Luis Goncalves Ph.D., March 2000 Computation and Neural Systems California Institute of Technology Vision Lab luis at vision dot caltech dot edu

Currently:

V.P. of R&D, at Evolution Robotics Retail A Datalogic company.

Research Interests - Macroeconomics - Physics (foundations of quantum mechanics) - Synthetic Biology - Sensory Substitution, Neural Plasticity - Neocortical Modelling - Computer Vision (Object Recognition, Motion/Structure Estimation) - Machine Learning - Human-Machine Interfaces

Recent Work (in reverse chronological order) - Sensory Substitution: Enabling the blind to See With Sound - Automatic recognition of retail items for checkout fraud prevention - Robust, real-time robot navigation and localization - City-wide panoramic visualization - Unsupervised learning of human motion models for person detection - Real-time, computer-synthesized, realistic human motion - Estimating 3-D human motion from a monocular view

~ f U n ~ - These are just some of my faaaavorite quotes ... - Some books I've read and summarized - It's fun to philosophize at a Socrates Cafe. There's one in Altadena! - An excellent art class I took at the Art Center College of Design - Some of my Drawings, and Paintings - My in-class drawings - The BEST book that will TEACH you how to DRAW - David Luce's EXCELLENT Intro to Painting class (unfinished) - A note about an interesting optical illusion I discovered once - Some cool Qi Gong exercies from a fascinating book - An EEG sensor I designed to study dreaming

The Future - A new (control theoretic) framework for macroeconomics - Disentangling quantum entanglement - Shedding light on dark matter and dark energy - The Brave New World of Synthetic Biology - Neocortex Redux - Retraining the brain to eliminate tinnitus