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NOVA LINCS Group: Multimodal Systems. Research Topics: - Computer Vision; Biometrics; Visual Surveillance. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.pt/citations?user=U1cK384AAAAJ João Neves received the MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Beira Interior, in 2013 and 2018, respectively. Since 2020, he has been affiliated with NOVA Laboratory for Computer Science and Informatics (NOVA LINCS). He was an adjunct professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, and since 2021 he is an assistant professor at the University of Beira Interior. He has been involved in several national (e.g, AIRS, DeepNeuronic) and international projects (InovFarmer.MED), supervised 8 MSc dissertations, and 4 PhD thesis. He is an Associate Editor of IEEE Access journal, and he has been distinguished with the Best Reviewer Award of the IJCB 2023. Selected Publications: - Cristiano Patrício, LuÍs Teixeira and João C. Neves. 'Explainable Deep Learning Methods in Medical Diagnosis: A Survey.' ACM Computing Surveys, 2023. - Bruno Degardin, João C. Neves, Vasco Lopes, João Brito, Ehsan Yaghoubi and Hugo Proença. 'Generative Adversarial Graph Convolutional Networks for Human Action Synthesis.' in Proceedings of the IEEE Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022. - João C. Neves, Ruben Tolosana, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Vasco Lopes, Hugo Proença. 'GANprintR: Improved Fakes and Evaluation of the State of the Art in Face Manipulation Detection.' IEEE Journal of Selected Topics on Signal Processing, 2020.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
JOÃO CARLOS RAPOSO NEVES

Citation names

  • NEVES, JOÃO
  • J. C. Neves

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
5815-C97A-C8ED
ORCID iD
0000-0003-0139-2213

Email addresses

  • jcneves@di.ubi.pt (Professional)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Exact Sciences - Computer and Information Sciences - Computer Sciences

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
English Upper intermediate (B2) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Education
Degree Classification
2013/09/16 - 2017/10/10
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Computer Science) (Doutoramento)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"QUIS-CAMPI: Biometric Recognition in Surveillance Scenarios" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18
2011/09/15 - 2013/07/01
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Computer Science) (Mestrado)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
"Automatic annotation of cellular data" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 19
2008/09/16 - 2011/06/18
Concluded
 Engenharia Informática (Computer Science) (Licenciatura)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 18.1
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2020/02/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10/08 - Current Associate Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2024/10/07 Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/11/04 - 2021/08/31 Adjunct Teacher (Polytechnic Teacher) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2018/09/18 - 2021/07/31 Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2018/02/01 - 2020/10/30 Computer Vision Engineer TOMIWORLD, Portugal
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2022/05/01 - 2025/04/30 Improving Mediterranean supply chain through innovative agro-food business models to strengthen small-scale farmers competitiveness, using prickly pear and fig as case study
PRIMA/0005/2021
3599-PPCDT
Researcher
Polytechnic Institute of Viseu, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing

Contract

Designation Funders
2022/09/01 - Current AIRS - Agriculture Innovation using Remote Sensing
11
Principal investigator
University of Beira Interior, Portugal
 Obra Social La Caixa
Ongoing
2022/01 - 2025/12 LUSITANO: Inovação Empresarial da Indústria Têxtil e do Vestuário de Portugal
02/C05-i01.01/2022.PC644933224-00000043
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2024/12/31 V2IP: Videomonitoramento para Identificação de Pessoas e Veículos
PROCAD-SPCF20201803395P
Researcher
Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior
Ongoing
2021/05/01 - 2023/06/30 Deep Neuronic
112
Research Fellow
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2020/05/01 - 2021/04/30 Perception for a Service Robot
TRA2020/07
Researcher
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Universidade Nova de Lisboa Laboratório para a Ciência da Computação e Informática
Concluded
2018/06/01 - 2020/09/30 BIODI: Biometria e Deteção de Incidentes
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-033395
Research Technician Fellow
TOMIWORLD, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Agência Nacional de Inovação SA
Concluded
2014/03/01 - 2015/02/28 QUIS-CAMPI: Biometric Recognition in Surveillance Environments
UID/EEA/50008/2013
Researcher
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
 Instituto de Telecomunicações
Concluded
2012/06/01 - 2013/05/30 CellNote Touch - Touch-based Interactive Annotation of Cellular Images
IT/LA/1086/2011
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal

Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal

Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Book chapter
  1. Neves, João C.; Tolosana, Ruben; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Lopes, Vasco; Proença, Hugo; Fierrez, Julian. "GAN Fingerprints in Face Image Synthesis". In Advances in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, 175-204. Springer Singapore, 2022.
    Published • 10.1007/978-981-16-7621-5_8
  2. Neves, João C.; Moreno, Juan C.; Barra, Silvio; Narducci, Fabio; Proença, Hugo. "Unconstrained Data Acquisition Frameworks and Protocols". In Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments, 1-30. Elsevier, 2017.
    Published • 10.1016/b978-0-08-100705-1.00001-4
  3. Proença, H.; Neves, J. C.; Sequeiros, J.; Carapito, N.; Garcia, N. C.. "Biometric Identification from Facial Sketches of Poor Reliability: Comparison of Human and Machine Performance". In Signal and Image Processing for Biometrics, 57-75. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2014.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-54080-6_3
  4. Proença, Hugo; Santos, Gil; Neves, João C.. "Using Ocular Data for Unconstrained Biometric Recognition". In Face Recognition in Adverse Conditions, 252-271. IGI Global, 2014.
    Published • 10.4018/978-1-4666-5966-7.ch012
Conference paper
  1. de Oliveira, Cristiano B.; Neves, Joao; Ribeiro, Rafael; Menotti, David. "A Multilevel Strategy to Improve People Tracking in a Real-World Scenario". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP), 2024.
    Published • 10.5220/0012460000003660
  2. Diogo Paulo; Cláudia Neves; Dulcineia Ferreira Wessel; João Neves. "WildFruiP: Estimating Fruit Physicochemical Parameters from Images Captured in the Wild". Paper presented in Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition (CIARP), 2023.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-031-49018-7_23
  3. Patrício, Cristiano; Neves, João C.; Teixeira, Luis F.. "Coherent Concept-based Explanations in Medical Image and Its Application to Skin Lesion Diagnosis". Paper presented in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2023.
    Published • 10.1109/cvprw59228.2023.00394
  4. Patrício, Cristiano; J. C. Neves; Luis F. Teixeira. "An Inherently Interpretable Classifier for Automatic Skin Lesion Diagnosis". Paper presented in Portuguese Conference on Pattern Recognition (RECPAD), Leiria, 2022.
    Published
  5. Santos, Marcelo Dos; Laroca, Rayson; Ribeiro, Rafael O.; Neves, Joao; Proenca, Hugo; Menotti, David. "Face Super-Resolution Using Stochastic Differential Equations". Paper presented in Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), 2022.
    Published • 10.1109/sibgrapi55357.2022.9991799
  6. Degardin, Bruno; Neves, Joao; Lopes, Vasco; Brito, Joao; Yaghoubi, Ehsan; Proenca, Hugo. "Generative Adversarial Graph Convolutional Networks for Human Action Synthesis". Paper presented in IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2022.
    Published • 10.1109/wacv51458.2022.00281
  7. Patricio, Cristiano; Neves, Joao C.. "ZSpeedL - Evaluating the Performance of Zero-Shot Learning Methods using Low-Power Devices". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2021.
    Published • 10.1109/avss52988.2021.9663762
  8. Borza, Diana; Yaghoubi, Ehsan; Neves, Joao; Proenca, Hugo. "All-in-one “HairNet”: A Deep Neural Model for Joint Hair Segmentation and Characterization". Paper presented in IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2020.
    Published • 10.1109/ijcb48548.2020.9304904
  9. Proenca, Hugo; Neves, Joao C.. "Segmentation-Less and Non-Holistic Deep-Learning Frameworks for Iris Recognition". Paper presented in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/cvprw.2019.00283
  10. Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Blazquez, Marta; Morales, Aythami; Gonzalez-Sosa, Ester; Neves, Joao C.; Proenca, Hugo. "FaceGenderID: Exploiting Gender Information in DCNNs Face Recognition Systems". Paper presented in IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/cvprw.2019.00278
  11. Proenca, H.; Neves, J.C.. "Biometric Recognition in Surveillance Environments Using Master-Slave Architectures". Paper presented in Conference on Graphics, Patterns and Images (SIBGRAPI), 2019.
    Published • 10.1109/SIBGRAPI.2018.00068
  12. Neves, J.; Proenca, H.. "Exploiting Data Redundancy for Error Detection in Degraded Biometric Signatures Resulting from in the Wild Environments". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face & Gesture Recognition (FG), 2017.
    Published • 10.1109/FG.2017.122
  13. Proença, H.; Neves, J.C.. "IRINA: Iris recognition (even) in inaccurately segmented data". Paper presented in IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2017.
    Published • 10.1109/CVPR.2017.714
  14. Neves, J.; Proenca, H.. "ICB-RW 2016: International challenge on biometric recognition in the wild". Paper presented in International Conference on Biometrics (ICB), 2016.
    10.1109/ICB.2016.7550066
  15. Neves, Joao C.; Santos, Gil; Filipe, Silvio; Grancho, Emanuel; Barra, Silvio; Narducci, Fabio; Proenca, Hugo; et al. "Quis-Campi: Extending in the Wild Biometric Recognition to Surveillance Environments". Paper presented in International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing, 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-23222-5_8
  16. Neves, J.C.; Moreno, J.C.; Barra, S.; Proença, H.. "A calibration algorithm for multi-camera visual surveillance systems based on single-view metrology". Paper presented in Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 2015.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-19390-8_62
  17. Neves, J.C.; Proença, H.; Joao C. Neves; Hugo Proenca. "Dynamic camera scheduling for visual surveillance in crowded scenes using Markov random fields". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance (AVSS), 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/AVSS.2015.7301790
  18. Neves, J.C.; Moreno, J.C.; Barra, S.; Proença, H.. "Acquiring high-resolution face images in outdoor environments: A master-slave calibration algorithm". Paper presented in IEEE International Conference on Biometrics Theory, Applications and Systems (BTAS), 2015.
    Published • 10.1109/BTAS.2015.7358744
  19. Hugo Proenca; Joao C. Neves; Gil Santos. "Segmenting the periocular region using a hierarchical graphical model fed by texture / shape information and geometrical constraints". Paper presented in IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB), 2014.
    Published • 10.1109/btas.2014.6996228
  20. Kacperski, D.; Wlodarczyk, M.; Grabowski, K.; Neves, J.. "Evaluation of Human Silhouette Detection Methods for a Non-cooperative Biometric System". Paper presented in International Conference Mixed Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems (MIXDES), 2014.
    Published • 10.1109/MIXDES.2014.6872238
  21. Neves, J.C.; Castro, H.; Proença, H.; Coimbra, M.. "Automatic annotation of Leishmania infections in fluorescence microscopy images". Paper presented in International Conference Image Analysis and Recognition (ICIAR), 2013.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-642-39094-4_70
  22. Proenca, H.; Neves, J.C.. "Creating synthetic IrisCodes to feed biometrics experiments". Paper presented in IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications, 2013.
    Published • 10.1109/BIOMS.2013.6656141
  23. Isento, J.N.; Dias, J.A.; Neves, J.C.; Soares, V.N.G.J.; Rodrigues, J.J.P.C.; Nogueira, A.M.D.; Salvador, P.. "FTP@VDTN A file transfer application for Vehicular Delay-Tolerant Networks". Paper presented in International Conference on Computer as a Tool (EUROCON), 2011.
    Published • 10.1109/EUROCON.2011.5929349
Journal article
  1. Patrício, Cristiano; Neves, João C.. "Zero-shot face recognition: Improving the discriminability of visual face features using a Semantic-Guided Attention Model". Expert Systems with Applications 211 (2023): 118635. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118635.
    Published • 10.1016/j.eswa.2022.118635
  2. Yaghoubi, Ehsan; Borza, Diana; Neves, João; Kumar, Aruna; Proença, Hugo. "An attention-based deep learning model for multiple pedestrian attributes recognition". Image and Vision Computing 102 (2020): 103981. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.imavis.2020.103981.
    Published • 10.1016/j.imavis.2020.103981
  3. Neves, Joao C.; Tolosana, Ruben; Vera-Rodriguez, Ruben; Lopes, Vasco; Proenca, Hugo; Fierrez, Julian. "GANprintR: Improved Fakes and Evaluation of the State of the Art in Face Manipulation Detection". IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing 14 5 (2020): 1038-1048. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/jstsp.2020.3007250.
    Published • 10.1109/jstsp.2020.3007250
  4. Joao Neves; Hugo Proenca. "“A Leopard Cannot Change Its Spots”: Improving Face Recognition Using 3D-Based Caricatures". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 14 1 (2019): 151-161. https://doi.org/10.1109%2Ftifs.2018.2846617.
    10.1109/tifs.2018.2846617
  5. Proenca, H.; Neves, J.C.. "A Reminiscence of Mastermind': Iris/Periocular Biometrics by In-Set' CNN Iterative Analysis". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 14 7 (2019): 1702-1712. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-85057889975&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TIFS.2018.2883853
  6. João Neves; Juan Moreno; Hugo Proença. "QUIS-CAMPI: an annotated multi-biometrics data feed from surveillance scenarios". IET Biometrics 7 4 (2018): 371-379. https://doi.org/10.1049%2Fiet-bmt.2016.0178.
    Published • 10.1049/iet-bmt.2016.0178
  7. Hugo Proenca; Joao C. Neves. "Deep-PRWIS: Periocular Recognition Without the Iris and Sclera Using Deep Learning Frameworks". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 13 4 (2018): 888-896. https://doi.org/10.1109%2Ftifs.2017.2771230.
    Published • 10.1109/tifs.2017.2771230
  8. Hugo Proenca; Joao C. Neves. "Soft Biometrics: Globally Coherent Solutions for Hair Segmentation and Style Recognition Based on Hierarchical MRFs". IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security 12 7 (2017): 1637-1645. https://doi.org/10.1109%2Ftifs.2017.2680246.
    Published • 10.1109/tifs.2017.2680246
  9. Hugo Proença; João C. Neves. "Fusing Vantage Point Trees and Linear Discriminants for Fast Feature Classification". Journal of Classification 34 1 (2017): 85-107. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs00357-017-9223-0.
    Published • 10.1007/s00357-017-9223-0
  10. Hugo Proença; João C. Neves. "Visible-wavelength iris/periocular imaging and recognition surveillance environments". Image and Vision Computing 55 (2016): 22-25. https://doi.org/10.1016%2Fj.imavis.2016.03.015.
    Published • 10.1016/j.imavis.2016.03.015
  11. Juan C. Moreno; V. B. Surya Prasath; João C. Neves. "Color image processing by vectorial total variation with gradient channels coupling". Inverse Problems and Imaging 10 2 (2016): 461-497. https://doi.org/10.3934%2Fipi.2016008.
    Published • 10.3934/ipi.2016008
  12. João Neves; Fabio Narducci; Silvio Barra; Hugo Proença. "Biometric recognition in surveillance scenarios: a survey". Artificial Intelligence Review 46 4 (2016): 515-541. https://doi.org/10.1007%2Fs10462-016-9474-x.
    Published • 10.1007/s10462-016-9474-x
  13. Proenca, H.; Neves, J.C.; Barra, S.; Marques, T.; Moreno, J.C.. "Joint Head Pose/Soft Label Estimation for Human Recognition In-The-Wild". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence 38 12 (2016): 2444-2456. http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84995543223&partnerID=MN8TOARS.
    Published • 10.1109/TPAMI.2016.2522441
  14. Proenca, Hugo; Neves, Joao; Briceno, Juan. "Face recognition: handling data misalignments implicitly by fusion of sparse representations". Iet Computer Vision 9 2 (2015): 216-225. http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=ORCID&SrcApp=OrcidOrg&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=WOS_CPL&KeyUT=WOS:000352323900006&KeyUID=WOS:000352323900006.
    Published • 10.1049/iet-cvi.2014.0039
  15. J. C. Neves; J. C. Moreno; H. Proença. "A Master-Slave Calibration Algorithm with Fish-Eye Correction". Mathematical Problems in Engineering 2015 (2015): 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1155%2F2015%2F427270.
    Published • 10.1155/2015/427270
  16. Neves, João C.; Castro, Helena; Tomás, Ana; Coimbra, Miguel; Proença, Hugo. "Detection and separation of overlapping cells based on contour concavity for Leishmania images". Cytometry Part A 85 6 (2014): 491-500. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cyto.a.22465.
    Published • 10.1002/cyto.a.22465
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "QUIS-CAMPI: Biometric Recognition in Surveillance Scenarios". PhD, 2018.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2023/08/29 Invited Talk: Person ReID in Surveillance Scenarios - 2023 Brazilian Congress Attack (Test Scenario) InterForensics 2023
(Brazilia, Brazil)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2023/11/01 - Current Extending Spatio-Temporal Action Detection for Video Surveillance Scenarios using Vision-Language Prompt-based Learning
Supervisor of João Alexandre Cardeira Pereira
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current Super-resolution Satellite Imagery for Crop Health Monitoring
Supervisor of Ana Dias
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current Cross-Dataset Deep Fake Detection
Supervisor of José Marques
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2023/09/15 - Current Contrastive Learning for Visual Object Recognition
Supervisor of Raquel Abreu
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09 - Current Real-time Human Action Localization in the Wild
Supervisor of João Pereira
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/09 - Current Assessing the Impact of Visual Content Categories in How Humans Perceive Fakeness in Photojournalistic Images
Co-supervisor of Laurent Beaupoil
 Cognitive Neuroscience (PhD)
Jagiellonian University in Kraków Institute of Applied Psychology, Poland
2022/09 - Current Super-Resolution and Facial Recognition in Surveillance Scenarios
Co-supervisor of Marcelo Santos
 Informática (PhD)
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
2021/09/15 - Current Self-explanatory Deep Learning Models with Multimodal Interpretability for Medical Diagnosis
Supervisor of Cristiano Patrício
 Engenharia Informática (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/09 - 2023/07/05 Spatial and Temporal Neural Networks towards Video Understanding in Embedded Systems
Co-supervisor of Paulo Duarte
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/10 Property Appraisal Platform
Supervisor of Mauro Gaudêncio
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/06 Preventing School-bullying through Automated Video Analysis
Supervisor of Edgar Daniel
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/10/15 Churn Rate Prediction in Telecommunications Companies
Co-supervisor of Ana Lima
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/07/15 A Zero­-shot Learning Method for Recognizing Objects using Low-­power Devices
Supervisor of Cristiano Patrício
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/07/15 RIT Evolution - Career Management Platform
Supervisor of Diana Dias
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/07/15 Implementação de Funcionalidades e­Transfer numa Aplicação Bancária
Supervisor of André Martins
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/07/15 Cálculo da Pegada de Carbono a partir de Transações Bancárias
Supervisor of Valeriya Popyuk
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/09/15 - 2021/07/15 Camada de Data Warehouse num Sistema de Big Data da Critical TechWorks
Supervisor of João Marques
 Engenharia Informática (Master)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2020/02/15 - 2020/09/08 Human Tracking By Deep Reinforcement Learning Frameworks
Supervisor of Francisco Pinheira
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2020/07/15 Investigação em Visão Computacional com Uso de Unidades de Processamento Tensorial
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Duarte
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2020/02/15 - 2020/06/10 Avaliação do Desempenho de Unidades de Processamento de Visão Computacional
Supervisor of Edgar Daniel
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2019/07/15 Photo Fun com Filtros e Realidade Aumentada
Co-supervisor of Jorge Silva
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Instituto Politécnico de Viseu, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2019/06/30 Deteção de Quedas em Vídeos de Vídeo-vigilância
Supervisor of António Sousa
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/15 - 2019/06/30 Deteção de Lutas em Vídeos de Vídeo-vigilância
Supervisor of João Fernandes
 Engenharia Informática (Degree)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2015/09/17 - 2015/09/18 Participation in the TECHDAYS 2015 event representing the QUIS-CAMPI research project.
Exhibition
 TECHDAYS
Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
2012/10 - 2012/10 Participation in the Inter-University Programming Marathon representing the University of Beira Interior.
Other
 Inter-University Programming Marathon (MIUP)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Ciências, Portugal
2011/10 - 2011/10 Participation in the Inter-University Programming Marathon representing the University of Beira Interior.
Other
 Inter-University Programming Marathon (MIUP)
Universidade do Algarve, Portugal
2010/10 - 2010/10 Participation in the Inter-University Programming Marathon representing the University of Beira Interior.
Other
 Inter-University Programming Marathon (MIUP)
Universidade de Évora, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2022/06 Geometric Deep Learning in Fingerprint Recognition Systems
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Margarida Gouveia (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2022/06 Context-aware Multimodal Embeddings for Interactive News Images Search
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Cláudio Bartolomeu (Master)
Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Portugal
2022/06 Using Deep Learning and Computer Vision to enhance Human-Robot Collaboration
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Duarte Moutinho (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/11 Soft Biometric Analysis: Multi-Person and Real-Time Pedestrian Attribute Recognition in Crowded Urban Environment
(Thesis) Arguer
 Ehsan Yaghoub (PhD)
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/10/01 Anomaly Detection in Cyber-Physical Production Systems
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Carlos Pinto (Master)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2021/10/01 Generative Deep Clustering with the Hierarchical and Relativistic Wasserstein Autoencoder GAN
(Thesis) Main arguer
 Gustavo Morais (Master)
Universidade de Lisboa Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2022/02 - Current Member of the National Committee CT 226 - Biometrics
Member
2022/02 - Current Associate Editor of the IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter
Member

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2021/06/01 - 2021/06/30 Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis
2019/06/01 - 2019/06/30 IEEE International Conference on Identity, Security and Behavior Analysis

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/02/20 - 2022/06/30 Computer Security Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2022/02/20 - 2022/06/30 Human-Computer Interaction Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/02/15 Computer Technologies Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/09/15 - 2022/02/15 Web Development Frameworks Informática Web (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/07/15 Data Structures Tecnologias e Design de Multimédia (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/06/15 Artificial Intelligence Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
2021/02/15 - 2021/06/15 Computer Architecture Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2021/02/01 Databases II Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
2020/11/01 - 2021/02/01 Database Applications Tecnologias e Design de Multimédia (Licenciatura) Instituto Politécnico de Viseu Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Viseu, Portugal
2020/02/17 - 2020/06 Animation and Virtual Reality Design e Desenvolvimento de Jogos Digitais (Mestrado integrado) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/09/17 - 2020/02/01 Computer Architecture I Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2019/02/17 - 2019/06/09 Computer Architecture II Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/09/16 - 2019/02/01 Programação de Dispositivos Móveis Engenharia Informática (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2018/09/16 - 2019/02/01 Programação de Dispositivos Móveis Informática Web (Licenciatura) Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Evaluation committee

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization Funding entity
2024/01/20 - 2024/04/30 Expert Evaluator of 2022 SIFIDE Applications (RD Tax Incentive System for Companies), 2024 [3 Applications, 3 Projects]
Evaluator
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal
2022/09 - 2022/09 Expert Evaluator of 2020 SIFIDE Applications (RD Tax Incentive System for Companies), 2022 [2 Applications, 7 Projects]
Evaluator
 Agência Nacional de Inovação SA, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/05/21 - Current Multimedia Tools and Applications (1573-7721) Springer
2023/12/01 - Current IEEE Access IEEE
Distinctions

Award

2024 Outstanding Reviewer Award
British Machine Vision Conference, United Kingdom
2023 Best Reviewer Award
IEEE International Joint Conference on Biometrics (IJCB) , Slovenia
2019 Best Paper Runner Up, for the work 'FaceGenderID: Exploiting Gender Information in DCNNs Face Recognition Systems' Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Marta Blazquez, Aythami Morales, Ester Gonzalez-Sosa, João Neves, Hugo Proença
Second International Workshop on Bias Estimation in Face Analytics, United States
2011 Best Computer Science Finalist
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
2009 Best Computer Science Student
Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal

Other distinction

2008 Finalist in the National Mathematics Olympiad
Sociedade Portuguesa de Matemática, Portugal