IT - Instituto de Telecomunicações

Scientific Areas

Fernando Lopes
fernando.lopes@co.it.pt

Address: IT - Coimbra
Instituto de Telecomunicações
DEE - FCTUC Pólo II - Pinhal de Marrocos
Coimbra 3030 , PORTUGAL

Tel: +351 239796243
Fax: +351 239796293

You are here: Scientific Areas > Wireless Communications > Members > Fernando Lopes

Short CV

Home

Short CV

Personal Page

Networks and Multimedia

Fernando Lopes

Academic position: Coordinator Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Role in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia

Degrees

- PhD, University of Essex, 03-04-2003
- MSc, Universidade de Coimbra, 03-04-1995
- Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 07-12-1989

Expertise Topics

- Motion Compensation for Video Coding
- Video Coding
- Digital Television
- Signal Processing

Affiliations

- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Member, 01-01-2003
- Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra - ISEC, Professor, 01-01-1992

Academic Activities

Lecture courses

- Information Transmission and Networks, , MSc on Installations and Equipment in Buildings

- Information and Communication Technologies, , MSc on Information Management in Organizations

- Information Transmission, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra , Lic. Electrical Engineering

- Project and Thesis, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Lic. Electrical Engineering

- Introduction to Communication Systems, , Lic. Electrical Engineering

- Data Communications, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, BSc. Electrical Engineering

- Telecommunication Systems, Instituto Superior de Engenharia de Coimbra, Lic. Electrical Engineering

Supervision of theses

Undergraduate

- Digital Video Broadcast: Simulation and Measurements, Undergraduate, Pedro Simões, 11-2007

- A Solar Tracking System for a Parabolic Concentrator, Undergraduate, Rudolfo Neto, Sérgio Neves, 9-2007

- An Interface and Control for a Bi-axial Antenna Rotor, Undergraduate, Ricardo Raposo, Pedro Torres Silva, 9-2005

- Wireless Camera Room Monotoring System, Undergraduate, André Cabete, Carlos Figueiredo, 9-2005

Licenciatura

- A Distributed System for Multicast LAN Video Streaming, Licenciatura, Gilberto Pascoal, Pedro Silva, 9-2007

- Integrated Control System for Building Access, Licenciatura, Victor Nunes, Paulo Simões, 7-2006

- Multicast DVB streaming on a Local Area Network , Licenciatura, Bruno Andrade, Alberto Neves, 7-2006

- Tests for DVB-T transmission evaluation, Licenciatura, Ricardo Lobo, 7-2006

- A Modular and Highly Configurable Signal Acquisition, Processing and Interfacing Platform, Licenciatura, Pedro Monteiro, Nuno Carlos, 7-2005

Publications

Papers in Journals

- Lopes, F.; "Texture driven quadrilateral matching motion estimation for video coding", Electronics Letters, Vol. 36, No. 1, pp. * - *, January, 2000.

- Lopes, F.; "Analysis of spatial transform motion estimation with overlapped compensation and fractional pixel accuracy", IEE Proceedings Part-I: Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 146, No. 6, pp. 339 - 344, December, 1999.

- Lopes, F.; "Object-Based Motion Parameterization Using Shape Adaptive Bilinear Warping", Lectures Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 1629, No. *, pp. 97 - 107, May, 1999.

Papers in Conference Proceedings

- Lopes, F.; "A Low-Cost System for Remote Fetal Cardiotocography", Proc International Conf. on Electrical Engineering - CEE'05, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 63 - , October, 2005.

- Lopes, F.; "A modular and Highly Configurable Signal Acquisition, Processing and Interfacing Platform", Proc International Conf. on Electrical Engineering - CEE'05, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. I, pp. 146 - , October, 2005.

- Lopes, F.; "Mesh-based motion compensation using three-dimensional overlapped warping prediction", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Barcelona, Spain, Vol. II, pp. 395 - 398, September, 2003.

- Lopes, F.; "Three-Dimensional Overlapped Spatial Transformations for Motion Compensation", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Rochester, New York, United States, Vol. I, pp. 733 - 736, September, 2002.

- Lopes, F.; "Hierarchical Motion Estimation with Spatial Transforms", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Vancouver, Canada, Vol. *, pp. * - *, September, 2000.

- Lopes, F.; "Quadrilateral matching motion estimation using velocity information extracted from texture analysis", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Portland, United States, Vol. *, pp. * - *, April, 1999.

- Lopes, F.; "Hierarchical Motion Estimation with Spatial Transforms", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Chicago, United States, Vol. *, pp. * - *, October, 1998.

Theses

- F. Lopes; "Motion Estimation for Very Low Bitrate Video Coding", University of Essex, July, 2002 .

- F. Lopes; "Descodificador H.261 para Terminal Audiovisual", Universidade de Coimbra, April, 1995 .

Other Scientific Achievements

Miscellaneous

- Lopes, F.; "National Delegate", ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 29/WG 11 - MPEG Meeting - CT120", , 01-07-2007.

- Lopes, F.; "MSc Thesis Jury", Processing of Visual Information for Multimedia Applications, MSc Thesis ", , 01-02-2004.

Other Contributions

Conference Committees

- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2008.

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Sessions Chairman , Fernando Lopes, 2007.

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering, Scientific Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2007.

- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2007.

- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2006.

- International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Technical Programme Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2006.

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering - CEE'05, Sessions Chairman , Fernando Lopes, 2005.

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering - CEE'05, Scientific Committee, Fernando Lopes, 2005.

Refereeing

Journals

- Electronics Letters
2006, 4 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s); 2005, 1 review(s);

- IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech.
2007, 3 review(s); 2000, 1 review(s);

Conferences

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering
2007;

- International Conf. on Electrical Engineering - CEE'05
2005;

- International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications
2007; 2006;

- International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT
2006;