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An alumnus of the School of Telecommunication of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT), Ginés Hidalgo, has developed in the United States the first program in the world capable of detecting finger points with any type of camera, such as a mobile phone.
Its application opens new possibilities in artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality, among other fields.
The system has been published by international scientific journals such as TechCrunch and IEEE Spectrum.
The new system is able, for example, to provide information to a robot so that it understands what it needs or what a human asks.
It is also a pioneer in detecting the body, hands and face in real time.
All this, without using sensors in the body or other very expensive systems such as depth cameras or multi-camera systems, explains the researcher.
Ginés Hidalgo (Puerto Lumbreras, 1992) is the first author of "OpenPose", the program that has just been launched for free.
The Ford car company has purchased the license.
The algorithm has also been used in the RoboCup international championship.
The applications of the developed program will be of great utility for deaf people, since it will allow to detect the sign language of a person without hearing and that a computer interprets what it needs in each moment.
Psychologists, who are now trying to interpret facial points to analyze human behavior, will be able to perform a more thorough analysis given that this program allows them to access the whole body, adds the researcher.
Ginés Hidalgo (Puerto Lumbreras, 1992), finished Telecommunication Engineering in 2014. It was the number one of his promotion and an extraordinary end-of-race award.
When he was finishing the degree and was in Austria with an Erasmus scholarship, he was 'ficharon' at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), the best university in Computer Science of the United States.
After completing his studies at the UPCT, he joined CMU as a researcher.
During his first three years he began to specialize in the detection and tracking of human faces.
The graduate of the UPCT worked in 'IntraFace', a detector and follower of faces that launched the startup 'Faciometrics', created by his 'advisor', Spanish professor Fernando de la Torre.
This company was acquired by Facebook a few months ago.
Ginés now continues researching in this area full time, supervised by Yaser Sheikh and is pursuing a master's degree in Robotics, specialized in computer vision.
Sheikh heads the research division of 'Oculus' in Pittsburgh, a well-known American company known for its virtual reality glasses and was acquired by Facebook in 2014.
Ginés says that he is doing "well" his work as a researcher and his master's studies at the prestigious CMU.
"The Polytechnic of Cartagena prepares you well.
In the United States I have the same theoretical level as Telecommunication engineers trained in American universities, "he says.
The passion for artificial intelligence comes from afar.
Although he appeared while he was in the third year of Teleco at the UPCT and was an intern student with Professor Javier Toledo, since childhood he has always played with radios, mobile phones.
"As my father is an electronic mechanic, he always gave me assembling and dismantling devices and spent hours enjoying himself," explains Ginés Hidalgo.
Source: UPCT
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