Melani Sánchez García

I'm a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Bionic Vision Lab, Department of Computer Science at UCSB. , where I am advised by Michael Beyeler .

Prior to joining UCSB, I received a PhD in Computer Science and Systems Engineering from Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, as well as a BS in Chemical Engineering and a MS in Chemical Engineering from Universidad de Valencia, Spain.

My main research interests lie in Computer Vision and Deep Learning. I'm particularly excited about conducting research in simulated prosthetic vision (SPV) and building immersive virtual reality (VR) systems of SPV that combine computational modeling of the brain with different computer vision algorithms.

Email: mesangar@ucsb.edu

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News:

I have released a Virtual-Reality software for replicating and extending the experimentation with prosthetic vision. link here!
I was featured in Ágora, which is the Aragón Radio program dedicated to popular science. (from minute 5)
I have created an image Dataset of phosphene images for Simulated Prosthetic Vision. link here!
Our paper "Indoor Scenes Understanding for Visual Prosthesis with Fully Convolutional Networks" was accepted for publication at VISAPP 2019.
I participated at the BMVA Computer Vision Summer School 2018 in Norwich, UK!

Research

	Towards a Smart Bionic Eye: AI-powered artificial vision for the treatment of incurable blindness Michael Beyeler, Melani Sanchez-Garcia OSF Preprints
	Efficient visual object representation using a biologically plausible spike-latency code and winner-take-all inhibition system Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Tushar Chauhan, Benoit R. Cottereau, Michael Beyeler NeuroVision Workshop, IEEE/CVF Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR) ‘22* poster · arXiv
	Assessing visual acuity in visual prostheses through a virtual-reality system Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Roberto Morollon-Ruiz, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José J. Guerrero, Eduardo Fernandez-Jover arXiv
	Augmented reality navigation system for visual prosthesis Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Alejandro Perez-Yus, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José J. Guerrero Submitted: September 14, 2021* Journal of Neural Engineering
	Influence of field of view in visual prostheses design: Analysis with a VR system Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, Jesús Bermudez-Cameo , José J. Guerrero Published: October 7, 2020* Journal of Neural Engineering paper · Virtual-Reality software
	Semantic and structural image segmentation for prosthetic vision Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José J. Guerrero Published: January 29, 2020* PLOS One Journal paper · Phosphene image Dataset
	Indoor Scenes Understanding for Visual Prosthesis with Fully Convolutional Networks Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José J. Guerrero 14th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, VISAPP 2019* paper · poster
	Structural and object detection for phosphene images Melani Sanchez-Garcia, Ruben Martinez-Cantin, José J. Guerrero Also presented at Women in Computer Vision Workshop, ECCV 2018* poster · arXiv

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