Miguel Ángel López-Álvarez

Miguel Ángel López-Álvarez

Color Scientist, Physicist, and Electronic Engineer.

Department of Optics

Science Faculty

University of Granada
GRANADA
SPAIN

Phone: (34)-958 241902
Fax: (34)-958 248533
e-mail:

Education

-B.Sc. in Physics, University of Granada, Spain. 2003.

-M.Sc. in Physics, University of Granada, Spain. 2006.

-B.Sc. in Electronic Engineering at University of Granada, Spain. 2007.

-Ph. D. in Color Science, University of Granada, Spain. 2007.

Current Researches

·Multispectral Color Imaging: Linear models for spectral reflectances, natural and artificial illuminants.

·Color Management in scanner+printer multifunction systems.

Published books

-Prácticas de Laboratorio de Física.

J. Hernández Andrés, J. A. García García, J. L. Nieves Gómez, Miguel A. López Álvarez, C. Plata Ríos, J. A. Martinez Ferrer y E. Hita Villaverde

Ed. Copicentro (Granada), ISBN: 84-931445-6-8. (2004).

-Guiones de Prácticas de Laboratorio: Óptica I.

M. Melgosa Latorre, R. Huertas Roa, A. Yebra Rodríguez, E. Hita Villaverde, M. J. Rivas Bravo, Miguel A. López Álvarez, A. M. Rubiño López, J. M. Roa Venegas, R. M. García Monlleó, L. M. Jiménez del Barco-Jaldo.

Ed. Copicentro (Granada), ISBN: 84-934971-2-6. (2006).

-Prácticas de Óptica Fisiológica y Psicofísica de la Visión .

J. L. Nieves, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Romero, A. García y Beltrán, J. A. García García, E. M. Valero, C. Plata y Miguel A. López Álvarez.

Ed. Copicentro (Granada), ISBN: 84-9350583-8. (2007).

Papers in Refereed Journals

-Designing a practical system for spectral imaging of skylight

Applied Optics 44, pp. 5688-5695, 2005.

M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Romero, R. L. Lee, Jr. and J.Hernández-Andrés.

-Selecting algorithms, sensors and linear bases for optimum spectral recovery of skylight.

Journal of the Optical Society of America A, 24, pp. 942-956, 2007.

M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, E. M. Valero and J. Romero.

Developing an optimum computer-designed multispectral system comprising a monochrome CCD camera and a liquid-crystal tunable filter.

Applied Optics, 47, pp. 4381-4390, 2008.

M.A. Lopez-Alvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, and J. Romero.

Using a trichromatic CCD camera for spectral skylight estimation.

Applied Optics, 47, pp. H31-H38,. 2008.

M.A. Lopez-Alvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Romero, F. J. Olmo, A. Cazorla, and L. Alados-Arboledas.

Calibrating the elements of a multispectral imaging system.

Journal of Imaging Science and Technology, pp. - , May 2009.

M.A. Lopez-Alvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Campos, A. Pons y J. Romero.

Retrieval of the optical depth using an All-Sky CCD camera.

Applied Optics, 47, pp. H182-H189, 2008.

F. J. Olmo, A. Cazorla, L. Alados-Arboledas, M.A. Lopez-Alvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, and J. Romero.

Quatifying the “Milky” Experiment.

Applied Optics, 47, pp. H128-H132, 2008.

S. D. Gedzelman, M.A. Lopez-Alvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, and R. Greenier.

International Congress Communications

-Towards a skylight spectral remote sensing camera

J. Hernández-Andrés, M. A. López-Álvarez, R. Lee.

8th International Meeting on Meteorological Optics, Germany, (June 2004) oral communication.

-Optimal sensors for recovering skylight in the presence of noise

M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, R. L. Lee Jr., J. Romero

AIC Colour 05, Granada, Spain, (May 2005), Proceedings Book, pp. 197-200. oral communication

-Colorimetric and spectral combined metric for the optmization of multispectral systems

M.A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, E.M. Valero, J.L. Nieves

AIC Colour 05, Granada, Spain, (May 2005), Proceedings Book, pp. 1685-1688. poster.

-Influence of the recovery method on the optimum sensors for spectral imaging of skylight.

M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. L. Nieves, J. Romero.

IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2006 Symposium. San José (USA), January 2006.

Proceedings of SPIE IS&T Electronic Imaging, SPIE Vol. 6062, pp. 606209_1-606209_9. oral communication

-Separating illuminant and surface spectral reflectance from filtered trichromatic camera measurements.

M. A. López-Álvarez, E. M. Valero, J. Hernández-Andrés.

CGIV 2006, Third European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision. Leeds (UK), June 2006.

Proceedings of the IS&T 3rd Conference on CGIV (Leeds, UK, 2006), pp. 370-373 (2006).

-Taking advantage of a trichromatic CCD digital camera for spectral estimation.

M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Romero, F. J. Olmo, A. Cazorla, L. Alados-Arboledas.

9th International Meeting on Light and Color in Nature . Montana (USA), June 2007.

-Using All-sky imager to obtain aerosol and cloud optical properties .

F. J. Olmo, A. Cazorla, L. Alados-Arboledas, M. A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Romero.

9th International Meeting on Light and Color in Nature . Montana (USA), June 2007.

-Building an optimum computer designed multispectral imaging system.

M.A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, J. Romero.

Proceedings of the IS&T 4th Conference on CGIV (Terrassa , Spain , 2008), pp. - (2008).

-New sample election method for multispectral system color calibration.

M.A. López-Álvarez, J. Hernández-Andrés, E. M. Valero, J. L. Nieves.

Congress of the International Colour Association (AIC’08), Stockholm (Sweden), (June 2008).

Reviews

Review 1 paper for Journal of the Optical Society of America A in 2006.

Review 1 paper for Optics Express in 2006.

Review 3 papers for Journal of the Optical Society of America A in 2007.

Review 1 paper for Optics Express in 2008.

Review 2 papers for Applied Optics in 2008.

Other Scientific Activities

- Member of the Organizing Committee of the 10th Congress of the International Colour Association - AIC Colour 05, Granada (SPAIN) 8-13 May 2005.

- Member of the Technical Programme Committee of the 3rd European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision, Leeds (UK), 19-22 June 2006.

- Member of the 'Technical Programme Committee' of the 4th European Conference on Colour in Graphics, Imaging and Vision, Terrassa (España), 9-13 June 2008.

Other Publications

-Sweet Dreams poem published in the anthology Shadow and sunrising 2002. ISBN: 84-607-6873-2.

Other Activities

Member of the CARVB athletics group in Baza-Granada.

Editor of the official Baza Track&Field.website.

Links

- University of Granada, SPAIN.

- Granada Color Imaging Lab.

- Baza Track&Field site.

Updated: March-19th-2009