Ph.D Computer Sciences

Carlos

Lopez-Molina

Education

2003-2008 Computer Sciences engineer,Universidad Pública de Navarra,B.Sc..

2008-2009 Ph.D. coursework,Universidad Pública de Navarra,M.Sc..

2012 Ph.D.,Universidad Pública de Navarra.

Affiliations

GIARA Member of the Group of Artificial Intelligence and Approximate Reasoning (GIARA) -Universidad Pública de Navarra, Spain.

KERMIT Visitor member of the Research Unit of Knowledge-Based Systems (KERMIT) - Ghent University, Belgium.

EUSFLAT Member of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology.

Research Interests

{_{Image Processing, Edge Detection, Image Comparison, Medical Image} {_{Image comparison, Quality evaluation, Multidimensional ranking} {_{Fuzzy Techniques, Extensions, Semantics and their Representations} {_{Aggregation Operators, Conjunctive operators}

{_{Decision Making, Multi-expert Voting, Machine Learning}

Phd thesis

title The breakdown structure of edge detection: Analysis of individual components and revisit of the overall structure

supervisors Prof. Dr. Humberto Bustince, Prof. Dr. Bernard De Baets

topics Image processing, edge detection, quality evaluation, process standardization.

Experience

2008-2009 Research Assistant,Government of Navarre, Spain, Pamplona.

Study of the role of boundaries in the face recognition problem 2009-2011 PhD Scholar,Public University of Navarre, Pamplona.

Predoctoral position

2011- Graduate Researcher,Public University of Navarre, Pamplona.

Full time research position

Lecturing experience

2010-2011 Assistant,Faculty of Engineering (Computer Sciences for Engineers and Scientific Com-puting), Public University of Navarra.

2011-2012 Assistant, Faculty of Engineering (Computer Sciences for Engineers and IT Project Management), Public University of Navarra.

2012-2013 Assistant, Faculty of Engineering (Computer Sciences for Engineers and Knowledge Engineering), Public University of Navarra.

Visitor

Studies Brock University, Ontario, Canada- 1 semester, 2005

University of Technology Sydney, NSW, Australia- 1 semester, 2008

Research Universidad Trás-Os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal- 1 week, October 2008 Department of Bioengineering, Ghent University, Belgium- 5 weeks, October 2009 Department of Bioengineering, Ghent University, Belgium- 14 weeks, from January 2010 Department of Bioengineering,Ghent University, Belgium- 4 weeks, October 2010 Department of Bioengineering, Ghent University, Belgium- 2 weeks, June 2011 Department of Bioengineering, Ghent University, Belgium- 4 weeks, February 2012

Projects and funding

2008-2010 Unificación, generación y aplicación de medidas de información en conjuntos intervalares Tipo 2,Project funded by the Ministry of Science of the Spanish Govern-ment (TIN2007-65981).

2009 Eurofuse Workshop 2009. Preference modelling and decision analysis, Project funded by the Ministry of Science of the Spanish Government (TIN2009-05756).

2009-2010 Formalizing, validating and optimizing the control of economic groups, Project funded by the Caja de Ahorros de Navarra.

2010 Generalización de la Ley de Gravitación Aplicada a la detección de bordes en imágenes,Mobility program funded by the Ministry of Education of the Spanish Gov-ernment for studies in foreign European Union countries (TME2009-00585).

2011 Red temática Española para el avance y la transferencia de la inteligencia com-putacional aplicada,Project founded by the Ministry of Economy and Competence of

2011 Utilidades de la lógica difusa en procesamiento de imagen,Project funded by the Governemnt of Navarra (Programa Jerónimo de Ayanz).

2011-2013 Nuevo modelo de representación y agregación de la información utilizando las extensiones de los conjuntos difusos. Aplicaciones,Project funded by the Ministry of Science of the Spanish Government (TIN2010-15055).

2011-2013 Centro de Autentificación Biométrica, Project funded by the Center for the Tech-nological and Industrial Development (CDTI).

Languages

English High Level

French Intermediate

Awards

2012 Best Young Researcher Paper Award (Applications)at the Spanish Conference for Fuzzy Logic (ESTyLF) 2012.

2011 Finalist of the Best Student Paper Award at the Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology (EUSFLAT) 2011.

Papers in JCR Journals

2013 Quantitative error measures for edge detection,C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, H. Bustince, Pattern Recognition, 46 (4), 1125–1139, 2013.

Aggregation functions to combine RGB color channels in stereo matching, M. Galar, A. Jurio, C. Lopez-Molina, D. Paternain,J. Sanz and H. Bustince, Optics Express 21 (1), 2013.

Multiscale Edge Detection Based on Gaussian Smoothing and Edge Tracking,C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, H. Bustince, J. Sanz and E. Barrenechea, Knowledge-based Systems, 44 101-111, 2013.

Interval type-2 fuzzy sets constructed from several membership functions. Appli-cation to the fuzzy thresholding algorithm,M. Pagola, C. Lopez-Molina, J. Fernan-dez, E. Barrenechea and H. Bustince, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, 21 (2) 230–244, 2013.

2011 Generating fuzzy edge images from gradient magnitudes,C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets and H. Bustince, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 115 (11) 1571– 1580, 2011.

Construction of Interval-valued Fuzzy Relations With Application to the Gen-eration of Fuzzy Edge Images, E. Barrenechea, H. Bustince, B. De Baets and C. Lopez-Molina, IEEE Trans. on Fuzzy Systems, 19 (5), 819–830, 2011 .

2010 A Gravitational Approach to Edge Detection Based on Triangular Norms, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, J. Fernandez, P. Couto and B. De Baets, Pattern Recogni-tion, 43 (11) 3730–3741, 2010.

Papers in non-indexed Journals

2013 A generalization of the Perona-Malik anisotropic diffusion method using re-stricted dissimilarity functions, C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, M. Galar and H. Bustince, International Journal of Computational Intelligent Systems, 6 (1), 14–28, 2012.

2012 Extending the Upper-Lower Edge Detector by means of directional masks and OWA operators, C. Lopez-Molina, M. Galar, H. Bustince and B. De Baets, Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 1 (4), 267–276, 2012.

Lecture Notes

2011 Multiscale extension of the gravitational approach to edge detection,C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, H. Bustince, E. Barrenechea, and M. Galar, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 7023 LNCS 283-292.

2010 Aggregation of Color Information in Stereo Matching Problem. A Comparison Study, M. Galar, M. Pagola, E. Barrenechea, C. Lopez-Molina, and H. Bustince., Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 6098 LNAI (3) 369-378.

2009 A t-Norm Based Approach to Edge Detection, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, J. Fernández, E. Barrenechea, P. Couto, and B. De Baets, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5517 LNCS (1) 302-309.

Book Chapters

2013 Decision Making with Extensions of Fuzzy Sets: An Application to Disaster Management,H. Bustince, M. Pagola, E. Barrenechea, C. Lopez-Molina, J. Fernandez, Decision Aid Models for Disaster Management and Emergencies, Atlantis Press, Eds. B. Vitoriano and J. Montero, 189-207.

Construction of Interval type-2 fuzzy sets from fuzzy sets. Methods and ap-plications, M. Pagola, E. Barrenechea, J. Fernández, A. Jurio, M. Galar, J. Sanz, D. Paternain, C. Lopez-Molina and H. Bustince, Recent Advances in Type-2 Fuzzy Sets, Springer, Eds. A. Sadeghian, J. M. Mendel, H. Tahayori (in press).

2012 Edge detection in Inverval-valued images, C. Lopez-Molina, B. De Baets, E. Bar-renechea and H. Bustince, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Eurofuse 2011, 325-337.

Image Reduction Using Fuzzy Quantifiers, D. Paternain, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, R. Mesiar and G. Beliakov, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, Eurofuse 2011, 351-362.

Communications to International Conferences

AGOP’13 A preliminary study of the usage of similarity measures to detect singular points in fingerprint images, J. Cerrón, M. Galar, C. Lopez-Molina, E. Barrenechea, H. Bustince, At the Aggregation Operators summer school, Pamplona (Spain), 2013.

ISDA’11 Multiscale edge detection based on the Sobel method, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, E. Barrenechea, A. Jurio and B. De Baets, At the International Systems Design and Application conference, Cordoba (Spain), 2011.

EUSFLAT’11 Generation of Fuzzy Edge Images Using Trapezoidal Membership Functions,C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, J. Fernandez and B. De Baets, At the Conference of the European Society for Fuzzy Logic and Technology, Aix-les-Bains (France), 2011.

SSCI’11 A Construction Method of Interval-Valued Fuzzy Sets for Image Processing,A. Jurio, D. Paternain, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, R. Mesiar and G. Beliakov, At the Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Paris (France), 2011.

WCCI’10 On the Use of Quasi-arithmetic Means for the Generation of Edge Detection Blending Functions,C. Lopez-Molina, J. Fernandez, A. Jurio, M. Galar, M. Pagola and B. De Baets, At the World Congress of Computational Intelligence, Barcelona (Spain), 2010.

IPMU’10 A Comparison Study of Different Color Spaces in Clustering Based Image Seg-mentation,A. Jurio, M. Pagola, M. Galar, C. Lopez-Molina and D. Paternain, At the International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, Dortmund (Germany), 2010.

ISCAMI’10 On the Parameterization of Baddeley’s Error Metric,C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince and B. De Baets, At the International Student Conference on Applied Mathematics and Informatics, Bratislava (Slovakia) 2010.

ISDA’09 On the Use of t-Conorms in the Gravity-based Approach to Edge Detection, C. Lopez-Molina, H. Bustince, M. Galar, J. Fernández and B. De Baets, At the Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications, Pisa, (Italy), 2009.

IFSA’09 Interval-valued Restricted Equivalence Functions Applied on Clustering Tech-niques, A. Jurio, M. Pagola, D. Paternain, C. Lopez-Molina and P. Melo-Pinto, In Proceedings of IFSA-EUSFLAT’09, Lisbon (Portugal) 2009.

Organizative Experience

IWAI’08 Member of the organizing comitee, Third International Workshop on Artificial In-telligence, Pamplona, Spain (December 2008).

Eurofuse’09 Member of the organizing comitee, Eurofuse 2009, Pamplona, Spain (September 2009).

AGOP’13 Member of the organizing comitee, Summer workshop on Aggregation Operators 2013, Pamplona, Spain (July 2013).

Other Activities

{_{Referee of international conferences (IFSA’09, ISDA’09, IPMU’10, IEA-AIE’10,}

EUSFLAT’11, ISDA’11,...).

{_{Referee of indexed scientific journals (IEEE Trans. on Image Processing, Pattern}

Recognition, International Journal on Computational Intelligence Systems, Optics and Laser in Engineering,...).