Publications

  • [J] Domingo Mery, Erick Svec, Marco Arias, Vladimir Riffo, Jose M. Saavedra, and Sandipan Banerjee. Modern Computer Vision Techniques for X-Ray Testing in Baggage Inspection Accepted in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SYSTEMS, MAN, AND CYBERNETICS: SYSTEMS, 2016 [link][bib]
  • Jose M. Saavedra, Camila Alvarez. DeepSBIR: Sketch Based Image Retrieval using Deep Features Accepted in DLPR-ICPR, 2016 [link] [bib]
  • [J] Jose M. Saavedra. RST-SHELO: Sketch-based image retrieval using sketch tokens and square root normalization Accepted for publication in MTAP, Springer, 2015 [link] [bib]
  • Juan Manuel Barrios, Jose M. Saavedra. Score Propagation based on Similarity Shot Graph for Improving Visual Object Retrieval. In Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Speech, Language and Audio in Multimedia, ACM Multimedia, Brisbane, Australia, 2015.
  • Jose M. Saavedra, Juan Manuel Barrios. Sketch based Image Retrieval using Learned KeyShapes (LKS) . In the proceedings of the 26th British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Swansea, UK, 2015
  • Jose M. Saavedra. Handwritten Digit Recognition based on Pooling SVM-Classifiers using Orientation and Concavity based Features. In the proceedings of Iberoamerican Conference on Pattern Recognition, CIARP, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, 2014.
  • Violeta Chang, Jose M. Saavedra, Victor Castañeda, Luis Sarabia, Nancy Hitschfeld, Steffen Härtel. Gold-standard and improved framework for sperm head segmentation . Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine CMPB, 2014. [link] [bib]
  • Jose M. Saavedra. Sketch Based Image Retrieval Using a Soft Computation of the Histogram of Edge Local Orientations (S-HELO). In the proceedings of the International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Paris, 2014. [link] [bib]
  • Markus Diem, Stefan Fiel, Florian Kleber, Robert Sablatnig, Jose M. Saavedra, David Contreras, Juan Manuel Barrios, Luiz S. Oliveira. ICFHR 2014 Competition on Handwritten Digit String Recognition in Challenging Datasets (HDSRC 2014). In the proceedings of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition ICFHR'14, Greece, 2014. [link] [bib]
  • Juan Manuel Barrios, Jose M. Saavedra, Felipe Ramirez, David Contreras ORAND Team: Instance Search and Multimedia Event Detection Using k-NN Searches. . TRECVID, 2013. [link] [bib]
  • [J] Bo Li, Yijuan Lu, Afzal Godil, Tobias Schreck, Benjamin Bustos, Alfredo Ferreira, Takahiko Furuya, Manuel J. Fonseca, Henry Johan, Takahiro Matsuda, Ryutarou Ohbuchi , Pedro B. Pascoal, Jose M. Saavedra. A comparison of methods for sketch-based 3D shape retrieval. Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), 2013. [link] [bib]
  • [J] Jose M. Saavedra, Benjamin Bustos. Sketch-Based Image Retrieval using Keyshapes. Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer (2013). [link] [bib]
  • Bo Li , Yijuan Lu , Afzal Godil , Tobias Schreck , Masaki Aono , Henry Johan , Jose M. Saavedra , Shoki Tashiro.SHREC_13 Track Large Scale Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval. In Proc. Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval (2013), pp. 1-9. v
  • Jose M. Saavedra, Violeta Chang, Benjamin Bustos. An Accurate Hand Segmentation Approach Using A Structure Based Shape Localization. In Proc. VISAPP 2013. Barcelona, Spain. [pdf] [Bib]
  • J. M. Saavedra, B. Bustos, T. Shreck, S. Yoon, M. Sherer. Sketch-based 3D Model Retrieval using Keyshapes for Global and Local Representation. In Proc. Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2012. Cagliari-Italy [pdf] [Bib]
  • B. Li, A. Godil, T. Schreck, M. Alexa, T. Boubekeur, B. Bustos, J. Chen, M. Eitz, T. Furuya, K. Hildebrand, S. Huang, H. Johan, A. Kuijper, R. Ohbuchi, R. Richter, J. M. Saavedra, M. Sherer, T. Yanagimachi, G. J. Yoon, S. M. Yoon. SHREC'12 Track: Sketch-Based 3D Shape Retrieval. In Proc. Eurographics Workshop on 3D Object Retrieval 2012. Cagliari-Italy [pdf] [Bib]
  • Jose M. Saavedra R, Benjamin Bustos , Maximilian Scherer, Tobias Schreck. STELA: Sketch-Based 3D Model Retrieval using a Structure-Based Local Approach. In Proc. of the ACM International Conference on Mulimedia Retrieval 2011 , Trento-Italy. [pdf] [Bib]
  • Jose M. Saavedra, Benjamin Bustos. An improved histogram of edge local orientations for sketch-based image retrieval. In Michael Goesele, Stefan Roth, Arjan Kuijper, Bernt Schiele, Konrad Schindler (ed.), Proc. 32nd Annual Symposium of the German Association for Pattern Recognition (DAGM), pp. 432-441, Sep 2010. Darmstadt, Germany. Springer-Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg, Germany. Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 6376. ISBN 978-3-642-15985-5. [pdf] [Bib]

International Reviewer

  • Journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications
  • Journal of Computer & Graphics (Elsevier)
  • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology.
  • ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications and Application.

Thesis

  • PhD Thesis: Image Descriptions for Sketch Based Image Retrieval (2013). (pdf)
  • M.Sc. Thesis: Feature Extractor Improvement for Automatic Fingerprint Recognition (2006). ( pdf in spanish)
  • Engineer Thesis: Alternative Methods for Automatic Image Contrast Enhancement (2001). ( pdf in spanish). A joint work with Violeta Chang.