Minerva homepage: Patricio A. Vela



Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Phone: 404.385.5062

Fax: 404.894.7583

Location: U.A. Whitaker Building, Rm 4242

Email: p v e l a (at) e c e (dot) g a t e c h (dot) e d u

Patricio A. Vela

Alumnus

Areas of interest

  • Geometric Control
  • Visual Tracking
  • Robotics

Education Background





Articles in journal or book chapters
  1. P. Vela, A. Betser, J. Malcolm, and A. Tannenbaum. Vision-Based Range Regulation of a Leader-Follower Formation. IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 17(2):442--448, 2009. [PDF ]


  2. P. Vela, M. Niethammer, G. Pryor, A. Tannenbaum, R. Butts, and D. Washburn. Knowledge-based segmentation for tracking through deep turbulence. IEEE Trans. Control Technology, 2006. Note: In Submission.


Conference articles
  1. G. Pryor, T. Rehman, S. Lankton, P. Vela, and A. Tannenbaum. Fast Optimal Mass Transport for Dynamic Active Contour Tracking on the GPU. In CDC, 2007. [PDF ]


  2. Gallagher Pryor, Patricio Vela, Tauseef Rehman, and Allen Tannenbaum. Layered Active Contours for Tracking. In Proceedings of British Machine Vision Conference, pages 22-31, 2007.


  3. P. Vela, M. Niethammer, J. Malcolm, and A. Tannenbaum. Closed Loop Visual Tracking Using Observer-Based Dynamic Active Contours. In Conf. on Guidance, Navigation, and Control, 2005. [PDF ]


  4. A. Betser, A. Tannenbaum, and P. Vela. Automatic tracking of flying vehicles using geodesic snakes and Kalman filtering. In to appear in IEEE CDC, 2004.