Biography

Dr. Xavier Baró received his degree in Computer Science Engineering at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 2003. In 2005 he obtained his M.S. degree in Computer Vision at the Computer Vision Center of the UAB, and in 2009 the Ph.D. degree in Computer Science. At present he is an associate professor at the Mathematics and Computer Science department of the Universitat de Barcelona. He has taught at the Computer Science Department of the UAB (2004-2011) and at the Computer Science, Multimedia and Telecommunications department of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) (2010-2024). He is a member of the AIwell research group at the eHealth Center of the UOC, and collaborates with the Computer Vision Center of the UAB as a member of the Human Pose Recovery and Behavior Analysis (HUPBA) group. His research interests are related to machine learning, evolutionary computation, and statistical pattern recognition, with application to the Looking at People context.