David Pascual-Hernández

Hi there! I’m a computer vision researcher dedicated to advancing perception for autonomous driving in off-road environments.

Throughout my career, I’ve been hands-on with every stage of vision-based system development, from image capture to deployment . This includes experience leading an R&D team at SEDDI, a startup specialized in textile material digitization, where I focused on bridging the gap between AI and real-world physical applications.

Currently, I am pursuing my PhD and working as a researcher at Rey Juan Carlos University. My research focuses on perception for off-road autonomous driving, specializing in RGB, LiDAR, and fusion-based semantic segmentation for scene understanding in unstructured environments.

Outside of the lab, you’ll often find me birdwatching!

news

May 07, 2026	My recent work Cross-dataset Evaluation of Visual Semantic Segmentation Models for Off-road Autonomous Driving is now published at Expert Systems with Applications!
Nov 04, 2025	Workshop on RoboticsAcademy+Unibotics at ROSCon ES 2025 in Barcelona, Spain.
Oct 23, 2025	Representing JdeRobot at the GSoC 2025 Mentor Summit in Munich, Germany.
Oct 11, 2024	My PhD journey begins.
Oct 08, 2024	Joined URJC as a research associate for GAIA project.

selected publications

ESWA

Cross-Dataset Evaluation of Visual Semantic Segmentation Models for Off-Road Autonomous Driving

David Pascual-Hernández, Sergio Paniego, Roberto Calvo-Palomino, and 2 more authors

Expert Systems with Applications, 2026

DOI Bib

@article{pascual2026cross,
  title = {Cross-Dataset Evaluation of Visual Semantic Segmentation Models for Off-Road Autonomous Driving},
  author = {Pascual-Hern{\'a}ndez, David and Paniego, Sergio and Calvo-Palomino, Roberto and Mora-Jim{\'e}nez, Inmaculada and Ca{\~n}as-Plaza, Jos{\'e} Mar{\'\i}a},
  journal = {Expert Systems with Applications},
  pages = {132656},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.eswa.2026.132656},
}

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