Multimedia Signal Processing Group Members

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Permanent Staff, Current Post-Doc Researchers, Current Ph.D. Students, Current Researchers, Current MSc Students, Current Visiting_Students

Former Members: Post-Doc Researchers, Ph.D. Students, Researchers, MSc Students, MSc Students (pre-Bologna), Final Year Project Students, Visiting Students

Permanent Staff

	Fernando Pereira - Full Professor at IST
	Paula Queluz - Assistant Professor at IST
	Paulo Lobato Correia - Associate Professor at IST
	Luis Ducla Soares - Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL
	Paulo Nunes - Associate Professor at ISCTE-IUL

João Ascenso - Assistant Professor at IST

Catarina Brites – Post-Doc Researcher at IST

Tomás Brandão - Assistant Professor at ISCTE-IUL

Henrique Oliveira - Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Beja

Caroline Conti– Post-Doc Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações

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Current Post-Doc Researchers

Antoine Dricot - Post-Doc Researcher, supervised by J. Ascenso, C. Brites and F. Pereira

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Current Ph.D. Students

Alireza Javaheri - Ph.D. student at IST, on "Point Cloud Compression", supervised by J. Ascenso, F. Pereira and C. Brites

Falah Jabar Rahim - Ph.D. student at IST, on "Quality of Experience (QoE) for Omnidirectional image and video", supervised by P. Queluz and J. Ascenso

Paulo Ferreira - Ph.D. student at IST, on "Performance Assessment of Multimodal Image Co-Registration and Segmentation Methodologies in Three-Dimensional Liver Dosimetry during Radioembolization with Microspheres loaded with ITRIO-90", supervised by P. Girão, D. Costa and P.L. Correia

Ricardo Monteiro - Ph.D. student at ISCTE-IUL, on "Scalable 3D HoloscopiccVideo Representation and Coding for Immersive Systems", supervised by P. Nunes and N. Rodrigues

Alireza Seppas-Moghaddam – Ph.D. student at IST, on "Light-field imaging based biometric recognition", supervised by P.L. Correia and F. Pereira

Tanmay Verlekar – Ph.D. student at IST, on "Biometrics Recognition using Gait and Soft-biometrics", supervised by P.L. Correia and L.D. Soares

André Guarda – Ph.D. student at IST, on "Point cloud coding", supervised by F. Pereira and N. Rodrigues (IPL)

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Current Researchers

Joaquim Espada - Researcher

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Current MSc Students

Filipe M. Ferreira - MSc student at IST "Machine learning based image coding", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Afonso Barroso Costa - MSc student at IST "Projection-based Dynamic Point Cloud Geometry Coding", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Eduardo Filipe Ramos Félix - MSc student at IST "Sistema para Monitorização de Atletas durante o Treino", supervised by P.L. Correia and H. Silva

Gabriel De Mira Godinho Cruz  - MSc student at IST "Camera-based Heart Rate Monitoring", supervised by P.L. Correia

Daniel Bento de Sousa  - MSc student at IST "Detection of Attacks to Face Recognition Systems", supervised by P.L. Correia

Francisco Duarte de Sousa Salgado  - MSc student at IST "Person Re-identification for Video Surveillance", supervised by P.L. Correia and K. Kouramas (UTRC)

Guilherme Mateus Moreira  - MSc student at IST "Automatic Detection of TV Logos in Broadcast Video Content", supervised by P. Queluz and A. Rodrigues

David Luís Dias Fernandes - MSc student at IST "Image Processing for Detection of Road Pavement Degradation", supervised by P.L. Correia and H. Oliveira

Rafael da Silva Bento - MSc student at IST "Design of a Health Monitoring In-Bed System using Speckle Patterns", supervised by P.L. Correia and P. André

Eurico Manuel Rodrigues Lopes - MSc student at IST "Dynamic Point Cloud Attributes Compression", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Pedro Miguel Garcia Perdigão - MSc student at IST "Ultra-narrow band satellite visual monitoring of high-sea fishing vessels", supervised by F. Pereira and J. Ascenso

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Current Visiting Students

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Former Post-Doc Researchers

Matteo Naccari - Post-Doc Researcher (2009 - 2011)

Phooi Yee Lau - Post-Doc Researcher (2006 - 2008)

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Former Ph.D. Students

Caroline Conti - Ph.D. in 2017, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) "Efficient Solutions for Light Field Coding", supervised by L.D. Soares and P. Nunes

Hoang Van Xiem - Ph.D. in 2015, IST, "Combining predictive and distributed video coding", supervised by F. Pereira and J. Ascenso

Ana Karina De Abreu Goes - Dual PhD in 2015, at EPFL and IST, "Optimized coding strategies for interactive multiview video", supervised by P. Frossard and F. Pereira'

	Henrique Oliveira - Ph.D. in 2013, IST "Crack Detection and Characterization in Flexible Road Pavements using Digital Image Processing", supervised by P.L. Correia
	Tomás Brandão - Ph.D. in 2011, IST "No-reference Image and Video Quality Assessment", supervised by M.P. Queluz
	Catarina Brites - Ph.D. in 2011, IST "Exploiting Correlation Noise Modeling in Wyner-Ziv Video Coding", supervised by F. Pereira

João Ascenso - Ph.D. in 2010, IST "Improving Compression Efficiency in Distributed Video Coding Systems", supervised by F. Pereira

	Paulo Nunes - Ph.D. in 2007, IST "Rate Control for Object-based Video Coding", supervised by F. Pereira
	Luis Ducla Soares - Ph.D. in 2004, IST "Error Resilience for Object-based Video Coding", supervised by F. Pereira

	Paulo Lobato Correia - Ph.D. in 2002, IST "Video Analysis for Object-based Coding and Description", supervised by F. Pereira
	Manuel Menezes de Sequeira - Ph.D. in 1999, IST "Analysis and Coding of Visual Objects: New Concepts and New Tools", supervised by C. Salema and A. Albuquerque

Carlos Morais Pires - Ph.D. in 1996, IST "Co-Dec MPEG2 Vídeo: da Análise Funcional à  Realização de um Protótipo", supervised by C. Salema

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Former Researchers

Agostinho Silva - Researcher

Lourenço de Mértola Belford Correia da Silva - Researcher

Tanmay Verlekar - Researcher

Berner Panti - Researcher

Pedro Monteiro - Researcher

Lúcia Marília Matos Carreira - Researcher

André Seixas Dias - Researcher

João Lino - Researcher

Carla Nibau Guerra - Researcher (Jan. 2013 - July 2013)

Nuno Alexandre Moço - Researcher (May 2012 - July 2013)

Babak Rezaei Rowshan- Researcher (July 2012 - June 2013)

Sanchit - Researcher (September 2011 - October 2012)

Maurício Ramalho - Researcher (July 2010 - February 2012)

Athira Nambiar - Researcher (October 2011 - February 2012)

Sandro Noto - Researcher (February 2010 - August 2011)

Tiago Marques dos Santos - Researcher (August 2009 - June 2010)

Ricardo Martins - Researcher (November 2007 - October 2008)

Sören Sofke - Researcher (December 2007-May 2008) University of Rostok, Germany

José Diogo Areia - Researcher (January 2006 - December 2007)

José Quintas Pedro - Researcher (September 2006 - August 2007)

Luis Natário - Researcher (July 2004 - October 2005)

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Former MSc Students

Miguel Branco Roque Nazaré Ferreira - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST "Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Compression", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Paulo Jorge Robert de Oliveira Rente - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST "Graph-based Point Cloud Compression", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

João Pedro de Carvalho Barreira Garrote - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST "Light Fields Imaging Coding", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Luís Miguel Domingos Nunes - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST "Objective Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized ViewsObjective Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Views", supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

José Abecasis Teixeira - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST “Extracting distinctive features from light-field images”, supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Guilherme Filipe Gonçalves Luz - MSc Thesis in 2017, IST “Omnidirectional video: adaptive coding based on saliency”, supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

Alexandre Ferreira Gomes - MSc Thesis in 2016, IST “Automatic detection of commercial blocks in broadcast TV content”, supervised by F. Pereira

André Alexandre Rodrigues Oliveira - MSc Thesis in 2016, IST “Light field based 360º panoramas”, supervised by F. Pereira, J. Ascenso and C. Brites

José Pedro Quadrilheiro Peixeiro - MSc Thesis in 2016, IST “Holographic information coding”, supervised by F. Pereira

Alexandre da Silva Pratas Gabriel - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “HEVC cross segment decoding: decoders should work more”, supervised by F. Pereira

Adélcio de Jesus Mendes Soares da Rosa - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Estudo e Avaliação de Técnicas para Inpainting de Texto em Imagens e Vídeo”, supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão

Ricardo José Mascarenhas Almeida - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Deteção Automática de Descontinuidades Temporais em Sequências de Vídeo Digital”, supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão

Filipe Leite de Almeida da Costa Guapo - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Calibration of Biometric Recognition Data for Forensic Evaluation”, supervised by P.L. Correia

João Miguel Delfino Satiro - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Clustering and Super-Resolution of Facial Images in a Forensic Scenario”, supervised by P.L. Correia

Jorge Miguel Silvério do Carmo - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Sistema de Aquisição e Análise de Sinais na Prática de Natação”, supervised by P.L. Correia, A. Fred and H. Silva

Nelson de Jesus Rodrigues - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Automatic Detection of Epileptogenic Video Content”, supervised by M.P. Queluz

Telma Cristovão de Oliveira - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Mobile Alert: Combining Human Motion Detection and Voice Analysis”, supervised by P.L. Correia and I. Trancoso

Miguel Reis Moitinho de Almeida - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Biometric Identification from Forensic Video Surveillance Evidence”, supervised by P.L. Correia

Joao Paulo Sim Sim Lopes - MSc Thesis in 2015, IST “Biometric Recognition using Android Devices”, supervised by P.L. Correia

Abel Ricardo Marcão Ribeiro - MSc Thesis in 2014, IST “Post-Processsing of Videos for Vehicle Counting”, supervised by P.L. Correia

Vitor Hugo Nunes Gomes - MSc Thesis in 2014, IST “Statistical reconstruction for predictive video coding”, supervised by F. Pereira and J. Ascenso

Lúcia Marília Matos Carreira - MSc Thesis in 2013, IST “On High Resolution Palmprint Matching”, supervised by P.L Correia

João Ricardo Gonçalves Neves - MSc Thesis in 2013, IST “Hand Veins Recognition System”, supervised by P.L Correia

Guilherme Miguel Gonçalves Neves - MSc Thesis in 2013, IST “Android Gait Recognition System”, supervised by P.L Correia

David Fernandes – MSc Thesis in 2013 ISCTE-IUL, "Fast Stereo Matching Using Local Methods and Mean Shift Segmentation", supervised by P. Nunes

João Lino – MSc Thesis in 2013, IST "2D Image Rendering for 3D Holoscopic Content using Disparity-Assisted Patch Blending ", supervised by F. Pereira and P. Nunes

	Vasco Nascimento - MSc at IST “Bit-depth scalable video coding” supervised by F. Pereira and J. Ascenso
	Pedro Monteiro - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST “Distributed video coding with geometric transforms”, supervised by F. Pereira and J. Ascenso
	André Seixas Dias - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST “Perceptual error protection using distributed video coding principles”, supervised by F. Pereira and C. Brites

Márcio Gonçalves – MSc Thesis in 2012, ISCTE-IUL
" Ferramenta para Avaliação Subjetiva da Qualidade de Vídeo", supervised by T. Brandão

João Ribas Fernandes - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Automatic detection and counting of stork nests in electric power lines", supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão

Helder Simões dos Santos - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Automatic Traffic Congestion Detection based on a Live Video Stream", supervised by P.L Correia

Afonso Salvador Marques - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Automatic Road Pavement Crack Detection using SVM", supervised by P.L Correia

Sanchit - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Partial Palmprint Matching for Forensics Application", supervised by P.L Correia and L.D. Soares

Nuno Alexandre Moço - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Biometric Recognition based on a Smartphone", supervised by P.L Correia and L.D. Soares

Miguel Chin - MSc Thesis in 2012, IST "Video Quality Evaluation in IP Networks", supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão

Ângela Rosária Barbosa da Cunha - MSc Thesis in 2011, ISCTE-IUL "Secure Face Recognition", supervised by L.D. Soares and P.L. Correia

Luís Miguel dos Santos Serrano - MSc Thesis in 2011, ISCTE-IUL "Hand-based Biometric Recognition System for Mobile Devices", supervised by L.D. Soares and P.L. Correia

Miguel Capelo - MSc Thesis in 2011, IST "Advances on transforms for high efficiency video coding”, supervised by F. Pereira

Nádia Fortes – MSc Thesis in 2010, ISCTE-IUL "Background Modelling for People Tracking in Video Surveillance Scenarios", supervised by P. Nunes

Pedro Fernandes - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "Audiovisual Coding Simulation Framework”, supervised by F. Pereira

Nuno Couto - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "Image Compression with Edge-based Inpainting”, supervised by F. Pereira

Berto Oliveira Casquinha - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "H.264/AVC Video Coding: Analysis and Encoder Control”, supervised by F. Pereira

Gonçalo Nuno Silva do Carmo - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "Depth Coding for Multi-view plus Depth 3D Video”, supervised by F. Pereira

	Ana Sofia Clemente Cabrita - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "H.264/AVC Perceptually Controlled Video Coding”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Mauricio Bernardo Abreu Ramalho - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "Secure Palmprint Verification System", supervised by P.L Correia
	Rui Daniel Casaca da Trindade - MSc Thesis in 2010, IST "Multimedia Sharing over the Internet from a Mobile Phone", supervised by P.L Correia
	Bruno Rodrigues - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Image quality assessment based on artefacts estimation”, supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão
	Miguel Calhau Guerreiro Contente - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Low complexity video coding for sensor networks”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Bruno Alexandre Conde Tomas - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Tiling Slideshow: an Audiovisual Presentation Method for Consumer Photos”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Ricardo João Mah - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Biometrics for Personal Recognition", supervised by P.L Correia
	Gonçalo Filipe da Fonseca Lourenço - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Enhancing the Security of Biometrics with Distributed Source Coding", supervised by P.L Correia and L.D. Soares
	João Filipe Coruche Gaspar - MSc Thesis in 2009, IST "Objective Evaluation of Segmentation Quality", supervised by P.L Correia
	Tiago Miguel Marques dos Santos - MSc Thesis in 2009, ISCTE-IUL "Secure Biometric Recognition System Using Distributed Source Coding", supervised by L.D. Soares and P.L. Correia
	Catarina Pires Mota - MSc Thesis in 2009, ISCTE-IUL "Creation and Visualization of High Dynamic Range Images”, supervised by L.D. Soares
	Luis Roque - MSc Thesis in 2008, IST "Quality evaluation of coded video”, supervised by M.P. Queluz and T. Brandão
	Pedro Miguel dos Santos Rosa - MSc Thesis in 2008, IST "Automatic Detection and Classification of Crack Patterns in Road Pavement", supervised by P.L Correia and H. Oliveira
	Tiago Miguel da Silva Sanches - MSc Thesis in 2008, IST "Hand Surface Biometrics for Personal Recognition", supervised by P.L Correia
	Diogo Manuel Oliveira Figueiredo de la Cueva Couto - MSc Thesis in 2008, IST "Objective Evaluation of Image and Video Segmentation Quality", supervised by P.L Correia
	David João Adão dos Santos - MSc Thesis in 2008, IST "Vehicle Recognition System", supervised by P.L Correia
	Carlos Filipe Moura Paulo - MSc Thesis in 2007, IST "Traffic Signs Detection and Recognition", supervised by P.L Correia
	Nuno Frederico Costa Ferreira de Matos - MSc Thesis in 2007, IST "Generic Video Automatic Summarization”, supervised by F. Pereira

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Former MSc Students (pre-Bologna)

	Catarina Brites - MSc Thesis in 2005, IST "Advances on Distributed Video Coding”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Pedro Fonseca - MSc Thesis in 2004, IST "Face Detection and Object Tracking in the Compressed Domain”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Duarte Palma - MSc Thesis in 2004, IST "Extracção Automática de Texto em Sequências de Vídeo”, supervised by F. Pereira
	João Ascenso - MSc Thesis in 2003, IST "Codificação Escalável de Vídeo com Elevada Granularidade”, supervised by F. Pereira
	João Magalhães - MSc Thesis in 2002, IST "Universal Access to Multimedia Content Based on the MPEG-7 Standard”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Tomás Brandão - MSc Thesis in 2002, IST "Assinatura Digital de Imagens Baseada em Espalhamento de Espectro”, supervised by M.P.Queluz
	Carla Zibreira - MSc Thesis in 2001, IST "Descrição e Procura de Vídeo Baseadas na Forma”, supervised by F. Pereira
	João Valentim - MSc Thesis in 2001, IST "Modelo Alternativo de Complexidade Visual para a Norma MPEG-4 Visual”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Gabriel Antunes Abrantes - MSc Thesis in 1998, IST "Animação e Síntese de Faces Humanas usando Modelos Tridimensionais”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Pedro Geada - MSc Thesis in 1996, IST "Codificação de Sequências Videotelefónicas Baseada em Modelos”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Diogo Cortez Ferreira- MSc Thesis in 1995, IST "Classificação e Codificação de Contornos”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Paulo Jorge Lourenço Nunes- MSc Thesis in 1995, IST "Detecção de fronteiras em imagens texturadas”, supervised by F. Pereira
	Paulo Simões- MSc Thesis in 1993, IST "“Sistema de televisão de alta definição HD-MAC: codificação e sensibilidade a erros”, supervised by F. Pereira

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Former Final Year Project Students

	Pedro Sesinando and João Pedreiro - Final Year Project in 2007, IST "Blind Quality Assessment of JPEG Compressed Images"
	Ricardo Almeida - Final Year Project in 2006, IST "Low Complexity H.264/AVC Encoding", supervised by F. Pereira
	Joel Baltazar - Final Year Project in 2005, IST "Visual Attention Driven Image to Video Adaptation", supervised by F. Pereira
	Pedro Pinho - Final Year Project in 2005, IST "Visual Attention Driven Image to Video Adaptation", supervised by F. Pereira

Diogo Romão and João Barata - Final Year Project in 2003, IST
"Sistema para assinatura de imagens fixas"

Fernando Fonseca and Nuno Patrício - Final Year Project in 2001, IST
"Assinatura de imagens digitais - II"

Miguel Soraes and Nuno Correia - Final Year Project in 2000, IST
"Modelos 3D para o planeamento de redes celulares"

Luis Faustino - Final Year Project in 2000, IST
"Segmentação de vídeo baseada na análise do movimento"

Pedro Lamy, José Martinho and Tiago Rosa - Final Year Project in 1999, IST
"Assinatura de Imagens Digitais", supervised by M.P. Correia

Pedro Fernandes - Final Year Project in 1997, IST "Sistema de Simulação para Codificação de Imagem", supervised by F. Pereira

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Former Visiting Students

Roberto Cesco Fabbro - PhD student at University of Udine (June - December 2011)

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