Luís Alexandre

Address Luís Alexandre Dept. Informatica Univ. da Beira Interior R. Marques de Avila e Bolama 6201-001 Covilha, Portugal Telephone: +351 275 319891, Ext. 3278 Fax: +351 275 319899 Email: luis.insert_my_last_name (at) ubi.pt

Highlights

• UBIRIS databases: with more than 1100 users from more than 80 countries
• SOCIA: Soft Computing and Image Analysis lab

Research Interests

My interests are Pattern Recognition and Image Processing. More precisely I am currently interested in the following topics (check the publications page): 3D Object Recognition, Deep Neural Networks.

Publications

Check here please.

PhD supervisions

• Silvio Filipe, "Development of a biologically plausible visual saliency algorithm and its implementation on GPGPU architecture", start date: 2010-09-01

• I co-supervised the PhD of Luís Silva at the Neural Network Interest Group (NNIG). His thesis was entitled "Neural Networks with Error-Density Risk Functionals for Data Classification". Luís had a FCT PhD grant. The supervisor was Prof. Marques de Sá at FEUP. He's PhD was concluded on July 2008.
• I co-supervised the PhD of Jorge Santos on the thesis entitled "Data Classification with Neural Networks and Entropic Criteria". Jorge had a PRODEP PhD grant and was (and still is) teaching at the Politechnique Institute of Porto. The supervisor was Prof. Marques de Sá. He's PhD was concluded on May 2007.
• I supervised the PhD of Hugo Proença. His thesis has the title "Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition" and he developed new methods that enable the identification and authentication of persons using iris information in a robust way (check our iris data base: UBIRIS). He's PhD was concluded on January 2007.

Financed projects

• I am a team member of project 'Reusable Deep Neural Networks: applications to biomedical data' (2012-2015, 158k€) (PTDC/EIA-EIA/119004/2010), which is financed by the FCT. The main goal is to clarify the conditions under which a DNN can be reused. The coordinator is Luís Silva.
• I am a team member of project 'NECOVID: Covert Negative Biometric Identification' (2010-2013, 87k€) (PTDC/EIA-EIA/103945/2008), which is financed by the FCT. The goal is to address the feasibility of an automated system that performs covert and reliable biometric recognition, using the iris as single trait. The coordinator is Hugo Proença.
• I was the coordinator of the project 'BioRec - Non-Cooperative Multimodal Biometric Recognition' (2007-2011, 130k€) (PTDC/EIA/69106/2006), which was financed by FCT. The goal of the project was the development of a system for recognizing people at a distance without their cooperation, using iris and face (on the visible and infrared) detection and recognition techniques.
• I was the coordinator of the project 'EntNets - Entropic neural networks for the analysis of medical data' (2005-2008, 77k€) (POSC/EIA/56918/2004), which was financed by FCT. The goal of the project was the development of neural networks using entropy as a cost function and their application to the analysis of medical data. Most of the team members were researchers at the Neural Network Interest Group (NNIG).
• I was a team member of project 'COMBDEC - Combining Decisions. Application in Chest Radiograph Image Analysis' (POSI/SRI/35590/2000), which was financed by program PRAXIS XXI. I was the coordinator of the project at UBI. The goal of the project was the detection of pathologies in chest x-ray images. We used image processing and classifier combination techniques.
• I was a team member of project 'Analysis ad Rendering of Images in Real and Virtual Setups' (financed by FCT) where I developed work in road traffic analysis from real-time video images. This work is included in my MSc thesis.

Teaching

Short CV

• Agregação degree on Computer Science at UBI, on May 2013.
• Associate Professor at the Dept. of Informatics at UBI, since 2009.
• Member of the Neural Network Interest Group at FEUP, since 2003.
• Researcher at Instituto de Telecomunicações at UBI, since 2003.
• Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Informatics at UBI, since 2002.
• PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computers awarded by the Faculty of Engineering of the Univ. of Porto, in 2002.
• Assistente at the Dept. of Informatics at UBI, from 2001 to 2002.
• Assistente at the Dept. of Matematics/Informatics at UBI, from 1998 to 2001.
• MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computers - option of Industrial Informatics awarded by the Faculty of Engineering of the Univ. of Porto, in 1997.
• Assistente estagiário at the Dept. of Matematics/Informatics at UBI, from 1996 to 1997.
• Researcher at the Computer Vision and Image Processing Group at INEB - Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica from 1995 to 2002.
• Systems Analist in a private company, from 1994 to 1995.
• Licenciado in Physics/Applied Mathematics by the Faculty of Science of the Univ. of Porto in 1994.
• Member of the popularization unit at the Astrophysics Center of the Univ. of Porto from 1993 to 1994.