Juan Carlos Torres

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Juan Carlos Torres

Juan Carlos Torres is a full professor of Software Engineering and Computer Graphics at the University of Granada (Spain). He received an MA in Physics in 1982 and the Ph.D. in 1992. He is responsible of the Computer Graphics Group in the Software Engineering Department. His current research interests include volume and solid modeling, virtual reality, octree representation, GIS, geometric algorithms and Computer Graphics applications to Cultural Heritage.

 

He is the director of the Virtual Reality Laboratory and head of the Computer Graphics Group in the Software Engineering Department both at the University of Granada.
He has been project leader of the “Cultural Heritage Information System” project developed with the Alhambra monument that has developed a 3D information system for cultural heritage that aim to add semantic information to the surface of 3D objects. He has participated in several digitizing projects of cultural heritage sites including the Alhambra Palace and the Roman city of Italica.

 

He has supervised the PhD thesis of 14 students: Francisco Feito, José Parets, isidro Verdú, Miguel Gea, Carlos Ureña, Domingo Martín, Francisco Gutierrez, Francisco Velasco, Pedro Cano, Javier Melero, Alejandro León, Francisco Joaquín Rodríguez, Romel Vazquez, Francisco de Asis Conde and Ana Belén Molina.

 

He has served as chairman of the Eurographic's Spanish Chapter from 1995 to 2002. Torres has been the Chairman of the EG Spanish Conference in 1993 (held in Granada), the EG DSVIS '97 workshop, short papers co-chair at EG'2000, and co-chair of the EUROGRAPHICS 2003 and Digital Heritage 2015 conferences, and is member of the VAR’s Editorial Board.

 




Contact information:
email: jctorres@ugr.es

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