Tomás Gomes da Silva Serpa Brandão

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
Av. Rovisco Pais, 1
1049 - 001 Lisboa
Tel: +351 21 841 84 54
Fax: +351 21 841 84 72

Scientific Achievements

Degrees

PhD, Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, 01-01-2011
MSc, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-2002
Licenciatura, Instituto Superior Técnico, 01-01-1999

Expertise Topics

Image Processing

Affiliations

IEEE, 01-01-2005, --
ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 01-10-2001, --

Academic Activities

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

4MSc Student

Reconhecimento de Interações Cliente-Produto em Espaços de Vendas , MSc Student, Francisco Marques Garcia, Concluded 12-2018
Depth Extraction in 3D Holoscopic Images, MSc Student, João Diogo Gameiro Medeiros, Concluded 12-2018
Automatic Violence Detection in Movies, MSc Student, Luís Jorge Gregório Dias, Concluded 11-2016
Extraction and Correction of Hard-coded Subtitles, MSc Student, João Bernardo Cardoso de Brito, Concluded 09-2016

1BSc Student

Sistema de marcas d'água para autenticação de imagens de veículos, BSc Student, Jorge Silva, Concluded 06-2004

Co-Supervision of theses

9MSc Student

Aplicação Intercetiva para o apoio ao Restauro de Azulejaria, MSc Student, Marco André de Jesus Quirino, Expected conclusion 06-2020
In-store client action recognition, MSc Student, Francisco Gracias, Concluded 10-2018
Quality Assessment of 2D Image Rendering for 4D Light Field Content, MSc Student, Lourenço de Mértola Belford Correia da Silva, Concluded 10-2018
Estudo e Avaliação de Técnicas para Inpainting de Texto em Imagens e Vídeo, MSc Student, Adélcio de Jesus Mendes Soares da Rosa, Concluded 11-2015
Detecção automática de descontinuidades temporais em sequências vídeo, MSc Student, Ricardo José Mascarenhas Almeida, Concluded 11-2015
Automatic detection and counting of stork nests in electric power lines, MSc Student, João Ribas Fernandes, Concluded 11-2012
Video Quality Evaluation in IP Networks , MSc Student, Miguel Chin, Concluded 05-2012
Video Quality Evaluation for Streaming Applications – I (effect of compression artefacts), MSc Student, Bruno Rodrigues, Concluded 07-2009
Digital Image&Video Quality Assessment, MSc Student, Luis Roque, Concluded 10-2008

Publications

3Papers in Journals

T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, No-reference quality assessment of H.264/AVC encoded video, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, Vol. 20, No. 11, pp. 1437 - 1447, November, 2010 | Full text (PDF 6 MBs) | BibTex
T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, No-reference image quality assessment based on DCT domain statistics, Signal Processing, Vol. 88, No. 4, pp. 822 - 833, April, 2008 | BibTex
T. Brandão, M.P. Queluz, A. J. Rodrigues, Diversity enhancement of coded spread spectrum video watermarking, Wireless Personal Communications, Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 93 - 104, October, 2002 | BibTex

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 Conference 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 Conference 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

Projects

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

Other Contributions

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 Conference 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 Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology
2013, 1 review(s); 2012, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems
2011, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions 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 Journal on Image and Video Processing
2014, 1 review(s);
IEEE Transactions 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 Conference 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);

IT Member Profile

Tomás Brandão

Scientific Achievements

Supervision of theses

Co-Supervision of theses

Closed Projects2