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PhD Student

João Santos

Former IT academic position: External Author
Joining/Leaving IT dates: 01-10-2016 / 31-12-2022
Roles held in IT: PhD Student
Former IT thematic line: Information and Data Sciences
Group: Multimedia Signal Processing – Lr

Scientific Achievements

  • MSc, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 12-05-2016
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Politécnico de Leiria, 30-07-2013
  • Light-Field Imaging
  • IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 01-01-2013, Graduate Student Member
  • João M. Santos, L. A. Thomaz, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, S.M.M. Faria, Hierarchical lossless coding of light fields with improved random access, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 105, No. 0, pp. 116687 - 116687, March, 2022,
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  • João M. Santos, L. A. Thomaz, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, S.M.M. Faria, Lossless Coding of Light Fields based on 4D Minimum Rate Predictors, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, Vol. 31, No. 1, pp. 1708 - 1722, January, 2022,
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  • João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, R. Pinto, S.M.M. Faria, Lossless coding of light field images based on minimum-rate predictors, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, Vol. 54, No. 0, pp. 21 - 30, July, 2018,
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  • A. Guarda, João M. Santos, L. A. S. C. Cruz, P.A. Assunção, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, A Method to Improve HEVC Lossless Coding of Volumetric Medical Images, Signal Processing: Image Communication, Vol. 59, No., pp. 96 - 104, November, 2017,
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  • João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, R. Pinto, S.M.M. Faria, Performance evaluation of light field pre-processing methods for lossless standard coding, IEEE COMSOC MMTC Communications - Frontiers, Vol. 12, No. 4, pp. 44 - 49, July, 2017 | Full text (PDF 744 KBs) | BibTex
  • L. A. Thomaz, João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L.M. Távora, S.M.M. Faria, DISPARITY COMPENSATION OF LIGHT FIELDS FOR IMPROVED EFFICIENCY IN 4D TRANSFORM-BASED ENCODERS, Visual Communications and Image Processing - VCIP, Macau, China, December, 2020 | BibTex
  • João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, R. Pinto, S.M.M. Faria, Rate-Complexity Trade-Off in Minimum Rate Predictors Light Field Lossless Encoding, EURASIP European Light Field Imaging Workshop ELFI, Borovets, Bulgaria, June, 2019,
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  • L. A. Thomaz, João M. Santos, P. Astola, S.M.M. Faria, P.A. Assunção, M. Carvalho, E. Silva, C.L.P. Pagliari, I. Tabus, M. Pereira, GOA Alves, F. Pereira, V. Testoni, P. Freitas, I. Seidel, Visually Lossless Compression of Light Fields, EURASIP European Light Field Imaging Workshop ELFI, Borovets, Bulgaria, June, 2019,
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  • João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, R. Pinto, S.M.M. Faria, Lossless compression of Light Fields using multi-reference Minimum Rate Predictors, IEEE Data Compression Conference - DCC, Snowbird, Utah, United States, March, 2019,
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  • João M. Santos, P.A. Assunção, L. A. S. C. Cruz, L.M. Távora, R. Pinto, S.M.M. Faria, Lossless Light-Field Compression Using Reversible Colour Transformations, International Conference on Image Processing Theory, Tools and Applications IPTA, Montreal, Canada, Vol., pp. 1 - 6, November, 2017,
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  • João M. Santos, A. Guarda, L. A. S. C. Cruz, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, Compression of medical images using MRP with bi-directional prediction and histogram packing, Picture Coding Symp., Nuremberg, Germany, Vol., pp. 1 - 5 - https://doi.org/10.1109/PCS.2016.7906386, December, 2016,
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  • S.M.M. Faria, João M. Santos, A. Guarda, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, Contributions to Lossless Coding of Medical Images using Minimum Rate Predictors, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Quebec City, Canada, Vol., pp. 2935 - 2939 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ICIP.2015.7351340, September, 2015,
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  • A. Guarda, João M. Santos, L. A. S. C. Cruz, P.A. Assunção, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, Orientation dependent inter-slice prediction for volumetric medical images, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Aveiro, Portugal, Vol. -, pp. - - -, September, 2015,
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  • A. Guarda, João M. Santos, D. B. G. Graziosi, Nuno M. M. Rodrigues, S.M.M. Faria, A Novel Trilateral Filter Technique for Depth Map Processing in 3D Video Coding, 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Budapest, Hungary, Vol. -, pp. 1 - 4 - https://doi.org/10.1109/3DTV.2014.6874731, July, 2014,
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Closed Projects3

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
DermoPleno Dermo­Plenoptic imaging for skin lesion assessment IT/LA 01-04-2016 01-12-2018
MEDICOMP Spatiotemporal compression of volumetric medical images IT/LA 01-09-2014 01-09-2016
PlenoISLA Plenoptic imaging for skin lesion assessment FCT/POCI, P2020 25-07-2018 31-12-2021