Resume and Portfolio

I am a full-time Research Associate at The Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) since Fall 2014 and M.S. student since Fall 2016. I am currently working under the supervision of professor Yaser Sheikh, and I previously worked for 2 years with professor Fernando De La Torre.

Projects:
The main projects I have contributed to are OpenPose, the Panoptic Studio, IntraFace, and the FeelingSpector. I have also collaborated in projects with Ford and General Motors, among others.

Currently I am working on whole-body (body, hands and face) keypoint estimation from single RGB images, focusing on the compression of CNNs to allow accurate whole-body estimation on embedded systems and low-range devices, e.g. cell phones.

Before CMU:
Before joining the Robotics Institute, I obtained a B.S. in Telecommunication System Engineering (similar to Electrical and Computer Engineering in US) from Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Spain. While an undergraduate, I had the opportunity to work on stereoscopic image rectification and embedded system problems under the supervision of professor Javier Toledo.

Paper and conferences:
Efficient Online Multi-Person 2D Pose Tracking with Recurrent Spatio-Temporal Affinity Fields
Yaadhav Raaj, Haroon Idrees, Gines Hidalgo, Yaser Sheikh

OpenPose: A Real-Time Multi-Person Keypoint Detection Library
Gines Hidalgo, Zhe Cao, Tomas Simon, Shih-En Wei, Hanbyul Joo, Yaser Sheikh
CVPR 2017 (demo)

Full CV:
My full CV is available in PDF format and on my Linkedin profile.