Activity Report 2013-2014

CITEDI-IPN SPIE Student Chapter

CITEDI-IPN SPIE Student Chapter

CITEDI-IPN Student Chapter was established last year, in 8 February 2013 bystudents of the Master and PhD of Science in Digital Systems at Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital (CITEDI-IPN), Tijuana, Mexico.

Objectives

The main objective of CITEDI-IPN Student Chapter is to promote optics and image processing inside and outside of the center. We are also interested in the opportunity to exchange ideas with experts in the areas of optics, digital image processing, and related applications, which greatly contribute in the development of our research work.

We think that we can contribute to increase the science and technology community in Latin-America, giving simple efforts to foster optics activities and motivate young people to become more interested and STEM activities, exploring fun applications with optics, photonics, and digital image processing.

About CITEDI

CITEDI, Centro de Investigación y Desarrollo de Tecnología Digital, is a research and development center of digital technology located in Tijuana, Baja California, a border city between Mexico and the USA.

CITEDI is part of the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN), one of the largest institutions of the country. The purpose of our institution is to develop, promote and transfer basic and applied research to develop high-level technologies in the area of electronics and computing, and to train human resources with graduate programs of excellence.

Student Chapter Members

Members

Oliver Campos

Andrés Cuevas

Leopoldo Gaxiola

Ulises Orozco

Kenia Picos

Yuma Sandoval

Jesús Valderrama

Luis Miguel Zamudio

Previous Members

Rigoberto Alvarado

Francisco Arias

Viridiana Contreras

Gerardo Díaz

Daniel Gutiérrez

Sergio Pinto

Alejandra Serrano

Fernando Villalbazo

Our Advisor: Víctor Hugo Díaz Ramírez

ACTIVITIES

2013-2014

SPIE Optics + Photonics

Leadership Workshop

We attended to the SPIE Optics + Photonics Leadership Workshop in August 2013, San

Diego, CA. This was the first time that our chapter to collaborate with others chapters. This

was a great opportunity to increase our performance to manage our chapters activities.

Activity: SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego

SPIE Student Chapter Officer Grant y SPIE Optics + Photonics Leadership Workshop, Ago, 2013

We had the opportunity to meet wonderful people from all over the world. We learned how

to manage our chapter and how to be productive in different areas of our carrers. Although

promote optics was the main objective, we could discuss with people about several issues

and real experiences to achieve it.

Poster Presentation SPIE Optics+Photonics

The first poster presentation of our student chapter was presented for some of the

memebers in different days during the SPIE Optics +Photonics 2013.

Activity: SPIE Optics+Photonics, San Diego

Oral presentation was developed from some of our student chapter members.

The topics of the presentations were pattern recognition, optical correlation

filtering, and computer vision with graphics processors.

Activity: CiComp 2013

Oral presentation was

developed at CiComp 2013, in

Ensenada, Baja California,

Mexico.

The presentation was about

pattern recognition under

changing illumination conditions

with graphics processors.

Actitivity: “Descubre tu Posgrado en CITEDI”

In this activity, we promoted our research activities to undergraduate students in order to motivate

them to continue their science and engineering career. In this context our chapter presented the

main results in pattern recognition, optic correlation filtering applications, and computer vision.

Activity: UTT Mecatrónica

In this activity, we present our project results related to optical correlation filtering,

computer vision, and pattern recognition, at the1st Mechatronics Colloquium, Universidad

Tecnológica de Tijuana, April, 2013,

Promotion of Optics in UABC Tijuana

Our Advisor, Professor Víctor Hugo Díaz

Ramírez presenting at the annual seminar

of science graduate programs at the

Autonomus University of Baja California

(UABC), Tijuana Campus.

Kids visiting CITEDI

In this activity, we promote science and

technonology focused on optics basis, image

and signal processing applications, in order to

motivate elementary school kids into STEM

education.

The talks were presented by some chapter

members, and at the same time we showed to

the kids several fun experiments, trying to get

their attention. Optics was emphasized in this

outreach activity.

Activity: ERA 2014

The Regional Academic Encounter (ERA 2014) was presented in April 9–11th

at Tijuana, Mexico.

The main topics of this scientific and academic congress were mainly focused

on digital systems. Four of keynote presenters were for areas of study related

to digital image processing, image retrieval, computer vision, and optical

correlation filtering.

Financial Information

The cost for attending to SPIE Optics+Photonics was covered with the Officer

Travel Grant for conference pass, lodging, and transportation.

Other activities presented were provided by SIP-20131209 project and

institutional funding.

Future Work

Our main activities 2014-2015 are listed below:

SPIE Optics+Photonics Leadership Workshop.

SPIE Optics+Photonics oral and poster presentation.

SPIE Lecturer visit at CITEDI.

Optics Science and Technology promotion at “Descubre tu Posgrado 2014” to

undergraduate students.

Foster Optics to the community at Tijuana Innovadora, 2014.

Promote optics, image processing and computer vision at congress: Regional Academic

Encounter (ERA 2015).