Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença

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Instituto de Telecomunicações
Convento Santo António
Covilhã 6201-001 , PORTUGAL

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Networks and Multimedia

Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Role in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia
Group: Pattern and Image Analysis – CV

Degrees

- PhD, Universidade da Beira Interior, 03-01-2007
- Licenciatura, Universidade da Beira Interior, 01-08-2001
- MSc, Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto,

Expertise Topics

- Biometric Recognition
- Periocular recognition

Affiliations

- IEEE, member, 01-01-2011
- University of Beira Interior, Professor, 01-10-2001

Involvement in Projects

- Currently running projects

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
NOISYIRIS	NOISYRIS - Synthesis of Noisy Iris Images for Biometric Recognition Purposes	IT	01-09-2011	01-08-2013

Academic Activities

Lecture courses

- Data Structures, Universidade da Beira Interior, Informatics Engineering

- Computer Vision, Universidade da Beira Interior, Informatics Engineering

- Databases, Universidade da Beira Interior, Informatics Engineering

Supervision of theses

Research Grant

- Iris synthesis, Research Grant, Luís Cardoso, 11-2012, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Periocular data synthesis, Research Grant, Dakshina Kisku, 11-2012, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Automatic cell annotation, Research Grant, João Neves, 11-2011, Universidade da Beira Interior

PhD

- Negative Object recognition, PhD, Gil Melfe Mateus santos , 12-2014, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Periocular biometric recognition at visible wavelength, PhD, Chandrashekhar Padolle, 11-2014, Universidade da Beira Interior

MSc

- Biometric Ear Recognition, MSc, Rui Raposo , 7-2012, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Automatic Document Classification and Analysis, MSc, Tiago Velho, 7-2011, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Chest X-rays image diagnosis: An adaptive approach, MSc, Rui Silva, 7-2011, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Reconhecimento Biométrico da Íris na Região de Comprimentos de Onda do Visível, MSc, Luís Lucas, 7-2011, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Alternative Iris Recognition System, MSc, Ricardo Carreira, 7-2009, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-ray Images, MSc, João Oliveira, 7-2009, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Noisy Iris Recognition, MSc, Gil Santos, 7-2009, Universidade da Beira Interior

- Síntese de Imagens de Íris Com Ruído, MSc, Miguel Gaspar, 7-2009, Universidade da Beira Interior

Publications

Book Chapters [2]

- Proença, H.; "Iris Recognition in the Visible Wavelength: Issues and Trends" - Chapter in Handbook of Iris Recognition, Mark J. Burge and K. Bowyer, ISBN: 978-4471-4401-4, Springer, , 2013.

- Proença, H.; J. Oliveira; "Caries Detection in Panoramic Dental X-ray Images" - Chapter in Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing: Recent Trends, Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, vol. 6899, pag. 175-190, Digital Object Identifier: 10.1007/978-94-007-0011-6_10, J.M.R.S. Tavares and R.M.N. Jorge, Springer, , 2010.

Papers in Journals [13]

- L. Cardoso; A. Barbosa; Silva, F. S.; AP Pinheiro; Proença, H.; "Iris Biometrics: Synthesis of Degraded Ocular Images", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 8, No. 7, pp. 1115 - 1125, June, 2013.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Introduction to thespecial issue on the Recognition of visible wavelength iris images captured at-a-distance and on-the-move", Pattern Recognition Letters, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 963 - 964, June, 2012.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Toward Covert Iris Biometric Recognition: Experimental Results From the NICE Contests", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 798 - 808, April, 2012.
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- Proença, H.; G. Santos Santos; "Fusing Color and Shape Descriptors in the Recognition of Degraded Iris Images Acquired at Visible Wavelength", Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Vol. 116, No. 0, pp. 167 - 178, November, 2011.
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- Proença, H.; Yang, D.; "Introduction to the Special Issue On Unconstrained Biometrics: Advances and Trends", Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal, Vol. 5, No. 3, pp. 1 - 2, September, 2011.
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- Proença, H.; "Quality Assessment of Degraded Iris Images Acquired in the Visible Wavelength", IEEE Trans. on Information Forensics and Security, Vol. 6, No. 1, pp. 82 - 95, March, 2011.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Introduction to the Special Issue on the Segmentation of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured At-a-distance and On-the-move", Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 213 - 214, February, 2010.
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- Proença, H.; "Iris Recognition: On the Segmentation of Degraded Images Acquired in the Visible Wavelength", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; "An Iris Recognition Approach Through Structural Pattern Analysis Methods", Expert Systems, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 0 - 0, July, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Recognition: Analysis of the Error Rates Regarding the Accuracy of the Segmentation Stage", Image and Vision Computing, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; Filipe, S.; "The UBIRIS.v2: A Database of Visible Wavelength Iris Images Captured On-The-Move and At-A-Distance", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 1 - 1, January, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Towards Non-Cooperative Iris Recognition: A Classification Approach Using Multiple Signatures", IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 1 - 12, July, 2007.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Segmentation Methodology for Non-Cooperative Recognition", IEE Proceedings Part-I: Vision, Image and Signal Processing, Vol. 153, No. 2, pp. 199 - 205, April, 2006.
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Papers in Conference Proceedings [20]

- João C. Neves Neves; H. Castro; Proença, H.; Coimbra, M.; "Automatic annotation of Leishmania infections in fluorescence microscopy images", Proc AIMI International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition - ICIAR, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, Vol. ., pp. . - ., June, 2013.
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- Proença, H.; " Academic Degrees Ph.D., 3 years in “Computer Science Engineering”, University of Beira Interior (2007), Thesis: “Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition”, Supervisor: Prof. Luís A. Alexandre, Main exa", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - BTAS, Washington, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, September, 2012.
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- Padole, C. N.; Proença, H.; "Periocular Recognition: Analysis of Performance Degradation Factors", Proc IAPR International Conf. on Biometrics - ICB, New Delhi, India, Vol. March, pp. 1 - 7, March, 2012.
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- G. Santos Santos; Proença, H.; "Iris Recognition: Preliminary Assessment about the Discriminating Capacity of Visible Wavelength Data", Proc International Workshop on Multimedia Information Processing and Retrieval - MIPR, Taichung, Taiwan, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 1, November, 2011.
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- G. Santos Santos; Proença, H.; "Iris Recognition: Analysing the Distribution of the Iriscodes Concordant Bits", Proc Congress on Image and Signal Processing - CISP, Yantai, China, Vol. 4, pp. 1873 - 1877, November, 2010.
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- Proença, H.; G. Santos Santos; "On the Role of Interpolation in the Normalization of Non-Ideal Visible Wavelength Iris Images", Proc International Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Security - CIS, Beijing, China, Vol. 0, pp. 0 - 0, December, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; "Biometric Recognition: When Is Evidence Fusion Advantageous?", Proc International Symp. on Visual Computing - IVC, Las Vegas, United States, Vol. 2, pp. 698 - 708, October, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; "On the Feasibility of the Visible Wavelength, At-A-Distance and On-The-Move Iris Recognition", Proc IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence - WCCI, Nashville, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 9 - 15, March, 2009.
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- Proença, H.; "Iris Recognition: A Method To Segment Visible Wavelength Iris Images Acquired On-The-Move and At-A-Distance", Proc International Symp. on Visual Computing - IVC, Las Vegas, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 731 - 742, December, 2008.
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- Proença, H.; Filipe, S.; "Combining Rectangular and Triangular Image Regions to Perform Real-Time Face Detection", Proc International Conf. on Signal Processing - ICSP, Beijing, China, Vol. 1, pp. 903 - 908, October, 2008.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Recognition: A Method to Increase the Robustness to Noisy Imaging Environments Through the Selection of the Higher Discriminating Features", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Multimedia Applications, Sivakasi, India, Vol. 3, pp. 301 - 307, December, 2007.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Recognition: An Entropy-Based Coding Strategy Robust to Noisy Imaging Environments", Proc International Symp. on Visual Computing - IVC, Lake Tahoe, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 621 - 632, November, 2007.
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- Proença, H.; "A Structural Pattern Analysis Approach to Iris Recognition", Proc International Conf. on Computer Recognition Systems - CORES, Wroclaw, Poland, Vol. 1, pp. 731 - 738, October, 2007.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "The NICE.I: Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation – Part I", Proc IEEE International Conf. on Biometrics: Theory, Applications and Systems - BTAS, Washington, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 0 - 0, September, 2007.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Recognition: An Analysis of the Aliasing Problem in the Iris Normalization Stage", Proc International Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Security - CIS, Guangzhou, China, Vol. 2, pp. 1771 - 1774, November, 2006.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "Iris Recognition: Measuring Feature´s Quality for the Feature Selection in Unconstrainded Image Capture Environments", Proc International Conf. on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety - CIHSPS, Alexandria, United States, Vol. 1, pp. 35 - 40, October, 2006.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "A Method for the Identification of Noisy Regions in Normalized Iris Images", Proc International Conf. on Pattern Recognition - ICPR, Hong Kong, China, Vol. 4, pp. 405 - 408, August, 2006.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "A Method for the Identification of Inaccuracies in the Pupil Segmentation", Proc International Conf. on Availability, Reliability and Security - ARES, Wien, Austria, Vol. 1, pp. 227 - 230, April, 2006.
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- Proença, H.; Alexandre, L.; "UBIRIS: a noisy iris image database", Proc International Conf. on Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP, Cagliari, Italy, Vol. 1, pp. 920 - 977, September, 2005.
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- Proença, H.; "MARCS, Multi-Agent Railway Control System", Proc Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Puebla, Mexico, Vol. 1, pp. 12 - 21, November, 2004.
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Theses

- H. Proença; "Towards Non-Cooperative Biometric Iris Recognition", University of Beira Interior, January, 2007.

- H. Proença; "Sistema Multi-Agente para Controlo de Tráfego Ferroviário Metropolitano", Universidade do Porto, January, 2004 .

Other Contributions

Conference Committees

- IEEE International Conf. on Fuzzy Systems - FUZZ-IEEE, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2012.

- IAPR International Conf. on Biometrics - ICB, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2012.

- International Conf. on Hand-Based Biometrics - ICHB, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2011.

- IAPR International Conf. on Biometrics - ICB, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2011.

- IEEE International Joint Conf. on Biometrics - IJCB, Sessions Chairman , Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2011.

- Thematic Conf. on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - VipImage, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2010.

- Thematic Conf. on Computational Vision and Medical Image Processing - VipImage, Sessions Chairman , Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2009.

- Symp. on Computer Graphics and Image Processing - SIBGRAPI, Scientific Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2009.

- International Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN , Organizing Committee, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, 2007.

Editorial Committees

- Intrnl. Journal of Biometrics , Inderscience, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Editorial Board, 01-09-2011 to .

- Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal , Springer, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Guest Editor, 01-06-2010 to 01-12-2010.

- Pattern Recognition Letters , Elsevier, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Guest Editor, 01-01-2010 to 01-06-2010.

- Image and Vision Computing , Elsevier, Hugo Pedro Martins Carriço Proença, Guest Editor, 01-01-2009 to 01-06-2009.

Refereeing

Journals

- Computer Vision and Image Understanding
2011, 1 review(s);

- IEEE Trans. on Medical Imaging
2009, 1 review(s);

- IEEE Trans. on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
2011, 1 review(s);

- Signal, Image and Video Processing Journal
2011, 1 review(s);

Conferences

- International Conf. on Artificial Neural Networks - ICANN
2007;

- International Conf. on Computational Intelligence and Security - CIS
2009;