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Address: IT Branch – Leiria
Instituto de Telecomunicações
Morro do Lena - Alto do Vieiro
Leiria   2411 - 901 , PORTUGAL

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Networks and Multimedia
Pedro António Amado Assunção Academic position: Coordinator Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Role in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia
Group: Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr
 
Degrees 

- PhD, University of Essex, 26-03-1998
- MSc, Universidade de Coimbra, 20-04-1994
- Licenciatura, Universidade de Coimbra, 30-09-1988
 
Expertise Topics 

- Video coding, adaptation, transcoding and networking
- 3D video coding and communications
- Multiple description and scalable video coding
- 3D video quality evaluation
- Error concealment in 3D video
- Signal reconstruction and applications
 
Affiliations 

- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Member, 01-01-1999
- Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Professor, 01-09-1990
 
Involvement in Projects 

- Currently running projects

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
3D-ConTourNet 3D Content Creation, Coding and Transmission over Future Media Networks EC 01-12-2011 01-11-2015
3DVAP 3D video adaptation based on perceptual metrics FCT/PTDC 01-03-2011 01-07-2013
3DVQM 3D Video Quality Monitor IT 01-11-2011 01-10-2013


   
Academic Activities 

Lecture courses

- Multimedia Communications, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, MSc in Electrical Engineering - Telecommunications

- Analog Electronics - II, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Electrical Engineering

- Analog Electronics - I, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Electrical Engineering


Supervision of theses

Undergraduate

- AutoBot - Condução Autónoma de Robot, AutoBot - Condução Autónoma de Robot, Undergraduate, Mauro Crespo e Luis Silva, 9-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Descodificador de vídeo 3D com robustez a erros e perdas de pacotes, Undergraduate, Luís Pinto , 9-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Codificação asimétrica de vídeo 3D, Undergraduate, Andreia Gama , 8-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Sistema de medição para medicamentos líquidos para deficientes invisuais, Undergraduate, Irís Albertina Gonçalves Pedro, 7-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Video Mix for Coding, Undergraduate, Benedita Vasconcelos, 7-2007, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Multimedia Communications over HSPDA - Simulation Study, Undergraduate, Norberto Pires, Maximiano Peralta, 2-2007, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Integrated ITU video codecs simulator, Undergraduate, André Silva, Marco Grácio , 7-2005

- Multimedia communications over WLAN - an experimental study, Undergraduate, Maximiano Peralta, Norberto Pires , 7-2005

- TV over DSL, Undergraduate, Luís Fojo Pedro , 1-2005

- Planning and performance evaluation of WLAN in multimedia communications, Undergraduate, Lúcio Crespo, Tiago Amado , 7-2004

PhD

- Adaptation and Quality Optimization in Future 3D Video Delivery Services, PhD, Sylvain Marcelino , 12-2013, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

- Algoritmos de Reconstrução de Sinal e Aplicações, PhD, Filipe dos Santos Neves , 12-2013, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

- Scalable Video Coding with embedded new features, PhD, Lino Ferreira , 12-2013, Instituto de Telecomunicações

- Advanced Multiple Description Coding for Video, PhD, Pedro Correia , 2-2013, Universidade de Coimbra

MSc

- 3D video Quality Monitor based on a non-reference packet layer model, MSc, Bruno Feitor, 7-2013, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Asymmetric coding and adaptation of 3D video, MSc, Luis Pinto, 7-2013, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Development of an efficient transformer-less FSK-transmitter in low bandwidth powerline communications, MSc, Tiago Neves, 12-2012, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Ressíntese concatenativa de instrumentos musicais, MSc, Tiago Duarte Ricardo , 12-2012, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Subjective Quality Evaluation and Frame Loss Concealment in 3D Video, MSc, João Carreira , 12-2012, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Adaptação do Protocolo DCCP para Tráfego VoIP, MSc, Luís Bernardes , 12-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Gestão eficiente da fila DCCP em fontes de vídeo 3D baseada em informações cross-layer, MSc, Nuno Gomes , 12-2011, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria

- Métodos de medição e avaliação de QoS de serviços multimédia em redes IP, MSc, Simão Cardeal , 2-2011, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro

- Processing of Visual Information for Multimedia Applications, MSc, Nuno Picado Santos , 2-2004

- Video transcoding for low bit rate channels, MSc, Pedro Daniel Frazão Correia , 5-2003

Licenciatura

- JPEG compression and RF transmission system, Licenciatura, Carlos Franco e Silvia Pessoa , 9-2002

Co - Supervision of Theses

Licenciatura

- Escalonamento de Tráfego de Tempo Real em redes celulares UMTS HSDPA, Licenciatura, Norberto Monteiro e Maximino Peralta, 2-2007

MSc

- Sistema de Comunicação entre Veículos com Integração Sensorial, MSc, Filipe Marques Raimundo, 11-2011

PhD

- Scalable video coding with dynamic regions of interest , PhD, Lino Ferreira , 12-2009

Undergraduate

- P3DTV, Undergraduate, João Carreira , 9-2010

- Planeamento e Optimização de Rede de Televisão Móvel (DVB-T), Undergraduate, Nuno Tojeira , 7-2010


 
Publications 

    Book Chapters  [3] 

- Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; Assunção, P.A.; F.T. Tavares; "Enhanced VoIP by signal reconstruction and voice quality assessment" - Chapter in VoIP Technologies, Shigeru Kashihara, In-Tech, Rijeka, Croatia, 2011.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Arquitecturas e Nível de Sistema" - Chapter in Comunicações Áudiovisuais - Tecnologias, Normas e Aplicações, Fernando Pereira, IST Press, Lisboa, 2009.

- S. Moiron; M. Ghanbari; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; "Video Transcoding Techniques" - Chapter in Recent Advances in Multimedia Signal Processing and Communications, Grgic, Mislav; Delac, Kresimir; Ghanbari, Mohammed, Springer, , 2009.

    Papers in Journals  [13] 

- Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; L. Agostini; Cruz, L. A; "Performance and Computational Complexity Assessment of High Efficiency Video Encoders", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., Vol. PP, No. 99, pp. 1 - 11, December, 2012.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Multiple Description of Coded Video for Path Diversity Streaming Adaptation", IEEE Trans. on Multimedia, Vol. 14, No. 3, pp. 923 - 935, June, 2012.
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- P. Cordeiro; Assunção, P.A.; "Distributed Coding/Decoding Complexity in Video Sensor Networks", Sensors, Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 2693 - 2709, February, 2012.
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- Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; L. Agostini; Cruz, L. A; "Complexity Control of High Efficiency Video Encoders for Power-Constrained Devices", IEEE Trans. on Consumer Electronics, Vol. 57, No. 4, pp. 1866 - 1874, November, 2011.
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- Navarro, A.; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; Silva, V.; S. Moiron; "Video transcoding from H.264 to MPEG-2 with reduced computational complexity", , Vol. 24, No. 8, pp. 637 - 650, September, 2009.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Sistema DVB para Transmissão de Televisão Digital", Ingenium , Vol. 2, No. 74, pp. 71 - 74, April, 2003.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "Buffer Analysis and Control in CBR Video Transcoding", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 83 - 92, February, 2000.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "Transmission of Pre-encoded MPEG Video over ATM Networks and VoD Applications", Scientia Iranica - Intrnl. Journal for Science and Technology, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 51 - 58, January, 1999.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "A Frequency Domain Transcoder for Dynamic Bit Rate Reduction MPEG-2 Bitstreams", IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech., Vol. 8, No. 8, pp. 953 - 967, December, 1997.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "Transcoding of Single-Layer MPEG Video Into Lower Rates", IEE Proceedings Part-I: Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 144, No. 6, pp. 377 - 383, December, 1997.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "Optimal Bit Rate Conversion of MPEG-2 Bitstreams", Electronics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 8, pp. 675 - 677, April, 1997.
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- Assunção, P.A.; M. Ghanbari; "Fast Computation of MC-DCT for Video Transcoding", Electronics Letters, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 284 - 286, February, 1997.
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- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Perdigão, F.; Silva, V.; Sá, L. V.; "A Parallel Architecture for Real-Time Video Coding", Microprocessing and Microprogramming (EUROMICRO), Vol. 1, No. 30, pp. 439 - 446, August, 1990.
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    Papers in Conference Proceedings  [63] 

- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; S.S. Soares; "DEPTH MAP CONCEALMENT USING INTER-VIEW WARPING VECTORS FROM GEOMETRIC TRANSFORMS", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Melbourne, Australia, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2013.
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- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; S.S. Soares; "Efficient depth error concealment for 3D video over error-prone channels", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Broadband Multimedia Systems and Broadcasting - BTS, Uxbridge, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2013.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Assunção, P.A.; Cruz, L. A; "3D Video Key-Frame Selection based on Colour and Depth", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. , pp. 165 - 168, May, 2013.
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- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; S.S. Soares; "Two-stage depth map error concealment using geometric fitting", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2013.
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- Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; L. Agostini; Cruz, L. A; "Coding Tree Depth Estimation for Complexity Reduction of HEVC", Proc IEEE Data Compression Conf. - DCC, Snowbird, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 43 - 52, March, 2013.
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- L.F.H.P. Pinto; Assunção, P.A.; "Asymmetric 3D Video Coding using Regions of Perceptual Relevance", Proc The European 3D-Stereo Summit for Science, Technology and Digital Art - 3D-StereoMedia, Liege, Belgium, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, December, 2012.
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- J. F. M. C. Carreira; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; "Frame Loss Concealment for 3D Video Decoders based on Disparity- Compensated Motion Field", Proc IEEE EUSIPCO 3DTV-Conf.: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video - 3DTV, Zurich, Switzerland, Vol. , pp. - , October, 2012.
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- Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; L. Agostini; Cruz, L. A; "Motion Compensated Tree Depth Limitation for Complexity Control of HEVC Encoding", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Orlando, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, October, 2012.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Ferreira, L.F.; Assunção, P.A.; Cruz, L. A; Silva, V.; "Optimal priority MDC video streaming for networks with path diversity", Proc International Conf. on Telecommunications and Multimedia (Temu), Heraklion, Greece, Vol. --, pp. 54 - 59, July, 2012.
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- Corrêa, G.; Assunção, P.A.; L. Agostini; Cruz, L. A; "Adaptive Coding Tree for Complexity Control of High Efficiency Video Encoders", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Krakow, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. 425 - 428, May, 2012.
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- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; S.S. Soares; "Lost block reconstruction in depth maps using color image contours", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Kraków, Poland, Vol. 0, pp. 1 - 4, May, 2012.
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- N. Gomes; P. Loureiro; Assunção, P.A.; "Algoritmo de gestão da fila DCCP para melhorar a QoE de vídeo 3D baseado em informações de cross-layer", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Coimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 6, November, 2011.
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- Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; Assunção, P.A.; F. T. Tavares; S. C. Cardeal; "Quality evaluation methods to improve enterprise VoIP communications", Proc Conf. on Enterprise Information System - International Workshop on Health and Social Care Information Systems and Technologies - CENTERIS HCIst 2011, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. 220, Part 2, pp. 111 - 119, October, 2011.
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- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; S.S. Soares; "Error recovery of image-based depth maps using Bézier curve fitting", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2011.
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- L.F.H.P. Pinto; J. F. M. C. Carreira; Faria, S.M.M.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Assunção, P.A.; "Subjective Quality Factors in Packet 3D Video", Proc IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Mechelen, Belgium, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2011.
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- S. C. Cardeal; Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; F. T. Tavares; Assunção, P.A.; "ArQoS®: System to monitor QoS/QoE in VoIP", Proc EUROCON and CONFTELE 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 2, April, 2011.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A; Assunção, P.A.; "Efficient Scalable Coding of Video Summaries using Dynamic GOP Structures", Proc EUROCON and CONFTELE 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2011.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Enhanced H.264/AVC Video Streaming using Network-adaptive Multiple Description Coding", Proc IEEE Region 8 EUROCON 2011 International Conf. on Computer as a Tool joint with the Conf. on Telecommunications, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2011.
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- Neves, F.N.; S. Pedro; S.S. Soares; Assunção, P.A.; F.T. Tavares; "Quality model for monitoring QoE in VoIP services", Proc EUROCON and CONFTELE 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, April, 2011.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A; Assunção, P.A.; "A Method to Encode Video Summaries Using Temporal Scalability", Proc Workshop on Picture Coding and Image Processing - WPCIP, Nagoya, Japan, Vol. , pp. x - x, December, 2010.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Multiple Description Video Transcoding with Temporal Drift Control", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Nagoya, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 558 - 561, December, 2010.
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- J. F. M. C. Carreira; L.F.H.P. Pinto; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; "Subjective Assessment of Frame Loss Concealment Methods in 3D Video", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Nagoya, Japan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, December, 2010.
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- S. C. Cardeal; S.S. Soares; Neves, F.N.; Assunção, P.A.; F. T. Tavares; "Avaliação de QoE em Serviços de Voz sobre Redes IP", Proc AES Encontro de Engenharia de Áudio da AES Portugal, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 5, October, 2010.
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- Marcelino, S. Marcelino; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; S. Moiron; M. Ghanbari; "Efficient MV Prediction for Zonal Search In Video Transcoding", Proc International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing , Saint-Malo, France, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, October, 2010.
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- Cruz, L. A; Ferreira, L.F.; Assunção, P.A.; "An Improved Sub-optimal Video Summarization Algorithm", Proc International Symp. Electronics in Marine - ELMAR, Zadar, Croatia, Vol. 1, pp. 135 - 138, September, 2010.
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- Assunção, P.A.; Correia, Pedro F.; Silva, V.; "Drift-free Multiple Description Intra Video Coding", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Cairo, Egypt, Vol. 1, pp. 625 - 628, November, 2009.
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- Assunção, P.A.; Correia, Pedro F.; Silva, V.; "Multiple Description Coding Scheme for H.264/AVC Intra Slices", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. x - y, May, 2009.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A; Assunção, P.A.; "Video Summary Generation and Coding Using Temporal Scalability", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Santa Maria da Feiria, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 283 - 286, May, 2009.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Cruz, L. A; Assunção, P.A.; "H.264/SVC ROI encoding with spatial scalability", Proc INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. x - x, July, 2008.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Low decoding complexity video streams for portable video players", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Consumer Electronics - ISCE, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. x - x, April, 2008.
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- Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; M. C. R Reis; F.T. Tavares; Assunção, P.A.; "VoIP reconstruction under a minimum interpolation algorithm", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Consumer Electronics - ISCE, Vilamoura, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 3, April, 2008.
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- S. Moiron; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "Inter Mode Conversion of H.264 to MPEG-2 Video with Reduced Complexity", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Consumer Electronics - ICCE, Las Vegas, United States, Vol. ., pp. . - ., January, 2008.
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- S. Moiron; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "Mode Conversion for H.264 to MPEG-2 Video Transcoder", Proc Picture Coding Symp., Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. ., pp. . - ., November, 2007.
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- Neves, F.N.; S.S. Soares; Assunção, P.A.; "O algoritmo de Papoulis-Gerchberg e a reconstrução de voz comutada em tempo real.", Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilha, Portugal, Vol. II, pp. 496 - 501, November, 2007.
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- S. Moiron; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "Fast Interframe Transcoding from H.264 to MPEG-2", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, San Antonio, United States, Vol. IV, pp. 69 - 72, September, 2007.
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- S. Moiron; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "Low-complexity video content adaptation for legacy user equipment", Proc International Conf. on Multimedia Communications, Nafpaktos, Greece, Vol. ., pp. . - ., August, 2007.
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- M.C. Costa; S.S. Soares; Assunção, P.A.; J.B. Barroso; "Signal Reconstruction Techniques Applied to High Frame Rate Sequences", Proc IEEE International Symp. on Industrial Electronics - ISIE , Vigo, Spain, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2007.
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- Faria, S.M.M.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; R. Marques; Assunção, P.A.; "H.264 to MPEG-2 Conversion of Intra Coded Video", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 445 - 448, May, 2007.
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- S. Moiron; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "H.264/AVC to MPEG-2 Video Transcoding Architecture", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 449 - 452, May, 2007.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Optimal Rate Allocation for Layered Multiple Description Coding Under Network Constraints", Proc Mathematical Techniques and Problems in Telecommunications, Leiria, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, September, 2006.
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- Assunção, P.A.; Lopes, C.; Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; "A B-Learning Approach for Electrical Engineering Based on Wireless Access to Pedagogical e-Content", Proc International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Setubal, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 277 - 285, August, 2006.
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- Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Faria, S.M.M.; Navarro, A.; "Fast Conversion of H.264/AVC Integer Transform Coefficients into DCT Coefficients", Proc International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Setubal, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 5 - 8, August, 2006.
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- T. Amado; L. Crespo; Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; Assunção, P.A.; "Radio Planning of WLANs for Broadband Multimedia Streaming Applications", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. * - *, April, 2005.
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- Ferreira, L.F.; Assunção, P.A.; "Spatiotemporal Scalability Based on Nonscalable H.264/AVC Codecs", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - , April, 2005.
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- Assunção, P.A.; Lopes, C.; Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; Faria, S.M.M.; V. Rodrigues; "Conteúdos de Banda Larga para Campus Virtuais", Proc Conf. ELearning no Ensino Superior - ELES, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, October, 2004.
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- L. Crespo; T. Amado; Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; Assunção, P.A.; "Indoor Radio WLAN (802.11g) Performance in Multimedia Communications", Proc IEE 3G Conf., London, United Kingdom, Vol. 1, pp. 407 - 411, October, 2004.
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- Lopes, C.; Assunção, P.A.; "Um Modelo Pedagógico Baseado em Múltiplas Interacções - Aplicação a Cursos de Engenharia", Proc Conf. ELearning no Ensino Superior - ELES, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, October, 2004.
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- N. Santos; Assunção, P.A.; "A Video Transcoding Scheme for E-Learning Multimedia Applications", Proc International Conf. on E-Business and Telecommunication Networks, Setúbal, Portugal, Vol. 3, pp. 278 - 283, August, 2004.
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- N. Santos; Assunção, P.A.; "Transcoding of MPEG-2 Signals into MPEG-4 Visual Objects for E-Learning Applications", Proc Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. - - -, April, 2004.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Rate Control in Highly Constrained Wireless Video Transcoding", Proc IASTED International Conf. on Communications, Internet and Information Technology - CIIT, Scottsdale, Arizona, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 791 - 796, November, 2003.
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- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Mendes, L.M.; Lopes, C.; Ribeiro, C.; C. S. Silva; Pereira, J.; Alves, L.N.A.; P. C. Ventura; "Sistema de Controlo e Comunicações de uma Aeronave Não Tripulada - SkyGu@rdian", Proc Conf. da Engenharia - UBIEngenharias, Covilhã, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, November, 2003.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Adaptação de Video Comprimido para Comunicações Multimédia em Redes Heterogéneas", Proc Conf. sobre Redes de Computadores - CRC, Bragança, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. -- - --, September, 2003.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Frame Rate Control in Wireless Video Transcoding", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, July, 2003.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "A Method for Improving the Quality of Mobile Video under Hard Transcoding", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Anchorage, Alaska, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 928 - 932, May, 2003.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; "Rate Prediction Model for Video Transcoding Applications ", Proc IEEE International Telecommunications Symp., Natal, Brazil, Vol. 1, pp. 641 - 644, September, 2002.
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- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; C. Franco; S. Pessoa; "SKYJPEG: Sistema de aquisição e transmissão de imagens digitais para aplicações sem fios", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. , pp. - , May, 2002.
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- Correia, Pedro F.; Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; "Matching MPEG-1/2 Coded Video to Mobile Applications ", Proc Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications Symp. - WPMC, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. 2, pp. 699 - 704, September, 2001.
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- Alves, L.N.A.; Mendes, L.M.; Lopes, C.; Fernandes, T.R.; Assunção, P.A.; Faria, S.M.M.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Figueiredo, M.; "SimSAT – Desenvolvimento de Satélites de Baixa Altitude", Proc Encontro do Colégio de Electrotecnia da Ordem dos Engenheiros, Porto, Portugal, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, April, 2001.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "QoS Filters for Flexible Digital TV Services", Proc Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sesimbra, Portugal, Vol. 1, pp. 251 - 254, April, 1999.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "A Buffer Control Algorithm for CBR Video Transcoding", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Chicago, Ilinois, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 370 - 374, October, 1998.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Bit Rate Control of Internetworking Video Transcoders", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Electronics, Circuits and Systems, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. 2, pp. 247 - 250, September, 1998.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Optimal Transcoding of Compressed Video", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Santa Barbara, California, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 739 - 742, October, 1997.
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- Assunção, P.A.; "Congestion Control of Video Traffic with Transcoders", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Communications - ICC, Montreal, Canada, Vol. 1, pp. 523 - 527, June, 1997.
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   - Project Reports [2] 

- Assunção, P.A.; Caldeirinha, R.F.S.; Faria, S.M.M.; Rodrigues, Nuno M. M. ; Fernandes, T.R.; "Performance optimisation in 3DTV broadcasting services - 1st Year project report", IT/IPLeiria, P3DTV IT/IPLeiria/2009, December, 2010.
Abstract

- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; S. Moiron; R. Marques; "H.264 to MPEG-2 Video Transcoder for Digital TV", IT, IT/LA/320/2005, November, 2006.

    Theses

- P.A. Assunção; "Video Transcoding for Matching Network Bandwidth Constraints", University of Essex, December, 1997 .

 
Other Scientific Achievements

    Patents
- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; S. Moiron; Silva, V.; Navarro, A.; "METHOD TO TRANSCODE H.264/AVC VIDEO FRAMES INTO MPEG-2", PAT-US40346-09, April, 2012.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Cable television system using transcoding method", US 6477706, November, 2002.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Transcoding method for digital video networking ", US 6215824, April, 2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Transcoding apparatus for digital video networking ", US 6226328, May, 2001.

    Awards

- Assunção, P.A.; "University of Essex - British Telecom Postgraduate Publication Prize 1997-98", The BT Laboratories Prize was awarded for the best published work by a postgraduate student, for the paper entitled "Transcoding of single-layer MPEG video into lower rates", IEE Proceedings on Vision, Image and Signal Processing, 144(6):377-383, December 1997., 11-06-1998.

    Miscellaneous

- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; "Editor of Conference Proceedings", International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications", ISBN-978-989-8111-13-5, 01-07-2007.

- Assunção, P.A.; "PhD Thesis Jury", Rate Control for Object Based Video Coding", Paulo Nunes, 01-07-2007.

- Faria, S.M.M.; Assunção, P.A.; "Editor of Conference Proceedings", International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications", ISBN-972-8865-64-3, 07-08-2006.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Tutorial", Digital TV – Vídeo Coding", Technical University of Bialystok, Bialystok, Poland, 15-07-2005.

- Assunção, P.A.; "PhD Thesis Jury", Error Resilience for Object-Based Video Coding", Luís Eduardo de Pinho Ducla Soares, Instituto Superior Técnico – Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 20-04-2004.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", Digital TV – an overview", Internal English Electrical Engineering Seminars, IEEES’2001, IPLeiria/ESTG, Leiria, Portugal, 27-10-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", Técnicas e Sistemas para Transmissão de Televisão Digital", Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 27-07-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Tutorial", Scalable coding and transcoding techniques for QoS adaptation", University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 13-05-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Tutorial", The DVB standards for Digital Television", University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 11-05-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Tutorial", Standard video coding algorithms", University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 10-05-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Tutorial", Real Time Transmission of Compressed Multimedia - System Analysis", University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany, 09-05-2001.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", O Sistema DVB – Digital Video Broadcasting", Seminário sobre Televisão Digital, Ordem dos Engenheiros, Lisboa, Portugal, 14-07-2000.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", O Instituto Politécnico de Leiria no Portugal Digital do Século XXI", 1º Congresso do Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, Leiria, 09-03-2000.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", A norma MPEG-2 Video", Seminário sobre Televisão Digital, Instituto de Telecomunicações, Aveiro, 17-01-2000.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", Sistemas Flexíveis de Codificação de Vídeo para Televisão Digital", Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 27-06-1999.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Seminars", Técnicas de Transcodificação para Controlo de Largura de Banda de Video Digital Comprimido", Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 27-06-1999.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Invited Talks", Rate-Distortion Optimization Algorithm for Video Transcoding", Boom Corporation, Fremont, California, USA, 23-08-1998.

- Assunção, P.A.; "Invited Talks", Pedro A. Amado Assunção, Video Transcoding Architectures – Efficiency and Performance", Boom Corporation, Fremont, California, USA, 15-12-1997.

- Assunção, P.A.; "PhD Thesis Jury", Vídeovigilância Inteligente em Ambientes Aquáticos: Detecção Precoce de Afogamento em Piscinas Domésticas", Nuno Peixoto, .

 
Other Contributions

    Conference Committees

- 13th International Conference on telecommunications, Organizing Committee, Pedro António Amado Assunção, 2007.

- International Conference on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications, Technical Programme Chairman, Pedro António Amado Assunção, 2007.


Refereeing


    Journals


- Advances in Multimedia
, 1 review(s);

- Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
2011, 1 review(s);

- Computer Journal
2010, 1 review(s);

- EURASIP Jounal on Image and Video Processing
2012, 2 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);

- IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications
2011, 1 review(s);

- IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech.
2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 1 review(s); , 1 review(s);

- IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
2007, 1 review(s);

- Multimedia Tools and Applications
2012, 1 review(s);

    Conferences

- Conf. Científica e Tecnológica em Engenharia - CCTE
2007;

- EUROCON and CONFTELE 2011
2011;

- IEEE EUSIPCO 3DTV-Conf.: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video - 3DTV
2011;

- IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP
2011;

- IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME
2009; 2008; 2007;

- INSTICC International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications - SIGMAP
2008;

- International Mobile Multimedia Communications Conf. - Mobimedia
2007;

- Picture Coding Symp.
2009;


 
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