Author archives: David Orden

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PhD in Mathematics (Universidad de Cantabria, 2003), associate professor of applied mathematics at the Universidad de Alcalá. His main research interests are Discrete and Computational Geometry, Graph Theory, and their applications to other fields.

Sensograph: Fast sensory evaluation using computational geometry

Sensograph: Fast sensory evaluation using computational geometry

Mathematics

By David Orden

Sensory profiling is a very important tool in food industry, crucial in order to adapt the products to consumers’ preferences. Quantitative Descriptive Analysis (QDA) is a precise tool to relate characteristics of the product with consumers’ perception, since trained panels provide very detailed, robust, consistent, and reproducible results . However, creating and maintaining a well-trained […]

Triangulations and face morphing

Triangulations and face morphing

Mathematics

By David Orden

Face morphing has become quite popular in the last years; from mixing the faces of two celebrities to guessing how your baby could look, many TV shows and apps use software which changes one face into another through a continuous and smooth transition. Among the different mathematical tools that can be used for face morphing […]

Negotiating Wi-Fi channels to improve bandwidth in surveillance networks

Negotiating Wi-Fi channels to improve bandwidth in surveillance networks

Computer scienceMathematics

By David Orden

Security in residential and public areas is a matter of great importance for many people. This is why some Internet providers are offering surveillance systems as a value-added service. Such surveillance systems have recently shifted from CCTVs to IP-based cameras, as the latter offer clear advantages to their users, like a more competitive cost and […]

Flip me to the moon

Flip me to the moon

Mathematics

By David Orden

This post is dedicated to the memory of Professor Ferran Hurtado , inspirational friend and colleague. Triangulations are extremely useful in computer graphics, with terrain modeling being an outstanding example: A mesh of points in 2D is triangulated and then the triangulation is lifted to obtain an -monotone polyhedral surface in 3D, called a 2.5D […]