Curriculum Vitae
Name: Paulo Luis
Serras Lobato Correia
Position: Assistant Professor
Telecommunications Scientific
Area
Electrical and Computers Engineering Department
Instituto
Superior Técnico (IST)
Lisbon, Portugal
Researcher
Multimedia Signal Processing Group
Instituto
de Telecomunicações (IT)
Lisbon, Portugal
· 2002 – Ph.D. on
Electrical and Computers Engineering, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
· 1993 – M.Sc. on
Electrical and Computers Engineering, Instituto
Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
· 1989 – Electrical and
Computers Engineer, Instituto Superior Técnico, Lisbon, Portugal
Paulo Correia holds a PhD
degree on Electrical and Computers Engineering, from IST, on the field of Video
Analysis and Image Communications, an M.Sc. degree in the field of Mobile
Communication Systems Simulation, and an Engineering degree in the field of
Telecommunications. His current
research interests are in the areas of image and video analysis and processing,
namely biometrics recognition, forensic biometrics,
road pavement surface image analysis, intelligent transportation systems, video
segmentation, objective evaluation of segmentation quality, underwater image
analysis..
Participation in many national and international
research projects. Examples:
- Integrating Biometrics and Forensics for the Digital
Age, COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology), COST IC 1106
(2012-2016) – Vice-Chair; WP leader; STSM coordinator;
- QUIS-CAMPI: Biometric Recognition in Surveillance
Environments, IT/LA (2014-2015);
Coordinator of projects:
- Secure Multimodal Biometric Recognition System using
Distributed Source Coding (PTDC/EEA-TEL/098755/2008), FCT – Fundação
para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
(2010-2013);
- Biometrics with Enhanced Security using Distributed
Source Coding (P436), Instituto de Telecomunicações (2009-2011);
Participation in the following European projects:
- 3D VIVANT: Live Immerse Video-Audio Interactive
Multimedia (FP7-ICT-2009-4) (2010-2013);
- Biometrics for Identity Documents and Smart Cards
(COST 2101) (2009-2011);
- VISNET:Networked
audiovisual media technologies, IST-1-038398,
(2003-2009)
- Semantic Multimodal Analysis of Digital Media, COST
292, (2004-2008);
-DICEMAN: Distributed Internet content exchange with
MPEG-7 and agent negotiations, EU/ACTS 308, (1998-2000)
Author or co-author of 4 book chapters, 14
international scientific journal papers and over 80 international conference
contributions.
In 2013 Paulo Correia was
General Chairman of the International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics
(IWBF), and he was Technical Programme Chairman of IWBF in 2014, 2015 and 2016.
In 2004 he was General Co-Chairman of the
International Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services
(WIAMIS’2004) and in 2007 he was Program Chair of the Picture Coding Symposium
(PCS’2007).
He was member of the organizing committees of the
following international conferences: European Signal Processing Conference
(EUSIPCO) in 2014 and 2018; IEEE International Workshop on Quality of
Multimedia Experience (QoMEX) in 2016; 3DTV-Com in
2015; International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and
Applications (IPTA) in 2016.
He is member of the Advisory Board of the European
Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP). From 2004 to 2008 he was an
elected member of EURASIP’s Board of Directors.
From 2009 to 2015 he was the Portuguese representative
at the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) domain committee of the
COST European Framework.
He has evaluated research projects for several
European Commission programs.
He is IEEE senior member.
He is associate editor for the journals: Elsevier
Signal Processing Journal (since 2005) e IET Biometrics (since 2013). He was
associate editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology (2006-2014).
He joined IST in 1990, where he now holds the position
of Assistant Professor, having lectured several subjects in the areas of
Telecommunication Fundamentals, Telecommunication Systems (both guided and
wireless systems), Mobile Communications Systems, Computer Networks, and being
responsible for a MSc course on Digital Image
Processing. He has supervised many final graduation and MSc projects, and been
part of many project and MSc evaluation committees. Supervisor of the following
PhD Thesis:
- “Crack Detection and Characterization in Flexible
Road Pavements using Digital Image Processing”, Henrique José Monteiro
Oliveira, PhD concluded in 2013;
- “Light-field imaging based biometric recognition”, Alireza Sepas-Moghaddam, under
development, expected conclusion: 2018, co-supervised with Prof.
Fernando Pereira;
- “Soft Biometrics Recognition using Light-Field
Cameras”, Tanmay Tulsidas Verlekar, under development, expected conclusion: 2018,
co-supervised with Prof. Luís
Ducla Soares.
In 1989/90 he was a Teaching Assistant in the
Informatics department of ISCTE, having lectured programming languages, and
information systems subjects.
In 1988/89 he has worked for the Portuguese Telecom
operator, on ISDN and on the development of routing algorithms.
He acts as reviewer for several journals:
·
IEEE Communications;
·
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing;
·
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence;
·
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology;
·
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia;
·
IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting;
·
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing;
·
IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing;
·
Elsevier/EURASIP Signal Processing;
·
Elsevier/EURASIP Signal Processing: Image Communication Journal;
·
EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing;
·
EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing;
·
Elsevier Real-Time Imaging;
·
Elsevier Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine;
·
SPIE Optical Engineering;
·
IET Image Processing;
·
IEE Proceedings Vision, Image & Signal Processing;
·
Imaging Science Journal;
·
The Journal of Multimedia;
·
International Journal of Image and Graphics;
·
Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing
·
Springer Wireless Personal Communications Journal
Due to his academic activities and interest in
national and international projects considering several Telecommunications
areas, Paulo Correia has a good knowledge in fields
such as digital communications, multimedia, and communication networks.
Paulo Correia won the 1989
Marconi and Alcatel awards for the best Telecommunications student graduating
from IST.
Distinguished with an
''Outstanding Associate Editor Award'' for his cooperation with the IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
journal, during meeting of the IEEE T-CSVT Editorial Board, held in New
Orleans, on May 28, 2007.
“Best Paper Award”, in the International Workshop on
Future Multimedia Networking (FMN'2010), for the paper: R.T. Trindade, P. L. Correia, M. S.
Santos, "Multimedia Sharing over the Internet from a Mobile Phone",
International Workshop on Future Multimedia Networking (FMN'2010), Krakov, Poland, Vol. LNCS 6157, pp. 13 - 23, June 2010
“Best Reviewer Award”, IEEE International Conference
on Multimedia and Expo (ICME) 2014
“Best Teacher Award”, Instituto
Superior Técnico, 2014
"ANACOM-URSI Portugal 2014 Award", for the
work “Automatic vehicle courting based on surveillance video streams”, by Abel
Ribeiro and Paulo Lobato Correia,
(ex-aequo), Lisbon, Portugal ,
November 2014
“Best Paper Award” at the International Workshop on
Advanced Image Technology (IWAIT), 2015, Taiwan, for the paper: "A
Tracking Scheme for Norway Lobster and Burrow Abundance Estimation in
Underwater Video Sequences", by C.S. Tan, P.Y. Lau, P.L. Correia, P. Fonseca, A. Campos, Jan. 2015
Paulo Correia fluently
speaks and writes in Portuguese, English and French.
For more complete information, please check Paulo Correia's
IT personal home page.