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Research Publications
Education Publications

Year: 2012
Research Publications
  • R. Prados, R. Garcia, N. Gracias, J. Escartín, L. Neumann. "A Novel Blending Technique for Underwater Giga-Mosaicing," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 626-644, 2012. ISSN 0364-9059. doi: 10.1109/JOE.2012.2204152
  • S. Purkis., B. Vlaswinkel, N. Gracias. Consistency In Vertical-To-Lateral Carbonate Facies Juxtapositions From The Cretaceous – A Means To 3-D Subsurface Modeling Via Markov. Journal of Sedimentary Research, April 2012 v. 82 no. 4 p. 232-243
  • M. Prats, D. Ribas, N. Palomeres, J.C. García, V. Nannen, S. Wirth, J.J. Fernández, J.P. Beltrán, R. Campos, P. Ridao, P.J. Sanz, G. Oliver, M. Carreras, N. Gracias, R. Marín, A. Ortiz. Reconfigurable AUV for intervention missions: a case study on underwater object recovery. Journal Intelligent Service Robotics Vol. 5 Num. 1, pp 19-31 , 2012.
  • E. Mittelstaedt, J. Escartin, N. Gracias, J.-A. Olive, T. Barreyre, A. Davaille, M. Cannat, R. Garcia. "Quantifying diffuse and discrete venting at the Tour Eiffel vent site, Lucky Strike hydrothermal field" Geochemistry, Geophysics and Geosystems, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 1-18, 2012. ISSN: 1525-2027. doi:10.1029/2011GC003991
  • A. Elibol, N. Gracias and R. Garcia. "Efficient Topology Estimation for Large Scale Optical Mapping", Springer, 2012. ISBN 978-3-642-30312-8 (Book)
  • A. Elibol, N. Gracias and R. Garcia. Efficient Image Mosaicing for Optical Underwater Mapping , IEEE 20th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications, 2012.
  • A. Shihavuddin, N. Gracias, R. Garcia. "Online Sunflicker Removal using Dynamic Texture Prediction". International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISSAP'2012), Rome, Italy.
  • P. Nomikou, Escartin, J.; Ridao, P.; Sakellariou, D.; Camilli, R.; Ballu, V.; Moreira, M.; Mevel, C.; Mallios, A.; Deplus, C.; Andreani, M.; Pot, O.; Garcia, R.; Rouzie, L.; Gabsi, T.; Campos, R.; Gracias, N.; Hurtos, Ν.; Magi, L.; Palomeras, N.; Ribas, D. Preliminary submarine monitoring of Santorini Caldera: Hydrothermal activity, and seafloor deformation Volcanism of the Southern Aegean in the frame of the broader Mediterranean area (Poster). International Conference on Volcanism of the Southern Aegean (VOLSAM 2012), Santorini, Greece, October 2012.
  • R. Prados, R. Garcia, N. Gracias, P. Ridao, J. Escartín, L. Neumann. "Construcción de Mapas Ópticos para la Caracterización del Fondo Marino", XXIII Jornadas de Automática, pp. 985-992, Vigo, Spain, 2012. ISBN: 978-84-8158-583-4 
  • Cantwell, K., Gintert, B., Lirman, D., Gonzalez, M., Gracias, N., Reid, R.P. (2012) Underwater Landscape Mosaics: the Cure for Common Coral Reef Monitoring. 41st Annual Benthic Ecology Meeting, Norfolk, VA, 21-24 March 2012. (Poster presentation)
  • Cantwell, K., Gintert, B., Gracias, N., Lirman, D., Gonzalez, M., Gleason, A.C.R., Reid, R.P. (2012) Reef-Scale Benthic Change: Using Landscape Mosaics to Address Monitoring Gaps. Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.
  • Gintert, B., Gracias, N., Szlyk, T., Ciminello, M., Cantwell, K., Reid, R.P. (2012) Measuring Coral Community Resilience: a 40-year Analysis at Andros Island. Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.
  • Gintert, B, A. Gleason, K. Cantwell, N. Gracias, M. Gonzalez, R. P. Reid, Third-Generation Underwater Landscape Mosaics for Coral Reef Mapping and Monitoring. Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Australia, 9-13 July 2012
  • Gleason, A.C.R, Gintert, B., Gracias, N., Cantwell, K., Gonzalez, M., Reid, R.P. (2012) Enhanced Underwater Mosaicing Technology for Coral Reef Monitoring and Mapping. Proceedings of the 12th International Coral Reef Symposium, Cairns, Queensland, Australia, 9-13 July 2012.
  • A. Elibol, N. Gracias and R. Garcia, "Efficient Image Mosaicing for Optical Underwater Mapping," IEEE 20th Conference on Signal Processing and Communications Applications (SIU), Fethiye, Turkiye, 2012 (National conference and published in Turkish).
  • J. Quintana, R. Campos, R. Garcia, J. Freixenet, N. Gracias, S. Puig, J. Malvehy. "A novel acquisition device for Total Body Photography," World Congress of Dermoscopy. Brisbane, Australia. 2012. (Abstract)
Educational Publications

Year: 2011
  • E. Mittelstaedt, A. Davaille, P. Van Keken, N. Gracias, J. Escartin. "Mesure des champs de vitesse dans les champs hydrothermaux océaniques" 20eme Congrès Français de Mécanique, Besançon, France, September 2011
  • A. Elibol, R. Garcia, N. Gracias. "A New Global Alignment Approach for Underwater Optical Mapping," Ocean Engineering, vol. 38, no. 10, pp. 1207-1219, 2011. ISSN: 0029-8018. DOI:10.1016/j.oceaneng.2011.05.013
  • R. Garcia, N. Gracias. Underwater Optical Mapping. 4th International Workshop on Marine Technology (Martech’11), Cádiz, Spain, 2011. ISSN 1697-2562 (BEST PRESENTATION AWARD)
  • A. Elibol, N. Gracias, R. Garcia, A. Gleason, B. Gintert, D. Lirman and R.P. Reid. "Efficient Autonomous Image Mosaicing with Applications to Coral Reef Monitoring". Proc. of the Workshop on Robotics for Environmental Monitoring held at IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), San Francisco, USA, pp. 50-57, September 2011.
  • R. Garcia, N. Gracias, "Detection of Interest Points in Turbid Underwater Images," IEEE OCEANS Conference, pp. 1-9, Santander, Spain, 2011. ISBN (print): 978-1-4577-0086-6. DOI: 10.1109/Oceans-Spain.2011.6003605.
  • Cantwell, K., Gintert, B., Gracias, N., Lirman, D., Gonzalez, M., Reid, R.P. (2011) Landscape Mosaics Document Reef-Scale Response to Cold Water Disturbance. Society of Environmental Journalists, October 19, 2011, Miami, FL. (Poster presentation)
  • Jackson, K., Eberli, G., Cantwell, K., Gracias, N., Reid, R.P. (2011)Assessing the Impact of Hurricane Irene on Carbonate Sediment Transport in the Exumas. Society of Environmental Journalists, October 19, 2011, Miami, FL. (Poster presentation)
  • Cantwell, K., Gintert, B., Gonzalez, M., Gracias, N., Lirman, D., Reid, R.P. (2011) A Landscape View of Cold Water Benthic Mortality. 3rd Annual Coral Reef Forum, National Center for Coral Reef Research, August, 2011.
  • Gintert, B., Gracias, N., Gleason, A.C.R., Cantwell, K., Gonzalez, M., Lirman, D., Reid, R.P. (2011) Landscape Mosaic Imaging of Coral Reefs. 3rd Annual Coral Reef Forum, National Center for Coral Reef Research, August, 2011. (Poster presentation)
  • Cantwell, K., Gintert, B., Gonzalez, Lirman, D., M., Gracias, N., Reid, R.P. (2011) A Landscape View of Cold Water Benthic Mortality. Research, Creativity, and Innovation Forum, March 2011. (Poster presentation)
  • Vlaswinkel, B., Purkis, S., Gracias, N.(2011) Markov Chain/Transition Probability Approach for Geo-Cellular Modeling of Carbonate Depositional Geobodies: Proof-of-Concept Markov Random Field Simulator, 73rd EAGE Conference and Exhibition-Workshops 2011, DOI:10.3997/2214-4609.20144721 
  • J. Quintana, R. Campos, N. Gracias, J. Freixenet, R. Garcia. 3D Skin Mapping for Melanoma Detection, Medical Image Computing Conference (MICCAT2011). Barcelona. 2011. 

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Year: 2009
  • Gracias. N.; Negahdaripour, S.; Mahoor, M.; Gleason, A. (2009). Fast image blending using watersheds and graph cuts. Image and Vision Computing, 27(5), 597-607.
  • T. Nicosevici, N. Gracias, S. Negahdaripour, R. Garcia. "Efficient three-dimensional Scene Modeling and Mosaicing," Journal of Field Robotics, vol. 26, no. 10, pp. 759-788, 2009. (Special Issue: Three-Dimensional Mapping, Part 1). ISSN (Print): 1556-4959. ISSN (Online): 1556-4967. DOI: 10.1002/rob.20305.
  • O. Delaunoy, N. Gracias and R. Garcia. "Small Scale Underwater Change Detection". Instrumentation Viewpoint, 2009. ISSN 1697-2562 (Print) 1886-4864 (Online).
  • A. Elibol, N. Gracias and R. Garcia, "Match Selection in Batch Mosaicing using Mutual Information". Lecture Notes in Computer Science vol. 5524, Ed. Springer, pp. 104-111, 2009. 4th Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA2009), Povoa do Varzim, Portugal, 2009. ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online). ISBN 978-3-642-02171-8 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-02172-5_15.
  • O. Delaunoy, N. Gracias and R. Garcia, "Small Scale Underwater Change Detection". Annual Conference of the American Society of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing. Baltimore, USA, 2009. (Abstract)

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Year: 2003
  • N. Gracias, S. Zwaan, A. Bernardino and J. Santos-Victor. Mosaic Based Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 28(1) pp 609-624, October 2003.
  • N. Gracias. Mosaic-based Visual Navigation for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Ph.D. Thesis, Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal, June 2003

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