Projects and Grants

SIMBAD - Beyond Features: Similarity-Based Pattern Analysis and Recognition, European project, 2007-2011.  webpage

DELKETI - Development and Learning of Kernels for Text and Images, FCT project, 2007-2011.  Final report

 (PI) MODI - 3D Models from 2D Images, Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) project, 2007-2010.  Final report

SIPM - Signal and Image Processing on Manifolds, FCT project, 2007-2010.

Automatic Trademark Retrieval, TechFrame project, 2005-2008.

(PI) AMA - Automatic Modeling of Architecture, FCT project, 2002-2005.

Digital Voices, XEROX Palo Alto Research Center project, 2001-2002.

3D Modeling from Video, FCT project, 2000-2003.

 

Students and their Papers, Thesis, Projects, etc  (some in Portuguese, sorry...)

COCO Denoiser — Using Co-Coercivity for Variance Reduction in Stochastic Convex Optimization, Manuel Madeira, 2021.
Thesis NeurIPS’21

Visual Attention with Sparse and Continuous Transformations, António Farinhas, 2021.
Thesis NeurIPS'20 ICCV'21

Improving Object Detection through Contextual Rescoring, Lourenço Pato, 2019.
Thesis CVPR’20

3D Pose Estimation for Bin-picking: a Data-driven Approach using Multi-light Images, José Rodrigues, 2018.
Thesis IROS'12

Low Level Methods for Complex Image Analysis — Edge and Line Segment Detection and Texture Discrimination, Rui Guerreiro, 2015.
Thesis  ICIP'10  ICIP'11  T-IP'12  PAA’13  ICIP’13

Shape Representation via Symmetric Polynomials: a Complete Invariant Inspired by the Bispectrum, Renato Negrinho, 2013.
Thesis  ICIP’13  ICIP’14

Distributed Algorithms for Sparse Approximation, João Mota, 2013.
Thesis  SPARS'09  ICASSP'11  ICASSP'12  T-SP'12  CDC'12a  CDC'12b  T-SP’13  GlobalSIP’13a  GlobalSIP13b  arxiv:1305.1885
IEEE SPS Young Author Best Paper Award

Advances in Structured Prediction for Natural Language Processing, André Martins, 2012.
Thesis  CONFTELE’07  ITW’08  ICML’08  arXiv:0804.1653  JMLR’09  EMNLP'10  CMU-ML-08-106  arXiv:1010.2770   NIPS'10 MKL   NIPS'10 OPT  AISTATS'11  ICML'2011  EMNLP'11a  EMNLP'11b  arXiv:1212.6550
Prémio Científico IBM    CMU SCS Honorable Mention

Sentiment Analysis, Pedro Varela, 2012.
Thesis  Summary article

Content-Based Image Classification, Paulo Ferrerira, 2010.
Thesis  Summary article

Complex Moments for Shape Representation, João Crespo, 2010.
ICIP’09  ICIP'10  T-IP'11

A Multidimensional Companding Scheme for Source Coding with a Perceptually Relevant Distortion Measure, João Crespo, 2009.
Thesis  Summary article

Music Classification - an Exhaustive Analysis of Automatic Genre Classification, Bruno Afonso, 2009.

Joint Estimation of Correspondence and Motion using Global Rigidity and Local Descriptors, Ricardo Cabral, 2009.
Thesis  Summary article

ANSIG – an Analytic Signature for Permutation-Invariant 2D Shape Representation, José Rodrigues, 2008.
Thesis  CVPR’08  ICIP’08
Prémio L. Vidigal (melhor tese nas áreas científicas da Engª Elect., Informática e Computadores)

Articulated 3D Human Modeling from Motion Capture Systems, João Fayad, 2008.
Thesis  Summary article  CMBBE’08  BIOMEC’09  MD’09  BMVC'09  ESMC'09

Algoritmos de Análise Descriminativa Linear, Pedro Guerreiro, 2008.
Tese  Summary article

Algoritmos Distribuídos para Problemas de Aproximação Esparsa, João Mota, 2008.
Tese  Summary article

Alinhamento de Imagens Médicas 2D e 3D, Miguel Venâncio, 2008
Tese

Reconstrução 3D usando Factorização Matricial de Norma L1, Sílvia Nobre, 2008.

Imagens Panorâmicas, Bernardo Pires, 2004.
Relatório  MMSP'04  ICIP'05
Prémio L. Vidigal (melhor tese nas áreas científicas da Engª Elect., Informática e Computadores)

Modelos 3D a Partir de Video, Rui Guerreiro, 2003.
Tese  ICIP'02  MMSP'02  EMMCVPR'03

Modelos 3D a Partir de Video, Bruno Gonçalves, 2003.
Relatório  ICIP'04

Interpretação Automática de Esboços, Hugo Policarpo, João Deusdado, 2003.
Relatório

Imagens Panorâmicas, João Silva, 2003.
Relatório

Orientação Automática na Baixa Pombalina, André Martins, 2002.
Relatório (lowres)  ICIP'03  T-PAMI’04    videos: potemkine hitchcock fanqueiros donamaria
Prémio L. Vidigal (melhor tese nas áreas científicas da Engª Elect., Informática e Computadores)

Voz Digital: Comunicação Acústica Aérea, João Lacerda, Natacha Domingues, 2002.
Relatório  MMSP'02

Meta Video, António Miranda, Nuno Castro, 2002.
Relatório

Imagens Panorâmicas, António Matos, Ricardo Albuquerque, 2002.