ROI MENDEZ FERNANDEZ

ROI MENDEZ FERNANDEZ is a Professor at the University of Santiago de Compostela, affiliated with the Department of Communication Sciences within the Faculty of Communication Sciences. He is also part of the Institute of Studies and Development of Galicia (IDEGA) and the Audiovisual studies research group focused on audiovisual communication technologies. His academic career includes a doctoral thesis in 2017 titled Advanced visualization and interaction applied to virtual scenarios, supervised by Dr. Julian C. Flores González and Dr. Enrique Castelló Mayo.

His research interests center on virtual TV set technologies, mixed reality applications in education, motion capture systems, and cloud-based educational platforms. Recent work explores the viability of tools like Cloudclass in primary education, telepresence in art education, and benchmarking human pose estimation solutions for virtual television.

Notable contributions include developing distributed virtual TV architectures, cyclorama illumination calibration, and low-cost sensor integration for natural interaction systems. His projects often bridge academic research with practical applications in media production and educational technology. He actively collaborates with the COGRADE research group on computer graphics and data engineering.