Research
My research interests are vision and artificial life in general. In particular, I am working on active vision approaches for visual object recognition. I am supervised by Anil K Seth and Andy Philippides
At some point I was associate tutor for the Computer Vision Course. Even before that, I was teaching assistant for the Internet Technologies Course.
Current Projects
Active selection of training views for object recognition in mobile agents.
Publications
- Bermudez-Contreras, E. Philippides, A. and Seth, A.K. Artificial Evolution of Embodied Machine Vision.2008 (Submitted).
- Bermudez-Contreras, E. Philippides, A. and Seth, A.K. Movement Strategies for Learning in Visual Recognition. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. A. Watson, and M. A. Bedau(Eds.) Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Artificial Life, Alife XI 2008, Winchester, UK, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [pdf] Bermudez-Contreras, E. and Seth, A.K. Simulations of simulations in evolutionary robotics. In Almeida e Costa, F. et al. Proc. 9th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL2007), pp.796-806.
- Bermudez, E. A Biologically Inspired Solution for an Evolved Simulated Agent. Proc. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2007). London, England. July, 2007. [PDF]
- Bermudez, E. An Account for a Biologically-Inspired Machine Vision system. Presented at Students Paper Meeting of the BMVA. London, UK. March 2007. * Paper selected for publication in the Annals of the British Machine Vision Association.
- Bermudez, EJ, Buxton, H and Spier E. (In Press) Attention can improve a simple model for visual object recognition. Image and Vision Computing. 2007. [PDF]
- Poster presented in Cambridge, UK for the visit of the President of the Academy of Sciences of Mexico, Dr. Octavio Paredes, March 2005. [ppt]
Utils
Vision
Webvision. [Good starting point to read about the visual system].
Eye sites. [An excellent exploration of the biology, diversity and evolution of eyes on the internet].
Computer Vision
OpenCV. [Good OpenSource computer vision library]. Currently I am using it to perform the visual processing in my simulations.
OpenCV Tutorial: [blob detection, optic flow navigation, biologically inspired object recognition.]
Evolutionary Robotics and Dynamical Systems approach to Cognition
A-Life. [the site of the International Society of Artificial Life (ISAL).]
Mind and Life. [Group of seminars discussing topics related to cognitive science, philosophy of mind, phenomenology, psychology, robotics and philosophy of biology].
CiteULike(edgarbc). [An online version of papers I have been reading and find very useful.
EURON. [European Robotics Network--Conferences, Workshops and Symposia in Robotics]
CVC. [Computer Vision Conferences].
Ten Simple Rules for Selecting a Postdoctoral Position. [Good advise in case you are finishing a PhD]
InQubator. [Modular framework that provides a number of methods and libraries for easily creating and testing a wide variety of artificial life models]. Currently I develop most of my simulations using this platform (now I am using an extended version. Tom and Boris, some day I will document it and upload the next version ;).
Webots. [Used to work with this simulator in the early versions of my work on visually guided agents].
CONACyT. I was funded by the National Council of Science and Technology in Mexico.