In the past he was also Associate Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona from the year 1997 until 2008. He received the degree in Mathematics and Informatics and in 1996 the doctorate in Computer Science. His research activity is orientated to cognitive aspects of Media using Computer Vision and Machine Learning techniques. He has directed three PhD about those subjects and his research is published in more than ten International Journals and more than sixty proceedings of conferences.