tarres, “Un nuevo método para la detección de caras basado en Integrales Difusas” in XII Simposium Nacional de la Unión Científica Internacional de Radio, Tenerife, Spain, 19^th-21^th September 2007

• A. Rama, F. Tarrés, “Face Recognition Using A Fast Model Synthesis From A Profile And A Frontal View”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, San Antonio, Texas, USA, September 2007
• Antonio RAMA, Francesc TARRES, Jacek NARUNIEC, “A Robust Nonlinear Face Detector", International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications SIGMAP, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007
• Xavi ARTIGAS, Francesc TARRES, Luis TORRES: "Comparison of Different Side Information Generation Methods for Multiview Distributed Video Coding", International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications SIGMAP, Barcelona, Spain, July 2007
• A. Rama, R. Alujas, F. Tarres, “Fast and Robust Graphic Character Verification System for TV Sets” Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Wiamis'2007, Santorini, Greece, 6-8 de June 2007
• A. Rama, F. Tarrés, L. Sanchez, "Cartoon Detection Using Fuzzy Integral", Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Wiamis'2007, Santorini, Greece, 6-8 de June 2007
• D. Onofrio, A. Rama, F. Tarres, S. Tubaro, “P²CA: How Much Information is needed”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Atlanta, USA, October 2006
• A. Rama, F. Tarres, "Partial PCA Vs Partial LDA", IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Toronto, Canada, July 9-12, 2006
• A. Rama, F. Tarres, D. Onofrio, S. Tubaro, "Mixed 2D-3D Information for Pose Estimation and Face Recognition", IEEE International Conference on Acoustics Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), May 2006, Toulouse, France
• A. Rama, F. Tarres, D. Onofrio, S. Tubaro, “Two in one: Joint pose estimation and face recognition with P²CA”, Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems (ICOB 2005), Berlin, October 2005
• D. Onofrio, S. Tubaro, A. Rama, F. Tarres, “A four camera system devoted to 3d face database acquisition” Workshop on Immersive Communication and Broadcast Systems (ICOB 2005), Berlin, October 2005
• Davide Onofrio, Stefano Tubaro, Antonio Rama, Francesc Tarres, "3D Face Reconstruction with a four camera acquisition system". Proc. International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video Coding (VLBV05), Costa Rei, Sardinia, 15-16 September 2005, pp. .:PS3.02/1-4
• A.Rama, and F.Tarrés, “P²CA: A new face recognition scheme combining 2D and 3D information”, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, Genova, Italy, September 11-14, 2005
• A. Rama, F. Tarres, D. Onofrio, S. Tubaro “Using Partial Information for Face Recognition and Pose Estimation” IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, Amsterdam, Holland, July 5-8, 2005
• F.Tarrés, A. Rama, L. Torres, “A Novel Method for Face Recognition under Partial Occlusion or Facial Expression Variations”, 47th International Symposium ELMAR-2005, Multimedia Systems and Applications, 8-10 June 2005, Zadar, Croatia
• A. Rama, F. Tarres, “Lophoscopic PCA: A Novel Method for Face Recognition”, Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services, Wiamis'2005, Montreux, Switzerland, 13-15 de Abril 2005

Journals:

• A. Raventós, R. Quijada, L. Torres, F. Tarrés, “Automatic summarization of soccer highlights using audio-visual descriptors”, SpringerPlus Computer Science, Volume 4, Issue 1, Page 301, June 2015, ISSN 2193-1801, DOI 10.1186/s40064-015-1065-9.

• A. Rama, F. Tarres, J. Rurainsky, "Aligned texture map creation for pose invariant face recognition". Multimedia Tools and Applications, Volume 49, Issue3, 2010, Pages: 545-565.

Latest Book & Chapters:

• Margarita Cabrera and Francesc Rey and Francesc Tarres, "Sistemes de Comunicacio I". Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. September, 2012.
• Margarita Cabrera, Francesc Rey, Francesc Tarrés, "Teoria de la Codificación y Modulaciones Avanzadas". Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. 2012.
• F. Tarrés, E. Bertran, "Digital Front-End in Wireless Communications and Broadcasting: System overview and front-end technologies in digital broadcasting". Cambridge University Press. Pages: 98-119.
• A. Rama, F. Tarrés, J.Rurainsky, "Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications: 2D-3D Pose Invariant Face Recognition System for Multimedia Applications". Springer. Pages: 121-144. 2009. 
  
• Rama, Antonio and Tarrés, Francesc and Rurainsky, Jürgen, "2D-3D Pose Invariant Face Recognition System for Multimedia Applications". Chapter of the book "Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications", pages 121-144. Springer.2009.
  
• Eugenia Santamaria, Margarita Cabrera, Francesc Tarrés, "Comunicaciones Avanzadas". Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. ISBN: 8469186647, 9788469186640. 2009.
• Margarita Cabrera, Francesc Tarrés, Eugenia Santamaria, "Transmisión Digital". Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. ISBN: 8469101420, 9788469101421. 2007
• Francesc Tarrés. Xavier Bonet, "Sistemas de Video y Tratamiento de la Imagen" . Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. ISBN: 8497073703, 9788497073707. 2004.
• Xavier Bonet, Francesc Tarrés, "Distribución de Video en la Red".  Fundació per la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya. Edicions UOC. ISBN: 8497073827, 9788497073820. 2004.
• Francesc Tarrés, "Sistemas Audiovisuales: Televisión analógica y digital". Pages 1-376. Edicions UPC. 2000

• Francesc Tarrés, "Introducció al Tractament Digital del Senyal". La Salle. Editorial Bruño. ISBN: 9788421620298. 1995.

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