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Researcher

Tomás Brandão

Academic position: Assistant Professor
Joining date: 01-01-1999
Roles in IT: Researcher
Scientific Area: Networks and Multimedia
Group: Multimedia Signal Processing – Lx

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Address: IT – Lisboa
Instituto Superior Técnico - Torre Norte - Piso 10
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Scientific Achievements

  • PhD, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 01-01-2011
  • MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2002
  • Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1999
  • Image Processing
  • IEEE, 01-01-2005, --
  • ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-10-2001, --
6Lecture courses
  • Arquitectura de Computadores I, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia Informática
  • Arquitectura de Computadores II, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia Informática
  • Sistemas Operativos, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática
  • Arquitectura de Computadores, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Informática e Gestão de Empresas
  • Fundamentos de Arquitectura de Computadores, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática / Licenciatura em Informática e Gestão de Empresas / Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática
  • Programação Orientada para Objectos, ISCTE - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Engenharia Informática / Engenharia de Telecomunicações e Informática
Supervision of theses
3MSc Student
  • Automatic Violence Detection in Movies, MSc Student, Luís Jorge Gregório Dias, 11-2016
  • Extraction and Correction of Hard-coded Subtitles, MSc Student, João Bernardo Cardoso de Brito, 09-2016
  • Depth Extraction in Light Field Images, MSc Student, João Diogo Gameiro Medeiros, 09-2016
1BSc Student
  • Sistema de marcas d'água para autenticação de imagens de veículos, BSc Student, Jorge Silva, 06-2004
Co-Supervision of theses
9MSc Student
  • In-store client action recognition, MSc Student, Francisco Gracias, 10-2018
  • Aplicação Intercetiva para o apoio ao Restauro de Azulejaria, MSc Student, Marco André de Jesus Quirino, 09-2018
  • Quality Assessment of 2D Image Rendering for 4D Light Field Content, MSc Student, Lourenço de Mértola Belford Correia da Silva, 07-2017
  • Estudo e Avaliação de Técnicas para Inpainting de Texto em Imagens e Vídeo, MSc Student, Adélcio de Jesus Mendes Soares da Rosa, 11-2015
  • Detecção automática de descontinuidades temporais em sequências vídeo, MSc Student, Ricardo José Mascarenhas Almeida, 11-2015
  • Automatic detection and counting of stork nests in electric power lines, MSc Student, João Ribas Fernandes, 11-2012
  • Video Quality Evaluation in IP Networks , MSc Student, Miguel Chin, 05-2012
  • Video Quality Evaluation for Streaming Applications – I (effect of compression artefacts), MSc Student, Bruno Rodrigues, 07-2009
  • Digital Image&Video Quality Assessment, MSc Student, Luis Roque, 10-2008
3Papers in Journals
19Papers in Conferences
  • LD Dias, T. Brandão, M. Batista, Detecting violence on movie excerpts - A machine-learning approach based on audio and video features, Inforum - Simpósio de Informática, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2016,
    | Abstract     | Full text (PDF 322 KBs) | BibTex
  • J. R. Fernandes, M.P. Queluz, T. Brandão, F. A. Azevedo, J. Gomes, Automatic detection of stork nests on VHV towers, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Castelo Branco, Portugal, Vol. ---, pp. --- - ---, May, 2013 | BibTex
  • M. Chin, T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Bitstream-based Quality metric for Packetized Transmission of H.264 Encoded Video, International Conf. on Systems, Signals and Image Processing - IWSSIP, Vienna, Austria, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, April, 2012,
    | Abstract     | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M. Chin, M.P. Queluz, From PSNR to perceived quality in H.264 encoded video sequences, EuroITV, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. CDROM, pp. -- - --, July, 2011 | Full text (PDF 906 KBs) | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, No-reference perceptual quality metric for H.264/AVC encoded video, International Workshop on Video Processing and Quality Metrics for Consumer Electronics - VPQM, Scottsdale, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, January, 2010 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, L. R. Roque, M.P. Queluz, Quality assessment of H.264/AVC encoded video, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Sta. Maria da Feira, Portugal, Vol. CDROM, pp. -- - --, April, 2009 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, No-reference PSNR estimation algorithm for H.264 encoded video sequences, European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Lausanne, Switzerland, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. - - -, August, 2008 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Blind PSNR estimation of video sequences using quantized DCT coefficient data, Picture Coding Symp., Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. CDROM, pp. -- - --, November, 2007 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Blind perceptual quality assessment method for DCT-based encoded images, European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Poznan, Poland, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, September, 2007 | BibTex
  • S. Yamagiwa, L. Sousa, T. Brandão, Meta-pipeline: a new execution mechanism for distributed pipeline processing, International Symp. on Parallel and Distributed Computing - ISPDC, Hagenberg, Austria, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, July, 2007 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Estimation of DCT coefficient statistics from their quantized values: application to image quality evaluation, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Peniche, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 461 - 464, May, 2007 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Towards objective metrics for blind assessment of images quality, IEEE International Conf. on Image Processing - ICIP, Atlanta, United States, Vol., pp. 2933 - 2936, October, 2006 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, Blind PSNR estimation of video sequences, through non-uniform quantization watermarking, International Conf. on Image Analysis and Recognition, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, Vol. LNCS 4141, pp. 587 - 599, September, 2006 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M. Sequeira, M. Albuquerque, Multistage morphology-based license-plate location algorithm, Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -- - --, April, 2004 | BibTex
  • M. Sequeira, T. Brandão, M. Albuquerque, Evaluation of license plate location algorithms, Workshop on Image Analysis for Multimedia Interactive Services WIAMIS, Lisbon, Portugal, Vol. CD-ROM, pp. -- - --, April, 2004 | BibTex
  • M.P. Queluz, T. Brandão, A. J. Rodrigues, Signal Combining Techniques for Video Watermarking Extraction, IEEE Workshop on MultiMedia Signal Processing - MMSP, St. Thomas, United States, Vol. --, pp. -- - --, December, 2002 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, On the use of error correction codes in spread spectrum based image watermarking, IEEE Pacific-Rim Conf. on Multimedia, Beijing, China, Vol. LNCS 2195, pp. 630 - 637, October, 2001 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, Improving spread spectrum based image watermarking through non-binary channel coding, Conf. on Telecommunications - ConfTele, Figueira da Foz, Portugal, Vol. --, pp. 83 - 87, April, 2001 | BibTex
  • T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, Performance improvement of spatial watermarking through efficient non-binary channel coding, IS&T/SPIE - Electronic Imaging, S. Jose, United States, Vol. 4314, pp. 651 - 662, January, 2001 | BibTex

Closed Projects2

Acronym Name Funding Agency Start date Ending date
MOG-QC on the GO MOG-QC on the GO - Desenvolvimento de um sistema integrado de controlo da qualidade de conteúdos audiovisuais FEDER/QREN 01-07-2013 01-06-2015
RESOURCE Radio resource optimization in third generation mobile systems FCT/POSI 01-10-2000 30-09-2004
6Conference Committees
  • International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX, Organizing Committee, 2016
  • European Conf. on Networks and Optical Communications - NOC, Organizing Committee, 2016
  • 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON, Organizing Committee, 2015
  • European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO, Organizing Committee, 2014
  • International Conf. on Telecommunications - ICT, Organizing Committee, 2014
  • Picture Coding Symp., Organizing Committee, 2007
12Refereeing Journals
  • Measurement: Journal of the International Measurement Confederation
    2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 3 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s); 2011, 5 review(s); 2009, 1 review(s); 2008, 3 review(s); 2007, 2 review(s);
  • Signal Processing
    2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
  • Journal of Multimedia
    2007, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Journal on Selected Topics in Signal Processing
    2008, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Trans. on Circuits and Systems for Video Tech.
    2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Trans. on Neural networks
    2011, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Trans. on Multimedia
    2014, 2 review(s); 2013, 2 review(s); 2006, 1 review(s);
  • IET Image Processing
    2013, 2 review(s);
  • Multimedia Tools and Applications
    2014, 4 review(s); 2013, 4 review(s);
  • EURASIP Jounal on Image and Video Processing
    2014, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE Trans. on Broadcasting
    2007, 1 review(s);
  • Wireless Personal Communications
    2007, 1 review(s);
8Refereeing Conferences
  • Picture Coding Symp.
    2007, 1 review(s);
  • European Signal Processing Conf. - EUSIPCO
    2014, 1 review(s); 2013, 1 review(s); 2008, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE International Conf. on Multimedia and Expo - ICME
    2013, 1 review(s); 2007, 1 review(s);
  • International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience - QoMEX
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE International Symp. on Personal, Indoor and Mobile Radio Commun - PIMRC
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • Conf. on Electronics, Telecommunications and Computers - CETC
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • IEEE International Conf. on Networks
    2013, 1 review(s);
  • 3DTV Conf. - 3DTV-CON
    2015, 1 review(s);
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