Researcher
Research Interests
Hand Gesture Recognition
Sign Language Recognition
Generative Adversarial Networks
Face and Facial Expression Recognition
Computer Vision
Languages
Spanish
English
Japanese
Professional Service
Program committee member for:
ACPR 2025
ACIVS 2025
ICMR 2022
IJCAI-PRICAI 2020
Journal reviewer for:
IEEE TPAMI
CVIU (Elsevier)
APIN (Springer)
MTAP (Springer)
JAS (IEEE/CAA)
IEICE TRANS. INF. & SYST.
Conference reviewer for:
ICPR 2024
ICME 2023
ICPR 2022
MMM 2021
ICPR 2020
IEEE-ISM 2019
Profile
I am a researcher fellow at Takahashi Laboratory from the Department of Informatics at The University of Electro-Communications (UEC) in Tokyo, Japan. I received my Ph.D. in Engineering from UEC, under the supervision of Prof. Masahide Kaneko. I also hold a MS and BE degree obtained from the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico).
Selected Publications
"FASSD-Net: Fast and Accurate Real-Time Semantic Segmentation for Embedded Systems," L. Rosas-Arias, G. Benitez-Garcia, J. Portillo-Portillo, J. Olivares-Mercado, G. Sanchez-Perez, and K. Yanai. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 9, pp. 14349-14360, 2022.
"Continuous Finger Gesture Spotting and Recognition based on Similarities between Start and End Frames," G. Benitez-Garcia, M. Haris, Y. Tsuda, and N. Ukita. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, vol. 23, no. 1, pp. 296-307, 2022.
"IPN Hand: A Video Dataset and Benchmark for Real-Time Continuous Hand Gesture Recognition," G. Benitez-Garcia, J. Olivares-Mercado, G. Sanchez-Perez, and K. Yanai. 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR 2020), Milan, Italy, 2021.
“Multicultural Facial Expression Recognition Based on Differences of Western-Caucasian and East-Asian Facial Expressions of Emotions,” G. Benitez-Garcia, T. Nakamura and M. Kaneko. IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems, vol. 101, no. 5, pp. 1317-1324, 2018.