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Academic Degrees

 

 

 

  • Ph.D., 3 years in “Computer Science Engineering”, University of Beira Interior (2007),

 

Thesis: “Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition”, Supervisor: Prof. Luís A. Alexandre, Main examiner: Prof. John Daugman.

 

 

  • M.Sc., 2 years in “Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science”, University of Oporto (2004),

 

Dissertation: “MARCS: Multi-Agent Railway Control System”, Supervisor: Prof. Eugénio Oliveira, Main examiner: Profª. Paula Prata.

 

 

  • B.Sc., 5 years in “Mathematics / Computer Science”, University of Beira Interior (2001),

 

Final Graduation Project: “Neural Networks Web Simulator”, Supervisor: Prof. J. Valente de Oliveira, Examiner: Dr. Paulo Fazendeiro.

 

   

 

 

 

Research

 

Interests

 

Computer Vision; Pattern Recognition; Statistical Pattern Recognition; Syntactic Pattern Recognition; Artificial Intelligence.

 

My research activity is mainly focused in the development of biometric recognition systems less constrained to subjects, toward non-cooperative or even covert biometric recognition. My major concern is about the use of multispectral information to increase the robustness of iris recognition systems to degraded data. In this area, I am supervising several ongoing thesis (image synthesis, noisy iris recognition). Also, I am particularly interested in the use of pattern recognition techniques in the medical diagnosis area, namely in the segmentation and detection of tumors and other abnormalities in breast thermograms and dental x-rays.

 

Work Proposal

 

 

I am available to undertake M.Sc. / Ph.D. supervision in all areas which intersect with my own research, but especially the following themes: (1) multispectral iris recognition; (2) multispectral face recognition; (3) image synthesis; (4) breast thermogram analysis; (5) dental x-rays analysis; (6) medical diagnosis and (7) multibiometrics. Ph.D. scholarships are a strong possibility, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology.

 

Candidates should already have either a Masters degree or a Bachelors degree in a discipline or area broadly relevant to computer science research. Good proficiency in English is important, as well the commitment to research. In order to apply, please send an email to hugomcp@di.ubi.pt, with a succinct CV detailing qualifications, research and professional experience.

 

 

Links

 

  

  • UBIRIS, Visible Wavelength Noisy Iris Image Databases [web].

 

  • IT- Institute of Telecommunications, Networks and Multimedia Group [web].

 

  • SOCIA Lab., Soft Computing and Image Analysis Group. [web]





Research Wordle (December 28th, 2011)


 

 

 

Coordination of Funded Research Projects

 

 

  • “NECOVID: Covert Negative Biometric Identification”, funded by the Portuguese FCT: Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) and FEDER, PTDC/EIA-EIA/103945/2008, Begin: 3-5-2010, End: 30-4-2013; [project web page].

 

  • “NOISYRIS-Synthesis of Noisy Iris Images for Biometric Recognition Purposes”, funded by the Portuguese IT-Instituto de Telecomunicações, Begin: 01-09-2011, End: 31-08-2013.

 

  • “MBIR-Multispectral Biometric Iris Recognition”, funded by the Portuguese IT-Instituto de Telecomunicações, Begin: 01-09-2010, End: 31-08-2012.

 

 

 

Participation in Funded Research Projects

 

 

  • “BIOREC: Non-Cooperative Biometric Recognition”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) and FEDER, PTDC/EIA/69106/2006, Begin: 01-09-2007, End: 31-08-2010; [project web page].

 

  • "PAIRUE: Fusion of Palmprint and Iris Recognition in Uncontrolled Environments", funded by the Portuguese IT-Instituto de Telecomunicações, Begin: 01-09-2011, End: 30-8-2012.

 

  • "CellNote Touch: Touch-based Interactive Annotation of Cellular Images", funded by the Portuguese IT-Instituto de Telecomunicações, Begin: 01-09-2011, End: 30-8-2012.

 

 

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

  • [42, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Editorial of the Special Issue On the Recognition of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured At-a-distance and On-the-move, Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters, vol. 33, pag. 963-964, June, 2012, doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.patrec.2012.03.003.[pdf]

  • [41, SI] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre (Eds.); Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters, Special Issue On the Recognition of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured At-a-distance and On-the-move, volume ?, issue ?, ?, 2011. ISSN: 0167-8655. [url]

 

  • [40, IC] Chandrashekhar Padole, Hugo Proença; Periocular Recognition: Analysis of Performance Degradation Factors, in Proceedings of the Fifth IAPR/IEEE International Conference on Biometrics – ICB 2012, New Delhi, India, March 30-April 1, 2012, ISBN: ??. (to appear)

  • [39, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Toward Covert Iris Biometric Recognition: Experimental Results From the NICE Contests, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, volume ?, issue ?, pag. ?-?, ISSN 1556-6013, Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/TIFS.2011.2177659. (to appear)

  • [38, IJ] Hugo Proença, Gil Santos; Fusing Color and Shape Descriptors in the Recognition of Degraded Iris Images Acquired at Visible Wavelength, Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding, volume 116, pag. 167-178, ISSN 1077-3142, Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.cviu.2011.10.008. [pdf]

  • [37, BC] Hugo Proença; Iris Recognition in the Visible Wavelength: Issues and Trends, Handbook of Iris Recognition, Mark J. Burge and K. Bowyer (Eds.), Springer Verlag book series, pag. ?-?, 2011, Digital Object Identifier: ?? (to appear).

 

  • [36, IC] Gil Santos, Hugo Proença; A Robust Eye-Corner Detection Method for Real-World Data, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics – IJCB 2011, Washington DC, U.S.A., October 11-13, 2011, ISBN: ??.

 

  • [35, IC] Hugo Proença; Non-Cooperative Iris Recognition: Issues and trends, in Proceedings of the EUSIPCO'11 - Nineteenth European Signal Processing Conference, Barcelona, Spain, August 29 - September 2, url: http://www.eurasip.org/Proceedings/Eusipco/Eusipco2011/papers/1569434005.pdf, 2011 [pdf]

 

  • [34, IJ] Hugo Proença, Eliza Yingzi Du, Jacob Scharcanski; Introduction to the Special Issue on Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends, Springer Signal Image and Video Processing, volume 5, number 3, pag. ?-?, September, 2011. ISSN: 1863-1703 [pdf]

 

  • [33, SI] Hugo Proença, Eliza Yingzi Du, Jacob Scharcanski (Eds.); Springer Signal Image and Video Processing, Special Issue On Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends, volume 5, number 3, September, 2011. ISSN: 1863-1703  (to be published) [url]

 

  • [32, IC] Rui Raposo, Edmundo Hoyle, Adolfo Peixinho, Hugo Proença; UBEAR: A Dataset of Ear Images Captured On-the-move in Uncontrolled Conditions, in 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management (SSCI 2011 CIBIM), Paris, France, April 11 - April 15, pag. 84-90, 2011. [pdf]

 

  • [31, IJ] Hugo Proença; Quality Assessment of Degraded Iris Images Acquired in the Visible Wavelength, IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, March, 2011, volume 6, issue 1, pag. 82-95, ISSN 1556-6013, Digital Object Identifier http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TIFS.2010.2086446 [pdf]

 

  • [30, IC] Gil Santos, Marco Bernardo, Paulo Fiadeiro, Hugo Proença; Iris Recognition: Preliminary Assessment about the Discriminating Capacity of Visible Wavelength Data, in Sixth IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval (MIPR 2010) Taichung, Taiwan, December 13 - December 15, pag. 324-329, 2010, ISBN: 978-0-7695-4217-1 [pdf].

 

  • [29, IC] Gil Santos, Hugo Proença; Iris Recognition: Analysing the Distribution of the Iriscodes Concordant Bits, in  IEEE Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Image and Signal Processing (CISP 2010), Yantai, China, October 16 - October 18, vol. 4, pag. 1873-1877, 2010. [pdf]

 

  • [28, BC] João Oliveira, Hugo Proença; Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-ray Images, Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - Recent Trends, Springer Verlag book series: Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol. 6899, pag. 175-190, 2010, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-94-007-0011-6_10 [pdf]

 

  • [27, IJ] Hugo Proença; Iris Recognition: On the Segmentation of Degraded Images Acquired in the Visible Wavelength, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, August, 2010, volume 32, number 8, pag. 1502-1516, ISSN: 0162-8828, Digital Object Identifier http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2009.140 [pdf]

 

  • [26, IJ] Hugo Proença, Sílvio Filipe, Ricardo Santos, João Oliveira, Luís A. Alexandre; The UBIRIS.v2: A Database of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured On-The-Move and At-A-Distance, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, August, 2010, volume 32, number 8, pag. 1529-1535, ISSN: 0162-8828, Digital Object Identifier http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2009.66 [pdf]

 

  • [25, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Introduction to the Special Issue on the Segmentation of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured At-a-distance and On-the-move, Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, vol. 28, number 2, pag. 213-214, February 2010, doi:10.1016/j.imavis.2009.09.004 [pdf]

 

  • [24, SI] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre (Eds.); Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, Special Issue On the Segmentation of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired At-a-Distance and On-the-Move, volume 28, issue 2, February, 2010. ISSN: 0262-8856. [url]

 

  • [23, IJ] Hugo Proença; An Iris Recognition Approach Through Structural Pattern Analysis Methods, Wiley Expert Systems, Special Issue on Computer Recognition Systems, 2010, volume 27, number 1, pag. 6-16, ISSN: 0266-4720, Digital Object Identifier 10.1111/j.1468-0394.2009.00534.x [pdf]

 

  • [22, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Recognition: Analysis of the Error Rates Regarding the Accuracy of the Segmentation Stage, Elsevier Image and Vision Computing, volume 28, issue 1, pag. 202-206, ISBN: 0262-8856, January 2010, Digital Object Identifier 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.03.003. [pdf]

 

  • [21, IC] Hugo Proença; Biometric Recognition: When Is Evidence Fusion Advantageous?, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (vol. 5876) – ISVC 2009: 5th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., October 30 - November 2, 2009, part II, pag. 698-708, ISBN: 978-3-642-10519-7 [pdf]

 

  • [20, IC] Gil Santos, Hugo Proença; On the Role of Interpolation in the Normalization of Non-Ideal Visible Wavelength Iris Images, in IEEE Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security (CIS'09), Beijing, China, December 11 - December 14, 2009, vol 1, pag. 315-319, ISBN: 978-0-7695-3931-7. [pdf]

 

  • [19, IC] João Oliveira, Hugo Proença; Dental X-Ray: A Data Set of Panoramic Dental Radiographs for Stomatologic Image Processing Purposes, in Taylor & Francis Proceedings of the II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal, October 14 - October 16, 2009, vol ?, pag. ?-?, ISBN: ?. [pdf]

 

  • [18, IC] Hugo Proença; On the Feasibility of the Visible Wavelength, At-A-Distance and On-The-Move Iris Recognition, in IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., March 30 - April 2, 2009, volume 1, pag. 9-15, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2773-4. (invited paper) [pdf] [presentation]

 

  • [17, IC] Hugo Proença; Iris Recognition: A Method To Segment Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-The-Move and At-A-Distance, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science – ISVC 2008: 4th International Symposium on Visual Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A., December 1-3, 2008, volume 1, pag. 731-742, ISBN: 978-3-540-89638-8. [pdf]

 

  • [16, IC] Hugo Proença, Sílvio Filipe; Combining Rectangular and Triangular Image Regions to Perform Real-Time Face Detection, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Signal Processing - ICSP'08, Beijing, China, October 26-29, 2008, volume 1, pag. 903-908, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2178-7. [pdf]

 

  • [15, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Recognition: A Method to Increase the Robustness to Noisy Imaging Environments Through the Selection of the Higher Discriminating Features, in IEEE Proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications - ICCIMA'07, Sivakasi, India, December 13-15, 2007, volume 3, pag. 301-307, ISBN: 0-7695-3050-8. [pdf]

 

  • [14, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Recognition: An Entropy-Based Coding Strategy Robust to Noisy Imaging Environments, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science – ISVC 2007: 3rd International Symposium on Visual Computing, Lake Tahoe, Nevada, U.S.A., November 26-28, 2007, volume 1, pag. 621-632, ISBN: 978-3-540-76857-9. [pdf]

 

  • [13, IC] Hugo Proença; A Structural Pattern Analysis Approach to Iris Recognition, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Soft Computing – CORES 2007: 5th International Conference on Computer Recognition Systems, Wroclaw, Poland, October 22-25, 2007, pag. 731-738, ISBN: 978-3-540-75174-8. [pdf]

 

  • [12, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; The NICE.I: Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation – Part I, in Proceedings of the IEEE First International Conference on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems – BTAS 2007, Washington DC, U.S.A., September 27-29, 2007, ISBN: 978-1-4244-1597-7. [pdf]

 

  • [11, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Toward Non-Cooperative Iris Recognition: A Classification Approach Using Multiple Signatures, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Special Issue on Biometrics, July, 2007, volume 9, number 4, pag. 607-612, ISSN: 0162-8828. (Special Issue’s Featured Article) [pdf]

 

  • [10, T] Hugo Proença; Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition, Universidade da Beira Interior, Tese de Doutoramento, Janeiro, 2007, ISBN: 978-972-99648-2-4. [pdf]

 

  • [9, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Recognition: Measuring Feature’s Quality for the Feature Selection in Unconstrained Image Capture Environments, in IEEE Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computational Intelligence for  Homeland Security and Personal Safety - CIHSPS 2006, Alexandria, U.S.A., October 16-17, 2006,  volume 1, pag. 35-40, ISBN: 1-4244-0745-1. [pdf]

 

  • [8, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Recognition: An Analysis of the Aliasing Problem in the Iris Normalization Stage, in IEEE Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security - CIS 2006, Guangzhou, China, November 3-6, 2006, volume 2, pag. 1771-1774, ISBN: 1-4244-0604-8. [pdf]

 

  • [7, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; A Method for the Identification of Noisy Regions in Normalized Iris Images, in IEEE Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition - ICPR 2006, Hong Kong, August 20-24, 2006, volume 4, pag. 405-408, ISBN: 0-7695-2521-0. [pdf]

 

  • [6, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; A Method for the Identification of Inaccuracies in the Pupil Segmentation, in IEEE Proceedings of the First International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security - AReS 2006, Vienna, Austria, April 20-22, 2006, volume 1, pag. 227-230, ISBN: 0-7695-2567-9. [pdf]

 

  • [5, IJ] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; Iris Segmentation Methodology for Non-Cooperative Recognition, IEE Proceedings Vision, Image & Signal Processing, April, 2006, volume 153, issue 2, pag. 199-205, Digital Object Identifier 10.1049/ip-vis:20050213. [pdf]

 

  • [4, IC] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; UBIRIS: a noisy iris image database, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science – ICIAP 2005: 13th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, Cagliari, Italy, September 6-8, 2005, volume 1, pag. 970-977, ISBN: 3-540-28869-4. [pdf]

 

  • [3, TR] Hugo Proença, Luís A. Alexandre; UBIRIS: A noisy iris image database, Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamento de Informática, Janeiro, 2005, ISBN: 972-99548-0-1. [pdf]

 

  • [2, IC] Hugo Proença, Eugénio Oliveira; MARCS: Multi-Agent Railway Control System, in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2004: 9th Ibero-American Conference on AI, Puebla, Mexico, November 22-25, 2004, pag. 12-21, ISBN: 3-540-23806-9. [pdf]

 

  • [1, T] Hugo Proença; Sistema Multi-Agente para Controlo de Tráfego Ferroviário Metropolitano, Universidade do Porto, Tese de Mestrado, Janeiro, 2004. [pdf]

  

 

Co-authors index

 

14 Chandrashekhar Padole
 [40]

13

Jacob Scharcanski

[33] [34]

12

Eliza Yingzi Du

[33] [34]

11

Edmundo Hoyle

[32]

10

Rui Raposo

[32]

9

Adolfo Peixinho

[32]    

8

Paulo Fiadeiro

[30]     

7

Marco Bernardo

[30]

6

Gil Santos

[20] [29] [30] [36] [38]

5

João Oliveira

[19] [26] [28]

4

Ricardo Santos

[26]

3

Sílvio Filipe

[16] [26]

2

Luís A. Alexandre

[3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [11] [12] [14] [15] [22] [24] [25] [26] [39] [41] [42]

1

Eugénio C. Oliveira

[2]

 

 

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Refereeing Activities

 

 

International Journals

 

 

  • [32] Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision [web]
  • [31] IET Biometrics [web]
  • [30] International Journal of Computer Mathematics. [web]
  • [29] IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part C. [web]
  • [28] International Journal of Biometrics. [web]
  • [27] International Journal of Artificial Intelligence. [web]
  • [26] IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. [web]
  • [25] Springer Transactions on Computer Science. [web]
  • [24] Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding. [web]
  • [23] Wiley Security and Communications Networks. [web]
  • [22] Springer Telecommunications Systems. [web]
  • [21] IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging. [web]
  • [20] IET Image Processing. [web]
  • [19] Elsevier Signal Processing. [web]
  • [18] Elsevier Digital Signal Processing. [web]
  • [17] IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. [web]
  • [16] IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. [web]
  • [15] International Journal of Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence. [web]
  • [14] Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing. [web]
  • [13] IEEE Signal Processing Letters. [web]
  • [12] IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part A. [web]
  • [11] Journal of Electronic Imaging. [web]
  • [10] IET Computer Vision. [web]
  • [9] IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security. [web]
  • [8] IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics – Part B. [web]
  • [7] Springer Machine Vision and Applications. [web]
  • [6] Elsevier Image and Vision Computing Journal. [web]
  • [5] EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing. [web]
  • [4] Medical Engineering & Physics. [web]
  • [3] International Journal of Image and Graphics. [web]
  • [2] IEE Proc. Vision, Image & Signal Processing. [web]
  • [1] IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. [web]

 

International Conferences

 

 

  • [24] BIC-TA 2012- Seventh International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application. [web]
  • [23] BIOIMS 2012- IEEE workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications 2012. [web]
  • [22] FUZZ-IEEE 2012- International Conference on Fuzzy Systems 2012. [web]
  • [21] ICB2012- International Conference on Biometrics 2012. [web]
  • [20] ICHB2011- International Conference on Hand-based Biometrics 2011. [web]
  • [19] CIS’11- 2011 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security. [web]
  • [18] WICT’11: World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies. [web]
  • [17] ICHB’11: 2011 International Conference on Hand-Based Biometrics. [web]
  • [16] VIPIMAGE’11: II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing. [web]
  • [15] DSP’11: 17th International Conference on Digital Signal Processing . [web]
  • [14] IFAC WC’11: 18th IFAC World Congress. [web]
  • [13] SSCI’11: IEEE Symposium Series on Computacional Intelligence. [web]
  • [12] IJCB’11: International Joint Conference on Biometrics. [web]
  • [11] SIBGRAPI’11: Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing. [web]
  • [10] ISVC'10- The 6th International Symposium on Computer Vision. [web]
  • [9] CISP’10/BMEI'10- The 3rd International Conference on Biomedical Engineering. [web]
  • [8] BMIC’10- The 4th International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics. [web]
  • [7] BMIC’09- The 3rd International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics. [web]
  • [6] CIS’09- 2009 International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Security. [web]
  • [5] SIBGRAPI’09- XXIInd Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing. [web]
  • [4] ISPA’09- 6th International Symposium on Image and Signal Processing and Analysis. [web]
  • [3] ConfTele’09- 7th Conference on Telecommunications. [web]
  • [2] BMIC’08 - The 2nd International Symposium on Bio- and Medical Informatics and Cybernetics. [web]
  • [1] ICANN’2007 – International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks. [web]

 

 

 

 

Editorial Committees

 

 

  • Area Editor (Iris) of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium
  • Member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Biometrics.
  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on the “Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends” of the Springer Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, 2010.

  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on the "Recognition of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-The-Move and At-A-Distance” of the Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters Journal, 2010. 

  • Guest Editor of the Special Issue on the “Segmentation of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-The-Move and At-A-Distance” of the Elsevier Image and Vision Computing Journal, 2009.

 

 

 

 

Technical Committees

 

 

  • Member of the “IASTED - International Association of Science and Technology” [web] Technical Committee, for the Image Processing area, 2008-2011.

 

 

 

Scientific Panels

 

 

  • “Biometrics Panel”, IEEE Symposium Series On Computational Intelligence, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A., April, 2009. [presentation]

 

 

 

 

Organizing and Program Committees

 

 

 


  • Member of the Program Committee of first "International Workshop on Biometrics: Technologies, Systems and Applications- BTSA 2013" [web], Barcelona, Spain, February, 15th-28th, 2013.

  • Co-Organizer of the "Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends" special track of the “ISVC 2012 - 8th International Symposium on Visual Computing” [web], Rethymnon, Greece, July, 16th- July 18th, 2012.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “SIBGRAPI 2012, the Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images” [web], Ouro Preto, Brazil, August, 22th-25th, 2011.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the third "International Conference on Emerging Security technologies” [web], Lisbon, Portugal, September 5th-7th, 2012.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the seventh "International Conference on Bio-Inspired Computing: Theories and Application” [web], Gwalior, India, December 14th-16th, 2012.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the third "IEEE workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications” [web], Salerno, Italy, September 14th, 2012.

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “Intelligent Computation on Biometrics" special session of the "2012 IEEE World Congress On Computational Intelligence” [web], Brisbane, Australia, June, 10th-15th, 2012.

  • Chairperson of the Poster Spotlights: Iris/Gait/Face session of the “IJCB’11: International Joint Conference on Biometrics” [web], Washington DC, U.S.A., October, 11th-13th, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “ICB 2012: International Conference on Biometrics” [web], New Delhi, India, March, 30th- April 1st, 2012.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “SoCProS 2011: International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving” [web], Roorkee, India, December, 16th-18th, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the “RECPAD’11: 17th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition” [web], Porto, Portugal, October, 28th, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “WICT’11: World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies” [web], Mumbai, India, December, 11th-14th, 2011.

 

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “ICHB’11: 2011 International Conference on Hand-Based Biometrics. ” [web], Hong Kong, November, 17th-18th, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “IJCB’11: International Joint Conference on Biometrics” [web], Washington DC, U.S.A., October, 11th-13th, 2011.

 

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “SIBGRAPI 2011, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing” [web], Maceió,  Brazil, August, 28th-31st, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “ISVC 2010 - 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing" [web], Las Vegas, November, 29th - December 1st, 2010.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the 2011 IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management for the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence - SSCI 2011 [web], Paris, France, April, 11th-15th, 2011.

 

  • Co-Organizer of the "Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends" special track of the “ISVC 2010 - 6th International Symposium on Visual Computing” [web], Las Vegas, U.S.A., November, 29th- December 1st, 2010.

 

  • Co-Chair of the Competitions Panel of the “IJCB’11: International Joint Conference on Biometrics” [web], Washington DC, U.S.A., September, 26th-28th, 2011.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “VIPIMAGE’11: III ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing” [web], Algarve, Portugal, October, 12th-14th, 2011.

 

  • Co-Organizer of the NICE:II – Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation, Part II [web] challenge.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the “SIBGRAPI 2009, the Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing” [web], Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, October, 11th-14th, 2009.

 

  • Chairperson of a session of the VIPIMAGE’09: II ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing, Porto, Portugal, October, 2009.

 

  • Member of the Local Organizing Committee of the Portuguese 2009 programming challenge for high school students: “TIUP: Torneio Inter-Universitário de Programação”.

 

  • Chairperson of a session of the ICANN2007 - International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, Porto, Portugal, October, 2007.

 

  • Member of the Local Organizing Committee ICANN 2007 -  International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks [web]

 

  • Co-Organizer of the NICE.I – Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation, Part I [web] challenge.

 

 

 

 

Talks

 

 

  • “Programação para Totós”, Núcleos de Informática e Tecnologia e Sistemas de Informação, Universidade da Beira Interior, October, 2011.

  • “Non-Cooperative Biometric Recognition: Issues and Trends”, ‪UPorto's ECE Back To Basics Colloquium‬, Faculty of Engineering, June 1st, 2011. [pdf]

 

  • “Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-Ray Images”, Ciclo de Palestras de Bioengenharia, Universidade da Beira Interior, November, 2010. [pdf]

 

  • “Programação para Totós”, Núcleos de Informática e Tecnologia e Sistemas de Informação, Universidade da Beira Interior, November, 2010.

 

  • “Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-Ray Images”, Medical Imaging Workshops, University of Oporto, Faculty of Sciences, June, 2009. [pdf]

 

  •  “Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition”, Ordem dos Engenheiros, University of Beira Interior, June, 4th, 2007.

 

  • “Iris Project”, NNIG - NEURAL NETWORKS Interest Group, FEUP- Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, October, 28th, 2005.

 

  • “UBIRIS: A noisy iris image database”, XIV Jornadas de Informática da Universidade da Beira Interior, University of Beira Interior, April, 2005.

 

 

Supervising Activities

 

Postdoctoral Research

 

  • [4] Marius Pislaru (visiting researcher from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania); "Application of fuzzy algorithms in chemical engnireeing and environmental protection”. From October to November 2011.
  • [3] Diana Trandabat (visiting researcher from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania); "Data communication module for SiadEnv system”. From October to November 2011.
  • [2] Alexandru Trandabat (visiting researcher from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania); "Data communication module for SiadEnv system”. From October to November 2011.
  • [1] Marius Branzila (visiting researcher from the Technical University of Iasi, Romania); "Pattern Recognition on Biological data”. From July to August 2011.

 

Ph.D. Thesis

 

  • [2] Chandrashekhar Padole; “Periocular Recognition in Non-Constrained Acquisition Scenarios”. (ongoing)
  • [1] Gil Santos; “Negative Object Recognition”. (ongoing)

 

 

M.Sc. Dissertation

 

  • [11] Jorge Diogo; “Chest X-ray Image Classification”. (ongoing)
  • [10] Ricardo Graça; “Chest X-ray Image Segmentation”. (ongoing)
  • [9] Tiago Velho; “Learning from Scratch”. (ongoing)
  • [8] Rui Silva; “Chest X-rays image diagnosis: An adaptive approach”. (ongoing)
  • [7] Rui Raposo; “Biometric Ear Recognition”. (ongoing)
  • [6] Sérgio Nunes; “Análise de Imagem Médica Veterinária: Displasia de Anca”. (ongoing)
  • [5] Luís Lucas; “Reconhecimento Biométrico da Íris na Região de Comprimentos de Onda do Visível”. (Co-supervisor, Supervisor is Prof. Paulo Fiadeiro, UBI, Dept. Physics). [pdf]
  • [4] Miguel Gaspar; “Síntese de Imagens de Íris Com Ruído”.  [pdf]
  • [3] Ricardo Carreira; “Alternative Iris Recognition System”. [pdf]
  • [2] João Oliveira; “Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-ray Images”. [pdf]
  • [1] Gil Santos; “Noisy Iris Recognition”. [pdf]

 

Graduation Final Projects

 

  • [23] Márcia Tavares; “Reconhecimento Biométrico Soft: Estimativa de Género, July 2012. (ongoing)
  • [22] André Pimenta; “Reconhecimento Biométrico Soft: Estimativa de Altura”, July 2012. (ongoing)
  • [21] Paulo Senra; “Reconhecimento de Padrões no Movimento de Giroscópio / Acelerómetro”, July 2011. [pdf]
  • [20] Miguel Afonso; “Reconhecimento Biométrico Periocular: Análise de Factores de Variabilidade”, July 2011. [pdf]
  • [19] Emanuel Grancho; “Reconhecimento Biométrico Periocular: Segmentação de Dados”, July 2011. [pdf]
  • [18] João Neves; “Redes Neuronais Artificiais: Simulador do Cortex Visual Primário”, July 2011. [pdf]
  • [17] Paulo Amaral; “Análise de Imagem: Medição de Área Florestal”, July 2010. [pdf]
  • [16] José Costa; “Análise de Imagem: Medição de Área Edificada”, July 2010. [pdf]  
  • [15] Adolfo Peixinho; “UBIEAR: Base de Dados de Imagens de Orelhas Capturadas Em Movimento”, July 2010. [pdf]
  • [14] Óscar Pinto; “Autoridade Nacional de Protecção Cívil: Medição de área ardida em dispositivo móvel”, July 2010. [pdf] [url]
  • [13] Duarte Silva; “Breast Cancer Detection: Thermal Image Analysis”, July 2009. [pdf]
  • [12] Rui Silva; “Iris Recognition: Fusing Image Quality Metrics”, July 2009. [pdf]
  • [11] Tiago Velho; “Iris Recognition for Mobile Devices”, July 2009. [pdf]
  • [10] Sílvio Filipe; “Real-Time Face Detection”, July, 2008. [pdf]
  • [9] Luís Fernandes; “Sistema de Geração de Horários da UBI”, July, 2007. [pdf]
  • [8] José Gregório; “Sistema de Geração de Horários da UBI”, July, 2007. [pdf]
  • [7] Ricardo Santos; “Face Detection”, July, 2007. [pdf]
  • [6] José Gregório; “Iris Recognition: Analysis of Key Local Variations”, February, 2007. [pdf]
  • [5] Luís Fernandes; “Iris Recognition by Histogram Analysis”, February, 2007. [pdf]
  • [4] Lídia Afonso; “Evaluation of Iris Recognition Algorithms”, September, 2005. [pdf]
  • [3] João Correia; “Decision Module For Strategy Game”, September, 2005. [pdf]
  • [2] Mário Diogo; “Registo e rastreio de multas de trânsito da Polícia de Segurança Pública”, September, 2005. [pdf]
  • [1] Fernando Silva; “Sistema de orientação e localização geográfica”, September, 2004.

 

 

 

Examining Activities

 

M.Sc. Dissertations

 

  • [6] Joana Santos “Medição Computacional da Escala de Graduação Efron: O Caso da Hiperémia Conjuntival”, Universidade da Beira Interior, Departamento de Física, November, 2011.

  • [5] Luís Miguel Serrano “Hand-based Biometric Recognition System for Mobile Devices”, ICSTE-IUL Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, July, 2011.

 

  • [4] Diogo Machado Carneiro Dias; “Computational Vision Applied to the Segmentation and Morphometric Characterization of the Sciatic Nerve in Microscopic Images”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto, July, 2011.

 

  • [3] Diogo Santos Martins; “Biometric Recognition Based on the Texture Along Palmprint Principal Lines”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto, July, 2011.

 

  • [2] João Miguel Trigo Soares; “Uncalibrated Stereo Vision Applied to Breast Cancer Treatment Aesthetic Assessment”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto, July, 2011.

 

  • [1] Tiago Miguel Marques Dos Santos; “Sistema Seguro de Reconhecimento Biométrico Usando Codificação de Fonte Distribuída”, ICSTE-IUL Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, October, 2009.

 

 

 

Evaluation Activities

 

Research Projects



  • [1] Evaluator of "Joint Applied Research Projects" for the Executive Agency for Higher Education, Research, Youth and Sport of the Romanian Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sport, 2012.



Etc

 

  • Nominated as “Top Reviewer” for the Elsevier Image and Vision Computing Journal in 2009. [url]
  • Member of the IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers [url]
  • Member of the EURASIP - European Association for Signal Processing [url]
  • Interviewed for the Falar Global program of the Portuguese television SIC Notícias, in the scope of the non-cooperative biometric iris recognition. (October, 2009) [url]
  • Interviewed for the Mundo Novo program of the Portuguese radio TSF, in the scope of the non-cooperative biometric iris recognition. (February, 2010) [url]
  • Interviewed for the SOL Portuguese journal, in the scope of the non-cooperative biometric iris recognition. (March, 2010) [url]
  • Interviewed for the Exame Informática Portuguese journal, in the scope of the non-cooperative biometric iris recognition. (July, 2010) [url]
  • Selected for a report in Jornal do Fundão Portuguese journal, in the scope of the 25 years of the University of Beira  Interior (April, 2011) [url]
  • Interviewed for the Revista C - Secção Cérebros Portuguese journal, in the scope of the non-cooperative iris recognition. (January, 2012) [url]

 

                                                                                                                 

                                                                                                                 

 

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