Laura Igual Muñoz

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0002-7225-7441
Researcher ID: H-5606-2015
Knowledge area: Ciència de la Computació i Inteligència Artificial

Membre del Claustre de la Universitat de Barcelona. Representant del colectiu de PDI contractat doctor i no doctor
Coordinadora de les pràctiques en empresa del Grau d'Enginyeria informàtica de la Universitat de Barcelona

Research group:

  • Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Barcelona (CVMLUB)
  • Grup d'Intel·ligència Artificial i Data Science a la Universitat de Barcelona

Teaching Innovation Groups: IP Innovació Docent en Matemàtiques i Informàtica

Contact Information
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
934020854
ligual(a)ub.edu

My profile

Dr. Laura Igual obtained the B.Sc. in Mathematics from University of Valencia (2000) and the Ph.D degree on Computer Science and Digital Communication from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2006) related ... + info

More Information: http://www.ub.edu/cvub/lauraigual/

Academic training

Matemáticas . Universitat de Valencia . 06/09/2000 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctorado en Informática y Comunicación Digital . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 16/01/2006 . (Ph.D.)
DEA en informática y comunicación digital . Universitat Pompeu Fabra . 15/11/2003 . (Official Master)

Academic Profile

Object oriented programming
Computer Vision
Data Science

Imparted Teaching (last 10 years)

Pràctiques en Empreses I (Technical Engineering) - Informática de Sistemas - Universidad de Barcelona.
Visió Artificial (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Informática - Universidad de Barcelona.
Visió per Computador (University Master's Degree) - Inteligencia Artificial - Universidad de Barcelona.
Introduction to Data Science and Big Data (Postgrado) - Postgraduate course - Universidad de Barcelona.
Fonaments de Tecnologia (Bachelor's degree) - Información y Documentación - Universidad de Barcelona.
Visió Artificial (Bachelor's degree) - Ingeniería Informática - Universidad de Barcelona.

Research interests

Image Processing
Computer Vision and Machine Learning applied to medical imaging
Computer Vision and Machine Learning
Data Science

Participation in Projects

La incidència de la variable 'motivació' en el constructe del transtorn per dèfict d'atenció amb hiperactivitat (TDAH) . 2011 - 2012 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Laura Igual Muñoz
Conveni de col·laboració en investigació amb imatge mèdica . 2011 - 2014 . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) . PI: Laura Igual Muñoz
Reconomiento visual con metodologías de aprendizaje de principio a fin: teoría y aplicaciones . 2016 - 2018 . Ref.TIN2015-66951-C2-1-R . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Petia Ivanova Radeva; Laura Igual Muñoz
Grup de Ciència de Dades de la Universitat de Barcelona . 2015 - 2023 . Ref.DS@UB . ACCIÓ. Agència de Suport a l'Empresa Catalana . PI: Jordi Vitria Marca
Anàlisi basat en ciència de les dades i aprenentatge automàtic pel descobriment automàtic de patrons d'evolució de l'alumnat . 2016 - 2017 . Ref.REDICE16-1602 . Institut de Ciències de l'Educació (ICE) - Universitat de Barcelona (UB) . PI: Laura Igual Muñoz
Conveni de col·laboració en el projecte CLICK (Carotid quaLitative Imaging and cardiovascular risK) . 2016 - 2018 . Instituto Hospital del Mar de Investigaciones Médicas (IMIM) . PI: Laura Igual Muñoz
Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Barcelona (CVMLUB) . 2017 - 2021 . Ref.2017SGR1742 . Agència de Gestió d'Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca (AGAUR) . PI: Petia Ivanova Radeva
Revisiting representation models for visual recognition: Objects and Events . 2013 - 2015 . Ref.TIN2012-38187-C03-01 . Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad . PI: Jordi Vitria Marca
Evaluation of intestinal motility by endoluminal image analysis . 2010 - 2011 . Ref.306143 . Given Imaging Ltd. . PI: Petia Ivanova Radeva
Novel Empowering Solutions and Technologies for Older people to Retain Everyday life activities (NESTORE) . 2017 - 2020 . Ref.769643 . Unió Europea . PI: Petia Ivanova Radeva

Relevant publications (Journal Publications and Other publications - last 10 years)

Igual, L.; Lapedriza, A.; Borràs, R. (2013). Robust Gait-Based Gender Classication using Depth Cameras. Eurasip Journal On Image And Video Processing, 2013(1) . https://doi.org/10.1186/1687-5281-2013-1 . ISSN: 1687-5281
Seguí, S.; Igual, L.; Vitrià, J. (2013). Bagged One Class Classifiers in the Presence of Outliers. International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence, 27(5) . https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218001413500146 . ISSN: 0218-0014
Igual, L.; Perez-Sala, X.; Escalera, S.; Angulo, C.; De la Torre, F. (2014). Continuous Generalized Procrustes Analysis. Pattern Recognition, 47(2), pp. 659 - 671 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2013.08.006 . ISSN: 0031-3203
Garrido, L; Guerrieri, M; Igual, L. (2015). Image Segmentation with Cage Active Contours. IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 24(12), pp. 5557 - 5566 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TIP.2015.2472298 . ISSN: 1057-7149
Perez-Sala, X.; De la Torre, F.; Igual, L.; Escalera, S.; Angulo, C. (2016). Subspace Procrustes Analysis. International Journal of Computer Vision, 121(3), pp. 1 - 17 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0920-5691
Rovira, S.; Puertas, E.; Igual, L. (2017). Data-driven System to Predict Academic Grades and Dropout. PLoS One, 12(2), pp. 1 - 21 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Lekadir, K.; Galimzianova, A.; Betriu, A.; Vila, M.M.; Igual, L.; Rubin, D. L.; Fernández, E.; Radeva, P.; Napel, S. (2017). A Convolutional Neural Network for Automatic Characterization of Plaque Composition in Carotid Ultrasound. IEEE. Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 21(1), pp. 48 - 55 . https://doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2016.2631401 . ISSN: 2168-2194
Carandell, J.; Garrido, L.; Igual, L. (2018). Cage Active Contours for image warping and morphing. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2018:10 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1687-5176
Xue, Q.; Igual, L.; Berenguel, A.; Guerrieri, M.; Garrido, L. (2015). Affine Coordinate-Based Parametrized Active Contours for 2D and 3D Image Segmentation . In Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications. Series Communications in Computer and Information Science. . Volume. 550 . (pp. 206 - 222) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 978-3-319-25117-2 . Chapter Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics - Theory and Applications (https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-25117-2_13)
Igual, L.; Seguí, S. (2017). Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications . In Introduction to Data Science: A Python Approach to Concepts, Techniques and Applications . (pp. 1 - 218) . Springer Verlag . ISBN: 9783319500164 . https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007%2F978-3-319-50017-1

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 10 years)

Tabas, A.; Balaguer-Ballester, E.; Igual, L. (2014). Spatial Discriminant ICA for RS-fMRI characterisation. (Speech) . 4TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PATTERN RECOGNITION IN NEUROIMAGING . IEEE CS Digital Library online repositories . Tübingen . GERMANY
Sem, F.; Bergé, D.; Igual, L.; Canals, C.; Mané, A.; Guinart, D.; Vilarroya, O.; Forns, M. (2013). Structural analysis of nucleus accumbens in antipsychotic-naive first episode psychosis and clinical correlations . (Poster) . 26th European College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ECNP) Congress . Barcelona . SPAIN
Xue, Q.; Igual, L.; Berenguel, A.; Guerrieri, M.; Garrido, L. (2014). Active contour segmentation with affine coordinate-based parametrization. (Presentation of communication) . International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP/VISIGRAPP) . Lisboa . PORTUGAL
Nuñez-Garcia, M.; Simpraga, S.; Jurado, M. A.; Garolera, M.; Pueyo, R.; Igual, L. (2015). FADR: Functional-Anatomical Discriminative Regions for rest fMRI Characterization. (Presentation of communication) . 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging (MLMI) in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) . Munich . GERMANY
Zhang, C.; Vila Muñoz, M. M.; Radeva, P.; Elosua, R.; Grau, M.; Betriu, A.; Fernandez-Giraldez, E.; Igual, L.; (2015). Carotid Artery Segmentation in Ultrasound Images. (Poster) . CVII-STENT: Computing and Visualization for Intravascular Imaging and Computer Assisted Stenting in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) . Munich . GERMANY
Perez-Sala, X.; De la Torre, F.; Igual, L.; Escalera, S.; Angulo, C. (2014). Subspace Procrustes Analysis. (Presentation of communication) . ECCV Workshop on ChaLearn Looking at People . SWITZERLAND
Erol Kazancli; Vesna Prchkovska; Paulo Rodrigues; Pablo Villoslada; Laura Igual (2018). Multiple Sclerosis Lesion Segmentation with Improved Convolutional Neural Networks. (Presentation of communication) . 13th International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications . Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 4: VISAPP, 260-269, 2018. ISBN: 978-989-758-290-5. Available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library . Funchal, Madeira . PORTUGAL
Solanes, A.; Radua, J.; Igual, L. (2018). Detection of Midline Brain Abnormalities using Convolutional Neural Networks. (Poster) . Brain Lesion (BrainLes) workshop in the International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI) . Granada . SPAIN
Dempere, H; Puertas, E.; Igual, L. (2018). Data Science for On-The-Go Prediction of Student Performance. (Poster) . IEEE Data Scienece Workshop (DSW) . Lausanne . SWITZERLAND
Supervised Brain Segmentation and Classification in Diagnostic of Attention-Deficit/Hiperactivity Disorder . (Invitada para impartir un Seminario en la École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)). 28/02/2013. Lausanne. SWITZERLAND
Neuroimage Analysis for Diagnosis of Attention-Defficit/Hyperactivity Disorder . (Conferencia invitada en el CMLA de la Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan.). 20/06/2014. Cachan (Paris). FRANCE

Patents, Software and Database

Method for automatic classification of in vivo images (UNITED STATES, 19/08/2009)
System and method for automatic detection of in-vivo contraction video sequences (UNITED STATES, 08/09/2011)
System and method for synchronizing image sequences captured in-vivo for automatic comparison (UNITED STATES, 07/06/2011)
System and method for improving a discriminative model (UNITED STATES, 09/03/2011)
System and method for displaying motility events in an in vivo image stream (UNITED STATES, 31/01/2012)

Other Tasks

Coordinadora del grup INDOMAIN d'inovació docent de la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Informàticade la Universitat de Barcelona
Erasmus Coordinator of Computer Science