benjaminauffarth

Benjamin Auffarth

About Me

Benjamin is a Ph.D. student in the ISP group. He works within the NeuroChem project to integrate models of biological olfaction for application to signal processing in electronic noses. He graduated with a BSc degree in Cognitive Science from the University of Osnabrueck, which he supplemented with studies at the New Bulgarian University (NBU), the Middle East Technical University (METU), and the Chuo University in Tokyo. He finished his MSc degree in the group for Volume Visualization and Artificial Intelligence (WAI) at the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) where he was investigating feature selection for pattern classification in CT images and working on an assignment management system (baptized: SAC) for university programming classes.

Past and current research interests include:

* Signal Processing in the Olfactory System

* Modeling of biological systems

* Feature Selection

* Artificial Fixations (artificial scanpath)

* Human and Monkey Eye Movements



Links

Website
Reading list

Publications

Matteo Falasconi, Agustín Gutierrez, Benjamin Auffarth, Giorgio Sberveglieri, Santiago Marco. "Cluster Analysis of the Rat Olfactory Bulb Activity in Response to Different Odorants." International Symposium on Olfaction and Electronic Nose (ISOEN). Brescia, 2009.

Benjamin Auffarth, "How to build a beowulf," Technical report, November 2008 [pdf]

Jordi Fonollosa, Benjamin Auffarth. "Sensores de gas y narices electrónicas." GEA, 61, pp. 52-53, 2008.

Benjamin Auffarth, Maite López-Sánchez, Jesús Cerquides. "Comparison of Relevance and Redundancy Measures for Feature Selection." Submitted.

Benjamin Auffarth, Maite López-Sánchez, Jesús Cerquides. "Hopfield Networks in Relevance and Redundancy Feature Selection Applied to Classification of Biomedical High-Resolution Micro-CT Images." P. Perner (Ed.), Proceedings of 8th Industrial Conference on Data Mining (ICDM). Leipzig, Germany. July 2008. LNAI 5077, pp 16-31, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. [pdf]

Benjamin Auffarth, Maite López-Sánchez, Jordi Campos, Anna Puig. "System for Automated Assistance in Correction of Programming Exercises (SAC)", 5th international congress of university teaching and innovation (CIDUI). Lleida, Spain. July 2-4th, 2008. pp. 104 (1-9). [pdf]

Benjamin Auffarth, Yasumasa Mutou and Yasuharu Kunii. "An Artificial System for Visual Perception in Autonomous Robots." Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Engineering Systems, 2005.

Posters

Benjamin Auffarth, Agustíın Gutiérrez-Galvez, Santiago Marco. "Which Odorant Properties Are Most Relevant to Perception?" Future Emerging Technologies (FET). Prague, April 21–23, 2009.

Benjamin Auffarth, Agustín Gutiérrez-Galvez, Santiago Marco. "Study of chemotopic representations of glomeruli in the rat olfactory bulb." ECRO 2008. Portoroz, Slovenia. September 2008.

Matteo Falasconi, Benjamin Auffarth, Agustín Gutiérrez-Galvez, Santiago Marco. "Exploring the number of modular dimensions in olfactory bulb activations of the rat." ECRO 2008. Portoroz, Slovenia. September 2008. 

Yasumasa Mutou, Benjamin Auffarth, Yasuharu Kunii. "A Model of Human Vision for Application in Autonomous Robots." 2005. Robocon, Kobe.

Talks

"Investigations Into Odor Representations at the Rat Olfactory Bulb", PhD discussion seminar, IBEC, February 2009.

Theses

"Feature Selection in Classification of Biomedical High-Resolution Micro-CT Images." Master Thesis, University of Barcelona, September 2007. [pdf]

"An Investigation into Differences of Eye Movements in Monkeys and Humans." Bachelor Thesis, University of Osnabrück, September 2006.



Contact


Barcelona Science Park
Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia (IBEC)
C/Baldiri Reixac 13
08028-Barcelona
bauffarth <nospam> at el dot ub dot es
tel. (++34) 93 40-39738
fax. (++34) 93 40-21148