Luis Goncalves Ph.D., March 2000 Computation and Neural Systems California Institute of Technology Vision Lab luis at vision dot caltech dot edu

Currently:

V.P. of R&D, at Evolution Robotics Retail An idealab! company.

Research Interests

- Sensory Substitution, Neural Plasticity

- Neocortical Modelling

- Computer Vision (Object Recognition, Motion/Structure Estimation)

- Machine Learning

- Human-Machine Interfaces

Recent Work (in reverse chronological order)

- Sensory Substitution: Enabling the blind to See With Sound

- Automatic recognition of retail items for checkout fraud prevention

- Robust, real-time robot navigation and localization

- City-wide panoramic visualization

- Unsupervised learning of human motion models for person detection

- Real-time, computer-synthesized, realistic human motion

- Estimating 3-D human motion from a monocular view

~ f U n ~

- These are just some of my faaaavorite quotes ...

- An excellent art class I took at the Art Center College of Design

- My in-class drawings

- The BEST book that will TEACH you how to DRAW

- David Luce's EXCELLENT Intro to Painting class (unfinished)

- A note about an interesting optical illusion I discovered once

- Some cool Qi Gong exercies from a fascinating book

- An EEG sensor I designed to study dreaming