• School of Engineering and Applied Science, Aston University

    B4 7ET Birmingham

    United Kingdom

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

I am interested in supervising PhD students in the fields of social and assistive robotics, , robotic cognitive architectures, human-robot interaction, and deep geometric learning.

Personal profile

Biography

Luis J. Manso is a Lecturer in Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences of Aston University.

Research Interests

Dr Manso's research interests include active perception, social and assistive robotics, ambient intelligence, robotic cognitive architectures, human-robot interaction, and deep geometric learning.

Teaching Activity

2022-2023
CS3IVP - Image and Video Processing
CS4340 - Software Engineering
CS4790 - Robotics and Autonomous Systems
CS4740 - Deep Learning

2021-2022
CS3330 - Image and Video Processing
CS4340 - Software Engineering
CS4790 - Robotics and Autonomous Systems

2020-2021
CS2230 - Operating Systems
CS3330 - Digital Image and Video Processing
CS4340 - Software Engineering

2018-2020
CS1020 - Java Programming Foundations
CS4330 - Data Structures and Algorithms
CS4340 - Software Engineering

 

 

 

 

PhD Supervision

Current PhD students

  • Goodluck Oguzie - "Combining Predictive Models and Evolutionary Strategies for Deep Reinforcement Learning"
  • Kieran Saunders - "Self-supervised Monocular Depth Estimation"
  • Vincent Gbouna - "Human Activity Analysis in Smart Environments"

Previous PhD students

  • Yingyi Kuang - "Deep Reinforcement Learning and Transfer Learning of Robot In-hand Dexterous Manipulation"
  • Daniel Rodriguez-Criado -  "Graph Neural Networks for Sensorised Environments"
  • Renato Barros Arantes, "Automatic Learning of Augmentation Strategies Based on Deep Learning Generative Models"
  • Marco A. Gutierrez - "Planned Cognitive Perception for Autonomous Robots"

Qualifications

HEA (Higher Education Academy) Fellow

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  • Action Recognition for Privacy-Preserving Ambient Assisted Living

    Gbouna Zakka, V., Dai, Z. & Manso, L. J., 15 Aug 2024, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - 1st International Conference, AIiH 2024, Proceedings: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (14976). Xie, X., Styles, I., Powathil, G. & Ceccarelli, M. (eds.). Springer, p. 203-217 15 p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); vol. 14976 LNCS).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

  • A Survey on Socially Aware Robot Navigation: Taxonomy and Future Challenges

    Singamaneni, P. T., Bachiller-Burgos, P., Manso, L. J., Garrell, A., Sanfeliu, A., Spalanzani, A. & Alami, R., Sept 2024, In: The International Journal of Robotics Research. 43, 10, p. 1533-1572 40 p.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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  • Multi-person 3D pose estimation from unlabelled data

    Rodriguez-Criado, D., Bachiller-Burgos, P., Manso, L. J. & Vogiatzis, G., 6 Apr 2024, In: Machine Vision and Applications. 35, 18 p., 46.

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

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  • Predictive World Models for Social Navigation

    Oguzie, G., Ekárt, A. & Manso, L. J., 1 Feb 2024, Advances in Computational Intelligence Systems, Contributions Presented at the 22nd UK Workshop on Computational Intelligence. Naik, N., Jenkins, P., Grace, P., Yang, L. & Prajapat, S. (eds.). Springer, p. 53–64 13 p. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing (AISC)).

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

  • Synthesizing Traffic Datasets using Graph Neural Networks

    Rodriguez-Criado, D., Chli, M., Manso, L. J. & Vogiatzis, G., 13 Feb 2024, Proceedings of IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems ITSC. IEEE, p. 3361-3368 8 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Published conference outputConference publication

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