Catarina Isabel Carvalheiro Brites Ascenso

Catarina Brites

Academic position:	Researcher
Joining date:	01-01-2003
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx

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https://www.orcid.org/0000-0002-6011-4574

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Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2011
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 28-12-2005
Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 27-12-2003

Affiliations

EURASIP, 01-01-2015, Member
IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2011, Member

Expertise Topics

Image/video processing and coding
Plenoptic imaging
Distributed video coding

Academic Activities

1Lecture courses

Programação, Instituto Superior Técnico, Mestrado em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

12Supervision of MSc theses

As Co-supervisor

Compressed Domain Face Recognition, MSc Student, Francisco Vieira Ramos Ferreira, Concluded 05-2023
How Fake is my Image? Evaluation of Generative Adversarial Networks, MSc Student, Marta Filipa De Pinto Marques, Concluded 09-2021
Performance Assessment of Deep Learning Based Image Coding, MSc Student, Filipe Maria Ferreira, Concluded 11-2019
Projection-based Dynamic Point Cloud Geometry Coding, MSc Student, Afonso Barroso Costa, Concluded 05-2019
Light Fields Imaging Coding, MSc Student, João Pedro de Carvalho Barreira Garrote, Concluded 11-2017
Objective Quality Assessment of 3D Synthesized Views, MSc Student, Luís Miguel Domingos Nunes, Concluded 11-2017
Dynamic 3D Point Cloud Compression, MSc Student, Miguel Branco Roque Nazaré Ferreira, Concluded 11-2017
Graph-based Point Cloud Compression, MSc Student, Paulo Jorge Robert de Oliveira Rente, Concluded 11-2017
Omnidirectional Video Coding, MSc Student, Guilherme Filipe Gonçalves Luz, Concluded 04-2017
Light Field based 360º Panoramas, MSc Student, André Alexandre Rodrigues Oliveira, Concluded 11-2016
Codificação de Informação Holográfica, MSc Student, José Pedro Quadrilheiro Peixeiro, Concluded 04-2016
Perceptual Error Protection Using Distributed Video Coding Principles , MSc Student, André Seixas Dias, Concluded 03-2013

Publications

2Books Chapters

F. Pereira, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, Distributed video coding: basics, codecs and performance, Chapter in, Distributed source coding: theory, algorithms and applications, Michael Gastpar and Pier Luigi Dragotti, Academic Press, 2009
F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, P. Fonseca, J. Baltazar, Evolution and challenges in multimedia representation technologies, Chapter in, A portrait of state-of-the-art research at the Technical University of Lisbon, M. Oom de Seabra Pereira, Springer, 2007

21Papers in Journals

A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Joint Geometry and Color Projection-Based Point Cloud Quality Metric, IEEE Access, Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 90481 - 90497, September, 2022 | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Point Cloud Rendering after Coding: Impacts on Subjective and Objective Quality, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 23, No. -, pp. 4049 - 4064, November, 2021,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 2 MBs) | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Lenslet Light Field Image Coding: Classifying, Reviewing and Evaluating, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 339 - 354, January, 2021,
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F. Pereira, A. Dricot, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, Point cloud coding: A privileged view driven by a classification taxonomy, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 85, No. -, pp. - - -, July, 2020,
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A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Mahalanobis Based Point to Distribution Metric for Point Cloud Geometry Quality Evaluation, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Vol. 27, No. -, pp. 1350 - 1354, July, 2020,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 826 KBs) | BibTex
PJROP Rente, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Graph-based Static 3D Point Clouds Geometry Coding, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 21, No. 2, pp. 284 - 299, February, 2019,
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JP Peixeiro, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Holographic Data Coding: Benchmarking and Extending HEVC with Adapted Transforms, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, Vol. 20, No. 2, pp. 282 - 297, February, 2018,
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A. Dias, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, SIFT-based Homographies for Efficient Multiview Distributed Visual Sensing, IEEE Sensors Journal, Vol. 15, No. 5, pp. 2643 - 2656, May, 2015,
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C. Brites, F. Pereira, Distributed video coding: Assessing the HEVC upgrade, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 32, No. 3, pp. 81 - 105, March, 2015,
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C. Brites, F. Pereira, Multiview side information creation for efficient Wyner–Ziv video coding: Classifying and reviewing, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 30, No. 1, pp. 1 - 36, January, 2015,
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M. Salmistraro, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, S. Forchhammer, A Robust Fusion Method for Multiview Distributed Video Coding, Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Vol. 2014, No. 174, pp. - - -, December, 2014 | BibTex
C. Brites, F. Pereira, Epipolar Geometry-based Side Information Creation for Multiview Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 24, No. 10, pp. 1771 - 1786, October, 2014,
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A. Dias, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Perceptually driven Video Error Protection using a Distributed Source Coding Approach, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 29, No. 1, pp. 1 - 22, January, 2014,
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C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Side Information Creation for Efficient Wyner-Ziv Video Coding: Classifying and Reviewing, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 28, No. 7, pp. 689 - 726, August, 2013,
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C. Brites, F. Pereira, An Efficient Encoder Rate Control Solution for Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 21, No. 9, pp. 1278 - 1292, September, 2011,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 618 KBs) | BibTex
J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, A flexible side information generation framework for distributed video coding, Multimedia Tools and Applications, Vol. 48, No. 3, pp. 381 - 409, July, 2010,
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R. Martins, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Statistical motion learning for improved transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding, IET Image Processing, Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 28 - 41, February, 2010,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 1 MB) | BibTex
R. Martins, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Adaptive deblocking filter for transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding, IET Image Processing, Vol. 3, No. 6, pp. 315 - 328, December, 2009,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 706 KBs) | BibTex
R. Martins, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Refining side information for improved transform domain Wyner-Ziv video coding, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 19, No. 9, pp. 1327 - 1341, September, 2009,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 533 KBs) | BibTex
C. Brites, F. Pereira, Correlation Noise Modeling for Efficient Pixel and Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 18, No. 9, pp. 1177 - 1190, September, 2008,
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C. Brites, J. Ascenso, J. Pedro, F. Pereira, Evaluating a Feedback Channel based Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Codec, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 23, No. 4, pp. 269 - 297, April, 2008,
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53Papers in Conferences

A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, A Point-to-Distribution Joint Geometry and Color Metric for Point Cloud Quality Assessment, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP, Tampere, Finland, October, 2021 | BibTex
D. Lopes, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Image Coding with Neural Network-based Colorization, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Toronto, Canada, June, 2021 | BibTex
A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Improving PSNR-based Quality Metrics Performance For Point Cloud Geometry, IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP, Abu-Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, October, 2020,
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A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, A generalized Hausdorff distance based quality metric for point cloud geometry, IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Athlone, Ireland, May, 2020,
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A. Costa, A. Dricot, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Improved patch packing for the MPEG V-PCC standard, IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, September, 2019,
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E.L. Lopes, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Adaptive Plane Projection for Video-based Point Cloud Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Shangai, China, July, 2019 | BibTex
A. Oliveira, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Lenslet Light Field Panorama Creation: a Sub-Aperture Image Stitching Approach, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Rome, Italy, September, 2018 | BibTex
JG Garrote, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Lenslet Light Field Imaging Scalable Coding, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Rome, Italy, September, 2018 | BibTex
A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Subjective and Objective Quality Evaluation of Compressed Point Clouds, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, October, 2017 | Full text (PDF 510 KBs) | BibTex
J. A. Teixeira, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Epipolar based Light Field Key-Location Detector, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2017 | BibTex
G. Luz, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Saliency-driven Omnidirectional Imaging Adaptive Coding: Modeling and Assessment, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2017 | BibTex
A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Subjective and Objective Quality Evaluation of 3D Point Cloud Denoising Algorithms, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops ICMEW, Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, July, 2017 | Full text (PDF 526 KBs) | BibTex
J. A. Teixeira, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Lisbon Landmark Lenslet Light Field Dataset: Description and Retrieval Performance, International Workshop on Content-Based Multimedia Indexing - CBMI, Florence, Italy, June, 2017,
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N. Monteiro, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Multi-view Distributed Coding and Selection of Local Binary Features, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2016 | BibTex
JP Peixeiro, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Digital Holography: Benchmarking Coding Standards and Representation Formats, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Seattle, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2016 | BibTex
N. Monteiro, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Multi-View Distributed Source Coding of Binary Features for Visual Sensor Networks, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Shanghai, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, March, 2016 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Epipolar Plane Image based Rendering for 3D Video Coding, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Xiamen, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2015,
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C. Brites, V. Gomes, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Statistical Reconstruction for Predictive Video Coding, Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Valletta, Malta, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2014,
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C. Brites, F. Pereira, Correlation Noise Modeling for Multiview Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Paris, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2014,
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M. Salmistraro, L. L. Rakêt, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, S. Forchhammer, Joint Disparity and Motion Estimation Using Optical Flow for Multiview Distributed Video Coding, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2014,
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D. S. Shah, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Studying Platelet-Based Depth Map Coding, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2013,
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D. Shah, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Evaluating Multi-View Plus Depth Coding Solutions for 3D Video Scenarios, IEEE EUSIPCO 3DTV-Conf.: The True Vision - Capture, Transmission and Display of 3D Video - 3DTV, Zurich, Switzerland, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2012 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Learning based Decoding Approach for Improved Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, Picture Coding Symp., Kraków, Poland, Vol. -, pp. 165 - 168, May, 2012,
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C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Structural based Side Information Creation with Improved Matching Criteria for Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS, Dublin, Ireland, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2012,
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J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Augmented LDPC Graph for Distributed Video Coding with Multiple Side Information, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Hangzhou, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2011,
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J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, A Denoising Approach for Iterative Side Information Creation in Distributed Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2011,
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M. Naccari, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Low complexity deblocking filter perceptual optimization for the HEVC codec, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Brussels, Belgium, Vol. 1, pp. 1 - 4, September, 2011 | BibTex
C. Brites, F. Pereira, Probability Updating for Decoder and Encoder Rate Control Turbo based Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Hong Kong, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2010,
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J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F.D. Dufaux, W. Fernando, T.E. Ebrahimi, F. Pereira, S. Tubaro, The VISNET II DVC codec: architecture, tools and performance, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Aalborg, Denmark, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2010,
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J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Compression efficiency analysis of Wyner-Ziv video coding with motion compensated side information interpolation, SPIE Conf. on Visual Information Processing and Communication, San Jose, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, January, 2010 | BibTex
X. Huang, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, S. Forchhammer, Distributed video coding with multiple side information, Picture Coding Symp., Chicago, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2009,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 241 KBs) | BibTex
J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Design and performance of a novel Low-Density Parity-Check code for distributed video coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, San Diego, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2008,
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J. Areia, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Low complexity hybrid rate control for lower complexity Wyner-Ziv video decoding, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. -, pp. - - -, August, 2008,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 151 KBs) | BibTex
F. Pereira, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, M. Tagliasacchi, Wyner-Ziv Video Coding: A Review of the Early Architectures and Further Developments, IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Hannover, Germany, Vol. -, pp. - - -, June, 2008,
| Abstract | Full text (PDF 279 KBs) | BibTex
F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, Studying the GOP size impact on the performance of a feedback channel-based Wyner-Ziv video codec, IEEE Pacific-Rim Symp. on Image and Video Technology - PSIVT, Santiago, Chile, Vol. -, pp. - - -, December, 2007 | BibTex
J. Pedro, L. D. Soares, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, C.B. Bandeirinha, S.Y. Ye, F.D. Dufaux, T.E. Ebrahimi, Studying Error Resilience Performance for a Feedback Channel Based Transform Domain, Picture Coding Symp., Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, November, 2007 | BibTex
J. Areia, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Wyner-Ziv stereo video coding using a side information fusion approach, International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Chania, Greece, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2007 | BibTex
C. Brites, F. Pereira, Encoder Rate Control for Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, San Antonio, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2007 | BibTex
J. Pedro, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Studying the Feedback Channel in Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2007 | BibTex
J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Content Adaptive Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Driven by Motion Activity, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Atlanta, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2006 | BibTex
M. Tagliasacchi, A. Trapanese, S. Tubaro, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Exploiting Spatial Redundancy in Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Atlanta, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2006 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Studying Temporal Correlation Noise Modeling for Pixel Based Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Atlanta, United States, Vol. -, pp. - - -, October, 2006 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Feedback Channel in Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding: Myths and Realities, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2006 | BibTex
M. Tagliasacchi, A. Trapanese, S. Tubaro, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Intra Mode Decision Based on Spatio-Temporal Cues In Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Toulouse, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2006 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Improving Transform Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding Performance, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Toulouse, France, Vol. -, pp. - - -, May, 2006 | BibTex
C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Modeling Correlation Noise Statistics at Decoder for Pixel Based Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, Picture Coding Symp., Beijing, China, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 2006 | BibTex
J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Motion Compensated Refinement for Low Complexity Pixel Based Distributed Video Coding, IEEE International Conf. on Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, Sardinia, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
A. Trapanese, M. Tagliasacchi, S. Tubaro, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Embedding a Block-based Intra Mode in Frame-based Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video, Sardinia, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
A. Trapanese, M. Tagliasacchi, S. Tubaro, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Improved Correlation Noise Statistics Modeling in Frame-based Pixel Domain Wyner-Ziv Video Coding, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video, Sardinia, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
L. P. Natário, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Side Information Extrapolation for Low-Delay Pixel-Domain Distributed Video Coding, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video, Sardignia, Italy, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, September, 2005 | BibTex
L. P. Natário, C. Brites, J. Ascenso, F. Pereira, Extrapolating side information for low-delay pixel-domain distributed video coding, International Workshop on Very Low Bitrate Video, Costa del Rey, Italy, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2005 | BibTex
J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, Improving Frame Interpolation with Spatial Motion Smoothing for Pixel Domain Distributed Video Coding, Conf. on Speech and Image Processing, Multimedia Communications and Services - EURASIP, Smolenice, Slovakia, Vol. -, pp. - - -, July, 2005 | BibTex
C. Brites, F. Pereira, Distributed Video Coding: Bringing New Applications to Life, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Tomar, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, April, 2005 | BibTex

Projects

Currently running projects3

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DARING	Deep compression: emerging pAradigm foR Image codiNG	FCT	01-06-2021	01-06-2024
DRAGON	End-to-End Deep learning based image Compression	IT	01-10-2021	01-10-2023
EVASION	EVent Aware Sensor CompresSION	RayShaper	01-07-2023	31-01-2026

Closed Projects5

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
DISCOVER	Distributed coding for video services	EU/FP6	01-09-2005	31-08-2007
EmergIMG	Emerging Image Modalities Representation and Compression	FCT/PTDC	01-06-2016	01-06-2020
GreenEyes	Networked energy-aware visual analysis	EC/FP7	01-10-2012	01-10-2015
MUVIS	MUlti-view distributed coding for VIsual Sensor networks	FCT/PTDC	01-03-2012	01-06-2015
PCR	Progressive Point Cloud Representation	FCT	01-06-2016	31-05-2019

Other Scientific Achievements

4Awards

E.L. Lopes, J. Ascenso, C. Brites, F. Pereira, ICME 2019 Best Paper Honorable Mention Award, for the paper entitled "Adaptive Plane Projection for Video-Based Point Cloud Coding"., 01-07-2019
C. Brites, Top 8% Reviewer, 2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, San Diego, CA, USA, 01-07-2018
A. Javaheri, C. Brites, F. Pereira, J. Ascenso, Top 10% paper award, IEEE 19th Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing, Luton, UK, 01-10-2017
C. Brites, IEEE VCIP 2012 - Best Reviewer Award, Winner of Best Reviewer Award for 2012 IEEE Visual Communications and Image Processing (VCIP) conference, 01-11-2012

1Miscellaneous

C. Brites, Distributed Video Coding: A Novel Paradigm, Invited Talks, Encontro Nacional de Ciência – Ciência 2009, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, 01-07-2009

Other Contributions

24Conference Committees

The European Workshop on Visual Information Processing EUVIP, Organizing Committee, 2022
Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Technical Programme Committee, 2020
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, 2020
International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS, Technical Programme Committee, 2019
Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Technical Programme Committee, 2019
Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, 2018
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, 2017
International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, 2016
IEEE International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, 2016
International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, Sessions Chairman, 2015
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems, Technical Programme Committee, 2015
European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, 2014
IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2014
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2013
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2012
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2009
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2008
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME, Technical Programme Committee, 2007
Picture Coding Symp., Organizing Committee, 2007

1Editorial Committees

Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, 01-01-2015 - 01-01-2019

16Refereeing Journals

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
2014, 1 review(s);
Journal of Real-Time Image Processing
2015, 1 review(s);
Eurasip Journal on Image and Video Processing
2015, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s);
Signal Processing: Image Communication
2022, 1 review(s); 2020, 2 review(s); 2019, 5 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s); 2016, 2 review(s); 2015, 2 review(s); 2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 5 review(s); 2008, 5 review(s);
Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing
2015, 1 review(s);
IEEE Signal Processing Letters
2015, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2019, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 2 review(s); 2009, 3 review(s); 2008, 4 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2020, 1 review(s); 2019, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 2 review(s); 2011, 3 review(s); 2010, 2 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Multimedia
2020, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2009, 2 review(s);
IET Image Processing
2014, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
Journal of Computer Science and Technology
2007, 1 review(s);
Intrnl. Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting
2008, 2 review(s);
Optical Engineering
2011, 1 review(s);
IEEE Communications Letters
2007, 1 review(s);
Eurasip Journal on Advances in Signal Processing
2013, 1 review(s);
APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing
2014, 1 review(s);

18Refereeing Conferences

European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO
2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME
2020, 1 review(s); 2019, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
Picture Coding Symp.
2019, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP
2019, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s); 2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s); 2010, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Symp. on Circuits and Systems - ISCAS
2009, 1 review(s);
International Conf. on Signal Processing and Multimedia Applications
2011, 1 review(s);
Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP
2020, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 1 review(s);
International Conf. on Systems, Signals and Image Processing - IWSSIP
2012, 1 review(s);
International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT
2014, 2 review(s);
International Conference on Signal Image Technology & Internet Based Systems SITIS
2019, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s);
Symp. on Advanced Concepts for Intelligent Vision Systems
2020, 1 review(s); 2018, 1 review(s); 2017, 1 review(s); 2016, 1 review(s); 2015, 1 review(s);
Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele
2015, 1 review(s);
IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP
2018, 1 review(s);
Conference on Telecommunications - ConfTele
2019, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing MMSP
2020, 1 review(s); 2019, 1 review(s);
IEEE International Conference on Image Processing ICIP
2020, 1 review(s);
ACM - Multimedia
2022, 1 review(s);
The European Workshop on Visual Information Processing EUVIP
2022, 1 review(s);

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Catarina Brites

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