Short bio

I received the degree in Computer Science (2010) and the Msc in Automation, Computation and Systems (2011) from the University of Girona. Currently, I'm a PhD student in the VICOROB Group at the University of Girona. My research, supervised by Dr. Jordi Freixenet, Dr. Xavi Lladó, and Dr. Marta Peracaula, is focused on the analysis and implementation of techniques to automatically detect sources in astronomical images.

Research interests: computer vision, image processing, astronomical data analysis, astronomical source detection.

Publications

Journals

[A&C 2015] M. Masias, X. Lladó, M. Peracaula and J. Freixenet. "Multiscale Distilled Sensing: Astronomical source detection in long wavelength images". Astronomy and Computing. 9, pp. 10-19, 2015.

[NewA 2015] M. Peracaula, A. Torrent, M. Masias, X. Lladó, J. Freixenet, J. Martí, J. R. Sánchez-Sutil, A. J. Muñoz-Arjonilla and J. M. Paredes. "Exploring three faint source detection methods for aperture synthesis radio images". New Astronomy. 36, pp. 86-99, 2015.

[ExA 2013] M. Masias, M. Peracaula, J. Freixenet and X. Lladó. "A quantitative analysis of source detection approaches in optical, infrared, and radio astronomical images". Experimental Astronomy. 36 (3), pp. 591-629, 2013.

[MNRAS 2012] M. Masias, J. Freixenet, X. Lladó and M. Peracaula. "A review of source detection approaches in astronomical images". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 422(2), pp. 1674-1689, 2012.

Conferences

[ADASS 2013] M. Masias, J. Freixenet, M. Peracaula and X. Lladó. "Multiscale source detection for long wavelength astronomical images". 23rd International Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems. Waikoloa, Hawaii, USA, September 29- October 3, 2013 (to appear).

[ICIP 2013] M. Masias, X. Lladó, M. Peracaula and J. Freixenet. "Multiscale distilled sensing: a source detection method for infrared and radio astronomical images". 2013 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing. Melbourne, Australia, September 15-18, 2013 (to appear).

[ADASS 2011] M. Masias, J. Freixenet, X. Lladó and M. Peracaula. "Quantitative evaluation of source detection strategies in astronomical images". 21st International Conference on Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems. Paris, France, November 6-10, 2011.

[CCIA 2009] M. Masias, A. Torrent, X. Lladó and J. Freixenet. "Patch growing: object segmentation using spatial coherence of local patches". 12th International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. Cardona, Spain. October 21-23, 2009.

PhD thesis

[PhDThesis 2014] M. Masias, J. Freixenet, X. Lladó and M. Peracaula. "Automatic source detection in astronomical images", PhD thesis. July 2014.

Master thesis

[MsCThesis 2011] M. Masias, J. Freixenet, X. Lladó and M. Peracaula. "Automatic source detection in astronomical images", Master thesis. July 2011.

Last update: March 2015