Ricard Farràs
Sports Intelligence AI Tech Lead AutomaticTV (GRUP MEDIAPRO)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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Top SchoolRicard Farràs is a Sports Intelligence AI Tech Lead with 11 years of experience building real-time, AI-driven video analysis and automation for broadcast sports at AutomaticTV (GRUP MEDIAPRO). He combines top-ranked academic training in telecommunications and robotics from UPC, DTU and ETH Zurich with hands-on expertise in camera calibration, object detection, action recognition and video processing. Ricard leads the core intelligence team, translating applied research into production-grade systems that power automated sports production. His early academic work on machine learning for optical communications resulted in a well-cited Optics Express paper, reflecting a strong foundation in signal processing and clustering methods that still informs his approach to perception problems. Based in Barcelona, he blends product-focused engineering with research curiosity and a track record of shipping robust, low-latency AI systems for live audiovisual environments.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus Intensive Program “Implementing Europe’s Future Broadband Infrastructure” Telecommunications Engineering, Erasmus Intensive Program “Implementing Europe’s Future Broadband Infrastructure” Telecommunications Engineering at University of Technology and Life Sciences (UTP)High School Science, High School Science at Sant Miquel dels Sants (Vic)Master in Telecommunications Engineering (MET) Telecommunications Engineering, Master in Telecommunications Engineering (MET) Telecommunications Engineering at UPC - ETSETB TelecomBCNTechnical University of DenmarkMaster thesis: Active Camera Calibration for Robotic Systems Robotics and Intelligent Systems; Computer Vision; SLAM, Master thesis: Active Camera Calibration for Robotic Systems Robotics and Intelligent Systems; Computer Vision; SLAM at ETH Zürich
Spanish, Catalan, French, English
Github Skills (5)
convolutional-neural-networks8
deep-learning5
darknet5
neural-network4
tensorflow4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
scaelles/Barcelona-CityFlow
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:85 commits, 76 PRs, 79 pushes in 11 days
AutomaticTV/test-cv-developer
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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