João Pedro Afonso Oliveira da Silva

João Oliveira

Academic position:	Assistant Professor
Joining date:	09-01-2004
Roles in IT:	Researcher
Thematic Line:	Information and Data Sciences
Group:	Pattern and Image Analysis – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

Alternative Personal Web Page

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0003-4654-0881

09-11-2021

IT Researchers among the World’s Top 2% Scientists

Twenty-nine researchers associated with IT figure on the Stanford University ranking among the most-cited researchers worldwide.

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2010
Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2002

Affiliations

ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-03-2012, Assistant professor

Expertise Topics

Image processing
Pattern recognition
Machine learning

Academic Activities

3Lecture courses

Algoritmos para Big Data, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Mestrado em Engenharia Informática, Mestrado em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática e Mestrado em Informática e Gestão

Teoria do Sinal, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática e Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática
Sistemas Operativos, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática, Licenciatura em Informática e Gestão de Empresas, Licenciatura em Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática

7Supervision of MSc theses

As Supervisor

Real-Time tracking in commercial area , MSc Student, Daria Baikova, Concluded 10-2018
Person categorization using Machine Learning, MSc Student, Gonçalo Laginha Serafim San-Payo, Concluded 10-2018
Team Performance Analysis, MSc Student, Hugo Filipe Paulino dos Santos, Concluded 10-2018
Estudo de aplicação de DNNs para qualidade de imagem, MSc Student, José Miguel Costa Ruivo, Concluded 10-2018
PROSHOT - assistente pessoal de fotografia, MSc Student, Pedro Miguel da Luz Cabrita de Sousa Brosque, Concluded 10-2018
Fake News Detection, MSc Student, Gonçalo Manuel Trindade Ribeiro, Concluded 10-2017
Pulmonary Nodule Segmentation in Computed Tomography with Deep Learning , MSc Student, João Henriques Oliveira Gomes, Concluded 10-2017

Publications

7Papers in Journals

D. Mano Mano, B. Paula Paula, C. Coutinho, J. Oliveira, R. Ribeiro, M. M. Batista, Semantic similarity for mobile application recommendation under scarce user data, Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 121, No. 0, pp. 105974 - 105974, May, 2023,
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A. Câmara, A. Almeida, D. Caçador, J. Oliveira, Automated methods for image detection of cultural heritage: Overviews and perspectives, Archaeological Prospection, Vol. 0, No. 0, pp. 1 - 17, October, 2022,
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A. Lopes, J. Oliveira, P. Sebastião, M. Sousa, P. Vieira, A Modular Web-Based Software Solution for Mobile Networks Planning, Operation and Optimization, Applied Sciences (Switzerland), Vol. 11, No. 16, pp. 7686 - 7686, August, 2021 | Full text (PDF 5 MBs) | BibTex
R.S. Santos, Leonardo R. Leonardo, Barandas M. Barandas, Moreira D. Moreira, Rocha T. Rocha, Alves P. Alves, J. Oliveira, H. Gamboa, Crowdsourcing-Based Fingerprinting for Indoor Location in Multi-Storey Buildings, IEEE Access, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 31143 - 31160, February, 2021 | Full text (PDF 3 MBs) | BibTex
J. Oliveira, A. M. Bragança Bragança, L. Alcácer, J. Morgado, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Bioucas-Dias, Q. Ferreira, Sparse-coding denoising applied to reversible conformational switching of a porphyrin self-assembled monolayer induced by scanning tunnelling microscopy, Journal of Microscopy, Vol. 271, No. 1, pp. 98 - 108, April, 2018,
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J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Bioucas-Dias, Parametric Blur Estimation for Blind Restoration of Natural Images: Linear Motion and Out-of-Focus, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 466 - 477, January, 2014,
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J. Oliveira, J. Bioucas-Dias, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Adaptive total variation image deblurring: a majorization-minimization approach, Signal Processing, Vol. 89, No. 9, pp. 2479 - 2493, September, 2009,
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6Papers in Conferences

J. Oliveira, P.C. Cardoso, L. Alcácer, J. Morgado, Q. Ferreira, Detecting unitary cells in STM images, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2015,
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Q. Ferreira, A. Bragança, J. Oliveira, J. Bioucas-Dias, M. A. T. Figueiredo, L. Alcácer, J. Morgado, Nanostructured coatings for intraocular devices with drug delivery function, International Conf. on Biomedical Electronics and Devices - BIODEVICES, Lisboa, Portugal, Vol. na, pp. na - na, January, 2015,
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J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Bioucas-Dias, Blind estimation of motion blur parameters for image deconvolution, Iberian Conf. on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, Girona, Spain, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, June, 2007 | BibTex
M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Bioucas-Dias, J. Oliveira, R. Nowak, On total-variation denoising: A new majorization-minimization algorithm and an experimental comparison with wavalet denoising, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Atlanta, United States, October, 2006 | BibTex
J. Bioucas-Dias, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Oliveira, Adaptive Bayesian/total-variation image deconvolution: A majorization-minimization approach, European Signal Processing Conference EUSIPCO, Florence, Italy, Vol. ?, pp. ? - ?, September, 2006 | BibTex
J. Bioucas-Dias, M. A. T. Figueiredo, J. Oliveira, Total variation image deconvolution: A majorization-minimization approach, IEEE International Conf. on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing - ICASSP, Toulouse, France, Vol. II, pp. 861 - 864, May, 2006 | BibTex

Projects

Closed Projects5

Acronym	Name	Funding Agency	Start date	Ending date
MESMOQoE	Orquestração Automática Energeticamente Eficiente de Redes Móveis Optimizando a Qualidade de Experiência	P2020	01-09-2017	31-08-2019
NSCBRRI	Novel Statistical Criteria for Blind Restoration and Reconstruction of Images	FCT/POSC	01-08-2005	31-07-2008
PAConvex	Beyond Convexity: Non-Convex Optimization and Game-Theoretic Approaches for Imaging Inverse Problems	FCT	01-06-2013	01-06-2015
ReAlImage	Regularization Criteria and Fast Algorithms for Imaging Inverse Problems	FCT/PTDC	01-02-2010	01-01-2013
STM Image	Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Image Processing Tools	IT/LA	01-03-2014	01-06-2016

Other Scientific Achievements

2Awards

J. Dias, J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Blind estimation of motion-blur parameters for image deconvolutio, Best paper award, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis, 01-06-2007
J. Bioucas-Dias, J. Oliveira, M. A. T. Figueiredo, Blind estimation of motion blur parameters for image deconvolution, Best paper award, Iberian Conference on Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis , 01-06-2007 ., 01-01-2007

Other Contributions

2Refereeing Journals

IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
2013, 5 review(s); 2012, 13 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
2013, 1 review(s);

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