Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaLocation
Barcelona Area, Spain SpainOccupation
Associate Professor at Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaIndustry
Technology / Software / Internet
About
Xavier Giro-i-Nieto is an assistant professor at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC). He graduated in Electrical Engineering studies at ETSETB (UPC) in 2000, after completing his master thesis on image compression at the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (VUB) under the direction of Professor Peter Schelkens. In 2001 he worked in the digital television group of Sony Brussels, before returning to Barcelona and joining the Image Processing Group at the UPC. In 2003, he started teaching courses in Electrical Engineering degress at the EET and ETSETB schools from UPC. He obtained his Phd on image retrieval in 2012, under the supervision by Professor Ferran Marques from UPC and Profess...