Research and Publications

Main Research Areas

• Robotics and Computer Vision
• Object Detection
• Data Association and Tracking
• Stereo Vision
• Sensor Fusion
• Industrial Inspection and Gauging

Research Projects in which I was Involved (2014- 2021):

1. MEDALS - Modeling, Estimation and Management of Dangerous Situations through Continuous Analysis of the Driver-Vehicle-Environment System, Contract: PN-III-P4-ID-PCE2020-1700 Funding: Ministery of Research and Innovation, CNCS – UEFISCDI
2. CAMELEON - Compact image Acquisition and position MEasurement system for targets in the LEO raNge, grant funded by Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, code PN-III-P2-2.1-PED-2019-4819 (2020-2022)
3. MultiSpect, Multispectral environment perception by fusion of 2D and 3D sensorial data from the visible and infrared spectrum Project Code: PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2016-0727, Contract No: 60/2017
4. SEPCA - Integrated Semantic Visual Perception and Control for Autonomous Systems, code PN-III-P4-ID-PCCF-2016-0180, (2018-2022)
5. MULTISENS , Multi-scale and multi-modal perception of the 3D dynamic environments by fusion of the dense stereo, dese optical flow and visual odometry data - grant founded by Romanian Minsitry of Education and Research, code PN II IDEI 2011 (2012-2016)
6. CoMoSeF Co-operative Mobility Services of the Future, Celtic Plus project, (2012 - 2015)
7. Artemis-R5Cop, Reconfigurable ROS-based Resilient Reasoning Robotic Cooperating Systems - R5 - COP, FP7 ARTEMIS project (2014 - 2017)
8. Multiface, Multifocal System for Real Time Tracking of Dynamic Facial and Body Features (MULTIFACE), Romanian National Authority for scientific Research, CNDI-UEFISCDI, Young Teams Research Project, Project code: PN-II-RU-TE-2014-4-1746
9. Up-Drive, Autonomous parking and driving UP-DRIVE, Horizon 2020 project (2016 - 2019)

Publications

Books:

• Radu Danescu, Mircea Paul Muresan , Razvan Itu, Tiberiu Marita, "Design with Microprocessors - Laboratory Guide", UTPRESS Cluj-Napoca, 2018, ISBN: 978-606-737-337-0
• Radu Danescu, Mircea Paul Muresan , Razvan Itu, "Proiectare cu Microprocesoare - Indrumator de laborator" , UTPRESS Cluj-Napoca, 2018, ISBN: 978-606-737-336-3

Peer Reviewed Journals:

• Muresan, M.P. ; Nedevschi, S.; Danescu, R. Robust Data Association Using Fusion of Data-Driven and Engineered Features for Real-Time Pedestrian Tracking in Thermal Images. Sensors 2021, 21, 8005. https://doi.org/10.3390/s21238005

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• R. D. Brehar, M. P. Muresan , T. Mariţa, C. -C. Vancea, M. Negru and S. Nedevschi, "Pedestrian Street-Cross Action Recognition in Monocular Far Infrared Sequences," in IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 74302-74324, 2021, doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3080822.

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• Muresan, M.P. ; Giosan, I.; Nedevschi, S. Stabilization and Validation of 3D Object Position Using Multimodal Sensor Fusion and Semantic Segmentation. Sensors 2020, 20, 1110.

ISI/ BDI Conference proceedings:

• M. P. Muresan , R. Marchis, S. Nedevschi and R. Danescu. Stereo and Mono Depth Estimation Fusion for an Improved and Fault Tolerant 3D Reconstruction 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2021.
• R. Danescu, R. Itu, M. P. Muresan , V. Turcu. Compact Solution for Low Earth Orbit Surveillance 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2021.
• R. D. Brehar, C -C Vancea, M. P. Mureșan , S. Nedevschi, R. Dănescu. Pose Based Pedestrian Street Cross Action Recognition in Infrared Images 2021 IEEE 17th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2021.
• Radu Danescu, Razvan Itu, M. P. Muresan, "PartID – Individual Objects Tracking in Occupancy Grids Using Particle Identities" 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2020.

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• M. P. Muresan, Dragos Gabriel Cireap and Ion Giosan, "Automatic Vision Inspection Solution for the Manufacturing Process of Automotive Components Through Plastic Injection Molding " 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2020.

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• M. P. Muresan, Andrei Răzvan Barbura and Sergiu Nedevschi, "Teeth Detection and Dental Problem Classification in Panoramic X-Ray Images using Deep Learning and Image Processing Techniques " 2020 IEEE 16th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2020.

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• M. P. Muresan and S. Nedevschi,"Multi-Object Tracking of 3D Cuboids Using Aggregated Features," 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2019, pp. 11-18. doi: 10.1109/ICCP48234.2019.8959552
• M. P. Muresan, P. A. Szabo and S. Nedevschi, "Dot Matrix OCR for Bottle Validity Inspection," 2019 IEEE 15th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 2019, pp. 395-401. doi: 10.1109/ICCP48234.2019.8959762
• M. P. Muresan and S. Nedevschi, "Multimodal sparse LIDAR object tracking in clutter," 2018 IEEE 14th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, 2018, pp. 215-221. doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2018.8516646

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• M. P. Muresan, S. Nedevschi, and R. Danescu, "A multi patch warping approach for improved stereo block matching", in Proc. Int. Conf.Comput. Vis. Theory App., 2017, pp. 459–466
• M. P. Muresan , S. Nedevschi and I. Giosan, "Real-time object detection using a sparse 4-layer LIDAR," 2017 13th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, 2017, pp. 317-322.doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2017.8117023

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• M. P. Muresan, S. Nedevschi and R. Danescu, "Patch warping and local constraints for improved block matching stereo correspondence," 2016 IEEE 12th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, 2016, pp. 321-327. doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2016.7737167

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• M. P. Muresan, M. Negru and S. Nedevschi, "Improving local stereo algorithms using binary shifted windows, fusion and smoothness constraint ," 2015 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj-Napoca, 2015, pp. 179-185. doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2015.7312626
• M. P. Muresan , R. Brehar and S. Nedevschi, "Vision algorithms and embedded solution for pedestrian detection with far infrared camera," 2014 IEEE 10th International Conference on Intelligent Computer Communication and Processing (ICCP), Cluj Napoca, 2014, pp. 133-136. doi: 10.1109/ICCP.2014.6936965

Unindexed Papers

• M.P. Muresan , M. Cistian, M. Antal, M. Negru, S. Nedevschi, "A distributed Architecture for Heterogenous Sensors in Smart Factories"
• M. P. Muresan , Laser micrometer, IEEE AQTR 2012, Student Forum , Best Paper Award