Xavier Baró

Senior lecturer

Scopus Author ID: 24337257200

Researcher ID: A-4064-2011

Knowledge area: Llenguatges i Sistemes Informàtics

Contact Information
Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada i Anàlisi (Universitat de Barcelona). Plaça Universitat, Edifici Històric. Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
934031344
xbaro(a)ub.edu

My profile

Dr. Xavier Baró received the B.S. Degree in Computer Science from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) in 2003. In 2005 he obtained the M.S. degree in Computer Science from the UAB, and ... + info

Academic training

Enginyer en Informàtica . Escola Tècnica Superior d'Enginyeries, UAB . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)

Doctor en Informàtica . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona . 14/04/2009 . (Ph.D.)

Participation in Projects

Modelos de aprendizaje multitarea para el reconocimiento de objetos . 2007 - 2009 . Ref.TIN2006-15308-C02-01 . Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia . PI: Jordi Vitria Marca

Multimodal Interaction in Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision . 2007 - 2012 . Ref.CSD2007-00018 . Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia . PI: Jordi Vitria Marca

Mesura de la Qualitat en la Comunicació no Verbal de l·Estudiant de Grau en Informàtica com a Competència Transversal: Sistema Objectiu Automàtic d·Intel'ligència Artificial . 2012 - 2013 . Ref.2012PID-UB/152 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Sergio Escalera Guerrero

MILLORA DE L'EXPRESSIÓ ORAL D'ALUMNES DEL GRAU D'INFORMÀTICA VIA UN SISTEMA DE VISIÓ ARTIFICIAL . 2009 - 2010 . Ref.2009PID-UB/04 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Sergio Escalera Guerrero

Modelado 3D corporal y de ropa basado en imagen para probadores virtuales . 2022 - 2024 . Ref.TED2021-131317B-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (MICINN) . PI: Sergio Escalera Guerrero

DISSENY I REALITZACIÓ D'UN PROGRAMA PILOT PER AL SEGUIMENT I L'AVALUACIÓ DE L'APRENENTATGE DELS TREBALLS FI DE CARRERA PER AL GRAU D'ENGINYERIA INFORMÀTICA . 2009 - 2010 . Ref.2009PID-UB/07 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Oriol Pujol Vila

ANÀLISI I IMPLANTACIÓ DE LA METODOLOGIA D'APRENENTATGE BASAT EN PROBLEMES A L'ASSIGNATURA DE PROGRAMACIÓ II DEL GRAU D'ENGINYERIA INFORMÀTICA . 2009 - 2010 . Ref.2009PID-UB/33 . Universitat de Barcelona . PI: Laura Igual Muñoz

TeSLA - An Adaptive Trust-based e-assessment System for Learning . 2016 - 2019 . Ref.H2020-688520 . EU, H2020 . PI: Ana Elena Guerrero Roldan

Responsible AI for Human Well-being: Contextualized Human-Centric Perception. (SENTIENT) . 2023 - 2025 . Ref.PID2022-138721NB-I00 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Xavier Baró Solé, Àgata Lapedriza Garcia

BEyond model aCcurAcy: Uncertainty, Explainability and domain adaptation. (BECAUsE) . 2019 - 2021 . Ref.RTI2018-095232-B-C22 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: David Masip Rodo

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

Bautista, M.A.; Escalera, S.; Pujol, O. (2014). On the Design of an ECOC-Compliant Genetic Algorithm. Pattern Recognition, 47(2), pp. 865 - 884 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0031-3203

Hernandez-Vela, A.; Bautista, M.A.; Perez-Sala, X.; Ponce, V.; Escalera, S.; Baro, X.; Pujol, O.; Angulo, C. (2014). Probability-based Dynamic Time Warping and Bag-of-Visual-and-Depth-Words for Human Gesture Recognition in RGB-D. Pattern Recognition Letters, 50, pp. 112 - 121 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 0167-8655

Ponce-López, V.; Escalera, S.; Perez, M.; Janes, O.; Baro, X. (2015). Non-verbal communication analysis in victim-off ender mediations. Pattern Recognition Letters . ISSN: 0167-8655

Escalante, H.M; Ponce-López, V.; Escalera, S.; Baró, X.; Morales-Reyes, A.; Martínez-Carranza, J. (2016). Evolving weighting schemes for the Bag of Visual Words. Neural Computing & Applications . ISSN: 0941-0643

Escalera, S.; González, J.; Baró, X.; Shotton, J. (2016). Guest Editors' Introduction to the Special Issue on Multimodal Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 38 . ISSN: 0162-8828

Gucluturk, Y.; Guclu, U.; Baro, X.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I.; Escalera, S.; Gerven, M.; Lier, R. (2017). Multimodal first impression analysis with deep residual networks. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing . ISSN: 1949-3045

Ren, H.; Kanhabua, N.; Møgelmose, A.; Liu, W.; Kulkarni, K.; Escalera, S.; Baró, X.; Moeslund, T. (2017). Back-dropout Transfer Learning for Action Recognition. IET Computer Vision . ISSN: 1751-9632

Escalera, S.; Gonzàlez, J.; Escalante, H.; Baró, X.; Guyon, I. (2018). Looking at People Special Issue. International Journal of Computer Vision . https://doi.org/10.1007/s11263-017-1058-y . ISSN: 0920-5691

Guo, J.; Lei, Z.; Wan, J.; Avots, E.; Hajarolasvadi, N.; Knyazev, B.; Kuharenko, A.; Junior, J.; Baro, X.; Demirel, H.; Escalera, S.; Allik, J.; Anbarjari, G. (2018). Dominant and Complementary Emotion Recognition from Still Images of Faces. IEEE Access, 6, pp. 26391 - 26403 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2169-3536

Jacques-Junior, Julio Cezar Silveira; Baró, X.; Escalera, S. (2018). Exploiting feature representations through similarity learning, post-ranking and ranking aggregation for person re-identification. Image and Vision Computing . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2018.08.001 . ISSN: 0262-8856

Escalera, S.; Baro, X.; Guyon, I.; Escalante, H. (2018). Guest Editorial: Apparent Personality Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 9(3), pp. 299 - 302 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2018.2864230 . ISSN: 1949-3045

Madadi, M.; Escalera, S.; Carruesco, A.; Andujar, C.; Baro, X.; Gonzalez, J. (2018). Top-down model fitting for hand pose recovery in sequences of depth images. Image and Vision Computing, 79, pp. 63 - 75 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2018.09.006 . ISSN: 0262-8856

Kulkarni, K.; Corneanu, C.; Ofodile, I.; Escalera, S.; Baro, X.; Hyniewska, S.; Allik, J.; Anbarjafari, G. (2018). Automatic Recognition of Facial Displays of Unfelt Emotions. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2018.2874996 . ISSN: 1949-3045

Escalera, S.; Baró, X.; Guyon, I.; Escalante, H.; Tzimiropoulos, G.; Valstar, M.; Pantic, M.; Cohn, J.; Kanade, T. (2018). Guest Editorial: The Computational Face. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 40(11), pp. 2541 - 2545 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2018.2869610 . ISSN: 0162-8828

Avots, E.; Madadi, M.; Escalera, S.; Gonzalez, J.; Baro, X.; Pallin, P.; Anbarjafari, G. (2019). From 2D to 3D Geodesic-based Garment Matching. Multimedia Tools and Applications . ISSN: 1380-7501

Anbarjafari, G.; Escalera, S.; Nasrollahi, K.; Escalante, H.; Baro, X.; Wan, J.; Moeslund, T. (2019). Guest editorial: special issue on human abnormal behavioural analysis. Machine Vision and Applications . ISSN: 0932-8092

Jacques-Junior, Julio Cezar Silveira; Güçlütürk, Y.; Perez, M.; Güçlü, U.; Andujar, C.; Baro, X.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I.; van Gerven, M.; van Lier, R.; Escalera, S. (2019). First Impressions: A Survey on Vision-based Apparent Personality Trait Analysis. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 13, pp. 75 - 97 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2019.2930058 . ISSN: 1949-3045

Escalante, H.; Kaya, H.; Salah, A.; Escalera, S.; Guçluturk, Y.; Guçlu, U.; Baro, X.; Guyon, I.; Jacques-Junior, Julio Cezar Silveira; Madadi, M.; Ayache, S.; Viegas, E.; Gurpinar, F.; Wicaksana, A.; Liem, C.; van Gerven, M.; van Lier, R. (2020). Modeling, Recognizing, and Explaining Apparent Personality from Videos. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 13(2), pp. 894 - 911 . https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2020.2973984 . ISSN: 1949-3045

Escalera, S.; Escalante, H.; Baro, X.; Guyon, I.; Madadi, M.; Wan, J.; Ayache, S.; Gucluurk, Y.; Guclu, U. (2020). Guest Editorial: Image and Video Inpainting and Denoising. IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence . ISSN: 0162-8828

Madadi, Meysam; Escalera, Sergio; Baro, Xavier; Gonzalez, Jordi (2021). End-to-end global to local convolutional neural network learning for hand pose recovery in depth data. IET Computer Vision, 16(1), pp. 50 - 66 . https://doi.org/10.1049/cvi2.12064 . ISSN: 1751-9632

Pavao, A.; Guyon, I.; Letournel, A.; Tran, D.; Baro, X.; Escalante, H.; Escalera, S.; Thomas, T.; Xu, Z. (2023). CodaLab Competitions: An Open Source Platform to Organize Scientific Challenges. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 24(198), pp. 1 - 6 . ISSN: 1532-4435

Alonso, Fernando; Baro, Xavier; Escalera, Sergio; Gonzalez, Jordi; MacKay, Martha; Serrahima, Anna (2016). Care respite: taking care of the caregivers. International Journal of Integrated Care, 16 . https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.2680 . ISSN: 1568-4156

Oliu, Marc; Adel Bargal, Sarah; Sclaroff, Stan; Baro, Xavier; Escalera, Sergio (2022). Multi-varied Cumulative Alignment for Domain Adaptation. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 13232, pp. 324 - 334 . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06430-2_27 . ISSN: 0302-9743

Escalera, S.; Baró, X.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I. (2017). ChaLearn Looking at People: Events and Resources . In arXiv:1701.02664 .

Escalera, S.; Soler, M.; Ayache, S.; Guçlu, U.; Wan, J.; Madadi, M.; Baro, X.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I. (2019). ChaLearn Looking at People: Inpainting and Denoising Challenges, The Springer Series on Challenges in Machine Learning . In Inpainting and Denoising Challenges . Springer .

Escalante, H.; Escalera, S.; Guyon, I.; Baro, X.; Güçlütürk, Y.; Güçlü, U.; Gerven, M. (2018). Explainable and Interpretable Models in Computer Vision and Machine Learning . In Explainable and Interpretable Models in Computer Vision and Machine Learning . Springer . https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98131-4

Direction of Thesis, Minor Thesis and Research Reports (last 10 years)

Carlos Puig . (2014) . Automatic Performance Analysis in Trampoline from RGB-Depth Data (Master's Thesis) . Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.

Pablo Pardo . (2015) . Automatic Real and Apparent Age Estimation in Still Images (Master's Thesis) . UPC-UB-URV.

Víctor Ponce López . (2016) . Evolutionary bags of space-time features for human analysis (Ph.D. Thesis) . University of Barcelona.

Daniel Sanchez Abril . (2019) . Human Body Parts Segmentation via Stacked and Multi-Task Learning (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Marc Oliu Simon . (2022) . Efficient Modeling of High Order Functions in Computer Vision (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Meysam Madadi . (2017) . Human segmentation, pose estimation, and applications (Ph.D. Thesis) . Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Conferences and Participations in Congresses (last 10 years)

Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez; Miguel A. Bautista; Meysam Madadi; Miguel Reyes; Victor Ponce; Hugo J. Escalante; Jamie Shotton; Isabelle Guyon (2014). Results of the ChaLearn Looking at People Challenge 2014. (Invited conference) . LEMA 2014, in cunjunction with ECML-PKDD'14, Nancy, France. International Workshop on Learning with Multiple Views: Applications to Computer Vision and Multimedia Mining . FRANCE

Sergio Escalera; Xavier Baro; Jordi Gonzalez; Miguel A. Bautista; Meysam Madadi; Miguel Reyes; Víctor Ponce; Hugo J. Escalante; Jamie Shotton; Isabelle Guyon (2014). ChaLearn Looking at People Challenge 2014: Dataset and Results. (Presentation of communication) . ChaLearn Looking at People, European Conference on Computer Vision . SWITZERLAND

Escalera, S.; Fabian, J.; Pardo, P.; Baro, X.; Gonzalez, J.; Escalante, H.; Misevic, D.; Steiner, U.; Guyon, I (2015). ChaLearn looking at people 2015: apparent age and cultural event recognition datasets and results

. (Presentation of communication) . ICCV . CHILE

Baro, X.; Gonzalez, J.; Fabian, J.; Bautista, M.; Oliu, M.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I.; Escalera, S. (2015). ChaLearn looking at people 2015 challenges: action spotting and cultural event recognition. (Presentation of communication) . CVPR workshops . UNITED STATES

Escalera, S.; Baro, X.; Gonzalez, J.; Escalante, H. (2015). ChaLearn 2015 CVPR competitions. (Invited conference) . IAPR Newsletter . UNITED STATES

Escalante, H.; Ponce, V.; Wan, J.; Riegler, M.; Chen, B.; Clapés, A.; Escalera, S.; Guyon, I.; Baro, X.; Halvorsen, P.; Müller, H.; Larson, M. (2016). ChaLearn Joint Contest on Multimedia Challenges Beyond Visual Analysis: An overview. (Presentation of communication) . ICPR . MEXICO

Escalera, S.; Baro, X.; Escalante, H.; Guyon, I. (2017). ChaLearn Looking at People: A Review of Events and Resources. (Presentation of communication) . Proceedings of the The 2017 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2017), IEEE . UNITED STATES

Madadi, M.; Escalera, S.; Carruesco, A.; Andujar, C.; Baro, C.; Gonzalez, J. (2017). Occlusion aware hand pose recovery from sequences of depth images. (Presentation of communication) . IEEE Faces and Gestures . http://www.fg2017.org/ . UNITED STATES

Haamer, R.; Kulkarni, K.; Imanpour, N.; Haque, M.; Avots, E.; Breisch, M.; Nasrollahi, K.; Escalera, S.; Ozcinar, C.; Baro, X.; Naghsh-Nilchi, A.; Moeslund, T.; Anbarjafari, G. (2018). Changes in Facial Expression as Biometric: A Database and Benchmarks of Identification. (Presentation of communication) . Faces and Gestures workshops . CHINA

Jacques-Junior, Julio Cezar Silveira; Lapedriza, A.; Palmero, C.; Baro, X.; Escalera, S. (2021). Person Perception Biases Exposed: Revisiting the First Impressions Dataset. (Presentation of communication) . Human Behavior Understanding, IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision Workshops, WACVW . AUSTRALIA