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Name: Jacinto Carlos Marques Peixoto do Nascimento.               

Degrees

• PosDoc (2003 - ) (from Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica)

• P.h.D. in Electrical and computer Engineering (2003)  

               (from the Instituto Superior Técnico/ Technical University of Lisbon)

• M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (1998)

               (from the Instituto Superior Técnico/ Technical University of Lisbon)

 

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Research interests

• Image processing/analysis and computer vision

• Data Association

• Contour model tracking

• Deformable models

• Markov random fields

• Image segmentation

• Surveillance Systems

• Particle filtering

• Pattern Recognition

• Unsupervised learning.

• Mixture models

• Model selection

 

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Publications 

 

   Book Chapter

• J. Marques, J. Nascimento, A. Abrantes, M. Silveira   "Robust Shape Estimation with Deformable Models". Advances in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Methods and Applications, Springer, 2008.

• J. C. Nascimento and  J. S. Marques "Adaptive Snakes using the EM Algorithm",  IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, vol. 14, no. 11, November, pp. 1678-1686, 2005.

             Watch the movies: Round Rock, Round Beach Stones, Cabbage, Sea Stack at Sunset

                                              Waterfall, Flower, Lips, Lips Potential,  Square Shape Potential

• J. C. Nascimento, and  J. S. Marques "Robust Shape Tracking in the Presence of Cluttered Background",  IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, vol. 6, no. 6, December, pp. 852-861,2004.

            Watch the movies:  Bernhard, Katharina, (Observations), Hongfei, (Observations),

                                              Luyang, (Observations)

                                              Maciel, FacialExpressions, (Observations), Sing, (Observations),

                                              Speak, (Observations), Lorry. 

• Gilles Celeux, J. C. Nascimento, and  J. S. Marques "Learning Switching Dynamic Models for Objects Tracking".  Pattern Recognition, Vol.37, Issue 9, September 2004, pp. 1841-1853.

• J. C. Nascimento and  J. S. Marques. "An adaptive Potential for Robust Shape Estimation". Image and vision computing,  Volume 21, Issues 13-14, December 2003, pp.1107-1116.

• J. C. Nascimento, A. J. Abrantes and J. S. Marques. "Using Middle Level Features for Robust Shape Tracking". Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 24, pp. 295-307, 2003.

• J. C. Nascimento and J. S. Marques. "Improving the Robustness of Parametric Shape Tracking with Switched Multiple Models". Pattern Recognition, Vol. 35, pp. 2711-2718, Dez. 2002.

 

 

   Papers in international conference/book workshop proceedings

 

• G. Carneiro, J. C. Nascimento and A. Freitas, "Semi-supervised self-training model for the segmenattion of the left ventricle of the heart from ultrasound data'', IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, (ISBI'2011), 2011.

• J. S. Marques, J. M. Lemos, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. C. Nascimento and M. Barão, "Trajectory analysis using switched motion fields: a Parametric Approach'', Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPRIA 2011), 2011.

• J. C. Nascimento and J. G. Silva, "Manifold learning for object tracking with multiple motion dynamics", European Conf. on Computer Vision, K. Daniilidis, P. Maragos, N. Paragios (Eds.): ECCV 2010, Part III, LNCS 6313, pp. 172-185, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, Creete, Grece, 2010.

• G. Carneiro, and J. C. Nascimento, "Multiple dynamic models for tracking the left ventricle of the heart from ultrasound data using particle filters and deep learning architectures", IEEE Int. Conf. on Computer Vision Pattern Recognition (CVPR2010), pp. 2815-2822, San Francisco, U.S.A., 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento and G. Carneiro, "Efficient search methods and Deep belief Networks with particle filtering for non-rigid tracking: Application to lip tracking'',  Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), pp. 3817-3820, Hong-Kong, China, 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo and J. S. Marques, "Classification of Complex Pedestrian Activities from Trajectories'', Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), pp. 3481-3484, Hong-Kong, China, 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo and J. S. Marques, "Discriminative model selection for object motion recognition", Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), pp. 3953-3956, Hong-Kong, China, 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento and J. S. Marques. "Improving the Robustness of Gradient Vector Flow in Cluttered Images", Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing (ICIP 2010), pp. 657-660, Hong-Kong, China, 2010.

• G. Carneiro and J. C. Nascimento, "The fusion of deep learning architectures and particle filtering applied to lip tracking'', IEEE Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR2010), pp. 2065-2068, Istanbul, Turkey, 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento and J. S. Marques "Improved Gradient Vector Flow for robust shape estimation in medical imaging'', Proc. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology (EMBC 2010)}, pp. 4809-4812, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2010.

• G. Carneiro and J. C. Nascimento and A. Freitas,"Robust left ventricle segmentation from ultrasound data using deep neural networks and efficient search methods", IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, (ISBI'2010), pp. 1085-1088, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A., 2010.

• J. C. Nascimento,  M. A. T. Figueiredo and J. S. Marques, "Trajectory analysis in natural images using mixtures of vector fields", IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP'2009), pp. 4353-4356, Cairo, Egypt, 2009.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo and J. S. Marques, "Trajectory Modeling Using Mixtures of Vector Fields",  4th Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis (IbPria'2009), pp. 40-47, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.

• M. Taiana, J. Santos, J. Gaspar, J. Nascimento, A. Bernardino, and P. Lima, "Color 3D model-based tracking with arbitrary projection models",  Workshop on Omnidirectional Robot Vision, (OmniRoboVis2008) in conjunction with International Conferenceon Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots (SIMPAR 2008), 2008.

• M. Taiana, J. Nascimento, J. Gaspar, A. Bernardino, "Sample-Based 3D Tracking of Colored Objects: A Flexible Architecture",  Proc. of the British Machine Vision   Conference - BMVC'08, vol. 2, pp. 825-834, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK Sep. 2008.

• J. Nascimento, J. Sanches. "Total Variation with automatic hyper-parameter estimation", 30th Int. Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology, (EMBC 2008).

• J. Nascimento, J. Sanches, "Ultrasound Imaging LV tracking with adaptive window size and automatic hyper-parameter estimation", Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2008), pp. 553-556, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

• M. Silveira, J. Nascimento, J. S. Marques, "Level Set Segmentation with Outlier Rejection", Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2008), pp. 761-764, San Diego, California, U.S.A

• J. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques, "Unsupervised learning of motion patterns using generative models", Int. Conf. on Image Processing, (ICIP 2008), pp. 1085-1088, San Diego, California, U.S.A.

• M. Taiana, J. Gaspar, J. Nascimento, A. Bernardino, P. Lima. "On the use of perspective catadioptric sensors for 3D model-based tracking with particle filters", Proc. of the IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems - IROS'07, San Diego, CA, USA, Oct 29 - 2 Nov, 2007.

• M. Silveira, J. Nascimento, J. S. Marques. "Automatic segmentation of lungs using robust level sets", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Int. Conf., EMBS 2007 Lyon, France, Aug., 2007.

• J. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques. "Semi-supervised Learning of Switched Dynamical Models for Classification of Human Activities in Surveillance Applications",  Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol. 3, pp. 197-200,  ICIP 2007), San Antonio, Texas, USA, Sep., 2007.

• T. Mendonça, A. Marcal, A. Vieira, J. Nascimento, M. Silveira, J. Marques, J. Rozeira. "Comparison of Segmentation Methods for Automatic Diagnosis of Dermoscopy Images",  IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Int. Conf., EMBS 2007, Lyon, France, Aug., 2007.

• J. Sanches, J. Nascimento, J. Marques. "An Unified Framework for Bayesian Denoising for Several Medical and Biological Imaging modalities", IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society Annual Int. Conf., EMBS 2007 Lyon, France, Aug., 2007.

• M. Taiana, J. Gaspar, J. Nascimento, A. Bernardino, P. Lima. "3D Tracking by Catadioptric Vision Based on Particle Filters", 11th Proc. of the RoboCup International Symposium, Atlanta, USA, 2007.

• J. Nascimento, J. M. Sanches, J. S. Marques. "Tracking the Left Ventricle in Ultrasound Images based on Total Variation denoising", 3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis,  IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, Jun., 2007.

• J. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques. "On-line Classification of Human Activities",  3rd Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis,  IbPRIA 2007, Girona, Spain, Jun., 2007.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. M. Sanches, J. S. Marques. "A Method for the Dynamic Analysis of the Heart Using a Lyapounov Based Denoising Algorithm".  28th Annual International Conf. of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBS), New York, USA, Aug., 2006.

• D. Hall, J. C. Nascimento, P. Ribeiro, E. Andrade, P. Moreno, S. Pesnel, T. List, R. Emonet, B. Fisher, J. Santos-Victor, J. Crowley, "Comparison of target detection algorithms using adaptive background models". In Proc. 2nd Joint IEEE Int. Workshop of the ICCV 2005 on Visual Surveillance and Performance Evaluation of Tracking and Surveillance (VS-PETS), pp 113-120, Beijing, China, Oct. 2005.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques. "Segmentation and classification of human activities". In  British Machine Vision Conf., Int. Workshop on Human Activity Recognition and Modelling - HAREM 2005}, pp. 79-86, Oxford, UK, Sep. 2005.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques. "Recognition of human activities using space dependent switched dynamical systems". In  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, ICIP'2005, Genoa, Italy, 2005.

• J. C. Nascimento, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. S. Marques. "Motion segmentation for activity surveillance". In 1st ISR Workshop on Systems, Decision and Control Robotic Monitoring and Surveillance, Lisbon, June 2005.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques. "Novel metrics for performance evaluation of object detection algorithms". In  1st ISR Workshop on Systems, Decision and Control Robotic Monitoring and Surveillance, Lisbon, June 2005.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques. "New Performance Evaluation Metrics for Object Detection Algorithms". In  PETS ECCV, 6th International Workshop on Performance Evaluation for Tracking and Surveillance, pp. 7-14, Prague, Czech Republic, May 2004.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques, J. Sanches. "Estimation of Cardiac Phases in Echographic Images Using Multiple Models". In  IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, Barcelona, September 2003.

• J. C. Nascimento, A. J. Abrantes, J. S. Marques. "The role of middle level features for robust shape tracking". In  Proc. of 12th Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition - RECPAD'02, Aveiro, june 2002.

• J. C. Nascimento, J.S. Marques. "An Adaptive Potential for Robust Shape Estimation". In  Int. Conf. British Machine Vision Conference, vol 1, pp. 343-352, Manchester, September 2001.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques. "Improving the Robustness of Parametric Shape Tracking with Switched Multiple Models". In Int. Conf. on Enterprise Information Systems - Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems - WPRIS, A. Fred, A. Jain, eds., Setúbal, pp. 50-58, July 2001.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques. "Robust Shape Tracking in the Presence of Cluttered Background". In  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing, vol 3, pp. 82-85, Vancouver, September 2000.

• J. C. Nascimento, A. J. Abrantes, J. S. Marques. "An algorithm for Centroid-Based Tracking of Moving Objects". In  Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 6, pp. 3305-3308, Phoenix, March 1999.

 

Other publications

• J. C. Nascimento, "Robust Shape Estimation and Tracking in the Presence of Clutter", Ph.D, IST, 2003.

• G. Celeux, J. S. Marques, J. C. Nascimento, "Learning Switching Dynamic Models for Objects Tracking", INRIA/IST, 2003.

• J. C. Nascimento, J. S. Marques, "Robust Shape Tracking in Video Sequences in the Presence of Cluttered Background", ISR/IST-RT-101-00, 2000.

• J. C. Nascimento, "Modelos Deformáveis em Estimação e Seguimento de Objectos Bidimensionais", M.Sc, IST, 1998.

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Professional service

• Chair

            IbPRIA'2007  3rd Iberian Conference of Pattern Recognition nd Image Analysis, Girona, Spain

• Reviewer for journals:

               - EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing: 2007

               - Computer Vision and Image Understanding: 2011, 2008.

               - IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man.  and Cybernetics - Part B: 2008.

               - IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology: 2008, 2007.

               - EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing: 2007.

               - Signal Processing: 2009, 2007

               - Image and Vision Computing: 2006.

      - IEEE Trans. Image Processing: 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006. 

      - Pattern Recognition Letters: 2010, 2007, 2004, 2003.

      - IEEE Trans. Multimedia: 2005

      - Iranian Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering - IJECE 

 

• Recent  conference reviewing and program committees

 

                - IIEEE nt. Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP: 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008.

                - IEEE Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition - ICPR: 2010.

                - European Conf. Signal Processing - EUSIPCO: 2011.

                - IEEE Int. Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal based Surveilance - AVSS: 2011.

                - Int. Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition -  ICIAR: 2007.

                - Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition - CIARP: 2007, 2006, 2005.

                - Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition - IbPRIA: 2007, 2005.

                - International IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Society Conference Management System - ITSC: 2010, 2009, 2006.
                - European Conference on Computer Vision - ECCV: 2006.

                - British Machine Vision Conference - BMVC: 2005, 2004.

 

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Contact information:

Jacinto C. M. P. Nascimento
Instituto de Sistemas e Robótica
Instituto Superior Técnico
Torre Norte, Piso 6
Av. Rovisco Pais
1049-001  Lisboa
PORTUGAL

Tel.:  + 351   218418270
Fax.: + 351   218418291