Marcelo Contreras

MsC student at University of Alberta Researcher at NODE Lab

I am currently a Master’s student at University of Alberta working with Professor Ehsan Hashemi as part of the NODE Lab. My research intends to develop reliable autonomous navigation systems for adversarial scenarios (dynamic surrondings, light conditions and weather) and lies as a mixture of SLAM, Graph Optimization, Deep Learning (DL) and State Estimation. I started at NODE Lab as visiting scholar in 2023, supported by the ELAP scholarship granted by Canadian government.

Previously, I received my Bachelor’s degree in Mechatronics Engineering with a minor in robotics from the Universidad de Ingenieria y Tecnologia, Lima, Peru in 2023. My thesis was focused on electroencephalography (EEG) decoding for stimulus prediction through a Transformer DNN fused with Interval Fuzzy Type-2 (IFT2) units that can handle uncertainties and improve predictions, and it was supervised by Professor Christian Flores

🔥 News

Jul 24, 2025	`Started research stay` in Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) as part of Institute of Measurement and Control Systems (MRT).
Jun 14, 2025	Paper accepted@IEEE ITSC 2025: Our work on Robust 3D Bounding Box Detection and State Estimation of Dynamic Objects for Autonomous Navigation was accepted to IEEE ITSC 2025
May 23, 2025	Paper accepted@Wiley J-FR: Our work on Visual-Inertial based State Estimation for Navigation of Mobile Robots in Unstructured and Dynamic Environments was accepted to Wiley J-FR
Mar 28, 2025	NODE Lab has been promoted in latest issue of IEEE ITS Research Lab.
Oct 07, 2024	Paper accepted@SMC 2024 Our work on EEG-TCF2Net: A Novel Deep Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Model for Decoding SSVEP in Brain-Computer Interfaces was accepted to IEEE SMC 2024 as a regular conference paper.

📝 Selected publications

SMC

EEG-TCF2Net: A Novel Deep Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Model for Decoding SSVEP in Brain-Computer Interfaces

Marcelo Contreras, Christian Flores, and Javier Andreu-Perez

In 2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2024

Bib

@inproceedings{contreras2024fuzzy,
  author = {Contreras, Marcelo and Flores, Christian and Andreu-Perez, Javier},
  booktitle = {2024 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)},
  title = {EEG-TCF2Net: A Novel Deep Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Model for Decoding SSVEP in Brain-Computer Interfaces},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  pages = {2906-2911},
  doi = {10.1109/SMC54092.2024.10831302},
  ieee = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10831302},
  organization = {IEEE},
  publisher = {SMC},
}

T-IV

DynaNav-SVO: Dynamic Stereo Visual Odometry With Semantic-Aware Perception for Autonomous Navigation

Marcelo Contreras, Neel P. Bhatt, and Ehsan Hashemi

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (Early Access), 2025

Bib

@article{contreras2024dynanav,
  title = {DynaNav-SVO: Dynamic Stereo Visual Odometry With Semantic-Aware Perception for Autonomous Navigation},
  author = {Contreras, Marcelo and Bhatt, Neel P. and Hashemi, Ehsan},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Vehicles (Early Access)},
  pages = {446-458},
  ieee = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10561598},
  year = {2025},
  volume = {10},
  number = {1},
  publisher = {T-IV},
}

T-NSRE

Transfer Learning With Active Sampling for Rapid Training and Calibration in BCI-P300 Across Health States and Multi-Centre Data

Christian Flores, Marcelo Contreras, Ichiro Macedo, and 1 more author

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2024

Bib

@article{flores2024transfer,
  author = {Flores, Christian and Contreras, Marcelo and Macedo, Ichiro and Andreu-Perez, Javier},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering},
  title = {Transfer Learning With Active Sampling for Rapid Training and Calibration in BCI-P300 Across Health States and Multi-Centre Data},
  year = {2024},
  volume = {32},
  pages = {3794-3803},
  doi = {10.1109/TNSRE.2024.3420960},
  publisher = {T-NSRE},
}

🎓 Academic Service

Organizing

Organizer of the ECCV 2024 Workshop on Robust, Out-of-Distribution And Multi-Modal models for Autonomous Driving (ROAM)

Reviewing

Reviewer of IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference (ITSC)