People
Faculty members
Javier Romero is Full Professor at the Department of Optics of the University of Granada. His recent research interests include color and multispectral image processing and computational color vision. He teaches several subjects at B.Sc. and master level, including courses in the Erasmus+ Joint Master Degree COSI (Computational Colour and Spectral Imaging). He was President of the International Color Association (AIC) from 2014 to 2015. At present, he is the Past-President of the AIC.
Juan Luis is Full Professor at the Optics Department of the University of Granada since 2017. His research revolves around computational color vision (color constancy, human visual system processing of spatio-chromatic information), and spectral analysis of color images (including spectral analysis of reflectances and illuminants). Currently he is the coordinator at UGR of the Erasmus+ JMD Master COSI (Computational Colour and Spectral Imaging), and past President of the Spanish Color Committee (Comité del Color, SEDOPTICA, Spain)
Javier is Full Professor at the Department of Optics of the University of Granada since 2016. His recent research interests include hyperspectral imaging, spectral estimation, HDR Imaging, color and spectral image processing, dehazing as well as color vision deficiencies. He teaches several subjects at B.Sc. and master level, including courses in the Erasmus+ JMD COSI (Computational Colour and Spectral Imaging). He has published 65 scientific papers and has a h-index of 25 (Google Scholar). From 2008 to 2012 he was the coordinator at UGR of the Erasmus Mundus Master CIMET (Color in Informatics and Media Technology). Currently he is Associate Editor for Optics Express, and member of the Editorial Board for Color Research and Applications and for the European Journal of Physics.
Eva is Associate Professor at the Department of Optics of the University of Granada. Her recent research interests include hyperspectral imaging, spectral estimation, HDR Imaging, and color and spectral image processing. She is involved in teaching several subjects in the B.S. degrees of Physics, Optics and Optometry, and the CIMET/COSI international master program.
Miguel Ángel is Associate Professor at the Department of Optics of university of Granada since 2024. His recent research interests are color and spectral imaging, color vision, HDR imaging, image processing and IR imaging, all applied to image dehazing, cultural heritage, color vision defficiencies, and other scientific, industrial or engineering applications. He is involved in teaching different courses in the B.S. degrees of Optics and Optometry, and the CIMET/COSI Erasmus Mundus international master program
Postdoctoral Researchers
Yannick Lefier is currently working at the Color Imaging Lab as part of a collaboration between the laboratory and an international technology company to contribute to the development of a new hyperspectral camera. He holds a PhD in the field of nano-optics. His work is related to spin-orbit coupling of light, guided surface plasmon propagation, generation of light vortices to magnetize metal and optical forces. He worked as a high school teacher for more than ten years and is passionate about many aspects of physics. His desire to pass on the beauty of physics led him to contribute to various science popularization missions.
Ph.D. students
Ana Belén is a Ph.D. candidate at the Color Imaging Lab (University of Granada). She obtained her B.Sc. in Optics and Optometry in 2019 at the University of Granada, where she also obtained both her M.Sc. in Clinical Optometry and Advanced Optics in 2020, and her M.Sc. in Physics in 2021. Currently her research focuses on the acquisition and analysis of hyperspectral images to identify materials in historical documents and artworks.
Ramon Fernández is graduated in Telecommunications Engineering and a degree in Optics and Optometry in 2022 (both at the University of Granada). He obtained the Official Master in Telecommunications Engineering too. His research interests are Color Vision Deficiency, Spectral Image Processing, Deep Learning and Computer Vision. Currently, he has started his PhD at Color Imaging Lab entitled “Study and optimization of recoloration algorithms for anomalous color vision”
Francisco Moronta Montero is a graduate Physicist at the University of Granada with a master's degree in Laser Physics and Technology at the University of Salamanca. He is now a PhD student in our HYPERDOC project. His research interests are spectral imaging and machine learning applications in Optics.
Juan Ojeda defended his PhD entitled “Statistic information analysis of natural and artificial scenes under different illuminations” in 2023. His supervisors were Prof. Juan Luis Nieves and Prof. Javier Romero.
Former members
Miguel Ángel López-Alvarez joined our lab in 2004 and obtained his Ph.D. in 2007, focusing on multispectral imaging of skylight. He has a vast experience calibrating 2D imaging sensors, simulating noise of CCD/CMOS cameras, and developing spectral estimation algorithms and metrics. He joined HP in 2008 as a color scientist in conventional and 3D printing and scanning, with more than 10 patents gained so far. Few years ago he joined Apple as a color and imaging scientist. He has continued collaborating with our lab ever since then.
Timo is a PhD student working on design and optimization of line-scan multi-spectral imaging systems. His research interests are in the field of spectral imaging (acquisition systems and data processing), machine learning, image processing and analysis.
Jia Eckhard is a research assistant working on hyperspectral imaging and data processing of urban scenes. Her research interests are spectral imaging, algorithm design in image processing, machine learning and pattern recognition.
Raúl Luzón-González is a researcher at the Department of Optics of the University of Granada. His recent research interests include color variations in natural scenes, atmospheric optics, and color and spectral image processing.
Sol is a physicist with a master's degree in Meteorology who has recently joined to the Color Imaging Lab group at the department of Optics of the University of Granada on the project “Automatic enhancement of images degraded by the atmosphere with multispectral techniques in the visible and infrared”. Her recent research interests are atmospherics optic, color and spectral imaging and dehazing.
Clara Plata Ríos
Clara Plata Ríos obtained her MSc in physics in 2006 and her PhD in 2009, both at the University of Granada, Spain. She was a research student in the Color Imaging Lab at the Department of Optics from 2003 to 2009 in the field of color imaging, sterophotometrics techniques and multispectral devices.
Sergi Etchebehere is a researcher that worked on detection and classification of salient objects in hyperspectral images. His research interests are spectral image processing and analysis and use of machine learning techniques in computer vision.
Daniel Partal received a M.Sc. degree in physics in 2005 from the University of Granada, Spain. His scientific interests are in the field of spectral color science. He collaborated with the Color Imaging Lab from 2004 to 2006. He is currently professor of Mathematics at a secondary school and web designer.
Aida Rodríguez worked as a research assistant in the Color Imaging Lab from 2010 until 2012 on a project in collaboration with Tecnalia, related to image segmentation of hyperspectral urban scenes. Aida represented the outcomes of her work at the annual Electronic Imaging conference in San Francisco in February 2012. The proceedings article is titled “Modified fuzzy c-means applied to a Bragg-grating-based spectral imager for material clustering”.
Felix Navas was working during a year at the Color Imaging Lab as a reseacher.
Visiting Reseachers
Kai Shiromi is bachelor student of Visual Perception and cognition Lab(VPAC), Toyohashi University of Technology working on color perception about #TheDress. He worked in Color Imaging Lab as international internship(JAN10-May30,2017) and studied about “Automatic identification of salient information from annotated multispectral images captured in urban ways and applications in surveillance systems”
Kai Hamamoto, and bachelor student of Visual Perception And Cognition Lab(VPAC), Toyohashi University of Technology working on foreign matter inspection in foods by fluorescence.and I'm working in Color Imaging Lab as international internship (JAN,8-FEB,23,2017) and studying about apply image processing to foreign matter inspection
Satoshi Nakakoga is bachelor student of Cognitive Unit (CNt), Toyohashi University of Technology working on recognition of facial expression. He worked in Color Imaging Lab as international internship (JAN,11-FEB,25,2016) and studied about contribution of facial expression and color to attentional capture.
Taisei Kondo is bachelor student of Visual Perception And Cognition Lab(VPAC), Toyohashi University of Technology working on functional illuminant. He worked in Color Imaging Lab as international internship(JAN11-FEB25,2016) and studied about designing the functional illuminant that is helpful to detect our plaque in teeth.
Ryuji Katagiri is bachelor student of Visual Perception And Cognition Lab(VPAC), Toyohashi University of Technology working on perception of fluorescence. He worked in Color Imaging Lab as international internship(JAN,9-FEB,25,2015) and studied about relationship between perception of fluorescence and shading of 3D object.
Shahram is a postgraduate fellow of visual color perception at Rutgers Univ. He received his PhD degree in color science from Tehran Polytechnic Univ. He spent 6 months on sabbatical at the Color Imaging Lab working on nonlinear inverse model for spectral reconstruction & color correction. His research revolves around computational approach to visual color perception, adaptation, spectral data analysis & color correction. Our collaboration is still working on simulation of outdoor illuminations under different atmospheric conditions and multivariate model of the edge structure in a trichromatic image
Roy is a Color in Informatics and Media Technology (CIMET) student working towards his masters thesis on Supervised Classification of Tobacco Leaves Using 12-channel Multispectral Image Data. His research interests are broadly in Computer Vision and Machine Learning.
