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Fernando Pereira |
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Fernando Pereira is currently with the Department of
Electrical and Computers Engineering of Instituto Superior Técnico and with
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Lisbon, Portugal.
He
is responsible for the participation of IST in many national and international
research projects. He acts often as project evaluator and auditor for various
organizations.
He
is Area Editor of the Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal, and is or
has been member of the Editorial Board of the Signal Processing Magazine, Associate
Editor of IEEE Transactions of Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE
Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, and IEEE
Signal Processing Magazine. He is or has been a member of the IEEE Signal
Processing Society Technical Committees on Image, Video and Multidimensional
Signal Processing, and Multimedia Signal Processing, and of the
He
was an IEEE Distinguished Lecturer in 2005 and elected as an IEEE Fellow in
2008 for “contributions to object-based digital video representation
technologies and standards”. He has been elected to serve on the Signal
Processing Society Board of Governors in the capacity of Member-at-Large for a
2012 term. Since 2013, he is also an EURASIP Fellow for “contributions to
digital video representation technologies and standards”.
He
is/has been a member of the Scientific and Program Committees of many
international conferences and workshops. He has been the General Chair of the
Picture Coding Symposium (PCS) in 2007, the Technical Program Co-Chair of the
Int. Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) in 2010 and the Technical Program
Chair of the International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia
Interactive Services (WIAMIS) in 2008 and 2012.
He
has been participating in the MPEG standardization activities, notably as the
head of the Portuguese delegation, chairman of the MPEG Requirements Group, and
chairman of many Ad Hoc Groups related to the MPEG-4 and MPEG-7 standards. He
is a co-editor of ‘The MPEG-4 Book’ and ‘The MPEG-21 Book’ which are reference
books in their areas.
He
won the first Portuguese IBM Scientific Award in 1990, an “ISO award for
Outstanding Technical Contribution” for his contributions to the MPEG-4 Visual
Standard in 1998 and an Honorable Mention of the UTL/Santander Totta Award for
Electrical Engineering in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012. He won the ‘Excellent
Professor’ award from the Electrical
and Computers Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico in 2010,
2011 and 2012.
He
has contributed more than 200 papers in international journals, conferences and
workshops, and made several tens of invited talks at conferences and workshops.
His areas of interest are video analysis, coding, description and adaptation,
and advanced multimedia services.
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Fernando Pereira |
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Last update on 28th
April 2013.