Activity

Research & Development

• Member of the research project SCONE - geometric featureS in CONvolutional nEural networks for a fingerprint recognition system.
• Team Leader and individual contributor in vCardID project with INCM (Imprensa Nacional Casa da Moeda) for the creation of a national fingerprint identification algorithm.
• Principal Investigator in AUTOMOTIVE (FCT 030707).
• Member of the research project OMR (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-010159).

Co-Founding and Coordinating

Summer School

VISion Understanding and Machine intelligence Summer School is a non-profit summer school that aims to gather Ph.D. candidates, Post-Doctoral scholars and researchers from academia and industry with research interests in computer vision and machine intelligence.

Through the creation of a specialized multicultural environment, it is intended to promote and increase the knowledge of all participants on the state of the art of these topics, provided by internationally renowned experts in data science field.

Master’s Degree in Data Science

Assistant Professor at the Department of Science and Technology at Universidade Portucalense where I co-founded the Master’s Degree in Data Science.

Scientific Advisor

PhD Students

• Leonardo Gomes Capozzi, Automatic recognition of criminals, victims, and illegal behaviour in videos, 2020-ongoing.
• Pedro Ferreira, Sign Language Recognition: Integrating Prior Domain Knowledge into Deep Neural Networks, 2015-2019.

Master Students

• Telma Esteves, Sleepy Drivers: Drowsiness Monitoring Using ECG and Face Video, ongoing.
• Leonardo Gomes Capozzi, Face Recognition For Forensic Applications - Methods for matching facial sketches to mugshot pictures, 2020.
• João Soares Sousa, Automation of Waste Sorting with Deep Learning, 2019.
• Margarida João Castro Neves Fernandes, Driver drowsiness detection combining non-intrusive signal acquisition modalities, 2019.
• Miguel Nunes, Computer-aided learning tool for Portuguese language, 2017.
• Pedro Saleiro, Métodos de optimização para a validação de regras sintáticas e semânticas em partituras musicais, 2015.
• Laura Ângelo, Técnicas Inteligentes de Redimensionamento de Imagens, 2015.
• Marisa Reis, A Comparative Study on Fingerprint Matching Algorithms, 2014.
• André Castro, Reconhecimento de simbolos musicais em imagens cinza de partituras manuscritas, 2014.
• Rui Silva, Mobile framework for recognition of musical characters, 2013.
• Vitor Vidal, Optical Recognition in the Grayscale Domain, 2012.
• Cuihong Wen, Classification of Optical Music Symbols based on Combined Neural Network, 2012.
• Telmo Pinto, OMRsys - Desenvolvimento e Aplicação de um Módulo de Segmentação de Imagem, 2010.
• Andreas Seufert, Investigação e aperfeiçoamento de algoritmos de reconhecimento de símbolos musicais, 2010.
• Marcia dos Santos Pinheiro, Sistema Web para o Reconhecimento de Partituras Musicais, 2009.