Carles Fernández received his BD in Telecommunications Engineering in Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, specializing later with a MSc in Language and Speech (2006) and another one in Computer Vision and Artificial Intelligence (2008). He received his PhD in computer science from Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2010).

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During his predoctoral period, he did several stays in important research centres in Europe, such as IAKS (Karlsruhe), AVL (Oxford), and MICC (Florence). Carles currently holds a postdoctoral position at the Computer Vision Center (Barcelona), where he assists in National and European projects in the areas of video understanding and semantic video analysis, multilingual NL text generation and understanding, ontology development for video retrieval, and advanced user interfacing. He is also an associate lecturer at the Computer Science department of UAB. During his period at MICC, Carles collaborated with the group of Alberto del Bimbo and Marco Bertini on the topics of event interpretation and uncertainty management of human-based video sequences in surveillance scenarios.