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Education

Ph.D in Information Science, Nara Institute of Science and Technology, 2017
M.S. in Research in Information and Communication Technologies, The University of Valladolid, 2013 (2nd highest GPA award).
B.S. in Telecom Engineering, The University of Valladolid / California State University, 2012 (2nd highest GPA award).

Work experience

AI Research Scientist @ CyberAgent, Inc.: 2021 April - present
- Conduct research on learning multimodal data (e.g., video, audio, text)
Project Researcher @ The University of Tokyo: 2017 April - 2021 March
- Conduct research on multimedia data understanding and robotics. Lab management
Visiting Researcher @ RIKEN research institute: 2018 April - 2021 March
- Conduct research on automatic diagnosis of cardiac diseases from medical images
Trainee researcher @ NTT Communication Science Laboratories: 2014 January - 2014 August
- Development of a multimodal interaction system (images and gestures)
Research intern @ University of Valladolid: 2012 May - 2012 November
- Development of an interactive editor of 3D environments
Part-time researcher @ University of Valladolid: 2011 January - 2011 June
- Development of algorithms for gesture tracking and recognition using MS Kinect
Software engineer @ Universidad of Valladolid: 2008 September - 2009 April
- Development of web applications with databases for various projects of the regional government.
Software engineer @ Renault: 2008 July (1 month)
- Development of algorithms to track the quality and reliability of the produced vehicles.

Awards

International Priority Graduate Program (IPGP) - Intern at Center for Machine Vision
- University of Oulu, Finland (2016 Fall)
Special Research Project award - Creative and International Competitiveness Project
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2016 March)
Special lT training programs - IT-Triadic course
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2015 Course)
First prize at the UX Design / Media Mix
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology / Osaka University of Arts (2015 Course)
Special Research Project award - Creative and International Competitiveness Project
- Nara Institute of Science and Technology (2015 March)
Monbukagakusho scholarship to carry out the PhD course at a Japanese university
- Japanese Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (2014 June)
Vulcanus in Japan Program to work as an intern at the NTT Communication Science Laboratories
- EU-Japan Centre for Industrial Cooperation (2013 April)
BEST Brussels - Human-machine interaction
- University of Brussels (2013 Summer course)
Special mention in the “Dean’s Honor Roll” - College of Engineering and Computer Science
- California State University Sacramento (2011 December)
Erasmus scholarship to study my last year of university at California State University Sacramento
- University of Valladolid (2011 January)

Skills

Leadership and management
- During my career I created several seminars and study groups, including a university Kendo club
Languages and communication skills
- Spanish (native), English (professional), Japanese (professional)
Multidisciplinarity
- I am not only interested in technical backgrounds, but also the medical field, design, etc.
Japanese martial arts
- I have practiced Kendo (4 dan) and Iaido (3 dan) since 2010

Activities

MIRU Wakate - Member (2021~Now)
Reviewer (2019~Now)
- IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
- IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (TMI)
- Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention (MICCAI)
Association of Spanish Researchers in Japan - Member (2017~Now)
IEEE Young Professionals - Member (2016~Now)
The University of Tokyo Kendo Club - Guest (2017~2020)
NAIST Students Association - Committee member (2017)
NAIST Kendo Club - Founder / President (2015~2017)
NAIST Science Communicators - Member / Instructor (2016~2017)

Patents

3D environments builder with virtual and augmented reality3D environments builder with virtual and augmented reality (computer program)
- ES 00/2013/1628 · Expedición: 22 ene. 2013

Projects / Funding

REHABOT: Intelligent assistant for complementing and assessing the physical rehabilitation of pediatric patients with cerebral palsy in their natural environment.
- Program: Knowledge Generation Projects
- Start date: 2022/09/01
- Amount: 88.300,0 €
- Effort: Full-time
- Research entity: University of Valladolid
- Funding entity: Ministry of Science and Innovation, MCINN
- Type of entity: University
- Number of researchers: 8
- City: Valladolid
- End date: 2025/08/31
- Region: Castilla y Leon
- Funding code: PID2021-124515OA-I00
- Duration: 3 years
- Principal Investigator: Martínez-Zarzuela, M.

Publications

Adaptive resonance theory fuzzy networks parallel computation using CUDA

Martínez-Zarzuela, M., Diaz-Pernas, F., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Anton-Rodríguez, M., Diez-Higuera, J., Boto-Giralda, D., & Gonzalez-Ortega, D. (2009, June). Adaptative resonance theory fuzzy networks parallel computation using CUDA. In International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (pp. 149-156)

Fuzzy ARTMAP based neural networks on the GPU for high-performance pattern recognition

Martínez-Zarzuela, M., Díaz-Pernas, F. J., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Perozo-Rondón, F., Antón-Rodríguez, M., & González-Ortega, D. (2011, May). Fuzzy ARTMAP based neural networks on the GPU for high-performance pattern recognition. In International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation (pp. 343-352)

Monitorización del cuerpo humano en 3D mediante tecnología Kinect

Martínez-Zarzuela, M., Díaz-Pernas, F. J., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Perozo-Rondón, F., Antón-Rodríguez, M., & González-Ortega, D. (2011). Monitorización del cuerpo humano en 3D mediante tecnología Kinect. SAAEI, 747-752

Advances and current state of the security and privacy in electronic health records: Survey from a social perspective

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., & de-la-Torre, I. (2012). Advances and current state of the security and privacy in electronic health records: survey from a social perspective. Journal of Medical Systems, 36(5), 3019-3027

Action recognition system based on human body tracking with depth images

Martínez-Zarzuela, M., Díaz-Pernas, F., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., González-Ortega, D., & Antón-Rodríguez, M. (2014). Action recognition system based on human body tracking with depth images. Advances in Computer Science: an International Journal, 3(1), 115-123

Flexible human action recognition in depth video sequences using masked joint trajectories

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Nakashima, Y., Yokoya, N., Díaz-Pernas, F. J., & Martínez-Zarzuela, M. (2016). Flexible human action recognition in depth video sequences using masked joint trajectories. EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing, 2016(1), 1-12

Human action recognition-based video summarization for RGB-D personal sports video

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Nakashima, Y., Sato, T., & Yokoya, N. (2016, July). Human action recognition-based video summarization for RGB-D personal sports video. In 2016 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) (pp. 1-6)

Multispectral object detection for autonomous vehicles

Takumi, K., Watanabe, K., Ha, Q., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Ushiku, Y., & Harada, T. (2017, October). Multispectral object detection for autonomous vehicles. In Proceedings of the on Thematic Workshops of ACM Multimedia 2017 (pp. 35-43)

Summarization of user-generated sports video by using deep action recognition features

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Nakashima, Y., Sato, T., Yokoya, N., Linna, M., & Rahtu, E. (2018). Summarization of user-generated sports video by using deep action recognition features. IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, 20(8), 2000-2011.

Conditional video generation using action-appearance captions

Yamamoto, S., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Ushiku, Y., & Harada, T. (2018). Conditional video generation using action-appearance captions. arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.01261.

Visual question generation for class acquisition of unknown objects

Uehara, K., Tejero-De-Pablos, A., Ushiku, Y., & Harada, T. (2018). Visual question generation for class acquisition of unknown objects. In Proceedings of the European conference on computer vision (ECCV) (pp. 481-496).

Improved optical flow for gesture-based human-robot interaction

Chang, J. Y., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., & Harada, T. (2019, May). Improved optical flow for gesture-based human-robot interaction. In 2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 7983-7989).

Detecting, opening and navigating through doors: A unified framework for human service robots

Savarese, F., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Quer, S., & Harada, T. (2019, July). Detecting, opening and navigating through doors: A unified framework for human service robots. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Software Technologies (pp. 416-427).

Suppressing racial bias in image recognition via domain adaptation

TEJERO-DE-PABLOS, A., & HARADA, T. (2019, August). Suppressing Racial Bias in Image Recognition via Domain Adaptation. In Workshop on Circuits and Systems (Vol. 32, pp. 99-104).

Texture-based classification of significant stenosis in CCTA images of coronary arteries

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Huang, K., Yamane, H., Kurose, Y., Mukuta, Y., Iho, J., Tokunaga, Y., Horie, M., Nishizawa, K., Hayashi, Y., Koyama, Y. &, Harada, T. (2019, October). Texture-based classification of significant stenosis in CCTA multi-view images of coronary arteries. In International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention (pp. 732-740).

Service robots: A unified framework for detecting, opening and navigating through doors

Harada, T., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Quer, S., & Savarese, F. (2020). Service robots: A unified framework for detecting, opening and navigating through doors. In Springer Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1250, issue 1, pp. 179-204. (2020).

Coronary wall segmentation in CCTA scans via a hybrid net with contours regularization

Huang, K., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Yamane, H., Kurose, Y., Iho, J., Tokunaga, Y., Horie, M., Nishizawa, K., Hayashi, Y., Koyama, Y., & Harada, T. (2020, April). Coronary Wall Segmentation in CCTA Scans via a Hybrid Net with Contours Regularization. In 2020 IEEE 17th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (pp. 1743-1747).

Long-term human video generation of multiple futures using poses

Fushishita, N., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Mukuta, Y., & Harada, T. (2020, August). Long-Term Human Video Generation of Multiple Futures Using Poses. In European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 596-612).

Bounding-box channel network for visual relationship detection

Inayoshi, S., Otani, K., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., & Harada, T. (2020, August). Bounding-box channels for visual relationship detection. In European Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 682-697).

Accurate parts visualization for explaining CNN reasoning via semantic segmentation

Harada, R., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., & Harada, T. (2020). Accurate Parts Visualization for Explaining CNN Reasoning via Semantic Segmentation. In BMVC.

Efficient training for future video generation based on hierarchical disentangled representation of latent variables

Fushishita, N., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Mukuta, Y., & Harada, T. (2021). Efficient training for future video generation based on hierarchical disentangled representation of latent variables. arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.03502.

Beam Stack Search-based reconstruction of unhealthy coronary artery wall segmentations in CCTA-CPR scans

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Yamane, H., Kurose, Y., Iho, J., Tokunaga, Y., Horie, M., M., Nishizawa, K., Hayashi, Y., Koyama, Y., & Harada, T. (2021, April). Beam Stack Search-Based Reconstruction Of Unhealthy Coronary Artery Wall Segmentations In CCTA-CPR Scans. In 2021 IEEE 18th International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI) (pp. 86-90).

Video ads content structuring by combining scene confidence prediction and tagging

Suzuki, T., & Tejero-de-Pablos, A. (2021). Video Ads Content Structuring by Combining Scene Confidence Prediction and Tagging. arXiv preprint arXiv:2108.09215.

Readmission prediction for heart failure patients using features extracted from SS-MIX

Yamane, H., Kurose, Y., Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Gu, L., Iho, J., Tokunaga, Y., Horie, M., Hayashi, Y., Nishizawa, K., Koyama, Y., & Tatsuya, H. (2022). Readmission prediction for heart failure patients using features extracted from SS-MIX. Joint 12th International Conference on Soft Computing and Intelligent Systems and 23rd International Symposium on Advanced Intelligent Systems (SCIS&ISIS).

Improving segmentation of calcified and non-calcified plaques on CCTA-CPR scans via masking of the artery wall

Tejero-de-Pablos, A., Yamane, H., Kurose, Y., Iho, J., Tokunaga, Y., Horie, M., Nishizawa, K., Hayashi, Y., Koyama, Y. &, Harada, T. (2023, April). Improving segmentation of calcified and non-calcified plaques on CCTA-CPR scans via masking of the artery wall. In Proc. SPIE 12465, Medical Imaging 2023: Computer-Aided Diagnosis.

Dissecting multimodal learning via regularized masking of multimodal features

Tejero-de-Pablos, A. (2023, July). Dissecting multimodal learning via regularized masking of multimodal features. Meeting on Image Recognition and Understanding.

Complementary-Contradictory Feature Regularization against Multimodal Overfitting

Tejero-de-Pablos, A. Complementary-Contradictory Feature Regularization against Multimodal Overfitting. In Proc. Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision.

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