Carlos Beltran Gonzalez Email & Phone Number

Italy

Genoa Area, Italy

@ PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision Department)Management duties: Executive operational management of a R&D department of ~30 staff with 400 square meters of office and laboratories. Operative and administrative management of 1.25 Million euro in department’s assets. Management of computational and storage assets worth several hundreds of thousands of euro. Program management, coordination and engineering contributions to Technology Transfer projects. Scouting and proposal… Show more @ PAVIS (Pattern Analysis and Computer Vision Department)Management duties: Executive operational management of a R&D department of ~30 staff with 400 square meters of office and laboratories. Operative and administrative management of 1.25 Million euro in department’s assets. Management of computational and storage assets worth several hundreds of thousands of euro. Program management, coordination and engineering contributions to Technology Transfer projects. Scouting and proposal coordination of european research proposals Horizon2020. Certified Emergency Management Officer. Certified Security at Work Officer. Certified ISO14001 Officer. Research Data Manager.Technical duties: Design and implementation of research demonstrationsPorting research code into highly efficient codeImplementation of computer vision and image processing algorithms in Python, Matlab and C/C++Research instruments integration and maintenanceResearch code integration.Refactoring of research code into industrial quality software.Integrationg and testing of hardware components and sensors. Show less

Proposal preparation of FP7, international and national R&D projects. Coordination and management of FP7 projects. Preparation of deliverables, reports and documentation. Monitoring and analysis of R&D founding opportunities. Technology transfer specialized in the fields of computer vision, robotics, video surveillance and Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Software development and analysis for video surveillance systems. Software integration of cameras and framegrabber (Arecont, Axis, Pelco, Stretch, Dallmeier, Lumenera..) using state of the art communication protocols (H264, MPEG4, RTSP, RTP, RTCP, ONVIF, GibE). Optical Character Recognition engines testing and deployment. Analysis, design and deployment of complex computer vision systems. Analysis of Video Content Analysis algorithms. Optics and video sensors engineering. Testing and… Show more Software development and analysis for video surveillance systems. Software integration of cameras and framegrabber (Arecont, Axis, Pelco, Stretch, Dallmeier, Lumenera..) using state of the art communication protocols (H264, MPEG4, RTSP, RTP, RTCP, ONVIF, GibE). Optical Character Recognition engines testing and deployment. Analysis, design and deployment of complex computer vision systems. Analysis of Video Content Analysis algorithms. Optics and video sensors engineering. Testing and integration of non-visual sensor (radars, lasers...). Design and development of marine container code recognition and damage detection free-flow gates using GibE cameras and wide-field of view optics (Theia, fish-eye). Show less

Member for Italy in the General Council of Spanish Expatriates (Consejo General de la Ciudadania Española en el Exterior [CGCEE]). Elected representative of about 20.000 Spanish citizens in Italy. Responsibilities: Managing official representation of Spanish citizens with the Spanish Embassy in Rome and the Italian Authorities. Participation in the General assembly of the worldwide Spanish expatriates.

Project RESCUER (FP6-IST-2003-511492). Deputy member of the Overall Control Board. Member of the Executive Technical Board. Responsibilities: project management, coordination, research and technical development. Development of a teleoperated manipulation system for bomb disposal and decommissioning using a Barrett Hand and a 18-sensors CyberGlove II. Integration of PUMA robotic arm using Galil control cards. Integration of Flexiforce Tekscan tactile sensors (Force Sensing Resistors FSR)… Show more Project RESCUER (FP6-IST-2003-511492). Deputy member of the Overall Control Board. Member of the Executive Technical Board. Responsibilities: project management, coordination, research and technical development. Development of a teleoperated manipulation system for bomb disposal and decommissioning using a Barrett Hand and a 18-sensors CyberGlove II. Integration of PUMA robotic arm using Galil control cards. Integration of Flexiforce Tekscan tactile sensors (Force Sensing Resistors FSR). Integration of force sensing devices using strain gauge sensing tecnology. Show less

Research work related to humanoid robotics, real-time computing, distributed systems, autonomous systems, binocular vision and manipulation. Development of device driver for Bt848 framegraber cards under QNX. Projects: CogVis (IST-2000-29375), ADAPT (IST-2001-37173), Neurobotics (FP6-IST-001917), Narval (Esprit LTR Project-30185), Virgo (TMR Vision-Based Robot Navigation Research Network).

Italia

President of the Council of Spanish expatriates in Italy (Consejo de Residentes) for the northwest region of Italy. Elected representative of about 3.000 Spanish citizens. Responsibilities: Management of the elected Board of Members; official coordination and cooperation with the General Consulate of Genova and the Spanish Embassy in Rome; indirect management of ~20K euro budget (executive management coordinated by the Consulate).

Design and development of traffic realtime monitoring systems and web based traffic information services. Internal projects: DVS, Monitraf, INFO2000, Autostrada Intraned Portal (Jetspeed), H3G Internet Portal.

Research work related to mobile robot localization using a stereo vision robotic head. EU funded project RobVision Robust Vision for Sensing in Industrial Operations and Needs Esprit project No 28867.

TMR Fellowship in the research contract FMRX-CT96-52 "Semi-autonomous Monitoring And robotics Technology" (SMART II).

Robotics Institute

Sort term position @ ARTEC Group.Design and development of a virtual environment software for visualization ofceramic decoration. Collaboration with TAU Ceramics (http://www.tauceramica.com/)

Intelligent Systems And Traffic Information Technologies (Lisitt)

Participation in the european founded project SERTI Southern European Road Telematics Implementation. Design and development of a web service for real time traffic information using Geographic Information Systems. The work involved mainly the parsing of traffic information data generated from European traffic authorities, its visualization in a real time traffic information webservice and its transmision throught the RDS (Radio Data System) FM (Frequency Modulated) radio network.

Ph.D., Computer Science And Electronics

Msc, Computer Science And Software Engineering

Bsc, Computer Science (Hardware Systems)