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Ernesto Lopez

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Ernesto Lopez

PhD student
Department of Engineering Cybernetics

ernesto.lopez@ntnu.no
Nyhavna, Trondheim
Research Publications Outreach

Research

Extended Object Tracking (EOT) of maritime vessels using LiDAR and camera information.

Low-parameter general model of maritime vessels.

Click  here to visualize how the developed ship hull extent models works on different ship examples.

Publications

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2025

  • Nygård, Trym Anthonsen; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Stahl, Annette. (2025) A General Vessel Shape Representation as a Continuous Signed Distance Function via Gaussian Processes. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article
  • Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Schönlieb, C.; Aviles-Rivero, A.; Mester, Rudolf; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Stahl, Annette. (2025) Heading Estimation of Ships using Deep Learning and Synthetic Non-aerial Images. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Folåsen, Steffen; Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Dalhaug, Nicholas; Stahl, Annette; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2025) Extended Object Tracking Using a Gaussian Process Extent Model and Scene Flow-LiDAR Fusion. IEEE Aerospace Conference. Proceedings
    Academic article

2024

  • Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2024) A Multiple Extended Object Tracker with the Gaussian Process Model Utilizing Negative Information. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion
    Academic article

2023

  • Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2023) Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking.
    Academic chapter
  • Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2023) Extended target PMBM tracker with a Gaussian Process target model on LiDAR data.
    Academic chapter

Journal publications

  • Nygård, Trym Anthonsen; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Stahl, Annette. (2025) A General Vessel Shape Representation as a Continuous Signed Distance Function via Gaussian Processes. IFAC-PapersOnLine
    Academic article
  • Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Schönlieb, C.; Aviles-Rivero, A.; Mester, Rudolf; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Stahl, Annette. (2025) Heading Estimation of Ships using Deep Learning and Synthetic Non-aerial Images. Journal of Physics: Conference Series (JPCS)
    Academic article
  • Folåsen, Steffen; Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Dalhaug, Nicholas; Stahl, Annette; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2025) Extended Object Tracking Using a Gaussian Process Extent Model and Scene Flow-LiDAR Fusion. IEEE Aerospace Conference. Proceedings
    Academic article
  • Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2024) A Multiple Extended Object Tracker with the Gaussian Process Model Utilizing Negative Information. Journal of Advances in Information Fusion
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2023) Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking.
    Academic chapter
  • Baerveldt, Martin Lukas; Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland. (2023) Extended target PMBM tracker with a Gaussian Process target model on LiDAR data.
    Academic chapter

Outreach

2024

  • Conference lecture
    Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Vasstein, Kjetil; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2024) A General Low-Parameter 3D Ship Hull Extent Model for Object Tracking. 27th International Conference on Information Fusion

2023

  • Conference lecture
    Lopez, Michael Ernesto; Brekke, Edmund Førland; Mester, Rudolf; Stahl, Annette. (2023) Multiscan Shape Estimation for Extended Object Tracking. Fusion 2023

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